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per Money third, ran.Thirteen horses'tA TALE OF TWO FISTSThe Life Story of Jack Dempseycas t by the old friend.. del uirrilnatecl''overa!fa!Q 1B t0n' andDcnipsoy himself had well-nigh j vasWores^h t/ ^When^a^^tern forgotLen John, and that contract ;young man of foresight EOes a fraL business, but a was recalled to his eling he stows an overall ’ayout li') m.nd when he tried to get a match. . his suit case from force of habit Or The New- -Sork promoters were at least it was commonly done in mv icary of putting mm on, he says, . day. Then when a foresighted vou^ because they figured John, the man's money runs out he canc£nBarber would step In and stop them. They had hoard rumors of that contract. That, ;) nd the fact that they didn't consider Jack any sort of a card!Meantime our hero and histoe overalls, put nia good clothes in;nrL3ftViC lt;rnse- ex-Dress the suit case. : prepaid, to where he is going, and go there himself, fully overailed | against the grime of travel via • freight, or on the deck'' of a pas-‘V. v ttuu Ills I UII Vfriends, the Fishers, were living at monger train.the Palace Hotel, up....... ...tMng Forties,'* and the ,j Untied growing pale , j guest dropped Inin the Roar-hank roll con-ancl wan. A on them in the'star.ee I am talking aboutbefore tc, get Jack's ! shippe/uie^gi-tps con^ainln/thelr i to that contract. A 'sood clothing-or the besf fotWngmessage reached Dempsey at the j they tad—to^Kansw V” Thfv h-S ir^C|k^-S ;r,To°nms‘ ovvn'Z: ^ .'lt;Vl)the Barbei social tepee.A-more timid person than Dempsey might well have hesitated about visiting an expert razor swinger in reach of his cutlery, but Jack blew boldly into John s shop one dv and they had .a talk.You remember. says Jack, I told you ho had promised 51,000. or -o per cent of the gate for the first mixed bout In New York after the lifting of the ban on such .affairs? \\ ell, I figured he still owed me S900 for my fight with John Lester Johnson, ns he had paid me S100. \\ hen we had a confab, he said he would pay me the $900 all right if I would sign a new contract. I guess he'd heard about :me not being of age when I signed the firstone.Well, I signed with him and he took me out and bought mo some new clothes and gave me a lot of Ifconversaton. but he didn't give me the nine centuries. He wanted me to fight Ifrank Moran and he took me over to Brooklyn the night Moran fought Gunboat Smith at the Claremont club, and had me introduced from the ring.be didn't get me any fights, ana he dldn t give me moneyenough to eat on. And there were tour of us who had just naturally!}a . 10 eat* I’ve always been agood eater and the Fishers liked their scoffm , too, while Bob Dover e certainly did swnig a mightv mean knife and fork.e,^' Fisher wenthte|Uhnw°HJo£\th* Knd toldhim how he had certain - claims onalt;T £ ,3' Ll7‘ ,lad the claims. He did have soma at that. Heclaims on me to find him sometlUn^BACK EAST AGAIN.By Damon Runyon.XXIII.The roaming fever was again steaming in Dempsey's veins. From Salicia, and the fight with young Hector, he fared cjLstworel once more, attended by the faithful “lAz Fisher. They were. boLh young, had money in their pockets, and nothing on their minds.They journey to Philadelphia where Fisher had a brother, and they sought battle for . Dempsey in the city of Brotherly Love. There was nothing doing. W'ho s Dempsey? asked the promoters, acidly. Then they traveled to New York, Fisher's brother making it a trio.They lived a little each day as they went along, anrl presently they found their hank roll growing most emaciated. Too many peoplewere leanning against it. Dempsey tried to pick .up a match in Now ..York, but was unsuccessful. For r! Dempsey had come back within the radius of the shadow portly frame of his John, the Barberperson of Bob .Devore, the heavy, weight fighter. A guest is a guest, and a heavyweight fighter must eat. Robert, loo, was quite light in the vest, and when he added his heft to the load the b. r. was already carrying, it began showing i signs of Immediate dissolution.“John, the Barber. hoard that Dempsey was in town, . and evidently John still had a vivid recollection of that something he had seen in Dompsoy which impelled f him months ‘ *'John Henrya}Z fleK 0131 diere. and Jack thougat he might catch on withpartner^ °r lhe 0ther as a sparri»SAfter shipping their luggn^n Dempsey and Fisher went to Ho-'Li-dnn S cauSh* a westbound «(I e,y- rode awa^- from this l egion decking it;” which Is to sav they were on top of a passengeri£?anlVn Nrv Tork san* no mor*• ot Dempsey for quite a spell. He | rf-os again a ho'oo.Uj?e?lt;plte the fact that was hva ral!road • nran. Liz” Fisher v as a greenhorn at 'bolng,MrPnn1says* Jack had to teach-hIrU /• e ropes ot the# _. nfllurally .wasn’t giftedI for humming.” says Jack. He got as w %ent but hecerr. to be^iir-wlth. Hepal?” 600 ' though, and a fine.. lVh?n they reached Kansas Citv h-id Morris-Moran fightthrough. There -wasKnnioQ p? pr.°spect for around? y ln any line* and by this-.ime their money had given out.They were living as best rhev could—which wasn't so ^ood at1? *atL of course John theKaro hadn t heard about these climas before, and it seems he dicl-not want anybody but himself to be holding claims on me, so he bought Liz 3 ciaims for S100.“We nil did quite a bit of eating when we got that dough. Yes. sir we ate freely. . But, Jack savs. we couldn t see how we were going to get any more money after tha** was gone, and a hundred bucks unnt last four fellows forever. We owed room rent, and the hotel people were commencing to look us over very carefully. I was determined I wouldn't fight for John the Barber until I got all that I figured was coming to me. so Liz Fi*Her and I decided to' strike ►\est. Wo got out the overalls.frnm ,7*VCh ,PerT?pse-v rceans that fiom Under the bud he and Liz dragged the suit cases they bad brougnt east with them. From theenif^nfe1ht^eKiPlodl:ced pants and coats of that blue material affectedh what you might call th© laboring ; classes, when engaged in toilArriving at hla destination, he can.to th° express office, collect his suit caee, find a place to cnange. and wash up. and—behold! Ho is as one who has just leaped out of a bandbox, and he has saved railroad fare! ^It is plan which has long ap-.to frugal young' men. I v\oukln l he at all-surprised to find tnac Jack Dempsey continues the custom of carrying a se: of overalls In .us grip sack. One really neversuch^ things ‘S E°lnS l° “eedIn thehad come on. and thev were in rather desperate straits. Final 1 v blsber suggested that they go on toCoI2” where hIs People had a ranch, and spend the winter there, That suited me fine. says Jack. I had my grip and I took it around to Lari Morris and asked him tolhl\? t2,rne a Puebllt;- He said he would. Then we rustled enough money to buy tickets on a passenger tram on the Missouri Pacific to the' first stop out of Kansas Cltw I 5 think it coat ub 60 cents each. Whencom K^inerwo got out to the first stop we un-• loaded, hnd then as the train pulled out we got underneath on the rods.Fisher hid never rode tho reds before, and T had to show hint how . to get on 'em, and how to hang on ! ’em, says Jack. So we struck out • for Pueblo.” ; ^Copyright. 1919. by Damon Runyon. ! iPA HIS, June S.—France. Australia and Czechoslovakia were victorious in the preliminary sinc-les tennis events in the inler-allied games hero on Monday, winning from Rumania. Serbia and Belgium respectively. Serbia defaulted to Australia. The American players drew a bye.Two good tions. Prices: quet and Box*This mate ART RE\The Promote days of Frank Gc Burns, the greatejJACK REYNOLDS,Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Th
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