Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-12
AMONG THE BOYS

Eddie Allison is chaperoning party
of friends at Avalon today. Although
he is not old enough to be entirely Iree
from the oversight of a governess, ne
"a chaperon to the bunch, ana IL I'M
doubtedlv is true that it is good for
tune for the aforesaid bunch, as Eddie
win see to 1t that they nave me
time. They went over on the boat iast
evening and will come back a-sallinE
tonight. Eddie Is nursing neale
wound. occasioned by his inability TO
attend the Elks reunion at Dallas, ous
fhis will not affect his party. He had
Maid one hundred plunks for his reser-
Walton in Freddie Maier's special ear
that was attached to the Elks special
and had paid $50 for a pretty UNIFORM
suit, but could not get away from ms
extensive business owing to the fallure
of an assistant to arrive in time from
Denver.
Sanicult Manning is an applicant ror
a Carnegie medal. He says he saved
the life of a man Friday Afternoon, after
the fellow had tried to swallow a fuiI
set of artificial teeth, and Billy per-
formed the heroic feat by gouging into
the fellows throat Billy used to pe
able to gouge out the eyes of his OPP
ponents when he was an aspirant for
IlRQIWSlRHI pul 10 nv iiiNStA -
lines pngilistic at this time. He said
yesterday, however that he would bet
Mel Nordlinger $4,000 on side that he
could stay three rounds with the Alas
kan diamond merchant. Mel would
have accepted the 6efi only for his
commiseration for the Sanicult boy.
This Nordlinger fellow is some scrap
per, despite his bay window and sporty
proclivities.
Baron Long and M. Oh zan have
departed on a jagless CD journey to
the cold and effete east. They left Sat-
urday morning at 10 o'clock, equipped
with suit case filld with water to
tide them over the desert country and
an armful of cribbage boards and card
decks Owing to the stringent laws In
force along the right of ways in Texas
thew went via the northern route, and
will return by still farther northern
route. They will visit New York long
enough for Long to strike a trial ball
ance with his lawyer, who has settled
I'D the litigation in which Long was
involved, then they will start back for
Los Angeles. They will go to Buffalo,
taking a lake steamer there for Du-
luth, then proceed to Seattle and Los
Angeles by rail. The itinerary Will re-
quire three weeks of fun, mostly aboard
the vanished cars.
BY the way, Davy Jones is telling a
good one on M. Oki, the peerless one.
While the touring party and bunch
Of friends were grieving at the station
because of the pending separation OF
friends, Long suddenly recalled that he
had failed to have his baggage checked,
and 1t then lacked less than five min
utes of leaving time. The city passen-
ger agent of the line over which they
were going was in the party, but M.
OEi did not know him. However, the
accommodating official went to the
trouble of attending to the urgent busi-
ness, and by his official aid the bag
gage was checked in time for the de-
parturs of the tourists. NJ OlIi was so
tickled that he could not resist the
temptation to suitably reward the
stranger for his kindness and slipped
him a quarter He was dumfounded
when the stranger handed it back. He
did not tumble until after the stranger
withdrew from the party, when Long