August 12, 2025 • 27 mins
Chronicles the exploits of a reformed thief turned detective, solving crimes with wit and charm.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hey, kid, here's the guy here to see it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Tell him busy bunch of his spie.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Ye're not too busy to see me, kid? Ah, that's
what's what you think? That's what I know.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Not punching that bag.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I don't want to talk to here. Get lost, will you?
And leave without talking to him?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Might caut you plenty? Kid?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I don't want me to go. What just about costing
me plenty?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I thought that would change your mind?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Kid?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Your Savini Friday night in the arena, right, yeah, that's
right now. You look good kid, look like you're in shape.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And never mind about me? What about you?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
What do you want me?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I'm just a nice, quiet guy that wants to make
you a present.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That's who I am. A present of ten thousand clans. Yeah,
what's the GIMMI nothing? Huh nothing, very tough.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
That is all you've got to do is let Savini
cop the duke Friday night?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Why do you want me to throw the fight? You're
out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I get out of here and stay out.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Good beat it, I got wiped.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It the working Wait kids, Wow, Pete, don't get right
hand happy with me. It just ain't right. The slugger
guy who offers you ten thousand bucks. I said, beat
it tonight. Yeah, yeah, you did, but maybe you didn't
understand what I.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Said before I heard you and you heard me. Sure, sure,
but I.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Still think you're going to let Savini win Friday night?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Huh huh?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
But you are if you don't do like I say
Sevini Friday Night.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I told you to take a power, mister, there.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Better be plenty doing better. Let to any drop your kid,
and you may get dropped by something a little more
permanent than a punch.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
And now meet Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to
those who make him an enemy, friend to those who
have no friends.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Sorry to have to drag up to my apartment, Mary,
but I have to get that report to Kingston the
mail right away.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Just what would Charlie Kings can do without you?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Blackie?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Go broke? You get someone else to run.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Oh there's the telephone, and I know why it's ringing two.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Somebody's in trouble.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Oh no, Mary, not every phone called me in trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Can you remember one thing?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Sure, the last time you called me? But maybe you're
right a back. Hello speaking Blackie, This is Larry Dawes,
who already does the fighter.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The sportswriters call me the kid.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh the kid. Yeah, you're fighting in the rear this Friday,
aren't you.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I'm supposed to, but something's come up.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
What do you mean, Blackie?
Speaker 8 (03:10):
This morning a guy offered me ten thousand dollars to.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Let Savini win Friday night.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
What did you tell him?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I told him to get lost?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And then he threatened me.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And look, I'm not afraid of a right to the job,
but I cannot.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Punch your bullet. What do I do?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Go to the police. I'm fast, but.
Speaker 9 (03:24):
That's asking for more trouble than I've already.
Speaker 10 (03:25):
Got, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No, you go to the police and leave the rest
to them and to me. But do you know this
guy's name?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
He said he'd contact me. Good after you've seen the
police and this guy gets in touch with you, arranged
to meet him in your room and from there on,
don't worry about anything but putting Savine down for the count.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Hear anything in the kid's room yet, Bernie, No, nothing yet.
Inspect your Friday. You sure the dictaphone is winking. Oh sure,
sure it's working all right, we tested it at a
hundred percent. Well we are your something soon. Then you
better give me a set of earphones too.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah here you are?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Oh all right? Yeah yeah yeah listen, kid.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Been doing some thinking?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Huh yeah, yeah I have. That's why I sent for you.
Speaker 11 (04:17):
Sit out?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Okay, you ready to listen to reason?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Maybe? Now what's the pitch, mister James? Last I gave
you the load.
Speaker 10 (04:28):
Down at the gym.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, well it was too much going on. I'd like
to get it straight.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
A school kid could figure what I want you to do. Kid,
Just take the first good smacks of any throws in
the arena Friday nights and don't get up.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
What's in it for me if I do?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I told you ten grand that's a lot of money
for a young guy.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, I know it is.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And now what's in it for me? If I don't
let some of anyone?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You're too smart to let that happen at your kid?
Maybe I'm too smart to hit the canvas for a
guy who hasn't even figured to land.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
A punch on me.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
A little kid, I told you to gym, and I'll
tell you again. If you like breathing, you better see that.
Selvini wins.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I've heard enough, bunny.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Let's go get him. You bet, inspector better have.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Your gun ready.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
This guy with the kid sounds as if you might
pack a round.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Here we go. Then I tell you I won't go
out half the kid.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Cops, stay where you are. I won't know you want right, Funny,
you don't have to expect the right nice kid.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
WHOA what a punch you got there?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Kid?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Do that to SELVENI come fighter, You'll be one punch fight. Thanks, officer,
I'll do it.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Savini is a fighter, not a fixer, and fighters I
like to mix with.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Did you post bond for Lars and Harry?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Yeah, mister Thompson just about a half hour.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Ago, and you ought to be here any minute.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
But I talked to him. He said he was going
to his hotel first and he'll be up to see
you soon.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
He's sore, he's uh. I suppose he thinks I'm happy.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
He didn't say how he figured you were feeling.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
There is no better be bait it.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
I want to talk to my alarm. I stick around
and the way you can hear him in case his trouble.
Come in, hella lisense. Oh now, love, take that sour
luck off your face. Things aren't as bad as all that.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Things not bad.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
The cops got me.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
What's more to have all the proof they need to
send us to jail.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Us, Larsen, you're having a little pronoun trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh no, I'm not who sent me to the kid?
You who told me to make mine off of you?
Who's running this whole show?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But who's gonna take the rap you? Oh no, I'm not.
Oh yes, you.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Are, Luck Glass and not be a fool. We just
moved into town. Nobody around knows anything about me or
any of the other boys.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
The only one to have a line on is you.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, but the cops have put the heat on me.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
They know I'm not working.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Alone to think you are so and keep on saying
so that's fine, it's great, And I go to jail.
You and arrest of the boys go get lost someplace,
get smart.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Well, then you won't get much for this two years,
maybe three. Keep your mouth shut about the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You'll be well paid.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Oh well, I'll say, Carrie, I don't believe in double
crossing anyone.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It isn't healthy.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Keep your mouth shut, loss and tell the police you're
an independent operator. To take the wrap, and when you
get out, you have a nice bank account.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
All right, Thompson, I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But what about the kid. He's the real cause of
all this trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I worry about the kid. We'll take care of him.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
We'll make a nice example of him, just in case
the other pugs in this town believe that honesty pays
more than we do.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Look, Lassen, you're on in my face once more, and
I'll have to raise your bill so high the United States,
it's treasure.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We can't post your bond.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Is there a law against being bored inspected charity board?
Speaker 9 (08:06):
I am, But if you're bored sitting in my office,
you're gonna turn the stone sitting in her cell up
the river. Look, lesson, I've got you, I've got the
goods on you, and I can put you away for years.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I'm gonna throw the book at you if you don't
talk what.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
You want me to talk about? The birds of the bees.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
You know what I want you to talk about. Who's
your boss? Who sent you to the kid? To fix
the kids of any five? How big is your organization.
Who's in it?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
How much does the answer pay?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Sixty four dollars?
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Look, you're gonna be put where you won't even hear
a radio for ten years unless you get smart and
tell me, tell me, tell me you're greening idiot?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Are you working for a syndicate? And who's the brains?
Why don't you give up charity?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I told you fifty times, if I told you once,
I'm a loan operator. It was my own idea to
go to the kid.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
The ten grand I offered him was to come out
of my own pocket.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Right, don't believe it. Here we go again, and.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
We're going again and again until you tell me the truth.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Dear Inspector Paraity, I cannot tell a lie.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I did it with my own little racket. Now will
you stop asking me questions? Will you stop lying to me?
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Oh all right, lassen, you win, But believe me, when
you come up for trial, you're lose.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Hell, kid, are you gonna treat Savini the way you've
been treating that punching bag?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I hope. So trouble is Savini can punch back everything.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
All right, No more trouble, No more trouble, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'm sure, glad I came to you.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I didn't do anything, kid, All I did was make
a suggestion with the police at it all the work.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Well, anyhow, you gave me the right steer when you
told me to go to the cops.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I was afraid to until you said it would be safe.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
A lot of people in trouble would get out of
trouble a lot sooner, a lot more easily, if they'd
go to the police with that problem.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah. Well, I show out of my jam with one punch.
I hear Larson's out on below.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And they're rushing his trial. Grand jury hears the case
against him today. If he is out, it won't be
along a swell. You come into the fight Friday night, Oh,
nothing will keep me.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Hey, what comes on? Nice work, pal?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
What's the idea you guys?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The idea is good, Kid.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We want Blackie to sleep while we take care of you.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Oh no, Blackie's out.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Good.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Not take this, jack handle.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Let's go to work on the kid.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And now back to Boston.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Blackie, a prize fighter known as the Kid, has offered
ten thousand dollars to throw his fight the coming Friday.
He not only refuses the bribe, but calls Blackie for help.
Blackie sends him to the police, who arrange a meeting
between the boxer and the gambler and catch the gambler
(10:59):
repeating the offer out on bail. The gambler goes to
his boss, who tells him to take the rap alone
and he'll be well paid.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Later.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
While Blackie visits the kid, Blackie is knocked out by
two mugs, who then attacked the boxer with a jackhandles.
As we returned to our story, inspect the paraday is
growing water in the unconscious Blacky space.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Throw some more water on.
Speaker 9 (11:22):
Him, Bunny, Come on, Blackie, wake up, Slap out of it, tower,
Come on, come on?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
What am I doing? Browning?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You needed a little water to bring you to?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Blackie?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
What were you hit with the ceiling?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Why? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
I oh, oh, Parnie, you're all right? Uh huh, I
think so. The ouch something new has been added.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
To my head now that buffle got down, Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Not as fast as I did. He was the kid.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
He just took him away in an ambulance and ambulance.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, he was badly beaten up. Blankie.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
They must have used a crow bar or something on it,
but he recover.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I hope I don't worry you with what happened here.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, I don't know. I was talking to the kid
when something hit me from behind and I went out.
But I have an idea what happened last Saturday. We
can pick up a dozen like glosson and still have
nothing until we get the guy who's in back of
this fixed ring.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Why do we do that?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
It's gonna be tough. M hm.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So my dud, I need to shave.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
I find time to worry about getting a shave.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'm not worrying only about a shave. Pal. You know
that barber shop in the Rostrum.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Building, Sure, I know why.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I understand that anybody who knows his way around that
shop can place a bet on anything he likes. I'm
going over there fairly. I'm going to that barber shop
to see if I can find out who's trimming the
suckers in this town.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Next, who's next? Shave of a lightly?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
No hot talk.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And no talk here, no talk in a hurry eh
here on the business.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Yeah, I'm gonna be here long. That depends depends on what.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The weather now, it depends on how the action is
they keep that soup out of my mouth.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Oh oh, oh, shorty shorry, you got a nice curly bed. Hey,
you were looking for a little action that might be?
What do you mean you might be?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well, I'd like to place a few on that fight
Friday night.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
The fight that they read. Yeah, the kid ain't fighting,
you know?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yes, I heard.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, look I caught somebody over.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
If you like headline?
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Okay, hey addie addie, Yeah, if Ally here wants to
talk to you, yeah, what's.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
He what to talk to me about?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Get tell you, I'd like to place a few on
that fight Friday night. If you mean it?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Oh, now, what'd you make?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Sorry?
Speaker 7 (14:18):
I don't know you.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
You could be the law? Oh to why I look
like a copt trouble with plain closed coups? Is they
never look like playing closed caps? But don'tkay, you wink
the law. So if you ain't the law, now who
are you?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Just a guy looking for little action on the fight
Friday night?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Who do you like?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Johnson by a knockout? I got fifteen grand and I'll
take the odds two to one.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
So I mean he's a favorite, and you like Johnson
fifteen grand? With him? Now you must know something or
absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
What do you have to be in this town of
genius to make a bet?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
And he's getting shaved.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'll let you know. Good enough, you're going I write
your letter?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
All you got it?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
There was be here when I get back, Bud good enough?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Hey boy, seen grand through the one? Come on, come on,
Thompson's mister Thompson is Harry. Wow, I got a guy
(15:31):
likes Johnson to fight Friday like some fifteen grand worth.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I take it. Who's the guy?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I don't know him? Only he ain't the law?
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Okay, if you're sure, I am ready to fifteen good
enough for us?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Uh, we've got about all we can carry on, Savina,
and now ain't we followed it up?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
The ears?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Make that bet?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
No more action, Harry, and uh come back here.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
When you throw? Sure?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
But but what's up?
Speaker 8 (16:00):
I want to get Peyton. Then you and I and
him are gonna pay a call on Johnson. We're gonna
take our little insurance on I'm not winning Friday night.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
There he is, boy, I said, kid with a doc
front sid Johnson.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Uh, you know I look bad against inspiring Pardoner.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The guy who's bet you Tuck did know something? He bus?
Maybe what's his name again the fellow from the barber.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Show, Edmonds Jackets never heard him.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Well, there's just another local yogle, and I want to
make sure I get Johnson over here.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Ye, hey, hey Johnson. I wanted to yell that I
could have done it myself. What's the difference for us?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
You wanted them over here?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
All right here? He comes?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, Well, what's on your mind?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Johnson? How old are you?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Well? Twenty four?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Why i'd you like to be twenty five?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You're too.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
He wants to give you a birthday present. He wants
to be sure you want to be around for that
first day.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
What is decided to be a voice down? Johnson? You
know what happened with a kid, don't you?
Speaker 8 (17:10):
You guys that's ride now. We got a lot of
dough riding on Savina Friday night. Johnson, you'll be a
good boy and see that you take one on the chain.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You're the fellas who took care of the kid.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
That's right, and we'll take care of you two both ways.
One way if you play ball with us and they
got the way. If you don't take a flop for Savina.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Well wait a minute, you guys, I always fight, honest.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
We know, we know, but what you want to be
honest or healthy will work over you like you were
hit with a steam roll.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Or if you don't do what we tell you.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Thank Kitten Johnson, the boss never kids.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Well Johnson, I'll.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Just keep those mugs away from me.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I don't want to get slugs some night when I
ate looking.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I don't want what happened to the kid to happen
to me.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
I got a wife, charl I wanted to know you
get five grand for your end for taking a Dave
Johnson and take it early in to fight on a
can of I'm a nervous type here.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, I hear.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You don't have to be nervous.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I'll take the dime. You see, I'm a little nervous myself.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
While we're waty for.
Speaker 11 (18:21):
The main events. Come again, why don't wanted to go
to the man who fike is Arena and bet Flinday
night for Chale audience for me?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Excuse me please, I'm sorry. Oh, here's my seat? Finally,
did I miss much? Missus? Thompson?
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Just the preliminaries and send me wine. How do you
know my name is Thompson? I don't know you you
will before the main bats finished.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Take my word for that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
My name's Edmunds.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You have the second that bet On Johnson.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's right, only maybe I wasn't such a sucking Ah.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I wanna press that beat, letter.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm happy to wait things on. Hey, the main event
is gonna be broadcast as John Dunpy the announcer.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Hi, don Hi, Blackie. You've got pretty good seat there
right in back of me.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Then you always do see if it'scrip done, okay, making
good so the kids at home can really know what's
going on. I'll do my bead that you do as
you do your tops of my book. Done.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Thanks, I'll see you letter, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Right Lackey. That's right, Thompson.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I just use the name of Edmonds when I make
bets with Sucker Bookmakers Boston. Blackie, that's right too. And
that's about the last time tonight. You're gonna be right Thompson.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
And now he richly the pride of a website him
me the world way and wearing worry la run in
(20:10):
this up. Mah, shove his off.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I'm way struck.
Speaker 11 (20:23):
Now.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
The referee is calling the two men in the center
of the ring for instructions.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
This is it ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 12 (20:28):
The main event between Savini and young Philly Johnson not
secured early in the week for the injured kid.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Jobs hens the vanleam before the fight start.
Speaker 12 (20:36):
I want you fam to know that the kid's injuries
were not as serious as first imagine, and he'll be
out of the hospital in a week.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, the two fighters are back in the corners waiting and.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
There's the bell for round one.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Out of the corner.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
He's trying to end in the hurry the jab, Johnson said,
with a heart left.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Johnson's backing away.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Savini throws a ripping right.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Johnseph takes the right on the head and now Johnson
leaves for the light left hand, but it's short. I'm
Savini turns up selling right to the boddy. The challenger
is staggered, he's hurt. Johnson is in trouble. A boy's
joy very good, lucky. I don't know why you say that.
Back in the center of the ring, Johnson is heard,
but he's holding on gamely.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Savenia is moving into the cow, but he's getting careless.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
His guard is down. It goes us right in the
round house. Hey wait, Johnson sets into the punch with
the right croud. She follows on the left on the jaw.
Speaker 11 (21:22):
And now another left to the pet of the cell, and.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
There goes the right, the modern harbin of the one two.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
The one one two.
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Saveni is down on one made this gy and day.
He's taking the count. I'll pick it up for you.
Four five, six, seven, eight nine.
Speaker 13 (21:39):
Savania is up.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Johnson rush about and he.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Hooked the right of the body, and now a left
of the head and another right to the jaw or
left to the stomach. Savani is starting to fold. There
comes the crusher and the crowd knows that a right
to the chin and servia is down.
Speaker 12 (21:54):
Talk up.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
There's the cows.
Speaker 10 (21:57):
But you can forget all about it, though, that is
if it can me above all the stores expect seven
hey time.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Over jos on wire knockout, very tough across at that.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
Jackson.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I'll take care of him.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But God, where are you going?
Speaker 13 (22:15):
Johnson?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'll take care of that.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And they look around to Thompson. Why where see the
man on the other side of you? Inspect the paradies man?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So what you got nothing?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I made nothing but this transcript of the threat that
you made to Johnson when he was printing for this
fight you finished, Timson, No.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I'll get over the store, sweet.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
I wouldn't do that afire with you.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Those guys in back of us haven't moved or haven't
you noticed they're parodies man too?
Speaker 13 (22:37):
What do you think that fighter you bet I got
knocked out? Wait till you find what happens to you, lacky?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Yes, Mary, I've just been reading the papers here were
Inspector Faraday's man broke up that bedding ring that's been
trying to fix fights, not.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Only fights, man, That game came to time with the
idea of fixing every kind of sporting event. But mister
Thompson and his entire organization are now definitely out of business.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
And it's a good thing too. So you know, maybe
the fallers was people Blackie. Maybe if they wouldn't gamble,
there wouldn't be room for people like the Thompsons.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Or doesn't people marry? It's the gamblers who try to
fix you up.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
It is to the people.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
They're the ones that are fall because they bet. People
shouldn't bet, people shouldn't ever bet.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Well, sometimes, Mary, there.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Is no excuse for people betting on anything.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Ever, I think you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You do, yes, I do.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Well, I'll just bet you a new hat. I'm not
What did you say, Mary, I said, I'll just bet.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Oh, I see what you mean.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Well, well, at.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Least the Thompson betting ring is busted up, and I
think for good too this time.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yes, it is you, see Mary. When I placed that
fifteen thousand dollars bet, Thompson began to worry a little,
which is why Faraday and I wanted him to do well.
He wanted to be sure the money he had on
Savine he was protected, and he tried to get to Johnson,
which is also what we wanted him to do. In fact,
Faraday had men and dictaphone taking down everything Thompson and
(24:10):
his two stooges said when they tried to intimidate Johnson, and.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Then there was nothing to it but just to pick
up mister Thompson at the fight. When he told you
he was going to get.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Johnson, Well, there was a little more to it than that.
Faraday worked on Thompson's two boys, Harry and Pete, and
got them to indict the boss, even though that wasn't
really necessary. The recorded conversation between Thompson and Johnson was
enough well Blackie.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Then I guess you could say that Thompson tried to
fix the fight but wound up fixing his own wagon.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Married,
Hey, kid, here's the guy here to see it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Tell him busy bunch of his spie.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Ye're not too busy to see me, kid? Ah, that's
what's what you think? That's what I know.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Not punching that bag.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I don't want to talk to here. Get lost, will you?
And leave without talking to him?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Might caut you plenty? Kid?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I don't want me to go. What just about costing
me plenty?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I thought that would change your mind?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Kid?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Your Savini Friday night in the arena, right, yeah, that's
right now. You look good kid, look like you're in shape.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And never mind about me? What about you?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
What do you want me?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I'm just a nice, quiet guy that wants to make
you a present.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That's who I am. A present of ten thousand clans. Yeah,
what's the GIMMI nothing? Huh nothing, very tough.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
That is all you've got to do is let Savini
cop the duke Friday night?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Why do you want me to throw the fight? You're
out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I get out of here and stay out.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Good beat it, I got wiped.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It the working Wait kids, Wow, Pete, don't get right
hand happy with me. It just ain't right. The slugger
guy who offers you ten thousand bucks. I said, beat
it tonight. Yeah, yeah, you did, but maybe you didn't
understand what I.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Said before I heard you and you heard me. Sure, sure,
but I.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Still think you're going to let Savini win Friday night?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Are you crazy?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Huh huh?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
But you are if you don't do like I say
Sevini Friday Night.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I told you to take a power, mister, there.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Better be plenty doing better. Let to any drop your kid,
and you may get dropped by something a little more
permanent than a punch.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
And now meet Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to
those who make him an enemy, friend to those who
have no friends.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Sorry to have to drag up to my apartment, Mary,
but I have to get that report to Kingston the
mail right away.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Just what would Charlie Kings can do without you?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Blackie?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Go broke? You get someone else to run.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Oh there's the telephone, and I know why it's ringing two.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Somebody's in trouble.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Oh no, Mary, not every phone called me in trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Can you remember one thing?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Sure, the last time you called me? But maybe you're
right a back. Hello speaking Blackie, This is Larry Dawes,
who already does the fighter.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The sportswriters call me the kid.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh the kid. Yeah, you're fighting in the rear this Friday,
aren't you.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I'm supposed to, but something's come up.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
What do you mean, Blackie?
Speaker 8 (03:10):
This morning a guy offered me ten thousand dollars to.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Let Savini win Friday night.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
What did you tell him?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I told him to get lost?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And then he threatened me.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And look, I'm not afraid of a right to the job,
but I cannot.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Punch your bullet. What do I do?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Go to the police. I'm fast, but.
Speaker 9 (03:24):
That's asking for more trouble than I've already.
Speaker 10 (03:25):
Got, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No, you go to the police and leave the rest
to them and to me. But do you know this
guy's name?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
He said he'd contact me. Good after you've seen the
police and this guy gets in touch with you, arranged
to meet him in your room and from there on,
don't worry about anything but putting Savine down for the count.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Hear anything in the kid's room yet, Bernie, No, nothing yet.
Inspect your Friday. You sure the dictaphone is winking. Oh sure,
sure it's working all right, we tested it at a
hundred percent. Well we are your something soon. Then you
better give me a set of earphones too.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah here you are?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Oh all right? Yeah yeah yeah listen, kid.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Been doing some thinking?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Huh yeah, yeah I have. That's why I sent for you.
Speaker 11 (04:17):
Sit out?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Okay, you ready to listen to reason?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Maybe? Now what's the pitch, mister James? Last I gave
you the load.
Speaker 10 (04:28):
Down at the gym.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, well it was too much going on. I'd like
to get it straight.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
A school kid could figure what I want you to do. Kid,
Just take the first good smacks of any throws in
the arena Friday nights and don't get up.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
What's in it for me if I do?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I told you ten grand that's a lot of money
for a young guy.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, I know it is.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And now what's in it for me? If I don't
let some of anyone?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You're too smart to let that happen at your kid?
Maybe I'm too smart to hit the canvas for a
guy who hasn't even figured to land.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
A punch on me.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
A little kid, I told you to gym, and I'll
tell you again. If you like breathing, you better see that.
Selvini wins.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I've heard enough, bunny.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Let's go get him. You bet, inspector better have.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Your gun ready.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
This guy with the kid sounds as if you might
pack a round.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Here we go. Then I tell you I won't go
out half the kid.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Cops, stay where you are. I won't know you want right, Funny,
you don't have to expect the right nice kid.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
WHOA what a punch you got there?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Kid?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Do that to SELVENI come fighter, You'll be one punch fight. Thanks, officer,
I'll do it.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Savini is a fighter, not a fixer, and fighters I
like to mix with.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Did you post bond for Lars and Harry?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Yeah, mister Thompson just about a half hour.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Ago, and you ought to be here any minute.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
But I talked to him. He said he was going
to his hotel first and he'll be up to see
you soon.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
He's sore, he's uh. I suppose he thinks I'm happy.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
He didn't say how he figured you were feeling.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
There is no better be bait it.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
I want to talk to my alarm. I stick around
and the way you can hear him in case his trouble.
Come in, hella lisense. Oh now, love, take that sour
luck off your face. Things aren't as bad as all that.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Things not bad.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
The cops got me.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
What's more to have all the proof they need to
send us to jail.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Us, Larsen, you're having a little pronoun trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh no, I'm not who sent me to the kid?
You who told me to make mine off of you?
Who's running this whole show?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But who's gonna take the rap you? Oh no, I'm not.
Oh yes, you.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Are, Luck Glass and not be a fool. We just
moved into town. Nobody around knows anything about me or
any of the other boys.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
The only one to have a line on is you.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, but the cops have put the heat on me.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
They know I'm not working.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Alone to think you are so and keep on saying
so that's fine, it's great, And I go to jail.
You and arrest of the boys go get lost someplace,
get smart.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Well, then you won't get much for this two years,
maybe three. Keep your mouth shut about the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You'll be well paid.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Oh well, I'll say, Carrie, I don't believe in double
crossing anyone.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It isn't healthy.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Keep your mouth shut, loss and tell the police you're
an independent operator. To take the wrap, and when you
get out, you have a nice bank account.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
All right, Thompson, I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But what about the kid. He's the real cause of
all this trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I worry about the kid. We'll take care of him.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
We'll make a nice example of him, just in case
the other pugs in this town believe that honesty pays
more than we do.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Look, Lassen, you're on in my face once more, and
I'll have to raise your bill so high the United States,
it's treasure.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We can't post your bond.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Is there a law against being bored inspected charity board?
Speaker 9 (08:06):
I am, But if you're bored sitting in my office,
you're gonna turn the stone sitting in her cell up
the river. Look, lesson, I've got you, I've got the
goods on you, and I can put you away for years.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I'm gonna throw the book at you if you don't
talk what.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
You want me to talk about? The birds of the bees.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
You know what I want you to talk about. Who's
your boss? Who sent you to the kid? To fix
the kids of any five? How big is your organization.
Who's in it?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
How much does the answer pay?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Sixty four dollars?
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Look, you're gonna be put where you won't even hear
a radio for ten years unless you get smart and
tell me, tell me, tell me you're greening idiot?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Are you working for a syndicate? And who's the brains?
Why don't you give up charity?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I told you fifty times, if I told you once,
I'm a loan operator. It was my own idea to
go to the kid.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
The ten grand I offered him was to come out
of my own pocket.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Right, don't believe it. Here we go again, and.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
We're going again and again until you tell me the truth.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Dear Inspector Paraity, I cannot tell a lie.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I did it with my own little racket. Now will
you stop asking me questions? Will you stop lying to me?
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Oh all right, lassen, you win, But believe me, when
you come up for trial, you're lose.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Hell, kid, are you gonna treat Savini the way you've
been treating that punching bag?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I hope. So trouble is Savini can punch back everything.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
All right, No more trouble, No more trouble, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'm sure, glad I came to you.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I didn't do anything, kid, All I did was make
a suggestion with the police at it all the work.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Well, anyhow, you gave me the right steer when you
told me to go to the cops.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I was afraid to until you said it would be safe.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
A lot of people in trouble would get out of
trouble a lot sooner, a lot more easily, if they'd
go to the police with that problem.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah. Well, I show out of my jam with one punch.
I hear Larson's out on below.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And they're rushing his trial. Grand jury hears the case
against him today. If he is out, it won't be
along a swell. You come into the fight Friday night, Oh,
nothing will keep me.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Hey, what comes on? Nice work, pal?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
What's the idea you guys?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The idea is good, Kid.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We want Blackie to sleep while we take care of you.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Oh no, Blackie's out.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Good.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Not take this, jack handle.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Let's go to work on the kid.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And now back to Boston.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Blackie, a prize fighter known as the Kid, has offered
ten thousand dollars to throw his fight the coming Friday.
He not only refuses the bribe, but calls Blackie for help.
Blackie sends him to the police, who arrange a meeting
between the boxer and the gambler and catch the gambler
(10:59):
repeating the offer out on bail. The gambler goes to
his boss, who tells him to take the rap alone
and he'll be well paid.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Later.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
While Blackie visits the kid, Blackie is knocked out by
two mugs, who then attacked the boxer with a jackhandles.
As we returned to our story, inspect the paraday is
growing water in the unconscious Blacky space.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Throw some more water on.
Speaker 9 (11:22):
Him, Bunny, Come on, Blackie, wake up, Slap out of it, tower,
Come on, come on?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
What am I doing? Browning?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You needed a little water to bring you to?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Blackie?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
What were you hit with the ceiling?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Why? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
I oh, oh, Parnie, you're all right? Uh huh, I
think so. The ouch something new has been added.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
To my head now that buffle got down, Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Not as fast as I did. He was the kid.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
He just took him away in an ambulance and ambulance.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, he was badly beaten up. Blankie.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
They must have used a crow bar or something on it,
but he recover.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I hope I don't worry you with what happened here.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, I don't know. I was talking to the kid
when something hit me from behind and I went out.
But I have an idea what happened last Saturday. We
can pick up a dozen like glosson and still have
nothing until we get the guy who's in back of
this fixed ring.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Why do we do that?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
It's gonna be tough. M hm.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So my dud, I need to shave.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
I find time to worry about getting a shave.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'm not worrying only about a shave. Pal. You know
that barber shop in the Rostrum.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Building, Sure, I know why.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I understand that anybody who knows his way around that
shop can place a bet on anything he likes. I'm
going over there fairly. I'm going to that barber shop
to see if I can find out who's trimming the
suckers in this town.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Next, who's next? Shave of a lightly?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
No hot talk.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And no talk here, no talk in a hurry eh
here on the business.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Yeah, I'm gonna be here long. That depends depends on what.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The weather now, it depends on how the action is
they keep that soup out of my mouth.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Oh oh, oh, shorty shorry, you got a nice curly bed. Hey,
you were looking for a little action that might be?
What do you mean you might be?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well, I'd like to place a few on that fight
Friday night.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
The fight that they read. Yeah, the kid ain't fighting,
you know?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yes, I heard.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, look I caught somebody over.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
If you like headline?
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Okay, hey addie addie, Yeah, if Ally here wants to
talk to you, yeah, what's.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
He what to talk to me about?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Get tell you, I'd like to place a few on
that fight Friday night. If you mean it?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Oh, now, what'd you make?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Sorry?
Speaker 7 (14:18):
I don't know you.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
You could be the law? Oh to why I look
like a copt trouble with plain closed coups? Is they
never look like playing closed caps? But don'tkay, you wink
the law. So if you ain't the law, now who
are you?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Just a guy looking for little action on the fight
Friday night?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Who do you like?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Johnson by a knockout? I got fifteen grand and I'll
take the odds two to one.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
So I mean he's a favorite, and you like Johnson
fifteen grand? With him? Now you must know something or
absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
What do you have to be in this town of
genius to make a bet?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
And he's getting shaved.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'll let you know. Good enough, you're going I write
your letter?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
All you got it?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
There was be here when I get back, Bud good enough?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Hey boy, seen grand through the one? Come on, come on,
Thompson's mister Thompson is Harry. Wow, I got a guy
(15:31):
likes Johnson to fight Friday like some fifteen grand worth.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I take it. Who's the guy?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I don't know him? Only he ain't the law?
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Okay, if you're sure, I am ready to fifteen good
enough for us?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Uh, we've got about all we can carry on, Savina,
and now ain't we followed it up?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
The ears?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Make that bet?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
No more action, Harry, and uh come back here.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
When you throw? Sure?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
But but what's up?
Speaker 8 (16:00):
I want to get Peyton. Then you and I and
him are gonna pay a call on Johnson. We're gonna
take our little insurance on I'm not winning Friday night.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
There he is, boy, I said, kid with a doc
front sid Johnson.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Uh, you know I look bad against inspiring Pardoner.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The guy who's bet you Tuck did know something? He bus?
Maybe what's his name again the fellow from the barber.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Show, Edmonds Jackets never heard him.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Well, there's just another local yogle, and I want to
make sure I get Johnson over here.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Ye, hey, hey Johnson. I wanted to yell that I
could have done it myself. What's the difference for us?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
You wanted them over here?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
All right here? He comes?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, Well, what's on your mind?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Johnson? How old are you?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Well? Twenty four?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Why i'd you like to be twenty five?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You're too.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
He wants to give you a birthday present. He wants
to be sure you want to be around for that
first day.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
What is decided to be a voice down? Johnson? You
know what happened with a kid, don't you?
Speaker 8 (17:10):
You guys that's ride now. We got a lot of
dough riding on Savina Friday night. Johnson, you'll be a
good boy and see that you take one on the chain.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You're the fellas who took care of the kid.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
That's right, and we'll take care of you two both ways.
One way if you play ball with us and they
got the way. If you don't take a flop for Savina.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Well wait a minute, you guys, I always fight, honest.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
We know, we know, but what you want to be
honest or healthy will work over you like you were
hit with a steam roll.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Or if you don't do what we tell you.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Thank Kitten Johnson, the boss never kids.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Well Johnson, I'll.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Just keep those mugs away from me.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I don't want to get slugs some night when I
ate looking.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I don't want what happened to the kid to happen
to me.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
I got a wife, charl I wanted to know you
get five grand for your end for taking a Dave
Johnson and take it early in to fight on a
can of I'm a nervous type here.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, I hear.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You don't have to be nervous.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I'll take the dime. You see, I'm a little nervous myself.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
While we're waty for.
Speaker 11 (18:21):
The main events. Come again, why don't wanted to go
to the man who fike is Arena and bet Flinday
night for Chale audience for me?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Excuse me please, I'm sorry. Oh, here's my seat? Finally,
did I miss much? Missus? Thompson?
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Just the preliminaries and send me wine. How do you
know my name is Thompson? I don't know you you
will before the main bats finished.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Take my word for that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
My name's Edmunds.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You have the second that bet On Johnson.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's right, only maybe I wasn't such a sucking Ah.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I wanna press that beat, letter.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm happy to wait things on. Hey, the main event
is gonna be broadcast as John Dunpy the announcer.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Hi, don Hi, Blackie. You've got pretty good seat there
right in back of me.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Then you always do see if it'scrip done, okay, making
good so the kids at home can really know what's
going on. I'll do my bead that you do as
you do your tops of my book. Done.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Thanks, I'll see you letter, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Right Lackey. That's right, Thompson.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I just use the name of Edmonds when I make
bets with Sucker Bookmakers Boston. Blackie, that's right too. And
that's about the last time tonight. You're gonna be right Thompson.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
And now he richly the pride of a website him
me the world way and wearing worry la run in
(20:10):
this up. Mah, shove his off.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I'm way struck.
Speaker 11 (20:23):
Now.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
The referee is calling the two men in the center
of the ring for instructions.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
This is it ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 12 (20:28):
The main event between Savini and young Philly Johnson not
secured early in the week for the injured kid.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Jobs hens the vanleam before the fight start.
Speaker 12 (20:36):
I want you fam to know that the kid's injuries
were not as serious as first imagine, and he'll be
out of the hospital in a week.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, the two fighters are back in the corners waiting and.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
There's the bell for round one.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Out of the corner.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
He's trying to end in the hurry the jab, Johnson said,
with a heart left.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Johnson's backing away.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Savini throws a ripping right.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Johnseph takes the right on the head and now Johnson
leaves for the light left hand, but it's short. I'm
Savini turns up selling right to the boddy. The challenger
is staggered, he's hurt. Johnson is in trouble. A boy's
joy very good, lucky. I don't know why you say that.
Back in the center of the ring, Johnson is heard,
but he's holding on gamely.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Savenia is moving into the cow, but he's getting careless.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
His guard is down. It goes us right in the
round house. Hey wait, Johnson sets into the punch with
the right croud. She follows on the left on the jaw.
Speaker 11 (21:22):
And now another left to the pet of the cell, and.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
There goes the right, the modern harbin of the one two.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
The one one two.
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Saveni is down on one made this gy and day.
He's taking the count. I'll pick it up for you.
Four five, six, seven, eight nine.
Speaker 13 (21:39):
Savania is up.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Johnson rush about and he.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Hooked the right of the body, and now a left
of the head and another right to the jaw or
left to the stomach. Savani is starting to fold. There
comes the crusher and the crowd knows that a right
to the chin and servia is down.
Speaker 12 (21:54):
Talk up.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
There's the cows.
Speaker 10 (21:57):
But you can forget all about it, though, that is
if it can me above all the stores expect seven
hey time.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Over jos on wire knockout, very tough across at that.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
Jackson.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I'll take care of him.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But God, where are you going?
Speaker 13 (22:15):
Johnson?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'll take care of that.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And they look around to Thompson. Why where see the
man on the other side of you? Inspect the paradies man?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So what you got nothing?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I made nothing but this transcript of the threat that
you made to Johnson when he was printing for this
fight you finished, Timson, No.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I'll get over the store, sweet.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
I wouldn't do that afire with you.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Those guys in back of us haven't moved or haven't
you noticed they're parodies man too?
Speaker 13 (22:37):
What do you think that fighter you bet I got
knocked out? Wait till you find what happens to you, lacky?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Yes, Mary, I've just been reading the papers here were
Inspector Faraday's man broke up that bedding ring that's been
trying to fix fights, not.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Only fights, man, That game came to time with the
idea of fixing every kind of sporting event. But mister
Thompson and his entire organization are now definitely out of business.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
And it's a good thing too. So you know, maybe
the fallers was people Blackie. Maybe if they wouldn't gamble,
there wouldn't be room for people like the Thompsons.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Or doesn't people marry? It's the gamblers who try to
fix you up.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
It is to the people.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
They're the ones that are fall because they bet. People
shouldn't bet, people shouldn't ever bet.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Well, sometimes, Mary, there.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Is no excuse for people betting on anything.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Ever, I think you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You do, yes, I do.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Well, I'll just bet you a new hat. I'm not
What did you say, Mary, I said, I'll just bet.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Oh, I see what you mean.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Well, well, at.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Least the Thompson betting ring is busted up, and I
think for good too this time.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yes, it is you, see Mary. When I placed that
fifteen thousand dollars bet, Thompson began to worry a little,
which is why Faraday and I wanted him to do well.
He wanted to be sure the money he had on
Savine he was protected, and he tried to get to Johnson,
which is also what we wanted him to do. In fact,
Faraday had men and dictaphone taking down everything Thompson and
(24:10):
his two stooges said when they tried to intimidate Johnson, and.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Then there was nothing to it but just to pick
up mister Thompson at the fight. When he told you
he was going to get.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Johnson, Well, there was a little more to it than that.
Faraday worked on Thompson's two boys, Harry and Pete, and
got them to indict the boss, even though that wasn't
really necessary. The recorded conversation between Thompson and Johnson was
enough well Blackie.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Then I guess you could say that Thompson tried to
fix the fight but wound up fixing his own wagon.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Married,
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