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...afternoon last week, as the Grace Line steamship Santa Clara lazed through the blue Caribbean, a man named Tomas Montanez was leaning against one of her bulwarks, out of sight of the bridge. Even in the small world of the ship, he was a minor figure; he was the ship's carpenter. But 30 seconds later, Tomas Montanez was a new, superior and infinitely precious being. He had fallen overboard...
...surfaced, surprised and strangling, he gasped in the enormous drama of his new position. The ship, already out of earshot, went trudging remorselessly on her way. Inspired, Tomas Montanez did not even cry out. He saw a tern flying overhead and told himself, fiercely, that this meant good luck. He began to swim, and pray, and hoard his strength...
...hour, the ship's placid routine was not disturbed. Then, at fire and boat drill, Tomas Montanez was missed. The ship turned back upon her course. Officers engaged in minute calculations. Sailors swarmed up to the crosstrees and passengers lined the rails to stare at the twinkling, pitiless face of the sea. Though there was no hope that Tomas Montanez would be found, the curious code of civilization demanded that a thorough search be made. Then, amazingly, after an hour and a quarter, a passenger raised a shout...
Italian opponents are lucky for Don Diablo. His most important victim before Venturi was Carlo Orlandi, onetime champion of Europe. When they met in 1935, Orlandi won the first seven rounds and Manager Burston begged his man to get busy. Said Devil Montanez: "This fight isn't over yet. They'll pick him up off the floor. . . ." In the eighth round, Orlandi picked himself off the floor three times, in the ninth four times, in the tenth twice. The next time he went down, his seconds carried him out. When the fight was over, Orlandi spent four months...
Admirers of Devil Montanez hailed his clear-cut victory last week as tantamount to a championship. Venturi, who succeeded Orlandi as the best Italian lightweight, last January held Champion Ambers to a draw which many spectators thought should have been a decision for the challenger...