Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Shanghai 1949

Memories from another life! Sixty years ago, in Shanghai, amateur-boxing was my preferred sport. I enjoyed myself, though I lost more fights than I won, and earned the reputation of being a game and scrappy boxer! I belonged to a local team that often fought teams from American and British battleships and aircraft-carriers. One of the pictures show me being congratulated by, what I believe was, an American admiral*. All this took place shortly before Chinese Communist troops occupied the city. The takeover put an end not only to the boxing-scene, but also to the visits of foreign navies.
 
*After one victorious fight I was presented with a silver cigarette-case! The evils of smoking were not yet known (or successfully ignored)!
 

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