Show HOW TOMMY BURNS fOUND HIS PUNCH Bully on a LaKe Steamer Abused d CanneR CamicK and He Hit the Brute Brut LiRe LiKe He Hit Squires Bill Squires Is not the first fellow who know It was lo loaded ded when he ha to to took k a chanc chance with his chin against T. T r Burns Burns' wicked right fist A A bUU bully on alake a. a a alake alake lake lake steamer r. r ike f Squires thought T Tommy was was' was was' When they Uley told him bud he lie e ha had a ich ch chance nce nce to live over th the blow that followed be was no longer a ab b bully U T Burns Bums bad had fo found nd his his' punch He tells teUs about about t it Il this way BY TOMMY BURNS My y p parents rents were troubled when I told them I must leave home I had got the craze I would be an athlete My age was 15 I Inas was nas a faIrly good lacrosse player When I started out I managed to a member of the Gault Ontario Ontario Ontario On On- tario team which organization won the championship of Canada that When the season closed I was still stUl determined to be an athlete Lacrosse had given me methe methe methe the stamina quickness and sureness of e eye e After leaving Gault a job as assistant on the steamer Lake Erie Brie the largest passenger craft on the lakes running from Buffalo to to Cleveland started me on the way for the States The second engineer was a fierce typo type of bully Ho Ito had the crew thoroughly scared seated The first day out he had me ma spotted He took every ery opportunity to address m me with the foulest language that ever disgraced the mouth of ot a sailor I tried hard to stand It in silence When the watch was ended and the crew was gathered in the cabin the boys crowded round me and joined In warning warnS warn ing log me They told m ms tales of the themen men he had mauled and of the awful lickings he had handed banded out to every man that had yet dared to stand up against him The trouble finally came I had gonto gone gon to the ships ship's storeroom to get a lamp I lit the wick while on my knees and rose roseto roseto roseto to my feet to go when I turned face to face Lace with Bob Gaunt Now you darned cub of ot a she skunk stand up and fight he yelled with a mouthful of curses Before I could drop the lamp h ho had nailed me square between the eyes Down I 1 went like a bull that Is pole axed I 1 J fell on the tho lamp which i nl luckily i Nyo went n out f without h t exploding p gW Gaunt fell on me like a mad dog We wrestled and fought on the floor and rolled to the lurch of the steamer At last I loosened his grip and staggered to my feet He was after atter me hot I knew nothing of boxing but thoughts thought as to my course of or action came to me quick Three times I ducked under his wild rushes and left and right swings for formy formy formy my jaw Each time as I stopped under them I poked my spy left hand hard and stiff Into his wind This pulled him up blowing blowing blow blow- ing hard iny 1 was growing co cooler ler and felt good b but t for a sensation like paper burning In my nostrils the effect of that treacherous first smack between the eyes We began to spar span We stepped around hands feinting ng eyes ejes agleam Suddenly he stepped In and swung a wicked right hook for m my m jaw I took It on my left arm ann and as he fell Into me over went my right hand straight from the shoulder It landed fair on the corner corder of his long bony chin He lIe dropped like a man that Is shot through the Ule heart When he came around ten minutes later he fainted again His lIlt career as bully was ended The crew was delighted As for me I had found the punch |