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SALE BY -- Thompson Thompson & Buchanan wingham, • .Ontario ntishegZ Paints SIMPACE 14TISPACTION "t.1 nelneteee VV'iflrtORAM A ?VhNCR.TIMES, You', t. l o hat we,s dressed zute4,i wear--- Copyright, 1920, ny' Ooilier'a Weekly and G, P. Putnam Sons "Billluritnna's Progress" is a. picturization by Film Booking Offices of America, lnc.p (F. B. O.)..o1 ti. 0. Witwer's atorles oR the same name. SYNOPSIS up was no soothers either! Sitting %'arbara Baxter, a .federal deter' there on nmy stool under the glare rive wiho has caught ,lack Fairfax ung lights and gazing out at the ocean of bobbing faces through the haze of tobacco stroke over the copes, I become very thought., ful. I begin to wish I'd paid more attention to Butch, instead of merely getting shaved and mani- cured as '.training for this fight! bootlegging, influences Bill Grimm, rural tart -driver, to go #a New York to make his fortune. Pansy Pilkington, Pill's friend, also goes to make good on the stage. Bill and Fairfax are at odds, sad BiiZ, train- ing at Butch Ford'sgymnasium, knocks Fairfax's man out and signs to meet Knockout Keeley, Pansy refuses a loan of money,.frovi Balk X shook her hand warmly. "Listen!" I says, relieved and yet somehow upset. "If you ever go broke again while I got money and you don't put the bee on me,•. I'll—Pit sneak . in and put muci- lage in your beauty clayd" After I left Pansy I walked back to my hotel thinking how funny it was'"that .1 didn't seem to feel at ease with her any;. more like I used to. We used to be—well, like brother and sister, you might eay. rd' scold and advise ;her and I guess I kissed her a conple of times, but the same way you'd kiss your grandmother, if you know what I mean. But now there seemed to be, a change of some kind. She was all alone in New York, and in • the worid, for that matter, and there was the movie director "which: tried to make cher, and Jack Fairfax* whichclaimed he hated her, but I knew different!' Probably ethers too—Pansy was just a girl which men don't forget! Theday before I stepped into the ring with 'Knockout Keeley I Finally a roar from the back of the house signaled the arrival of Mr. Keeley and It continued, louder and louder, till he hopped lightly through the ropes and turned to clasp both hands and . wave 'em to the crowd. Then he strode over in a businesslike way and shook hands with me, but he looked at my feet instead of my face, and he said nothing at all. I watched him out of the corner of my eye when she turned away to rub his shoes briskly back and forth in the rosin box. Knockout Keeley was a little taller than me, but not much huskier -thee- exact`' weights being 192 even for me and ' 207% for Keeley. Posing together for newspaper photographers, listening to the in- troductions ntroductions of boys which chal- lenged the winner, ball players, actors and what not killed, by crucifixion, some more time. Thea Keeley and .his manager started e long wrangle about the weight and size of the bandages on my hands. In the end the swearing Butch rvaa ordered to change 'em by the ret eree. Just. why I don't know to this day, but I de know that all this fussing-, around took time, put. ting the big crowd on edge and pat- ting .me in a nervous frenzy. That. I learaed afterward, was just wharf I taw the punch veining, but t saw it too tate? run into Fairfax on Broadway. I Knockout Keeley's pilot plaug act it would have highthatted him, but would to! he stopped me. However, 'at last the ring was "Well, tomorrow night's the big cleared, we went to our corners night, eh?" he grins. and Butch snatched off my bath - "What d'ye want? I asked him, rope, whispering a lot of advice frigidly, in my ear which I didn't even hear Er—how's Pansy?" he inquires, over the din of the mob. I just with a leer. bad time to wish myself the best "How would you like a punch to of luck, when the bell rung. the nose?" I shot at him. 1'he usual deadly hush, thrilling "You better save it for Keeley!"''i� ;u•a4lenness, settled over the he says. "You'll need it. They're bet- crc,,, a like magic as we come to ting three to one he knocks you the m;dale of the ring. We'd kicking. I wish I could get sonic of ag.esd to forget about the regular that!" handshake and come out fighting "Will you lay me seventy-fivF and we circled cautiouslyaround to twenty-five T stop Kerley?" 1 each other, sparring lighty for a asked Fairfax, opening. "What will .I do with your twen- ty -live dollars when I win it?" he Knockout Keeley's footwork was sneers. a pleasure to watch, even though •"I'm talking about twenty-five 1 was a. bit prejudiced, being in hundred!" I says quietly. "How there with him like I was. Some- d'ye like those 'berries?" body bellowed, "C'mon, fight—lead "Put the 'money on the line and I'll cover it!" he laughs—"if you really have twenty-five hundred dollars." That last settled it! I knew T. was crazy to do this, as the fel- low " remarked after kicking the tiger in the ribs, but I was too mad to stop and think. Our bets went in the aafe of the hotel I lived at and my head was fall of the ten -thousand -dollar bank roll waiting for me when I slapped Knockout Keeley for a Japanese refuse container! Left Hook O'Brien outpolnted his man in the ten -round semi-final to the big fight and come back to amp dreesiag room . to .help handle me. It had been a furious scrap, and 'O'Brien's 'profile' was plenty shopworn. A lucky knockdown in the last frame was all that gore him the decision, and Batch wee Ccabt h g. Hut beyond some mixed boos, and cheers, Left• look O'Brien was paid little attention by the noisy mob when he climbed' in the ring atter.. ! me, carrying the water bucket and sponge. Butch herd and Shitty t Jones made up the rest of my ,retinue. I got a mild hand 'when 1 i came in and a big enc later when the announcer introduced me as "The Fighting Taxi Driver!" A lot of the cuetomere present had 'seen me trine Tim Tlerney, and in spite et my tneleperlence tied ltnocka*t Seeley's record, they looked. ton'. anything to happen' IWithout thinking to glance at the ticket numbers, I'd made the fearful erer Of giving Barbara and • Pettey abate right next to oath other at the ring side end when 1 leaned ever the ropes to Wave to 'em, both y'oufg women gee° me a cold nod in return. They prob- ably thought I'd ettsposely 'placed 'ein together to embarrass "oml There was a long wait before Itnockoitt iteeley pttt in a apneas-. tante—a wait which didn't do my nerves a paeidelei of good. The hevrling rettiarka et Keeley's ad- iriircts oil the subject of what 1io' l? eta,? »t sucl 03.0w to him, Keeley!" I thought I'd beat Keeley to it and I shot a stiff straight left at his scowling face. He drew his head back smartly and I missed him by a foot! Another well -meant left glanced off Keeley's protecting shoulder, and again the crowd give me the bird. My timing was away off, my judgement of distance horrible and Knockout Keeley's face relaxed in a grin as he prepared to do some leading himself. I Been him feint twice with his left and heard Butch yell hoarsely, "Donn fall for that,. Bill -look out for his right!" • Just a fraction. of a inch was all I turned my head toward Butch to nod dull I heard what -het said. Then—I saw the punch coming, but I saw' it too late! A. dull roar and a flaah of blinding light . I felt paralysed from. the waist down as I began a slow,. seething 'voyage up to the roof of the. 011001101'- 1w/we- hou... I remember wondsring how it would feel when any head hit the rafters , .. alto. • why there was two referees and three Kee toys in the ring. . I opened my eyes in my dressin meiin, surrounded by Butch Lett Hook O'Brian and Shifty Jete®. Shifty had the antiaonia bottle under my nose. and I punted him away, blinking unaertathty at their solemn faces. A goofy grin, which I couldn't seem to control, ana01e4 me greatly! "It'e about time we went in the ring, ain't it Butch?" x, asks, start- ing to get de. "Lay down!" Butch gruntg. "Yon been in the ring!" "But yott didn't, make no extend- ed stay there!" adds Shifty Tones. O'Brien starts to whistle kind et nervously. ?Yeah?" I says, a bit bewildered. "What—What round did 1 win in?". "Stop it!" snarls Butch, "Yon wouldn't listen. to nobody ---•you wouldn't train. Oh, no, you was too good! Well, Keeley knocked you deader than Adam with a punch!, Get your clothes on!" Me he Obntilantdl, T J3EST Ocean trees Respecting Exchange Rates CIN all matters of foreign ezchang. our arrangements for keeping' ,, touch with the world's exchange mar. kets assure you prompt service, Direct wire connections with the large enan, cial centres enable, us to quote the • closest possible rates. s WINGHAM BRANCH, A. M. 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