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"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!"
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