Deora ican Bellefonte, Pa., June 19, 1914. he | Oe Abysmal Brute By JACK LONDON LR Coyyright, 1913, by The Century Co. i [Concluded.] CHAPTER XII. HE audience broke loose. If had already seen more than it had paid to sce, for the great Jim Hanford. the world champion, had been knocked out It was unofficial, but it had bein wit a single punch. Never had there been such a nigh: in fistiana. Glendon looked ruaially at his damaged knuckles, casv a glance through the ropes to where Hanford was groggily coming to and held up his hands. He had clinched his right to be heard. and the audience grew still. “When 1 began to fight." he said. “they called me ‘One [Punch Glen don.’ You saw that punch a moment ago. | always had that punch. | went after my men and got them on the jump. though I was careful not to hit with all my might. “Then | was educated My mana- ger told me it wasn’t fair to the crowd. He advised me to make long fights so that the crowd could cet a run for its money. 1 was a fool, a mutt I was a green lad from the mountains. So help me God, I swal- {lowed it as the truth. “My manager used to talk over with me what round 1 would put my man out in. Then he tipped it off to the betting syndicate, and the betting syndicate went to it. Of ceurse you paid. “But I am glad for one thing. 1 never touched a cent of the money. {They didn't dare offer it to me be- cause they knew it would give the game away. “You remember my fight with Nat’ Powers. 1 never knocked him out. 1: had got suspicious. So the gang framed it up with him. I didn’t know. I intended to let him go a couple of | rounds over the sixteenth. That last’ punch in the sixteenth didn’t shake him. But he faked the knock out, just the same, and fooled all of you.” : “How about tonight?’ a voice.call- ed out. “Is it a frameup?” | “It is,” was Glendon’'s answer. “How’s the syndicate betting? That Cannam will last to the fourteenth.” Howls and hoots went up. For the last time Glendon held up his hand for silence. ; “I'm almost done now. to tell you one thing. gets landed tonight. This is to be a square fight. Tom Cannam won't last till the fourteenth round. He won't last the first round.” ! Cannam sprang to his feet in his coraer and cried out in a fury: You can't do it! The man don’t live who can get me in one round!” Glendon ignored him and went on. “Once now in my life I have struck with all my strength. You saw that a moment ago when I caught H..nford. “Tonight, for the second time, I am ! going to hit with all my strength— that is, if Cannam doesn't jump through the ropes right now and get away. And now I'm ready.” ! He went to his corner and held out his hands for his gloves. In the oppo- site corner Cannam raged while his seconds tried vainly to calm him. At last Billy Morgan managed to make the final announcement. “This will be a forty-five round con- test!” he shouted. “Marquis of Queens- bury rules! And may the hest man win! Let her go!” The gong struck. .'he two men ad- vanced. Glendon’s right hand was ex- tended for the customary shake, but Cannam, with an angry toss of the head, refused to take it. ; To the general surprise he did not | rush. Angry though he was, he fought carefully, his touched pride impelling him to bend every effort to last out tie round. Several times he struck, but he struck cautiously, never relaxing his defense. Glendon hunted him about the ring, ever advancing with the remorseless tap-tap of his left foot. Yet he struck no blows nor attempted to strike. He even dropped his hands to his sides But I want J The syndicate and hunted the other defenselessly in | an effort to draw him out. Cannam grinned defiantly, but de- clined to take advantage of the prof- | fered opening. Two minutes passed, and then a change came over Glendon. By every muscle, by every line of his face, he advertised that the moment had come for him to get his man. Acting it was, and it was well acted. He seemed to have become a thing of steel, as hard and pitiless as steel The effect was apparent on Cannam, who redoubled his caution. Glendon quickly worked him into a corner and herded and held him there. Still he struck no blow nor attempted to strike, and the suspense on Can- nam’s part grew painful. In vain he tried to work out of the while he could not summon corner, resolution to rush upon his opponent in an attempt to gain the respite of a clinch. Then it came—a swift series of sim- ple feints that were muscle flashes. Cannam was dazzled. So was the au- dience. No two of the onlookers could agree afterward as to what took place. Cannam ducked one feint and at the same time threw up his face guard to meet another feint for his jaw. He also attempted to change position with his legs. Ringside witnesses swore that they saw Glendon start the blow from his right hip and leap forward like a tiger to add the weight of his body to it. Be that as it may, the blow caught Cannam on the point of the chin at the moment of hig shift of position. And, like Hanford, he was .uncon- scious in the air before he struck the ropes and fell through on the heads of the reporters. Of what happened afterward that pight in the Golden Gate arena col- umns in the newspapers were unable adequately to describe. The police kept the ring clear. but they could not save the arena. It was not a riot; it was an orgy. Not a seat was left standing. All over the great hall by main strength, crowding and jostling to lay hands on the beams and boards. the crowd uprooted and overturned. Prizefighters sought protection of the police. But there were not enough police to escort them out. and fighters, managers and promoters were beaten and battered. 3 Jim Hanford alone was spared. His jaw. prodigiously swollen. earned him this mercy. Qutside, when finally driven from the building, the crowd fell upon a pew $7.000 motorcar belonging to a well known fight promoter and reduc- ed it to scrap iron and kindling wood. Glendon, unable to dress amid the wreckage of dressing rooms, gained his automobile, still in his ring cos- tume and wrapped in a bath robe. but failed to escape. By weight of numbers the crowd raught and held his machine. The po- lice were too busy to rescue him, and : in the end a compromise was effected : whereby the car was permitted to pro- : ceed at a walk, escorted by 5,000 cheering madmen. It was midnight when this storm | swept past Union square and down | upon the St. Francis. Cries for a| speech went up. and, though at the ho- | tel entrance, Glendon was good natur- edly restrained from escaping. He even tried leaping out upon the heads of the enthusiasts, but his feet never touched the pavement. On Ps us0 The Car Was Permitted to Proceed. heads and shoulders, clutched at and uplifted by every hand that could touch his body, he went back through the air to the machine. Then he gave his speech, and Maud Glendon, looking down from an upper window at her young Hercules tower- ing on the seat of the automobile, knew, as she always knew, that he meant it when he repeated that he had fought his last fight and retired from the ring forever. THE END. Regular Health Exercises. Men and women of sedentary habit as a rule do not take sufficient exer- cise, especially in the open, nor do they practice deep breathing, both of which have a direct effect upon the blood and its course through the body. Morning exercises should be taken reg- ularly, including deep breathing. They should also be repeated at noon hour and on going home and again on retir- ing. The Idealist. 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