The Washington herald., 1922-03-09
Continued from Yesterday.

Continued from feSteTout.
you've got the biggest end of my
nurse every time I've fought" said
Curry. shifting uneasily In his chair.
Tolliver waved the suggestion
away hastily.
There's got to be a change" he
announced, "and there's going to be
a change, see? II I can't find a man
the fans want to see you fight, I'm
going to make one"
Make one?''
Through the papers.
who"
"McGinty."
Curry bounded from his chair.
My God, Tolliver" he said. Pete
McGinIy's an old man. he's
Thirty eight" snapped Tolliver.
"I won't do it" groaned the Kid
The fans worship him. II I was to
hurt the old man they'd mob me-"
Tolliver pointed a pudgy fore
finger
"Sit down" he commanded.
The Kid sank slowly into his chair
as though hypnctized
Kid" went on the manager, more
genially. there's a hundred thou
sand in this for gus IL yon do what
7 say - ~ - -
TT amt fighting. It's murder"
There's one hundred thousand In
il" repeated Tolliver monotonously.
The Kid mofstened his lips.
Would the old fool really fight
me?" he asked. He amt worn a
glove for eight years"
But he's been in the country and
he's lived clean. He doesn't want
to fight again. He never liked the
game. But I'll make him."
How" asked the Kid.
Tolliver frowned.
You talk too much" he growled.
All you got to do is think about
your share of that hundred thou
sand"
A dreamy light came in the small
eyes of the Kid. Otherwise his ex-
preston did not change. With his
heetling brows. his out-jutting jaw,
and his diminutive nose. it seemed
| impossible for him to show any
| thing but varying degrees of hate
and anger. Imagine bulldog
looking pleasant. -.
m knock his, block off and put
him away cold before the police can
stop the hght." he said. 4. -.
That. said Tolliver calmly, is
just what you won't do
why"
You're going to stay away from
him for six rounds, see? You're 60
ing to do il even il got to put lead
in your shoes to slow you up. And
I'm going to get down a bunch of
coin that he'll stay six rounds
against you
''YourI haya 70 81. 49,, >,
Groaned Curry. Am I goin' to let
that white-headed has-been run a
I dead heat for six rounds with me?'
! You're going to do more than
| that" nodded Tolliver. You're 60
ing to let him beat you up-get a
shade on you during those six
| rounds. Don't speak"
For the upper lip Of the fighter
lifted and showed a row of yellow
| teeth.
II say. you're going to let him
get a shade on you during the early
rounds. Set a fast pace, but don't
hit him hard. and along about the
third round begin to puff an blow
an act logy on your feet. I'll ad-
Vertise beforehand that you're not
! what you used to belfast living,
see?"'
Damn you" snarled the Kid
What II Maggie say"
Tolliver smiled. 1t made his flab-
by face wrinkle from eyes to chin
In the fifth and sixth rounds YOU
got to pretend to be about all in,
by that time the wise guys with
the money will be pulling for the
old boy to win over you. I'll take
them on. I'll act worried as the
devil. but I'll Keep betting on Won
to stay the limit-tweIve rounds
Then they'll give me big odds that
YOU won't stay ten@
TIL come back and get odd, n,
three to one when I say that you'lI
knock him out in ten round,
theyll think I'm drunk when I bet
tnat way. I ought to get odds AZ
-FOUR and hVe to one on it, and ri
sap in every cent I have in tn,
Worid. See? A hundred thousand?
tell you. kid. I'll clean up tbrs.
tlmes that much il you play YOUR
part right. Will you?'
how much?" said the Kid.
.rty per cent of all I make"
Thirty per cent?"
Maybe on three hundred .thou.
..Nyo whispered the Kid.
Wv go nome. I'll have som.
poIters around to see Won
ny II ask you what you think
OF old Pete McGinty. Tell 'em Won
Ihlnk he's the classiest middle
welgnt that ever pulled on a rIov.
Lel EN- to remember that he was
never Icked. I'm going to open up
press campaign that II start the
Wnoie country talking. And re-
see?" "e living fast'
He winked literally.
Let the reporters see YOU ca,
caviar and drink a glass Of VIM
Are you on?"
The Kid smiled. 1t was like tn.
grimance OF a Japanese idol.
Tolliver." he said. 'I never knev
what a great man you was befor.
this. When do you see McGinty?D
Today. I expect him any time
The Kid glided through the door
When he was excited he walked
with the same quick, secure step
which he used in the ring. Az he
disappeared Tolliver smiled broad.
ly.
The poor yap"' he muttered
complacently. How will he know
how much money I've bet?"
He went back to the endless task
Of manicuring his nails. But what
his dreamy eyes saw was a easo-
line yacht cutting the waters of
the st. Lawrence. 1t was a very
hot day, but a cool breeze seemed
TO play about the brow of Tolliyer.
All that he heard was the light
whish" Of the bow wave. such
are the visions of the great.
That afternonn McGintu ann..