Show B 1 j r ri Fist STORY Pv Days I ys Jack McAuliffe McAuliffe- CHAPTER FOURTEEN t Copyright 1927 by NEA Service Inc If It Tex Rickard had bad been pro pro- promoting promoting pro pro-moling fights tights around Boston and New York at the time I was fight fight- ing fighting and und ho was just half halt as active as he ho Is today hed he'd have been con con- convIcted con convicted and sentenced to servo serve about five life lIro sentences In prison Just when the th Puritanical war against tho the manly art was at Its fever heat my best pal Neil Ned OBaid win win was sentenced to ten years for tor just attempting to stage a II fight Notwithstanding all this I went ahead and matched myself against Harry a Canadian a fight right righter fighter fighter er ot of o great reputation and the dude of ot the day And where do you Imagine we e fought On January 14 1887 we met In a small room in the pres pros presence once ence of ot 30 80 well known Now New and Boston sportsmen Including the tho original Jack Dempsey who seconded me right under a Salva Salvation lion tion Army meeting They were wera on the floor Above and as I jumped out of or my may corner to 10 meet Gilmore the Army lassies hassles las le started singing When the war is 1 over o well we'll wear a crown I laughed out loud but Gilmore with a left lert smeared the grin off oft my taco face and wo we settled down to one of or the toughest bat bat- batties bat battles battles ties of ot my entire career One that nearly blinded me for life Gilmore was superbly built and Jack Dempsey looking him over said lies es e's slim around the waist go after his hi body So I tried to get In close but he kept spearing me with his the heft left the best left lett In inthe Inthe the tho game gamo at lit that time Gene Geno Tunney has a clever clover way wao of hitting down over an opponents opponent's eyes with his left len fist lb He nearly closed tho the modern Jack Dempsey's eyes that way Well Veil this fellow Gilmore was the same rame way only ho he had bare fists to do his eye dos lag ing cye cloa damage with It was the custom In those days to try to blind your opponent If I you vero good enough Well ell Gil- Gil Gilmore Gilmore Gilmore more was plenty good I was being slowly cut to ribbons and didn't know It St ft When Dempsey said eald In a warn warn- warnIng warning ing log whisper Your Tout ees are go- go Ing going ho knew v It it but I didn't II My face was sore and putted puffed but I could see ee tine fine though I could not see my amy eyes ees closing as Dempsey did In the round I went stark blind I thought someone was wa trilling trifling with the lamps and yelled Turn up the lamps Then it million seemed a II knuckles les lea were tearing at my may eyes yes Editors Editor's Note Tn Note In the next chapter tells how the tho tight fight came out and how a doctor at atthe atthe the ringside was going to I lance nce his eyes between rounds round |