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The Iron Man - Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard
The Iron Man
Warsaw 2018
Contents
1. [UNTITLED]
2. SCENTING THE KILL
3. WHITE-HOT FIGHTING FURY
4. IRON MIKE'S DREAD
5. THE ROLL OF THE IRON MEN
6. A CINCH TO WIN!
7. FRAMED
1. [UNTITLED]
A CANNON-BALL for a left and a thunderbolt for a right! A granite jaw, and chilled steel body! The ferocity of a tiger, and the greatest fighting heart that ever beat in an iron-ribbed breast! That was Mike Brennon, heavyweight contender.
Long before the sports writers ever heard the name of Brennon, I sat in the athletic tent
of a carnival performing in a small Nevada town, g1ng at the antics of the barker, who was volubly offering fifty dollars to anyone who could stay four rounds with Young Firpo, the California Assassin, champeen of Los Angeles and the East Indies!
Young Firpo, a huge hairy fellow, with the bulging muscles of a weight-lifter and whose real name was doubtless Leary, stood by with a bored and contemptuous expression on his heavy features. This was an old game to him.
Now, friends,
shouted the spieler, is they any young man here what wants to risk his life in this here ring? Remember, the management ain’t responsible for life or limb! But if anybody’ll git in here at his own risk–
I saw a rough-looking fellow start up–one of the usual plants
secretly connected with the show, of course–but at that moment the crowd set up a yell, Brennon! Brennon! Go on, Mike!
At last a young fellow rose from his seat, and with an embarrassed grin, vaulted over the ropes. The plant
hesitated–Young Firpo evinced some interest, and from the hawk-like manner in which the barker eyed the newcomer, and from the roar of the crowd, I knew that he was on the up-and-up
–a local boy, in other words.
You a professional boxer?
asked the barker.
I’ve fought some here, and in other places,
answered Brennon. But you said you barred no one.
We don’t,
grunted the showman, noting the difference in the sizes of the fighters.
While the usual rigmarole of argument was gone through, I wondered how the carnival men intended saving their money if the boy happened to be too good for their man. The ring was set in the middle of the tent; the dressing-rooms were in another part. There was no curtain across the back of the ring where the local fighter could be pressed to receive a blackjack blow from the confederate behind the curtain.
Brennon, after a short trip to the dressing-room, climbed into the ring and was given a wild ovation. He was a finely built lad, six feet one in height, slim-waisted and tapering of limb, with remarkably broad shoulders and heavy arms. Dark, with narrow gray eyes, and a shock of black hair falling over a low, broad forehead, his was the true fighting face– broad across the cheekbones–with thin lips and a firm jaw. His long, smooth muscles rippled as he moved with the ease of a huge tiger. Opposed to him Young Firpo looked sluggish and ape-like.
Their weights were announced, Brennon 189, Young Firpo 191. The crowd hissed; anyone could see that the carnival boxed weighed at least 210.
The battle was short, fierce and sensational, and with a bedlam-like ending. At the gong Brennon sprang from his corner, coming in wide open, like a bar-room brawler. Young Firpo met him with a hard left hook to the chin, stopping him in his tracks. Brennon staggered, and the carnival boxer swung his right flush to the jaw–a terrific blow which, strangely enough, did not seem to worry Brennon as had the other. He shook his head and plunged in again, but as he did so, his foe drew back the deadly left and crashed it once more to his jaw. Brennon dropped like a