The Brussels Post, 1954-9-8, Page 64 L.Xe TC
Just what is wrong with box-
ing --or "the light game," as it is
reore familiarly known , Both
The millions who take in the
Bights via TV, and the faithful,
,w who still pay Or chisel their
way in to see the brawls peraon-
Siny, are asking the same ques-
1on, And while no two fight
lana eau seem to agree on the
Selmer it is the well-nigh llnani-
xnoue opinion that something is
seriously wrong.
* *
Mickey Walker, former World
Middleweight Champion, was a
really tough cookle in his leather -
slinging days—but, unlike many
pt hib contemporaries, he left the
ling with his brains unaddled,
ist fact "the Mick" is about as
ehrewed a critic of fistie affairs
Are you'll run across anywhere.
.And here is how Walker sizes up
fee situation.
* a v
-lack Dempsey suggests a rem-
#Or today's ailing exhibitions.
leeching fights would be witness -
ell lit boxing promoters through-
out the country would arrange
eacere no -decision bouts. He be-
eves champions would appear
e these contests because their
tbhee wouldn't be on the line
every time they fought.
I agree with Jack. in this
ay, fans could keep tabs on
air favorite fighters' fistic en-
sleevours. I also agree with him
4a the idea of more spectacular
Might;}, This type' of contest would
keep a champ in razor -edge eon-
condition, ready for his very best
when a tough title contender
popped up,
4 4.. e
I honestly think Jack's sugges-
tion stems from his own expert
ence. But he forgets there was
only One Jack Dempsey. After
a left hook or right cross, deliv-
ered from his weaving crouch,
found its mark, decisions weren't
necessary, In his first important
contender bout, his left punch.
crashed against. Fred Fulton's
long chin in a New Jersey no -
decision contest, That left hook
convinced the boxing world that
Jack would be the next title-
holder.
Then, three years later, as
champion in another New Jersey
ring, Dempsey with the same left
hook ended Georges Carpentier's
championship• dreams in the first
million -dollar boxing gate.
Adding another ingredient to
Dempsey's remedy, Casey Bow-
man, the former "Michigan
Flash," believes that boxing judg-
es are only a waste of opinion:
He questions the various methods
by which fights are scored by
judges. Casey claims that from
their stationaryringside : seats,
the judges can't truthfully score
a punch as having been blocked
or as a point for the puncher.
He gives as ar,exainple the scor-
SOME PCHNTERS FOR BACKWARD CITIZENS
The citizens of Perth Ontario; (population 5,000) have form-
ed an association for the industrial development of their town,
(certainly one of the most beautiful in Canada, and as a start
rafting a fund of $75,000 to buy two and a half acres of
industrial land and a factory which stands on it.
The Perth Courier has strongly' supported the project but
comments editorially in a recent issue that "no space at all has
been devoted to suggestions for the reader whose ambition is
to do nothing for his community."
. The paper then proceeds to list 13 pointers on town
tanning, "designed especially for the backward citizen", as
4Iows,
1. Don't pay taxes. Let the other fellow pay his. Vote against
loxes. Then fuss because the streets are not kept up.
2. Never attend any of the meetings called for the good of the
town. Wait until you get outside and then cuss those who
made the suggestions,. Find fault with everything that was
done.
Z. Get all the town will give you, and don't give anything in
return. Write unsigned letters to the editor demanding more
for tax money.
4. Talk co-operation, but don't do anything for your town unless
you get paid for it And by all Means refuse to serve unless
you are chairman.
Z. Never accept an office. it's easier to criticize than do things.
Accuse anybody who serves in an elected office of being a
pubiicIty-seeker.
6. Don't do any more than you have to. When others willingly
and unselfishly give their time to make a better town, howl
because that town Is run by a clique.
7. Don't back your fire or police departments. If the firemen
work to bring the insurance rates down, tell everybody that
is what they are supposed to do. Don't thank them or the
policemen for endangering their lives that you might have
e safer town in Whrcfi'to live. Demand special treatment;
raise Cain tf anybody expects you to obey traffic and parking
laws.
S. Look at every proposition in a selfish way. if you are not
the one that gets most good out of it, vote against it, Never
consider what it will do for the town as a whole.
A. Don't do anything for the youth of the town. Criticize them
es potential delinquents. Keep your feet on them. En-
courage them to move.away when they grow up.
10. If you have good town leaders, don't follow them. Take e
jealous attitude and talk down everything they do.
11. Don't work on any, comll,ittee, Tell them, "i'm too busy."
12. Don't say anything good about your town. Be the first to
point up its shortcomings. Pretend that if trouble comes
your way it will. be 'residents of some other town who will
visit you while you are itr, bring In the fire department if your
home is burning, comfort you if you lose a dear one, stand
back of you in disaster.'
13. And don't support your local retail stores and industries.
Claim the prices apd services in stores in other towns are
better. Claim industry hurts, the town, -
But if you need o donation, ask your local stores and in-
dustries for it, Expect them to back you,but don't back them.
from "Civic Adminstrator"
Runs in The Family -. Double or nothing seems to ,be a policy
iaf Marilyn and Carolyn' Orders, identical 18 -year-old twins, ,
Last August they we're married in a double ceremony( Recently.
each gave ;Alb to a son. Mrs. Marilyn Miser, left, is shown.
triilth rteweemer Dohald, Jr., and Mrs. Carolyn Jones is holding
Jimmy, Jr; The sisters and cousins are sharing a hospital room.
Precautionary - An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
cure, according to Paul Loeffler, 4. He erected this stop sign at
o busy intersection where two accidents occured during the past
month. He put up the sign"so there'd he no more wrecks."
ing of both judges' cards in the
Olsen-Gavilan match.
One card showed each fighter
having 144 points, while the other
gave Olson a victory by a wide
margin. I have a hunch .most
fighters would accept Casey's
theory. He'd like boxing ewe -
missions to* .e1imfn to . •judges' •
opinions for better punching
action in the ring.
• ', *
Then Bob Perry, possibly the
Only modern who has witnessed
every heavyweight champion in
action since John L. Sullivan's
reign, adds his remedy. He be-
lieves that everything which ,
concerns boxing today is decorat-
ed with sparkling publicity trim-
mings.
Back in the 90's, say Bob, all
fighters had to prove their worth
before they gained recognition. A
last-minute rally, exhibiting
heart and endurance, might turn
the decision fora defeated war-
rior into victory. A champion
shouldn't lose his title in a close
decision climax, is another be-
lief
elief of Bob's.
* *
John Moran, authority on past
and present fights, supports
Perry's theories. John compares
the drab ring performances of to-
day with those of yesteryear.
} s
The point system which decides
a winner in states where boxing
is legalized is slowly killing the
game. And hate's the reason.
Each state has a different way,of
totaling up points. For instance,
in one state there are 20 points
to a round; in another 11; in still
another, 10. Points are awarded
for aggressiveness, cleverness
and harder blows.
Y s
The smart fighter (and mast
fighters are smart today) figures
out the system.. They've discov-
ered that points are given for
aggressiveness, so they develop
a style of pushing forward. If
there are two pushers in the ring,
they meet one another in the
center and nothing happens.
In my hook there's only one
definition for an aggressive fight-
er. That's the guy, regardless
if he gets off the floor or springs
from his corner, who's always
trying to knock the other guy's
brains out. Such were Dempsey,
Midget Smith and other spectac-
ular ring performers. (Mickey .
modestly doesn't include himself
—Ed.) These fighters had cour-
age. e * *
Recently I was invited to act
as guest referee for amateur
bouts using the ten -point system.
I was :instructed by an official
how to award points. Each con-
test was scheduled to go three
rounds.
The official said: "In case of a
knockdown, sever points are
awarded to the one who knacks
the other down."
"The tioy who's on the floor,"
I said, "is going to have a tough
time overcoming that lead when
he gets up,no matter how well
he fights."
, * *
I couldn't change the official's
mini or rules and I entered the
ring. The second bout started
Off with a.tough, dark kid throw -
leg a long right hand. The,
Other kid crossed his right and
the dark-haired one sprawled
face flat an the canvas. 'He
struggled to his feet before nine
and both kids battered one an-
other until the bell.
When the ben ended" the final.•
round, the dark-haired kid' had`
the other' groggy. Before the
judges'` cards' wei'e toliected, I
ebbed the' kid's Hand.'
,L have, another hunch ... '11.1
never he invited to referee at
that place again.
Huck Finn's Creator
In Boyhood Days
Nature had fashioned the set-
ting of Hannibal with peculiar
recognition .Of boyhood's needs
and delights, as Mark Twain
gratefully reinembered when 'as
an author he made them all the
property of millions.
Holliday's Hill in those novels
is rechristened Cardiff Hill, be-
cause—as Mark told the occupant
of the old Holliday house, on one
of his later visits to the site—it
reminded him of a similar hill
in Cardiff, South Wales. In his
boyhood days, its height of al-
most three hundred feet seemed
"to pierce the skies," like one of
the cloud - capped mountains
about which he read in school
DUAL ROLE
Pretty actress Jacqueline Brooker
isn't opposed to a steady in-
come, so she works as a dining -
room hostess during the day.,
Miss Brookes, top, is shown
about to enter a restaurant
where she shows customers to
their seats. Bottom, as she op -
pears as Phoedera in "The Cer-
tain Woman" with William
Andrews.
]tenni the tidy—a besiege .
geographies, It belotged't* the
old Ilroadaat treet, and while itt
title long remained in dispute its
1110pes were occlePied by a few
atltlatters and Many rabbits. Sip
thee/Mite the wo0d>i grew thick,
matted 'heavily by grapevines,
With patellas of fagged grass and
knobs 01 bouidere .such as the
due which Sam and his friends
dislodged,. ?Che wildness of its
timber, the sanctuary it offered
to game, and the magnificent
sWeep that it commanded Oe Wen -
fields and shgre azrd glinting river
with the far -o 1 melte of the
steamboats, made the dill roman-
tic and compelling.
Near the crest lived the Hone
-
days, their "hill manseoh the only
palace in the town; a id the most
hospitable and Meets. the most
lavish in the matter o .fegtivities"
ttidt Hannibal could boast, as
Ma'k' deserIbed it in "Tem Saw-
yer.",
The. happiest it notf.the most
most, adventurous intervals in
Sam Clemens' boyhood were the
golden suminer weeks spent each
year at the Quarles farm, about
three and a half miles northwest
,sof the old home in Florida. These
long visits, he said, began in the
fourth year after their removal
to Hannibal, and continued until
Sam was eleven or twelve, that
is, till 1847 or 1848. ^ ,
In the stables were horses that
a boy could. ride, and beyond the
fences herds of cows and droves
of pigs, whose bounty filled the
cool dairy and 'savory 'smoke-
house. Flocks of chickens pecked
around the granary, and the
woods were filled with squirrels
and geese and pheasants and wild
turkeys:... He loved the distant
hammering of woodpeckers, the
scurry of prairie chickens, and in
the blue vault a huge hawk hang-
ing motionless..
And in the oak openings, in the
lush grass spangled with prairie
pinks and wet with -morning dew,
helearned to find .wild -straw-
berries, or, turning back toward
the homestead, discover black-
berries hugging the rail fences
or a fat ripe watermelon sunning
itself among the pumpkin vines.
The taste of wild grapes, of paw-
paws and persimrhons, and of
maple sap running from the
trough — these belonged to the'
farm and its "blessed" memories,
—From "Sam Clemens, of Han
nibal," by Dixon Wetter.
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By H.
(Boll) VON PILLS
Great confusion reigns in the
minds of many people as to the
meaning of words like Social-
ism, Capitalism, Communism,
Liberaisim et al
A case in instance is a re-
cent editorial in the Toronto
weekly Saturday Night whose
author is of the opinion that
Premier T. C. Douglas of Sas-
katchewan using "Marxist jar-
gon" when he spoke to a meet-
ing "about the class struggle,
about the ruling class that is
trying' to destroy political de-
mocracy when the people try to
gain control of social democ-
racy."
If the mere mentioning of the
words. ruling . class and class
,struggle sound like "Marxist
jargon" in the ears of Saturday'"
Night's editor, what does he
think of language condemning
"the social system of monopoly
capitalism which has denied -
property to the masses and thus
created the division of classes
on which all class warfare is
based?"
Or. to give another, sample, of
language which regards "the
prevailing system of industrial
capitalism as a disease growth,
born' of'' man's 'rebellion .against
Christian principles of social
life, and bearing within itself
the seeds of social anarchy and
chaos." ' '
Incomplete Erudition -
It may colrie'as a surprise to
the editor of Saturday `Night as
well as to many others that
them. words did not emanate
from Moscow, that they were
not taken from any Marxist
writings, but that they are part
of the OfTicial Statements on
Social, Justice issued by the
C at h: o f i, o Archbishops a n d
Bishops of Australia in 1947 and
1948,
It is unfortunate that the
otherwise So erudite editor of
Saturday Night apparently did
not include in his readings :fit.'
Augustine's . "City. of God" et''
Thomas d'Aquinas' Summa,
without which his education
cannot be considered complete
or be himself qualified to pass
judgment on the ideas of men
like the Premier of Saskateites
wan
Other A.iternattves
Alt too often the mistake is
BRAE 37 1954
made to consider the two
prevalent socio-economic sys-
tems of Capitalism and Com-
munism as only alternatives to
order our present day daily life.
If the editor of Saturday
Night would go to the trouble
of looking through the second
part of the second part of the
Summa,' he would find other
possibilities.
He might be shocked by the
discovery that business for pro;
fit as an end in itself, solely to
make money and ac,umulate
wealth — without any virtuous
and necessary end as the sup-
port of a family or the public
good — is against nature and
has no justification in human
affairs.
He will also find a blueprint
for a Co-operative Common-
wealth, as d'Aquinas says that
trade for the' necessities of life
does not belong in ,the hands
of private individuals, but ra-
ther to those in charge of the
don±estic and social groups, to
the Housekeepers (cooperatives)
and to goverddmenta (public e l-
terprise)I in, -other words to
those respoijsible fpr the nece1-
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