Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-12
GOV. ClLLETT A REAL SPORT
His Gubernatorial Highness Makes
Remarks. About Fight.
STANDS IN FAVOR OF THE BOUT
Says IL VIII he Only Help to the
State OF California in Gaining
Publicity for the Com
mOnwealth.

NEW YORK. June n-Speaking of sport
ing propositions, have you looked over
Governor james Norris GilIett of Cali
fornia? There's a live wire-loose and slz-
cling at both ends Not very strong on
dignity
Dignity doesn't get you anything any |
how" said Governor Gillett. You may |
have noticed that there is nothing more |
dignified In the world than St. Bernard |
dog, But what good are they, unless you
happen to be a traveller lost on the Alps |
and see one of these galvanized fur rugs
trudging through the snow looking like a
picture out of McGuffeys fourth reader ?
No, son. Dignity never helped horse win
2 race"
1t isn't that there is anything of the |
ivory head about California's governor.
They viii never work his dome over into
collar buttons when he cashes in. ollie is a
lawyer. and good one, who made enough
of a fortune out of the law to be able to
afford an occasional incursion into politics
He doesn't talk like dialect sketch, be-
cause he doesn't know any other way Just
now and then he lapses into the vernacular
just to shock the gentlemen who don't
care what thought a sentence conveys, as
long as 1t is grammatical.
The Gov" Talks.
California is getting fun of these prm
policies" he said the last time he was in
New York. "Of course. they'll get over it
after our climate gets fair whack at
them. But there's no talking. a man
can't grow up in Wisconsin. or Iowa, or
Minnesota, for example. without getting
his intellectuals CONCEALED and foggy. 1t
takes our clean air and sunshine 10 thaw
him out. one of you eastern men will
come out to us, wearing full set OF grave
clothes and singing, Hark from the
Tombs,' when he feels extra gay. IL dog
would bite him. the worst he could think OF
TO say would be oh mercy. But they GER
tainly do loosen up-these hired mourners-
after they have had the advantage of seen
\ cry and society for little while"
Whenever u man takes like that in New
York someone says he is breezy" But
note that there is a difference between
breezy and windy Gillett makes what he
says count. Others who handle his same
line of talk just sound like a gust through
the acacias. And II is Gillett who has an
nounced that he will not interfere with the
Jeffries-J ohnson fight
Interfere with ity' he said in converse
tlon reported in California. My boy you
ask questions like sage hen. Next thing
youth be asking me II I'm going to prevent
freight vessels landing at the San Francisco
wharves because their crews work on sun
day. This fight is due to be u good thing
for California. 1t will be an advertisement
for our wares-and we are always glad to
show goods-it will bring d lot OF money
10 the state, and II will be mighty odd il
some Of the thousands who come to see do
not decide to stay
some Fight Gossip.
Governor Gillett hasn't found any sort of
sport yet that he doesn't approve OF. eX-
eept beanbag. He thinks that is danger
Gus. So apt to spill the beans.
They have been laboring with Gillett to
stop the fight. All sorts of people have
appealed To him, out OF sense of duty
and not because they thought he would
II do not expect TO see this Eight" said
he. the other day. II have never seen a
fight in my life. 1t is likely that I never
win see one. But that Is merely because
i, personally, am not interested In this
particular game, and not because | disap-
prove OF Il. They Offered to give me a
ticket. / believe that Tex Rlckard said
he'd have have one made out on plate
OF gold and set Il with diamonds, or some
such foolishness as that. Well / Just told
him to keep his ticket in his pocket and
coax himself not TO talk too much II
decide to go TN buy seat-and II don't
don't need one"
He bars no other form OF sport how
ever. He likes TO hunt and fish and ride
q horse. Now and then he tackles surf
bathing at the California resorts without
aaqh4oght OF his high official position. lie
NfAld 10 be a fair shot at the traps
Vital statistics don't interest anyone very