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DAILY EXPRESS THORSDAY SEPTEMBER 2S 1950 Rain-lashed fans mob Welsh idol aStev come-back tight PETER WILSON, cabifng from It makes MASKED LIGHT New York o« the weigh^in^ says:^ FARR CABLES JOE: I WON me happy Runs NEXT TWE- GAMBOL? 'Tommy Bach is back' AT THIRSK By THE SCOUT ASKED LIGHT, champion NEW YORK, Wednesday.—The big: fight certainly woke up two-year-old of last with a bang today. While more than a thousand wildly -by knock-out route season, who has not raced since finishing third in the excited- fans —mostly Negroes —mopped and mowed By JAMES BRADY: Pontypridd, Wednesday Two Thousand Guineas, is outside Madison-square Garden, Joe Louis and Ezzard due to reappear in the Charles weighed-in for the battle tonight at the Yankee " rn OMMY BACH is back," they yelled through Rievaulx Plate at Thirsfc on Stadium, New York. the mud and rain of Ynysangharad Park, Saturday. Doug Smith will ride. Inside the arena there was even more confusion, for Gene here tonight. This race over a mile is part oE Autry's rodeo show opens in the Garden tonight and you Masked Light's preparation for the couldn't throw a handful of marbles in any direction without And there he stood under the arc lamps, gasping and Champion Stakes at the next bouncing them off the " ten-gallon " hats of cowboys. bloodsplashed—Tommy Farr, the Lad From Tonypandy Newmarket meeting. When Louis got on the scales, eyes glistening, smiling victoriously. *• If the going at Thlrsk is very man pushed through the fore the fight, he said : " Oh, fooey heavy and gets cut up, we may be milling crowd and tried to sen'e on that." on One mystery that has not been Flat on his back, six feetl forced to change our plans," Norman him with what appeared to be a Scoblc added yesterday. Persia and cleared up is the, identity of away, with arms and legs summons. aspread, lay the great, hulk of Flower Dust are among possible Charles's girl friend. • He admits rivals. In the confusion the paper was that he has one.-but he refuses to a fighting Dutchman—29-year- Reserve Eric knocked out of his hand and no tell anyone her name, Doug Smith will have the log-up old Jan Klein, champion of this morning on the Cambridgeshire, one could be sure what It was for. Holland. colt Kelling—now fully restored to Louis's weiglit was announced as ^Woi-ld champion' health. I5st. 81b. A loud whistle went up, He was pounded there by Farr'si wins match because that is easily the heaviest FURTHER toucil of confusion VOU HfeLP Me WITH flaying arms after 16 minutes' grim This suggests that Doug will be on was added to the world heavy­ Mr. Chris Jarvis's colt in next! he ha.^ ever been for a title fight A MY WASHING-UP AND I'LL battling. By BASIL STOREY —iVilb. more than lie was when weight situation, when Colonel month's big handicap unless re­ Eddie Eagan, chairman of Thirty thousand Welsh men and he announced hfs retirement after M\.f you WITH yoix POOLSI quired to ride Lord Derby's Moss-I N.Y.S.A.C.. announced that the women down from the hills and up New Cross 39 Wembley 45 borough. I knocking out Jersey Joe Walcott winner would bo regarded as undis­ from the valleys had waited four in 11 rounds two years three ^RED WILLIAMS is Still wait­ puted world champion In New hours in a torrential downpour to Kelling. winner of the Esher months and two days ago. I ing to win his first race since •Cup and Britannia Stakes, has York Stote. jsee this. When it happened they he captured the world speedway Then it was Charles's turn. He. went mad. been -well backed at 20—1 during too, was heavier than usual, but Ever since Louis retired New championsiiip at Wembley a week the last two days; 100—7 was the York has regarded the world F.A. asked Women screamed; men yelled : at 13st. 2'/,lb. he will still be con­ offer on the course yesterday. heavyweight title as. vacant and "Good old Tommy—Just Uke he ceding . Louis 2st. 5'/ilb.—and. lUsed to be.'" as they raced to the ^Last nlgiit In this National League The expected close race between brother, that's one concession I apparently Lee Savold's claims are ringside to mob their 36-year-old match he was eclipsed by his younger Bakshishl and Gamble in Gold did would not care to make. being ignored here. idol. brother and Wembley reserve Eric. not materialise yesterday. The fllly. But Jack Solomons, who was to release Eric, who did not qualify for the with Number • One draw in the also at the welgh-in, has different PANTHER LEAP championship, scored 11 points Hopeful Stakes.- skipped off In front Both calm lans. He told me that, he has out of a possible 12 and virtually and kept on improving her position, g igh hopes of putting on Louis, This was the way of it after 60 won the match for Wembley. OE had hfs familiar bored and whom he thinks is going to win seconds of the sixth round. The 23-year-old Eric forfeited his J lazy look—like a lion that has tonight, against JSavold for his big Milburn , Parr poised on toes. Klein flat- only point to his team partner. Fastest filly fed well. open air snow next year. footed. In comes the Welshman, George Wilks. in his first ride. His huge fElce, like a coifee- Solomons said ; " I'm willing to crcuchlng. A feint to the body. She is certainly the fastest two- stage It earlier than usual—say in By DESMOND HACKETT Champion Fred fell in his first year-old of her sex and it seems a coloured moon, never showed a Klein drops his guard. May—and that would mean that race, finished last In hU fourth and pity that she does not hold next flicker of emotion, while little men EWCASTLE UNITED are With a panther leap Parr cracks scored only four points in four heats. year's 1.000 Guineas engagement. who seem to come out from under the International Boxing Club Man of the m&tch was New Cross could iiave the undisputed world N not going to stand for a left and then a right to the It was a great finish for the New- flat stones rushed around living ace Cyril Roger, who scored a maxi­ champion for a September show having tholr ace centre Dutchman's Jaw. Klein crumbles imarket October Handicap. Gaude- on their ulcers and making up a mum of 12 points and then won as In his own corner and then crashes lupe kept going, with ears still laid language of their own as they went In New York against anyone they forward, Jackie Mllburn. he pleased against the luckless Fred on his back. back, to win by a neck. on.' like to choose." hanging- around as reserve Williams In a special match race , Referee Jerry Welsh bends over , Urfe had looked like overhauling over four laps. Charles was perfectly calm, too, for England. counting. Farr. in his corner, him. and My Chum was also right Joe £or London ? watches anxiously. But Klein is but he did not give the Impres­ Last night they wrote to the F.A, there in a photo-finish. " sion. OS Louis did. that ail the out—out long beyond the count. Wembl Chief" Vcorere t^'^^New'^Cros^ ARSHALL MILES, Louis's asking for his release from the! The mirror picture called on to llashllglits and shouting were old M manager, confirmed that he International against Ireland in Then came the roar ; " Tommy decid,e third place in the Isleham stuff. "is going back to Solomons after Belfast, on October 7. Bach Is back." Stakes was a great success. After the welgh-in 1 talked to tlie fight and tnat he would not Above the hubbub Farr Is heard Javotte won a good flght with Dr. Vincent Nardlello. the doctor be averse from doing. business Cliamplonshlp-nmbltioug Newcastle! talking into a microphone: "I ,Medway f^r the Bosca\*en Stakes. for the New York State Athletic with him—so perhaps British fjght must say really and truly how happy The winner Is American bred by feftl that Mllburn would be more Commission. He said: "Louis Ls fans may get a chance of seeing t am tonight to have put up this the American triple-crown winner galnrully employed playing afealnst In the best pliyslcal shape he has the Bomber in action before he show before my own people. Thank, Whlrlaway out of our 1939 Oaks finally calls It a day. that is. un­ Alston Villa than looking on in Bel- been since 1942"—that was Just you for a wonderful reception." I \riCTORIOUS Tommy * wmner Galatea H. less Charles calls It a njght for After the pictures Tommy Farr before he went into the U.S. ir new "cap" centre forward Jacn him. fought his way through ankle^eep • ' Farr takes the micro- ^ Blinkers have reformed Kerman­ Army. Lee Is unable to play. Newcastle will In the meanthne. Solomons has mud and milling crowds. Back in phone to thank 30,000 shah, but this course may not suit The doctor said of Charles : immediately withdraw their claim his dressing room he said: "Now for, rain-drenched supporters him. and I much prefer Bright been busy over here.

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