The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-27

blow that would paralyze. His whole
enormous strength swung to do it. !
Someone clutched his arms from be-
hind. Bullock wheeled with little
blood-shot eyes to destroy this new
enemy.
60 tub yuh corner!" bawled Gued-
in in his battered ear, 9Th rounds
up!"
At this the audience suddenly
sensed the depth Of the tyro's fight
ing spirit. AS Guerin headed the
frothing fighter to his corner, the
packed house suddenly Numbered ecs-
tatically. 1t came with sudden
thrill to every soul at the ringside
that this was a fight. The tyro's
name was sculptured in mighty
sounds from end to end Of the am
phititheater. The high steel dome
doomed with it. Came purhing
shrieks, Stay with him, Bull"
"Stick it out!'' Good boy-go tn
limit Bull! Bull!' The very
gamblers against him sided with him:
At Bullock's side, Jadoway popped
!, his sledge- hammer fists, whole
hearted supporter at last.
r Last round. Bullock-last round,
= boy! Gib'm hell! Hammer an tongs,
. laddie." He stood with strutted neck,
t ramming fist into palm. Three ham
= dlers tapped towels till sweat pour
: ed down their grooved backs as if
e dipped in their own ice water. 9th
e ers kneaded the unexpected hero's
e half trained and knotting muscles.
|. In Roux's corner rushed desperate
|, tanning and cooling. Roux's body
< had perhaps a half dozen marks o:
it, but his sleek head, his sanity
l. were untouched. The sudden switcl
lie in the crowds sympathy affected tn
ID champion not a straw. He had wol
re his belt over the most popular on
ed hundred and thirty three FOUNDER i
n fandom. He had defeated local idol
n. from Frisco to New York. He woul
1t win now in this last round with tn
ne amazing novice. He had been say
ad ing his strength
# The gong sounded; both men weI
Of heaved up, set running into each oti
v err.
he Roux met Bullock like cyclone be
ic- fore the big fellow was fairly out
re. his corner. He sprinted in with
RI long fving lab at the head. The in
lc- pact cracked all over the house, III
it. the blow of a butchers axe. III
er- battle-turret head tipped back, Blu
he lock staggered. The champion W;
ITO on him with hooks, swings, right
is, lefts, frenzy of effort and punls
ment that could neither endure nor
he endured.
Elk Red Roux had no need now to I
M serve an ounce of force. HIS oloN
at battered Bullock with the rauldlty
ted a pneumatic hammer. The tN
yn. formed a whirling fantastic blur
ILL., white backs, reddish fronts, t1yl7
ing arms, snapping heads.
eX- Without letting go its sympat
un for Bullock, the audience rose a
ks surged for Roux's marvellous tini:
II seemed. almost as if the spect
we'd TORS we,e fighting. A terrifying
low fusion seized Bullock. He could
av. two kid Roux's battering down
the him. The pounding on his head h
ous Iis2ss0ciated the action of his op
me- nerves like alcohol. Such grotesc
H. gasbling of his sense Infatuated
A tyro. 1t was Impossible to Kn
yro which way to strike or block.
The throng went frantic, One
20. Iominous old man, pasty face, D;
his OF ewes, final essence of sophlstl
his tion in this whirling world of spt
flung up a silk hat, shrleked, pou!
ing ed a tiny jockey in the back, yelll
.oqx zones goin' like Stanley Ketehel,
Guild other soaks punishment like John
,ouy Nv Cad that l lived tub see it,!
sim A gaudy woman flung a bunch
ID orchids toward the ring with fe
the nine awkwardness. A slender 1
I'd a came racing and Stumbling from h