Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-25

got a proposition for YOU A got the
greatest unknown that ever happened
This amt con It's the straight soonn
What do you think Of husky that TIPS
the scales at ~ pounds nEhtinE WeishI
4. TWENTY-FIVE years old and can hit
kick twice a. hard az my best ever9
That's him. my boy. Young Pat Glondon
thnrs the name he'll nSht under We
you can do Is bit the frst train and come
up here
I ever had In my head I've hammered into
his- And maybe you won't believe IL. out
be'. added TO Il Hos n born fighter. Hes
a wonder Mt Tune and distance he JUST
knows 20 the second ana the men. anu
he don't have TO think about IL AT all
His six Inch Jolt r. more tho real seep
medicine than the fun arm swing OF most
geezers
This IN him. Come and take q peep.
When you was managing JehTss you
vns crazy about hunting.
Come along and I'll give you some real
hunting and fishing that VIII make your
moving picture winnings look like 50 cents
IN send Young Pat out with you; i am
able to get around That's why I'm send
ing for you
was going to manage him myself. but
IL amt no use. I'm all In and likely TO
pass out any time So get move on: !
want you to manage him There's for
tune IN u for both OF you. but i want to
draw up the contract Yours truly.
PAT GLENDON.
Stubener was puzzled. II seemeis
on the face or It. a Joke-the men In
the lighting game were notorious jok-
ers-and he tried TO discern the tine
hand OF Corbett or the big friendly
paw OF Eitzsimmons In the screed be-
fore him But IL IL were genuine, he
knew IL was worth looking into.
Pat Glendon was before his time
though, as a cub. be had once seen
Old Pat spar at the benefit for Jack
Dempsey. Even then he was called
"Old" Pat and had been out OF the
ring for years He hnd antedated Sui
Ivan In the old London prize ring
rules. though his last fading battles
had been put up under the incoming
Marquis OF Queensberry rules.
What ring follower did not know OF
Pat Glendon:-though few were alive
who had seen him in his prime. and
there were not many more who had
seen him at all.
Yet his name had come down In ths
history OF the ring. and no sporting
writer's lexicon was complete without
II His fame was paradO=ical.
No man was hono-cd higher. and
yet he had never attained champion
ship hOnOrs lie hud been unfortunate
and had been known as the unlucky
fighter.
Four times he all but won the heavy. T.
weight championship. and each time be Z
had deserved 20 win IL There was /
the time on the barge. IN san Fran /
cisco bay. when. nj the moment he /
had the championship going. he snap 1
ped his own forearm. and on the Is Z
land ia the Thames. s!0shinE about In .
SIX inches of rising tide. he broke a 4
log IT similar stage In Il winning
fight In Texas. too. there WAS the
rever 20 be forgotten day when the
police hTo,.c In just IS he mad his man
going In az certainty,
And EaIiiy. there was the fight in
the Mechanics pavilion in san Fran
cisco. when he was secretly Jobbed
frJ-1 the first hy q gun lighting bad
rsau II referee backed by small
syndicate Of heit0rs. Pat Gleudun had
had "a" accidents In that fight. but
when he hIl knocked hls man cold
with n right To- the jaw and n left to
Tie solar plezUS. the referee calmly
disqualified him FOR fouinc Every
-iu-siIe witness. every sporting ex-
bert. and the whole sporting world
suCw there had been no foul
Yet. like all fighters. Pat Glendon
had agreed to abide by the decision OF
lie referee Fat abided and accepted IL
IS in keeping with the rest Of his bad
uck
This was Pat Glendon. What both
red Stubener was whether or not Pat
iad written the letter He carried 1t
downtown with him.
Whats become Of Pat Glendons"
such was his greeting To all sports
hat morning Nobody seemed to know
'Omc thought he must be dead. but
zone knew positively. The fight editor
Z n morning daily looked up the rec
rds and was able to state that his
cath had not been noted. IL was from
i'm Donovan that he got a clew.
Sure an he aIn't dead" said Dono-
an How could that be-a man of
is make that never boozed or blew
imself? He made money and. what's
lore. he saved IL and invested it.
'idn't he have three saloons at one
me? An wasn't he maxim slathers
: money with them when he sold out?
Now thnt I'm thinkin'. that was the
st time laid eyes on him-when he
I'D them out IT was all of twenty
ed. I met him headin' for the ferry.
Where away. old sportT says L It's
e for the woods says he. I've quit