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YOUR HONOR, I. | CAUGHT THEM ON

MY PLACE HELPIN' || THEMSELVES TO MY HONEY!

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BY GUM, THERE'S MY HONEY! HE HID IT UNDER

HIS HAT!

THAT HONEY BELONGS TO

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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

Short Right

You remember Larry Grant?

But. ferred to the platter held by Jim Jes-

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of course. Who could forget the son and Booth Lowery.

Ted realized, also, that there was whole kid's spectacular climb to fame?

about the something screwy there a more astonishing event write musiness. He was smart, this Ted ten. into the annals of the sporting Vaughn. It was brains that had put world than the occasion when Larry him at the top of the heap. He intended- knocked out Tiger McGee for a rowed to stay there.

round?

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of strawberry plants in the third For three months Ted watched Lar- There was, of course, a very definite y Grant at work. But it wasn't un- til one day Larry lost his temper or reason why Larry was spectacular, his head or something and knocked a Most fighters are spectacular; their sparring partner across the ring, that publicity managers see to that. Larry Ted saw what he was looking for.. was different. He didn't have to em ploy a publicity man to give him the colour and glamour necessary to keep the paid admissions fighting for tic kets.

Satisfied and not too greatly sur- prised, he went back to his stable and had a talk with one of his fight man- agers. Two weeks later he signed with Jim and Booth, matching Larry Curiously, Larry was a paradox. Grant against a fighter belonging to He had nothing by way of appearance the Vaughn stables named Jaris. Jaris or performance that marked him ay wasn't an especially able man, but he better or even as good as your run of was a comer. Ted Vaughn had hopes the mill pugilist. He was almost for the boy. puny. His weight barely allowed him into the light heavyweight class. But he packed a wallop, and that's what counts in boxing circles.

The match was scheduled for the Fourth of July. The gate was tre- mendous. The odds favoured Larry Grant by a margin that was ridiculous. It began a year ago 'in-Suffolk, Lar- Only Jim Jesson was worried: Jim ry was being handled by a chap named Jesson know Ted Vaughn of old. He Booth Lowery. Lowery was a broken didn't like the smug look on Ted's down fighter himself. He ran a gym face. And it developed that his fears nasium for kids, and promoted amateur were justifier.

bouts on the side. When Larry sign- The fight went 14 rounds. Then the ed up with him, Booth didn't give the referee stopped it. If he hadn't Larry kid a

second look. He figured here Grant would probably have dropped

on

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was another sucker willing to pay good from sheer exhaustion. After all, he money to be working in the once fam wasn't an outstanding specimen of ous Booth Lowery's_gym.

physical strength. He was almost Six weeks later Booth wrote to his puny. There was a limit to his friend, Jim Jesson, in New York. Jes- durance. son was a big man in the fight world. That was Larry's last fight. Good- He and Booth had been friends.

ness knows what's become of him. But "The yokels are having a tercen- we all know he'll never come back to that tenary celebration up here," Booth the ring again. The reason is wrote, "and they've asked me to put now every one has read in the papers an exhibition bout. Be' a good about that left of his. The left, you scout and send up some one who's know, is one full inch longer than his good. I've a boy who can offer any one right. Sure, he was smart. He kept you have a run for his money."

his left crooked up near his side in a Jim had, always liked Booth.. For defensive attitude. He used his right old times' sake he sent up Kit Clow, chiefly, and when an opponent sized a coming champ, and came along him him up the opponent guaged Larry's self to witness the slaughter. Ho reach by the right. So when the time didn't tell Booth how good Kit was, came and Larry let go with his left He thought it would be a good joke on well, any fight fan can imagine the re- his old friend to have Kit slap the sult. yokel around a bit...

Ted Vaughn gave the story to the The yokel was Larry Grant. In the papers. Ted was smart. He knew third round. Larry let go with his left, it wouldn't do to let Larry continue- and Coming Champ Kit Clow smacked not so long as Ted made his money the resin and didn't get up until Larry promoting fights with Larry on the helped Clow's seconds pick him up. opposite side of the fence.

No one was more shocked than Jim Copyright, 1938, by The Associated Jesson. He got hold of Booth and the Newspapers).

two of them went into conference.< They talked for half an hour, then summoned Larry and Jim looked Larry over, and signed a paper that Booth had already made out.

ALI BABA SAID

"OPENSESAMË

and the

The next 18 months are history. found himself amid untold Larry was matched against Horse wealth.

face Hennessey, Dapper McCrew, Slug

Yeaton; Tom Riley He put them all We say "OPEN KELLY, and

to sleep in less than five rounds. Jim

and Booth made money,The sporting you'll find: world was shocked and puzzled.⠀ It knowledge didn't seem possible. The fans, who, like all fans, always supported the underdog, were delighted,

It was when Larry reached the top by knocking out light heavyweight champion Tiger McGue in the fourth round that Ted Vaughn; prize fight pro- moter de luxe, became interested. In fact, Ted became very much interested. He realized that "this thing were Mllowed to ro,onj:he, 1

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of the money. The gravy he had been lapping up was rapidly being trans-

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