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 of a born fighter,—a fact which earlier in his career had been a source of much disappointment and chagrin to his belligerent father,



Timothy O'Malley. Indeed, before Lonely had even emerged from the petticoat to the knickerbocker era his father, especially during a period of mild inebriation, had played at