The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-01
66e AbysmaI Brute By JACK LONDON
By JACK LONDON
Copyright. Lela. by The Century Co.-
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 Golden Gate arena when young Glen don put Tom Cannam to sleep and an even greater one than Tom Cannan1, kept the great audience on the ragged edge of riot for an hour, caused the Bubsequent graft investigation of the supervisors and the indictments of the contractors and the building comRis< Bfoners and pretty generally disrupted the whole fight game?
 It was a complete surprise Not Even Stubener had the slightest ap- prshension of what was coming. It hWas true that his man had been in- subordinate after the Nat Powers af- Ealr 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 it nka1n-s
 The Golden Gate arena was new. This was its first fight, and it was the biggest building of the kind San Fran efsco had ever erected. It seated 25,- 900, and every seat was occupied.
 Sports had travelled from all over the world to be present, and they had paid $50 for their ringside seats. The Cheapest seat in the house had sold For &5.
 The OAQ la10l1laI- IOa1 OI- aQQ1AuSG went up when Billy Morgan, the vet eran announcer, climbed through the ropes and bared his gray head. As he opened his mouth to speak. a heevy crash came from a near section where several tiers of low seats had collapsed The crowd. broke into loud Laughter and shouted joculaF regrets and advice to the victims, none of whom had been hurt.
 The crash of the seats and the hila- Kzous uproar caused the captain of pc Mice in charge to look at one of his Geufenants and lift his brows in token Ehat they would have their hands full and a lively night.
 One by one, welcomed by uproarious HppIanse, seven doughty old ring he roes climbed through the ropes to be dntrcduced. They were all ex-heayy- weight champions of the world.
 Billy Morgan accompanied each pres entatson to the audience with an ap- propz1ate phrase One was hailed as Honest John'' and ''Old Reliable;;'' another was 'the squarest two listed fighter the ring ever saw"
 And of others: s9The hero of Q hun dred battles and never threw one and never Laid down;'' ''the gamest of the. old guard; = sflle only one who ever game DaCk% LLe 2TedIeSI W1TIIOE OI them all, and s.tIae hardest nut in the ring to crack.
 AM this took time. A speech was insisted on from each of them, and they mumbleG and muttered in reply with proud bushes and awkward shambllngs.
 The longest speech was from s'Old Reliable and lasted nearly a minute. Then they had to be photographed The ring filled up with celebrities. with Champion wres1ers, famous condition ers and veteran t1mekeepers and ref erees-
 Llgh3weights and middIeweights swarmed. Ev@ybody seemed to be Challenging everybody
 Nat Powers was there demanding a setura match from young Glendon, md go were all the other shining Fights whom GIendon had snnffsd out Also they all challenged Jim Han ford, whos in turn, had to make his e@Mtamenf, which was to the effect Shat he would accord the next fight to the winner of the enc that was about to take place The audience i'm Enedfately proceeded to name the win per, ha1f of 1t wildly crying ''Glen- Hon7 and the other half Powers
 In the mfdsteof the pandemonium an- Oth4 ter of seats went down, end half a dozen rows were on between cheated ticket holders and the stew ards who had been reapfng a fat har- vest
 The captain dispatched q message to headquarters for additional pottce de- nafls.
 The crowd was feeling good When Eannam and Gzendon made their ring entrances the arena resembled na- fionai political convention Each was rheered fora solid five minutes.
 The ring was now cleared GIendOn sat in his corner surrounded by his seconds As usual Stubener was at his back
 Cannam was introduced first, and after he had scraped and ducked his head he was compelled to respond to The cries for a speech He stammered and halted, but managed to grind out several ideas
 I'm proud to be here tonight" he said, and found space to capture an other thought while the applause was thunderfng. -I've fought square I've fought square all my life. Nobody can deny that And I'm going to do my best tonight,
 There were loud cries of fHThat's right, Tomr' Awe know thati'' Good boy, Tomr' You're the boy to fetch the bacon homer
 CHAPTER xI.
 -HEN came Glendon's turn
 From him likewise speech
 was demanded, though fol