The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-15
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 New York, Feb. 15.-(UP)-When I stepped of the train after being gone for four months it was cold and gray, and when it is cold and gr y in Few York nothing will cheer me but herring.
 So I made my way to Hymie Cap- lane salon, where the herring is bel mir bist du schon, and ordered one extra well marinated. But before it came I started talking with Lou Diamond and he made me so sad with his story of Evil Eye Finkle that not even whale could have lifted my spirits.
 Evil Eye Finkle, as everyone knows, is a professional hexer. One glance from his eyes, when he means business, and the person they are focused upon is jinxed clean down to the third generation. Evil Eye discovered his power seven years ago in Miami, when a rocking chair he was managing came out to do battle with Joe Knight, top notcher at the time. Evil Eye, need il.g the winners end of the purse to get out of town, turned his hexing orbs on Knight, who immediately went into a trance and lost 10 straight rounds to guy he figured to belt out inside three heats.
 Last week." Lou Diamond moan ed to me, T make my first start as a promoter in Rochester. am very happy because as my headliner I am able to get Freddie Steele, the middleweight champeen. He is not easy to sign when I tell him that Irish Bob" Turner is the guy he has to fight, because Turner is very tough, and has raised hell with a lot of good guys. But he comes around and puts his name on the paper when I tell him that as a special favor I will bring Evil Eye Finkle to put the op hex on Irish Bob"
 As Diamond told 1t, Evil Eye was in Washington putting the sign on the supreme court for certain party at the time, but for 70" note and expenses agreed to make the trip to Rochester.
 When he got there," Diamond lamented, "he went straight to Turner's hotel and waited for his victim in the lobby. When Irish Bob" came out of the elevator on the way to the arena Evil Eye gives him the works. He glareS at him clean across the lobby, and follows him down the street, putting on the hex at top speed. After about three blocks I told him to lay off-that I didn't want Turner to faint before he got in the ring-but he wouldn' t mind"
 Diamond choked up at this point, and was unable to continue. But some of the fight mob, who had drifted in from Mike Jacobs place next door, picked up the narrative at this point and finished it. What happened was this. Turner came out and was so thoroughly hexed that he didn't last round. Got knocked stiff before the echo of the first bell had died away. AS it hap pened, General Phelan, chairman of the New York boxing commiS- sion, was in the audience; had just dropped in to kill time between trains. Unable to understand why Turner, usually a rugged article, had given way in the first round, the general raised his military acad- emy eyebrows to the ceiling, and held up Turner's purse, intimating that he thought that all was not sweetness and light.
 Diamond revived at this time and carried on.
 Why should Turner take a diver" he asked. What was there in it for him? And why should Steele, the champeen, need to do business with fighter no better than Turner? There was nothing wrong nothing but Evil Eye Finkle. He did his work too good. Yoi, if could just get my hands on that Finkle one!"
 But Finkle was far away in Wash ington, quietly resuming his work of hexing the supreme court.
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