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Show Rose (1/1?/83) page 12 Mr. R ~r. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R ft!r. K ~r. R Well, don't forget that I'~ explaining the~ from ~y point of view, you know, and I'm leaving out the ones that are my fault. I'm just telling you the ones that ..• Were the streets tough then in New York? Oh, you bet they were .• you bet they were tough. Is that where you learned to box more or less, a little bit at the beginning •.• That's where I learned to fight, and as a ~atter of fact, I was just telling this cousin of ~ine that lives in Puerto Rico - I have a cousin that's about 13 or 14 months older than I am, he's December and I'm March, with a year inbetween, end he was small for his size, oh, but he could fight. I mean he was a born boxer, I mean nobody had to teach him anything, he knew it all, he was quic~ and he was fast and he was smart, and he used to take me around •• "I'm going to make you fight as good as I could", I'm never going to forget that. So, he used to pick fights for me, and gee, I'd invariably get whipped. Oh, I'm telling you, I was a tall, skinny kid, you ~ow, and I wasn't very well coordinated, and I'd invariably get whipped, but gosh almighty, you can only take so many whippings before you learn so~ethingl So, that's how I ultimately developed so~e kind of skill as a boxer. Was there a lot of Jew baiting going on? Do you remember that at all? No, there wasn't any Jew baiting, it was worse than that. If we wanted to go to a movie, and it was out of the Jewish neighborhood, and it~ about half a block out of the Jewish neighborhood •• oh, Weht ~aybe a block and a half •• we didn't go unless we~ 6 or? at a |
