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Bellefonte, Pa., May 8, 1914.
The Abysmal Brute
[Continued from page 6, Col. 2.1
guarded his mid section, and all the
time moving about, clumsily shoulder-
_ing or half falling forward against his
opponent and clogging his efforts, him-
self never striking nor threatening to
strike, the while rocking with the im-
pacts of the storming blows that beat
upon his various guards the devil's
own tattoo.
Those close at the ringside saw and
appreciated, but the rest of the au-
dience, fooled, arose to its feet and
roared its applause in the mistaken no-
tion that Pat, helpless, was receiving
a terrible beating.
With the end of the round the au-
dience. dumfounded, sank back into
its seats as Pat walked steadily to
his corner. It was not understandable.
He should have been beaten to a pulp.
and yet nothing had happened to him.
“Now, are you going to get him?”
Stubener queried anxiously.
“Inside ten seconds,” was Pat's con-
fident assertion. “Watch me.”
There was no trick about it. When
the gong struck and Pat bounded to
his feet he advertised it unmistakably
that for the first time in the fight he
was starting after his man. Not one
onlooker misunderstood.
The Flying Dutchman read the ad-
vertisement. too, and for the first time
in his career as they met in the center
of the ring visibly hesitated. For the
fraction of a second they faced each
other in position.
Then the Flying Dutchman leaped
forward upon his man, and Pat, with
a timed right cross, dropped him cold
as he leaped.
It was after this battle that Pat
Glendon started on his upward rush to
fame. The sports and the sporting
writers took him up. For the first
time the Flying Dutchman had been
knocked out.
His conqueror had proved a wizard
of defense. His previous victories had
not been flukes. He had a kick in
both his hands. Giant that he was, he
would go far.
The time was already past, the writ-
ers asserted, for him to waste himself
on the third raters and chopping
blocks. Where were Ben Menzies,
Rege Rede. Bill Tarwater and Ernest
Lawson?
It was time for them to meet this
young cub that had suddenly shown
himself a fighter of quality. Where
was his manager anyway, that he was
not issuing the challenges?
And then fame came in a day, for
Stubener divulged the secret that his
man was none other than the son of
Pat Glendon, old Pat, the old time
‘ring hero, Young Pat Glendon, he
was promptly christened, and sports
and writers flocked about him to ad-
mire him and back him and write
him up.
Beginning with Ben Menzies and fin-
ishing with Bill Tarwater, he challeng-
ed, fought and knocked out the four
second raters. To do this he was com-
pelled to travel, the battles taking
place in Goldfield, Denver, Texas and
New York. To accomplish it required
months, for the bigger fights were not
easily arranged, and the men them-
selves demanded more time for train-
ing.
The second year saw him running to
cover and disposing of the half dozen
big fighters that clustered just beneath
the top of the heavyweight ladder.
On this top, firmly planted, stood
“Big”? Jim Hanford, the undefeated
world champion. Here on the top
rungs progress was slower, though
Stubener was indefatigable in issuing
challenges and in promoting sporting
opinion to force the man to fight.
Will King was disposed of in Eng-
land, and Glendon pursued Tom Har-
ms—
was never even interviewed save ir
Stubener’s presence.
Only once was Glendon approached.
It was just prior to his battle with
Henderson, and an offer of $100,000
was made to him to throw the fight.
It was made hurriedly. in swift
whispers. in a hotel corridor. and it
was fortunate for the man that Pat
controlled his temper and shouldered
past him without reply. He brought
the tale of it to Stubener, who said:
“It’s only con, Pat. They were try-
ing to josh you.” He noted the blue
eyes blaze. “And maybe worse than
that. If they could have got youn to
fall for it there might have been a big
sensation in the papers that would
have finished you. But I doubt it.
“Such things don’t happen any more.
It’s a myth, that's what it is, that has
come down from the middle history of
the ring. There has been rottenness
in the past. but no fighter or manager
of reputation would dare anything of
the sort today.
“Why. Pat. the men in the game are
as clean and straight as those in pro-
fessional baseball, than which there
is nothing cleaner or straighter.”
And ali the while he talked Stubener
knew in his heart that the forthcom-
ing fight with Henderson was not to
be shorter than twelve rounds—this
for the moving pictures—and not long-
er than the fourteenth round.
And he knew, furthermore, so big
were the stakes involved, that Hender-
son himself was pledged not to last be-
yond the fourteenth.
And Glendon, never approached
again, dismissed the matter from his
mind and went out to spend the after-
noon in taking color photographs. The
camera had become his latest hobby.
Loving pictures, vet unable to paint.
he had compromised by taking up pho-
tography. In his hand baggage was
one grip packed with books on the
subject. and he spent long hours in the
dark room, realizing for himself the
various processes.
Never had there been a great fighter |
who was as aloof from the fighting
world as he. Because he had little to |
say with those he encountered he was |
called sullen and unsocial, and out of
this a newspaper reputation took form |
that was not an exaggeration so much |
as it was an entire misconception. |
Boiled down. his character in print |
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was that of an ox muscled and dumb-
ly stupid brute, and one callow sport-
ing writer dubbed him the “abysmal
brute.”
The name stuck. The rest of the
fraternity hailed it with delight, and
thereafter Glendon’s name never ap-
peared in print unconnected with it.
Often, in a headline or under a photo-
graph. “The Abysmal Brute,” capital-
ized and without quotation marks, ap-
peared alone.
All the world knew who was this
brute. This made him draw into him-
self closer than ever, while it devel-
oped a bitter prejudice against news:
paper folk.
[Continued next week.]
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UT the purses grew larger and
larger. In place of $100, such
as hig first battles had earned
him, he was now receiving
from $20,000 to $30,000 a fight, as well
as equally large sums from the mov-
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