Argosy All-Story Weekly — page 145: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

By CHARLES FRANCIS COE The author of this popular series of fight stories, concerning the victories and vicissitudes of the illustrious ‘“‘ Socker Dooley,” writes from an intimate knowledge of the ring. He was welterweight champion of the United States Navy when that title could be won only by scientific and desperate effort. So here you have authentic narratives of the squared circle from a trained wordsmith and a clever gloveman com- bined. It is a delight to the discriminating. reader to encounter on the fiction page a professional boxer who acts and talks and thinks like a human being, differing from his brother men mainly in that his occupation is extra hazardous and his public ca- reer usually no longer than that of a President. Time/—-TuHeE EpitTor. OME things are unreasonable, some gredients, mixes them and doubtless has understandable and not a few inevit- her reward in the results. able. Fate is an alchemist. With Scientists may tell you that certain re- fingers which reach at will into the four sults are produced by psychological reac- corners of the globe she chooses her in- tions; that is merely an effort to offer ex- 775 Eomichbooks:co