The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
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HOPELESS EGGS
Little Old New York on the
Hummer Right.
Arrangements for Welsh-White
Bout ssTame DOings."
BY DAMON RUNYoN.

BY DAMON RUNYON.
New York, Dec. 4.-''Tfmes am
what they used to be around the OLD
Bright Isle" sighed the aged rounder'
Il was in to see the lads signing artl-
cIes of agreement for 2o-round muss
between Freddie Welsh, the hgnt-
weight champion. and Charley "hlte
of Chicago, and it was such Joe
fair that it made me feel SAD II
came off at Considine's. 1 wandered
in there along about 3 p. M eNpect N
to see the boys volley flrlng WIN ing e
old grape but all 1 find is a lot OF
old hard boiled eggs leaning around
against the woodwork. The haro Doll
eggs are the lads that never carry
more than two bucks on them az
time and they wear them tMo ~,
so close to their bodies that you
co1lIdxl't get a knitting needle IN De-
tween them with a mawi-
sarhe hard boiled eggs have come up
around here in the last rev years 49, 49,
they are running a good town tney
make it hard for a right guy 10 get n.y.
Bartenders Bored.
.ar-tara was two or three bartenuerS
- the trenches. but noticed that tney
admit seem to be looking eXpeIea az,
They didn't have the ota sHtiIne9bovs;
&+nreSsion on their faces They Just
1o6lx;ed bored. And L noueeo Lhas
their hands fingered, nan 'I,s.A
around among the beer ela the bar If
that hadn't been enough to TIP me Oh
on the party, there was the atIte otI,,o ~
bi9 Alec. the chef at the lunch couh-
ter. -o++;n, hack looking
- bove over but there was nothing
Cshristnassy about his maHiieI; ~,
hard boiled eggs was crowded. GloeS W
to him waiting to pounce On ~ 70
iuctant-mighty reluctant he knew
~ ham had a living chance agalnst
mat mob. He was acting IN tne posS
interests. A good man, Big Aiec-
- AWAY in the back part OF the piaeSS
Harry Pollok, Welsh's manager anu
Maxey Bluementhal, VINO rePresSsIi.eo
White, was squatted at a tapie 49, of
pile of blank writln paper IN l. there
iey,7 There was enough paper there
10 write a novel on They needeu tWo
pfeceS, as it turned out, ana aype
they could have done with one IN q
nfncb or used somebody's cuff, put
, - bad enough to three-sheet the
Grimes Has Changed"
..People commenced to come in
+ rrettv soon and the place got fllIed up
with smoke and conversation pue ~.
sba rtenders kept saving shoe Ieatner
s11d elbow grease. Nobody gave the
cash registers a tumble 1et EN- pa pa
raised myself, but everybody else
changed on Broadway.
"A lot of newspaper men come IN
and got around Pollok ana 6Iueinen-
thai and Pollok hauled out a roun-
tain pen and commenced 10 W. W.
There was no preliminary discussion
He inst commenced to write. When
he come to the weight and wrote down
that the men agreed to make $50
pounds at 2 o'clock on the Gay % M NJ
fight. / couldn't stand it no more IL
.yyass too irregular, so I horned in.
''s~s' why says I. you can't stand Tor
that, Maxey,' 1 says.
stand for what?' says Maxey.
WHY that weight and everything,
All I wanted to do was to get the
boys started on an argument TO MAKE
If regular 1 never heard of no art1-
Giles of agreement being signed without
an argument; - ,r,,,
Gave 1t Up.
$50 1 gave it up. 1 went over to
talk with one of the bartenders ana
see Jack McAuliffe and Circular Joe
Vendig and Commodore Dutch and Big
Tins Dutch and Chink and a few more
of the boss tearing out into the air.
They couldn't stand 1t either.
Not much doing I says to the
bartender.
.-.---~~s' Doing he says. Say, I told the
boys not to hire no extra help for to-
day. I'm getting ossified in the legs
II thought I'd try again to get the
boys to be more regular, so 1 went
back where Harry was still writing
and looking over his shoulder, and see
that he is sayin' that the referee is to
be mutually agreed on
- why, Maxey,' 1 says, you can't
stand for that, can you?'
80 stand for WHAT says Maxey.
why, about the referee says 1.
"'Oh, that's all right he says, and
SO 1 gave it up again.
at saw Poomery Bob Vernon sitting
next to Maxey and that cheered me
no a little, for, thinks 1, here's a guy
that's liable to open a bottle of wine,
seeing that he's named as stakeholder
of the match, but all Bob opened was
the front door as he went out.
scssWhat's this town coming to, any,
wav?''