The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 17, 1920, Page 11

OK FOR AN ARMISTICE lant Action Deferred Pend- ing Special Election in November | Plea of the jitney interests for an joe pending the special elec- to be called on November 2 ll be considered by the city coun: @t Its meeting next Monday. Im a communication signed by I, Manning, president of the uto Drivers’ Union local No, 245 following request was mace: , “Zn view of the fact that two are pending before your ble body affecting the opera: | Of jitney busses for ratification the forthcoming election, we re ly request’:that we be al to continue under existing tt until such time as an nt can finally be made by OF deckied by the election.” BOYS BADLY HURT BY AUTOS > Have Broken Legs, One » Has Scalp \ Wound ‘Two Byearcid bop boys Rad broken lege Friday, a S-yearcld had a scalp wound, and another aged 4, was bruised, due to a by autos Thursday, The P Stanley McMillan, 6, 1015 B. 40th leg broken when hit by auto oh a ae yeti mearly scalped when caught by of S. Massa’s grocery truck Playing in front of house. lives at 2007 Main st Louie Chichitti, 4, of 926 Poplar bruised by auto of Mike Mas | aes 2116 Judkins st, at Rainier ave. Norman st PRENCH LEADER RESIGNS OFFICE today submitted President Pau! "a resignation to the cabi- ‘The French cabinet tofay an- the national assembly will called to Versailles palace next ‘to elect Deschanel’s succes: p. The call for a special seasion | to go out today. dent Deschanel’s latest acci- in which he was reported to} fallen into @ canal near his| at Ramboufilet, was one of | series, according to reports here. ' Le Matin said it was known in| 1 circles that a month before nel fell from a moving train | Mont Brison he took an un intable ducking in St Ger. forest, Deschanel was rescued Friday when he fell into the canal | his chateau by a fisherman some servants. He was re-| to be entirety unconscious an accident had befallen him. ES SUICIDE AFTER QUARREL Takes Poison Following Row With th Stepfather by poison at her home, 203} 2nd ave. N., Thursday evening. quarrel with her stepfather Is| ht to have caused the girl's / "While the famfty ate supper, she ‘out on the back porch and 0 the contents of a Yial. mother tried in vain to stop is _MRS. JESSIE M. LIGHTFOOT, dent of the Women's Commer- club, was unanimously chosen | "a delegate to represent that or- nization in the King county legis- ative federation at a meeting held fm the Elks’ club Thursday. “rhe ‘Telfair family" I began, paughtfy. “1 mean profeasional beauty,” sald my hearer, “She is greatly and widely ad ” T answered, cautiously. Any sisters?” “one” “You know any more girls “Why, several,” I answered. “And & few others.” “gay,” thing—can you hand out the dope to other girls? Can you ehin ‘em and make matinee eyes at ‘em and squeeze ‘em? You Know what I mean. You're just shy when it comés to this particular dame—the profession: a) Deauty—ain't that right?!* “In a way you have outlined the situation with approximate truth,” I admitted. “I thought #0,” sald Mack, grimly. “Now, that reminds me of my own case, I'll tell you about ft.” I was indignant, tut concealed tt What was this loafer’s case or any- body's case compared with mine? Besides, I had given him a dollar and ten cents, “Feel my muscle,” sald my com- panion, suddenly flexing his biceps. 1 did so mechanically, The fellows in gyms are always asking you to do that. His arm was as hard as castdron, “Four years ago,” sald Mack, “T could lick any man tn New York out- sido of the professional ring, Your case and mine is Just the same I come from the West Side—between 20th and i4th—-and I won't give the number on the door, I was @ scrap- per when I was 10, and when I waa 20 no amateur in the city could stand up feur rounds with ma 'S a fact, You know Bill MeCarty? No? He managed the smokers for some of them swell clubs. Well, I knoeked out everything BiN brought up be- fore me. I was a middleweight, but sald Mack, “tell me one) necessary, TI boxed all over the West Side at Muts and benefits and pri; | vate entertainments, and was never put out once, “But, say, the first time I put my foot Mm the ring with a profeasional I wae fo more than @ canned lobster, T dunno how it was—I seemed to joe heart. I guess. t too much imagination. There was a formality and publicness about it that kind of Weakened my nerve. I never won a fight in the ring. all kinds of scrubs used to sign up with my manager and then walk up &nd tap me on the wrist and see me | fall. The minute I seen the crowd and @ lot of gents in event: clothes down in front, and seen a profes sional come inside the ropes, 1 got as weak as ginger ala “Of course, it wasn't long tin 1 couldn't get no backers, and I didn’t have any more chances to fight @ | professional — or many amateurs, either, But lemme tell you—I was aa good as most men tnside the ring or out. It waa just that dumb, dead fecling I had when I was up against @ regular that always donp me up. “Well, sir, after I had got out of the business, I got @ mighty crouch on. I used to go round town licking private citizens and all kinds of un professionals just to please myself. I'd lick cops in dark streets and car conductors and cabdrivers and dray- men whenever I could start a row with ‘em. It didn’t make any differ. ence how big they were, or how much science they had, I got away with ‘em. If I'd only just have had the confidence in the ring that I had beating up the best men outside of it, I'd be wearing black pearls and heliotrope silk socks today, “One evening I was walking along near the Bowery, thinking ut things, when along comes a sifm ming party. About six or seven, they was, all in ewallowtails, and these could train down to a welter when THE SEATTLE STAR sidewalk. T hadn't had a scrap tn three days, and I just myn ‘Delight 04’ and hits him back of the ear. “Well, we bad it, The Johnnie put UP as decent @ little fight as you'd want to #eo in the moving pletures: Tt was on a wide street and no copa Around. The other guy had @ lot of Solence, but it only took me about six minutes to lay him out. “Some of the swallowtalls dragged | | him up against some steps and be Lightweights and) gan to fan him. Another one of ‘em comes over to me and says: “"Young man, do you know what you've done? “"Oh, beat it* says I. ‘Tve done nothing but @ little punching bag work. Take Freddy back to Yale and tell him to quit studying sociology on the wrong side of the sidewalk,’ “'My good fellow,’ anys he, ‘T don't Khow who you are, but I'd like to. You've knocked out Keddy Burna, tte champion middieweight of the world! He came to New York yes terday to try to get a match on with Jim Jeffries, If you~ “But when I come out of my fatnt 1 was laying on the floor tn @ drug store saturated with aromatic spirits of ammonia, If I'd known that was Reddy Burna, I'd have got down in the gutter and crawled past him in- stead of handing him one like I did. Why, if I'd ever been tn a ring and seen him climbing over the ropes, T’d"have been all to the sal-volatile “So that's what imagination does,” concluded Mack. “And as I your case and mine is sevtincanel You'll never win out. You' can't ¢ Up againat the profi you, it's a park be this romance business.’ Mack, the pessimist, tughed harshly. “I'm afraia I don't ene the paral Jel,” I said, coldly. “I have only @ very slight acquaintance with the edge with other users. 2. Food Editor of Fifty Dollars in Gold For the Best Letters About Every woman who has delighted in the use of NUCOA on her home table will now have an op- portunity to win money—a cash prize—for writ- ing the story of her experience with this ultra- fine spread for bread. 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A representative from the advertising department of the Seattle Star. ‘AN letters must be received by November 1, 1920. -Send yours to: Nucoa Department A. Magnano Company 1118 Western Avenue | (=) with his forefinger, for emphasis, as he explained his " eaid he, with some dignity, “has got hin la on some poke good to him. With dame that you're afraid nay to, With me, it was to win out in the ring. Well, you'll lone just lke T did.” “Why did you think I shall lose?’ I asked warmly, “'Caune,” said he, “you're afraid to €o In the ring, You dassen’t stand “Bvery mai | up before a professional, Your-case and fine is just the mma You're oateur; and that means that better keep outside of the ropes.” We, 1 must be going,” I nald, rising and looking with elaborate care at my watoh. When I wan 20 feet away the park bencher called to me, “Much obliged for the dolar,” he said. “And for the dime, But you'll never got ‘or, You're in the amateur clasn.” “Serves you right.” I eid to my self, “for hobnobbing with @ tramp. Hin tmpudence! But, as | walked, his words seemed to repeat themnclves over and over again in my brain, T think I even arew angry at the man, “I'll show him!" I finaly sata, aloud. “I'l show him that I can fieht Reddy Burns, tooeven know- tig who he ts.” I hurried to a telephone booth and rang up the Telfair residence. A ‘soft, sweet voice answered. Didn't I know that voice? My band holding the recetver shook, “Is that you?” said I, employing the foolish words that form the vo- qabulary of every talker thru the telephone, “Yea, this tr T,* came back the an- swer in the low, clearcut tones that are an, inheritance of the Tetfairs. “Who ts it, please? “Tt's me,” said J, less ungrammat- feally than egotistically, “It's me, and I've got a few things that I want to my to you right now and imme diately and straight to the point “Dear me," said the voica “Oh, it's you, Mr. Arden!” I wondered if any accent on the wan fine at saying things that you had to study out afterward, "Y¥ps," anid 1, “Il hope so, And now to come down to brass. tacks.” thought that rather a ve if there ts ; had maid it; but 1 didn't stop to apole, gixé. “You know, of course, tha © you, and that I have been in| that iditole state for a long time, I don't want any more foolishness) about it—that an I want an answer from right pow. "Will you marry me or not? “Hold the wire, please. Keep out, Central. Helio, hello! Will you, or will you not? That was fust the uppercut for) Reddy Wurns’ came back: “Wh I didn't know that you—that Is, you never said-—oh, come up to the hous, please—I can't say what I want to over the phone. You are so impor- tunate. house, won't you?” Would 1? T rang the bell of the Telfairhouss violently. Some sort of a human came to the door and shooed me ini the drawing room “Oh, well,” said T to mynelf, look-| fog at the ceiling, “any one can learn from any one, That was a pretty £008 philosophy of Mac yhow. He didn't take advantage the ea- perience, but I get the benefit of it. If you want to get into the profes- stonnl class you've got to—* I stopped thinking then. Someone ‘was coming down the stairs, My knees began to shake. I knew then how Mack had felt when a profes sional began to climb thru the ropes. I looked around foolishly for a door or window by'which I might escape If it had been any other girl ap Proaching, 1 mightn’t have— ‘The door opened and Beas, MU- dred's younger sister, came into the room. I'd never seen her look so much Hike a glorified angel. She walked straight up to me and— chin, The answer fectly wonderful eyes and hair Eliza beth Telfair had “Phil,” she sala in the Telfair @weet, thrill tones, “why didn't "hil, dear, of course I want Hut please come up to the “FU NERAL SERVICES FOR GEO. C. DELFEL, 608 Bright st, who died yesterday at Providence hosp! tal, will be held from Butterworth’s at a time to be announced. Delfel had been a resident of Seattle for 8 years Making Big Catch Z in Whaling Season | 4 ABERDERN, Sept. 17.—With 190 4 whales already taken, officials of the Bay City Whaling: station have marked 200 for the total number exe, pected in the Grays Harbor catch, before the season choses in the mide | you tell me about tt before? 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