The Set-Up Page #2

- You sure this is tight enough?

- I wound bandages before you was born!

- Quit worrying!

- Who's worrying? I feel super!

- You said he was tough!

- I thought he was!

He laid down when I clipped him!

He was a sucker for a left!

Everybody's a sucker for something!

I knew I had him the first time

I hit him in the gut!

His belly was soft, like mush!

I kept hammering the same spot!

And every time my mitt sinks

deeper and deeper!

You should've heard him grunt the last time!

I thought I went right through him, like jelly!

Shanley, you're on!

- What's the matter with him?

- Got me!

First pro fight!

- I'll be right back!

- Okay, but make it snappy!

- Come on, come on! Let's have that Shanley!

- Okay!

Hurry it up in there!

You're holding up the show!

Don't let it worry you, kid!

It happens to everybody first time!

Don't it, Stoker?

Sure, sure! Done it myself!

- Okay, kid, hurry it up!

- Good luck!

Nineteen hundred and

twenty-eight!

Trenton!

Yeah, Trenton, New Jersey!

That was 20 years ago!

Okay, Tony, let's fix up the eyes!

That's it, Gunboat!

Give me a hand, will you?

I'm in a hurry!

- You ought to see the mouse I got outside!

- Mouse!

- Don't you ever think about anything else?

- What else is there?

- Ain't that right?

- Hold your hand still!

Wait till you see this one!

- Like a brick battleship!

- Mouse!

What's the matter with mice?

They're all for you

as long as you're in the chips!

I never seen a dame yet that's still around

when you hit the skids!

- Cut it out, you guys, will you?

- I didn't know you worried about dames!

I said, cut it out!

- Sell 17, 23, 29, 32!

- That's it! I'm out!

How much I owe you?

Gunboat, get ready!

Gunboat! I told you to get ready!

All right, hold it!

Take a deep breath!

Once more!

All right! Right there, son!

- How you feeling, son?

- Feel? Okay, doc! Okay!

Just like Frankie Manila!

Twenty-one times! It's in the record book,

ain't it, Stoke?

- What's in the record book?

- Twenty one times, that's what Frankie done!

Twenty-one times he got licked!

Couldn't get a fight!

Even here! 21 times!

Just a pushover! Remember?

Ain't got your gloves on yet, Gunboat!

Get up here!

Manila never had no chance, no!

He got dumped 21 times!

You better get your gloves on, Gunboat!

Your deal!

That makes it $2 you owe me!

Take it easy, take it easy!

Don't wear yourself out!

You got four rounds to do out there!

All the fight news and pictures!

Get your Knockout!

- Hiya, Julie!

- Hello, Bat!

- Ain't you going in?

- No!

No, sir! Frankie never had no chance!

Just a workout!

The champ wasn't even gonna

get up a sweat!

Twenty-one times, Manila got beat!

Yeah, and that's 21 times you told us

about it! So what?

So what? So he wound up middleweight

champion of the world!

He sure did, Gunboat! Sure did!

Can't you see me, Stoke?

First, I win the title!

And then the exhibition tour!

That's where the easy dough is!

I'll be in the movies, Stoke, with a line

of dames waiting for me a block long!

You need any help with those dames,

let me know!

Save it for out there, Pop!

You'll need it!

- Johnson and Joyce, get warmed up!

- Attaboy, kid!

- Good going!

- Thanks!

- You got the first one!

- Yeah, in the second round!

- Third spot, upstairs!

- Nice going, kid!

- Next bout!

- That's you, Gunboat!

I'm going!

Twenty-one times, and he winds up

champion of the world! Right, Stoke?

Right!

I guess you can only stop so many!

Yeah!

- Let's go, Luth!

- See you, guys!

Just a little cocoa butter, Gus!

I feel good tonight!

- Oh, Mickey! Get Tony ready!

- Yeah, yeah!

Come on! Right here!

- What good is that gonna do you?

- Never can tell! Might show me the way!

- To beat Lopez?

- No!

Oh, I get it! The way to go to heaven!

- You don't think there might be a heaven?

- How do you know there is?

I don't know about you, Mickey,

but me, I'm a gambling man!

I play percentages!

I say there's a price on everything,

even heaven!

You're punchy!

It's a short-ender, sure!

The odds are a million to one!

A guy would be a sucker not

to take them kind of odds, huh?

You kidding? Using the Bible

for a scratch sheet?

This ain't a scratch sheet, Mickey!

This is the future book!

How do you like that guy?

Making book on the hereafter!

Oh, I don't know!

Everybody makes book on something!

Lonesome?

Hey, you like dancing?

Want a cigarette?

You know, you look like you like dancing!

- worn out from throwing those punches.

The old man keeps coming back for more.

- Bet you do a mean rumba!

- Beat it!

- Don't...?

- I said, beat it!

- to the jaw. It nearly tore

his head off. He's down.

He's out like a light. The referee is counting

him out. Four, five...

Aw, it's just a formality.

He might as well count up to 100.

Nine, ten, out.

That's it, ladies and gentlemen.

He still hasn't moved.

The time, one minute and 38 seconds

in the second round.

By a knockout, Tommy Joyce stops

Gunboat Johnson in the second round.

Let me tell you exactly what happened

in that round.

What's the matter, lady?

Too rough for you?

- last left hook of his had Gunboat

groggy at the end of round one.

So he just bored in,

throwing everything he had...

I read you're going East

if you beat Bastogne!

- That's no if, Gus!

- Supposed to be pretty good!

He won the intercollegiate

a couple years ago?

I never seen a college Joe yet

take a belt on the kisser

without phoning his mother!

He's a good man, but I'll take him!

I can feel it!

Yeah, Gus! The trip's all set!

I get a main go in Philadelphia

on the 15th!

After that, New York!

Then I want a crack at the title!

Over here!

Lopez and Souza, you're next!

- Mickey, get the doc!

- He's coming!

Easy, Gunboat!

You're gonna be all right!

- All right, all right! Let's have the next one!

- Okay, Tony! Let's go!

Come on, son! Wake up!

Your name!

- What's your name?

- Name?

- Yes, what's your name?

- Name?

That's right!

Manila!

Frankie Manila!

I'm Frankie Manila, that's who I am!

Frankie Manila!

Middleweight champion of the world!

- Frankie Manila, that's who I am!

- I can't do anything here!

- You better get him to the hospital!

- Boys, give a little room, will you?

Mickey, grab a cab!

Tom, bring his clothes!

Frankie Manila is who I am!

Frankie Manila!

See the wonders of the world!

The mysteries of Paris!

A night in the limehouse!

Exotic Cairo!

You can't afford to miss it, folks!

There's no charge!

Come in and stay as long as you want!

You got nothing to lose but your worries!

Come on in and have fun!

It's free on the inside!

Lookie, lookie, lookie

what we've got!

We're having lots of fun in the Fun Palace!

Meet Madame Lorenza!

She tells your past, your present!

What would you like to know

about your future?

Step right in on the inside!

Come in!

Shoot down those little ducks and take

a kewpie home! Step right in on the inside!

- Your photo in five minutes!

- Now, look at each other! Hold it! Okay!

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