Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-07-23
\ SECRETARY MEETS NmsHAPs

Jack JOhnson'S Man Has Leg Broken.
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To be successful as secretary to
a great man is a hard and notorious
JOB. Usually il is more notorious than
hard. But 10 be the secretary of a
champion is More hard than notori-
Gus. You act not merely as n buffer
between man and man. You are but
the most scinullant spark shot forth
by rocketing career.
Jack Johnson. meaning the pugi-
list laureate as well as laureate after
his public "reminiscences of a great
but indecorous even set out from
the theatre I'm which he appears
IN an automobile with six white men
Jack took the wheel anu let her rim.
As he approached the corner of For
ty-second street and Eighth Avenue
ne slowed slightly and his private
secretary, Richard ]. Comisky. of 59I
Ninth Avenue, clambered 60 the run
ming board TO drop on.
Johnson turned north into Eighth
Avenue so sharply that before the
private secretary could give a hon.
SKIP and jump TO the curb ne was
thrown 10 the pavement. aIiuhting
mainly on his game leg. but 20 some
extent ON his body. Johnson stoned
the car at once and an aboard piled
ont TO pick mp the fallen.
Dick, Dick: are yo' seuseless?"
qucried Mr.. Johnson anXiously.
No, siSs, boom, an" replied Mr..
Comiskey. but YOU are. But don't
mind me. Pray resume the Uneven
ialsctto OF your way Go as far as
you Ike, and may a cop pinch you
for speeding at the termination
'Falsctto?" Interrupted the champ
False setto? wat yo' mean. man?
All m heah 90 sucCour yo' an yo'
reflect 'pon me-"
Here one OF the employees Of the
theatre who was i'm the ear drew the
champion aside. After a whisuered
conference Johnson smiled and said
10 would he a nice day tomorrow a.
the heat We're not excessive. He added
that everything would be all right.
Mr.. Comiskoy PROSTATE. expressed
some doubts OF this. And then the
champion dij q noble thing. Lifting
his private secretary as tenderly as
II he had been a babe. ne placed him
ln the car and started full speed for
Roosevelt Hospital.
only those who remember Eighth
avenue when the comet was in town
can picture the scene that followed.
Wnen Roosevelt Hospital was reach
ed the tau or the auto was measured
ana was found 10 be composed Of
thousands OF minute black common
people whose eyes were distended and
VINO reached from the hospital al
Fifty-eighth Street down 10 Fort.
seventh Street The scientific expla-
nation is that from Fortv-second
Street 10 Forty-seventh Street the
nucleus was forming.
Policeman Frank Early went ovar
to the hospital with the auto ana
diligently wrote down In his note
book Mr.. Johnson's name, age. oc-
cupation (Which was put down as
SIMPLY boxing and may refer TO box
ing the compass), nuptial condition
ana residence, which is Baron VIII
KIN cafe. at 253 West Thirty-dfth
street, The policeman also wrote
down few facts about the Injured
private secretary.
Johnson said he wanted ComisSev
10 have the best Of care and no
wouldn't take the count on the cost
lie waited ill DR.. Charles y. Dowd.
visiting surgeon, could get 10 the
hospital from his home, l27 West
Seventy-second Street. DR.. Dowd
made an examination and found that
the private secretary had sustained
fracture Of the left thigh. The un-
usual pain was due to its being a
game leg
Comiskey will be all right in a
short time if he keeps perfectly stH
and avoids the duties Of his ONCE.