The Harlem Hurricane -- *——.. _ Jack Dempsey Barnstorming Runs Up Against the Har lem Hurricane and is K.O.’d in the Most Sensational Boxing Match of the Season. Hurricane is Getting “Good.” By EDWARD LAWSON WHAT HAS HAPPENED: Billy Allen sign* up Marty Bell, whom we nickname the Harlem Hurricane, as an addition to his stable of boxers, and turns him over to me for training I work with him a couple of months, and finally we get a fight for him with Wally Palmer, ace Harlem heavyweight. The Hurricane van quish the Wildcat In six rounds, and from that time on he makes steady pro gress toward the heavyweight title. His inspiration, as you might say. Is a giri . amed Martha Taylor, who Is rooting for him in a big way. She has promised to marry him as soon as he has ten thousand dollars in the bank, and he is out to win the ten grand. Aft er wiping up all the New York opposi tion. we deciae to make a tour of the West order to gain extra prestige and box-office value for the Hurricane, and tn his bouts throughout the country he Is unifor. v successful. Finally we land in Los Angeles, where after he defeats Whipper Burns, leading West coast contender for the crown, he Is reported engage-* to Edna Masters, one of the leading colored screen actresses. The report astounds Billy Allen and my self. and we cannot understand how It came about. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY: CHAPTER Vn I hunted up the Hurricane and stuck the paper before his eyes. “What »oes all this mean?” I asked him. “Since when are you plan ning to middle-aisle it with Edna Masters, huh?” “Edna Masters?” he repeated blankly. He looked at me bewil dered, then turned to read the headline. "Why,” he said, "I don’t even know Edna Masters, except that I met her and we danced a little at that night club last light. I’d 1-eard a lot about her, and I’d seen he in a picture or two, but that was all.” “Then there's nothing at all to the story?” "Not so far as I know of.” I breathed a little easier. “But still,” I said, "I don’t see how a thing like that co ild be started so soon, and get ground so fast. Where’c the yarn come from, in the first place?” "You can search me,” the Hur ricane declared. I turned to the telephone and called the theatri'al editor of the papier in which the rtory had ap peared. "Where’d you get that story aboi. Edna Masters and the Hurricane being engaged?” I asked him. ‘‘Miss M.stcrs’s pres" agent gave it to ii," he told n "What's wrong with it?” "In the first place,” I growled, “it isn’t true. The Hurricane only met Miss Masters last night, and only knows her as a casual acquaint ance. .’ 1 beside;, he happens to be engaged to somebody else. 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The report of the Hurricane’s rumored engagement, I found later had spread like wildfire across the country To deny it would only cause further glaring publicity, so Billy Allen and I decided to keep quiet. We made p’ans to leave Los Angeles and to head back for the East Coast. But meanwhile, Billy had a bril liant idea. Jack Dempsey, the great one himself, was in Reno. ! vada. at the time, trying to stage some sort of a comeback. He ap peared to be ready and willing to take on all contenders—for a price. Billy decided that a victory over Jack was just wh.it the Hurricane needed to be .ter his already ex cellent reputation. So on the way East, wc stopped off at Reno. Billy dropped m to see Jacks manager and asked for a flight. He painted the Hurricane in glowing colors and showed him the record our t ly had compiled In the ten months he had worked for us. "The Hurricane can lick Demp sey any day in the week,” Billy went on earnestly. "You come around at. look him over, give us the fight, and clean up any way you want to. But—give us the fight.” “Go out and get yourselves a reputation,” Jack’s manager growl ed at us. “How do you expect me to believe all that stuff you're handin’ out?” And for a week that was all we got out of the Manassa Mauler’s manager. Of course, we could un derstand his attitude, and didn’t blame him a bit for ‘he stand he had taken. Dempsey was on his way up the ladder again, and his opponents had to be hand-picked to avoid a calamity. One setback, espe cially at the hands of some un known, might even ruin his repu tation entirely. The great Jack couldn't afford to take any chances. We stayed around Reno two weeks, the Iluricane meanwhile go ing through his regular daily rou tine in a small gymnasium which Billy hired for the purpose, waiting for a more definite reply to our SWELLING REDUCED^ And Short Breathing relieved when caused by unnatural collection of water in abdomen, feet and legs, and when pres sure above ankles leaves a dent. Trial package FREE. COLLUM MEDICINE COMPANY Dept Ml, Atlanta, Ga. challenge. Then finally it came. We met the Mauler’s manager at the Gloved Hand Club, and made terms. “I guess you can have the scrap, if you’re so hot after i.,” Jack's manager said. “The Kid needs the money badly, and he's ready to fight anybody, almost. All he wants is an 8o-15 split of the gate, 85 to the winner and 15 to the loser, or a 70-30 break, win, lose, or draw.” “I see,” said Billy. “Well, do you think you'll take us up?” “I sure will!” Billy grinned. "Well take the 85-15, and we’ll let you pick your own referee. That O.K?” “O.K.,” replied the other. The two men hitched up their chairs and Billy drew up an agreement which the other read and signed. Two weeks later, the bout was on! CHAPTER VIII "Now. Big Bo>. here's your chance,” I told the hurricane as I supervised the wrapping of his hands before we went down to the ring. "This is worth ten grand to the winner easily, and I've got five thousand on a side bet—on you Clean up. and you can have a bank account big enough to get married and buy r. house .u the bargain. All you've got to d<. is to look out for his right and play for his wind. Don't bother with his face— you can't hurt it \:ith an axe. But make him bring the fight to you— tire him out. He's gettin’ old now, and can - take it like he used to.” ' I get you.” the Hurricane "runt ed. Billy Allen came hurrying in with the news that the last pre liminar- was over and that they were welting for us. We nnrehed down the aisle amid a slavo of applau.>e and climbed into the ring The shirt-sleeved referee made his announcement; the futile challenges of has-beens and would-bes were disposed of The preliminary had been good, and the crowds appetite was whetted. Dempsey was, of course, the favorite as far as betting was concerned, but th re were vague whisperings of big money being bet on the Hurricane. Dempsey w. s undoubtedly getting old. No one ever really believed that he was capable of a come back. Yet. pressed for mon •, he had tried, and up to now had been remarkably successful. While not still the great boxer he had been, he still had the old powerful right handed kick” that did deadl. exe cution. And here was this unknown, with hard! • any reputation, ready to furnish another stone upon, which th; Mauler might step in his path back to title heights. There was silence for Just an In stant as the two dressing-gowned j figures took their places after the! brief conference with the referee j The ring -.-as cleared and the two men threw off theL bathrobes and( sat calmly while the gloves were! being laced onto their hands. Then the referee called them to the cen ter again, inspected their gloves, and sent them back to their cor ners. Then the gong! A hu.-led touching of gloves in the cen' r of the ring, then Demp sey dropped to his crouching posi tion, h.s warthy face and cauli flower ear sunk low on one shoul der, his eyes squinted, half closed. The Hurricane was standing straight up, his left hand fully ex tended, his right drawn far back. He was, to all appearances, ‘‘wid? open.” "This guy’s easy,” I heard one of the reporters say. “Jack’s gonna take him for a merry ride.” Dempsey inched forward gently into hitting position. There was a lithe spring and his left lead flashed out. The Hurricane hard HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE reduced with simple home treatment Write Alertox Med. Co., Dept. 100. Atlanta, Ga„ fer free leaflet telling how thousands have relieved them selves of tine dangerous. Insidious condition. ly move l, yet the glove struck over his shoulder and his own coun tered heavily, but a bit too high, under Dempsey’s arm. “Boy! Did you see that?” one reporter was waking up now. "Some fast action! It might even turn into a f-ght.” The great Dempsey grunted. He lashed ut that right of his, and the heavy glove apparently crashed straight into th’ Hurricane's face. The crowd vel’ed, bui the ringsiders knew that when *’ blow had landed, the black head had been drawn back just enough to take the force out. And they guessed what the crowd didn't knov -that the lashing return had made Demp sey's head ring as it had not rung since Gene Tunney had him down for the long count in Chicago some years before. There were only two telling blows struck during that round. Both men were holding in, feeling each other out gently, almost timidly. But as the scrap warmed up in the second, both began to unleash some of their pent-up energy, and as round by round wei t by. the spec tators had plenty to keep them from being bored. Dempsey was, it must be admit ted. a mere shadow of his former self; yet he landed plenty of good hard punches. And he took plenty, too. For the Huricane was lamming into him with blows that really hurt, and Dempsey wa; Just a trifle too slew to escape their full force. Or ra.ner, the Hurricane was just a trifle too fast for him. The black head mo ed, shifted, then drew back. He watched carefully, saw a blow coming, and took his head out of the way bdfore it could land, sending back a sizzling uppercut, a jabbing counter (with his left, or a right across which made the Mauler grunt more than once. 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