George "Sonny" Goddard, Joe "The Admiral" Crick, Sydney Gollop, and others, ride bikes with placards over their chests, as they advertise to help raise funds for Winston "Spree" Simon, who had been injured in an accident. (Circa: June, 1950)
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A LEADER ROLLS UP HIS/HER SLEEVES, AND GETS IN THE GAME. A MANAGER, "MANAGES" FROM THE SIDELINES. (NOTE: This, George was doing, BEFORE, he even became "leader". Why? Because he was ALWAYS a "leader", and fully understood what "Leadership" means. Compare to other pan union "leaders".)
Kim, thanks! This is awesome!!! I never knew the story. Thanks for sharing. (I guess you see the flack I'm taking by a few, for posting your relevant question. I can take them all on! lol)
George, one small correction: Spree wasn't laid up because of an accident. The incident that hospitalised him was as follows:
One night in the late 1940s three youths barely out of their teens from John John visited a Queen Street club, called the Dorset. Unimpressed that this was Boysie Singh's club, they began to get on bad, until Boysie's henchman, one Gerald Miller, a tall, dark giant of 220 pounds known as Fire Kong decided to get rid of them... permanently.
Boysie's biographer, Derek Bickerton, picks up the story: "(Kong) ran into his room and came back with a revolver in each hand. The three dived for the stairs, but not quickly enough. Kong emptied both guns at them. The place was so full of smoke that you couldn't see, and perhaps this explains why all three survived." They survived, yes, but each carried away a bullet in some part of his body. Neville "Bake Nose" McLeod and Leo "Lil Drums" Pierre took theirs in the arm and Winston "Spree" Simon got his in the leg, making him limp for the rest of his life.
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A LEADER ROLLS UP HIS/HER SLEEVES, AND GETS IN THE GAME. A MANAGER, "MANAGES" FROM THE SIDELINES. (NOTE: This, George was doing, BEFORE, he even became "leader". Why? Because he was ALWAYS a "leader", and fully understood what "Leadership" means. Compare to other pan union "leaders".)
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@Kim Johnson - This is indeed an interesting story. Thanks for the info.
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One night in the late 1940s three youths barely out of their teens from John John visited a Queen Street club, called the Dorset. Unimpressed that this was Boysie Singh's club, they began to get on bad, until Boysie's henchman, one Gerald Miller, a tall, dark giant of 220 pounds known as Fire Kong decided to get rid of them... permanently.
Boysie's biographer, Derek Bickerton, picks up the story: "(Kong) ran into his room and came back with a revolver in each hand. The three dived for the stairs, but not quickly enough. Kong emptied both guns at them. The place was so full of smoke that you couldn't see, and perhaps this explains why all three survived."
They survived, yes, but each carried away a bullet in some part of his body. Neville "Bake Nose" McLeod
and Leo "Lil Drums" Pierre took theirs in the arm and Winston "Spree" Simon got his in the leg, making him limp for the rest of his life.