Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1914-07-03


He looked at her quickly.
Don't you went me tor"
Dear lover. want you to do what
ever you want
So she said and to herself, her
words still ringing in her ears, she
marveled that she. not least among the
stubbornly independent Of the breed
| OF Sangster should utter them.
Yet she knew they were true. ana
she was glad.
''It will be fun" he said.
sBut don't understand all the glee-
full details"
II haven't worked them out yet.
You might help me- In the first place
I'm going to double cross Stubener and
the betting syndicate. 1t will be part
Of the joke. am going to put Can
nam out In the first round. For the
first time shall be really angry when
fight Poor Tom Canaan. who's as
crooked as the rest, will be the chief
Alcrifice.
You see. intend to make speech
in the ring. It's unusual, but it viii
be a success, for am going to tell
the audience all the inside workings of
the game It's good game, too. but
they're running 1t on business princi-
pies, and that's what spoils it. But
there. I'm giving the speech to you in
stead Of at the ring"
Il wish could be there to hear"
she said. ia
He looked at her and debated.
I'D like to have you. But it's sure
to be a rough time. There is no tell
Ing what may happen when start my
program. But I'll come straight to
you as soon as It's over. And it will
be the last appearance Of young Glen
don in the ring-in any ring"
"But, dear, you've never made
speech in your life" she objected.
''You might fail"
He shook his head positively.
"I'm Irish," he announced, "and
what Irishman was there who couldn't
speak?"
He paused to laugh merrily.
"Stubener thinks I'm crazy. Says a
man can't train on matrimony. A lot
he knows about matrimony,, or me, or
you, or anything except real estate
and fixed fights But I'll show him
that night, and poor Tom too. ] really
feel sorry for Tom."
my dear abysmal brute is going to
behave most abysmally and -brAtally, |
fear" she murmured. s%fls9#
He laughed.
"I'm going to make noble attempt
ut 1t. Positively my last appearance,
you know. And then it win be you,
YOU. But If you don't want that last
appearance say the word"
tsOf course want it, Big Man. l
want my Big Man for himself, and to
be himself he must be himself If you
want this j want it for you and for
myself too. Suppose said ! wanted
to go on the stage or to the south seas
pr the north pole?" H/9#
He answered slowly. almost sol
temnly:
Then I'd say go ahead. Because
you are you and must be yourself and
do whatever you want. I love you be-
cause you are you" ~
~And we're both silly pair Of low
ers," she said when his embrace had
relaxed.
"Isn't it great" he cried.
He stood up, measured the sun with
his eye and extended his hand out
over the big woods that covered the
serried, purple ranges.
We've got to sleep out there some
where. It's thirty miles to the nearest
camp"
Who Of all the sports present will
ever forget the memorable night at the
Golden Gate arena when young Glen
don put Tom Canaan to sleep and an
even greater one than Tom Canaan,
kept the great audience on the ragged
edge of riot for am hour caused the
subsequent graft investigation of the
supervisors and the indictments of the
contractors and the building commits
sioners and pretty generally disrupted
the whole fight game?
IL was d compete surprise. non
even Stubener had the slightest ap-
prehension of what was coming. II
was true that his man had been in
subordinate after the Nat Powers af.
fair and had run off and got married
But all that was over
Young Pat had done the expected
swallowed the inevitable crookedness
Of the ring and come back into il
again.
The Golden Gate arena was new
This was it's first fight. and it was the
biggest building of the kind San Fran
cisco had ever erected. 1t seated 25,
BOO. and every seat was occupied.
Sports had travelled from all over the
world to be present. and they had paiC
$50 for their ringside seats. The
cheapest seat in the house had sole
for SIS.
The old familiar roar of applaus,
went up when Billy Morgan. the vet
eran announcer, climbed through TIT
ropes and barred his gray head.
AS he opened his mouth to Snoal, .