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YANKS GET EN WITH Wil Papke Gets in the Game. CHAPTER Xx. I endowed Klaus with greater ability than that possessed by other middle- ‘eights, and as soon as the humilia- tion of my defeat bad worn from my heart and my aching body had re- covered somewhat [ again began looking for matches, believing that i still bad the chance to ascend Ligher in my profession. The gushing blood from my mouth had horrified Descamps, He was cer- tain that I must bo desperately ill ter such 2 happening, and he would not hear of my fighting after the Dieppe offair until October. I had jought Flaus in June. About this ume a oew reason for exuberance entered into the affair, for the judges of my bout with Klaus told me that nud not Descamps disqualified me by (aping into the ring I probably would fave been declared the winner on points, This I have doubted, for 1 believe Klaus was whipping me very badly and might have knocked me out 1 went to Descamps with the infor- mation, however, and asked him to get me a match with Billy Papke, styled the “Lllinots Thunderbolt," who ) was in France. ‘Surely, Francois,” I said, “Papke cagnot be a better man than Klaus, and it Was not Klaus who defeated me, but myself. 1 may have to take off weight again, but I shall do sovand with succes.” This and other arguments caused Descamps to rejent, and he did get me a fight with Papke, for which I received 32,000 Prancs. I was then eighteen years‘and five months old. We met at tte Cirque de Paris be- tore an audiance that numbered suf- ticlent to'swell the receipts to 110,000 franes. Starvation defeated me this time. 1 was even larger than when forced to reduce for Klaus, but Papke saw to it that I made the weight, for he introduced tho American custom of posting a forfeit to guarantee his ap- pearance at the middieweight limit. | too was asked to forfeit 6,000 francs if I failed to enter the ring at the agreed poundage. en at thac } was sorely tempted to lose the 5,000) franes und abandon the foolish en- deavor a pring myself down to the required figure. But to reassure Francois I steadfastly continued try- ing to make the weight. Lt was cruel Near the day of the bout I was stil ‘over tha weight, and rather than Coter the ring overweight I denied tuyself all food and water for nearly wo days and tien jus! did get within. i i ‘tention, Papke, perhaps without in’ wasn most pretentious individual 19 | ut out of it a more pleas- he ring, © ‘ome-loving | ‘ot, genticmanly and home chap never lived. He played sid | hi Galt tagtiy ond was dev to_his ard it said that Jack pastemaster at sarcas- ynment n in the ring, but at tor worst he could not have more tantalizing than Papke. » ha » infuriated early in 01 We Sid his scorn of me almost me to screams. I did not know in those days. If T nl ave been in @ worse ae jo know that he called king names and said all the while. His I have h Johnson was vunting thing' jane tnd the expression of his face Sauld have proved that with no as- ‘There was the utme s he looked upon me. J a “boob,” a “stiff,” a “stinp’ ind anything but Georges Carpentier, Petra him say, knowing that much English, that if “th French ‘id couldn't beat Klau t does he x to do with n ve taunt continued as he sat In ais corner drawing on his gloves. lie would make a remark about me o bis seconds and then turn toward ‘and grin mo adssmaddening, 1 felt my face z cd under such treatment. The coor surged into my eyes until T ie ved. I fidgeted in my chair, bit We fips. and was surly with Des. Manps, for whieh be chided me and ¥ erorted hot! , oo Ue unsportsmanlike of Papke. It was his method of fighting, nd a method which T have no doubt condoned in the United States, In Franee we would not thing of it and would not do at. Now I bt be worried. At that time I there would CHAPTER XXI. ADK sneered at me as the dell started the bout and Itke a madman I rashed at him, out- sll my force into a right upper- it caught him in the chest. ‘Dear me,” he said, “Trying to I do believe. And what a Then, as he smashed back said: “How's that?" Be. was nothing evft, for he out my ribs mprove my temper for thus, so I fought fast It did not riots. Papke, a master at in- while T was striving to get le | wag still in a rage. | Ir was only by a superlative effort | it | was able to conquer the de 1on thal was burning my heart out “with anger toward this offensive American. But Descamps dilated on prew But from the firat of this fight T| ove to meet Papke at the infight- % game, I kept in close and worked Hard with my arms at close quarters, | Tt wag another mad stroke, tor Papke | pletely outclansed ma at a game had bees practising « Ufetime and ° _ | Winning Streak | 'e | Of Giants Broken’ at the eighth victory. The Cubs used the wood. And no Giants abused the bone, CHALLENGER OF DEMPSE FOR WORLD'S TITLE “Comet Re Unted V te Sova, be mee Rerahaen pat. third inning, whe: down a thre -run lead by scoring two | ,,,At, Bmokly runs against the timely hitting vis-|hreokis” Bancroft, !t appears, was thinking, | At I had not even tried, Y lesson still wag not complete. denly shifted my course and beg I yet had something to learn of | boxing at long range, these American middieweights. | auncroft failed Himself a nosed 8 well af al was nonplussed by | Peet sco was no easy mark! {74 4 I can assure you that he was landing hard and often. used a fearful right rc seemed as though head from my neck, but still | knew I was gaining in points I was getting along very nicely. We fought at a furious pace. know I came near to knocking him out and I am more positive that he| out at did so. with times I could green with sickness brutal uppercuts str At the beginning almost in a faint taken a Turkish bath before going to the ring and had otherwise punished | first of the myself in trying to reduce my weight to the middleweight fore I was weak. f Vf Sr aa tae | Kelly drew a pass off Jim York, whom | | Evers had just sent in to ‘relieve | tered toward the plate, O'Farrell, the | Cub catcher, who was standing there| Clubs. nd felt that! with the ball and then he woke up, Bancroft went | Washington .. ‘ Hants lost what seomed an excellent | myself turning) opportunity to tie the score. fter one of his| the umpires seemed dazed, the bleachers were made £0 worrow- | of the twelfth] ful d| with a smashing hit to right fleld had driven in Nehf, Papke exerted him- | self to the utmost when he saw my knees sink taggered back to my cor-| ner to wait for the thirteenth, prac- tically a beaten man. “Georges, my son, I implore you to retire and save yourself from neea- less beating,” Descamps said to m “Please do not try for victory now. But I had promised Descamps when CHICAGO, May 20.—For the benefit of those who begin to think that their victorious, whirlwindlike march across the West was at an end, the Yank nothing would make me give up the combat and threatened that if he re-| his actions quit fighting forever. minded him of this when he protested my continuance. was sadness in his eyes, but I sald to myself: “Georges, you must not quit, even| though he kills you.” At the end of the sixteenth I could ecarcely find Descamps in my cor- I barely heard him as he whis- they beaten the day before. But whether that when the game was over the| Terent the Chicagoans 4 ot twenty-six bases, Peck got a triple | Reading at Jeney City. Papke was joyful, ‘Ag | double and triple; Baker, three singles Syra soon as I was able I walked across|@nd Roth a home run. Three pitchers Torvate at Buffale, re were consumed by the determined 4 the ring and shook L and ferocious Yanks. Mulrennen, the gratulating him on the victory. I believe there was in his mind only pity for the French youth who had dared suspect against the mighty Papke, could stand four innings, and was yanked out as| period the Yankee sluggers added| fave a consequence. Hodge, his successor,! four more hits to their collection. ably. His lip curled as he gazed } iting as was Kiaus, planged at} ng away at my mid-section, | The bell ended the round | losing one’s temper and| THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921, STANDING O. THE CLUBS By Isaac Shuman : NATIONAL LEAGUE. By Robert Boyd. OME wood and not a little BONE) Eiyhs W.t. 901 Clb, Web cost the Giants the second game| pitteburgh ...22 6 .788| Boston ......15 14 burgh Pt of the series yosterday with the weune 7 M4 Slee heen} Hd eH look. Th st an win atrenk ms c18 14 863 | Cmca 13 Cubs and broke their winning streak | S78" """15 12 ‘Soe|pnitagetphie GAMES’ YESTERDAY. 2 9 bots Field. Bancroft’s in the | S400 the Giants had cut | pougias Smith, Brook 000 | Batteries-Waiker and Dil | and tru 00-3 1 thinks c¢ the abili to! eineinnatl 9900010004 urate | Hoston 0010029025 wou and O'Neil, to inform himself j the third, after the two runs ha GAMES TO-DAY. bakes wore no longer filled Pittsburgh at Broekiyn. strength of the visitors, he twirled He was on third and when George | Clnoinoati at creditable bal, The same brand of | nonchalantly saun- | « PC.) Clube, - PO lother club. If in his hand, watched | Cleveland . 613 | Dotrott +83] pitched slightly better t | him, almost pop-eyed with wonder, | New York. 1593 St. Loul -48/ eran Adams, but the other eight n 1) until Dave got within ten feet of him, | Bosten 42|Chicave 43/on the Pittsburgh 614.833 ]Philadetshia.. € 19 .296| the Dodgers. the same instant and the GAMES YesTERDAY. |, George Gibson coaching | at ce aur, Kept, urging his ven | 5 thee vseseseeed 0017000016 i Tun,’ ree itoyt ‘aid. ‘Sohang; Mulreonaa, Hodge, almost forgot that Dave ry osocccereee-gia 4(zame of the series Pittsburgh ap- “ Ceo cote ees i fl parently appeared that inning, for the | “ Batierios-Perty and Perkins; Bagby and O° jants’ runs, not Detroit. vesaciieese : \Deet SIIEIINT 900200023 # oldrive one through the ton and Ainsmith, ; Washington sees OO LOC OOI-$ 8 2 their big score Wins for Yankees RL arena id) Gharrity: Burwell, "Boi: | had to struggle |p ' sccacabibeiaacl Jor 7 to 5. yesterday staged a comeback by de- INTERNATIONAT, LEAGUE, tempt to-day with feating the White Sox in the same} ctuts, +be PC.) Clubs, Ww. PO. 5 18 .600/Syracuse themselves were | Baltimore ae 0! Newark ..c.16 12 .371|Toronte aaa | tHE Box. Buttalo 6 12.871 | Rochester Abz | it was a matter of poctic Justict or| Jerney City...18 (2 .886|Reasing « 405 | Paseball out and out revenge, the fact remains GAMES YESTERDAY. h 5 Jersey City, 2. Yanks had 11 runs to their credit and Rochester, 6; Newark, 3. Syracuse, Baltimore, | quarters yest The Yanks fairly murdered the ball, Buffalo, 5; Reading, 4. |knocking out sixteen hits for a total GAMES TO-DAY. York, John McG Meusel a single, Baltimore at & Hbbets; — Philad: sr, at Rooheate pitcher who started the game for the| fared even worse and lasted exactly | ¥ club reported good progress was touched for eight hits in| one-third of an inning, during which puree ty AEE their —and she can go along / ¢A pleasure shared, and therefore doubled. 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