THE PRIZEFIGHTER AND
THE LADY
By FRANCES MARION
CHAPTER 7
THE PROFESSOR AND THE BOUNCER
was 104 pounds of Man, and with the speed of a Futurity filly!"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1934.
you'
are, my boy. You get a and come back with the speed of an hundred dollars for a littia onay antelope Skipped the rope like a | sparring, next Friday nignt." flyweight.".
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INDIAN 'QUAKE
VICEROY'S APPEAL FOR FUNDS
London, Jan. 20.
The Viceroy of India has open- an appeal for funds to relieve quake. the sufferers in last week's carth-
"How much of it do you get?” .... "Well, it looks like after Friday As your manager rotain fit-night zoung Morgan is going to hmm, well, forty dollara." What do change his profession. Thrs 18 bru YOU BOY 7"
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The Professor took one hand The speakeasy proprietor bustled from the wheel of the Ford, draw a The argument of the two pick up. "Say, I told you to empty botto from his pocket and raised pockets was becoming heated and those spittoons along the bari Go it to his lips as the roar of an ape
In A personal message the A seedy looking gentleman of the annoying. A barkeep tapped on and do it now." The bouncer stood proaching motor startled them.
"Hey, Profcasor, look out!”. "Did you hear what I anid?" Steve Jumped upon the running Viceroy sava "A very serious old school approached the free lunch the glass he was polishing. At its Big at him. counter in the speakeasy bar and tinkle a young man passing bear-
The bounear reached for his hat board and the Professor pulled to calamity has recently overtaken, a of the road. A large large number of our countrymen, oyed the checao, crackers, salami kegs down a cellar, holding a keg in and ilverwurst with a professional midair, glanced at the barkeep, fol- and coat. "You empty 'em, Tony. one aldo air. He hooked his cane over the lowed his nod in the direction of and rub it in your scalp. Maybe aports phaeton zoomed past at counter, laid down a pair of shabby the pick-pockets. He put down the stew music. His follow-eventy miles an hour. It barely missed them, and in trying to right "So I get sixty bucks. There'n seil Akidded off the road and over gloves and made nimsent a sandwica keg, advanced to the quarrelloran the Professor out of the bar. of Ilverwurst and crackers,, He ata and said quietly;
"Hey, boys, this isn't a broad-no catch in this, is there, Uncle?" turned in the ditch. It hungrily and was putting out his
"Why of course not! All you Steve ran to the car and saw a
how is your wind?"
thrown clear, gatting up slowly, holding his head, Half-up, ho. re- laxed back upon the ground.
Projecting from the side of the car were a pair of beautiful, silk- "What's your name, Uncle?" clad legs. Taking hold of the legs, "Bennett. Edwin J. Bennett. Stove disentangled them from the My intimates call me Professor." cush.ons and drew from the over "Okay, Professor. I'm Morgan-turned-car & startlingly beautiful Steve Morgan."
hand for more crackers when the casting station. Turn off the loud have to do is... By the way...Al, uniformed chauffeur, who had been
bar-tender's warning voice arrested him.
speakers."
ono of
"Gawan! Scram!" sald the men, while the other fellow started towards the bouncer.
"Who asked you to put your big frying pan into"
"Hi there, Professor."
welcome in the There was no glance that met the Professor's eyes and the gentleman of the old school
The bouncer's fist landed on the picked up his gloves and cano and walked slowly back of the men lined jaw of the first "monkey," flooring up at the bar, examining faces him: He came back with an upper. koonly, looking for one friendly cut which Inid the second quarrellor enough to stand him a drink. He out cold. He picked up one of the stopped back of a slightly intoxicat- men by the shirt front, the other ed man who was saying to his com-by the coat collar and dragged them
off into the lobby. panion:
"They got some pretty good heav- les coming along. I was over at the Garden the other night and there was a fella in the semi-wind- up"
The Professor pushed his way in
between the two convivial men.
"Ah, gentlemen, we meet again!" He gave an order to the barkeep without a glance at him: "Scotch and a very little soda, please," and continued to the men upon whom he had fastened himself: "I heard von speaking of heavyweights, gentle men. I tell you this whole genera tion of prizefighters is an army of adagio dancers! Where are the Sullivans, the Fitzsimmonses, the Terry McGoverns, the Young Gaff- neys? Writing in their graves, gentlemen! Hammering their glorious fists on their tombstones! Aching to get out and show these club-footed white-brains what real fighters are!"
"Come on, Professor," interrup- ted the barkeep. "Four bits. Day
up,
"Here, Joe, throw 'em the rest of the way. Wait a second!".
"Search me. I haven't moved faster than a walk for months."
"We...ah, perhaps we'd better do a little roadword.
"Mergan-good ring name,
that."
So Stove Morgan left off speak- ay bouncing to become a prize-
Ighter.
It was crack of dawn. Along a "There's a prospect, Professor," Long Island country road a Ford said one of his listeners, but the ar was ambling; at its side trotted sponger abruptly left the table without reply. He took up a post-Steve Morgan, dressed in old dun-
"Did that...young Gaffney......... puffed Steve, "have to do... this marathon stuff 7"
tion near the bouncer who had re- sumed tossing kegs into the cellar, and watched the ease with which he handled them.
"What's the matter, Uncle?" grinned the bouncer.
"You're now here, aren't you? How long have you been in New York?"
"About three week."
"Where were you before that?" "Australia-then Singapore." "Oh, a sailor, cb7 What did you do in Singapore?"
"Sat in the parlour of a joint Threw out the drunks and kept dames from knifing each other."
"Been in lots of brawis, street fights" muned the Professor, "and not marked up. Do you like th fight?"
""Sure," grinned the bouncer Don't interrupt "me. young "That's why I'm here not that man!" The Rrofessor sipped his it gets me any place." drink. "That moon-faced pimple That's for me to judge. Coma couldn't have contaminated the with me."
Hoffman House tr for fiva The Professor went to an alcove minutes! Shall We ait down. where there was a pay-telephone booth. With an amused, question- gentleman
'I could flatten mine out a ing glance, the bouncer followed while," said one of the rush: 1 hey Boy, you stick with me and I'll He fum- found a table near where two pick- make you your fortunz." pockets were arguing over abled in his pocket, "Hmmm...Hava "moll."
you got a nickel?"
"Terrible how the riff-raff creeps With a grin the young man pulled into these places," sighed the Pro-in nickel from his pocket and handed fessor. "The days of old, sitting it over. When he got his party.on quietly over bottle"
the wire, the Professor said:
"You managed Young Gaffney in "I understand Maloney's boy got the old days, didn't you?" intera necklace of boils and dropped out rupted one of his annexed hosts. for Friday night... Yes...Well. "Did I manage Young Gaffney 7" I've got the boy to take his place... The Professor's face lighted up. Now listen. Jake, this is the old- "Ile was my Boy! Illa knees never time Professor talking. I haven't touched canvas! A left like had a drop for a month and I've had anake'n tongue! A right like this bov under warps all the time. falling safe A heart like Gibral- He's like Delaney, only better... tar-and game as a pit bullf". Oh, sure, I understand that...Oh. all right, Jake, if you can't make it two hundred we'll take one hundred deal, for the first fight. It's Jale."
"Big guy, wasn't he?" "A week before the Great Promo- ter told him to lay naida ha plona May 27, 1900-and I've been drunk ever since, gentleman-he
2
He hung up the receiver, "There
gardes and a 'sweater.
#
"Ab, my boy, Gaffney trained magnificently. He's run ten miles
young woman in evening dress and white evening wrap. She was monning slightly.
(To be Continued.)
GERMAN PRESIDENT.
FEVERISH COLD
HINDENBURGH CONTRACTS A
especially in Bihar and Orisan. While no accurate details are yet forthcoming it is no exaggeration to say that there has been an ap palling loss of life, that count- less homes have been destroyed, annihilated.
and that a wide area has been
"At such a time I feel confident that the sympathy of all classes, goos out with those who are in- volved in this great disaster and that efforts to alleviate their suf- crings will meet with a rendy re- sponse. I therefore decided to set in a fund which will be known. as The Viceroy's Earthquake und. Subscriptions are to bo ent to the Private Secretary, Viceroy's House, New Delhi."
Latest press reports from Cal- cutta say that messages reaching there from the Province of Bihar and Orissa estimate that the death
roll at Monghyr is not less than six
thousand.
Other unoffelal estimates put the denth roll in the whole Pro- vince at twice that number,
Berlin, Jan. 21. Prosidont Hindenburg is suffer
The floods, aro slowly roceding. ing from a feverish cold.
Ho has cancelled all week-end | -British Wirelcas.
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