HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-05-31, Page 3When the. Prince of Wales
Cooled Heated Fight Fans
Our Popular I-leir Apparent Loves a Good 'Boxing Bout and
Attends Many --Is Always Democratic
WANTS NO FAVORS
With boos and hisses the London was there, and they mustn't disappoint
prize-fight crowd voiced its uglytem- him.
per, roused by the unsatisfactory way "Well, I'll fight for' the Prince,"
things were going. There had been said Jimmy at last, "but for nothing
hints --unjust we are told—of a fake and . no one else." And on that he
in ono of the preliminaries, and one of took the ring and put up one of the
the, main 'fighters had refused for a greatest fights of his life, -
time to eater the ring. The angry The Prince's interest in boxing, as
rumblings of the crowd grew •more throwing light on his democratic na
ominous, and the nerves of the pro- ture, will some day be considered
rooter tauter and tauter. It was a important by historians, Mr. Preston
bad situation under any circumstances believes; and he adds that the English
and, to make it worse, at the ringside like their future King all the more be -
sat a personage. "Come on, Prince. cause of his. • interest in the ePort.
Give us a speech! yelled some one But not only does he like to -watch
in the gallery, The cry grew insist- boxing, we are told. The Prince is
ent, and the members of the party: a very shrewd judge of boxers' form.
with the Prince of Wales became We read ,further:
acutely uncomfortable. But not so the He eyes them in. their corners be -
urbane and democratic Prince, we .are fore the fight begins, and is seldom
told by Harry Preston in the New wrong in his estimate of a mans con-
York Herald Tribune Magazine. The dition and chances. That is because
Prince sized up the situation and the he himself is something of an author -
temper of the crowd, and dealt with ity "on training. His average life
would knock most men out after a
both coolly. He thought for a mo-
ment or two, then got up, climbed week or two, but he emerges from
through the ropes into the ring, and the ,most prolonged spells of heavy
made a little speech which began and. arduous public duties, work that
simply, "I thank you for the kind exhausts mentally and physically, with
. way you have received me." That plenty of energy left for play—and
settled it. Roars of cheering broke play of a strenuous kind.
out, and continued unabated for five The secret of this is largely intelli-
minutes, while the audience sang, en- gent exercise and sparse eating. He
thusiastically, "For he's .a jolly good I saiways interested in the technique
fellow!" This was the Prince's second of 'getting the most out of the human
fight, and it might; considering the machine, Indeed, the most vivid
disorders which attended it, have been memory I have of the Beckett -Carpen-
tier fight, which really put Carpentier
on the international boxing map, is
not of the, fight, which lasted seventy
seconds, but of a conversation 1 had
with the Prince about training in
youth and middle age.
It was the Prince's debut as a
patron of the ring. The scene was
the Stadium Club. Carpentier, who
had leapt into fame by knocking
out the tall Bombardier Billy Wells
at Ghent had come to try conclusions
his last, according to Mr. Preston, a
celebrated British sportsman; who has
taken the Prince to many matches
since then. We read further of the
time when the Prince cooled the heat-
ed fans:
It was at the Royal Albert Hall,
early in 1920. Jimmy Wilde, that ex-
traordinary little man with pipestem
arms, but a fist like a steel hammer
(the greatest boxing freak in ring his-
tory, I think), was fighting 'Pete Her-
man. Bombardier Wells was also hav-
ing an argument witli the formidable
heavyweight, Leviusky.
I had ventured, through the medium
of Wing Commander Louis Greig, then
controller to the Duke of 'York, and
an old friend of mine, to ask if the
Prince would join my party for the
fight. Louis had presented me to the
Prince ou the night of the Beckett -
Carpentier' fight at the Stadium Club,
the previous December, and I hoped
His Royal Highness would attend
some more contests, and so give box-
ing some badly needed encouragement.
BRITAIN'S HIGH COMMISSIONER TO CANADA
Sir William H. Clark, K.C.S.I., C.M.G., who has been appointed _Great
Britain's first High Commissioner to Canada, commenced his career in the
public service as a clerk in the board of trade department of the government
in 1899. He was secretary to the special mission to Shanghai to negotiate a
commercial treaty with Carina in 1901; was a private secretary at the board of
trade to Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George in 1906, and to Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill
in 1908; secretary to Lloyd George as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1908
till 1910; member for commerce and industry of the Council of the Viceroy of
India from 1910 to 1916; comptroller -general of .the commercial intelligence
department of the board of trade from 1916 1111 1917, and comptroller -general,
of the department of overseas trade since 1917.
Bathing Beauty Contest
Chicago Tribune: As newspaper
with the big Englishman, Joe Beckett. men we admit that bathing beauty
The French boy looked white and I contests are good for the back page
drawn beside the burly, well -colored I and the roto section. But for the pur-
Beckett, and most people agreed with poses of civic betterment they are
Arnold Bennett, who, before the fight punk advertisements.... We will
began, told me he thought Carpentier admit, for the sake of argument, that
was "a dead man." People were not -every beauty who steps into a one -
then aware of the tiger that slept in piece suit and what she imagines, is
that pale French boy! i the pose of a Parisian mannequin is a
The Prince had cone to his first home girl, is kind to her mother, loves
big fight with Louis Greig. This was potted geraniums on the window . eill,
in December, 1919. The Prince was always goes to bed' by 9 o'clock, and is
twenty-four, and just back from his I just waiting until true love .comes
first great post-war tour to Canada along, regardless of bank accounts.
and the States. He looked with in- We still contend, nevertheless, that
terest at the crowd—one of the most bathing beauty contests are not for
Mack came the reply that the Prince brilliant and intriguing that ever as -1 art's sake or for love of a Greek ideal
would not be able to dine with me, sembled round a ringside—and up at' of physical perfection. They are, in
but that 1 was to dine with him at the movie -camera men who had their 1 the contrary, about as close to the
St. James's Palace. I called upon
Louis Greig at the palace to explain
that this was a little awkward for
me, as I had already invited my guests
for dinner and the fight. "Bring them
all," was the la.conic reply I received.
Thus, on the night of the fight, I
presented- myself and my "-fourteen
guests at the palace. There were E.
V, Lucas, the novelist and publisher, I
remember; Tom Marlowe, the then
editor of The Daily Mall; my brother
Dick, Louis Greig and his brother,
Arthur ,and some others.
While we drank our cocktails in the
beautiful reception -room upstairs, a
message carne through that we were
not to wait. The Prince was coming
ap from Northainptou, where he had cate art of keeping fit. "Yon ought
been hunting,_and would be a little not to begin to train until you are
late. forty, sir," I told the Prince.
We went down then to the dining- .,He looked a little astonished at this,
roole, sat at the long table, and began. but tbecame very interested in my ex-
The Prince arrived, half -way through position that, unless a man is going
the meal, and 1 shall never forget in for unusually strenuous athletics,
it is a mistake to take too much out
of himself while he is young, because
fresh ail', with that something in his he won't be able to keep it up later
eye, that intimate regard peculiar to on. and there will come the time when
men who care for sport and athletics he has to fight superfluous flesh seri-
•—a flash that establishes friendly con- ously.
tact immediately over gulfs of rank Not that the Prince' is ever likely
and blood and differencesof calling. to be worried by adipose tissue,
He was comparatively without stiff- 1 Every ounce of fat on the human body
nese, affectation, or self-consciousneSs. gets there by way of the mouth; and
But we had not occupied our ring- the Prince is a sparing eater. In De -
side seats at the Hall many minutes ember. last year he joined my party
before trouble began. The arrange- for dinner at the Piccadilly Hotel,
ments were very bad, and the balcony with his two equerries, Major the Hon.
crowd, unable to see properly because Piers Legh and the Hon, Bruce Ogilvy,
of the banks of lights put up for the late of the Guards. We were all going
cinema and press cameras, began to on to the National :Sporting Club.
shout. The Prince saw what was
wrong and said it was a shanie the
feet in rope loops. Charles Cochran, 1 ancient slave market, where the bloom
the promoter, sat beside the Prince, of shapely anatomy won young ladies
but gave up his seat to nae when Louis I places as dancing girls or as favorite
Greig called me over and presented consorts of luxurious caliphs, as any -
me. We began to talk of the boxers i thing we have ever developed in this
and their prospects. I had seen both country. We don't think Chicago
in previous fights and in training. needs that sort of advertising.
Mr. Preston then gives us some in-
formation regarding the strenuous life Long Non -Stop Run
that the Prince's position forces upon
Te Prince was exercising very For British Railway
hard then—too hard, I thought. Hav-
ing indulged in most forms of strenu- world's record non-stop railway runons exercise in my youth, and having was made recently by two Royal Scot
losing the age zest seventy without expresses of the London, Midland &
Scottish Railway, one of which made
my keen in life, I fee -
that I know something about the deli- the journey from Euston (London) to
Edinburgh, 3993 miles, and the other
the trip from Euston to Glasgow,
401% miles. This railway claims to
have held the previous record in the
run from Euston to Carlisle, 299
miles, without halt, also done by the
Royal Scot.
No disclosure of the intention to
eliminate the stop at Carlisle was
made when the two record-breaking
trains left Euston at 10 axe, but offi-
cials at Carlisle were informed that
the trains would pass through. Both
trains arrived seven minutes early.
Engines with specially large tenders,
holding more coal and allowing of a
double crew, have been constructed
for these long hauls.
him,and how he keeps fit for it Makes New Record
the impression he made when he carie
In, finely flushed from exercise and
The Prince had had a strenuous
day.• He had been hunting—and had
people in the cheaper seats should arrived back in town just in time to
not get as clear a view as the ring- dress quickly and motor from York
side audience. He asked me to send House„ to join us. Yet all he had for
for the manager. dinner that night WaS a spoonful of
When the latter came, the Prince caviar, a taste of sole, a slice of wood -
asked him if something couldn't be cock and a glass of champagne.
done. He didn't like to sit there with 1 rem,ember on another night last
a good 'view, while other people who year, when the Prince was joining me.
had paid their money couldn't see. for a fight at the Royal Albert Hall,
That made the manager get a move he arrived late and slipped into his
on. They got some wires and ropes, ringside seat beside me. He explained
and the banks of lights were pulled that he had dashed up to town from
higher and to one side. his hunting quarters and had stopped
There had been an incident or two only to change and eat a sandwich,
over the dight before the big event. His lunch that day had consisted of a
Levineky was fighting .Bombardier sandwich or two and a glass of sherry,
Wells. Something went wrong with between hunts.
Levinsky's arm, Soine folk in tire' eee
gaiiet•y scented a fake, and said so Y>lixkligliation
at the top of their voices. Of course,
It was a perfectly straight affair, but Ottawa Droit (Ind, Lib.)': The mil -
the gallery was in a bad mood any lione spent on increasing the Canadian
way, population by means of immigretioe
To crown everything, Pete Berman have been spent in vain, More than
was overweight and ,litiizny Wilde,
who weighed about seven stone,
dressed, and was invariably giving
away weight, said he wouldn't light
him, He was Mate within his rights.
But thee,' told him tee Pence of Wales
that, they have been spent to the de-
triment of the country itself, since
this intense immigration has caused
the departure to the !(United States
of a poxtiof of our ;Catindian popu-
lation.
FirstSpectator—Who called the
P
referee a --- fool? Second Spectator
—I dunno. Who called the — fool
a referee?
Marriage—When a :girl exchanges
the attentions of a dozen men for the
inattentions of one.
Touring
Texan to Lasso
Mexican Lions
For Scientists
Brothers Gain Reputation
Along Rio for Success in
Taking Beasts, Alive
Raymondville, Tex.—Bunting Mex-
ican lions, or panthers, as they are
called by most Mexicans of the chap-
paral region of south Texas, is dan-
gerous sport and more especially 8o
when the daring method of capturing
the animals alive is attempted.
Bob Snow, of Raymondville, who is
widely known for his expertness in
roping these denizens of the wilder-
ness, has been selected as professional
hunter for the expedition which the
Denver Museum soon is to send into
Mexico for the purpose of obtaining
as many specimens as possible of pan-
thers' and other wild animals peculiar
to that country. A. C. Rogers, cur-
ator of the museum and a representa- strands from a piece of rope. It was
tive of the Smithsonian Institution, .more difficult to tie her front feet;
also will accompany the party. she carne near catching him two or
But for the fact that a variety of three times in her powerful jaws. He
animals besides the panther are to be !threw his tough duck hunting jacket
sought by the expedition, the hunting over her head. The frightened and
would be done in the vicinity of Ray -'enraged beast bit this full of holes.
mondville, which is notorious for be -I With this blind on her, he finally got
ing the habitat of more panthers than her front feet tied.
LARGE FEMALE TWICE TREED
"We had almost reached the edge of
the thicket when the dogs hit another
hot trail and treed, some distance back
FOREGOES HIS PLAYS
Eden Phillpotts, celebrated English
author, has announced that he has
never seen one of his own plays.
any other part of the lower • Rio
Grande border.
MEXICAN ROPERS TO ASSIST
Snow will take with him two or
three Mexicans who are well trained in the thicket. The two trailmakers
in the use of the lasso. It is danger- rushed to the scene as fast as pos-
ous business for one person to attempt Bible, to find a still larger female lion
to handle a panther by means of a at bay in a mesquite tree. She jump -
rope, Snow said. On his trips into the ed out as soon as we came up, but was "
wilds he usually -is accompanied by soon treed again. Luther yelled for
his brother, Sheriff Luther D. Snow, the ropes, having decided to make a
of Willacy County, who is likewise full day of it by capturing the second
widely known for his success in trail- lion
ing and capturing alive the ferocious
beasts.
Occasionally the Snow brothers
serve as guides for sportsmen, who
visit this region in search of excite- we were tired of packing lions and
ment. Only recently they accompan- cutting trails by this time, anyway.
ied R. Bona Ridgeway and John Cof- There was some danger in this as she
fee into the heart of the panther coun- was liable to come our way despite our
try. They took with them a pack of
eight hounds and a fox terrier- It
Whenever you put your car away was an exciting experience from start
for the night in a strange garage, to finish and as results of the chase
look at the floor under it. The chances they brought back to Raymondville
are you'll find puddles of oil and water two live panthers. The first panther
there. If you didn't discover them was brought to bay in a tree after a
until the next morning, you might long chase.
think your engine had been leaking NARROW ESCAPE RELATED
its vital contents. "When we came to the spot the ani -
It's not a bad idea, either, to make' mal was standing on a limb about
a note of your mileage when putting twenty feet from the ground," Ridge -
"The four of us tried to drive this
second lion nearer to the edge of the
thicket. She measured about seven
and a half feet from tip to tip, and
yeIIing and usually there was not room
to pass in the narrow underbrush
trails and small open spots. One time
she came pretty close to the: ax bearer
—that caused just a slight chill.
HUNTER FLEES INTO BRAMBLE
"The last time we jumped the lion .
out of a tree she came bounding
straight toward Coffee's little open
space, the dogs hot on her heels. He
did not hesitate for a moment, but
with a mighty yell plunged head first
the car to bed away from home. Any way said in describing the incident. his full six feet into a mass of thorn
one who happens to see you taking "Luther Snow climbed up a prong of 1 bushes, The lion missed him about
down the figures niay be discouraged the tree something like ten feet above I four feet Coffee was n sorry sight
from borrowing it for a joy ride dur- the ground, and with part of the fifty -;when he emerged from his thorn bed.
foot rope, which he had fixed with a "By this time Luther Snow was
loop and knot so that it would not near the beast's head with a rope. and
choke the lion when tightened about Bob, with another cone, was working
the animal's neck, he began his effects; to get to her rear, They scolded and
to rope it. Ibeat the dogs away, and as the lion
"He war in an awkward position , turned to get up Luther roped her
and missed his first throw. The lion' around the neck the first throw."
wasnot used to such procedure and —
turned its .fury from the dogs toward' Rheto C ele e
held our breath in suspense in a tense
this new attack. We on the ground'ter r-°"
City Will Observe Completion
of Reconstruction on
June 9
On June 9, 1918, General Gouraud,
ing the night. If the car is taken out,
you'll know it when ;eon check up in
the morning.
Don't let garage men push your car
around by applying their energy to
the headlights. Lamps are easily loos-
ened in this way, or bent out of ad-
justment.
It's better to leave your car parked
with the front wheels pointed out
than in toward the curb. Parked cars
are sometimes bumped by passing ve- moment when `the cat growled and
hides. If the wheels are pointed in, crouched as if to spring on Luther.
the car may run up on the sidewalk Luther said: 'Look out, boys! If she
and injure some one. If the wheels amps I'll fall out backward: We were
are pointed out, the car will roll away much relieved when the lion seemed
from the curb and into the passing to abandon the idea. On the ' next in command of the'Rheims sector, de -
vehicle. three throws the lion caught the rope finitely turned heel: German
When running at high speed it's a its mouth and held it a whip and offensiveitelyagainstredit, and theoGene 9,
good thing to remove the foot from then released it. Finally the rope
the accelerator from time to time. The went around its neck and was tight_ 1928, the city will celebrate the cotn-
pletion of its reconstruction by an
throttle$ is thug closed and oil ,is ened•
sucked up past the pistons. This helps"The dog -holders could not see the
to prevent scoring the cylinders. Ilion when she hit the ground b!'c auee
Into the car and out to the country of the dense brush, but we knew. from
club for a round of golf is a popular 1 the earnest yells of the Snow brothers,
proceeding these da :'s, but watch out I just what had happened. The noot,e
for golf shoes with extra wide soles• had slipped off and the lion was free.
The accelerator petal ii rather close HOUNDS RECAPTURE LION
to the brake pedal on ninny cars, and "The brace little fox terrier did its
a wide sole will often press it when best tt catch that bounding lion, but
e driver is ro..r•.'•h.'• for the ; r,l:e• it was soon outdistanced. The tied
YUM YUM
Angry Customer (tossing a package
on the counter): "Makes washing a
Pleasure, does it? Does the washing
while yon wait, does it? It's the little
flakes of soap that---"
Grocer: "Madan!, one montent,
please. This is not soap."
Angry Customer: "Not soap? Not
soap."
"No. Your daughter asked for a
half -pound of grated cheese and a half -
pound of soap flakes. This is the
cheese."
"My stars! And last night I made a
pudding."
international exhibition of the "Meil-
leures Marques." The inauguration
ceremony will be attended by the Min-
ister of Commerce and the Ambassa-
dors and Ministers of the principal
foreign powers. Later, at a day not
yet set, the President of the republic
will dedicate the reconstructed Hotel
de Ville, or city hall, and the library,
the latter the gift of the late Andrew
hounds understood instinctively that Carnegie.
Of the $,0..o
5 dwellings and shops
they were needed, and all tried to go completely destroyed and over 5,000
at once. Their voices were wo:king, damaged, more than 10,000 have been
too. It was an exciting moment. We
could not untie those dogs without
help, for fear of their getting away
all yoked up. When freed, however,
the dogs scattered in every direction
and in twenty minutes had the lion
up another tree.
"The knot in the rope was adjusted
and both ropes were thrown around 'Champagne on an "Alsace and Lor -
the lion's neck. When she jumped out raine Day," with which the Bishops
she was held ata safe distance inial of Strasbourg and Metz will be asso-
titrown on her back, the natural p elated. hector Berlioz's "To Deum"
sition they take for fighting dogs. will be sung by a choir of 300 voices,
When she ceased the struggle, Bob conducted by Gustave Charpentier,
tied her hind feet together withconducted
the sante composer's "Requiem"
will be given in the reconstructed
cathedral on the sante day.
rebuilt. The factories and workshops,
have completely resumed work, and
the exhibition is expected to reveal the
remarkable revival of the industries
which were ruined from 1914 to 1918,E
Aside from the religious fetes of
thankfulness and rejoicing, tributes
will be paid to the soldiers killed in
When Major, Fftzmaurice, the Irish member of the "Bremen's" crew arrived at Seven Islands from Greenloy
Island, he and "Duke" Schiller, pilot *4 the relief plane, were met by Mr. 1.,. A. Genet, Lower Quebec representa-
tive of Christie, Brown & Co, Limited, and Mr. Stewart of the Clarke Trading Contpa ty who 'tendered them
( i , i' wore, naturally, much appreciated. The
refresTintents-in the sttfllie of hot toffee. and dttesltes.I3isetrfts which
above picture shows the teip7lene which carried the first shipment of Christie's Biscults by Canadian air freight
from '.l'oronto to Windsor.
Had a Profession.
"Ho has a profession, eh?" '; • M
"Sure—you couldn't got hien tit
work," -,.
In a year's time the average hu-
man takes approximately one and one-
half pounds of itlmeinuin into the body
from natural foods. The mineral,
however, does not aeci malate in the
body.
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