Philo Vance: Heavyweight Murder Case 11/16/1948

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What is the introduction to the Philo Vance episode about?

Choice Classic Radio Host 0:00
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District Attorney Markham 0:39
Keep your chin on your left shoulder, Mike. Get that shoulder up higher. Keep your left out. Further. That's it. Keep him away from that left. Keep jabbing, Mike. Keep that left hand in his kisser. Get him off balance with it. Now the right. Okay, Mike. That's enough for today. Come on over here. I want to talk to you. Let me have that glove. I'll take it off for you.
Mike Daggett 1:03
There we are. Feels good to get that mouthpiece out of my jaw and these gloves off, Sammy. How'd I look in there today?
District Attorney Markham 1:11
You'll do. Throw this robe over your shoulders. I want you catching cold right now. There you are. Now let's have that helmet you're wearing. I'll put it away with the rest of the stuff.
Mike Daggett 1:20
Good enough, Sam. Well, what goes on now?
District Attorney Markham 1:23
Nothing. You take a shower and you go home. Take it easy. No more workouts till the big fight tomorrow. Then nobody will be calling you Mike anymore. They'll be calling you champ. Think so? Sure. What's the matter? Don't you like the idea? Are you kidding?

How does Mike Daggett prepare for his big fight?

District Attorney Markham 1:38
Mike Daggett, heavyweight champion of the world. You've come a long way, kid, and I'm the guy who brought you up there. Yeah, I know, Sam.
Mike Daggett 1:46
Thanks a lot.
District Attorney Markham 1:47
Oh, forget it.
Mike Daggett 1:48
Oh, look, uh, I gotta stop and see my girl on the way home. That's okay, isn't it?
District Attorney Markham 1:52
Well, uh, it ain't okay, Mike. Huh? I got nothing against Billy Stanley. She's a good kid. She's for you all the way. Only, fighters and females don't make so good. At least not before a big fight. Look, Call her up. Well, what you say goes, Sam. Say, look, you really think I got a chance against the champ? This isn't any pep talk you've been giving me. Oh, you're a cinch, Mike. Only thing that can stop you tomorrow is the referee counting ten over that cheese champ. He's a pushover, Mike, a pushover. You really think that, don't you, Sam? Think it, I know it. By tomorrow night, you'll be champion of the world. Think of that, just think of it. I've been thinking of it, Sam.
Mike Daggett 2:32
And right now, it's the one thing in the world I'm afraid of.
Silk Morgan 2:52
Yeah, who was it?
District Attorney Markham 2:55
Me, Silk. Sam Billings.
Silk Morgan 2:57
Come in and sit down, Sam. I want to talk to you. Okay. I sent for you so I could make you a present of some easy cabbage. Sit down, kid. Sit down.
District Attorney Markham 3:07
I come over because it was near the gym when I just got finished watching Mike Daggett work out. Uh-huh. Not because you sent for me, Silk.

What challenges does Mike face before the championship match?

Silk Morgan 3:14
Well, you won't be sorry. Sam, I've been managing the champ for eight years now. Yeah, I know. We got a couple of more years of easy dough ahead of us if... if your boy don't cop the duke tomorrow night.
District Attorney Markham 3:25
I ain't doubting that, Silk. My boy's a breeze to win. I know it, he knows it, and you know it, or you wouldn't be sending it for me.
Silk Morgan 3:34
Maybe, maybe, but, Sam, look, we ain't in this business for love, are we, huh? No. No, none of us are. Now, suppose I fix it so you and your boy make more dough by losing. You, uh, interested?
District Attorney Markham 3:50
You want Mike to lay down?
Silk Morgan 3:52
That's right. On a golden pillow with an awful lot of cash for a blanket. Hey, where you going?
District Attorney Markham 3:59
Out. No dice on your deal, Silk. Mike fights clean. He fights honest. That's it.
Silk Morgan 4:04
Not yet, it ain't. You stand between me and a fortune, Sam.
District Attorney Markham 4:07
If I am, I ain't moving out of the way.
Silk Morgan 4:09
Oh, okay. Want to play rough, huh? I'll toss you out of here right in your ear, Sam.
District Attorney Markham 4:16
Hey, don't call me you.
Silk Morgan 4:17
Sure, but this is just a sample of what you get if you let your lip get loose. See, I wouldn't say anything about our conversation if I were you, Sam.
District Attorney Markham 4:31
If I wouldn't throw a fight, you'd throw me out of your office.
Silk Morgan 4:33
That's right. Only that ain't all I'm going to do. Your boy's going to lay down tomorrow night, Sam. One way or another...
Mike Daggett 4:52
Look, Billy, I shouldn't even be here. Sam told me to call you up, made me promise I'd go right home so I'd be in shape to fight tomorrow night.
Unknown 4:59
Well, I'm sorry, Mike. I don't mean to quarrel, only I can't help it.

What are the events leading up to the fight?

Unknown 5:03
Why can't you see things my way? I can, baby.
Mike Daggett 5:06
And maybe you aren't wrong, Billy, but give me a break. Look at what I put into this fighting business.

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