12 Sports Aces, January 1943 — page 107: what you’re looking at

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FIGHT FEVER draining out of his legs. They still func- tioned, but there was the difference of a second’s fraction in their speed. It was- n’t much, but Gaynor was fast himseif. They went out for the sixth round and Gaynor came after him hard. Danny tried to get out of the corner and Gaynor shift- ed and brought a right hand up to the chin. It hurt and Danny knew he could no longer move away. He came down on his heels and started punching. He cracked Gaynor’s jaw twice with every- thing he had. The challenger’s knees wavered but he stayed upright, He shook the fog out of. his eyes and came boring back in. Left and right. Danny dropped into a clinch, hang- ing on, waiting for the fuzziness to leave him. Gaynor backed away, hitting as he went. He wasn’t a clean fighter. The back of his glove raked across Danny’s mouth, his elbow dug into Danny’s side. Danny could see if coming, He pulled his head back from the punch and threw one last wallop. He felt it hit, but it was high and Gaynor took the blow and moved inside. His right hand came off his chest. The ropes hit Danny’s back. He slid down to the floor and automatically started to climb up. The referee had him by the arms. Hé said, “That's all, Danny. That’s all.” “I'm a champ,” Danny mumbled through smashed lips. “I lose like a champ.” He got on both pins again and gave Grid Gaynor a bloody, fighting grin. He waved one hand and snarled, bum.” AYNOR came in cold as ice, his nar- rowed eyes studying the staggering champion, Gaynor flipped out a left, It straightened Danny up. His hands began _ to drop and Gaynor fired the punch while the fans were shouting to the referee to stop. it. Danny went over on the canvas and halfway through the ropes, his. head hanging in a reporter’s lap, That was it, the end, and in an apartment across town Danny’s wife, Hllen, snapped. off the radio. “It’s all right, Danny,’’ she whis-. “C’mon, © 105 WANT TO BE THE KIND - OF A WOMAN MEN » AROUND? drawa mon Like @ iormen., picnecep kad = eee ot oe it’a lea to be her, Every little thing it all eo =e up a cast” cnet gts that eg 02 urself at- you ilke to acti that Mag’ — Se gici ta walks. A s a “enthusiastic pay coun jl Ni “You in a YOU can 8 se ts arIKE A A BEY pest rican TER Been “pak ss ry “A Gu To 7,10 ae Vatengin ine oad ripe bmpeon (fam: Deauty, fash pars s). This k cov Soon Pe ae the clothes, the ming, the clique Hg a’ the eative snind--w hich hice: = perso you that power tai fat or susts have an any other phyeieal. fat Pfaitthis boo book stalls EXACTL well— don't know what Ein about=if" Dot sure pn ll tt it boa you ou have fliers Tage eae a Pleats oo anumae OF ies fark cee in, FREE! When you order = “Better Than Beauty” Over 100 of Exeiting Facts on pagese-of wonderful HOW TO CHARM intormation WITH COLOR girla who wear white more rece D a of m £e° those who wear red? Di 7 know that colors haye for ages been ~. means n Pepe at oe glamour girls ‘ i shine eively under undersea enchanting power of = sty , at Sige can get the sciontific TA; fasts about Colors, ait whether blonde, brunette or run in you can learn TO ‘COLOR ABSOL FR SEND NO MONEY ge, under or a eke eataed as ged ‘ec sseicubtini’ ma bias “i wis tbe ledinsondpetactcamds Gomic JOOKS (E)