The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-10


 the record of any worlds champion.
 When borrowed those fifty bones from Nelson" said McCarnev.
 Luther and l were at the lowest ebh. In tact. the tide may be said io have gone out and left us strand ed. We had pretty nearly taken the count.
 We had been hanging around Springfield. Mo where had horn. ed into fight club and was trying 10 get the cowboy started We were literally down and out We had stay ed at the hotel on credit until the proprietor sadly notified us to brush along
 | then farmed Luther out to var. ious boarding houses. but he ate him. self out of welcome in one after another. His appetite didn't make him good boarding house risk.
 We had To get along mainly on touches. II wasn't safe to wish me pleasant good morning in those days
 Luther never made a whimper. He would come around and make q touch from me and would let him have whatever l could. Sometimes l slipped him dollar sometimes Il was only a quarter. remember that once ne asked me for money world split with him and gave him dime. will always remem. Der the way he grinned and said: 'Bill. you ought 10 give me little fatherly advice before you send me away with this. am liable to go out and raise h with this dime
 At last it got down to the place were We were dead broke That was just q year ago. Bat Nelson had come to Springfield to fight boy namer ORourke for my club and we were hoping that would rehabilitate our fortunes.
 When night came Luther. who had used up his last boarding house. hadn't place to sleep and nothing 10 eat. He sat down in the hotel office l found club sandwich that somebody had left and fairly poked this into his face
 n Slaan Rill 9' he asked.
 II thought moment; then told him to sneak upstairs and crawl into BBat Nelson's bed He disappeared and after while there came a roar over the phone Bat was de. manding to know who the big bum was in his bed. At this demand went upstairs and together we sur yeyed the slumbering form of the COW puncher.
 ",Ive batted him around for ten minutes, but l can't wake him, said Bat. Who is the big tramp. any how
 Why l said with all the surprise l could muster That must be Luth- CT McCarty. He must have gone to the wrong room by mistake
 II politely pounded Luther a while and told him to wake up and get out of Bats bed; but Luther slum bered on. All he did was 10 curl up his legs.
 Finally, told Bat he had better give 1t up and crawl in beside luth CT. He did this and Luther got good bed for the night.
 We had expected to make lot of money out of Bats fight, but he succeeded in offending most of the white population of the town and his fight was d frost. We didn't get enough money to pay Bats $Sou guarantee We had to pay him his money. but l followed him to the train and begged him to give mt some of il back. He finally wrench ed himself away from $50, giving me check just as the train started.
 Ever since then he has kept the country in an uproar trying to get that fifty hack. But to tell the truth We have never been able to pay him before, Luther got his start by beating Cari Morris in Missouri, but he made nothing but fame out of it. When he beat Kaufman in San Francisco, the house was disap l pontment and we actually did not l make enough to pay training eX- l penses. Everywhere we went we were followed by hue and cry from ! the infuriated Bat Nelson.
 One of the first financial transac- | tons I have made since collecting our shares of the Palzer- McCarty fight money was to get postoffice order for $50 and send it to Bat Nel son. hope that ends our hard times forever,
 When we get back to New York am going to send him up Broad . way in his cowboy scenery on the worst bucking broncho we can find in New York"
 In view of the various rumors that Abe Auell will soon climb back into the arena it is interesting just now