Jack Spot was a notorious gangster during the 1930s. From London's notorious east end, Spot was known to run with Jack Kid Berg, the famous British Junior Welterweight Champion. Judah Bergman, known as Jack Kid Berg or Jackie Kid Berg (June 28, 1909 â 22 April 1991) was an English boxer born in the impoverished east end of London, Great Britain, United Kingdom. ...
Like Berg, Spot was of Jewish origin. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...
That Spot trembled and wobbled and cowered before ever I swung the lash, and with the first bite of it he howled like a lost soul.
That Spot was along--there was no losing him; and a dozen times, the first day, he knocked one or another of the dogs overboard in the course of fighting with them.
Spot crawled out of the hospital water-hole, licked off the water, bit out the ice that had formed between his toes, trotted up the bank, and whipped a big Newfoundland belonging to the Gold Commissioner.