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The Brussels Post, 1957-11-13, Page 7Fake Fights Mane Him World's Richest Boxer "YOU'RE AN ACTOR" — Paul Ford, 56-year-old actor, ro- mances Shirley Booth in a new film "The Matchmaker,' Ford, Sgt. Bilko's Colonel on the Phil Silvers TV show, didn't become an actor till he was 38. He did it on the advice • of his psy- chiatrist. Hearing of Paul's many jobs—none of them profitable —the psychiatrist said simply, "You're an actor." He's been one ever since—for money. Llia A FISH — "Sampson," a 1O-Month-old lion betziigin§ to Heat Bal:zulii is a lion on land but makes' like a fish in the water,. The lion cub, in photo 01 left, easily outdistances liis rilct. ter, and then indignantly climbs 450 of the wa ter, in photo at right, as if 'to say so you think you can Cunard's special Thrift Season rates make this a gcliden opportunity to go home for' an Old Country Christmas. 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Of Autumn A rich tint of russet deepened on the forest top, and seemed. to sink day by day deeper into the .foliage like a stain; riper and riper it grew, as an apple colour& Iiroed..acres these of the crop, the crop of leaves; a thou-. sand thousand quarters, the broad earth will be their burn A warm red lies on the •hill-side above the woods, us if the red dawn stayed there through the day; it is the heath .and. heather 5tiecisi and higher still, It pale yellow fills the larches, The whole of the great hilt glows with colour under the • short hours of the October sun; and Overhead, where the pine-cones hang, the sky is of the deepest Azure, The conflagration of the woods burning luminously crowds into those short hours a brilliance the slow summer does sot know, The frosts and mists and bat- tering rains that follow in quick succession after the equinox, the chill winds that creep about the fields have ceased a little while, and there is a pleasant sound in the fir trees. Everything is• not tone yet. In the lanes that lead down to the "shaws" in the deli.% the "gills," as these wood- ed depths are called, buckler ferns, green, fresh and elegantly ' fashioned, remain under the .shelter of the hazel-lined banks. From the tops of .the ash wands, where the linnets so lately sang, coming up from the stubble, the darkened leaves have been blown, and their much-divided branches stand bare like out- stretched fingers. , • Here is herb Robert in flower--its leaves are scarlet; a leaf of St. John's wort, too, has. become scarlet; the bramble leaves are many shades of crimson; one plant of tormentil has turned yellow. . . BrOwn lie the acorns, • yellow where they were fixed in their cups; two of these cups seem al- most as large as the great acorns from abroad.—From "Jefferies' England," by Richard Jefferies, Sand Helps. To Trap Criminals Sand seems innocent stuff, but like so many other harm- less things, it has played its part in the history of crime. - It has filled socks, and load- ed pieces of hose-pipe to turn those innocent objects into mur- derous bludgeons. One convict in prison picked up a few grains every time he went out for ex- ercise until he had collected enough to fill a sock as a weap- on for the day when he made his bid for freedom. When mixed with a little gelatine and other chemicals, sand forms a very useful mould from which to make counterfeit coins. The same moulding prop- erties make sand useful for tak- ing the impression of a key so that a prospective thief can have one made for himself. But sand has also served to trap criminals. Not only does it show footprints but some- times even the pattern of weave of the cloth worn by a criminal. It also sticks to his clothes and creeps into his trouser turn-ups and his pockets, and as sand dif- fers in various parts of the. country it links him with the locality of the crime. Perhaps the most perfect case of identification by sand was when a 'burglar was disturbed in the middle of a job. He " jumped out of the nearest win- dow, was lucky enough, to fall into something soft, recovered himself and made off into the night. But he had fallen into a heap of fresh, damp sand just left by the builders and it retained a perfect impression not only of. both hands but his face as well. A plaster cast was made of the face and hands and provided evidence which could not be ex- plained away. DEALT. OUT — Willidfri above,* president of Teamsters Union Locdl Toronto, Can- ada; has been Informed by out- t going tednittert president Dave Beck that his Unidn is not fn dliffa- standing and nbt get a vote of The union's 4t, natio:Midi tanVerifian in Mitiniis. FIG.,- Mills is an avowed oppo, /lent of bath Beck and James It 4dfcd: The latter hopes to suf- ficed tack.. demanded to know why the bets had been called off. Tommy Burns explained — and dropped a bombshell that rocked the sporting world. "Jack O'Brien was caught in "one of his own traps," said Burns. "I could not get him to agree to enter the ring until after I had promised to lay down and let him win the fight. I pretended to be willing to do this, because I wanted to show the country that I was O'Brien's master. "In the first round O'Brien was taken off his feet and was scared to death. He knew I had planned too cunningly for them all, and that he was due 'for a beating. "As for the bets being called off, I was instrumental in having that done for the benefit of the ,public. I wanted to make this explanation afterwards and I did not want to see the public tricked into losing any of its money. Calling off the bets cost me $3,800, for I stood to win' that amount myself." O'Brien at first denied that .he had tried to fix the fight, but later he confessed that he had. He confessed to other fixed fights too, and • even declared that his first encounter with Burns the previous November had been fixed to end in a draw. This was probably true, for- in their second fight, when. Burns refused to carry' through the fake, he completely out- classed O'Brien. Born in Philadelphia in Janu- ary 1878, O'Brien's real name was Joseph Hagan. He started his career in the ring when he was 18, but it was years before he, did anything noteworthy. He struggled along like any second- rater. No' one took him seriously. Then he went to England, beat a lot of hams, made himself some money and acquired the British heavyweight champion- LOW THRIFT SEASON RATES APPLY OM ALL SAILINGS .eropty hanms in thou, days. When Ile Whittled to America l,e /Ilan:v.1'd to get Foaltj, big none fights :and !,,toadily fought his to the 010111pitillShip• elae~, lint hr ittl,oi'd rather than fought WI way l's ::uceess. lie fixed his fight43 so that. he would.. Win; Grabbing purse after purse 'and putting his money away to. real estate, be soon became the .rivliest fighter in tfie world. But public opinion turned against him and after the Burns fiasco many people demanded his removal from the prize ring. Ills career was studded with frame-ups, and he was caught in several questionable fights, but he was never so completely . exposed than in his raw attempt to fake his fight with Burns. O'Brien must have had severe shock that May day when he climbed into the ring ex- pecting Burns to lay down for him, The following Police Oa- zette eye-witness report of the contest reveals what a poor show O'Brien put up, "Tommy Burns thoroughly Outclassed O'Brien in every de- pertinent . of the game except springing a w a y, and when O'Brien sought to run away Burns would stand in the center of the ring with his hands at his sides and beg the Philadel- phian to fight,. "From the first until the last round O'Brien acted as though in great fear and waited until. forced into clinches. His tactics were not . to the liking of the audience, Which hissed him from first to last. "In. the seventh round Burns caught O'Brien with swinging crosscuts as he raced around the ring and he staggered. the Philadelphian with a right cross to the jaw, forcing O'Brien into a clinch.. "In the ninth round Burns succeeded in getting to O'Brien's face with a right and left,. which opened a cut on his eye. Blood streamed freely from the wound. and this took all the fight out of O'Brien, From that time on until the end he showed abso- lutely nothing that gave his ad- mirers any excuse for hope. "In the twelfth round when O'Brien sought to mix at, Burns put over another overhand wal- lop to the face, staggering his opponent and causing blood to. flow from his face. In the fif- teenth O'Brien's left eye was closed 'and his right eye was beginning to swell up. "From the fifteenth to the twentieth Burns out - pointed O'Brien •and had him on the ragged edge all the .time. Burns. fought hard • for a knockout in. the closing rounds, but the crafty O'Brien was. clever enough to save himself by running away from Burns' fierce blows and succeeded in staving off - a .knockout, "O'Brien pursued, his runaway tactics from first to last and frequently, turned his 'back on Burns in 'his frantic effort to escape, racing round the ring in full head of steam. "After the twentieth round the referee had no hesitation in declaring 'Burns the winner, and found it unnecessary to order a few more . rounds." Overdose Of Fear Writing in Life magazine not long , ago, Dr. George Crile, Jr., surgeon at the Cleveland clinic, charged that those responsible for telling' the public about di- sease have "chosen to use the weapon of fear, believing that only through fear can the public be educated." "Newspapers and magazines have spread this fear," he went on, "knowing that the public is always inter- ested in the melodramatic and the frightening," This observation is particular- ly pertinent• now in regard to the wide publicity beirig• given Asian influenza and the predic- tions that a vast epidemic is in- escapable this winter. The fact that certain California health experts recently declared that there was no reason to expect. an epidemic seems to have been ignored in favor of the more -"melodramatic and frightening" forecasts. Dr. John T. Barrett, chairman of the Rhode Island state com- mittee on itrimunization, says that the publicity on Asian flu is "totally out of proportion with the danger involved," At worst, this latest "popular ail- ment cannot be compared with the type of influenza prevalent in 1017-18." Psychosomatic medicine em- phasizes the harmful effects of fear and anxiety and echoes Job's statement that "the thing I greatly feared is come upon me." Disease is not a matter of germs and viruses only. EiTorts toward immunization till °ugh vaccine are commen- dable but that is not the sole means of immunization. 11/4/fatly centuries ago the Psalmist said: "Because thou hest made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee. neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." 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Dept, HW-I SHAW SCHOOLS cystine crystals were detected in the eye tissue. "Whatever quirk of body chemistry saved the life of this adult," Harvard scien- tists predicted, "may some day be produced artificially in other cystinosis victims." Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, one of the ring's greatest name,;, made a fortune faking fights — but he was caught in his own double-cross when he tried to fix a fight with Tommy Burns. O'Brien was not only light heavyweight champion, at the height of his fame he was also the richest prize fighter in the 4 world. But the secret of his mar- velous record of winning fights was exposed after Burns gave him a beating in the ring in- stead of "lying down" to him. Most people have forgotten this disreputable side of Phila- delphia Jack's career. He is le= membered only as a great chant- pion. Yet most of his fights — in- cluding his title fight — were faked, and after his sensational exposure by Burns, shocked sportsmen dubbed O'Brien the "fixed fight champion." In his • pre-arranged victories his op- ponents •' sacrificed honor for the money O'Brien offered them to lay down. Until he tangled with Burns, his, opponents were afraid to ex- pose O'Brien. So he posed as a victorious pugilist and claimed honors which never should have been his. But when he met Tommy Burns, O'Brien met his match in shrewdness. Burns crossed and doublecrossed him when they fought for the- second time in Los Angeles on May 8, 1907. It was obvious that something was in the wind when -Burns' manager called off all bets be- fore the fight. O'Brien was the 10 to 7 favorite. After the fight, when Burns had soundly beaten O'Brien, the fans who had bet on the Phila- delphian were jubilant, because they'd saved their money. 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