Show Bristlin Bristling BattJes I 1 r K Pv s I MY LIFE I 4 t CIL CIL iTER lom CopY Copyright 1926 NEA NC Service lc Inc Dempsey Dempse was 8 1 then lien Hie tho chant chan chanpion champion pion undisputed He lie took on about a 0 dozen fellows Including Joe Helser Jim Fell Zell Jim Bar Barry Joe Joo Hennessy Tom Torn SullIvan an Ell Da ty and anti others Most ot of then went out in two or three rounds Dempsey was tho ho pride of oC tim th neigh neighborhood He lie mIngled ed a 1111 the bit big bl sports of tho the Bowery Bowers ani made a little mone money None one of oC o It to his head lie He tried to In- In Induce in induce duce duco me mc to leave o the cooper shop and amid tight fight too Then Harry cane cam along along lie He was a dog bull bull do t Short stocky Ho He came from Canada and anti so Impressed Marty Malone a big bS ig New e York that a challenge with a sh ele sl bet was h hurled u After a lot hot of scraping Demper's Demp finally nally got enough money to meet met the challenge The was Wa held hell In Rye re N Y 1 but few tew of us had bad enough money mony left to tomako tomake tomake make mako the trip We e heard nothing from Dempsey Demp- Demp Dempcy soy sey cy for tor nearly a week and th th n one day lie e showed up at the th coope cooper shop and what s a sIght Ills His Hi hands were ere all battered and broken Ills fits face fac was a 1 mass or of bruises and discolorations discoloration He lie had hod been pounded un unmercifully amil l he was ready to Quit the ring Ing 1 h sail t ld dejectedly He lie had won on time IIII tight fight all nil right but the price lie hA had to pay In rain pain and suffering was too 5 I Ho He H disappeared entirely shortly i after aCter 1 I We Yo did not liar hear of him for some ome time lime and then word leaked out to us he was a manager in Billy Maddens Madden saloon loon on Thin Thir Thirteenth street sheet In iii New York Every saloon In those days daS day hal had hala hada haJa a boxing hall hAil and a house fight fight- fl ht-cr ht or r and the lie rivalry ri was pretty keen Dempsey was wa time the th hero of Mad Mad- ta- ta taden's donS dens den's place beating all comers corners for Cor 25 5 a week lIe was dressed like n a 1 duke In a I three button cutaway white vest high hat hot and all alt the th S Im setting 25 S 5 a week weck hero here and hardly dirtying my hands he 1 said Id to me rue proudly poudly Id ld have havo to slave to make 10 a week as a cooper coope I wondered as he was as It IC such euch uch fortuno fortune would ever er tall fail to 10 me sue lIe II must havo sensed my m fo for tor he patted palled my baCK bacic antI and aid eald ald Dont worry Ill I'll get ou a job as a a housa bousa tighter fighter anti and just you think think you can make I iL a week too Editors Editor's Note Note-In Note In the th next chap chap- chapter chapter ter tells tell how Jo MO o wan wan- wandered wan wandered dered tiered into the tho back end of or a 0 saloon and won his first fIght fIght- and and how his hi nana e too all ot of othis othis his first purse 20 20 |