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fi } FEATHERWEIGH BG PURSE FAS. TO LURE KILBANE INTORNG ACTION et King of Feathers Enjoyed Fighting in Nine-Year Ca-| reer as Title Holder, When His Dazzling Foot Work Won Many Laurels—Pre-| ferring to Spare Opponents, | _ Kilbane Could Punch When Necessary, Especially When He Knocked Out Chaney in} Three Rounds at Cleveland, | By Robert Edgren. ° N writing this story about Johnny ] Kilbane we feel that we'd better) hurry, because Johnny might fight some challenger for his featherweight! title and become one of the ex-cham-| pions, Johnny has held the feather| championship for nearly nine years, and that’s a long time, Too long, | Johnny's chaliengers say, now that | Kilbane {s admittedly growing rather | large for a featherweight and his at- tention is devoted principally to buy- | ing and selling real emtate and “| Jecting renta, It took Kilbane a long time to show signs of slipping, but if declining an) offer of $30,000 in Tex Rickard’s good money to defend the old title against | a picked challenger isn’t evidence of decline and fall from championship | class, what is? | I have no trouble in remembering | the time when Johnny would have been glad to fight any feather in the world for fifteen hundred or for the \ Jorniy WLBaNe§ Foor wieRk HAD! Em AU. GUEtsnG . a TCH Nonny wos he Feareremet rua BY MernG CLevrR. Ape ATTEUW Loor Weetiti, Mom, 2o Rounds - THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, “EBRUARY 5 AMPION TO RETIRE UNDEFEA HOW JOHNNY KILBA Copyright, 1921, by Robert Edgren. ral fun of it. If Kilbane was Kilbane he'd ¢hen, when Kilbane outboxed Abie and do it now. Johnny may be fair, fat and thirty-, one to-day, but he was the genuine| and original “Fighting, Mick" when) he beat Able Attell for the feather- weight crown at Vernon, Cal., Feb. 22, 1912, Surest thing you know, that boy could fight anything from a Mex- tean wildcat to a grizaly bear and get away with it. . He had a poke like a lightning bolt | ond a sidestep that made his oppo- nents miss more swings than there are on all the gutes in the country. ‘Talk about a “dancing fool!” That was Johnny Kilbane when he felt like dancing. He could hop, skip and jump around a ring in a way that would make Johnny Dundee look like & loaded truck trying to go up Fort Lee hill on an icy morning. ‘They couldn't hit Kitbane with a bucket of birdshot, and that's all there was to it. He invited punches, and when they arrived he simply wasn't there, And all the time he was slapping and tapping and laugh- ing and chatting and making a mon- key out of the earnest young man in front of him, until people in the front row laughed so hard they fell off their life his Abie had been “shown temper roughing laughed at him, and jabbed him until Able’s head bounced around like tie bean of a rag doll in a bail throwing parlor at Coney Isinnd, Kilbane won the decision and championship. over finished him as a great fighter and he never was good for much atterward. As for York and boxed Frankie Burns, going around Frankie shadow. As champion he contented himself with outboxing everybody. and when he had tapped and danced | successfully grew weary of seeing hin erweight rivals forgot that had a punch, One Baltimore, “Knockout King,” having knocked out nearly all of his opponents for six the hod him floundering like a stranded Porpoise. Kilbane danced around Attell ana Attell plunged at him until he was les weary. It was the first time in his tfooted anu and he completeiy lost and tried fouling and And Kilbane foiled him, up the “hollered” ail the defeat Attell country, (but Kilbane, he went to New like a skittering years people and feath- he ever of the for four of these, George Chaney became famous, as years, Chaney challenged Kilbane seats. by te and Chaney's manager abused Johnny PUNCH THERE WHEN WANTED. through the sporting papers for Yet, when he wanted to, Kilbane | months. Kilbane seemed unwilliag to surely could fight! There was an in- stance of this ong time back in 1911, when he fought Joe Rivers, the sen- sational little Mexican slugger, who ‘was several times within un ace of being the world’s lightweight cham- fon. - ‘The first time Kivbane met Rivers was May 1, 1911. At that time Kil- bane was just beginning to take the star part in Jimmy Dunn's stable. He had beaten several good feathers and had lost a few decisions, averag. ing very well. But he had no great record yet. He had lost a ten-round | decision to Abe Attell, and in five years of boxing had fought perhaps 100 small fights. But he was a pop- meet the famous K. QO. boy, bit at last he was nagyed into a match at Matt Hinkel’s club (Matt Hinkel re- fereeing), featherweight ohampionship fight, at weight, Just before that fight Johnny wrote me a letter in which he said: | “They think 1 can’t hit any more.) I can hit always prefer winning on points be- cause I don't like to risk hurting any- body, This time I'm going to let the punch go, and I'll knock this fellow Chaney out in a hurry.” Kilbune made a show of Chaney for two rounds and knocked him cold the third with a single punch on Ular fittie fellow because class stuck |{h.'NE widely advertired as a harder than ever, but | ‘After this he was busy out all over him, He had a fighter’s|euin for another year, outpointing wpeed, skill, judgment, temperament | and build, and the crowd liked to look ; at him. This first time Joe Rivers outboxed | Kifbane and won a twenty-round de- |j cision over him. Kilbane takes great pride in the fighting ability of the boys In no-decision bouts, Then Kilbane made his first ring| mistake. weigat ve been all right if Benny Leonard hadn't held the title just then. és nard Trish race, and the thought that his | odor the He went championship. after the light- This might a new champion leverest and most effe colors had been lowered by a Mexi- tive hitters ever seen in his class. can stung him hard. He went Bast.’ qh» fight was in the ball park at boxed a couple of short bouts and re- | philadelphia and drew a tremendous turned to the Coast to fight Rivers | crowd again in September. During the early rounds of that fight Rivers had the better of it. ‘The Mexican was a wildcat for ac- tion when he was confident of win- ning, and he had beaten Kilbane be- fore. But under the flailing blows from the start, as \ulways jman. Kilbane the third round. | ‘After this both Leonerd and Kil- bane were called in vice, accepting appointnients as army Leonard outclassed Kilbane can oute’ 33 u good small wus knocked out in into military ser- that broke through his guard and poxing instructors, and both did caught’ him in spite of his swift foot-/eprendid work—Leonard at Upton work, Kilbane omy grew more grim- gang Kilbane at Camp Sherman, Ia ly determined. The fight half over, he began to press Rivers and search for an opening and a chance to time! a knockout punch, In the sixteenth round he cracked Joé on ths chin with a terrific fight and knocked him cold, ‘That made Kilbane's reputation. He beat Frankie Conley in 20 rounds at Vernon, went East and fought a no-decision 12-rounds with Charlie White, returned to California and was matched with Abe Attell. At that time Attell was regartnd an absolutely invincible feather- weight champion, He had held the title for many years, and when thero were no more featherweight contend- ers good enough to give him a ‘ight he took on the best of (he lightwe ehts Atte was wonderfully skilful and he could fight on even terms with to at lau Ohio. Since a few old kill |flaghing speed that made him cham- pion, as well as the punch that he ‘Used to have on tap when he wanted always with a the bouts, but war Kilbane has boxed showing much of his lacking some of the it. He has taken some weight, and even If he doesn’t fight weight titie he wil let the youngsters have Like Jack McAuliffe, h undefeated made a fai and in business, is interested in poll- tics in his home town, Cleveland, has a large family to bring up, and can easily be contented to rest again in defense of the soon have to retire and chance. can retire Kilbane has is class. xl fortune in 8 on his Nine years a champion—and clean record for fair he best lightweights, while atill oa fighting he nas carted a Place in featherweight himself. Among the ‘8° ° ty Tent Gh, état. Nita) great lightweights he met were Owrn Caper, 1981, avery: nee Moran, ‘Tommy Murphy, Charlie - or White, Matt Wells, K. 0. Brown, Doak Refanes to Sign. Eddie’ Hanlon, Eddie Kelly, Biz| 8ST, LOUIS, Feb. anager Branch Mackay, Freddy Welsh and Battling | Rickey, of the Cardinals, recelved the Nelson, | unsigned contract of pitcher Bill Douk When Rat was world’s champion in. yesterday, Doak refused to amMx li the lightweight class Attell fought slangture to the dogument on t him twice, a six-round draw in ground that he was granted only onc- Phiiadelphia anda 1s-round draw in third of the raive in salary that was California, And he rushed Nelson Promised him, =ad and fought him toe to toe all the way at that, | ATTELL GOT MAD. Attell naturally figured, to the ex- perts, an easy victor over young Johnny Kilbane, Imagine the sur- prise in the packed arena at Vernon for Princeen to Have Lacron PRINCETON, ton will have @ Lacrosse team next year competition clreles, provided shown here this spring to warrant ¢ adoption of the N. J, Feb. 6.—Prin in the enough intercol inte | a good big man) New York Schoolboys Selected To Meet Chicago Skating Team Inter-City Ice Championships] can “wnip” his team into better con- Will Be Staged in Brooklyn March 5. Ata Carlton Hotel by May Thompson of Chicago, City school officials it presented with a The Evening World, boys representing the pr was that the inter-city ice skating cham- | |pionship, the winner of which will be | given by between ‘ophy Dr. Aldinger and several of the New York | wil] make a good showing in the AU81 aceordin: conference held at the Ritz- um Hale Ay KS |78 je schools | another week during which time he dition, ‘Thirty boya, out of over 1,000 who tried for the teams, have so far with- | stood the elimination tests which have been gone through on Mondays, Wed- nesdays and Fridays during the past three weeks, with the result that Coach Howard feels satisfied that has a team which, with a little more experience and coaching, decided | series. The following are the boys that Lave been selected to represent Now York in the Inter-City Skating Cham- pionship: P. §.'10, Manhattan, Murray and | the | | 115, Manhattan, Smith of both Chicago and New York be |4"d Ruggles; P. S, 165. Manhattan, postponed to Saturday afternoon, | ot iid; P. 8. 3, Brooklyn, Bd- March 5, and to be held at the Brook. | Y97dsi, P. 1b, Brgoklya, ‘Asherott a ce: Atlantic |P 8 4, yn, Snyder; P. 8. 26, lyn Ice f . Atlantic and Bedford | faoky yy i Avenues, Brooklyn. ‘This decision was reached after much | discussion, as the Chicago boys are! handicapped to a great extent by the| The New York boys are in the same plight, but to make it agreeable to all lack of outdoor skating. was selected. Considerable progress has been made the head the New York City schoolboy skaters, and he has some very promising mate-| Howard was greatly elated! over the fact that he is to be given! by Tom Howard, rial, Mr. this date coach of High Schools (Juniors)—George Washington, Waldron and in tuyvesant, Goldenberg and Adie | Evander Childs, Newton and Maye | Potts. High Schools (Seniors)—Boys’, Fish- man; Stuyvesant, Purvis and Rein, George Washington, Beck; Morns, Alpern and Rosen; Dewitt Clinton, Hamon; Manual Training, Crown- field; Jama'ea, Thompson; Brooklyn Vocational, Cruman; Erasmus Hail, Newman: Byander Childs, Mamthvn. Billie Knobloch |Teturned the winner of the home and | home match — series gin of 68 pins. TAGK’S GOSSIP AND BOWLING NEWS rolled of Danbury was} with Charley Romer of this city by a mar-| In the first half, rolled on the Lenox alleys, Knobloch EVENING WORLD'S OWN SPORT HISTORY Swimming in icy water, Bteve Ruddy of the New York A. C. thrilled the crowd at the Sportsman's Show, Madi- son Square Garden, last night by win- ning the 220-yard hardicap race in the uncommonly fast time of 2 minutes 572-5 seconds. Ruddy started with w beat Romer by 55 pins and in the|handicup of 15 seconds over the scratch second half rolléd at Knobloch’s/ entry, Henry Glabel, also of the New alleys, Danbury, he increased his| York A. C., and so well did he swim lead by 11 pins for a total of 66 pins. ‘The scores rolled in the final half at to} Danbury follow: Romer—t66, 189, 211, 196, 186, 181, 229, 208, j total, 1,933, Knobloch—192, 165, 158, 202, 245, 2 223, 158, 188; 1,944, Waker N. Hits of in the ring $ okiva, has entered three No. 241 Broadway. Twenty-seven of ihe most expert bowlers in the 2s well ae several mare from Wvanie and Connecticut, Blepbant Individual Bowling mich cpems Monday rvening at tho White Blepnaut drives. ‘The entranta are: Jonept Charen Coste, Chy of New: York: New Jersey, entered in the W ‘Tournume FP Malem, 4. A. Brosean. 2 MoE Magwerty, AL J Hein, © 0. Horan. Cap Johne, JM. Keller, Mort Veo Mariny. J. nay Wormer sevretar to muoreed. btn nein William A. Ruddy Schumacher bor iiladelphalas \ The eon d section of the Metropolitan two-men tram toumament, Known Howling Tournament mament Harney, Valentine was ot the Metropolitan ‘Comin tor Schwab was appuinied is open on ©. 1410 Haneoek Street ama in The Erening Word Head Pin Bowling ‘Tournament to open st the White Kiephant Bowling a on March 28, 4 wm) Georgy 8 dare, Te Te Lindse) ¥. thinks so well of Joe Fal Williog to back him for with Charley Trucks of the Metropolitan Spring y 185; Laicke, under the severe congitions that existed that Glebel cut down little of the orig- aap, | 28! handleap ANNAPOLIS, Md,, Feb, 6,—The Naval Academy athletic authorities have de- clined with thanks offers of both Geor- gia Tech and Boston College to Mil the Navy's one open football date for next fall, Oct. 22. 205, tal, The Crescent A. C. basketball team ts|won its twenty-second victory in as my, |many games by defeating the Villa- nova College team by @ score of 40 to 21 at the Brooklyn club's town house Inst night. are Columbia and New York University will moet on the Morningside basketball aine that will go ing the status of her college in the intercoliegiate race, ¥, U., although not a rember of the league, contests with many of the mem: We |bers throughout the season, and laos ear won the A. A. U. title, But N. ¥ . did not meet Penn, the intercol champions, F tam | WILLIAMSTOWN, Maas, Fob. Williams triumphed’ over Adiherat the avcond time this seaso hockey match, the score Leo Gebel, for In their ig 3 to 0, jew York Athletic Club star, isa student at Rutgers Col~ Jexe, 220 and 100-yard events in the dua! swimming meet be- tween C, C. N.Y. and Rutgers, tn the former's pool, last night. HH: three races in easy fashion, won all eve ning, the Miropolitan Bowling Academy, ———— Boe Wwesnineton, ‘Helga, swith the feliowing t entry to be received for teame competing. Condes and Meser, Cohn and swimming carnival to be Maxter and Beamish apd Fivunn. Fifteen evenly mainbed teams are entered, and the fans are look- | ing forward to & corking good contest. eT, of ‘the Leo Marino and Charley Romer boge-aud-home waicn wrice Manager George Goodinan of the Rirerside Dow acm, has wet Pb, 15 ae the date Wrerside two: owen ‘ehich fifteen tama selected from | in this event. not the Louse are 10 compete id in the City Athletic Club pool on ionday evening is that of Miss Char- lotte Hoyle, Women’s Swimming Asso- ciation, for the 220-yard metropolitan championship. Misa Helen Wainwrixht and Miss Alice Lord will also compete ean | Bobby Botts, middleweight wrestler cf | England, met defeat at the hands of Sallor Sanderson after 18 minutes and 20 seconds of the liveliest ktnd of wre mplc Theatre last o}; was his undoing, NE WON FEATHERWEIGHT TITLE Kirasmus Hall, Paulson; Commercial, | 1921. ’ TED — (Coorriat, 1921, j CHAPTER XX. . (Continued ) | T was about 5 o'clock. Bolivar found Uncle Bara in his office “Hello, Bol! the old man + fald. “You ought to be at the circus, oughtn't you?” “L been. I took Katie along “Gettin’ to be quite a ladies’ man, jain't you?" | Bolivar grinned. "I got somethin’ jelse * want to talk to you "bout," he | suid. Py “Sit down, Whit is it?” “Uncle Exry,’ sald Bolivar, taking a seat on the cdge of a chair, “you recollect I maid if ever I got a chance to help you find Billy Fox, I'd do it?” ‘The old man's face grew solemn, “1 do, Bolivar, an’ [ know you meant it. HUBANGS FIRST ReAL. Bie FoR rane WAS WHEN HE ‘Tie amaican A BORE” Uncle Bary, I ain't sure, but f got & hunch I've found Billy. The old man's eyes grew he sprang from his chair, that?” he almost shouted. think you've found Billy Fox? Aw, Bo}, don't joke me on that subject, I's too near my old heart.” “I ain't jokin’ you, Uncle Eary, You said you thought Billy Fox was stole by clrous people, didn't you?’ “Yes,” replied the old man, eagerly, “Weill, they's « Billy Fox runnin’ the show that's in town to-day, He's the feller that sold you the tickets in Bt. J Moebbe he's yer Billy, Uncle Eary. ‘The old man put his pipe on bis desk and reached for his hat. “Show him to me, Bolivar,” he sald, “Show me this Billy Fox again. If the Lord lets me find my boy He'll be mighty kind. Come on, quick, Bolivar, Show him to me." They hurried to the circus grounds. On the way Bollvar told all about riding the pony and winning the $5, He showed Uncle Bara the paper. sTonns Sow Ww Cond Gworer Caney mer i oe INS Rounds. SHLARES AS START scaustaraticiates NREORGANZATON start of it. You will remember that (Continued Mr, Ford sent his ‘Peace Ship’ to Bu- rope early in December of that year with a delegation that was to end the wur and ‘get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas.’ “Now the idea of the peace ship| “we'll hunt up Fox ant cash the did not originate in Henry Ford's | order first,” sald the old man, “That'll mind, It was unloaded on him by give me a good look at him.’ ‘They found the manager in his Iit- tle private tent. He asked them in. "So you're the lad who ro the pony?” he said pleasantly to Bolivar, as he handed him a $ bill, “You're a plucky boy. What will you do with this money—give it to your father?” “I'll give it to him to keep fer me, If he needs it he can spend it.” “That's right, my boy! I like to see young fellows treat their fathers with consideration, I'd like to have a father to treat that way.” “Ain't you got none?" asked Uncle Fara, gazing straight into the mana- ger's eyes. Rosika Schwimmer, a Jewess and a jerman sympathizer and a revolu- tionist, and Louis Lochner, also a Jewish pro-German masquerading as a pacifist. “We all know how the errand of the ‘Peace Ship’ turned out— iw it made Henry Ford the laughing stock of the world and cost him uw lot of cash money. And by the way, it wasn't Mr, Ford who said he wanted to ‘get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas! It was Lochner: “Mr, Ford didn't care about the money. But in the course of time he came to the,belief that he had been played for a sucker. He inves- From Third Page.) his Henry Ford sto He said that Mr. Ford recently sent for an artist and asked him to purchase a picture to be nung at a certain place in the grand entrance hall of his Dearborn palace, The artist studied the light- ing, panelling and decorations, the dimensions of the hall and other features and then obtained and hung, for Mr. Ford's approval, i the space designated, ‘a beautiful landscape Mr. Ford was not pleased. “IT don't want a landscape.” he is reported to have told the artist.| tigated and became convinced that hee ean Bae ot ay ae ‘What I want there is a picture of | the influences which had prompted | this busingss ever See | Cinvar- machinery.” him to tndertake the peace mission| men ged to tell me T never had a But, Mr. Ford.” the artist said.| were inspired by Jewish revolution-| father f believe my parents ware f to the story, “a pictur@of | ists, who really, in their wild way|trapese people and that both were machinery would not be appropriate. | of thinking, thought they might bel {inea'in ‘entte The picture I have hung silts the Killed in fall able to end the war, cause a revolu- lighting and (he environment, You|tion in Germany, te up with the PF ar eta da did | hich sent to me for my ady Tam an] Russian revolutionary party, demi- hid been sitting and stepped artist, Mr. Ford : nate Kurope and spread their doc- Poy the MABAger The story declares that Mr. Ford] trines all over the world Yer in Fox,” he said | Invited the artist to his study or den.| “Opponed to war, Mr. Ford was an ite hiopsnchd i There Mr, Ford stretched himsol Jon a couch with his arms un | back of his head—a charac ‘ou've been called Billy Fox eve since you can remember, ain't you? Yen." out rothe prist! easy mark. But nobody can make a boob out of Henry Ford twice, And when he made up his mind that he attitude, it is said—and remarked: | had been set up as a boob he started Pee init ed lb te Ria sy | accu, sty You're an artist. Now sit kolting even in bls own way. Mr-|4: dawned on him that the old man e all about art Ford is oroughly convineed that | 4 I ; 4 was trying to identity him, He un- SRITICIZED! “EXPANSIONS” MAY | deme are pelind ithe Fovlet revolis Duttoned “his cuff and turned back | PROVE FINE INVESTMENTS. | tiicu'(% une him, and that ie the mer | nls sleeve. ‘There on his arm was a Particular attention hag been paid son why he is attioking the Jewan |emall sear. Uncle Eara grasped the ‘by those who were most active in cir- culating reports that Mr. lord is ro seriously embarrassed that he has had to beg for money to moet expenditures ME otto dageat yf, faue, (rom Dearborn io Detroit| “mye oid man sank onto the box and the River Rouge plant were foolish | itynday in the same street car seal teovered his face with his hands, The Shit never bs worth aayuiine ant tua out ‘9, the, tractor plant looking fer a | AMmomment ss ne iy i hantan Rouge plant has cost #0 MU} trymen had chipped in 34 cents for | yy Mamata?! be sath ot ate pee Tre horde friends defend these |{"*, found trip carfare and sent him | gotten, butt——. Here he Q . Nae inquire into the truth of a state- Y, business investments and say they /ient in a Polish newspaper that the |Mmselt, “But who are you were spproved: by, Fy ne * plant had resumed operations. Raise bebad the cid Was. Cy oar Oana executives—even by some who, ae |” "When he alihted ata corner in | Came from the ol man, “Your dagay, now saying they opposed thent. Hnce| the Polish quarter in West Detroit Leds ta NE ae ett as Ne Ta ee oe oc. | the can was held up a couple of mine | Fears OF Oe | Tie CAe Mon, ie The railroad, which runs from Do-| {2e C#t wae Nene Dee eee men {cus people stote you from. Oh, if trolt through Michigan’ und | Ob'0) standing at the curb, and I heard him | Mamalie could only be bere!’ , manager's hand, “Billy Fox," he said softly. “Billy Fox, don't you recollect how I poked you in that arm with the pitchfork when I wus beddin’ the horse? Billy, race This theory is given for what it is worth, At any rate, it furnishes for the first time at least a conjectural call out: Again the old man covered his face coal territory, It cost its builders $20, | ary aint vorkin’ yet." with his hands, and this time he wept 000,00, They couldn't make it pay. It means a lot to Detroit when | Softly, The manager sat down be- Mr, Ford bought the road for “Henry ain't vorkin’.” side him. His strong right arm went 000,000, after n thorough survey of 7 around Uncle Eara's shoulder: the Detroit industrial field He wit! — , “Daddy,” be said. “It seeme have to spend 100,000 more to puc| WHITE WINGS “CLERKS” GO.| strange to call anybody that. But, the roud on a profitable operat ng I know you're mine and I'm basis, The Detroit, Toledo and 1ro0-| yo More Sinecares In Offices of 28 | YOUr railroad. Thi away rai ton Is exclusively a freight It avoids large cilies and tow: feature of constmuction di with freight congestion in la road centres, ‘The road was not purchased for use as a feeder to Mr. Ford’) factories as is generally supposed, He fimures that before long he will be supplying hearing himself called daddy Uncle Ezra’s arm stole about the younger man's back and he patted him on the shoulder, “Mamalie’s gone, Billy," be said, “Mumalio called for you when she wus goin’, though, She never fergot you fer one second. ‘If you ever find Billy Fox,’ she says, ‘tell him Mama- Street ‘rhe sineeure of men of twenty-cightistables in the De- partment of Street Cleaning, was abol- ished to-day by John P, Leo, the new Commissioner, In a general order lasued to the force, leaning Foremen, to the fore- coal to Detroit's industries and Dc-/ the drivers and sweepers who held the | ¥)" Wate ioaleeary lamble came toe troit's industries burn enough coal inlottice tite of “clerk” wer ed|him. ‘Tell him Mamalie will always a year to Keep a pretty sizable rail-lig the broom and shoy a n ved road profitably busy aving| wateh over him from above of $150 a day, Mr. Leo sald the hy . Diamaeupl rees| Tears were in the eyes of both The River Rouge plant apiece WR} Are out of the stables much of the day-|Men. Bolivar slipped out of the tent ee ee eceing auto.| me during which the stable foremen | UBnotloed and sat dowa on @ wagon Ore a i tact onlainns eatinates |Ovstit to be able todo thelr own clerk. | tongue thirty foot away te wait for mobile bodies, TRE Ore eee | Ine Unele Hara, A few minutes later the ‘or & Cost ©) 5,000,000, a flap o! e te as thrown aaide a Bash ran it up to $40,009,000. ‘The — Bop ees Meera vee plant stands free and clear, having DO YOU Goime ie my poy!” Be called, been paid for out of earnings in five d “We want to\see you,’ years. KN liolivar re-entered the tent. “Bol,” ‘The Fordason tractor plant at Dear- Ow said Uncle Bara, “I want you to meet dorn is closed now, but one Of Mr} coosignt tot, te the Muttieting (Ov, ody Hilly Fox. ‘Phe good Lord an’ Ford's executives told me it has been ite New York Ierenine Word | Nollvar Brown have steered us to- overhauled and put in shape for early resumption with a full foree, It is Jexpected that the demand for tractors this year will be tremendou the |price haa been reduced from $790 to | $625, A feature of thin plant is a park- Jing space for about 400 employees’ care. ‘A department of the Ford business, | which [ haye not heara mentioned by those who figuring disparagir lon the earning capacity of pany, manufactures automobile parts. | This departai nt alone sold $10,000,600 | worth of product Just year and, stand- | QUESTIONS 1. During whose Administration was Sherman Vice President of the United States? 2. Who was the sixth President of the United Stat 3. What racial or tribal name is given to natives of the Sandwich Islands? 4. By what chemical y | yeast cause br 5. What phy: re oliver and the show man shook hands. ." said Unele Ezra, "I want you two to come to my house for supper, Billy, I'll show you yer old baby clothes Holivar declined. “I better leave you two alone to-night,” he said. “TM come up some other time, Uncle Exry. ‘Sides, | gota little work to Fre eal tetion deee) seat nome, bringin’ In kindlin’ wood al defect did Bee- |“ the like! thoven develop? “Hold on, 6. Of what State is Phoenix the| tic capital city? it said Billy Fox, taking a from his pocket and writing on ‘Take this along an’ use it to- ling by itself, is one of the great| 7. How many stories has the Wool- | Dixht aie lee utacturing “enterprises of” the| worth Building? Hiolivar looked at the ticket. On it world - | 8 By what other name is the cuti-| 4% written Good for Bolivar Brown and five friends to any part cle or outer akin of the body called? | One show at any time, Billy Fox.” 9. Which of the planets of the solar POSSIBLE REASON FOR FORD'S ALLEGED ANTI-SEMITISM. system is the largest? | ; = One of Mr. Ford's friends told me| 10. Which of: the planets is the! CHAPTER } to-day what he believes in the under | smallest? T wasn't long until everybody with iying reason for Henry Word's ait ANSWERS. a radius of twenty-five m Jewish campaign which he sveen| 1. Taft's. 2. Jolin Quincy Ad. | Square know that L conducting for some time in the col-| 3% Kanakan 4. Fermentation mi | 4 found hia long-lost’ Lmna of his magazine, ine Dearbora' Dexrness Arizona. 7. 61, §, Ept Uncle Bara, himself, told 14 Independent, and which has aroused dermis, 9 Jupiter. 10. Mercury. giving Boliver credit tor » : a eee ean AES e = o ‘chereset by Bide Dodie.) brought them together The St, Jo~ |seph papers printed accounts of the reunion and praised Holiver without stint. “E didn't do much,” Bolivar ex- Plained to questioners. "I just heard the man’s name was Billy Fox an’ told Uncle Bary, He did the rest.” Billy Fox sent his show on to the ext stop without him. That night he and Unele Bzra spent several hours talking of the long ago. Refore they fellred Uncle Mere promised (0 spaae the following week travelling with the circus in order to be near Billy. Billy promixed that at the end of the |summer season he would return to Paw Paw Corner and spend a month with his father. He said he had a wife but no children, in a town in Tlinois “Billy,” satd Uncle Bara at the breakfast table next morning, “I'm goin’ to have a little meetin’ of boys in my office this mornin’ an’ I'd lke to have you tend it. [| want to show you some real youngsters.” . Rijly sald he'd be present. Aftet | breakfast the two walked downtown nd ran into Bolivar near Pickwick'a atore. Unele Ezra asked him to hay the boys at hid office at 10 o'clock, “* “I got somethin’ to tell you "bow. our mine proposition,” said the old* man. Bolivar said the boys wottid be there, and started out to notify them. Unelo Ezra and Billy went (nto the store and spent half an hour talking with the old man’s cronies, When they started away, Peleg Leo called Billy back. Fy “You stay outside @ minute, Bary,” he said, "We want to tafk to Billy.” Uncle Ezra complied with the re- quest and Billy turned back into the store. “Go on, Peleg! Tell Mr. Fox what you got to say,” said Hezekiah. “Naw! You tell him!” “Well, Mr. Fox,” Hezekiah began “we're all agreed to what I'm "bout to say, We're all mighty glad Uncle Exry has found his son, but we're hopin’ we won't be (je losers by it.” “Losera—how?’ asked Billy. “Well, we sort o' feared you'd take ary away from Paw Paw an’ we jest kain’t ‘ford to let him go. H been one of us so long that, well, we're all sort o' clost friends, you see. If you take him away you'll come nigh breakin’ several old fool hearts. You won't take him, will you? : Billy Fox was visibly affected by Hoxekiah's little speech. “As long as my old dad haa friends of this kind in Paw Paw I'll never take him away for good,” he said.’ I'm going to take him on a week's visit to-day, but——"” “You'll send him back?’ “Yes sir. He'll be pack in a week.’ I promise that this town shall be hia” home a@ long as he wants it to be." “Billy Fe yer a trum) said Hezekiah, “Blamed if up to the seegars.” He brought out a box of smokes and passed them around. Uncle Bara was called in and Billy and he took His wife lived cigars, “Uncly Eary, said Hezekiab, “you've got a good son, God blest him!" The old man and Billy went over to the bank and called on James Lake. After a short chat all three, went to Uncle Ezra's office and at 10. o'clock met the boys. Tim Walker , was among them, seated in his wheeled chair. “Boys,” began Uncle Ezra, “they ain't no use delayin’ matters. Mr, Wake an’ me have received letters from the capitalist in St, Joe an’ he | wants to buy us out at once, They | offer us $6,000 fer our rights. What \do you say? Shall we take it?” The boys twirled their hats and waited for Bolivar to speak. “What do you think, Bol?” asked James Lake. “I think if Mr, Barnes is treating us honest, we better sell.” “Exactly what I think,” said Mr, Lake. “All right then,” sd@id Uncle Bera, Mr. Barnes has bought somethin’. Mr, Lake's bank will have $800 to the credit of each of you next week.” Bolivar had been doing some mental calculatin, “Hold on, Uncic Ears!" he said. ‘ou an’ Mr. Lake ain't gettin’ nothin’ out of this.” y; “Me an’ Mr. Lake don't want nothin’ an’ won't take nothin’,” re~ piled the ol4 man. ‘You boys found the vein an’ you get all the money exceptin’ a Uttle fer expenses.” “Naw! came from Skeets, ‘We insist!" said James Lake. 3 “Well, whatever we get, Uncle Era,” said Bolivar, “we'll all have you an’ Mr. Lake to thank fer it, an’; we'll be mighty thankful.” ; “Hush! said the old man, “Next week we'll talk ‘bout what you'd bet. ter do with your money.” ‘1 know what I'll do with mine,” said Tim Walker, “I'll go to Chicago and be treated. Oh, Uncle Ezry, I just can't thank you an’ Mr. Lake enough, an’ Bolivar, too, an’—" “Hold on there, Tim!" said Bolivar, “You'll fall out o’ that chair. Go |ahead an’ get yer treatment, an’ when you come home we'll let you play first base on the ball team, “Will you?" asked the cripple, bia eyes sparkling with anticipation. “You bet!" Half an hour after the boys had left the office Uncle Ezra and Billy Fox were standing beside a grassy mound in the townls Little cemetery. “There's the place, Hilly,” said t old man, softly. “Mamaile's sleepi below, prob'ly dreamin’ of Billy Fox.” Billy Fox bowed hia head, As the two men strolled back down the main street, Uncle Ezra noticed a man and a woman walking along under the trees in earnest conversa~ ton “Why, how do you do, Miss Millie” said the old man, “I'll see you next | week, Mr. Lake,”" James Lake smiled a smile of genu- ine happiness, while Millie Brewster bowed her head and touched her handkerchief to her eyes, “By the way,” asked Billy For a moment later, “where's Bolivar? We ought to tel) him goodby.”’ “The the rascal "replied Uncle ra, pointing to’ ‘d the Lake home. Hilly Fox looked and saw Rolivar Brown, | seated | mock, eating in the ham- indy, By his side was Katie Lake, “Hun! echuckind Uncle Era, “Looks to me like I ain't got any core ner on happiness to-day. Come on. Billyleas Ketch our train,” (THE END.) I don’t set ‘em |