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It was so. cold that. Jack’s .feet were frozen, and at a town which Jack thlr.k3 waa Hoisinpton, Kan., a 1 thouglit he isn't sure of that point, they had 'to ‘.'unload. Tho fighter hobo waa in great misery' and Liz helped him to the roundhouse In . the railroad yards.and 'rode to Saltda. • 'I had” 1:6 staythere-all night, but-I kept hid out. because the last time I was in .Sailda I was pretty prosperous, and I didn't want to lee tho people I knew aeo me back there oh the hummer. Then I caught a train and rodeThey wanted', to Ho down .and sleep, but the railroad folk chased them out .and they limped down the tracks until ithey came to an old box car and built a little flro on the flnor out of paper an I some slivers of wood. The blaze thawed them out,-and under its '' warming influence they fell asleop.I woke up after a . while,” says Jack, ' and I smelt something burning. The floor of the box car was on fir©. Well, we got out of there pretty quick, you bet.-and went on up into the town. We were good and hungry, but 'Liz1 had no idea of how to mooch something to eat, so 1 bad to hit a house myself.I knocked on the. kitchen door of the first one we capia to, and out came tho‘ prettiest girl I ever'saw In my life. She had great big eyes and a grand smile. -I: don't know why, but I felt ashamed all ■ of • asudden, and I held my head down while I was asking.her for - some cats. She gave us a bundle cf turkey sandwiches and some oranges, and ! don’t think I ever tasted anythin s so good in all my life. Say, nhe was a pip I” ■ *They brought up In the railroad station, and were sitting there get-ting warm when the door opened and a minion of the local law- entered, . casting an eagle • orb' about the place... • :He waa looking for fellows' to go :to work, . says Jack, ''and :'he spotted Liz and me right away. He --- AittUL It W , XI (* ' * 1(5 ML, a,knew-we were- .'boea, and -he. was ‘ lasted.■ hunting ’boes. 'That's the way they * They will1 r ^ is. . i » ■ iv — ——•• • ^ 11 lUjget-the work done In Kansas. 'Come on, you fellers/ ho says to Liz and me, I’ve got a nice job for you/1;-Welt, of course wo didn’t want any jobs, hut we had to go along with him or go to -jail, and even work's better than • a Kansas Jail. He.too* us to' a bowling, alley and set. us .-to. work sticking up the ten pins after th®-bowlers- knocked'- 'em over.“I had. on a big sweater, and I sweat liko a good fellow putting up pins for. awhile. They. had some other boes. in. there doing the same thing, ana one of them dropped a ball on my hand. I'd had some of my fingers mashed not long before that on tho trip to Kansas City . trying to get Into a water tank, and the ball squashed the rest of them. My Jhntny, how it hurt! - .1. had toquit'work, and the guy in charge- oya ave 1110 a quarter/'. Two more days of hard, and very cold traveling; got the wayfarers to Pueblo, .Co1o.,and 'Fisher’s home, which Is a. short distance out of town. -There they met-a' warm welcome, for.-Fisher's mptlier was-glad to see Mm again, and glad to have any friend of her son's.as a guestl * Sh© la a fine.woman. says Darnp.sev. /-She gave me. $5'and; I got ahaircut Jdnd 'a few; other, .things. Then I /went to the express.. office to .get the suit case X -Had deft iwith Morris in Kansas City,-' and!I'foundthat-??Ld ' sent u C/a. D; There was J2.C0 due on it, so pretty soon I.waa broke again.- •- •; •I . stayed around . Fisher*!' for quite a while.- and I made [myself usef ul on the-ranch; too. ‘I killed- couple of pigs for -them ind dressed the meat, and did •* a lot of other ; work, .because I - know Hcmethlnsr about farmlug. if I don?t-know any. thing else. . .wanted/to get. .back home as soon, as I-could, so after resting-up good.I went into^.town'one'ddy- ahd nailed a Rio Grande passenger triOn.T-W' a real- good' 'boit! ^ * ^ e’ an(i you forget'atPueblo,, ibut.sh^. Jet m© ride to-‘the SHE Of Florence. Ylwa* riding the blind:—the front of .the baggage bar y ou’know-1*and he made-me unload* Then I swung ih under on the rod*.. • 4 : V- .grabbed another rattler bn into Salt ■~e* - I- -waa homo oiice more, and glad of-it. v Yea,, sir, I was glad!”ADVENTURES ON THE ROAD.By Damon Runyon.XXIV.It was bitter colcl as Jack Dempsey and Fisher went whirling:over the right-of-way of the Missouri Pacific railroad, clinging . to *“vu l t-augin a cram ana roae the roas beneath a fast passenger J to*: Grand. Junction, near the Utah tram, bound for Pueblo, Colo. .. . ; state line, stayed there all day andDempsey and Liz1 Fisher arrivedIn Pueblo New Year’s day, 1917. ..Only two years agq, mark - you, yet within that timo the man from jyianassa pas. come from a rod-riding-hobo without a dime to a-S27r-500 match! . Talk about your romance, what do you make of that? -Speaking of. romance reminds me tnat somewhere In among His Jaunts eastward and . westward, Jack Dempsey managed to. work .some of that sort of-lt; thing Into hie life. • Hb got-himself married -jpi-how.: and where deponoth . sayeth/not. As I gather, it was a--matrimonial tie which did not -'take,” and which has since been-dissolved.It Is not a matter on which I feel disposed to expatiate at length.' forI know little or nothing'concerningooa, £J?ntJ?n ]t in Pas«ln* because assuredly those matters, are part ofa 3 ‘Sometimes all of It.nt?T ,.befBl1 Incidentwhich I am-Inclined;to,think JackDempsey has oftfcn ' regretted. It was -a match with Jim Flynn, tho 9ld Pueblo fireman,-, .one . of the greatest characters Who' ever pokedthe and .a□ay ^ Individual in the ring in; hisThat day was well past and gone when Flynn met Dempsey.’ Jim waa +Ji*st a,ri ol(? 'tocthlcsa tiger,with, the . spirit' of\ combat fctillstrong within, him, but 'withoutlt; the means of execution. , Had Jim’s size peen. commensurate with his 'fighting heart he: Would have been cham-Pjon* . Whenever- he 'crawled through the ropes the fistic, followers-knew there..was going .to- be .afight and a,good* fight*- while/ itBrAU,;y.T ^ aiwaya. rememberfw ni5 'N?w ,YorJc: h?w- Jim took carl Morris, then touted'oa'-a championship possibility/;and. beat .him .lO a geyser of gore *-in-Madisot)T«™a£e*Farden: later metJim Coffey at Brighton*-Beach at a time when they thought they’ hadr,1® if prepplt;?d for-'a*1.bigmatch with Willard,, and .how Fiynnpasted Coffey until \t looked ag if he would knock him'out, only to have nig. own .seconds, .tosg.. In a towel on the ground that Flynn had broken hi! hands. *. . r . .. . •- : : .?uch -aston-is bed at the moment, -but- afterward iMfhod at the Incident. The Flynn victory, over Coffey that seemed impending when tho tOTFel pame In- would;haVe/beep'a,serious Promotorial ' pia'na. 'Andnt?vtr a 8P°n-fliort. -In addition-to all that, he MIGHT havedone aqmethlns to. bia -hnhde .tf heCoffey D 0n' . h^rllr-er IntoCopyright. }»9,. hy Damon Bunyon.IOWA CITY RIFLEMEN WIN THIRb PLACETGWA CITY, -la.V .ml-infr from the National Rifle aasocia-' tlon hM been received here, .ailai it pJaces ?the th'reo. leading ;‘tcoins * * of Unifpd,. -fijtatea. Jn- thq intersjcoJastic tournament; In*, the 'fcilowlng. qrder: t^ntralHh • WashihgtoX^ - C/(9,904); 2-^-Jaunatca* - (N» :- Y I ' HiTh6/vaS*-Tfcw«i;CityRi (iiWh The - SIcKLnley Manual TrainineSchool, Washinglon, D. C.. clal-va a^2 DTv?'67^-'wnsctcopti Vb’,.a;«hovvlt'5 lowa'City tofourth, iut the .National associaticnrules that it failea. to ..turn ita ecoree, „d; therefore Is -branded Sup rating, leavinr the order o winners, as ■ above .stated.'.' ■ 5THREE NE^HAY®^ : j }' PILOTS ARE NAME!6-—Threetxins,.wetN..elected by'teams, of .To Waui^v^rslt^fbiensuing year. Track, . .LeorttgbM^: Jowa. CHy; ba«eball, Car tSi TTh°T7lbjrg’ basketLso -Nicolaus, - WOton Junctiori
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Fri, Jun 06, 1919
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