The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-02-27

| from the skin or lyncucd negro anu
q finger, withered and sun dried, cut
I from the body Of white man found
| n Death valley, he was Of the opinion
! that never again would the poStman
bring him anything that could startie
! him.
But this morning he opened 4 letter
| that he read Il second time, nut away
! In his pocket and took out for thiru
reading. 1t WIS poSunarked from some
unheard Of postOttice in Si&kirou coun-
| ty, and it ran:
Dear Sani-You don't know me, except
! NV reputation. You come after my tiinc,
| and I'VE been out OF the game long time
! But, take 1t from me. amt been asleep
! I'VE followed the whole game, aud I've
followed YOU from the time kal .Aufman
| Knocked YOU out OF your last handling of
| Nat Belson. and take it you're tile nirtI-
| est thing in the line or managers tHut ever
! came down the pike.
| got q proposition for You. got the
| greatest unknown that ever happcned'
! This amt con It's the straight goods.
| What do you think or HUSKY that tips
| the scales at 90 pounds fighting weight,
| IS twenty-five years Oh ard can hit 4
kick twice as hard as my best ever?
That's him, my boy. Young Pat Gendon,
| that's the name he'll fight Under. I've
planned Ii all nut Now, the best thing
you can do IS hit the first train and come
up here.
bred him, and | trained him. All That
ever had in my head w" hammered into
his. And maybe YOU Won't believe il. but
IT, f,rl,t q .
u wonder at time and distance. lie Just
knows 10 the second and tho inch. and
he don't have TO think about II AT all.
| His six inch jolt is more the real sleep
medicine than the full arm swing Of most
EeeZers.
Talk about tie hope OF the white race.
This Is him. Come ana take Peep.
When YOU was managing JefG!es sou
was crazy about hunting.
Come along and III give y0u some real
hunting AMI fishing that will make your
moving picture winnings look like 50 cents.
I'll send Young Pat out with YOU. | ain
able to get arounA. That's why I'm send
ing for YOU.
I was going tn manage him myself. but
It amt no use. I'm all in and likely 10
| pass on, any time So get move on.
want you 10 manage him. There's a for
tune in it for both of you, but ! wart TO
draw up the Contract. Yours truly,
PAT GLENnUN.
StnbeHer WAS puzzled. 1t seemed.
on the face Of it. q j0ke-the men in
the fighting game were notorious JoE'
ers-and he tried to discern the fine
hand OF Corhrtt or the big friendly
paw Of EilHSiinmuuS in the Screed be-
| fore him. But ii it were genuine, he
knew ii was worth looking into.
Pat Glendon WAS before his time,
| though, as cub. he had once seen
| Old Fat spar at the benefit for Jack
| Dempsey. Even then hc was called
old" Tat and had been out Of the
| ring for years. lie bad antedated Sui.
! Ivan III the old London prize ring
rules, though his last fading battles
had been put up under tile incoming
Marquis of Qucensbcrry rnlrs.
What ring follower did not know OF
| Pat nduu?-though few were alive
who had seen him in his prime, and
there Mere not many more who had
! seen him 1T all.
Yet his name had come down in the
| history OF the ring. and no sporting
writer's lexicon was complete without
it. His fame WAS parad0Nical.
| No man was houored higher, and
yet he had never attained champion,
| ship honors. He had been unfortunate
and had been known rs the unlucky
| fighter.
Four times he all but won the heavy
weight mpiOnship. and each time he
had deserved 70 win ii. There was
the time on the barge, in San Fran
cisco bay, when, at the moment he
had the championship going, he snap
ped his own forearm. and OIL the Is
land in the Thames, sloShing about in
six inches Of rising tide, he broke 4
leg at 4 similar stage In 4 winning
fight. IN Texas. too. there was the
never to be forgotten day when the
police broke in just as he had his man
going in all certainty.
And finally, there was the fight in
the Mechanics pavilion in San Fran
cisco, when be was secretly jobbed
from the first by a gun Gghting bad
man Of referee backed by q small
syndicate Of bettors. Pat Glendon had
had no accidents in that fight, but
when he had knocked his man cold
with right to the jaw and left to
the solar plexus, the referee calmly
disqualified him for fouling. Every