HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-01-22, Page 7E CatVert SPORTS COLIIMN
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One of the fine sporting gestures of 1952
was, in our humble opinion, made by an
Olympic girl champion, This is an era in
which the great ice shows offer amounts al-
most fabulous to international title winners,
and there is nothing wrong nor unethical in
these possessors of unique natural talents sell-
ing their wares to the highest bidders. Sonja Hpnie, Barbara Ann
Scott, Jacqueline de Bief, the great Dick Button are notable
iiigures who have led the vast parade of ice stars into the monied
ranks.
To all this, there's one notable exception, Because she believed
her future lay in other, far less glamorous roles than the great ice
shows provide, Britain's Jeannette Altwegg, the queen of the last
Olympic winter games, hung up her skates, refused a huge offer,
choosing to devote her life to charitable work that involved menial
and tiresome duties,
After she had stolen the head -lines at the Oslo show, Miss
Altwegg announced she was through with competitive skating. Few
believed that she was serious. It was felt that when the "big offer"
came along, Britain's girl champion would succumb, as had most
of the stars of her time.
The "big offer" came, an offer of 2000 pounds, or around $6,000.
per week from the Music Corporation of America. But still this
21 -year old daughter of a British naturalized Swiss declined. She
replied simply that she was not interested, no matter how high
the offer. "I'm just not cut out for the bustle and whirl of show-
manship and it would make me unhappy to do so" she gaid in
effect.
Today Jeannette is doing something that is making her very
happy. She is in Switzerland at the international "I'estaiozzi"
village at Trogen. There she is helping in the British dwelling
to look after orphaned children who come from a dozen different
nationalities. Her self-imposed tasks for payment, less in a year
than she was offered per day by the show magnates, include the
hundred and one daily domestic chores involved in looking after
children who, if it wasn't for such organizations as this, and such
;self-sacrificing persons as Jeannette' Altwegg, would be thrown
helpless upon' the world.
This isn't intended to criticize, by inference, those who have
followed the dictates of a practical era, and decided to capitalize
on the ski's they developed through long and arduous hours of
practise. They're entitled to their rewards, just as Jeanette Alt-
wegg is entitled to the rich satisfaction she undoubtedly gains
in her more humble sphere of life,
Vaaur comments and suggestions for this column will he welcomed
ISy Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
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'"Che higher you climb the
Harder you fall," and "A hero
eeday and. a bum tomorrow" are
two axioms almost as old as
wort; and their truth was never
Awe pointedly proven than in
lese case of M. Georges Carpets:
tier, one of the ring's most fab -
talons figures back about 30
genre ago.
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A.French flying -hero of World
War I, Georges — handsome,
t,tappily-dressed and with per-
nalityr a -plenty was the idol of
hit countrymen who cheered him
4;0 the skies as he battled his way
l the World's light -heavyweight
IA Ile. Even at Boyle's 30 acres,
stat outside Jersey City, prob-
ably nine -tenths of the spectate
Gas were pulling for the French-
man to pull a miracle and flat -
Um Jack Dempsey. Of course
fn. at was just a bit too much even
gor M. Carpentier. He lasted
SPetee than 4 rounds against the
l anassa Mauler, but even that
&feat did his popularity little if
any harm especially along the
boulevards of that dear Paris.
y the way that Dempsey-Car-
aatier was the first fight to have
ss round -by -round broadcast and
the microphone -maestro was J,
Andrew White. Remember him?
Well, neither did we!)
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But it didn't take long for
'Gorgeous Georges" to hit the
p�oopularity skids. Apparently —
Itilste a lot of other athletes we
would mention — he bad been
doing too much reading of his
press notices and, what is worse,
believing what he read. So, just
to pass the time away and to pick
up a few loose francs, about a
year after his meeting with
Dempsey he took on an unknown
by the name of Battling Siki. For
what happened then, here is the
story as reported in The Police
Gagette of that day.
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With dramatic suddenness, and
most unexpectedly, carne the de-
feat of Carpentier by the Afric-
an black in the sixth round of
what was scheduled to be a twen-
ty round bout, staged in the Buf-
falo Stadium in Paris, France,
before a crowd estimated at
50,000. •
Dizzy and spent, with his
"Greek profile" nose smashed by
a blow from the negro's fists,
Carpentier came out wobbling
for the sixth and final round of
the encounter, and one minute
-and ten seconds after the bell
sounded, was crumpled on the
canvas, taking the 'count from
Henry- Bernstein, the referee.
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By his victory Siki, scarcely
heard of outside of Paris three
months ago, became the lights
heavyweight champion of the
world and the heavyweight
champion of. Europe, the two
titles so proudly held by Carpen-
tier and the boast of his manag-
er and mentor, Francois Des -
camps, passing to the African.
ltit€mains to --With a horn -spread like Haut Bunyan's big blue ox,
*his prize-winning highland bullock impressed spectators at the
Smithfield show in London. Seen above, holding still for a care-
filo/ coiffure, he is the chem,pion of the Edinburgh fatstock show
Keeping in Practice—This French soldier isn't getting ready for al
date. He has a long tour of duty ahead of him piloting his am-
phibious vehicle through rice paddies in French Indo-China. He's
just taking advantage of a lull in the fighting. to keep in practice
with the razor.
If pity were called for, one
could well pity the once debonair
Georges as he lay, a shattered
idol, on the ring floor, with the
ebony -hued fighter who had beat-
en him clown being frantically
hailed as a hero by a great
throng of Carpentier's fellow
countrymen assembled at his
pugilistic Waterloo.
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Georges met the fate not un-
common to professional athletes,
of a broken idol. For some time '
the ardor of French sportsmen
had been cooling towards • Car-
pentier. They remembered that
he had seldom boxed in France
(where purses have been small
owing to war drainage of the
nation's finances), and seldom if
ever for charity, so that when he
faced Siki for what Georges ex-
pected to be a boxing lesson the
French ex -airman was no longer'
the pet of the populace.
When, after the third round,
it became apparent that he was
a beaten fighter and, withal,
seemed anxious to foul his negro
opponent in order to stave off
a knockout, the crowd turned
completely against its one-time
favorite and the stadium rang
with jeers and catcalls directed
at the loser.
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Carpentier interrupted his mo-
tion picture engagements to ac-
cept the challenge of Battling
Siki. He underwent thorough
training and was "apparently in
good shape. Furthermore, he was
as confident (on the surface at
least) as ever when he bowed.
to the throng at the Buffalo Sta-
dium. But after the first round
there was nothing to the en-
counter but Siki, who, after
stopping a couple of George's
much vaunted rights to the chin,
awakened to the fact that he
was not facing a superman as he
had supposed, but a mere human,
after all; who could not hurt him
and whom he could, in turn, pun-
ish almost at will.
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The bout was devoid of
science. In the first round Siki
presented the appearance of be-
ing overawed by his opponent.
But after he had been hit a
couple of times and didn't drop,
he took heart and sailed into Car-
pentier just as if he wasn't a
"mastermind" and that sort of
thing. s'
In the second round Carpen-
tier landed his famous right
against Siki's jaw, but failed to
stop him. The Frenchman look-
ed surprised when the. Senegal-
ese did not fall. in the third
round Georges dropped the col-
ored man to one knee with a
hard right for a count of seven,
but Siki got up and in a furi-
ous exchange landed a smashing
blow to Carpentier's chin which
sent him down for a count of
four.
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it was this blow ( tabbed
"lucky" by Descamps) that real-
ly proved the definite turning
point of the bout in Siki's
favor, for Carpentier was badly
dazed by it and never fully re-
covered from its effects. In the
fourth and fifth rounds Siki bat-
tered Carpentier all .over the ring
and the Frenchman resorted to
every trick in his repertoire to
avert the ignominy of a knock-
out. Mere than once he butted
Siki with his h e a d. and was
warned by the referee, while th.e
crowd jeered the foul tactics.
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His nose smashed, his face maw
and bleeding and his gait un-
steady, Carpentier laboriously
left his corner for the sixth
round when Siki finished him.
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As Georges fell, his feet fell
through those of the negro, and
his manager claimed that Siki
tripped him. The first verdict
was that Siki lost on a foul but
this was later reversed and the
African was declared the winner
by a knockout.
Siki weighed 174, afi :l Carpet -
„per a ,pound leiss,. , ..
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Most people prefer to have the
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,.A. If the headwaiter leads the
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A. These may be telephoned,
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hag )rendered you some very
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A. Never. In fact, tipping is
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Q. Is it necessary for a house
guest to bring his hostess some
kind of gift?
A. This is often done and is
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—but it is not absolutely neces-
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ter is really all that is expected
and required.
Q. When a man is seated in a
public dining room or restaurant,
and a woman acquaintance bows
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A. He merely makes the ges-
ture of rising by getting up half-
way from his chair and at the
same time bowing. Then he sits
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Q. Is it necessary that a chap-
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A. No; any woman of mature
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Q. Is it proper for a girl to
ask a young man to call on her,
when she has known him for
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A. Yes, this is quite all right.
Probably the best way to handle
this, though, .is by means of a
dinner ,invitation to her home,
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