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Times & Guide (1909), 28 Feb 1957, p. 8

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ABC For instance, in Chicago four €ollege students who had seen a ; "blue cinema" went on a drinkâ€" ing binge and then. spotting a pretty 17â€"yearâ€"old girl waiting ®n a street corner for a trolley, gallantly offered to drive her home. She accepted. Instead of: taking her home, they drove to & deserted area, and all four,‘ #nflamed by the film they had! geen, criminally assaulted her. | In Los Angeles, 12 youths atâ€" and tacked three girls. In Brooklyn,| car & gang of 28 literally kidnapped| ¢ #wo women off the street and |tra, @ssaulted them. In both cases, |Kej the youths had seen stag films arj @arlier. Look at police files in |yet B#ftami, Atlanta, Cincinnati, De-llpp #roit, San Francisco and BostOn, mic and you‘ll find dozens of vicious qry gex crimes, all directly attribuâ€" tut table to the effects of these films |giq en sexâ€"crazed youngsters. a! + Supposedly respectable service elubs have long held smokers at which pornographic movies were shown, and no business convenâ€" tion is considered quite complete without them. Such â€" conduct among adults is certainly repreâ€" hensible, but when the racket €reeps into the purview of the adolescent, then it‘s dangerous, for the effects of these movies on impressionable _ and _ reckless youth are often devastating. But all over the nation many such stags go unraided, either because the police don‘t get a tipoff or, as the Senate Commitâ€" tee suspects, because some cops are "working under the umbrelâ€" 1a." the dirty film racket‘s phrase for police grafting. The film purâ€" veyors, whose take is estimated at $100.000,000 a year, are doing a major part of their business in college frat houses. _ Ome afternoon not long ago a beadyâ€"eyed, sharpâ€"jawed man with _ an _ expensive Havana elamped _ between . his . teeth After dark, a couple of weeks | later, a long parade of boys filed | into a dance studio within blocks | of the White House. Each preâ€"| sented a ticket saying: Colossal Good Time Tonight | ADMIT ONE | Entertainment â€" Buffet Style Movies â€" Beverages The tickets cost 35¢ each, and ; how some of the patrons raised! the money was a mystery. There | were boys as young as 11 and 12| in that line. The fraternity broâ€"| thers had apparently brought| friends along. « | Two hundred boys sat in the studio when the lights went out and a movie flashed on. It began, harmlessly enough, with a hula dancer, but after the first 150 feet of film, the picture changed, writes Harvey Wilson in The Police Gazette. "The rest of that film was the filthiest I have ever seen in my life," a hardâ€"boiled police offiâ€" cial later told Senator Estes Keâ€" fauver‘s Committee Investigating Juvenile Delinquency. Police had raided the teenage stag shortly after it had started. posted himself outside a high scheo! yard in Washington, D.C. The school bell sounded and a stream of youngsters poured through the front gate. A tall youth in a frayed jacket came out and the beady eyes lighted. "Hey!" the man called. _ ‘The boy went over to him. “"ou interested in making some money? Good money?" The man knew the kid was interested even before he ansâ€" wered. The man had made careâ€" ful inquiries; as he always did, and had learned the youth was & member of a large family that was having a tough time making both ends meet. In addition, the kid had a "rep" for daring. The kid asked: "What doin‘?" ‘The man took him by the arm, and they strolled down the block. The man asked: "You got & fraternity in the school?" The man‘s voice fell to a whisper. The kid‘s face turned a dull red. "Gee, Iâ€"" it"" "Yeph?" "I got a little show I wanna‘POSted $10,000 more bail, Six give. We got two other high |hours later he committed suicide school fraternities lined up alâ€"|PY Walking between the cars of ready. If you can get me this 3 moving freight train. One, there‘s $50 in it for you." According to James Bobo, genâ€" "Fifty dollars" eral counsel to the Kefauver "The man drew a fat bankroll iCommmee, the lead on Florence from his pocket and peeled off game as a ?esu'lt of the Commitâ€" gwe, s10) Silts Heresiaansn tes s n 2 ho » ring, 54, of mi, 2 w payment. ‘.enn'nm.- wc:,cn...x,:.- lnu”ea"AmnOrT The kid took the money. "What kind of a show is it?" "Sure you‘ll like it. And they‘ll like it too. They always do." "You mean you wouldn‘t like DRIVE WwITH CARE Film Rackets Breeder of Crimes |_Simring first came to police notice in 1955, when two Orâ€" rangeburg, S.C., detectives spotâ€" ted him and a woman. in an automobile and began tailing them. Simring was short and heavyset with thickâ€"lensed eveâ€" ‘glasses, and police had been ‘tipped off that he was a salesâ€" man who dabbled in filthy |films. The detectives had little |evidence and â€" were â€" hesitant ‘about grabbing him, but he ‘obliged them by committing a minor traffic violation and they |promptly arrested him. . There was a singularly tragic case in Texas in which the gag was pulled in reverse. A punk in th@ racket seduced a married woman who had failen deeply in love with him. Unknown to her. he had had his apartment rigged with hidden _ cameras. The films were eopied for disâ€" tribution. As fate would have it, one of the movies was shown at a smoker in the woman‘s hometown â€" and among those present at the smoker was none other than her Husband. as wel! as several of his friends. The woman killed herself. Florence was fined $2.000 and got six months. He appealed and posted bail. A day later postal authorities grabbed him for sending obscene material through the mails, and 24 hours later he posted $10.000 more bail. Six According to James Bobo, genâ€" eral counsel to the Kefauver Committee, the lead on Florence came as a result of the Commitâ€" tee‘s investigation of Simon Simâ€" ring, 54, of Miami, Fla.. whom Senator Kefauver calls "Ameriâ€" ca‘s Smut Racket Boss." launched on information wi plied by the Kefauver Commi tee. The raiders discovered crypâ€" tic references to "taking care of" certain people, and one letâ€" ter now in the hands of the Senâ€" ate Committee flatly mentions a $100 payoff to police. Florence, who had a huge liâ€" brary of obscene films, was found to be operating in 35 states, selling, renting or exâ€" changing films. His rental price list follows: ‘ Threeâ€"reel film, $25 a day, each additional day $5. Threeâ€"reel film, $37.50 for two days, each additional day $7.50. Threeâ€"ree! film, $50 for three days and $10 a day additional. On a weekly basis the rental was $62.50 and $12.50 for an adâ€" ditional day. ELOPES â€" Fredericka Sigrist, 17â€" yearâ€"old British heiress to a $20 million dollar fortune, ducked detectives hired by her mother after she eloped with New York interior decorator Gregg Juarez 34. Fredericka flew to Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican _ Republic, with Juarez from Port Au Prince, Haiti, after eloping from her home in Nassau. The girl inâ€" ‘herivs the fortune when she reaches 21. did more (than perform before a cameraâ€"they gpften "framed" their companions. Here‘s how it was done. The dirtv film "acâ€" tress" would hang around bars. finally lure a man to an apartâ€" ment and then make him an unâ€" witting "coâ€"star" while concealâ€" ed cameras‘ ground away. got the shock of their lives! Simring was in the porongraâ€" phic film racket, all right, but he was no mere salesman. The car yielded 134 reels of 8â€" and 16â€"millimeter movies, 1,276 foldâ€" ers of lewd photographs, 512 folders of color slides of nude women in suggestive poses and more than 300 books of obscene pictures. One of the most sordid and tragic aspects of the racket, Kefauver investigators learned, arises in conhection with prodâ€" uction of the movies, which apparently is centered in the midwest. The "stars," mostly drugâ€"addicted Chicago prostiâ€" tutes who work for $100 a film, But even more significant was the discovery of a customâ€" er list beoring 243 names and a card index file showing cusâ€" tomers and contacts in 21 States and Wiashington D.C. The index carried 1194 names! 4 A sweet racketâ€"while it lastâ€" They searched his carâ€"and y They Expected A Welcome Mat ‘"There ought to be some maâ€" chinery for taking care of us," said one of the five Hungarian refugees sitting in an earnest and perplexed semiâ€"circle in Viâ€" "You Americans," he went on, "are the leaders of the antiâ€" Communist movement in the world. But you do not seem to be ready for us When we went over to communism, they were ready for us." People who went over to communism in â€" the coldâ€"war period found their actions maâ€" terially profitable. They beâ€" came members of the privileged elite of the Communist world. Now that they have fled from Hungary and broken with comâ€" munism, they felt they had earnâ€" ed the right to a similar preferâ€" ential treatment in the West. The United States may or may not be accurately styled as the leader of the antiâ€"Comâ€" munist movement in the world. But it has not adopted from communism the practice of enâ€" couraging and rewarding ideoâ€" logical redefectors. But for the prodigal son of the West who was tempted by communism, there is no fatted calf on his attempted return. That absence of the subsidy was the most disturbing of all to these prodigal sons. To them what they had done was an imâ€" portant and dramatic thing. They had stories to tell which they thought a hungry Western world was waiting to hear. They proposed to write it all down in a composite book. But while writing they had to eat, and ksep warm. Surely "the United States ought to make some proâ€" vision for us." They have become political lost souls wandering wraithâ€" Jike along the banks of the Rivâ€" er Styx â€" unable to return whence they cameâ€" unwanted where thev are, puzzled. baffied, men without a faith, men withâ€" out a country, men without a political future. The word "ready" was spellâ€" ed out. One had been given a Stalin peace prize and what amounted ‘to the title of poet laureate of Hungary, with perâ€" quisites. Another had been welâ€" comed with a fine apartment at government expense, a free holiday, and a regular pension to support him whether he worked or not. Clearly, these five came over with a subconscious assumption that the same kind of apparatus would meet them on our side. But there is no such apparatus. For those who never went Comâ€" munist there are visas, and refugee caps, and transportation to any one of many Western countries â€" with the prospect of a good new life opening up before them. Descriptive of a Dachshund" Twn dogs long and halfâ€"aâ€"dog high. There is no systenm: of rewards â€" no fine apartments, no paid vacations, no subsidy. And why should they? Are these allegedly disillusioned deâ€" fectors from communism of any real use to anyone? They are curiosities. . The story of their conversion and disillusionment is of some theoretigal interest to political science historians. But it‘s a fairly old story by this time. There is a limit to the market for books by exâ€"Comâ€" munists. _ The first one was a novelty. From now on the story tends to become repetitious. These are the new men withâ€" out a country. They have been disillusioned by â€" communism, or so they say. They cannot reâ€" turn whence they came. Or at least they assume that they canâ€" not expect such good treatmert a‘second time. But no one wants them in the West. There is alâ€" ways the question of the extent of their reconversion, There is always the possibility of a lapse into their old faith. Austria does not want to compromise its neutrality by allowing them to remain on Austrian soil. . The United States will not take them. Some Western countries will allow them to enter, but not many amd none with eagerâ€" ness. And no one is prepared to regard them as worthy of pensions and subsidies writes Joseph C. Harsch in The Chrisâ€" tian Science Monitor. The uselessness to Western society of an exâ€"Communist is not something which can easily by explained to one of them. A curious kind of egoism breaks through their plaints. In their own eves thev are persons of unusual importance a nd worâ€" thiness The idea that they could be as other men. taking their charices in a competitive world, seems to be beyond their ken. The conversation lasted for some two hours. To the very end they kept referring to their original contention that "their should be some provision to take care of us." "O CANADA" A FRENCH ANTHEM The famous song "O Canada" is known to most people only by its first verse, but the full version gives all four verses. The origâ€" inal French anthem was written by Basile Routhier and the Engâ€" lish words are by Robert Stanley Weir, whose centenary year this | _ Steppng into the spot vacated by Fitzsimmons was hotâ€"temâ€" |pered Tommy Ryan, a babyâ€" |faced Irishman from Redwood, |New Jersey, and later Syracuse, |New York. Ryan, whose given name was Joseph Youngs, proved to be one of the greatest 160â€"pound chamâ€" pions in history, successfully deâ€" fending his precious crown for a full ten years before he outâ€" grew the division and was sucâ€" ceeded by Stanley Ketchel. CALL HIM "CURVY" â€" A yak who‘s sure to cause plenty of yaketyâ€"yak among visitors to Central Park zoo is 30â€"yearâ€"old "‘Mickey." According to zoo officials, Mickey wasn‘t born with this reversed left horn. It got twisted in an accident when the yak was very young and, as it grew, gradvally curved itselt under his chin. When Bob Fitzsimmons knockâ€" ed out sluggish Jim Corbett at Carson City, Nevada, March 17, 1897, he automatically relinâ€" quished his middleweight title in order to properly assume his new role as heavyweight chamâ€" pion of the world. Master boxer Ryan had trigger reflexes and a remarkably fast pair of hands. Nobody could beat him to the punch, and he whipâ€" ped the majority of his opponâ€" ents with such ease that some crtics suggested he advance inâ€" to the heavier weight classes where the opposition would be more on his level. Tommy‘s career covered a full twenty years (1887â€"1907). Durâ€" ing that period he engaged in well over 200 fights and was deâ€" feated only once. Even that lone defeat, by Kid McCoy in 1896, came as a result of trickery rather than skill. Tommy fought a number of small battles, but his first reâ€" corded fight of any consequence took place in 1888, and his opâ€" ponent was a fellow named Dick England, whom he beat in a finâ€" ish fight of thirtyâ€"three rounds with small gloves. Due to this scrap, he acquired quite a repuâ€" tation as a local fighter. He was a lightweight in those days, but always had to concede weight to his opponents. This was when he went to the Twn City Athletic Club, Minneapolis, Minn., to fight Danny Needham for $1,000 a side on Feb. 16, 1891. The result was a knockout in the seventyâ€" sixth round by Ryan. Ryan had the advantage in reach, and time and again he landed his left with damaging effect upon his opponent‘s face, and before the fight had lasted one of the five hours, Needham was terribly punished. The fight was one of the most desperate and protracted ever fought beâ€" tween welterweights, and only ended when Needham: fell from the terrific punishment he had received and from exhaustion. Owing to the great reputation Needham had made in the arena, and the fact that he had fought seventy rounds with Patsy Kerâ€" rigan of Boston, the average sporting man believed that he would easily conquer Ryan. The latter, while he had figured in numerous encounters with variâ€" ous successes, had never defeatâ€" ed any pugilist of note, and the majority of sporting men did not believe that he had a two to one chance of conquering the hero of so long and hard a fight. At the conclusion of this fight Ryan was hailed as the welterâ€" weight champion of the world, which title he successfully deâ€" fended for two years until he was knocked out by Kid McCoy. MORTARâ€"LIKE CAMERAS TO SNAP SATELLITEâ€"Specially designed telescope cameras that look like huge mortars will track the manâ€"made "moon‘" that will be shot into the air to orbit as a satellite 200 miles above the earth‘s surface. Asketch of the camera is shown at right. Cameras will be located at 12 sites around the world, as indicated on map below. The first station is expected to be set up at White Sands Proving Ground, N.M., by midsummer. The Smithâ€" sonian Astrophysical Observatory will manage the cameraâ€"tracking operation. It is a project of the International Geophysical Year, which starts July 1 ond runs through 1958. In addi#ion to merely photographing the satellite, the cameras will moke it possible to map the earth‘s surface more exactly than ever before. The cameras will register positions within 10 feet on either side of the course and within 25 feet nlong the course. Lost One Fight In 20â€"YÂ¥ears Tommy then placed himself unâ€" der the excellent management of "Parson" Davies. During bis period as king of the welterweights, Tommy fought "Mysterious Billy" Smith on four different occasions, two of which were sixâ€"round draws, one an eighteenâ€"round draw at Coney Island, N.Y., May 27, 1895, and one a victory on points over the challenger at Minneapolis, Minn., July 26, 1895, and one a victory on points over the challenger at Minneapolis, Minn., July 26, 1894, in twenty rounds, a few details of which follow: Up to the fifteenth round honors were even and it did not look as though there would be a decision. The fighting was hard and in earnest with Ryan the cleverer. The fight was nearly ended in | the eighteenth. Ryan shot a terâ€"| rific leftâ€"hander to Smith‘s nose, | which sent him to the earth.! Tommy followed up this advanâ€" tage and Smith fought to keep‘ from going out. It was give and take in this fashion for the balâ€" | ance of the round. Ryan got the best of the infighting and plainly | had Smith going at the end of | the round. | In the next round Billy was bleeding profusely from the nose, but was full of fight. Tomâ€" my was much the stronger and, after coaxing his opponent for the first half. took the initiative and attempted a knockout. The latter fought back blindly, but without effect. Smith was knockâ€" ed to the floor twice, but as the gong sounded, he arose. The end of the round unquestionably saved him. At the beginning of the twenâ€" tieth Ryan started in with deâ€" liberation to end the fight at long distance. Smith was still strong enough to fight back, but could hardly see to try to save himself. The men were clinched a good share of the time during this round, both weak; Smith being scarcely able to stand. At the close of the fight Smith ; was in a bad way; he was too | weak to stand unaided, he was ; out of breath and nearly blind.| So the decision of Referee Joe| Choynski in favor of Ryan was‘ just, beyond a doubt. Tommy‘s â€" fight _ with . Jack Dempsey, the "Nonparcil," on Jan. 26, 1895, at the Scaside Athâ€" letic Club, Coney Island, was in many ways eventful. although it ended after three rounds. Dempsey. who had as many personal and fistic friends as any of the pugilists of the day, a man who was used to being received with an applause that shook the rafters, entered the ring "boilâ€" ed." He was scarcely able to stand up, to say nothing of putâ€" ting up a good fight â€" in fact, there was no real fight. Tommy had orders from "Parson" Daâ€" vies to go light on Dempsey; Tommy did, but there was no use in going on wnh.lho scrap. The hubbub that had previâ€" ously â€" signified admiration . for the "Nonpareil" had changed to jeers and calls to put him out. Just a word in passing about Dempsey. Only a few weeks laâ€" ter it was reported by a repuâ€" table bhysician that the game old fighter was suffering with halluâ€" cinations. His condition for sevâ€" | According to the articles of ‘agreement of the Ryanâ€"West ‘fight, the men were to box twenâ€" !ty rounds at Lennox Athletic |Club, New York. West weighed |152 pounds and Ryan 146. â€" The fight itself, though reâ€" sulting in a surprise, also reâ€" sulted in one of the most satisâ€" factory fights that had ever taken place within the Empire‘s enclosure. In every round there was action, and until the fifâ€" teenth Ry took his punishâ€" ment like Thero, but he finally had to succumb to the superior qualities of his oldâ€"time sparâ€" ring partner, who had improved beyond the imagination in a year‘s time. McCoy kept stabbing his left into Ryan‘s face and body, alterâ€" nating | with stiff â€" rightâ€"hand hooks, that, owing to the length of â€" reach, _ almost â€" invariably squashed Tommy‘s jaw. Ryan was a, badly punished man, while McCoy escaped with barâ€" ely a scratch. Tommy fought the Kid twice more in his career; on Sept. 3, 1897, they fought a fiveâ€"round draw at Syracuse, N.Y., and on May 29, 1900, a sixâ€"round draw at Chicago, I!1. Then there came a jolt in Tomimy‘s career. Kid McCoy had been claiming that he, too, was the welterweight champion of the world. The Kid and Tommy met to fight it out at the Empire Athletic Club, Maspeth, L.I, on March 2, 1896. Tommy got his in the fifteenth round. In 1895 Bob Fitzsimmons deâ€" serted the middleweight ranks by defeating Jim Corbett, March 17, 1897, at Carson City. This left the middleweight crown without a bearer and Tommy assumed it and successfully defended it unâ€" til 1907, when he faded away from the squared arena and Stanley Ketchel assumed the reâ€" sponsibilities of the title. During the year of 1897 Ryan knocked out Tom Tracy in nine rounds, Paddy Gorman in three, Patsy Ready in six, Tom Wilâ€" liams in two, and Jim Ryan in five rounds. He defeated Billy Stift in six and Bill Heffernan in three, aside from his fiveâ€" round draw with McCoy. About the first important thing Ryan did in 1898 was to defeat "Young Corbett," then known as George Green, at San Francisco. Calif., in eighteen rounds. Next came the famous battle with Tommy West, June 113, 1898, in which Ryan had his opponent in so bad a way that the fight was stopped in the fourteenth round. eral months was critical, until on Nov. 1, 1895, he died of conâ€" sumption at his home in Portâ€" land, Ore. Fistic experts believed that the result would be otherwise, as West had only just finished polishig off none other than Joe Walcot, April 27, 1898, at Philaâ€" delphia, in six rounds. The first two rounds were so fast that neither man was averse to a bre@thing spell. There was little fighting in the third and fourth rounds, but after that Ryan went after his man and had things all his own way. The only thing West showed was ON THE FIRING LINEâ€"A group of Yemeni tribesmen, armed only with ancient rifles, scam the countryside from their advanced position near the vaguely defined Adenâ€"YÂ¥emen border. Three Yemeni tribesmen were killed when a force of some 150 Yemenis attacked Aden terriâ€" tory in the disputed Beihan area. The Ryanâ€"West battle of March 4, 1901, at Louisville, Ky., was vicious. For the second time West learned that Ryan‘was the better man, and although the deâ€" cision in favor of Ryan was unâ€" questionable, West gave him a 1fight that probably Tommy nevâ€" er forgot. Although _ defeated, â€" Bonner was not disgraced; he put up a plucky fight against superior odds and took an amount of punishment that would have driven a less courageous man to his corner.. Bonner stayed to the li?lt and in doing so gave one of the most marvelous exhibiâ€" tions of gameness ever witnessed in the ring. Time and again he seemed to be on the verge of going out, but often he returned and, although weak and groggy, he was still in the ring at the finish. All through the fight the honâ€" ors were in Tommy‘s favor. He had cut, slashed and damaged his opponent until the latter was a sickening sight. O‘Brien had blackened Tommy‘s eyes and had him bleeding a bit, but on the whole the Hartford man was decisively beaten. The next battle with which Tommy had any difficulty was on March 4, 1901, at Louisville, Ky., when he again defeated Tommy West, this time in sevenâ€" teen rounds. In the interim he defeated Tom McCarthy in twelve rounds, Charley Johnson in eight and knocked the same gentleman out in eight; defeated Paddy Purtell in four, Dutch Neal in six, Billy Stift in twenâ€" ty, Jack Moffatt in twenty and Frank Craig, the "Harlem cofâ€" fee Cooler," in ten. To the chief of police of Hartâ€" ford, Conn., Dick O‘Brien was indebted for being saved from the ignominy of a knockout when he fought Ryan on Dec. 23, 1898. They fought before the Charter Oak Athletic Club, and in fourteen rounds Tommy had him polished off. In. 1900 he fought sixâ€"round draws with Kid McCoy and Jack Root, knocked out Jeff Thorne in three, defeated George Lawler in thirteen, Young Mahoney in six and Kid Carter in six. After defeating Bob Douglas in seven rounds, Aug. 22, 1901, at Kansas City, Mo., Tommy took on George Green at the same city, Oct. 10, 1901, and lost on a foul to him in the sixth round. The following Jan. 30, 1902, Tommy took on Green (YÂ¥oeng Corbett) again, at Kanâ€" On Oct. 24 of the same year. 1898, Tommy defeated Jack Bonner at Coney Island, N.Y., in twenty rounds. Barring the alâ€" ways possible chance of deliverâ€" ing an accidental blow, the endâ€" ing of an easy victory for Ryan was inevitable from the start. This chance did not occur, with the result that Ryan left the ring without a mark to show that he had been in a fight, while his adversary had all the earmarks of a sound beating. that he could take a punching, and at that he had no objection to offer when the referee stopâ€" g.od the contest and sent !wn to and had his man against the ropes the greater part of the time. Tommy‘s advantage inâ€" creased until,. two minutes after the opening of the seventh, he sent the Californian down and out by a right to the jaw. sas City, and knocked him out in the seventh round. Corbett‘s showind in the secâ€" ond fight was vastly inferior to the show which he put up at their first meeting. The first four rounds were rather tame. but in the fifth Ryan livened things up He knocked out Tim Murphy in nine rounds, "Mysterious Bilâ€" ly" Smith in four, Johnny Gorâ€" man in three, Kid Carter in six, Barney Walsh in two and Jack Beauscholte in two rounds. We shall have to admit that Tommy had a rather hard time with Billy Stift of Chicago in a tenâ€" round bout at Kansas City, Mo., April 3, 1902. It was said that Tommy had agree! to knock Stift out or forâ€" feit the purse, and try as hard as he could, the Syracuse man didn‘t do the trick. On Januâ€" ary 5, 1903, the two met again ht Kansas City and Stift was laid low in the fourth. James Walker and John Wille met similar fates in five and four rounds respecâ€" tively in 1903. In 1904 Tommy knocked out Bob Douglas in four, Tom Wallace in five and Jack Graham and Billy Stift in four. From that time on until the end of 1904, Ryan fought many times, but seventeen of the twentyâ€"two battles were ended in a very few rounds, giving Ryan little chance to show what his real, longâ€"winded ability was. For three years, from 1904 unâ€" til 1907, Ryan didn‘t enter the ring. When he did, it was to meet Dave Barry at Hot Springs, Colo., on Feb. 5, 1907, whom he knocked out in the fifth. On March 4, 1907, Ryan drew six rounds with Hugo Kelly at Roâ€" chester, N.Y., and on Aug, 4 1907, at South Bend, Ind., Tomâ€" my and Jim Corbett gave a sixâ€" round exhibition. At that time Tommy was fortyâ€"six years old, a remarkable age at which to be in the ring. It is difficult to find any fightâ€" er, either American or foreign, who could equal the remarkable ring career of Tommy Ryan.â€" By George Roberts in The Police Gazette. : Canada‘s population, which just topped 16 million at last summer‘s census, should be boosted this year by the largâ€" est immigrant movement since 1913. The 1957 inflow may exceed 200,000. And it will include a larger proportion of Britons than in any other year since 1950. A reasonable estimate is that anywhere between 80,000 and 100,000 Britons may move to Canada this year. The one snag is transport. And a mammoth airlift may provide a major part of the answer. Big Rush Coming

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