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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 271 probably could still do it, as long as no one recognized him. When that happens, depending on where he might be, the possibilities of a severe ass kickin‟ rise steeply. People don‟t enjoy being hustled. It costs „em a whole bunch of their hard earned money and embarrasses the hell out of „em. It‟s never good to be in a country bar, or a small city bar, with about twenty drunks who find out you‟ve been running a game on „em. They have a tendency to take out their joint frustration on the frustrator‟s ass. Yet, those are the bars where the good money is to be made. When you get to places where it‟s a hundred bucks a game, two- fifty, maybe five-hundred, those people are pros. They‟re consistent. Trained to whip the ass off a lucky hotshot and send his ass home broke. Again, that won‟t help a guy eat. Only winning helps you eat and lets you have the dough to afford a room that night, which beats the hell out of sleeping in your car. Take my word for it. I did both. I never really hustled around Lansing. For starters, if I did, people would come to know me too soon and all the games would dry up. Worse, when you‟ve beaten a guy, or a few guys, regularly, there‟s a secret revenge plan they all eventually get around to using on you. Sometimes it will take a couple, three weeks, other times, it can happen in only a few days. You go to the same bar and win carefully, five bucks a pop at first, then ten, even twenty. If you ever get to fifty bucks a game, you‟ve probably overstayed your welcome, and they may well have their revenge plan in place. That means they‟ll bring in a ringer. Maybe it‟s a hustler, but it‟s normally just a local boy with a helluva good stick. He, in effect, will try to hustle you. He‟ll lose a couple cheap games, maybe at five bucks, and Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963
Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 272 ask for a chance to get even. However, even if you whip him, there‟s already animosity in the crowd. When you try to collect, they may whip your ass for you, instead, which is why I always carried a gun in the back of my pants when I hustled. There were a few occasions where I really needed it and would‟ve been hurt or killed if I‟d been unarmed. We‟ll get to those when we discuss my road trips down south. There was another part of “my training” that included boxing. I‟m still, to this day, not certain how I “discovered myself” that way, but I did. I had a few friends who hung out at some boxing gyms downtown and in the north end. <strong>My</strong> first few visits were just tagging along with a friend. Then, when we were watching some guys spar one day, this big guy said he thought I looked like a heavyweight, then asked if I was any good. I told him I was good enough to whip either guy I saw in the ring, and he laughed at me. Those guys were two of his best heavyweights, so I should count myself lucky he wasn‟t gonna tell „em what I just said. <strong>My</strong> reply was both those dudes were the lucky ones, since getting in a ring with me would get „em an ass kicking. Part of what I said was teen bravado, but I meant it, all the same. I watched those guys and saw how slow they moved. How uncoordinated they were. How easy it would be to avoid those punches, and it didn‟t really look as if the punches would hurt all that much. Guys that size should‟ve had a lot more oomph in the blow, the way I saw it. The Golden Gloves people wouldn‟t let me fight because of my injuries. They said their insurance wouldn‟t cover me. Although I always thought I‟d be a good boxer, primarily based on all my street fighting, I didn‟t really care that much when they blew Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963
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