The evening world., 1910-12-07
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to a Nice Hot Stove II Would
Not Be Advisable to Read This
Story.


have been complaining OF the late sea.
son. The weather prophet has put the
crushsr on that wall at last.
Perhaps some OF you don't believe
hat anybody can be bug enough 90 cut
hoiee In the ice TO 30 swimming.
dtda't believe II myself until q couple
OF winters back. That was a very cold
winter. II you remember. Up along the
Sound. where there wasn't too much
tide. the te froze to a depth OF about
q foot / happened TO make n trip up
TO Travers Island on one Of the coolest
days. The wind was fairly bowling and
II had swept the Ice clear OF snow. Three
or four men were ohopping holes and
p~roddAng about with long spears to pull
eels out of the mud at the bottom. ]
vailed out on the ice to see the sport
Il you can call II sport. C~old-why. II
wAs 20 cold hat the minute the eels hit
the air they stiffened out and froze as
q ~ railway spikes.
After q while. just as / was about TO
start back to get next 10 the stove In
the boathouse. l saw a man coming out
over the Ice in the most peculiar Janu-
airy rig on record. He was clad only IN
a bathing suit. He was ~barefooted. bare
legged, bare-armed. And he was stroll
ing along as II II was "A summer beach.
The win whistied.
He carried an axe in one hand. ] was
Just wondering what asylum he had es-
capped from when he stopped. looked
around on tine ice. and picking out n
spot, began to chop Justify with the axe.
In about I'VE mute he had cut "a hole
i've or six feet square and had tossed
most Of the ice Junk to one side. Now
he dropped the axe and lying fiat IN his
stomach on the ice began clearing out
the rest OF the floating pieces with his
hands. A. soon Is that little Job was
finished he hopped into the opening.
feet hrst. There was a great splashing.
and IN another minute the man crawled
out Of the water and rolled around on
the Ice. BY this time one OF the eel
prodders had told me that the man
wasn't craxy-or-well-hadn't escaped
from anywhere. anyway. b
The wind wh!stied some more. The
bathing suit man rolled around on tie
Ice md finally sprawled out on his
stomach like a sand beach bather get
ting q vacation tan. He stopped wrig-
Cling and lay still.
Solid ~icicle." ] said 10 myself.
But no. In a couple OF minutes more
lie hoped up in n lively fashion and
jumped into e water again through
lis hole In the ice. This was too much
for me. I was getting a chill. SO |
isaoc6 srains, the wind and plodded
back to the shelter OF the boathouse and
the warmth OF the big coal stove
That Teller" said one OF the sailors.
,rs,1srsntiy. .oh-he goes In for a
s~1m sverv aay. There's another one
,oo They go in ali winter"
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who wants that Kind OF sport
can nave n. But no, for me. I'm toe
delicate. They say 1t cures rheumatism
heard Of u man once VINO had ms heao
cut on because ne hau u too'ha'he'
NoMINlCh N VINE W N'
me know his experience WIN one
what unpopular through his peculiar
work In the toxing ring.
Il look the responsibility OF eettini
the Dixie Kid for Mr.. McMahon,' write
Dominica, las Jacobs was In New Or
leans with Charlie Harvey, who wa.
boxing Coulon. Dixie Kid kept tellini
ne that he would go to Albany untl
saturday evening. lie rang me up a
; the sharkey \. &. II told me he "a
n cold and could not 20. ana asked IN
" MS prother wou'u 10
A. lot my pr.e"e' .n". NV.
49, 49, IA .,iI n.y.~ box Il, Wis Elm
.ys,n nor ANYONE like him"
IN the New York boxing clubs win oil
ynnize for the purpose Of bnrrinv a
sskers II will he the best thing tor ti
.eme that ever happened. There M
no, many takers left. but we coul
,asily spare even the few.
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vHE match 1901
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