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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25
Il Story Of the Prize Ring Which
Process That You Never Can Tell What
a Gentleman Pug viii DO When He
Takes the Well KnozOn Count Of Ten.

retorted Shadow Simpson, who was as good o
trainer as they came. and nobody's fool.
ct don't mean that" Make came back. IT
mean I don't savvy him. Don't know his name.
Don't know where he lives. Don't know who
he runs with. Now I like to know about my
fighters They amt able to take care Of them
selves anyway. no more than q baby. So had
Mickey ponlay follow him one night when he
went home. He piped Mickey of, collared him,
and told him to 60 on home or he'd break his
neck. He would have, too=sure. Told me next
day that IL anything like that happened again
he'd break mine. What's the big idea, any
way?"
"weI," said Simpson. curiosity kayoed the
cat This bozo don't look like police charac-
ter exactly. He's always In the pink-he takes
care Of himself He's on deck here every day,
ON the minute That'd be enough for me- And
he looks like Q first mortgage on the union sta
ton. My advice Is. let sleeping dogs snooze."
SO Make did
Well, Lonsdale came through his FIRST three
fights going away. Palookas. Of course. but
they hardly laid . glove ON him. while he
flashed classy lot Of stun. He showed plenty
Of everything it takes to make q champ but
gameness and he didn't need to show that.
So up he came into the semi-final class.
And right there Make matched him against
Spider Simmons, the fast nght-heavy that they
were all side-stepping right ut that time.
So he went to work for the Spider in earnest,
road work and everything. Checked in prompt
~ az the gym, kept nimSeu IN elegant shape,
and disappeared every day after the workout.
But Make kept worrying about the femmes.
"A guy that's Is good looking rs this one Is
going to get tangled up in skirt sooner or
LATER" walled Make.
But Lonsdale had only got laugh out of the
two or three pink mash notes that came drift
ing in for him, and he passed up two or three
sirens cold when they tried to make him out
in front of the gym at different times.
"Yeah, 1t seems O. K.," said Make. but 1t
would be just hike the big bum to fall In love or
get married or something, and then good-by
champion. When they get cuckoo about dame
they might Just as well use powder puffs for
gloves"
The armory was packed for the Spider Sim
mons bout. The Spider had been moving em
down SO regularly that none Of the corners
wanted any part Of him. He was all confidence
when he leaped into the ring and flashed o lot
Of gilt brtdgework at the mob Lonsdale wasn't
nervous. which isn't regular for beginner and
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it was clearer than ever that he had been
through the min somewhere.
The Spider was no palooka. The first three
rounds they gave as pretty boxing exhibition
as you ever saw, but the crowd was getting
restless because there hadn't been any murder.
The fourth got faster, and Simmons was getting
home to the body with the wicked left which
had whitfield many good boy down to his size.
BY the end Of the seventh Lonsdale was an
ugly red from waist to arm-pits, and Make
knew that If he could take that he could take
anything But the crowd didn't see it, and
began TO bleat for blood.
Well, they got it in the eighth. LonsdaIe
jumped out of his corner and went to work.
just stormed all over the Spider and battered
him TO hamburger I'm about two minutes. He
had him hanging on at the bell.
In the ninth Lonsdale finished him almost a
quick as he did Clancy that first day In the gym.
Just . plain left-right to the chin, but 10 quick
that the two blows seemed to land almost 1t the
same time.
THAT made K. O. Lonsdale headliner and
only one fight away from being challenges
for the nght-heavy title.
He always took every cent he had coming
from Mellish in cash money. from the ham-and-
egg days Of 90 fight, up to thousands, And
Make wasn't able 70 and out any more about
his private life than before Pictures on the
sport pages and thousands Of fans watching
Lonsdaie do his stuf-and mot . hint % 10
who he was. Nice to everybody, but whenever
he got through at the gym 1t was, "Werl, 20
long. fellows" and away he went.
Make suspected women, as he always did,
but there wasn't thing to prove that ronsdale
ever had anything to do with EN-
Then along came the match with Nanny
Mando. that the papers called the Manhattan
Murderer. And murderer was right, too. A
Commute egg. this Mando. If you ever saw
one, right or the curbstones Of New York, and
fried hard on both sides. had not only
stopped everything and everybody that came his
way. but he had put q couple Of boys IN the
hospital, and had the name Of being an ALL
round bad actor. 90.
All OF which meant half of nothing to Ions
dale. BY this time Make had realized Ions
dale was the big shot Of his stable; he had
Shadow In full charge Of training the boy, and
working in his corner when he fought. And
by this time they had gotten hep to one thing
about L0nsdaie. He was awfully careful about
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1O3, and rs the bell changed and the lights
went out there was q kind OF mutter all
around the hall like dog growing over
piece Of nice. raw meat.
Mando started his slam-bang tactics right
on the bat but Lonsdale kept away, feeling
him out and boxing him.
Come ON and fight you mug!" snarled Man.
do when they clinched. LOnsdale Just smiled.
pushed him away. and licked light left into
hts beak. Perfectly all right too; 1t had been
. clean break, but Mando claimed he had been
hit On the break-away, and squaWked 70 the
referee He just didn't put 'em up quick
enough after they had broke and the referee
knew 1t, 50 he shook his head
Mando was wild. Going back for the second.
Shadow warned Lonsdale to watch out for any
thing but he Just nodded and smiled. Mando
came failing in with both arms. and when he
was tied up sunk his head into Lonsdale's
chest and at the break brought 1t up sharp.
There was thud, and blood gushed from
deep cut just below Lonsdale's left eye. It was
as deliberate q butt as any billy goat ever made,
but the referee wouldn't allow foul. probably
because he hadn't allowed Mando's claim in
the first.
Mando saw his chance. and went after it.
Lonsda!es face was a bloody mask In no time
at ALL
At the end of the round Shadow tried to
close the cut with alum. but It was too deep.
and was still oozing when Lonsdale stepped
back for the third.
Mando ignored everything else but that cut {.
eye. He played for 1t every exchange, shooting
. regular machne-gyn barrage OF jans at u.
Lonsdale covered well, but every once In . while
blood would smear into the eye so bad he
couldn't half see.
'.FIe done it ON purpose" Shadow Missed. try
ing to get Lonsdale mad during the next rest.
he was too cool about IL 70 suit Meliish. "Oh.
no." said he, 'thats liable 10 happen once In
awhile"
But in the fourth came the giye-away. They
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wen. a little later the blond boy came out
Of the locker room with gloves on. and pair
of low sneakers and white cotton trunks. There
was big steamfitter by the name Of Terence
Clancy working out at Sanfords afternoons
otter wiping joints all day: just clown, but
one OF those big rugged boys who are always
hoping to climb out of overalls into trunks
Pretty soon Make had Clancy and this new
boy In the ring together, sparring.
The boys around the gym slipped into
sweaters and rallied round to give the new
boy the once-over. It didn't take o minute to
see that he had been there before. He had
that knack of ducking just enough to make the
blows miss and not a fraction of an inch more.
Clancy wouldn't even have brushed q ny OF
his nose the first three rounds. That's nothin,
everybody thought Clancy's just palooka
anyway.
But when they came out for the fifth, Make
held 'em up just second. Lets see you boys
really 60 this one" he said and Clancy was
willing, as he'd been trying to get Mellish to
notice him for weeks
So they both stepped back, squared of, and
then something happened It was so quick that
nobody really pegged it. They hadn't got set
to notice anything yet. Anyway, there was
Clancy fiat on his back and as cold as q dogs
nose. The new boy stepped back smartly, saw
Clancy was through for the day, and like q
fash he was picking him up and trying to ex-
plain that he got the number OF the truck all
right
Make bit the end of his cigar when he saw
Clancy poleaxed because. while he knew he
was just palooka, the big pipe wrench puller
was O lot Of man to push over at that. And
he'd see the new boy box three rounds as
cagey as Corbett just before that. Nun said
It must have taken Make all Of seven Sec
onds 10 get the new boy under contract, lock.
stock and barrel, agreeing not to Tight for any
body else. and all that. And the Ink wasn't
dry before Make was going into his favorite
dance:
:" and I want you to lay OF the women
None Of these bimbos for you, hear? Not only
that, but the contract Is or IL you get mar
ried, or even engaged while It's In force Get
that?"
IT understand" agreed the new boy, pleas
ant-hke. "You needn't worry. don't rattle
around with women, and have no intention
Of getting married"
"0ot . place to Liver" asked Mellish think
ing Of the frayed suit.
."Oh. yes. thanks" said the boy. and kind
Of smiled. ~ .--.... ~. ~.
Got q ring name?" Make asked.
mo. I've never appeared as o pro- Had
some amateur experience, though You might
call me X. O. Lonsdale"
It seemed like q nutty name. but it stuck
Everybody, Make included, felt that 1t wasn't
his real monicker, but a Dempsey by any other
name could sock as hard. Mellisn handled him
well. Two months in the gym befoSe he let
+onsdale into a ring. A square guy Mellsh.
ONE day in the gym Make took his trainer
aside. Say, Shadow" he said, ST can't
make anything out Of this guy Lonsdale at all"
Looks to me like you're going to make the
next light-heavyweight champion out Of him."
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CHAMPION CUPID-ByHVaNj Thornton

his face. He never SPARED without
headguard, and then they suddenly
realized that he had never been cut
about the face at all. Even when he
was taking that awful body beating
from Spider Simmons he had pro-
tected his face SO well, that there
wasn't a mark on it.
Make, suspicious as always, had put
1t right up to him one day face to
face. "I1l bet you're playing the
skirts!" he accused. you're so careful
Of that pretty pan Of yours. Remember
what you promised. You're not to get
married as long as you're working for
me-"
LonSdale was Sore-about as sore as
anybody ever saw him. He whirled on
Make, and for second 1t looked like
he was going to plaster him.
Look here, Mellish," he said, kind of
quiet-like, IT said I'm not going to get
married, or even think about it while
I'm with you, and I'm not. keep in
shape. I work steady. make a pile
of jack for you. That ought to be
enough. II 1t isn't, I'm going to push
your big nose back where your brains
ought to be, and walk out Of here!"
That finished that, because Make
wasn't any more anxious to commit
suicide than anybody else, and If he
was worried that some peroxide was
going to marry of Lonsdale, he knew
enough to pipe down about it.
And they all went TO work in earnest
for the bout with the Manhattan
Murderer. In earnest was right, for
the winner was q sure shot to be
challenger for the 1ight-heavy title.
There never was fighter in better
shape than Lonsdale.
The betting was pretty even, for
although Lonsdale had an unbeaten
record, he hadn't killed anybody, and
Mando's murderous name and record
gave him whatever edge there was.
And when the night Of the fight came.
you couldn't have got another Gus
toner in the Hippodrome with Q
couple of shoehorns.
AEANDO scowled as they came to-
A'A gether in the middle of the ring
Tor instructions and fiashlight pictures.
He muttered something like I'm
gonna kill you, you-." But Ions
dale just smiled and said, 'WeI, big
boy, hope you're able to go to the
funerall''
He was still smiling when he came
back to the corner. The mob was all
- nk~,r~ SO ,t< ,xs&
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men are, or course,
hat Make was cuckoo about 'em with
reverse English.
4sWomen have wrecked more good
fighters than high-voltage hooch or
dust-eating horses" Make would say.
Tben he would revolve a long cigar
in his thin mouth and drop asnes on
his patent leather shoes. Ano cont
mean dizzy danes, either. wife Is
Just as bad. A pug gets soft. somehow,
lust as soon as he gets wife 70 Ieeo
him homemade cake and tell nun
after a bout that she'll kiss him rlgnt
where it hurts. Wedding bells are
nothing to a pug but the bell for the
last and final round"
And the funny thing about it Is that
Make still feels that way in spite OF
his experience with K. 0. Lonsdaie,
which would have cured anybody else.
It was at the old Sailor Sanford
gym out in Chi that Make enrolled
without knowing it for good lesson
in Technology. Make was sitting IN
the dingy little Office off the gym floor,
tanning with Sanford The air was
heavy with the dusty smell OF stale
tobacco smoke. the ghosts OF thou .
sand vanished sweats. Suddenly
young fellow stood in the doorway.
Make spotted him for a stranger, the
way he kind of looked about uneasy
like. Big, well set up, good shoulders
and a. nice clean-cut face with blue
eyes. Pretty well on the bum; blue
serge suit as shiny as copper kettle.
0ExCUSE me-" says the young fell
low, and it was plain that he
was educated as soon as he opened
his trap, "but are there any promoters
here?"
Sweet essence of juniper! Any pro-
moters? Sanford'S was full OF pro-
motors. This boy couldn't know much.
Make Just looked him up and down
and rolled his cigar.
ssIt was Mr.. Mellish was looking
for" the young fellow goes on. zone
Of the trainers out there asked me TO
look for him"
A lot of highbinders and wise guys
would have said, Outside. bum," but
Make Is one of the kind who will
listen to anybody-once. This time he
listened, and what break for both
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25

III M AXLE MELLISH was q
M e: :: 9: :: :: !:
~ mon are of course,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
JEWISH UNIVERSITY
! 81 WILL Be DEBATED
q --evsa
question of Establishment
Subject OF Local and Pater-
e. : son, N. j., Teams.

& The question Of the ACCESSIBILITY OF
hstahlishing q university for Jewish stu
dents In America will be debated To-
night at the Jewish Community Cen
Der, Sixteenth and @ streets, by teams
from Paterson, N. j. and the District
The visitors will uphold the negative
,Itde,
The debate will take place at SIS
o'clock and will be q feature OF the
,eonyeution of the Middle Atlantic
states Federation of Young Mems He
brew Associations and Jewish Centers
In session through today. Presiding at
the debate will be David Wiener, for
Haer president of the Middle Atlantic
States Federation, the judges being Dr.
Theodore Beckman OF the Ohio State
University and Rabhi Solomon Metz
BAH game between the Washington
group and the Richmond Young Mems
Hebrew Association viii precede the de-
bate.
During the week two lectures will fea-
ture the centerS educational program
walter s. Ufford, secretary Of the AS
ISOLATED Charities, will speak Tuesday
avening at $50 o'clock on unemploy-
Ment. while DIT. tsidore Lubin Of the
Brookings Institute will speak on life
in Russia today. illustrating his ad-
dress by motion pictures.
! The washington convention commit
Zee is as follows: Burnett Siman. chair
man; Mr.. and Mrs. Moe Gutenberg,
Edward Rosenblum, Mrs. Lucy Gold
berg, Leo Pinkus, Isadore Lesser. Louis
" Spiegier, Norman Mayer, Abe Shelf
terman, Morris Gewirz, Joseph Wilmer,
joseph Stein, Simon Hirshman. Isidore
HershAeld. Maurice Garfinkle, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Street, Mrs. Burnett Siman
end Maurice BiSgyer, executive direc-
Tor Of the Jewish Community Center.
The officers of the federation are:
president. Henry Weinberg of Rich
Mond; first vice president, Edward
Eosenblum of Washington: second vice
president, Miss Pauline Ambash of Nor
FORK; third vice president, Herbert
Nachman of Newport News, Va;
treasurer, Burnett Siman of Washing
tpn:s secretary, Miss Anna Eggnatz of
Baltimore. Isadore Abelson, field Sec
rotary for the Jewish Welfare Board of
New York, will also attend the conven-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
HOSPITAL PATIENTS
WILL CONDUCT SALE
Toys, Weaving, Art Work, Pot.
terry and Jewelry offered at
Walter Reed Tuesday.

Patients of Walter Reed General Hos
pital. VINO spend their leisure and study
hours equipping themselves for some
useful trade after their discharge, will
conduct an exhibition and Christmas
sale of their handiwork Tuesday from
9 am. to pm.
The articles will be on sale and
exhibit in the occupational therapy de-
partment in the basement of the west
wing Of the main building. They in
clude a wide variety for the selection
of Christmas gifts, such as toys, weav-
ing, art work, pottery. jewelry and meta
work. basketry, block printing, leather
and wood work and miscellaneous.
These sales always have attracted the
attention of the many friends of the
Walter Reed boys who are interested
in the work of the occupational therapy
department and in the good effects
this kind of work has accomplished
especially for bed-ridden patients. Miss
Alberta Montgomery Is supervisor OF
this work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30

ANNUAL gathering
of the graduates of
the university, to
be held Wednesday
evening in tn e
Burlington Hotel.
w. A. Erskine,
president of the
Syracuse Univer-
sity Alum ni of
washington, said
yesterday, in an
nouncing the event,
that tn ere are
about $50 gradu-
ateS of the insti-
tuition in Washing
ton. The officers
of the women's as
ISOLATION, he said,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30

President, Miss Carlotta Veiten-
heimer; vice president, Miss Gertrude
Bergman; secretary, Mrs w. A. Err
skine; treasurer, Mrs. A. T, Davenport
Mems society-President, w. A. Err
skine; vice president, H. G. Barott; Sec
rotary treasurer, Henry w. Austin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
BANK SUSPENDS
Arkansas Institution Is Expected
to Be Reorganized.

CONWAY, Ark, November 20 R.-
The Faulkner County Bank & Trust
Co. suspended today for period of five
days.
Its statement of last June 80 showed
resources Of $l097,022, with deposits
of $67S,92O.
DEPRECATED agricultural loans on ac-
count Of crop failures and Withdrawals
following recent bank closings over the
State were assigned rs the reasons for
the suspension. Efforts will be made
to reorganize, bank officials said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30

"Reincarnation" will be the topic Of
a free lecture at the United Lodge of
Theosophists, meeting at the Hill
Building, Seventeenth and I streets, to-
night at 8:15 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
SYRACUSE GRADUATES
TO HEAR DR.. LEEBRICK
President Erskins Of University
Announces Meeting to Be Held
Here Wednesday.

DR.. K. c. Leebrick, dean of the Col
lege of Liberal Arts Of Syracuse Uni
versity, will be the guest speaker at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
CLUB PLANS FIRST FETE
Reciprocity Gathering Set for
Thursday Evening.

Thursday Evening.
The first dinner of the recently Or
gnnf7ed Reciprocity Club of Washing
ton will be held in the Hotel Mayfiower
Thursday evening. The club is anil
0tsd with the international organization
Of reciprocity, which Is similar to other
service luncheon clubs of business and
professional men.
: Arthur Clarendon Smith is president
Roger Yates Is secretary. About Is
members have been enrolled.
e-
People Of Greece bought In 1880 more
products from the United States than
1rom any other country.
The Washington times., 1930-05-30
Coast TOngs Kept
Quiet BIZ 200 Police

SAN FRANCISCO. Calf, May
80 0NS0.-Nearly 200 police,
armed with riot guns and tie: =
bombs, patrolled the streets Of
San Francisco's chinatown today
to prevent an expected outbreak
of tong violence.
Chief of Police Quinn, taking
charge of the situation last night,
admitted that tension between
the factions was serious and that
trouble could be expected unless
the rival tongs in dispute over
shrimp fishing rights settle their
grievance peaceably.
The Washington times., 1930-05-30
Roberts Reelected
Citizens DeLegGte

ne Conduit Road Citizens
Azsoctation at meeting last night
the Community Church on
MAnearal Avenue, near Conduit
Aoad- reelected William A. Rob.
- IS delegate to the Fedora.
- q Citizens Associations. The
@Sner delegate In Mrs. r. c. Rit-
6le.
NE new officers include w. A.
1neL president: E. s. Hobbs, first
Nlce PRESIDENT; Mrs. II. p. Steiner,
second vice president; Albert Ly.
an. recording secretary: Linn c
e2e corresponding secretary,
- c. p. Peterson, treasurer
- retiring president, Clyde s.
@@4i@y, presided.
The Washington times., 1930-05-30
Old Hotel Company
DISSOLVED bU Court

Justice Alfred A. Wheat in Dis
trict Court yesterday signed final
papers dissolving the Congress
Hall Hotel Company, operators of
the Congress Hall Hotel which was
recently purchased by the Federal
government as a building site.
The National Metropolitan Bank
is named receiver to take over
the assets and distribute them
among the stockholders.
The famous hostelry was the
abode of many of the country's
noted politicians and for long
time has been a landmark in the
city.
The Washington times., 1930-05-30

When it comes to value here is
a suit of clothes that is hard to beat
at any price. 1909 all-wool blue
serges and cheviots with two pairs
of trousers. Single and double
breasted coats, sizes 33 to "A.
Direct Entrances to Mems shop from
The Washington times., 1930-05-30

of Cresa
launde, of Dte Cepes
of
and smatD
Sizes from II So Many Lovely White Frocks Included
The Washington times., 1930-05-30
Congoleurn.Made Rugs

Not only are the prices
unusually low, but you may
select from brand-new 1880
Spring Summer patterns
All are seamless and per-
feet quality. Designs and
colors appropriate for bed
room, dining room or living
room.
The Washington times., 1930-09-18
CHANGE
SPONSORED

Declaring that consumer credit
serves a most useful purpose in
American life the Rev. DR.: John
O'Grady, secretary of. the Ma
tional Conference Of : Catholic
Charities, today lauded the facili.
ties offered to wage earnerS by
state supervised personal finance
companies.
DR.. O'Grady viii deliver the
invocation at: the sixteenth an.
nual convention Of the American
Association of Personal Finance
Companies to be held here from
September % to 26.
DR.. O'Grady said:
"The small loan company,
properly supervised, satisfies
most useful purpose in Amer.
ican life. Through the Upia
form Small Loan Law, sp0n>5
sored by the Russell Sage Fonn.
datiOn, an effort has been made
to standardlze the small loan
business throughout the count
try.
'FUnder this uniform law.
which now is operating in "a
States, the interest rates are
sufficiently high to attract cap,
ital into the field but not so
high as to make the loan
burden on the small credit
consumer"