Sam Stubener, a manager of prize-fighters, gets a letter from an old champion in the California mountains offering him a son raised in the wilds: Pat Glendon, enormously strong, utterly clean and fond of poetry. Pat demolishes every opponent, but when a reporter named Maud Sangster appears, he begins to learn how crooked the fight game really is.
A brisk, punchy short novel of boxing and corruption from 1913. Download the free EPUB.