Zurich Herald, 1953-08-27, Page 6Boxing fans of a generation or
to ago often ask what happened
lo Sid Marks, a far -better -than -
average scrapper who fought i#1
Canada -and other parts of the
world -back in the early 1920's.
e * *
Marks, on his all-round skill
and punching ability, seemed
destined to go to the very top;
but all of a sudden, just when the
welterweight title appeared to
be within his grasp, he dropped
clear out of sight.
* *
We personally have often in-
tended to make inquiries as to
whether he was still alive, and
;if so what he was doing, but
never got around to it. But just
the other day, the puzzle was
solved -and, of all people, by the
very man who Marks was just
about due to battle for the cham-
pionship,
* * *
He is none other than Mickey
Walker, who turned from hurling
leather to pounding a typewriter,
and who writes a most interest-
ing department -in The Police
Gazette. And here is what Mickey
has to say about Marks who,
even if he wasn't Canadian -born,
has roots in the Dominion. We
haven't as yet read Marks' book
which Walker refers to, but if
it's as good as his fighting used
to be, .it's worth looking for.
* *
Sid was a newsboy in the
Limehouse district of London
when World War I began. Al-
though only fourteen years old,
he enlisted in His Majesty's Navy,
where he learned to box as the
result of the oddest circumstances
I've ever heard of.
* * *
Two y"ears of Navy combat life
turned Sid into a seasoned "tar."
One day a German torpedo hit
his ship. Sid was blown into the
water, and when he was picked
up by a British patrol boat, he
ouldn't move his right leg.
* * *
Rushed to a British Navy hos-
pital he was still recuperating
when the war ended. He even-
tually left the hospital, with his
leg still crippled, to join the
crew of another. battleship. A
:navy doctor advised him, "Plenty
of real exercise will make your
leg normal again."
On board ship Sid remembered
the advice. One night, a boxing
tournament was arranged for the
members of the crew. Sid bad
never seen a boxing glove, but
he entered the tournament with
the idea of exercising his leg.
As his opponent, he "drew" the
ship's champion.
* * *
At the sound of the bell, Sid
tore across the ring. He threw
a wild right. Ten seconds later,
he was the new welterweight
champion of a British battleship.
In due time, Sid became a ci-
vilian again. He had a strong de-
sire to live in New York, and be-
fore he realized it he found him-
self on a cattle boat sailing for
Canada. A wealthy Canadian
farmer, who was a friend of
Sid's father, met him at the dock,
* * *
A mutual admiration developed
at once. In the following weeks,
Sid plowed Canadian pastures
on his new friend's farm. His
dreams of New York quickly
faded away. He learned to love
the daily routine of farm life.
But one day, through no fault
of his own, farm life faded away
like Sid's thoughts of the Big
City.
*
The farmer occasionally went
to town and tried to paint it red.
The town happened to be Mont-
real, and he visited every tavern
he came to, bragging in each one
about his new farm hand's fistic
abilities. He'd end every mono-
logue with the words, "Sid
Marks, welterweight champion
of the British Navy!"
* * *
After one of these holiday
sprees, the farmer had arranged
for Sid to fight the welterweight
champion of Canada six weeks
later in the Montreal Arena. The
results of this fight were similar
to Sid's first title fight on board
ship. From then on, he belted out
nearly every loan he fought.
* * *
On a trip to London after box-
ing for two and a half years
around Canada and the border
cities of the United States, Sid
won the British welterweight
title, Later. he came to New York.
* ,
I held the world's welterweight
crown at this time, and Tex Rick -
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ard, America's greatest boxing
promoter, angled for a bOut be-
tween Sid and me. But Boo Boo
Hoff, Philadelphia's l e a d i n g
matchmaker, wanted Sid to meet
the welterweight K.O. sensation,
Bobby Barrett.
*
Sid fought Barrett and sent
him the way of most of Sid's
opponents: This established Sid
as the number -one title contend-
er, and gave Tex Rickard visions
of promoting a big -money title
match. But Sid suddenly dropped
out of the boxing 'world. With
Lou Darrow, he began to pro-
mote wrestling on the West
Coast.
*
It was not until 1948, several
years after I retired from the
ring, that I met Sid Marks. Act-
ing as my manager, he ,,booked
me to referee wrestling matches
in. California,
* *
*
But that didn't end the am-
bitions of the one-time Limey
newsboy. He recently wrote a
book called Newsboys Mall of
Fame. Like Sid Marks, it carries
a terrific punch.
Rang His Dtil'•Ctrbeii
hew lir, His Home
A householder in Geneva
went up to his front door and
pressed the bell. An electric
spark set light to escaping gee,
and the flat plew up. "'
Just another instance of an in-
nocent action that started off
a chain of events culminating in
disaster.
A customer in a Lincoln cafe
struck a match, The place ex-
ploded. How was he to know
that a mouse had previously
nibbled a large hole in a gas
pipe?
When an Australian adjusted
a faulty carburaettor his car
back -fired and set his hair
alight. He rolled on to the verge
of the road and started a fire
which burnt out 1,000 acres of
grassland.
The cat which curled up close
to a stove in a French home only
wanted to get warm. It got
warmer than it bargained for.
When its fur caught fire it dived
into a pile of hay and started a
blaze causing damage estimated
at $6,000. The cat, incidentally,
still has eight of its lives left.
A United States woman started
to search for a coin she'd drop-
ped. She moved the car under
which it had rolled, the car hit
a parking meter and a ouilding,
breaking a window in the pro-
cess. The coin cost the woman
dearly -she had to pay $125
damages.
When a two-year-old Ameri-
can' girl fell of a stool and broke
her thumb, mother got her ready
for hospital. Anxious to help,
her four-year-old boy .ran to
open the door and cut his face
on a glass panel. Worse follow-
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steps, the mother broke her
ankle.
A milk bottle caused chaos in
Kensington. Falling from a cart
it scared a pony, which bolted
in the path of a bus. The driver
slammed on his brakes, shaking
the passengers. The pony ram-
med a confectioner's window. On
the pavement an elderly woman
collapsed.
Who would imagine that a
house would burn down merely
because the kitchen sftelf was
shaky? In a Connecticut home a
cake fell off the shelf on to a
tap, turning on the water, The
cake clogged the sink, the sink
overflowed, and the water caus-
ed a short circuit which set the
house alight.
tTatch out for bees! One flew
into the cabin of a Twickenham
trolley bus and made the. driver's
eye its target. He swerved. and
the 'ibus' crashed into the para-
pet t`ipf a railway bridge One
frog , wheel hung over a six-
foot' drop and the occupants of a
nearby house could see the bus
suspended above them.
Another bee blacked out half
a town. It stung a Pennsylvania
„, motorist on the nose, he rammed
a pole carrying the power lines,
and all the lights in the neigh-
bourhood went out.
There would seem to be more
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Too ,t;,; any Corpses
Near Oklahoma City in 1933,
a plane smashed into a hillside,
killing everyone aboard. Four-
teen bodies were found in the
wreckage. But to the conster-
nation of airline officials, their
records showed just ten passen-
gers and three crew men, thir-
teen, Who belonged to the ex-
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unearthed some helpful facts:
farmer Johnson Saunders had
taken advantage of the opportu-
nity that for most men, dissatis-
fied with their wives to the point
of neuroticism, comes but once
in a lifetime. Seeing the crash
from his nearby, farm, he casual-
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his wife Nana over the head
with a meat axe, put the body
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plane. He then tossed it into the
wreckage. Though farmer Saun-
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he was the victim of a bad count,
and was charged with murder,
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