Sailor Beware Page #8

- He said he'd give me a tousand dollars.

- A thousand dollars.

- Oh, you know him?

- No, I don't know him.

Oh, well, he offered me

a tousand dollars. I said...

Thousand dollars, he offered you.

- Tousand dollars.

- Thousand.

- Tou.

- T-H-O-U-S-A-N-D. Thousand.

Thou, thou, thousand.

- Thousand.

- Tousand dollars.

- Thousand.

- Kid, this is tough.

- It was ten hundred dollars.

- Ten hundred dollars!

Ten hundred dollars. I said,

"What I gotta do for this money?"

He said, "I'll give you the money

if you'll lay down in round two."

Well, I had turned it down, naturally,

because I never went

that distance before.

Oh, yes, it's a long way to go.

Hey, that guy's a professional.

Gee whiz, I can't fight a professional.

Why, that wouldn't be fair.

He's ring-wise.

Say, come on in

to the other dressing room.

I got an idea.

- Good.

- I tell you one thing, though,

the best fight I ever had in my whole life

was three years ago

- in Por Orga.

- Where?

- In Por Orga.

- Por Orga?

- I was... Por Orga.

- Por Orga.

- Por Orga! Por Orga!

- Oh, Portland, Oregon.

- That wasn't so hard now, was it?

- No, it wasn't hard.

Well, I got in the ring with that guy.

I don't forget that night, boy.

I get the guy. I get one, two, three, four.

And I thought I had him down that time

and I hit him a shot.

Melvin!

Hey! They've gone.

Oh, what am I gonna do, Al?

Don't worry about it.

- Look, I'm gonna teach you what to do.

- Yeah, because I don't know.

No, I'm gonna teach you to fight

in about a few seconds.

Come over here. We'll pretend

that this is the squared circle. Right?

- Yeah, yeah, what do I do?

- Always protect yourself.

Put your guard up like that.

Put up your guard.

- Yeah.

- Right, put this up. Right.

- Now, I hit you in the stomach.

- Why? Why?

Well, you hit me.

Why? 'Cause it wasn't protected.

Always protect your stomach.

Now watch. Put up...

Hit you on the head. Why? Why?

It wasn't protected.

You gotta protect it at the same time.

Up, down. Up, down. Protect.

Up, one. Watch.

The head, head. Stomach, stomach.

Head, stomach.

Gotta watch yourself all the time, see?

Watch what you're doing.

- Oh, that's good.

- Understand?

- Yeah.

- Now, any other questions?

Yeah, well, what happens

if we're in the ring

- and he hugs me?

- He doesn't hug you. That's a clinch.

- Yeah?

- Like this, watch.

Now, we're gonna watch this hand.

Look, watch that hand.

- Yeah, I'm watching it.

- No, protect it, not watch it.

Protect yourself

with this other hand, here,

and he'll hit you in the stomach

like that.

- Oh, I see. Yeah.

- Always protect yourself at all times.

Well, what happens when

this happens? I hit him? What'll he do?

He does this!

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

I didn't even hit you.

- 'Cause you like me?

- Come on, let's go in the ring.

- I know what to do now, Al.

- You sure?

- Yeah.

- Come on.

You let me know how the fight turns out.

- Come on.

- Good luck, Melvin.

Boy, is this gonna be a slaughter.

Come on, let's go, Melvin.

Get in through here.

Oh, I'm sorry, kid. Come on, get up.

What for?

I'll be back down here in a minute.

He hasn't got a chance against us.

We'll lick him. We'll murder him.

Gee, I wish we had this fight

in the hospital

so I could be nearer the medicine.

Oh, look!

That's not the guy

I was supposed to fight.

Well, maybe

the other guy didn't feel good.

- I don't feel good, either.

- Oh, Melvin, after all,

if it wasn't all right,

he wouldn't be in there.

They have rules, you know.

Everybody makes rules

how I should get beat up.

The next bout presenting

four rounds of boxing.

In this corner at 137 and a quarter,

Melvin Jones!

And his opponent in this corner

at 175 pounds,

Killer Jackson!

You weren't the guy

that was mad at me.

That was me kid brother.

We heard you was a pro,

so I'm substituting.

That's enough talk, boys.

Now, I want a good, clean fight.

Anyone knocked down,

I want you to go to a neutral corner.

No rabbit punches,

no hitting below the belt.

And keep your thumbs in.

Shake hands now, go to your corners

and come out fighting.

Remember, we're gonna give him

everything we got.

- What's that for?

- He said no hitting below the belt.

Come on, put that back in.

Now remember, we're going to give him

the old one-two.

- Open your mouth.

- What's that for?

That's so if he hits us,

he won't knock our teeth out.

Knock our teeth out.

Look at that.

One, two,

three, four, five.

I wasn't ready.

Melvin, get up!

Three, four, five, six.

Foul, foul.

- Let's go, Jones.

- Where we going?

Quit stalling and get in and mix it up.

- Foul.

- Quit stalling.

- Get in and mix it up.

- Foul!

Melvin, wake up here. Wake up.

It's so nice here.

Just the two of us in the moonlight.

All alone.

And by the ocean.

Come on. There, we'll get him this time.

Get up here and fight!

- I have my own strategy.

- Go on in that corner.

One, two, three, four.

- Come on, Melvin!

- Five.

Get up. Get up off the floor, Melvin.

Melvin, get up!

Look, Melvin, get up off the floor!

Come on, Melvin, let's go.

One,

two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Oh, I didn't mean to do it.

Atta boy, atta boy, Melvin.

- I hope he's not mad at me.

- Oh, I thought for a while he had us,

but we took care of him.

Come on, let's get in the dressing room.

Come on, Melvin.

Watch your step here now.

Watch it.

How do you feel?

I could go another 10 rounds.

Atta boy. How about that fight, huh?

How do you like that?

Hey, maybe I'd better go in and check

and see what lover boy is doing.

Okay.

But don't go too far with those bets.

- Don't worry.

- Hey, what gives?

- I thought this thing was in the bag.

- Oh, it was just tough luck.

I thought the Killer was gonna

take care of him.

But now, it's up to you guys to see that

he doesn't get to the party to

see Corinne.

After all, you guys got dough

bet on him, too, you know.

Sure, but what're we gonna do about it?

- Just keep him out of circulation.

- How?

Figure it out for yourselves.

These ain't Red Cross armbands,

you know.

Okay.

Come on, Melvin,

we still have two hours to win that bet.

Hey, Melvin.

Some SPs are trying to keep you

from getting to that luau.

- How do you know?

- Lardoski talked them into it.

Let's get to the beach.

Corinne'll be there.

- Come on, it's our only chance.

- Not that way, Al.

- They're waiting outside.

- Then how am I gonna get out of here?

Oh, no, fellas.

Oh, come on, Melvin,

we haven't got much time.

Well, they're gonna recognize me

like this.

We'll figure out something

so they won't recognize you.

Upsy Daisy, that's it.

Look at that bunch of wolves.

- And I want to get thrown to them.

- Oh, now, wait a minute.

Remember what I told you

about sailors?

I remember.

Why do you think

I want to get thrown to them?

Never before

Has my heart felt a thrill like this

Never before

Never before

Never before

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