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YOUR MAIN STREET AND MINE 1 have never witnessed a rciit I)ilzc flKht hilt I havo met prac- tically every heavyweight champion who has won the famous Wm. K. Fox, I'ollce Oa- zette, champion- ship belt since the miphty John I... Sullivan, lost it. r can even re- member th« (lay : T followed John j T>. Sullivan down !Main Street, In ' Kansas City, and the- blp kick we kids Kot out of it. Sullivan was on (what they called in those days) a brawl. We kids lollowed him to Market Square, across the street from the Glllis Opera House, watchinp him lift the hind wheels of farm wagons over the curb across the sidewalk, along with other stunts he pulled to show his great strength. At Market Square he lifted a large size calf from a farmers wagon, carried It across the street and tossed it through the swinging •doors of a corner saloon. He was a \cut-up but never-the-les8 a popular champion In the days of bare knuckle fighting. Many con- sidered it an honor to shake hands with the mighty Sullivan as the then popular song would imply, entitled, \I'm the Man That Shook the Hand of John L. Sullivan.\ • « « T met Jack Dempsey at the Planter's Hotel in St. Louis, at a victory breakfast sponsored by the eports writers of the Missouri city on the morning of his arrival in St. Louis, from Toledo, where he had become the new heavyweight champion of the world, the day before. Dempsey sat across the table from me with his manager. Jack Kearns, and as the fruits and cereals were being served, Dempsey grabbed the waiter's arm and growled: \Ditch that stuff and bring me some ham and eggs.\ • • « Years later, I met Jack Dempsey at Santa Monica, California. He had won many ring battles since the Toledo knockout, and was not the same tough prize fighter I saw the day after his Toledo fight, but more like a quiet mannered busi- ness man. I was manager of the Santa Monica Amusement Pier, and I invited him to take a trip on the famous \Dip.\ a thrilling ride where the little ope» cars are hoisted by power to a high point several hundred feet out and over the Pacific Ocean, then released to coast down and around sharp curves at a breath-taking speed back to the starting point. Demp- sey watched the crowded little open cars as they were released at the top of the tower and listened to the screaming pleasure seekers as they rounded the curves down the steep incline and said quietly: \I guess you'll have to pass me up this time, I'm afraid of those dare- devil rides.\ • • • When I first met James J. (Gen- tleman Jim) Corbett, I was Wm. A. Brady's stage manager at the Manhattan Theatre, at 33rd street and Broadway, during the long run of \Lover's Lane.'\ Corbett, then champion, was under Wm. A. Brady's management. Gentleman Jim was to be the master of cere- monies at a Knights of Columbus benieflt at another theatre, and he Hsked Brady for an assistant. PlTf^y called me to the front olHoe llglil iristrueted ine to go along with help lilm with his show. Arair the show, (^orbett thanked me, and said: \You're all right, young man, I may need you to ring tlown the curtain on me at my n«'Xt light.\ Strange enough, he did lose his next fight at Cimey Island, to Jbn Jeffries. • * * Wm. A. Brady then took the new champion. Jame^ J» ffrles, under his munagementr and comniibbioned Charles T. Vincent to write a play to fit Jeffries. Jeffries was any- thing but an actor, but Vincent fixed up a play where Jeffries had little to do but pose In the village blacksmith shop as the village smithy, and had the opportunity to knock out three or four villains that Vincent had written into a play he titled \The Honest Black- smith.\ Jeffries had a hard time to learn lines, and when he did learn them he couldn't speak plain- ly. 1 held the script on Jeffries at rchearsal.s, and every time he \froze np\ he was slick enough to hammer on the anvil so Br.ady would not hear him fumble his lines. One time I Interrupted Jim's hammering on the anvil to read his lines for him, when Brady, from out front, yelled: \Hell let him liammer on the anvil, that sounds better to me than his lines.\ * * • I met \Lanky Bob\ Fitzslmmons at a charity benefit in New York, at the tall end of the gay nineties, when Julian Eltinge, the great fe- male impersonator, appeared on the same bill. I was chatting with Fitzsimmons and Eltinge on the stage after the show, when a husky scene shifter brushed by Eltinge (dressed in his female finery) and made a remark that prompted El- tinge to take a swing at the stage hand. Fitzsimmons grappled with Eltinge and found him a pretty tough customer to handle. Eltinge was a college trained athlete, and It was claimed that he usually floored the guy who was indiscreet enugh to wink at him when he w^as \female impersonating\ In his bejeweled gowns from Paris. • • • As press representative of the Orpheum Theatre, in Los Angeles, I was authorized to approach Gene Tuney (then wearing the heavy- weight crown) to solicit his \ad\ for the National Vaudeville Artists Association program, a 600 pate book with advertising spaces rang- ing in price from )25 an inch to $500 for a page. The proceeds were to help complete the vaudeville actors' sanitarium in course of con- struction at Saranac Lake, N. Y. Before I had finished the swell sales talk I had \thought up\ the night before, the newly crowned champion said: \Put me down for a full page.\ • • • Benny Leonard, the dapper little fighter, had just won a champion- ship bout in New York, and was APPLICATIONS IN ORDERFORCHILDS HEALTH CAMP Irving Williams, County Com- missioner of Public Welfare, has announced that children who are eligible for admittance to the County Health Camp at Yaphank, whlrh opens July 17 and continues \intll August 28, must make appli- cation and an Investigation will be inade to determine their eligibility. The children admitted to the camp must represent a health problem and they must come from needy families who are unable to pay fori camp services. A doctor's endorsement attesting to the phys- ical need is required. The children need not necessarily belong to a parent on relief but their financial (Situation should be such that this specialized care may properly be provided at public expense. The age limit of the children eli- gible Is from six to 12 years. Un- der the supervision of qualified purses and coun.selors and by ,means of proper and ample nour- ishment, regular rest periods, light exercise, planned recreation and directed hygiene, the children will be given the opportunity to build up their health during the sum- mer months so that they may bet- ter withstand the- rigors of the Fall school season and • the winter months. Plans for classes in child care for parents and other adult mem- bers of the family will be arranged to be held periodically and at least one adult member of the family will be expected to attend. All the children admitted to the camp are expected to remain for the full period of six weeks unless other arrangements are made. Parents pf children who they believe are eligible to enter the county camp phould -write County Commission- er Williams at Yaphank. • • • • *«•**« * « * « « FOR BARGAINS SEE OUR Classified Ads playing a triumphant vaudeville engagement at the Orpheum The- atre that same week at a reputed salary of $3,000 a week. At the opening night, at the close of his act, the Orpheum stage was liter- ally filled with huge floral ofCeringe handed over the footlights as a publicity stunt. After the show he ordered me to send the flowers to the city hospital, saying: \The sick guys will appreciate 'em, fight- ers don't.\ LUNCHEON 60c ALSO A LA CARTE STEAK PLATES - FRIED CHICKEN CHICKEN CHOW MEIN LOBSTERS - CRABS - SANDWICHES MANNIE^S BAR and GRILL 118 GRIFFING AVE. 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