The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-20
(By Herbert Corey.)

One certain Gunboat Smith isn't
given over to h art of worrying
He is unique among pugil-
lists in that he has a of hui
yet begun to swell. 1t isn't
SO long ago that he stood on the
Bowery OF the evening following a
glorious day and implored those pass
ing to stake him to a nickel for ferry
fare back to the Brooklyn navy yard.
Gee" says Mr.. Smith, Il thought
that New York was sure M hard
town that day. They just put up Il
hand at me-palm out. We've heard
And so ] started in to walk across the
bridge to Brooklyn.
Half way across the bridge Mr..
Smith became sleepy. He laid down
upon the planks to take a little
snooze. BY and by a copper came
along. Smith can't continue his story
in sequence here. He has to leap
ahead to the climax.
Say" he demands vigorously, did
you eve have a copper hit O with
his club on the soles of your feet?
why, sailor says he. didn't YOU
bring your hammock wit you"' My
back hair is singing yet"
So that the force he puts into his
reply to a question about Luther Nc
Carly may be understood. Billy Gibson
wanted to coax McCarty into the ring
with Smith. He first approached
Smith.
will you fight McCarty for $1O.-
00o?" Billy Gibson asked. Smith
whirled his arms high.
Holy Gee!" he replied dramatical-
ly. "And I hit this town with a
nickel"
Hard Fight With Burns.
Smith may never be the heavy
weight champion, but 1t Won't be be-
cause he is afraid to fight for it. He
is a happy-go-lucky Irishman who
looks like a swede and talks like the
end man in the Hibernian Ministries.
His first definite recollection is of the
orphans home in Philadelphia, in
which he and many other little
orphans clad in blue jumpers ran
around the yard and between times
fought with each other. When he was
nine years old he was adopted by a
York state farmer.
1T was the only 1risher in the set
Element" said he Cali the rest were
Dutch. We fought all the time"
His hardest fight vas with Jack
Burns.
II hit that guy everywhere but on
the tongue" he declares. I'D a hit
him there II he'd opened his mouth"
| When he quit the farm he went to
washing windows in a Buffalo store.
Gee. but what a working fool 1 was
them" His wages were raised from
81 to SO at the end Of the first week,
hut he wanted to see the world. So
he took a Job as hostler in the Erie
roundhouse. One day he was sitting
beneath a, locomotive, wiping it. when
some one moved the engine. To save
himself he dropped in a pit filled with
ice water.
"They had to rig a derrick to get
me out" he said. II had that Job
quit before 1 got III of the water"
He isn't long on ring skill, but when
he lands one Of his long, overland
wallops the other man usually loses
a whole lot of interest in the irnmedi-
ate future. Much Of that p~iledriving
capacity was gained In the service Of
Uncle Sam. On getting ont Of the en-
CINE pit he started to visit Niagara
Falls. On the "a he saw a litho-
graph showing a number Of handsome
young men running up a flag on board
That's a good Job" said he. me
for it," So he Joined the navy.
He Joined the Navy.
THE navy made me what I am
whatever that is." he observed. II
was a gawk when I Joined. I suppose
! was the thickest lad that ever took
the oath. I didn't know nothing"
because Of his seagoing experience,
but because his feet rank with armor-
ed cruisers in size.
But they've shrunk now" he says
regarding q foot that looks like q
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