"Up off the ground!" "High!" "Pass it high!" "Up off the ground!" "Pass it high!" "Take over for me." "I was looking for you." "I came out by the front." "well, you're pretty daring." "It's perfectly legal." "I Iooked it up." "A man's allowed to kiss any girl he's engaged to." "Hey, you're not gonna wear those pants?" "Not pants." "They're slacks." "Watch your language." "Look." "We got a pretty delicate deal here." "This game, it's more business, and I don't want anything to go fIooey." "They're pretty conservative people, these Bemingers, and...." "It's too late now." "Let's go." "No, no, wait." "Wait." "Go!" "Mister, the things I've done for this school." "This time it's worth it." "Beminger's good and ripe." "For what?" "Biggest donation I've gotten all year." "Hooray for our side." "Your side especially." "He's really serious about building us that new gym." "How fascinating." "AII we've got to do is the right thing, and say...." "At your service." "Number one, it's he and you against Mrs. Beminger and me." "Yes, sir." "I couId make it look pretty good and lose, but Mrs. Beminger's a whiz." "Do or die, that's me." "See that you win." "Yes, sir, do my best." "Let's not blow this." "Yeah, do my best." "Just watch me." "I'II tell you what to do, and then let's hope you can do it." "Thanks." "What?" "Nothing." "well, give us a kiss, honey." "I'm nervous as a cat." "Good afternoon." "How are you, Mrs. Beminger?" "Quite well, thank you." "Come on, Iet's go." "Eighteen holes is a Iot." "AII set." "Say, that's quite a swing you've got there, Mrs. B." "What do you say, Ma?" "I say...whoop!" "After you, dear." "Okay, Mr. B.?" "Yeah." "Go ahead." "Got a tee, coil?" "Yeah." "Now, don't let me down." "Let's see a good one." "Too bad." "You've got to tense the gluteal muscles, dear." "If you don't tense the gluteal muscles, why, your whole alignment is off." "You want me to get you a soap box?" "play your cards." "What?" "Tee off!" "Thank you, lady." "Thank you very much." "I wouldn't have known what to do, if you hadn't told me." "Thank you." "Tense the gluteal muscles, did you say?" "Yes." "That's right." "Tense." "I see what you mean." "Makes all the difference." ""Tense!" "Tense! "" "For heaven's sake, I know, don't I?" "Beauty." "Take your time, partner." "It's all up to you now." "Don't forget." "Quiet, do you mind?" "My dear, if you would lean your weight on your right foot the way I do...." "Consider the value of an endowment that has some permanent value." "What is the concrete thing that you can point to in the years to come with...." "So all I can say is every time you look up at that building you're in a position to point with pride and...." "You have to develop your reflexes." "Yes, you've got to Iearn to relax." "To give in." "We can settle this some other time." "Come here, boy." "split that up." "How about a nice, tall cool one?" "I'II take mine in the locker room." "I'II see you in the lounge." "The one thing he can't stand is to lose." "With him it's not the principle, it's the money." "You know, dear, where you go bad is your coordination." "There is your story: coordination." "This, and this, and this should all be parts of the same thing" "If you could lift the needle from that Iong-pIaying phonograph you keep in your face...." "Why, phonograph?" "Watch this." "will you excuse me?" "You know what you can do with your gluteal muscle?" "Give it away for Christmas." "Wait, wait here." "Wait a moment!" "Sit down, Mrs. Pemberton." "What'II you have to drink?" "plenty." "Lemonade?" "Why not?" "Right." "Strong." "plenty of lemon." "What do I care?" "AII right." "plenty of lemon." "And another thing." "Don't call me Mrs. Pemberton." "Pat, that's me." "Okay." "I'II call you Pat." "I want everybody to from now on." "Why?" "FriendIess." "That's how I feel." "I feel the whole world's against me and vice versa." "Did you ever feel that way, charlie?" "Every time I miss a shot." "There you are." "You've been golfing for quite a while." "Quite." "Then how come I never saw it?" "Saw what?" "You're great." "I must be." "A natural." "fairly seldom." "What's your handicap?" "My fella." "I mean, on the board." "Six." "You ought to be two." "I wish I were two." "You know what I'd Iike to do with you?" "Enter you in the Women's national." "No." "Listen, if I don't know a champ when I see one, what good am I?" "I haven't the time." "We'II coach hard the next 13 days." "We'II get out there, you qualify, you play, and you win." "No." "I can't play golf." "But what about out there?" "That was because I got mad." "Then we'II keep you mad." "No, I only play with CoIIier weld." "I can't do anything when he's watching me." "Give me Mrs. Beminger's money." "Do you mind, charlie?" "I thought you'd help me." "I tried." "To jam me up with my biggest donor?" "I didn't mean to." "AII I'm trying to do is understand." "How could you when I don't myself?" "You don't what?" "Anything." "Understand." "Why it is I faII to pieces whenever you give me that look." "What look?" "This look." "That's me?" "Sure." "Makes me feel you don't believe in me and never will." "You're just overwrought." "And you're just overpowering." "Now let's not squabble." "Okay." "I'II see if I can square things with the Bemingers." "Why try?" "Face it." "He's a power." "He's out there screaming about firing you." "He couldn't." "Why not?" "Because I've quit." "When?" "Right now." "No." "This is no place to talk now." "Okay, later." "Don't get frazzled, dear." "Don't get frazzled." "Everybody frazzIes everybody." "Then they turn around and tell 'em don't be." "What?" "That true, charlie?" "What's true?" "What you think I couId do?" "Scout's honor." "AII right then." "Great." "I'II show her." "Show who?" "Show myself, that's who." "That's right." "Because you know how to not get yourself frazzIed?" "Get unfrazzIed." "Nearly all of the 60 girls in this tournament have turned in their score cards." "But let me repeat only the 16 best will be eligible to compete for match play which begins tomorrow." "Your attention, please, we have another score." "Mrs. Patricia Pemberton has just qualified with a sparkling 77." "And that leaves only one contender still to be...." "Yes, here she comes now, the mighty Babe." "We'll have her score for you in just a second." "Here it is now." "Ladies and gentlemen, the top score of the day." "Mrs. Babe Didrikson Zaharias hasjust qualified with a sensational 73." "FeIIas, here's the run down:" "From left to right, beverly Hanson Babe Zaharias, helen DettweiIer, Betty Hicks, Mary Lorgan Harriet SaIter and Mrs. Patricia Pemberton." "Don't be scared, lady." "What is this anyway?" "Come over here and sit down." "Take it easy." "I never like to see an athlete wear himself out, or herself." "If this is a holdup or a robbery" "We didn't come here to be insulted." "Come on, tell her." "Identify ourselves." "You've been on your feet all day." "Why don't you sit down and take it easy?" "I'd Iike to introduce myself, Mike Conovan." "And my associate, Barney Grau." "pleasure." "Take a chair, Barney." "Thank you." "I have been watching you Iike eagle eye the Iast couple of days." "And I'm here to tell you, you are one beautiful thing to watch, in action." "I've been around this sport for a Iong time and I'm here to tell you, you are what I call no doubt fast." "Thank you." "Let me ask you a plain statement of fact." "You figure to win this?" "So does everybody." "Never mind everybody." "Let's concentrate on you for an instance." "Yes or no?" "Yes." "tell me, off the record, what's your pitch?" "I don't quite understand" "What is it with you?" "Is it business?" "pleasure?" "Get your picture in the paper?" "I'm afraid" "I'm comin' to that." "The way I think, honey, you're a cinch to win this." "You can't miss coppin' this thing in a walk without someone dismantling you." "I don't know." "You're not supposed to know, just play." "I'm supposed to know." "And I do." "tell me, how smart are you anyway?" "Very, in some things." "How's about money?" "What kind of a thing is that?" "Not very." "That's too bad." "That's too bad." "'Cause I've got a way for you to stash away a roll." "I'd Iike that." "You would?" "How would you Iike to come in second?" "I wouldn't!" "A square, Iike I figured." "That's too bad." "That's too bad." "Come in second, you'd do good in the money department." "Come in first, you get a cup too big to drink from." "You'd better leave." "Mention a number." "Think it over anyway." "Here, this is me." "In New York, strictly legitimate and weII-known." "I own and operate Davie Hucko." ""Davie Hucko," mean anything?" "No." "No." "Heavyweight champion of the world, in a couple of years." "Now back to you." "The only thing you gotta do is to lose a little and our only problem will be to find a bushel baskets big enough to carry this." "Room service." "Just a minute." "Whether you do or whether you don't, I gotta tell you this you're a beautiful thing to watch, in action." "Your opinion." "How many you'd find honest out of a hundred?" "Two on an average." "I'd say three." "AII right, three." "Too bad she couldn't have been one of the 97 instead of one of the three." "What a buck we could've made with her." "Maybe she'II have a change of mind." "Not a chance." "How're you sure?" "See her face?" "A real honest face." "The only disgusting thing about her." "We have magnificent weather for the opening day of the Women's National Match Play Championship." "The last twosome, Miss Betty Hicks and Mrs. Patricia Pemberton will tee off in just a moment." "Today is only the first day of four days of tournament play." "Tomorrow's quarter-final round will begin promptly at 10:00." "On the tee now Betty Hicks." "On the tee now Patricia Pemberton." "Another bull's eye." "Some straight shooter, this kid." "That's her trouble." "This is the third twosome Pemberton still four up over Hicks." "She's pickin' it up." "Don't waste the shot!" "Give me the wedge, will you?" "I guess they all want to see me take a shower." "The pressure gets greater and greater." "With only four contestants left we find we have three favorites and one rank outsider still battling it out." "beautiful shot, Bev." "beautiful." "Gee, Pat, that's a rough shot." "Today is payoff day for one of these two girls who've battled their way up the ranks ofAmerica's top women golfers to finally meet for the National Match Play Crown." "We won't ask you to guess which of these girls will be the eventual winner...." "Into the 16th and it is still one up on Zaharias." "I think I'II try a three here." "A little long for this whole." "Pemberton overshot the 17th." "Zaharias is weII-pIaced on the green." "Zaharias won the 17th." "AII even." "Going to 18th." "I ain't in." "You don't think she could've not understood you?" "Or misunderstood you?" "I'm trying to catch her eyes." "I'II settle for one eye." "If we get our signals mixed, I'II cut off my arm." "You may have to if we're gonna eat tomorrow." "What happened?" "What happened?" "Nothing good." "The Babe is on the green." "Clear the fairway, please!" "The Pemberton ball." "The Zaharias ball." "This match is all square and this is the final hole." "hello." "Was that on purpose or what?" "Or what." "I'm glad to hear that at Ieast." "You see what happened anyway?" "If you were willin' to happen it on purpose, you could've been walking out of here with a bushel basket." "Like I said, it just goes to show." "It certainly does." "I still think you got possibilities." "Thanks." "You got my business card?" "Yeah." "Get in touch with me." "There's a nice dollar Iayin' around waitin' for us to pick it up." "I mean, legitimate." "There's, you know, a lady athlete properly handled, always a market." "always." "I don't think you ever been properly handled." "That's right." "Not even by myself." "Very few brains." "There's one thing I gotta say, though." "What?" "nicely packed, that kid." "She is at that." "Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice." "well, here we are." "These two." "Here you go, porter." "well, off we go." "Off we go." "feel any better?" "well, no." ""This, too, will pass away." Hey, who said that?" "I don't know." "How about looking at the bright side of this for instance?" "Now take this:" "As long as your job's out of the way, we move our date up." "Tie the old knot." "I think you've worked long enough, don't you?" "Too much." "What are you trying to prove?" "Who're you trying to lick?" "myself." "You're just the kid who can do it." "I don't think you mean to, but do you think of me as just "the little woman?"" "That's right." "And of myself as a little man." "Right now, I feel sort of like a flop that you're rescuing." "I'm flummoxed, that's what I am." "Maybe we ought to wait until I don't feel so carved up, so nobody." "Why don't you just let me take charge?" "I have to be in charge of myself." "But what's the good of this?" "'Board." "Have to have time to think it over is all." "See that you don't think it under." "It's a nice long ride." "Just take your time." "That's right." "And I'm not going to take it." "I can't, that's all." "Can't what?" "Go back!" "Not this way." "What's there to go back to?" "I've got to do something to prove to you, prove to myself...." "Lend me some money, will you?" "Prove to both of us, to everybody, that I'm not just a big...." "Say, Pat!" "Wait a second." "I'm coming along, too." "No, please don't." "You can't get off now, lady." "Watch me." "Ruby, Iet me get a word in edgeways, will you?" "Win, lose or draw, when did Hucko ever not give you action?" "Now, you know yourself as well as I know myself that's what they pay for is action." "Even when he gets flattened, he does it noisy, don't he?" "Right, Iet me know, huh, Ruby?" "Right, boy. 'Bye." "What did you weigh this morning?" "98." "Up two." "Why?" "Did you eat extra?" "No, no." "Honest." "Let him talk himself, will you?" "No, no." "Honest." "What's the matter?" "Where's the control?" "It could be he's still growin'." "You'II be growin' in central Park, the two of you, if you don't watch out." "Have another beer?" "No thanks, no more." "You see?" "Davie, what're you doin' to me?" "Nervous, thirsty." "Water." "Did you ever hear of water?" "well, why don't you drink water?" "Ashamed." "You're what?" "Nervous, thirsty." "I go in the place, I'm ashamed to ask for free water." "Took one beer." "Did you Iike it?" "Yeah." "What?" "No." "Hucko, I guess it's time to ask you the three questions, ain't it?" "Are you ready?" "Who made you?" "You, Mike." "Who owns the biggest piece of you?" "You." "What will happen if I drop you?" "I'II go down the drain." "And?" "And stay there." "Who made you?" "You, Mike." "Who owns you?" "You." "If I drop you?" "I go down the drain." "And?" "And stay there." "Take him to the gym." "We just come from" "Go back and don't let him out of there until he's back to 96 even." "He's liable to go on Friday night." "We can't have him overweight." "Get goin'." "I'II shake it when it don't weigh so much." "We should enter him in the sixth race next Saturday if little nell's leg don't unstiffen." "Are you a comedian?" "An agent down the hall handles comedians." "What about that leg?" "Loosening by the minute." "What about her starts?" "still slow." "I think she feels depressed." "She feels depressed, huh?" "She'II feel the good point of a needle if she don't get going, I'II tell you that." "Come in." "well, well...." "Swing her around in the morning and phone me the time." "Sit down." "well, hello." "Who would've believed this?" "I'm upside-down with surprise." "Why?" "What can I do for you?" "Why, I came to ask you." "Me?" "Why?" "What you can do for me." "What'd you have in mind?" "well, you said something about a bushel basket." "Yes." "Sure, sure, I remember." "well, now let's start off with a few statistics or two." "How much would you say the people in the USA spend on sports a year?" "No idea." "Surprise you if I said $150 million?" "Yes." "well, it's $300 million and some of it belongs to us by rights." "How do you Iike that?" "My!" "It's all built up around personalities, which I figure you may be one of." "Of course, I can't be sure of that, but the way things look to me, I think so." "AII right." "Now, of course, what you need is:" ""A," a manager." ""B," a promoter." "And that's me, "A" and "B."" "AII right." "But first you will have to turn pro." "Is that okay?" "Okay." "AII right with your husband?" "Mrs. Pemberton, ain't that how they introduced you?" "I'm a widow." "What kind?" "Merry?" "settle down, will you?" "AII right, so now you're a pro." "Now we gotta go out and find the competitions." "trouble is this time of the year, they're far in between." "Aren't there other things?" "I mean, not golf." "What do you mean?" "Other sports?" "You do other sports?" "I've only played golf for a year or so." "That's all?" "Yes, my beau wants me to take it up" "What is this beau deal?" "What's that?" "If we're going to be partners, I'd Iike to know what the layout is." "Where is your beau?" "california." "Live there?" "Work there?" "Pacific Tech." "This is all right with him, this whole switch." "No." "That is, yes." "Wait, don't go so fast." "If we're partners, we'd be on a schedule." "I don't know how often or how many times we could get to be around california." "That would be all right, for the moment." "Yeah." "I see." "Now, what other sports?" "well, tennis." "That's number one." "I'm really good at that." "You're better than with the sticks?" "Yes, much." "And then of course, the usual shooting." "Shoot?" "well, you know?" "Skeet, range, some archery." "Ice hockey, basketball, and a little baseball." "Where did you play baseball?" "Pacific Tech." "I was there several years." "What's the matter?" "You couldn't pass?" "No." "I was faculty." "That's like a teacher." "well, ain't it?" "You're not by some chance a boxer?" "Just 16-ounce gloves, I'm afraid." "Eights have a tendency to" "That's all, honey." "That's all." "Say no more." "There's always a chance that you could be an escaped fruitcake." "But if there is something in what...." "If there is anything in what you say, I'II promote you into the king of the world." "Queen, I mean." "Let's go." "would you Iike to see me serve a few, Mr. Conovan?" "No, no." "Just hit a couple." "Got to be notary public, don't it?" "Take care of that, don't worry." "We ought to have a glass for luck." "What do you mean?" "What am I, some kind of an acey-deucey gambler?" "Us two bunking into each other, that's all the luck any man deserves." "From now on, it's hard work and promotion and so forth." "And promotion." "Okay, I'II get these back to you." "Yours too, Miss." "Thank you." "Let's go." "I'd Iike a martini, please." "Very, very dry." "Very, very nothing." "cancel that." "Beer, beer, beer." "Corned beef, Swiss on rye." "I'II have beef stew." "Same." "And for the lady?" "A small steak, rare." "Medium." "Rare, and a baked potato and some creamed spinach." "Coffee?" "Yes, please, large." "No, milk." "please, I'm a busy man." "Two coffees and one milk." "Everybody keeps having' to change one another's minds." "Took a whole half an hour for one, could be here for the next" "What's wrong?" "Who's talkin' to you?" "Who, then?" "myself." "You mind if I talk to myself?" "I'd Iike a martini, please." "Now look, girlie." "Do me a favor." "Don't be hard to handle." "It'II be hard enough even if you're easy." "You have no right" "Read your contract." "Trainin' clause." "Just silly." "That's not for you to decide, you know." "I have to watch your shape." "There's nothing wrong with my...." "What shape are you talking about?" "What shape are you talking about?" "I'm in perfect condition." "Good." "Let's just keep you that way." "We got a Iong way to go." "I must say." "Don't race your motor." "What is this?" "What?" "What?" "Are you tryin' to needle me or somethin'?" "There's a sign, "No Smoking."" "Where?" "I just put it up inside your head." "What?" "What's to prevent me smoking when you're not around?" "When am I not around?" "You don't expect to be watching me every minute out of every 24 hours out of every day, do you?" "If I have to, sure." "Not sure I'II like that." "Not asking you to like it." "But you'II see, pretty soon, I'II trust you because you'II trust me." "What's good for you is good for me." "We're the same." "We're equal." "We're partners?" "5-0, 5-0." "You got to realize your body's important." "And it's important to me, too." "I ain't Iettin' you throw no martinis down there, or no smoke." "No more than I'd let 'em throw 'em down little nell." "Who's that?" "That's my horse." "She may win Saturday." "hold the thought." "And another thing, no late hours, and of course, men are out." "In any manner, shape or form." "You're in training'." "Go on now, eat your food." "Nice and slow." "Kind of relaxed inside." "Don't forget to throw me over your shoulder and burp me after lunch." "I will if you need it." "I'm so glad you plan to look after me as well as you do your horse." "You wanna joke?" "Joke." "But I'II tell you something." "Someday you'II realize something." "We all gotta work together, see?" "We all gotta cooperate." "Look, everybody's sittin' around the place." "Everybody's sittin' around the world." "And everybody's brain has got somethin' cooking' inside, see?" "well, nobody's got a better dream than me." "believe me, I stand 'em off." "What is it?" "I can see myself with breaks." "I can wind up with the top man, the top horse and the top woman." "Advantage, Mrs. Pemberton and Mr. Parker." "Game to Mrs. Pemberton and Mr. Parker." "They lead five games to three in the first set." "I think that's enough." "You'd better quit." "Not yet." "Gonna get all tired out." "You got a Iong day." "No." "Long and hard." "Why hard?" "I don't know." "This place, and all the different people turning up you know, ones I know." "Why?" "I don't dig that." "I should think you'd be great." "Your hometown, besides, I think...." "Maybe I would if it weren't for...." "Come on." "You'd better quit." "You're puffing' again." "You know there're more than 100 of my Pacific Tech girls out there?" "No." "They got a friend for me?" "Announcing!" "That's it!" "will you please remember, start slow?" "Don't show 'em all your stuff at once." "Remember you're the best." "Even if you don't think so, I do." "Just play your regular game." "It's beautiful." "Just like you." "You know what I'm going to do?" "For luck?" "No." "Give you a great big kiss." "If you don't start slow, by the 15th or 16th game you'II start to press." "We got to remember the money dates are comin' up." "The big money dates." "Ladies and gentlemen the next match will be between Pat Pemberton of Oakland and Gussie Moran of Santa Monica, California." "Where's he sitting?" "Who's sitting?" "CoIIier." "Over here, X4." "Are you sure?" "Am I sure?" "Paid for it myself." "He's in on the cupola." "Thanks." "I'd have paid him better if he'd stayed home." "And her opponent California's own Pat Pemberton." "Drop it." "Rough it is." "I'II start over there." "This is the feature event of the afternoon, climaxing a cross-country tour." "As of today, Mrs. Pemberton and Miss Moran are tied with 22 matches apiece." "This match will be the best two out of three sets." "Linesmen ready?" "Players ready?" "Mrs. Pemberton will serve first." "Play." "15, Mrs. Pemberton." "30-love." "40-love." "Game to Mrs. Pemberton." "She leads one game to love in the first set." "Mrs. Pemberton won the first set, six games to three." "She now leads three games to two in the second set." "15, Mrs. Pemberton." "Double fault." "15-all." "15-30." "Double fault. 15-40." "She plays pretty good tennis." "She gets that way every once in a while." "Game, Gussie Moran." "Where's my racket?" "There she is." "That's a girl." "AII right." "I just couldn't make anything behave." "That happens." "You know, a little slump." "A dip." "A couple of weeks rest." "No, I'm okay." "We're goin' over to EIkwood Acres, over in New Jersey." "wonderful place!" "You mean more to me than all them bucks." "I'm gonna take care of you good." "Who's that?" "tell them to go away." "You poor darling." "hello, coil." "I'm all right." "Wasn't that a mess, though?" "This is Mr. Conovan." "Mr. weld." "I'm taking you home." "I'II get your things together." "No, I'm all right here." "If you'II excuse us, please?" "If it's somethin' about goin' somewhere, I'd Iike to stick around." "I'm sorry." "We can't oblige." "I have a contract." "I'II send you a copy of it." "It says pIain" "Look, friend...." "You've been responsible for wrecking this girl's health." "Let's not raise your voice now." "You don't intimidate me." "I've never heard of you." "No, but I've heard of you." ""Joe Jinx," that's you." "Except when you're around, we got a valuable piece of property here." "I ain't the only one concerned, you know." "I own the biggest piece of this kid, 51 percent." "But there are other guys that are in, too, that own small pieces." "With her potential, they won't like to see it all pulled right out from under them." "Now, I am in no position to mention their names by name but I can tell you this:" "They are the types that have been known to act hotheaded in their day and age." "Look, Conovan." "You may think you own 51 percent of her, but you'II find out that I own all of her." "No, you don't." "Get away from me, all of you." "Nobody owns anything of anybody except myself." "Go away, both of you." "Leave me alone." "Leave me alone." "Just go away." "I'II be back." "Go away." "Go away." "What is this?" "What's happened here?" "What's happened?" "Hey, slow down." "How you holdin'?" "Okay." "Feet heavy?" "Mine's heavy, Mike." "Yours are supposed to be heavy." "You're a heavyweight, ain't you?" "Yeah, that's right." "Like I told you." "Don't feel like runnin', slow down." "You're supposed to feel like it." "That shows you're in condition." "people who do like they feel, they go on sometimes practically forever." "Guess you'II go on practically forever if you stay on that bike." "You're the best because you feel right." "I tell you, last week I was worried." "I'd just like to mention." "And it was my fault, too." "I'm sorry." "Nothing to do with you." "Yeah, pushed you too hard too fast." "I know what it was." "Can't you tell me?" "Too personal." "There should be nothin' too personal between the two of you and me." "It was CoIIier." "I never can do anything when he's watching me." "It's always been that way." "Why?" "In love with him, I guess." "Like me with lobster." "What?" "Lobster." "The one thing I'm nuts about, the one thing that don't agree with me." "Like you and him." "Not exactly." "Why?" "well, you see, this is a question of getting married." "You've never been married to a lobster." "That's what you think." "Knock it off!" "Lights." "Lights." "hold it, will you?" "It's Mike." "What is this?" "Just finishing." "Do you know what time it is?" "9:10." "Now, we'II never know." "I want you in bed asleep in five minutes." "No comic books." "Go right to sleep, get it?" "Right to sleep, yeah, Mike." "should give it to you for lettin' him." "I lost my head." "In your position you shouldn't get so engrossed." "Let's go." "I was thinkin' about all that stuff on the road." "Me, too." "Funny how things come out like that." "Good night." "well, I'II go in with you." "There are things I want to go over with you." "well, couldn't they wait?" "Maybe they could, but I don't know if I couId." "The only thing is...my manager." "He's a little strict." "To tell you the truth, I'm a bit scared of him." "You are?" "I don't drink, that's on account of him." "Or smoke, that's him, too." "The thing he's strictest about of all is men." "Men, huh?" "Yeah." "You know, dates and late hours, and emotional involvements, and...." "He's got a point there." "In fact, he doesn't even want me to have anything to do with my fellow." "You make him sound like an awful gumboiI." "I don't know." "He's not so bad, really." "I think I'm just an animal to him, Iike little nell." "Is that what you think?" "Yeah." "You sound like a gumboiI yourself." "Good night." "Good night." "If you only were, honey." "Barn?" "Hey, where'd you drop from?" "hello, Barn." "Somethin' happen?" "The bout off?" "No, on." "So far." "Then what?" "I have to talk to him, Mike, is all I know." "Why couldn't you use the phone?" "Because." "people hang up." "Where is he?" "Inside." "With her." "You go to the head of the class." "What're they doin'?" "He's examining her." "Why?" "Why do you think?" "He wants to see into her condition." "Why don't he examine me?" "Ain't I fighting' Friday?" "Because you, he's not worried about." "He's worried about her." "He's worried about her condition." "He'd Iike to see her make out next week down at that pro-match." "Why don't he examine into my condition?" "Ain't I fighting' Friday?" "Davie, talkin' to you sometime is like takin' a ride on a merry-go-round." "The last time I was on a merry-go-round, I threw up." "Good." "I shouldn't have gone on that up-and-down one." "That did it." "Goin' up and down, everybody goes up and down." "Why don't he examine me?" "Quit bugging' me, will you?" "I mentioned about my stitch, but he don't care." "Just because I was knocked out the Iast four times, he's lost faith in me." "Funny guy." "I don't think it's his fault." "I think it's her fault." "Boy, I'd Iike to take a poke at her." "What're you lookin' for, five straight knockouts?" "Fifty hops." "Better turn out you're okay." "Otherwise, we'II skip the whole tournament." "feel fine." "I'II let you know how you feel." "I'd feel better if I didn't have to do this." "Quiet!" "still going?" "What?" "I said, is it still going?" "AII right." "Lay down." "GIadIy." "On my back or what?" "On your what." "If I hurt you, just yell out." "You got a knot in there." "You can work it out." "Who?" "What?" "Long distance?" "Okay." "Wait a minute." "It's for you." "How are you, dear?" "Fine." "No, honestly, much better." "In fact, all." "What?" "To tell you the truth, coil, I'd just as soon you didn't...." "Such a Iong trip and all and...." "And you know how I get when you...." "Nothing, really." "He wants to come to the tournament." "tell him not to." "He won't listen to me." "Don't come." "What?" "No, no." "Wait." "You do understand, don't you, darling?" "well, all right." "No, no." "I'II write to you, too." "What?" "We gotta build that left arm up, otherwise your whole swing goes cockeyed." "Sit up." "When you gonna get wise to this CoIIier pash?" "You know what happened while I was rubbing you?" "You know what happened to your muscles?" "You got as tense as cold spaghetti." "I couId feel it." "I'II get over it." "Five'II get you, ten you don't." "Bet." "I'II tell you what you do." "Don't use the right at all." "Use the Ieft until I tell you different." "Don't use the right for nothin'." "Not even to eat with." "Everything with the Ieft." "AII right, lay down." "Now, push." "Push." "Push harder." "To get back to this CoIIier thing...." "Yeah, I don't think so." "In what way?" "In no way." "I mean, in what way not?" "In no way not." "How would you know?" "Just by keepin' my ears and my eyes open and my...so forth...." "This man-and-woman thing, that's got to be a 50-50 thing. 5-0, 5-0." "My feeling." "He's 75." "You'd never be 5-0, 5-0 with him." "Why do you get yourself hooked with a guy who's got his horns on you?" "That's all." "Let me ask you, Barney...." "Ask." "Why don't he examine me?" "What're you doing here?" "Ain't you supposed to be weighing in?" "Tomorrow." "What're you hangin' around here for?" "I don't wanna go in alone no more." "Like lately." "What do you want?" "AII go in with you?" "Maybe the three of us could lick the guy." "You're a big boy." "You've got to Iearn to go in alone." "I mean, in the corner." "You used to." "I'm busy." "Yeah." "Busy." "I gotta get ready to go south." "Do you want me to tear myself into pieces?" "Sure not." "I haven't asked you the three big questions lately." "I don't wanna go in alone no more." "Who made you, Hucko?" "What's the matter, can't you hear good?" "Who made you?" "You, Mike." "Who owns the biggest piece of you?" "You, Mike." "What'II happen if I drop you?" "Go right down the drain." "And?" "And stay there." "Don't ever forget it." "Go tell Gibby if he lets you loose again, he'II go down the drain, too." "He'II go." "well, I got it." "Now, what is with little nell?" "I don't like you." "I wish you did." "But I don't." "Why not?" "You made everything different from what it used to in the old days." "Last year." "How old are you, Hucko?" "197.5." "What?" "Pounds." "No." "How old?" "Twenty-four." "Five." "Three." "Why?" "Anyhow, too old for the three big questions." "You want me to tell Mike on you?" "He didn't make you, doesn't own you, you wouldn't go down the drain." "And stay there?" "You wouldn't." "You ought to belong to yourself." "What do I want with myself?" "When you're in that ring you ought not to be worried about anyone." "Yeah?" "What about that guy I'm fightin'?" "Not even him." "You see, it's never you against the whole world." "Yeah, that's good." "I couldn't lick the whole world, I don't think." "Just you against yourself." "well, I couId lick myself, all right." "I think." "You could?" "I think." "That's all you have to do." "Lick yourself." "Make yourself and own yourself." "Never mind Mike or anyone." "Don't he never ask you the three big questions?" "I wouldn't let him." "I'm trying to lick myself, too." "Hey, the only thing...." "Why don't he examine me?" "So then...." "And then the bell." "End of the sixth." "So then I breathe." "In and out, in and out...." "Button it up." "We've been through this 40 times already." "It's the seventh comin' up." "The end." "Go ahead." "I rush him." "He's on his bite." "He's comin' in." "That's when it happened." "The thing, the big thing." "He's comin' and I Iook." "Who do you think it is?" "It's me!" "It's me comin' at me!" "So I get mad!" "I'm hollerin' down his ear: "Okay, Hucko."" ""Get this, Hucko." Kidney punch." ""You're through, Hucko."" "So now I go in, and before I throw it even, I knew already it was the one." "And I see him drop." "Then, when Gibby jumps in and grabs me and gives me a kiss, I says to him:" ""You see me how I flattened myself?"" "So he starts to put cold towels on my head." "Okay." "Take a walk." "Okay, Mike." "Can I lift her up?" "No." "Just once?" "AII right." "Then blow." "Thanks, Mike." "could be he had his brains knocked loose." "He's fine." "This "fightin' yourself" malarkey...." "How does a guy like that pick stuff like that up?" "I wonder." "Me?" "What's doin' here?" "You been talkin' to him?" "Do you mind?" "No, no." "I was gonna suggest maybe you have a talk with little nell." "You know we gotta go over these schedules." "This thing about getting the same room as the Iast time I was down here...." "Is that a coincidence or did you arrange it?" "Just a coincidence." "tell me the truth." "I arranged it." "I thought so." "Why?" "Because I'm getting to know you." "About time." "It turns out you're just a big sentimental slob." "Yeah, that's me." "My, my, my." ""My, my, my" what?" "Excuse me." "I forgot to knock." "Come in." "Guess who's here?" "Them." "How'd you know?" "tell 'em to swing it in." "The boys." "What boys?" "The partners." "You said they were anonymous." "well, maybe they decided to be non-anonymous." "After all, these gentlemen are no hoodIums." "They're businessmen." "plain, ordinary businessmen." "Investors." "AII the same." "You can't have it perfect...." "Okay." "hello, Spec." "hello, Mike." "glad to see you." "How are you?" "could be worse." "Thought we'd Iike to see you." "well, you know me." "Never too busy to say hello." "There she is." "How do you do, gentlemen?" "How do you do?" "pleased to meet you." "Likewise." "WouIdn't you Iike to sit down?" "Yeah, sit down." "You can all find chairs." "Why don't you sit over there?" "Thanks, Barney." "Thank you, boy." "Let's everybody have a drink, on me." "I never allow no alcoholic beverages around the lady here." "Who said alcoholic?" "I mean, you know, Iike beer or something like that." "Even beer." "milk?" "milk's okay." "So, how's about everybody a glass of milk?" "AII right." "Some milk." "fill 'em up." "There seems to be quite a Iot of dough you know, money around, that says you can make it." "You know, win it." "well, money talks." "Here we are." "Have one yourself, Barney." "golf is what I call a nice game." "Very nice." "I mean, it's dignified." "And fresh air, men and women both." "Now, you take those lady wrestlers." "Now, that's somethin' I can't stomach." "Stand." "Lady wrestlers." "That's somethin' that shouldn't ought to be allowed, but golf, that's different." "Yeah." "well, we don't wrestle." "Not yet." "Mike, tell Barney to go out, do you mind?" "Go out." "Nothin' personal, Barney." "Business." "Business?" "Wait a minute." "The thing is, we wanna know how you figure this thing to come out." "No idea." "You mean, not yet." "I mean that after it's over, I'II let you know how it come out." "Wait a second." "Maybe she ought to go out, too." "No, thank you." "Mike, look, we don't care what way it comes out." "only thing, we'd Iike to know ahead." "You want my opinion?" "I think she'II win." "For sure she's...?" "No, not sure." "Makes a sick bet." "The win, you can't be sure of." "The lose, that's insurance." "No, don't say anything." "Wait a minute." "Don't say nothin'." "No, boys, it's no go." "No go." "Remember I told you when you come in on this kid I couldn't promise you nothin' but a great lady athlete." "No tricks, no deals, no nothin'." "You think it's fair to us to all of a sudden go legitimate?" "How did you get in such a jam?" "Look at the books." "I never knew there was so much money to be made honest." "I don't think it's right you bein' unfriendly." "I don't think it's right, neither." "In fact, it's wrong." "Excuse me for not finishing my milk." "only thing is, it gives me the gas." "I'II do whatever you say about it." "Whatever's best for you." "I don't care." "Listen here." "I caught something from you, and it's good." "I Iike it." "But don't you catch nothin' from me, 'cause I ain't got nothin' good to catch." "If there'II be any trouble, I want my share." "It looks like there'II be plenty to go around." "No, I mean the way you said things ought to be." "How?" "5-0, 5-0." "Lay down." "Now?" "Yeah." "I'II let you get a little nap and then have dinner." "Take a little walk then." "And turn in nice and early." "And don't worry about nothin'." "Don't worry about a thing." "You're a good girl." "You're the best." "Thanks." "And I'II tell you another thing, furthermore...." "After you cop this thing in the morning, I'II start lining up some shots in Europe." "Boy, will they go for you, all them Europeans." "I haven't copped it yet." "Sure you have." "In my head you have." "The way I figure, you've got the thing done." "The thing you're gonna do." "That's nice." "I can feel it in your bones." "Sure a pretty dress you got covering you." "Thank you." "You certainly are carrying the right silks tonight, kid." "It does more for you than them pants you're always wearin'." "Easier to play in is why I wear the pants." "Sometimes you ought to change a little." "Give the public a break." "I'm not sure that I'd be able to play in" "What is this?" "Sorry to barge in." "well, barge out." "Wait a second, Mike." "Somethin' you don't know." "Sam's out." "In fact, it was us who bought him." "I never seen him so upset since lately." "Sam suffers from the high blood pressure." "He can't stand the gaff." "He can handle any situation so long as it's a situation without aggravation." "Otherwise, no." "The minute he realized you were not goin' to play ball it was a situation with aggravation." "Okay." "Thanks for the flash." "Now, get out of here, will you?" "Can't you see we're taIkin' important business?" "Strategy." "It's just what we wanted to talk to you about, Mike." "Strategy." "We've been considering', and we think you're very foolish, the both of you." "You don't see it our way." "It's a very full hatfuI we can grab off here." "blow." "You shouldn't talk like that." "Not to us." "please." "What're you tryin' to do, destroy your own property?" "What's wrong with you two pinheads?" "Can't you see you're gettin' her all tensed up?" "You're absolutely right, Mike." "I think the best would be for us to step outside and talk over." "That would be good." "Why outside?" "well, you know, quiet." "And we wouldn't get the lady all upset." "AII right, Iet's go." "Stay here." "I'II be right back." "You will?" "well, I hope so." "I ain't finished my baked potato." "Come on, Iet's talk." "Where you wanna go, your hometown?" "We'II talk over here." "What's wrong?" "Mike?" "Stay out of this." "I want to go with you." "Don't think I can take care of myself?" "No." "Now, wait and see." "I can take care of myself, you and them." "Stay out of this." "Go on." "AII right, Iet's go." "Come on." "Let's get out of here." "But we want to know what you're gonna do." "I told you already." "I ain't gonna make no deals with you." "Two against one?" "That's right and that's how it is in this business, too, wise guy." "Yeah, two against one." "You want your usual percent?" "My glasses!" "What's the big idea?" "That's no fair, I'm tellin' you." "Where are my glasses?" "What is this anyway?" "Did you ever see a thing like this before?" "Ever see a thing like this before?" "What is it?" "Where's my glasses?" "Not fair, I'm tellin' you." "Which one of you belongs to this?" "Where'd you get it, Kronski?" "From the lady." "Where'd you get it?" "Out of his hand." "And you?" "In the head." "I want to make a complaint." "settle down!" "We'II get to that." "Which one of you wants to report bodily injury?" "Nothing." "Me." "Look at that." "See that?" "Where do you think I got that?" "Okay." "internal injuries." "AII right." "What happened?" "Anybody?" "This woman blew her top, that's all." "Did you see the whole thing?" "I sure did." "could I say a word, Captain?" "You bet." "Nobody wants to make a big thing out of this." "We all know each other." "These two gentlemen and I, we're in business together." "What kind of business?" "well, you see, the three of us, we own her." "The three of you?" "Yeah, sure." "She's our lady athlete." "Very weII-known, Captain." "We got her entered in a tournament here tomorrow." "We had this little disagreement, you know, kind of a misunderstanding...." "Why don't you just forget about the whole thing?" "What about this?" "Do you want me to forget this, too?" "No, sir." "Show me what happened." "What's the point?" "I'd Iike to see what happened." "We were standin' over by the car, the three of us." "Just talkin'." "Where were you?" "I was in the middle where I usually am." "And you?" "I was up on the porch." "You were in the middle, get in the middle." "You, on the porch, stay there." "Now, you three stand there arguing." "They came up behind me." "In seIf-defense." "This guy here with the glasses on, he was gonna throw a punch." "I got kind of excited." "That was when I ran down." "Like Count fleet she ran down there." "What happened to your punch?" "I never threw no" "No, he didn't get the chance." "What happened when you got there?" "The first thing, I disengaged this fellow." "How?" "I'm sorry." "Let go of me." "What am I around here?" "I'm gonna kill somebody." "Am I a sack of potatoes around here or somethin'?" "And what were you doing all this time?" "Just what I'm doin' now." "Nothing?" "What else was there to do?" "Then what?" "I am very sorry about this, and I'd Iike to apologize to this gentleman for doing it." "Doing what?" "For throwing away his eyeglasses." "She sure did." "I couldn't think of anything else to do." "Then he went down to hunt for them and I turned, sort of, to lead Mr. Conovan away." "To lead me?" "I thought you were going to carry me." "Go ahead." "Then, the little one came toward Mike." "No." "No, I come toward you." "Anyway, Mike started toward him." "Yeah, I came at you, remember?" "But I pushed him out of the way." "What did you do that for?" "well, I didn't want him to get hurt." "No, she didn't want me to get hurt." "Then I think I took this one by the wrist." "Go away from me." "She grabbed him by the wrist and he went halfway down like this." "She took the jack out of his hand, looked at it and conked him right on the head, and then he fell rest of the way, Iike this." "And what were you doing all this time?" "Just watching." "I hope you've been on the ball." "You could learn something." "She's okay." "Where'd you pick that up anyway?" "I've been around physical ed for years." "physical Ed?" "Who's he?" "Education." "Okay, come here, all of you." "Henry TasIing, that you?" "That's right." "also known as Harry Creavy?" "It's been a Iong time since...." "also as Ray BryIer?" "only once." "I was IittIe" "Under these names have you been apprehended seven times on charges of illegal betting, bookmaking, assault?" "Somethin' like that, yeah." "Are you aware of a court order signed by Judge Evan McEnroe, August 12, 1949 prohibiting you from carrying on any business of any nature whatsoever?" "I wasn't doin' no business." "He says you were." "What business?" "SyIvester CauIey, that you?" "Yeah." "also known as" "Yeah, that's right." "You got it down there all okay." "Anything on him?" "Nothing." "I'II hold these two men pending the report of Judge McEnroe for violation to his order." "See you in the morning." "handle that, Kronski." "Thanks." "Okay, we're adjourned." "How does it look for tomorrow anyway?" "Who knows?" "Good luck." "I've got a few savings riding' on you." "Thank you." "Goodbye." "Mike, listen." "I've been listenin' all night." "Then do you want to talk?" "I'II listen." "Leave me alone." "I can understand you're upset, but why with me?" "What have I done?" "Too much, that's what." "Mike, don't be like this." "Like what?" "impossible." "So that's what I am?" "impossible?" "Right now, yes." "I don't happen to agree." "I think I'm possible." "also think I'm stupid." "Why?" "For the way I've handled you." "I've built you up into some kind of a Frankenstein monster." "That's what you are." "You're just a great, big Mrs. Frankenstein." "Don't think this is going to get around?" "Don't think everybody will know about it?" "I won't even be able to show my face in Lindy's." "I just don't like the combination." "I Iike everything to be 5-0, 5-0, I Iike a "he" to be a "he" and a "she" to be a "she."" "But you said...." "hold it." "What?" "The back way." "Why?" "Quiet down." "Why?" "Pat!" "Somebody's yelling "Pat."" "No, "cat." They're calling their cat." "Pat, what's the matter?" "hello, collier." "You come back any time after the match." "You're a little early now." "Listen, Pat" "Don't touch her right arm!" "How about you?" "I got the other arm." "Now, go away." "Now, listen, old man." "I've got just as much right as you have." "Come back in the morning" "Stop handling me, everybody, please!" "You got a tough deal there, Buster." "I feel for you." "You do?" "That chick is sure stuck on you." "I can't quite understand why, but there it is." "She's so stuck on you, that you jinx her." "You're in this business." "Have you heard of anything like it?" "only two or three million times, that's all." "You see, athletes, they ain't like us." "They're like what you call freaks." "Nobody can understand how they do what they do." "They can't understand it themselves and different things throw 'em." "So, who knows what, why, where, when?" "See?" "Yeah." "It's just like...." "Now, take little Joe PaIone." "Who?" "The jockey." "For a Iong time my horse, little nell, couldn't win nothing." "She couldn't win." "She had trouble comin' in last." "And I couldn't figure, and then I figured it." "She couldn't win because Joe PaIone was ridin' her." "I got rid of him." "She went great." "It's the same in this case, Buster." "You are the wrong jockey for this chick." "You don't say?" "Yeah, I do say." "So, how about giving us all a break and making yourself scarce tomorrow?" "Why?" "When you're around, she's no good." "She's dead." "What you do after her working' hours I don't care go ahead, go as far as you Iike." "But, when she's on, you stay off." "Can we deal?" "No." "Why not?" "Your business doesn't interest me." "tell me somethin'." "Were you born stubborn or did you learn this in college?" "See you in the morning, Conovan." "On the first tee." "Don't use your right arm." "What is it?" "Be quiet." "Go back to sleep." "How long have you been here?" "I just came in to check up, that's all." "The windows." "I do it every night." "You do what every night?" "Check the windows, fix the covers." "Sure." "Sometimes you kick 'em off." "What's the matter?" "You can't sleep?" "Don't say anything." "Just shut up." "Why didn't I get on to this sooner?" "It's funny when it's happening to someone else, but not to me." "What makes you think I'd stand in your way?" "You want him, go to him." "Looks to me you're perfectly suited, two slick articles." "Too nice to you, that's where I made my mistake." "Too considerate." "Mike!" "Be quiet." "help!" "Pipe down!" "You want everybody up here...." "Quiet down, will you?" "You're hurting me." "CoIIier, leave me alone." "Leave me alone." "What are you, some wild man?" "No, the wrong jockey, but I guess you're the right one all right." "What's he talking about?" "Come, now, Iet's not give it the innocent." "You don't think that...." "tell him, will you?" "talk." "What's the use?" "No use, that's the use." "well, congratulations." "But I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not the lucky guy." "What do you figure got into him?" "I don't know." "He frightened me." "I can imagine." "That's why I called you." "You've done the right thing, kid." "I mean, what would I have done if you hadn't been around?" "I figure you can take care of yourself." "No, I can't." "Bet you could even lick me." "No, I couldn't." "Sure, I think so." "No, I couldn't." "I need someone to look after me." "What about me?" "Why not?" "I don't know if I can lick you, or you can lick me, but one thing I do know." "Together we can lick them all." "You bet." "I can't handle this in my head." "It rocks me." "Why?" "well, be as...don't figure." "It's like as though Hucko walked in and handed me an engagement ring." "I'm not Hucko." "No, that you ain't." "So?" "So, I mean, there's one thing only about us...." "Together there's, what I call, a plenty long shot." "Nothing wrong with a Iong shot." "If you come out on top." "We will, Mike." "It's somehow, you don't seem to...." "An upper-cruster like you and my kind of type that can't even speak Ieft-handed english yet." "The whole gismo, it's hard to believe." "It's not hard for me to believe." "I think so." "I know so." "Okay, kid." "You got yourself a deal." "I'II ask you the three big questions." "Go ahead." "Who made you?" "You did." "Who owns the biggest piece of you?" "You do." "What would happen if I dropped you?" "I'd go down the drain." "And?" "And take you right down with me, Shorty."