Novel - When a Broadway agent sells a boxing kangaroo act to a showman who rang up for a knife thrower; something really gets started. The kangaroo is a male called Matilda who accidently tangles with a middleweight boxing king incognito. The affray is reported with mock seriousness by Duke Parkhurst; journalist; who claims that Matilda has technically become World Champion. Thereafter Bimmie the agent; Billy Baker The Bermondsey Kid who owns Matilda; Duke and a variety of rascals; scoundrels and reprobates all get involved. Even the Mafia tries to get a slice of the action. Paul Gallico has written an ingenious and hilarious entertainment which is a champion in the fiction contest.