:59:00
- Not bad, Dan.
- Here's Vancouver two weeks ago.
Now, hold on.
:59:04
- There's my boy,
the one on the right.!
- Couldn't miss him.
:59:07
Rushes straight in. Why,
when that kid first... Aw, for cryin'out loud.
:59:11
- Won't take a minute.
- I don't think we have to see any more, Pop.
:59:14
- No.
- So, what do ya say?
:59:18
- If that's no white hope,
I'm Queen Pocahontas.
- He's the right stuff, Dan.
:59:21
- Maybe a little raw yet.
- Fresh. Fresh is what he is.
:59:24
Big, clean, strong. Real farm boy.
They're waiting for something like him.
:59:29
I'm ready to promote it, Dan.
What do you think?
:59:31
I think he's a full-grown polar bear myself.
He's the best of the bunch. I won't argue.
:59:36
But say we send him over... bang...
it's 10-to-1 the black boy does it again.
:59:40
- Then where are we?
- We won't ever have it on a plate, you know.
:59:43
Pop, Fred,
let me tell you a secret.
:59:46
The next white hope is the one
who gets that belt back...
:59:49
not means to or almost does
or gets half-killed in trying.
:59:53
He takes it!
He finishes right on his feet...
:59:56
with a big, horizontal nigger
down there for good.
1:00:00
What do you mean, Dan?
Is it yes or no?
1:00:03
Pop, I'd like you
to meet a friend of mine.
1:00:07
- Is Mr. Dixon here yet?
- I'm right here, Dan.
1:00:09
Oh, come on in.
1:00:13
- Pop Weaver.
- How are ya?
1:00:15
- Fred.
- Gentlemen.
1:00:17
Have a seat. Dixon's with the bureau,
you see, and like you might expect...
1:00:21
they have Mr. Jefferson
on their minds too.
1:00:24
Now, I've been down there, and we've
got some ideas. You explain it to 'em, son.
1:00:30
Well, when a man beats us out like this,
we of course look foolish...
1:00:34
but more important,
so does the law.
1:00:36
People lose respect for law, and that
we just cannot afford right now.
1:00:40
You may not be aware of it yet, but a very
large, very black migration is in progress.
1:00:43
They're coming from the fields
down South, filling up the slums.
1:00:46
And I am talking about hundreds
of thousands, maybe millions soon.
1:00:49
Millions of ignorant Negroes
rapidly massing together.
1:00:53
Now, we cannot allow the image of this man
to go on impressing and exciting these people.
1:00:58
- I'm only a sports promoter.
- He read the writing on the door, Pop. Go on.