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L‘‘A 30-MINUTE RIDE WILL WIN YOU”
SPORTS.
Big money at any time, I can tell you.
All my energies now were directed
on a ballyhoo of Kid Scaler. I wanted
to make him champion and I was de
lighted to find that old Bill Haughton,
the dean of the boxipg writers in San
Francisco, had taken a shine to both
Scaler and myself. He was our best
booster. I began to believe every
thing he said about my man.
I dropped into the Belvedere bar
one day and encountered Jimmy Cof
froth, then budding out as a pro
moter of bouts. I ranted on about Kid
Scaler and finally wound up by offer
ing to back Scaler for $5,000 of my
own money. I didn’t have a dime,
but I was betting $6,000 Just the same
and making Just as much noise about
it as John W. Gates would have done.
I was willing to have Scaler fight any
man in the world, Battling Nelson
preferred. We made Eddie Graney
the stakeholder, Graney getting my
personal check for the $5,000.
Nelson landed in town Just about
the time that my $5,000 check was
bouncing back in Graney’s face,
marked “No funds.” Nelson had
Graney’s word for it that there would
be a fight and when Willie Britt, man
aging his own brother Jimmy, Induced
Bat to back out of the Graney ne
gotiations, Bat was only too willing
to do so.
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