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The Harlem Hurricane Continued from Page 3 said for a while, and then he looked up at me suddenly. ‘‘You know,” he said, *‘I think you’re right. I’m gonna try, any way.” "That’s half the battle,” I ' (rinned. The Hurricane did try. He knew that Chuck Holt was very near the top of the ladder; knew that a victory over this whit? boy meant immediate recognition and prestige for himself. He knew, too, for I reminded him of it often enough, that there was a purse of two thou sand dollars for the winner. Half of that was his by rights if he won; Billy Allen offered to make it three-fourths if he scored a knockout "Fifteen hundred dollars!” he whistled to himself, and I could see that he was thinking of Martha and her promise to marry him when he had his first ten grand tucked safe ly in the bank. ‘That’s a lot of money,” he said. n s an yours, i grinned. uu ui there and take it.” And it was all his. For although the white boy put up one of the finest exhibitions of pugilistic skill and sheer grit I've ever witnessed that night in Madison Square Gar den, it was the Harlem Hurricane *who stepped in as the eighth round drew to a close and delivered a stunning right uppercut that start ed from the floor and rocked Chuck's long body back against the ropes, then follow- - with a steaming straight left which bashed Chucks face and sent blood spurt ing from his nose and mouth to the canvas. Holt made a desperate ^To^Lrdia^E^Piakh*m^s^8«i*ble^Coiiipound^J She Shouldn’t be tired No energy ...circles under her eves. If she would only try Lydii E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in tablet-form, she could be strong and happy again. Why worry about delayed periods from unnatural canaes. Get Quack Result* using FEMINESE— Laquad-TaNet Relief. Used by doctors. Moves cases loog overdue. Pleasant, safe, no interference any duties. Satisfaction guaranteed treatment $2.9$. Poat age if C.OD Specially Compounded for Very Qbiticah Cases kj OU Illustrated Folder Free wflk order. PETONE CO.# Dept ifl.p St. Louis ^«k effort to hoist himself up by the ropes, but his legs buckled under him and he went down as the gong ended the frame. His seconds worked over him frantically during the intermission, but when the bell sounded for the ninth, Chuck was too far spent to answer it. He tried to come out ■of his corner but stopped short, staggered, then drooped, face down | ward, tc the resined canvas. The Hurricane's constant pummelling in I the early rounds had had its ef fect, for the white boy was now definitely out. The referee called it a technical knockout, and a few' days later the Hurricane added fif teen thousand more to his little pile in the bank, which was fast approaching the half-way mark. * * * CHAPTER IV The Hurricane drew a few days of vacation after his splendid vic tory over Chuck Holt, and while he was resting and having a good time, Billy and I \.ere trying to figure c it what we should do with him next. It was Billy w’ho sug gested the idea that we finally adapted. "Let’s take him on a tour of the sticks,” he said. ‘Tt’ll give him the experience he needs and we ought to be able to rake in a few shekels for ourselves in the mean time. We can get bouts in Chicago and St. Louis, a return match with Chubby Cutler in Kansas City, and then we'll keep right on out to the coast. We can come back through New Orleans and the South if we want to.” ■'Swell idea.” I chimed in. “We ought to get quite a long record :ut of it for the Hurricane. It'll boost his stock around here, too. when we get back.” And so it was that two weeks later we left New York for Chi cago and points west. Billy had arranged everything in advance, the Hurricane being scheduled to fight in ten of the most important cities of the West anO South as we swung around the circuit. He had picked opponents that wouldn't be too hard on our boy, but who would be sure to draw big gates when they appeared. Yet there wasn't a set-up among the whole bunch of them. In Chicago the Hurricane defeat ed Youn_- Kid Wills after six rounds of hard slugging. Wills had been a runner-up in the Chicago Golden Gloves and although he wasn't as well known as some men Billy might have gotten, he had a fol lowing which was large and en thusiastic. His defeat at the hands of the Hurricane didn’t lower his prestige in his home town one bit, because it was quite evident from the start that the New York boy was bigger and huskier and more experienced than he. Prom Chicago we jumped to St. Louis, where the Hurricane battled Mickey Logue, another promising heavy, ten rounds to a draw de cision. The bout was fast and fu rious, but neither man seemed to gain the slightest advantage as it progressed. At the end of the tenth they were still on their feet, pum melling away almost as fast as they had been at the opening gong. The' point-score amounted to an abso lute tie, so there was nothing to do but to call the thing a stale mate. Chubby Cutler, the Kansas City behemoth, was vanquished In the return bout which was the next on our program. The Hurricane, hav ing fought him once before, was wise to most of his tricks, and to gether we had mapped out an air tight defense to meet them. Every thing clicked surprisingly well, and in the fourth frame Cutler went down and didn't get ud again. Prom Kansas City we continued our barnstorming t:ur west, finally landing in Los Angeles. In that city the Hurricane was matched against Whipper Burns, one of the; speediest black heavyweights on the| coast. The Whipper was, like Chubby Cutler, a behemoth. He had the biggest muscles in nis arms; and legs that I’ve ever seen on a man, and I’ve seen plenty of men. His face was heavy-set and pugna cious, and he reminded me of noth ing so much as a big gorilla. The two men battled in the ring six rounds without noticeable effect.| Then, in the seventh, the Whipper attempted to step out ahead. He slammed rights and lefts to the Hurricane's body and face in quick succession, pushing forward all the time and forcing the pace. The Hurricane retreated ragily, ducking and side-stepping the bigger man's blows. The crowd was going wild, rooting for its favorite, the Whipper ! And he was showing everything he had just at that moment. But I saw, as I watched from the Hurricane's corner, that the Whip per's speed was only a desperate spurt; that he realized tliat if he failed to down the Hurricane in that frame or the next, he would be too far gone in the eighth or ninth to accomplish anything of value. So when the Hurricane came back to his corner at the end of the sixth, I told him that the best! thing to do was to play a waiting game. "Keep out of this boy's way as much as you can," I whispered into his ear. "He's wearing himself out now. end there isn't a way in the world he can last another three rounds. Make him go the limit this frame, and then you'll have! him just about where you want him for the slaughter in the eighth." The advice proved sound. The! Hurricane let the Whipper set the pace in the eighth, and the Whip per, battling with desperation in his beady black eyes, set a mighty1 fast one. 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It started! at his heels, rippled up his leg and back muscles to his shoulders, and! down hi arm to his wrist It, land ed squarely on the big boy's solar plexus. With a gasp the Whippei crumpled up, then dropped heavily to the canvas. It was all over but1 the shouting. That night we celebrated. We went over to Hollyw:od and pri?d the lid off one of the most cele brated an dexclusive night clubs: there. And what a hand we got! from the crowd! The Hurricane's fame had traveled far ahead ol him. and he was one of the most popular fighters ever to don the gloves. The vhole crowd wanted to shake his hand one by one. and the autograph seekers started pes tering him ever before we could get seated. Before we left we had met many of Los Angeles's most prominent people, inluding not. a few movie pctors and actresses, and several directors, ^ut we hadn't actually been initiated into the mysteries r Hollywood. We got our first taste of that when the next mornings paper appeared. Billy Allen brought it in to me, and he was red ir the face and hopping mad. "Who put this out?” h? wanted to know. I looked at the paper. Emblazoned across the top of its theatrical page was a raring headline: “FIGHTER TO WED ACTRESS,” and then, in the first column, it continued: "Hurricane, Victorious Over Whippe Burns ’ ,st Night, Announces Engagement” “EDNA MASTERS TO BE BRIDE' “Edna Masters!” I cried. “Who is she, anyway?” "I'm not sure,” said Billy, “but 1 think she's one of that crowd we, met at the club last night. But J who let such a story as this out?! The Hurricane couldn’t have; ll don't think he knows Edna Mas-' ters any better than we do.” "It's got me stumped,” I ad mitted. The Hurricane engaged! What’s happened anyway? And what about Martha, wait ing for him back in Harlem? 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