Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STRICT All This Ex-Boxer Wants Is Peace and Little Pinochle By BILLY ROSE One of the more off characters around these days is Kid ex-great of the prize who runs the newsstand on the southwest corner of street and Times The according to the record lost only once in professional bouts and was one of the few men to beat Benny What's he is reputed to have been as scrappy outside the ring-as in during his black-and-blue a muscle-bound lie likes to think of himself as stick of sugar-coated and the world has seen too much he told me the other I want now is peace a little While we were as if on a man rushing for the subway bumped into the apologized I'd known you was baked a cake w ne The man's glare tf Into a itten- ed him with a the what- k JL would it Ya never convince anybody by It's better to Billy Rose go along with take the gink who runs the newsstand across the way Patsy Used to be a great Had a string of 14 straight knockouts he met up with I knocked him down 15 times in 10 but the first time Patsy beard me about he said it was only 14 So the next time I tell just to make him feel I said it was 14 but Patsy you It was every time be bears me It he slices off another so finally I says to let's leave it this Mosta the time you was me from a horizontal e e a JUST as if he knew we were talking about Patsy waved from across the street and it on over get yer name in the yelled back Bt a said the What does he under the I a private ut said wt were kids we lived near the Brooklyn and when we didn't want to do out where tbt could set tut to under tbt and then go under tbt and settle thit-gs fair and By tbt time i was I it out with every punk in the neighborhood all except a few years after we both set up stands on Times some bad blood comes up between me and Patsy for the first The way it one day I two bundles of papers in- stead of and when the truck delivers them they forget to drop off the regular one for So naturally he thinks one of my two bundles is for but when he comes over to get it 1 tell him it's one word leads to so finally I the That's fer says so we pile in a cab and drive a WIND what it used to but I knocked him down half a dozen times before It bits me how crazy it Is for a couple of near grandfathers to be each other's brains So 1 drop my hands and Just remembered I meant to order two bundles but forgot to do so you was right the whole I Let me buy ya a steak and make it up to ya because I was just warmed I'll buy the As I was about to Patsy White came across the street and the Kid introduced u my 6 wt go under the arch and I knock you down six remember said was only meant apologized what I he said after Patsy gone back to his time it'll be And after But what's the It makes him feel good nd it's no skin off my |