The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-21
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sport writers. coming to see me in my workouts, wrote stories declaring that was altogether too small to have chance with Sullivan" Nothing worried me more than those articles. I feared that if my packers read and were impressed by them they might refuse to put up the rest of the s1o,0Oo side bet And I knew if they "dropped' me no one else would take chance on me-
 My fears were confirmed two weeks afterward by visit from Phil Dwyer and Ned Kearney, two of my packers. They watched me closely during my workout. After it was over. Dwyer said to me:
 Jim, you certainly look small" But I am deceiving in appearance, 1T answered.
 l And then it happened! | Jim, what is your exact weight at this timer" flatly asked Dwyer. | I hesitated to answer for fraction of a secondhand then I said: 1 "Oh, about 200 pounds!" 1 Dwyer looked at Kearney and Kearney lreturned the glance.
 Two hundred pounds, you say?" ex- claimed Dwyer. By gosh, Jim, you don't look it. Where do you weigh sour self?'
 "oh,, I replied, "in butcher shop up the street."
 t I feared to tell Dwyer and Kearney that weighed myself on the gymnasium
 scales, because l felt that they might want me to jump on-and my lack oi It. I<@ Itun
 I'm afraid those scales are wrong, declared Dwyer. 'I don't think you
 weigh anywhere near 200 pounds. You had better come to Long Branch tonight \ and meet me at the hotel and I'll have Iyou weighed on those scales there After Dwyer and Kearney had gone II hunted up Billy Delaney ana salo.
 "It,s all off, Bill. Dwyer and kearney think I'm too light. I told them that
 weighed POO pounds and they want me Ito prove it tonight by being weighed
 in their presence
 well. let's try to figure out some way
 to make those fellows believe you actual lly weigh 200. replied the optimistic De
 laney.
 did:
 We took all the weights out of ths l gymnasium pulley exercises and jammec q them into the belt which I wore during i nv workouts. We found around tht tg rymnasium several pieces of flat lsae " 'nd these also were around my waast was padded with iron and 'eat ts ,t from the line of my stomach tt
 ad. l. below my hips. And so mad, N 4s' aaN and started for Long Branch A se ,aS9S thing in the world that
 Planted 70 do was to be weighed stripped tr'o cake off my street clothes meant al br ~f certain discovery of my trici .aT re.g ght. Everything hinged on my belni
 ble to weigh without the necessity o ! Talking off my clothes 20, when Iocn' 4 G,wyer said:
 Here I am, Mir. Dwyer-all ready t
 weigh in. Shal strip or will it be al l-,ght for me to be weighed with n, . slothes on? You can deduct about fiv' , nounds for my clothes and in that Wal ss rive at my real weight e3& "Oh, I guess it will be all right for vol EsNc be weighed as you are now an !. l%wered Dwyer. And jumped onto th ! i1cales.
 The dial moved around rapidly, the, Tsiowly, and then came to stop aronnt a0s pounds. Dwyer was amazed, and s' Hs ire the others.
 fBy George" exclaimed Dwyer, If dn.t seen the evidence just now WI piv own eyes l would not have though tnlt you weighed anywhere near 70 ]. rnunds." I's X few minutes later, while l was feel \, if, jubilant over. the success of thu q Ses ley weight plan, catastrophe nearl, os .urred. Dwyer and the rest of u were walking along the sidewalk. wher
 suddenly I felt something slipping 1T
 the region of my waistline, and movinf rapidiy toward my shoe. It was one o' the pulley weights that had come loose is that weight hit the sidewalk. ther'
 would be bang. Dwyer would discove what had caused it-and my decept.or
 would become known.
 The.uuiclxest thinking ever did in m,
 life was in the n0xt two seconds. Quick ly but not enough 50 to excite Dwyer'.
 suapicion. I hoped from the sidewall
 V the dirt space near the curb-and no
 a moment too soon. The pulley weigh
 rropped on the soil just about four inche
 rom the sidewalk. It made no sornt
 spi no one was the wiser. It was
 n xhty narrow escape.
 a'rnbablv if that weisht had droppes r the sidewalk might never have has
 sbas opportunitv to become the heavy
 weight champion of the world.
 lTo Be Continued TomorroWl