Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble was that Vince Foster always got restless after the sun went down. Unless his manager kept watch on him, he would sneak out to a bar and stay out until morning. One night, he failed to show up for a fight in Chicago Stadium. But he still had that stunning punching power. The training course went...
...Foster learned fast, and Hurley began to think he had another Billy Petrolle, the famed Fargo Express, whom he had developed and managed in the good old days...
...hours, Vince Foster boozed, brawled and broke training until Hurley was about ready to give up. Then last summer the manager thought he saw a light: after wandering aimlessly one Sunday into the cavernous Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, Fighter Foster got religion. He became more serious in his training; at his request, cursing was barred in the gym. Foster gave up carousing, went to Bible school twice a week, sang in a choir, carried a zippered Bible wherever he went...
Hurley kept his fingers crossed, and the big day finally came. Four months ago Welterweight Foster got his chance in Madison Square Garden. The hard-boiled Garden crowd went wild as Vince savagely carved up clever old Tony Pellone and knocked him out in the seventh round. Sportwriters compared him io Petrolic, even to Jack Dempsey, hailed him as a new, slashing pug who might pull boxing out of the doldrums...
...Down. Public notice was bad for unpredictable Vince Foster; he went on another binge and wound up facing a rape charge. For Manager Hurley it was as though $100,000 in purses had flown out the window, but he set to work again, glumly, doggedly fitting the pieces together. The criminal charge against Foster was dismissed. The fighter went back to training and praying, and Manager Hurley began to think about purses again...