Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-21

g W think he is laying claiaa to .
 record that l held eight yaars ago 1 notice from tie papers that he is to receive $1 | word fer shooting lions. and some of the maga. Qaes say that that Is the record price. But 1t isn't. Right after ny nght with Mickey Riley in Milwaukee fiji 1901 made & speech for which l was paid at tbe rate of F a word It happened like tiiis: Riley danced around me and - would not give me chance to land on him hard enough for a knockout. Az result the referee gave him tae de cision on points. My friends in the crowd thought that got little the worst os it. however, aud they bega to yell fer ne.
 Speech Speech" WAS yelled fron: every side of the ring. and uae q poor little lad. had to try anu say some thing. would ra, her have takef, \ whipping. ;,s l had never said woci. f'i public sn my life.
 Go oil aud say something, Kid" su i,. Ium Andrews. "Puil something. boy" urGetl in% sc&ond You might get :; piece O. Iaouey
 Everybody in the crowd began to veil again. and. with a sclsly grin nn my face, 1 stoai IF, in the middle Of the ring aud hooked around You woil!.' have thought that 1 vas dQnf and du,ui,. To save my life 1 coulei3. { think of q word 'o say Hurry ;gp. said my sercnds. Pull it..'
 Hi. Ia Mouth With Dollar.
 \ great big lump rose in my throat, hut finally l managed to start u word around if
 sGe.itf' Aud before 1 could get the word out of my throat on account Of ihat inmp~Zip. Some fellow hit rh@ SqHas.y in the mouth with si!- ytf dollar. came near swallowing ,l,At speech AR l had only said one han "srd and got a dollar for 1t. that was at tue rate of $o a word. and claim the record, even over Mfr Roosevelt.
 AS l vas about to duck under the ropes lloney came raining from every part "f the house-dollars, halves. quarters. dimes, nickels and pennies. A elot of it rolled of the sides, and right lten got the idea of being q business man.
 '.I,.l give you fellows lU per cent of ali you tind," I said to my seconds, ard there was wild scramble 10 pick IL lie scattered money Finally they soi iosether $10923. Having paid the 10 per cent this left me S9s.:31 in a,!- aition 10 Whicl. l gs, S:,, from tl,;. club management. 1 E"ariy broke my neck getting tp the posto'Iice the next morning so that could send my moth CT $100 That was by far the largest amount of money I ha.i ever ade up 10 that time.
 Bat Buys Some Swell Clothes.
 The next day l made a tour of the gents furnishing stores and attired myself in swell looking outfit, made mp of seven dollar suit of clothes, a dollar derby hut. ,i dollar and half pair of kicks and the prettiest green nackties you ever sa in your life. ! an, not Irish. but certainly do love the greeu.
 Yon can imagine how richled was over this Cnorm0us amount of Dioney. as a little while before tlat had been robbed out of $2.50 which needed badly. in my first fight with Joe Per cepte. the Italian. was to have re- ceived $17.50 win, lose or draw. l won the fight on foul, but instead of giving me $17.50 he gave me $15. If you had lost" the manager said to me when kicked, ''I would have given you but S1o." I didn't understand how mep could be dishonest up to that