The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-24

tttsNpo nnich IY IN plies and sarka
before him and locked up. saying
Jim Tn nb1 ttas. i've counted IL
over nnw four timea and can't ind
iimt hundred and thirty ST.
TT tAks u cut % your share and
send fou my check tomorrow
IAN right" mumhlsd JrFfrirs b..
tween bis puffcd iips. only don't
send me any chrrk. Iast forget
that
Beianco started 20 separate the
money into two piles. ann FOR the
winner and one f0r the loser Percy
Williams halted him rhia has
gone far enough he said Il
thought u Naa a Joke. bat nos ugt
~ KID Egan'a got that money
bslaaep looked saEeFiy into f-Knn'a
lace and aaw that tho charge was
true EEAu cpnsFgnted the black
defiance 70 the tao sfakrfaiasrs
THEN be turned cangiaimNlg with 4
swtile. - his friend Jrsfsfen one
look AZ that battered. srranr. but
ouisnoua comnteuanca was enough
he wsikrd over 60 thn table aud
SHIELDED out sias tn gold pisesa
Il only took u for a Joke. ne said
wanted 10 So you count FIRED
bettseo. Who had counted s5t. 900
four umga isaped up 90 a rage. "A
Joke he cried. "fou meant 70 keep
q. sou thisef~
Exan sidlsd over % his big friend
~ the door. and looked Up 70 HIM
for protection
Jsffriss took Ia little Egan with
one glance that travelled over him
from head tn foot iu an instant
Then he calmly opened the doaF.
stood aside. and said nothing
Why. Jimi~ exclaimed EEan.
You don't"
~gsi out. KID" said ieffrie..
You don't believe. Jtmi You
don't believe "a Do that's
Ieffri~s motioned o. the door. 4
don't want to believe anything to-
nlRht aun't SAINT 10 hurt sou.
Oct out. and come and 800 mo In the
morning.
Ryan slipped away
Then Ieffries advanced to the
table where nrinsco waH tying q
fortune 10 In sacks. and. looking
down on the prize that his fists had
won. said
The lid almost lost me the fight
tonight Two days aRu I told him
70 so ard examine the ring. lie
cams back and reported It Waa al
riRht Then. TITS afternoon. 10 make
sure sgsin. I told him 70 60 once
more. Again he came back and
said q was all right
The champion hcrn said some
thing that Il viii not DO 10 print
Then he added The Kid bad never
been near that ring when I aterned
through the ropes tonight ! felt that
my finish had come. Instead Of two
inch plankinE FOR which the articles
expressly called all the boards we're
inch plsnks. and without a cross
piece under thsmi'
His hearers knew wildly what
that meant fitzslmmona. 20 pounds
lighter than Ieffriea. found a spring
under hiA feet. while the heavier man
was worse off than as though he had
been fighting on Tho bare ground.
the planks would Eiva under his feet
and not come back.
-E'rom the minute 7 stepped into
the ring" continued Ieffriss. 4 said
20 myself. Here's your finish I
went Into the fight without expect
ing to win. Those hellish light
Dlauks gave FitS twice the advan-
tnKe he would have had without
them. Every time he stepped back
from me the planks bounced him up
into my face and every time I nd
vanced they sank and stayed there.
Every time the bell rang and I went
20 the center ! said to myself This
IL whore be gets mel Blast those
devilish plauksf When the referee
stopped me and sent me 10 my cor
ner ! thought had been counted out
couldn't see. / didn't know what
happened. All J could think ~ was
how those planks kept tossing him
Into me and kept holding me down"
The hardest thing on man at
the opera Ia how mad It makes him
that some OF the people there seem
to enjoy lt-Now York Press.