The future boxing impresario ran a numbers game in those days .
The future boxing impresario ran afoul of Shondor Birns , a tough Hungarian Jew who did n't look kindly on King 's reluctance to let him wet his beak .
The future boxing impresario ran a numbers game in those days , and ran afoul of Shondor Birns , a tough Hungarian Jew who did n't look kindly on King 's reluctance to let him wet his beak .