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What else is there?
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We've got a problem.
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We both can't win.
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No. That's not the problem.
:28:21
-The problem is, I can't afford to lose.
-Who won the Gans-Nelson fight?

:28:26
Gans, on a foul, in the 42nd round.
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The greatest fighter I ever saw in my life,
black or white.

:28:34
Won me $300, which I ran into $2,000.
Most of it old Parker's money.

:28:40
-Anyway....
-You know, I'm un-American?

:28:46
What's that?
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I don't know exactly.
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Except, if you're not the best...
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...or the first and the greatest,
if you don't win...

:29:04
...then you're not American.
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-Which brings us to the problem.
-I didn't know Joe Gans was a black man.

:29:12
I just bet everything on this race.
I got 7-to-1.

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You bet $2,000?
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-On yourself?
-Who else?

:29:29
Well, that's not so serious.
:29:31
All you got to do is beat
J.B. Parker's champion horse...

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...and J.B. Parker's champion rider,
and J.B. Parker's champion disposition.

:29:38
No. That ain't all.
:29:40
My bet says no other rider
in the race will beat mine.

:29:45
That's in writing and that's a problem.
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Miss.
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You got nothing to worry about.
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You admit that you can out-drink...
:29:58
...out-fight, out-shoot, out-jump...

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