The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-05

Things had begun to break little bit better in Philadelphia. I was boxing two or three times month and getting from s15 to $50 fight. 1 That was good money, but I wasn't saving it. l developed fad for good clothes and was lin hook" most of the time.
 Meeting With Rid s9o.a. l In the searly part of 1906, Phila- delphia Kid Broad was boxing around Philadelphia and I struck up an ac- wanting to go to New York for some time but l was a little bit timid about taking a chance on the big town alone. I spoke to Broad about 1t and he said:
 T know all about New York you go too and I'll show you the sights"
 He did. too. Some time later Broad got an offer to box at show al Rockaway and he told me to go along to New York with him. l didn't have any money but he said he had enough for the train fare and that he would get s15 for the fight When he insisted upon financing the expedition, I agreed to go along We didn't get to New York till late in the afternoon and we had to go down to Rockaway at once. Broad went on in one of the prelimtnaries late when we got back and we went over to Third avenue. where we got bed for 50 cents and thought we were putting on the swell' in fine style. Out To See New York.
 After a sumptuous breakfast we started out to see the town the next morning. The Kid didn't look so good. His eyes were both puffed and blackened. One eye was cut little and the side of his face was scratched. thought he wasn't very classy travelling companion but ne had the money. We started across Fourteenth street, taking in aA the sights. The Kid got lot of pennies and we took in everything at the oiu arcade, where one cent would permit you to look at all kinds of pictures | in a long battery of machines. Finishing there, we started down | the street, looking for more places of entertainment. We were gettine near Broadway. I noticed two big fellows walking up, the street ana re- marked to the Kid that they ioc | like two good heavywelghts. broao agreed. When they got within speak, ing distance, enc of them said; l Hello, there, Kid" l The Kid of course, thinking he was being haled by someone who kne" him. stopped and said:
 "You lookin' for a fight" the other
 Broad, thinking that he was get ting an offer for another bout, re- piled quickly:
 Damn right"
 Hot Reception.
 There was crack and the next
 thing I knew the Kid was on the
 sidewalk. One of the two Friends"
 had cracked him over the head with
 a blackjack and he was out. There
 was A sort of a reign of terror from
 wunmen going on at the time in the | neighborhood. had been reading
 about it in Philadelphia, and natural
 ly I thought they were trying to hold up the Kid. I sailed in for fight
 and I was getting the better of one of them when he pulled his coat back and showed me a badge. I stopped fighting and was telling him that I thought he was robber when the l other detective cracked me over the head and I was out.
 l I afterwards learned that they were Ed Reardon, rather famous at the time, and another detective from the 1 district attorneys office who had
 been sent out to round up all sus- picious characters. We were taken
 to the police station and thrown in fail on a charge of felonious assault
 on an officer. After three days in the cell we were brought up in
 the Jefferson Market court. The
 charge had been changed to disor-
 dering conduct and we were fined $10 each.
 o o O
 Dan Morgan to the Rescue.
 Broad paid his fine and left the
 court He said he'd be back later
 and I went back to the cell. Later
 in the day the Kid returned with $10 that he had obtained from Johnny | Reyes and paid my way out of the
 coop. I learned afterwards that Dan
 Morgan, who was then connected | with politics and who later became
 my manager, was instrumental in
 having the charge changed from fel- onious assault. for which we could
 have been sent "up the river" to dis orderly conduct.
 Morgan didn't know either one of