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Sixth Installment
SYNOPSIS: Johnny Breen, 16 years old,
who has spent all his life aboard a Hudson
river tu;:boat plying near New York, is j
tossed into the river by a terrific explosion |
which sinks the tug, drowns his mother and i
the man he called father. Ignorant, un- j
schooled, and fear driven, he drags himself j
ashore, hides in the friendly darkness of a i
covered truck ? only tq be kicked out at dawn J
? and into the midst of a tough gang of boys i
who beat and chase him. He escapes into a !
basement doorway where he hides. The next i
day he it rescued and taken into the home- j
of a Jewish family living in the rear of the r j
second hand clothing store, lie works in the j
sweatshop store ? and is openly courted by ?
Becka ? tne young daughter '. . , The scene
shifts to the home of the wealthy Van Horns ?
?on 5th Avenue, where lives the bachelor ? f
Gilbert Van Horn ? in whose bfe there i$ a j
bidden chapter. That chapter was an affair :
with his mother's maid, who left the house J
when he was accused* The lives of Johnny j
Breen and Gilbert Van Horn first Cross when '
Van Horn sees Breen win his first important I
ring battle.
NOW, GO ON WITH THR STORY j
Malone, in the dressing room with
the fighters, saw Sol Hernteld slowly
count out three five dollar bills and
offer them to John. They were stand- '
ing in a comer, partly shielded by a
locker.
"What's that?" Malone demanded
sharply, approaching the boy and his
manager.
"What I won. I get fifteen and Sol
gets ten ; he's my manager," John ex
plained.
"Say ? you dirty crook!" The trainer
glared at Sol, bianched to a d.uiiiiy
pallor at the discovery of his duplicity.
"You give that boy his money."
Malone. with a sudden irnp. nulled the
retreating flernie.M backward. "i
damn you? dig!" and he drove his el
bow sharply into the middle of Sol's
soft back. Bernfeld, wincing with pain,
hesitated. John eved him with suspi
cion. "Dig, you rotten crook," and I'utr
Malone gave him a second and much
harder lu?:>k in the back as a crisp
fifty dollar bill came to light. Malone
snatch ?d this and handed it to John.',
"Take that, son, you earned it. An*
you," turning to Sol, "fade, an' fade
fast, before you get what's consin' to.'
you " Bernfeld took the hint v. i.hout '
delay. **
"Whit's your name, sun Malone
asked. "You look white." i
"Breen, sir, John Breen," the "sir"
?lipping from some dormant cell, re
corded, perhaps, while overhearing
Captiin Breen address some wharf or
ship officer. Pug Malone, compact, j
gray haired, and pink, looked like a
god to the boy.
"Where do you work?" Malone
knew that John was not a professional.
"With Mr. Lipvitch in the Clothing
Emporium."
"Pay?" demanded Malone.
"Yes, sir, he pays me." John felt his
benefactor was under criticism. |
"Of course he does, son. How much?
What do you get a week ?" ,
"Three dollars ? and hoard," John
added, by way of good measure.
"Board 1 Hoard!" Mah.nc r;\n his
hand over the body of the hoy. ''Board
? rats!" And then, seeir.tr the alarmed
look on John's face, he went oti in a
kindly tone. "What you need. is fccdin'.
Better stay here. I'll grve you a job,
five a week an' r< al board. Rubbin'J
that's the work, an' I'll train you, sun,
an split right. Are you my hov?" i
And so John Breen left the <ihcttoj
to enter the Bowery of the Greater
City of New York.
A year passed over the head of John
Breen, a year of ampler freedom and
of physical development, a year
charged with the elerttfnts of crime, of
drunkenness and brawling. John saw,
without knowing, the dregs of the city.
Blear-eyed victims of the sodden
slums of Chinatown drifted into the
bar at McManus' for a bowl of beer
and a snatch of lunch, then to sink
back again to the drug-soaked atmos
phere below. He saw these things
through the swinging doors between
the gym, at one end of the dancc hall,
and the private parlors and the bar. It
?was merely another picture of the over
powering city, so tremendous in its
contrasts.
Pug Malone, ex-prize fighter, train
er fbr the Samson Sporting Club, a
hard, honest, medium-sized, middle
aged man, shorn of his illusions,
watched over John Breen. John ro$e
at six, with Malone, jumping up in the
brisk air when he skipped rope, swung
the clubs and shadow boxed under the
eye of the trainer who sat on the edge
of his cot smoking his morning pipe.
After a half hour of this John turned
out the blankets to air, and master and
pupil met a string of hoys at the rear
door of the club and ran hard for,
another half hour before the awaken
ing of the city traffic, coming back to
the club for a cold shower and a rub
down.
Malone and John then breakfasted
alone, in a card room back of the bar,
on large bowls of oatmeal, bacon and
eggs, rolls and coffee. The day was
spent in taking care of a string of
fighters, boxing, rubbing and punching !
the bag, or working at the chest ma- |
chines. ReRitlar meals, clean air, and I
early t*r,bed filled out his frame with !
. . abounding health that glowed and
sparkled through his clear skin in
startling contrast to the sudden wrecks
of men and women drifting all about.
After two months of training for
condition, M alone initiated J?.hn into I
the science of pugiljsm, coaching him
iiehind closed doors in the art ')f jab
bing, hooking, and blocking blows. He
impressed upon him the great value oi
! infighting, and the secret of terrific
jpunches with the crooked elbow,
j throwing the full force of the body in
; to the blow by applying the fundamen
tal principles of mechanics and dy
namic force.
One day, after a long go with Ma
lone himself, the trainer, ) wiping a
bleeding nose, and out of breath, rc
gift come to him like magic in the
night. For he did dream such miracles,
often, that he could read, and just as
lie was about to gain some mighty
truth his fairy gift faded away. TTien,
at times, he consoled himself with the
thought that it was no great gift after
all. None of the readers he saw were
particularly wise, except, of course, his
idol, Pug.Malone.
John's inability to read was brought
to light one day. "Here's the story of
my strap with Stiftt. I just dug this
tip in my old trunk. Lookit over, Jack,
an' you'll see Stiftt topped me by ten
pounds," and Pug held out the paper
to John. John took the paper, glanced
at the, full length wood-cut of Malone,
?'-? ?* "? ...
Mrlone initiated John into 1'ic scicr.ce ct pugilism^
marked shortly, "You'll d < Ur take^ a
track at a few second r:.ters." Joi n
fluked. "Sure -you mu t always win.
Don't forget that, J ohm (-ict th'^ia'-it
of always winnm* ? always. Ii '<;C
pr of success. ? .
And tli-.li .lului i> ?li>h< -i <?.t a
dozen "set ups," third and second ra'e
bovs dispifced of w ith stio thug r.'piui >
anil willi cold calculating j nci>i n.
Almost <ner nigli^.the name of ligl.t- ,
;ng 1J recti, the welter weight, I c*ar.'.e ,
known on the Bowery from thallium
Square to Cooper I nk>n. 1 he (irogan |
Gang claimed him as one >f their 1
ii'.al members and b.-asted of his rc- ,
nov/n. Fighting Brccn was on the rwj !
t<> championship honors and rewards.
And at most of these tVhts sitting
near the ringside, alone or with Jnd ;e
Kelly, was the well-known sporting
man. (jilhfrt V 'an Horn. !le always bet
heavily on Fighting Brecn.
"Mo," Mal'he was positive, "tint
hoy's under my aire. Never mind about
rnectuj' him, now. He'll be a ihanvbi n,
then y< ?u can all meet him. The kid's
too yoting ? don't give lam bunt ideas.
You sports spoil too many good
fighters." t
Strangely, it was Marvin Kelly who
wanted to talk with John Breen. (I-'l-j
bert merely looked < n. He had b tight
a Panhard, and on days following the
fights roared through the countryside
in clouds of white- dust, tearing up the
waterjpltcked macadam. People t'.oirdit
he w as crazy in his goggles and mask.
He hardly knew whether he was or not. ,
At Dobbs Ferry he upset a farmer's
jtruck cart, trie horses were really a^
fault, and the Morning Advertiser tar
ried a long story of bis doings. It
seemed as if the Van Horns would al
ways be in the public eye.
? In the meantime, M alone, guarding
John with the care of a father, placed
his winnings in the Bowery Savings
Bank and John, at the time of the re
form wavci' engineered from the in
side, had saved over four hundred dol
lars and had also provided himself
with an elegant wardrobe. The lapse
in the fighting game pleased him for
he was beginning to hate the contests.
A feeling of hopeless unrest seized
him. He became moody, discontented,
pettish. M alone studied the boy and
wondered what poison was entering in
to him when they were engulfed in the
heat of the great municipal campaign
of 191)1.
Malone sensed something strange in
John, just what he attempted in vaiti
to discover. But the bt>y, noting a byr
room loafer silting at one of the tallies
thumbing a newspaper, knew that he
was looking at a superior being. The
bum's clothes might be foul : he might
?be filthy inside and out, but ho pos
sessed a key, the great key to all ;' he
could read. John had grasped a word
rr two in casual ct ntact with letters.
He knew that R Y K spelled rye whis
key and that B E F. R spelled beer,
hut the label Pilsener Genossenscliofis
Uraucrei was utter mystery. He did
know that there were such things as
letters and an alphabet. But he knew of
no way in which he could go about the
task of acquiring the art of reading, or .
of what he might find out should the
weight .champion, etc., etc., h?s
U-vr- roaming over the figure of his
j irirntl in f.ghting p-se. Tears welled
tint., his cvrs ; the picture blurred; the
'r.d tir.p.ed ?h<it was not so crimson as
|l,o. Ili's bludi of shame, and h # u
huti.c l o e.\. looking straight
halted tl.c trainer in his rccital.
"Pug, I can't r:ad a damin word 1"
he said.
"Can't read! Can't read the Ca:ette f"
M.done aim. .st dropped a bottle of
sclt/er lie was about to squirt into a
highball, a customer having appeard
Ihciore the bar at that agitating mo
jmcit. "Well. I'll be damned!" and
; Tug shot the water with such force it
j splashed the bar, drowning out the
I Scotch. "Here, t .kjc some more," and
! rug passed tl.e buttle back to the cus
| tui.ur who spiked the drink liberally,
i \\ -ndering what the excitement was all
j about.
\\ Ik:i Malt ne recovered the whisky
bottle lie tu'ifd to the boy. Tears glis
tened i.\ John's eyes and stained his
cheek where he bad roughly flashed a
sleeve across his face. A great lump
rose in the throat of the trainer. He
I went to the end of the bar, poured out
a large drink of cold black coffee and
tossed it off. When the customer left
he returned to John
"Why. in the name of hell didn't you
tell me this before?"
"Too busy, Pug." the boy explained
haltingly. "I wanted to make good at
the scrapping. I ain't had no chance. I
figured 1 was too old. So what's the
use?" John's voice held a note of hope
less maturity. Time, the master, had
passed him by. On leaving the bar Pug
and John walked into the gym and
donned gloves for their usual fast
round before supper. Malone, scoring a
bard left to the nose, drew blood.
"There, son, you see you got to go to
school now." He carefully wiped the
red smear from his glove with a towel,
while John laughingly held his bleed
ing nose, "t's night school for you.
Might school with them kykes an' Pol
acks. You start tomorrow, kid, at the
beginnin'," Pug was positive. "I'll bet
you'll be readin' the I'ottce Gazette in
a month,' he added hopefully.
? ? *
John Rreen knew no more where he
was heading than did the first voyagers
who sailed their crazy caravels across
the waters of a virgin world. He
plowed ahead With an energy sustained
by his magnificent vitality. In six
months' time lie had burst his prison
bars. In his feverish research he ran
beyond the limits of the school. In a
year he carried on his quest to science
and tdiilosophy. The day John Flrcen
first Mumble l into a sccond-hand bo >k
store he became aware of a vast mine
of incalculable wealth.
John trembled as he walked off with
his treasures, and then r-pent the night
searching the pages, wringing trom
them the ecstasy that went into their
making. ,
Continued Next Week
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER
DEED OF TRIST
Hy virtue of the authority con-1
tnined in a deed of trust execute!
by 51. Buchanan and wife Belle
Buchanan to A. M. Krye, Trustee,
saitl deed of trust l?ein?? made to
secure llii' payment of certain in
debtedness and default having been
made in the payment of said in
debtedness and the said Trustee hav
ing been requested to sell the lands
described i.n said deed of trust;
N'ow .therefore the undersigned
trustee will offer lor sale to the
'nst and highest bidder for cash (re
serving the right to sell upon terms
of 25 per eent cash, balance on
terms) hetwee.ii the hours of 30 A.
M. aind 4 I'. M. on Saturday, Xov
einher 12th, at the Court House door
ill Xylvu, X. the following de
scribed lands, to wit :
1st Tract: one hundred fifteen
lots, being a subdivision known as
Sunset Park as shown by niap and
survey mafic by II. R. Queen, dated
May, 192(5, recorded in Hook 1 page
llti records of Jackson County, ex
cepting from said map lots nos. 19
20-21-22.
2ml Tract: Beginning at a stake
in X. bank of Highway Xo. 106 the
S. E. corner of <5. A. (liislcr's tract
runs X. 1 fleg. 25' East with Geis
ler's line to Dillard estate, fleisler's
? X. E. corner thence Eastwardlv with
Dillard s lines to S. C. Cogdills line
4
i hence with Cogdill's line to County
road, Cope Creek Road thence west
wardly with North side of said road
to the beginning -excepting and re
serving from the above boundary
lie lots previously sold to H. E. |
Juchanan and Parker Haskett.
This the 8th day of October, 1932
A. M. Frye, Trustee
By J. P. Randolph, Att'v.
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NOTICE OF SALE
<ORTH CAROLINA
. ACKSON COUNTY.
I will on the 29th day of October,
932, sell to the 'highest bidder at
lie Court House door in Sylva, ^
2 o'clock noon the old jail lot a I
Vebster, more particularly described
s' follows:
Beginning at a stake on the South
ide of Main Street of Webster, the
sorthwest corner of the Thomas lot
?.?id runs with said Thomas line S.
16'/^ E. 57 feet to a stake; thence
V. 43 E. 45 feet to a stake; thence
'. Jfilo E. 207 feet to a stake in the
J. W. Davis line; then with said
Davis line N. 43V2 E. 90 feet more
or less to J. W. Rhinehart's South
west corner; thence with said Rhine
hart's line N. 45 W. 264 feet to a
stake at Main Street, said Rhine
hart's corner; thence with the line
of Main Street S. 43 V2 125^> fcei
to the beginning, as surveyed by
Rogers Coward, County Surveyor,
September 27, 3932.
The Board reserves the right to
accopt or reject any and all bids.
This the 28th day of September!
1932.
Signed: X. 1). Davis, Chairman,
Jackson County Board of Education
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
Default having been made in the
vivment of the indebtedness therein
??cured, the undersigned trustee, will,
mder and by virtue of the power of
;ale continued in a certain deed of
rust, executed by .C T. Dean and
l ife. E. M. Dean, dated Sept. 4, 1920,
ml duly recorded in Book 100 at
?age 288, of the recoids of deeds of
rust, in the office of the registi r of
leeds of Jackson County, offer for
ale, and will sell, to the highest bid-,
lei*, for cash, to satisfy said indebt
?dness, interest, and cost of sale, sit
'he court liouse door in the town of
\vlva, North Carolina, at 12 o'clock,
noon, 011 Monday November 7, 1932,
?lie following real estate: )
Being lots 23, 24, 25, 20, 27, and 28
WEBSTER HIGH TO PRESENT
PLAT TOMORROW NIGHT
The play "That's One on Bill,"
will be given at Webster High'i
school tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
The admission will be fifteen and
twenty-five cents, the proceeds oi
which will go to the benefit of th?
school. The public is cordially invited
FOR SALE ? One pure blooded Pole
China boar, two years old. A fim
? fellow to put out on range with
four sows. Can be seen at Fair
iield, Inn, Sapphire.
J W. F. Lewis, Sapphire, N. C.
j in Block A, Oaklyn Hills subdivision
I as described in a map recorded in
j Map Book N'o.l, at page 100, in tin
public registry of Jackson County,
Xorth Carolina.
This September 5, 19.'?2.
D. G. Brvson, Trustee.
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