Evening star., 1924-11-23

Cant you land no match with
Goetz:"
Sure. cause he needs the money.
But I've went careful with the kid so
far and look at the results I got! SO
| what's the use of takin' a chanel?
The kids comm every minute and
Goetz is goin' back Eastern big John
son did. I think we could lick him
now: I'd bet my life on it. But six
months from now they won't be no
| risk. He'll Of licked hisself before
that time. Then all as Wen have to
do is sign up with him and wait for
the referee to stop it. But Midge is
SO crazy to get at him now that
can't hardly hold him back"
The brothers Haley were lunching
in q Boston hotel. Dan had come
down from Holyoke to visit with
Tommy and to watch the latter's pro-
tege go IL rounds, or less, with Bud
Gross. The bout promised little in
the way Of a contest. for Midge had
twice stopped the Baltimore youth
and Buds reputation for gameness
The fans were willing to pay the
price to see Midges hay-making left.
but they wanted to see it used on an
opponent who would not jump out of
the ring the first time he felt it's
crushing force. But Cross was such
An opponent, and his willingness to
stop boxing gloves with his eyes. ears,
nose and throat had long enabled
him to escape the horrors of honest
labor. A game boy was Bud, and he
showed it in his battered. swollen,
discolored face.
II should think" said Dan Haley,
'the kidd do whatever you tell him
after all you done for him."
well" said Tommy. hes took my
dope pretty straight so far. but he's
so sure of hisself that he can't see
I say. though; he'd be q sucker not
to-"
You got a contrac' with him?'
mo. I don't need no contract. He
knows 1t was me that drug him out O
the gutter and he Amt goin' to turn
me down now, when he's got the
dough and bound to get more.
Where'd he of been at IL I hadn't
listened to him when he first come to
me? That's pretty near two years
ago now. but II seems like last week.
I was settin' In the slooh acrost from
the Pleasant Club in Philly. waitin'
for McCann to count the dough and
como over, when this little bum
blowed in and tried to stand the house
OF for drink. They told him moth
in doin' and't to beat 1t out o. there,
and then he seen me and come over
to where I was settin' and ast me
wasn't I a box;n' man and told who
I was. Then he asst me for money
to buy . shot and told him to set
down and ia buy It for him.
Then we got talkin' things over
and he told me his name and told me
about fghtfn' q couple o. prelims out
to Milwaukee. So I says, Well, boy,
I don't know how good or how rotten
you are, but you won't never get no
where's trainin' on that stuff. So he
says he'd cut 1t out II he could get on
in q bout and / says I would give
him a chanel II he played square
with me and didn't touch no more
to drink. So we shook hands and /
took him up to the hotel with me
and give him a bath and the next
day I bought him some clo'es. And
l staked him to eats and sleeps for
over six weeks. He had q hard time
breakin' away from the polish. but
finally I thought he was At and 1
give him his chanct. He went on
with Smiley Slayer and stopped him
so quick that Smiley thought sure he
was pisoned.
We'll, you know what he's did
since. The only beatin' in his rec
ord was by Tracy in Milwaukee be-
fore got hold Of him, and he's
licked Tracy three times in the last
year.
"rve gave him all the best OF it
in q money way and he's got seven
thousand bucks in cold storage.
How's that for kid that was in the
gutter two years ago? And he'd have
stil( more yet X he wasn't so nuts
over clo'es and got to stop at the
good hotels and 30 forth"
"Where's his home at?'
"well, he ain't really got no home.
He came from Chicago and his
mother canned him out o the house
for bein' no good. She give him a
raw deal. guess. and he says he
won't have nothin' to do with her
uulest she comes to him first. She's
got a pile O. money, he says, so he
Amt worrying about her."
|. I y 4 \
THE gentleman under discussion
L entered the cafe and swaggered to
Tommy's table, while the whole room
turned to look.
Midge was the picture Of health
despite . slightly colored eye and an
ear that seemed to have no open
ing. But perhaps 1t was not his
heAlthiness that drew all eyes. His
diamond horseshoe tie pin, his pur-
pie cross.striped shirt, his orange
shoes and his light blue suit fairly
screamed for attention.
''Where you been?" he asked Tom