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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1932)
2 T H E l I X U S T R A T E P F E A T U R E S K t ' T l O N - J a n u a ry ’ 2 : 1 . 1032 —— NEW FIGHT STORY i IIv the author of "The Singing F ii III nm 'L” The Catfish Kid H r C a m e F rom th e South L o o k in g f o r W o r k a n d w a s H e a d e d T o w a r d New Y o rk . H r wa* H u n g ry a n d K n o c k e d at the K itc h r n D o o r o f a T ra in in g C a m p f o r a H a n d -O u t. T h r y G a v e Him as M u ch G r u b as H e C o u ld Eat a n d then Put Him in th e Ring to Fight w ith the C h a m p io n . while ami then I sent Iqiu to the Bv I D WARD LAWSON INSTALLMENT I showers. Slue Wilson was In his prime that "Well, I a«ked the boss alter the day In the training camp. He was crowd had cleared out. what do you bowling over the sparring partners think?'' which I and Billy Allen had picked "He's coming along fine.' Billy »aid lor him in one-tw o-thiee ord.-r. and ¡ “ Keep him working hard every day not even getting his hair mussed in a?*1 w ell • all set. Bight now I” * I he process Sitting on Uie ringside took* like a million dollars Bv Sat- ■ 4ith Billy, who is the boss, and a 1 rdav he ought to be prime and crowd 0» newspaper boys. I watched ready ” him as he went through three rounds "W hat did those newspaper guys with Jackie Davis in preparation for think of h im ?" I asked his big go with Mick Malloy w hich: Oh said Billy, "they don't know was less than a week awav. I ''h a t they re talking about _ ___ . __ m __. "But what did they say?" Three rounds was IF plenty and “They didn't like the spurring part then some ior Jackie. )ust as it had ners we got here. Tor one thing They ; been (or a couple o l his predecessors got an idea they're all set ups Ior a He was out on his (eet when the boy like Slug. You can t l< II em gong sounded, a n d we had to carry thev **■ him to his dressing room. I beamed ^ m r ^ Mick Malloy create His bulging ritrai pushed out • <he slaughter “ The buy'« good." I a shirt front nfk half so rrlt.ing as told myself hi» stomach was. his arms weir long , ,, , . , Anil 1 was light about that and Uie hands that hung to them A 1 * ,K 1,1 , ’" lrr looked like una tapped hams. “ B oy!" ua U*“ 1 •ft»M»otm I I ait him In t whistled to myself "W hat a fight- 'h e ring willi Slug Wilson, and right ler lie d make." ( diere waa wlieiw things began to | Just like that I sired him up When happrn he was through eating I q u iu rd him l i—a . Know anything about flghiuig?" 11 me Hilly AUrn asked him abruptly „ j'a ld Just before I got 'Item started. He admitted that he didn't. What * his nam e?” "Y ou nane along with me any- I hud never thought of tltal so I f c “ **"■ ■ «* * • - «• Wultout a word. he followed me M0* * wrrr •howln« him Uie funda* •o the dressing r u m mentals o t the game and asked "Strip,'’ I told him. "ami get Into] "Oatflsh Johnson.’ tie told me. !l‘r,r 1'Teaatalse, that a all anybody ever A few minutes later I was slipping called me doavt I tome the leather glov-rs over hts handy "T hat’s plenty." I said, and went and he mystlfted. was watching me over to inform Billv vlth a pu nlrd rxprewaion I JtP laughed "W ell " ha said "we ll "Come here. Whitey.” 1 rwllrd to ] simply rail him The CWtllsh K i d ’ one of my Ugh’ wrtghte who limp That sounds O K , don’t it?" prned to be tolling around J Ills' -Burr." I said, and from that m o - boy i new and he ' big for you. but mem on, Mr Jotutsoii was never I want you lo take him over the anything bul the Catfish Kid. L ree round route while I took on " | How tong do you want to go? ’ I ■**»- ■ " ] bet 1 Whitey Irong looked the n rvcom ff naked Hilly, son's trainer, and then climbed into ' Maybe so. I hope they will. But over first with disdain, but Him with -n ,r b u ,, looked around ’ You've the ring to take care ot him. I kind o f think tliey re right We rslotUshrarnt. I stioord them boUi got no others for Slug to work o n ?" “ You looked great." I told h im .! ain ~t got a boy in the outfit that can m to Uie ring and went over per “ Keep going like that fur another extend Slug any In these workouts sonally to give my boy some instruc week and there won t be a chance for -n ,f y Jast , ln t iood m ough. that V tions Then l started llietn in this boy Malloy to take you over He's And that- by the way the Whliry came In plenty fast ami A dirty, dishevelled fellow with » dark a punk, that s all. and you re coining majQ thing we need —a good sparring face and tienvy-set form looked hun j n anasrd to get o ie r almost a dugrn along fast. Keep it up. kid." J partner for Slug. G ot any idea when gry and begged a hand out. tilling .socks before the lug boy had I rushed him down to have a little ; we can find o n e —quick? ' any uira of what It «a s all about heart In the game He 1 1 be O K.' chat with some of the newspaper “ Don't worry. Slug's all right as But just as the tin t round ended, the "All right." I said, and then I went boys, and they talked to him for alt is. He's a comer and h e’» got his husky Southerner ruught Uie idea back Into the dressing rooms to see and (tailed Into his lighter opponent l.ow my boy* were com ing along« lie slung leather fast and lie slung Charlie Wilson the rubber, met me j I*, wickedly Even the bell and my with a gloomy look on Ills face 'efforts to separute them « e r r to no] I sensed trouble right away "W hat avail. Whliry went doom, finally is it?" 1 asked him. 'Som ething I then «ras I able to ease my protege Natu, the African youth in Mary snow or the patter o f rain in the face. v rong with 8 !u g?" 'in to his corner and warn him to stop White Ovington' snew book. ' Zeke,” ! And women are preoccupied with "N ossuh.' Charlie told me Slug s fighting alien the gong •*winded j W *** ** uotarly *»oti|h 1 « Ka** tells his fellow students at Tolliver Watteau models in the spring and all right, but tie's «bout Uie only oik . My warning wasn't rrally neees- I b lo • f b 'il.Ir B M M l i l M s k l )<■«( I f f F t a n t r i t • t ' A • <•' lit a k I a p to l* « Institute, that “At home we love what Empress Eugenie hats in the fall, and that is all right." Mirv. Twenty second* after Uie Ih ifih i M ye d ra n f u «* I Loo * • »«!« ensembles, and new shades of lip G od has made Here you love what f c « '» ie < la v ilo * r y s tt lla , Ito * I “ How com e?" I asked Me c o n d — stick and rouge and this and that, l»< d U ' h s a id | io R s m tn •«!«•«• « y a k r » the factories turn out. a thousand at not mentioning husbands, or an over “ Jackie Davis pulled up lame and >*• ' • M W « p l t k l w l ■ H M l i M R ia d round hod •nil t h * R ll g i f f i l t i ld i « d i l b « la M o M a time. We love the trees, and the burdened boy-friend schedule with a won't be back In sliapr for a week o f «*n»r r*Si.l » . * « Id s ' » Iia w lf m i iuivc(i un*| wind in the leaves, and we worship job or two sandwiched in for good or two yet Dick Wells got a bad eyr gotten bwlWr?tete«.s« f i c h i l i s t a i \m*k * »* H i f the river. God dwells in it. We love measure, and sometimes a little light and the Doc says he'll have to lay dec I I r n s i l h » lb * » « n tr r f u l n lw f ler w a y . - f t b t « e t c . Ilp p rv jix W lr « « i l l ft* * » mm our canoe We feel thr spirit In tt housekeeping on the side How are of? till it heals Tommy Day busted «*•»»1 ftm «• u*»« IWit» 1**1 »*!#«» guiding us as we find our way through j they to know that real violets grow a finger scrapping with Slug just W h I l t* n d f A V « r |1la<k I d fianiod m i « the rapids " ! in the spring and that dahlias will now. There’S all your sparring part a-as knock f»>r lb * t r a d e m a r k e d I •!-> 1 on Natu is right. We worship things, blossom forth anon? Ik e y r l l o w I v i t dful Iw « t i r « tin t to •d cold by a ,, Vuw. ners—shot. Wliat you gonna d o?" ( > l f i a < I t w I h « t A l your 4 i u f | l« l things, things. The lives of our men Just Imagine someone In this mad •r i r s i M a fm* • t r a i 1 « , »Uff light are cluttered up with making money, rash of living, dedicating one day of I thought hard a minute H f t A N T ! M A »O N IM G and more money, until too tired to a too-brief vacation to nature wor M U rki y A r o o b .y s , U . T . "W e ll have to get somebody else u p p e r c u 'i’ *i '¿ f t walk out in G od's great out-of-doors ship. And yet. what could be better to stand up with Slug tn Uie ring t h a t re where one can stride along and fill for tired, overwrought nerves, and o n e s lungs with air. and the smell overworked hearts, than a day of rest I said. “ We can t let him go stair 's o u n d e d P l a n t e r s _ or us just when wc got him in the o f growing things. Our men tend to in a cool green spot with nothing and through the seek solace in cabarets, speakeaues. no one for company but the trees and pink. We could get somebody new ¡ gymnasium, just for a couple o f days.” dance halls—never knowing that the birds? j Right Uiere moon Is shining and the stars are Put on some old clothes and stake "But w ho?” I s t o p ped ^ ^ C A P SU LE S dotting the heavens. • ¡a bite to eat to keep starvation away I admitted that I didn't know wlio Tell a man to put on a slicker, and one friend If you can not stand “ G ot any suggestions?" I asked. an old hat, and rubbers, and walk the silence, and h ue yourself out to He pondered the situation for a out iu the open with the rain in his a lovely spot away from folks, and face, and he will tell you you are listen -to the song o f the robin, the while but it didn t help any. I sud denly got an idea and toki him not silly and will invite you to warmer hum of the insects, and watch old regions. Yet there Is nothing more King Sol rise in the heavens and de to worry. I followed him into the refreshing than the exhilaration that scend Erase all thought of yester locker room, looked over my fighters comes from the sting of wind and day or tomorrow from the mind. injuries, and then went up to the office to have a talk with Billy Allen I told 1dm my idea, which was to go in as a sparring partnrr for Slug n.y- self, but I hadn’t finished before he l.ad turned thumbs down on (hat proposition. "I don’t want to see you get mangled up, kid." he told me "W e can dig up a couple o f pork- and-beaners somewhere who 11 be (la d to serve as lambs for the slaugh ter. I want you to stay out of this, keeping the entire intestinal tract with Castoria's gontlo regulation see?” open, free from mast waste. So there I was, right where I had "T h e best way to cure colic.” says mg to remem- I But there’s one Uon a famous doctor, “ is to prevent it.” started. ber here. A tiny baby'* tender And the best way to prevent it is to The next morning, I happened to organs eanoot stand harsh treat Yours, too, can be avoid gas in stomach and bowels by be moping around In the kltctien, ment They must be gently urged. lon jf, t h i c k and feeling sort o f gloomy and wonder This is just the j4ace Caslona comes to a mother's aid. Caslona. ing what Billy was planning to do si l ke n. you know, is made specially for the Along about ten o'clock or so I heard delicate needs of babies and chil a knock on the back door and, sincr The most itubhorn dren ft is a pure vegetable jircpara- the cook was out. I went and opened tion which is absolutely harmless. hair, through I’O K O It. A rather dirty, disheveled fellow It contains no harsh drugs, no vrtth a dark face and heavy-set form Treatments, is made narcotics. looked up ; ' me hungrily and begged Children never fight Cantona. Soft, Cjlotty am i fíeautiful for a handout. I asked him how beautiful. W h y put They like its taste ami the relaxed come and he told me he had left his P O R O Docs Itl com fort ita gentle regulation brings. it o ff another day f fla ce in the South and had come For many years it has helped North looking for work. He was mothers through trying ordeala POSO / lair Groutr ytt headed for New York. with colicky babies, with children I told him there was even less work suffering from digestive upsets, to be had In New York than any colds and other little ailments. V eep where else, and that It was pretty it on band for your children Y ou - can always tell grmnne Cantona by foolish of him to leave Itome with the Dame Chas. II. Fletcher. no better prospects than of ending up in a bread-line t brought him In, S» U *y P O R O / W e n /io r rfw irrt though, and fixed up something for For Itm p u u l u i » r u t fjC jtX C fu L ^ him to eat. While he was chowtor,, I gave him in c . the once-over, and boy! wns I sur- prlaed at what f saw? He had those broad, bunchy shoulder* that knob up through a coat and don't require •ny padding the kind that nothing but hard work, and plenty of It, can THINKING IT OVER r X * BlA C omfort ior Such Beautiful H air! 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