Word: hurley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago, thin, sad-faced Jack Hurley started the course of instruction; he spent a full week teaching head-punching Vince what a body punch was. Said Hurley to his pupil: "This guy you're going to fight is old and shrewd and he knows how to slip punches at you. You got to hit him in the belly-20 times in the belly the first round." Vince Foster won that fight; Hurley became his permanent manager...
...Hurley sweated over his docile pupil. He put hobbles on Foster to make him keep his legs closer together, made chalk marks on the floor to show him where to put his feet. "The whole secret of fighting is balance and leverage," Hurley kept saying. Foster kept on looking perplexed...
...Foster learned fast, and Hurley began to think he had another Billy Petrolle, the famed Fargo Express, whom he had developed and managed in the good old days...
...hours, Vince Foster boozed, brawled and broke training until Hurley was about ready to give up. Then last summer the manager thought he saw a light: after wandering aimlessly one Sunday into the cavernous Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, Fighter Foster got religion. He became more serious in his training; at his request, cursing was barred in the gym. Foster gave up carousing, went to Bible school twice a week, sang in a choir, carried a zippered Bible wherever he went...
...Hurley kept his fingers crossed, and the big day finally came. Four months ago Welterweight Foster got his chance in Madison Square Garden. The hard-boiled Garden crowd went wild as Vince savagely carved up clever old Tony Pellone and knocked him out in the seventh round. Sportwriters compared him io Petrolic, even to Jack Dempsey, hailed him as a new, slashing pug who might pull boxing out of the doldrums...