CHAPTER X

MISSING During the run up to Shanghai, Gutta Percha Band kept his protégés on the top-notch line. Patient and painstaking, he spared no effort to bring both Peter and Forsyth to the highest pitch of efficiency. Every trick at ring-craft that came within the rules of legitimate boxing he taught them, always with the sound advice never to lose their tempers. On their part, the two chums played the game thoroughly and conscientiously. It was little short of purgatory to have to renounce smoking. The first three da…