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CHAPTER I - JIMMY TORRANCE, JR.
The gymnasium was packed as Jimmy Torrance stepped into the ring for the final
event of the evening that was to decide the boxing championship of the
university. Drawing to a close were the nearly four years of his college career--
profitable years, Jimmy considered them, and certainly successful up to this
point. In the beginning of his senior year he had captained the varsity eleven, and
in the coming spring he would again sally forth upon the diamond as the star
initial sacker of collegedom.
His football triumphs were in the past, his continued baseball successes a
foregone conclusion--if he won to-night his cup of happiness, and an
unassailably dominant position among his fellows, would be assured, leaving
nothing more, in so far as Jimmy reasoned, to be desired from four years
attendance at one of America's oldest and most famous universities.
The youth who would dispute the right to championship honors with Jimmy was
a dark horse to the extent that he was a freshman, and, therefore, practically
unknown. He had worked hard, however, and given a good account of himself in
his preparations for the battle, and there were rumors, as there always are about
every campus, of marvelous exploits prior to his college days. It was even darkly
hinted that he was a professional pugilist. As a matter of fact, he was the best
exponent of the manly art of self-defense that Jimmy Torrance had ever faced,
and in addition thereto he outweighed the senior and outreached him.
The boxing contest, as the faculty members of the athletic committee preferred to
call it, was, from the tap of the gong, as pretty a two-fisted scrap as ever any
aggregation of low-browed fight fans witnessed. The details of this gory contest,
while interesting, have no particular bearing upon the development of this tale.
What interests us is the outcome, which occurred in the middle of a very bloody
fourth round, in which Jimmy Torrance scored a clean knock-out.
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