Show h Boxing Manager of Yesteryear o l Tries Comeback With Levinsky 1 c I Pete I II e Reilly Is Nc New f for or Kingfish ish Was Once I i.- i. f Nursemaid to Jack Delaney I t S 'S I V t By PAUL GALLICO S NEW EW YORK March 12 Peter Reilly as you all may know S 'S j Is one of at the last of ot the crew of at time old-time fight managers w who wio 9 in the palmy days of ot the golden decade used to delight both oth young and old I with their trials and tribulations as mouthpieces for prize fighters lighters of hJ high h degree and low Peter is now back In the picture once more wit with I King Levinsky If It you have been around New NewYork's New Yorks York's Mad Madison on Square Garden at all you must have seen him He is a email timaU man with a cruel hall half hall humorous mouth and light blue and andS andl S merry eyes His Hb hair is gr graying and he has hu a curious curious' manner of ot speech l' l I following every very sentence or two with you understand or get me I He Is an incurable practical joker I R Il golf goIt maniac a soft n n 1 J 3 companion who never takes a a drink but a man who I imagine is infinitely infinite infinite- i ly dangerous when crossed He has hasa a blazing temper I 1 Pet Peter r was wu once close to a great fortune fortune for for- tune with Delaney Delaney Delancy drank secretly Peter kept his secret magi mag mag- ce There was wu never a drop to be found in Delaney's Delaney training i camps camp and the French Canadian French was gorgeously built up as u the stalwart innocent child of the woods w whose o lips Ups had yet to be sullied by th the Demon Rum Bum Peter himself was a teetotaler How he watched over Delaney Delaneyl Jack was matched with Jimmy Maloney 3 r. r I in inthe the New York Garden A. A knockout knockout knock knock- out would have meant a shot at the thel he ht of the world Delaney a at that time had t probably the most deadly right hand handI I punch In the game j i Peter left Bridgeport where Delaney De Dc laney was training a few days before the fight which perhaps was a mis mis- take He knew that Delaney was a asure sure lure thing to take Maloney and plunged heavily on him to win The Thet I t I tight light was famous us for something else elseI I the thc first real ticket speculator scandal scan scan- A I dal dol broke around It The light was war scheduled for 10 rounds Round Bound after round passed and arid Delaney never let the right hand go Peter pleaded with him in the f corner rn r. r Finally Delaney said nid sullen sune I ly I 1 I ca t Pete I 1 hu bu hurt ot t It before 1 I X tame ame into the ring J Peter later told old me he had hd onet one t t. t hand on the water bottle and was wasI r ready ady to present it to Delaney but I controlled himself Delaney Delancy had gore i on a bender and In a Pullman vestibule vesti vesti- M bule aimed a punch at a porters porter's head The porter ducked and Dc iney 5 smashed mashed his right hand against the thc 1 steel side Ide o of the car 1 I I In the last round he be hit Maloney f. f t wItti with It once and came close to knock knocking In ing him out But he l lct t the decision and th the opportunity I never heard Peter pete squawk squawk- about ut him though I L. L Jis J f |