New-York tribune., 1917-12-20
1OnmyDraak
HowCouIdYou
Treat Us So?
A.. You Really Training
Partner of That "Strang-
Lr"2 OH OhM Ohl!!

~. -. Nv. but YOU have temper.
=. we're po-sO-lute-ly fe-ro-ci-ous
4. night when YOU slugged and
- stranger" Lewis, declaring
never would permit him to use
| famous head lock on you.
| ~ nv. Thomas. but didn't the
"a roar. Amt a crowd funny
no YOU know. Tommy, that he
| .'f reached the Office last night be-
-. -. one had telephoned the sport
.s,,or that there was a tre-mend-
l 20, At The Lexington Theatre. The
ling editor was all bet up. lie
4 e,t,inc out the trick headlines ana
l .,r,sirc We knew, Of course that
/ '.o,I8rt Ike any such negative
/ 80 IS that We told the sport
/ ,si,or that the wise birds figured
| vas frame.
4 Bz the way. Tommy. is il true tha'
| -, are setually Lewis's training part
] .,,rd are in his pay 30
4 Didnt the Crowd Laugh
1 ,,-. the crowd roar. Well. they
...g have. but ant saying what at
!. tommy. VIC amt saying that You
-. such a lovely spectacle as you
4 W" ,.~;s into She wings. beating
tbe hack. Wasn't it lucky for
.oo- li,,le stranger" you didn't
r.s club? And wasn't it positively
..,l,nsrly Of him that he never mt
-os back. r.,,,y town.
A-,s A. Wbv. 10 will stand for almost
-.bioc. won't it? And the. news
~. bSvs arc such Culible fellows
wei believe nearly anything
| 49, we. and print il. too? And W"hen
1 ,rbIished IL reads pretty good oul
Il Dirstur and Terry Hut, and a 1e"
/ - ,owns that You and the "Strang-
~ ought 10 play this season.
i,5 Vben they read IN Decatur ana
- Up. that there wGs roi in
~. YORK over the deadlock we guess
.,, wont want TO see that old heau-
~ ,b TOMMY We guess not
~ the way, Tommy. what DO you
a,,t' no the way from the circus
:, s,u lack Curley and said: say,
4 hi where did they rehearse IT ana
80 do YOU think he answered
-.-mv9 Here's what he said, ms
o-v words: "In their room, guess
Tommy a Real Actor
sg. YOU PLAYED your part. Tommy;
ever let il be said that you didn't. We
| ,,ot Eddie Selwyn, Tommy. and II you
,r,r decide 10 give up wrestling just
4 l.p Us the word and welle knock you
ssEb 10 Eddie. The way you staggered
,bout the stage after Lewis had slipped
~, or two head locks on you and lei
ros get away! Why, Tommy, we Know
lot Of the BOYS up al the Paramount
,.sdos. in Fifty-siXth Street tha'
you'd tell you il was gilt, Tommy
TT
And when finally you quit. Tommy
low you lay there stiff as corpse.
some Of the boys who had been howl
Y loudest quit, because they were
i .rsid You were dead. Tommy, while
j ssne Of US we're afraid you weren't
BIZ the way. Tommy, don't you tnlnk
y,g could improve your act if you had
81 Of fyirc rings and a pair Of horl-
4 ibiial bars:
And when you pushed Lewis over the
u,ss table. Tommy. and held him there.
Hy. but 10 was exciting. When a guy
/ .tts pushed over press table ITS al
/. psys good for a few paragraphs, ann
/ &. tommy? You don't know, do you
No. you don't know. But supposing
gus day, Tommy, some irasci0ie re-
i iorter rises up and punches WresueI
"a the nose. where will the wrestler De
hen, Tommy? lie cant stand 10 nave
b, pencils broken al the time.
Yes, indeed. New York Will stand ior
royt anything. And 10 was a nice Ht-
d, tournament right up TO your act
ni everything considered, that WASH
70 bad. You played u well, Tommy
lol be-; you did.
awful" Says Humphries
BY the way. we rode downtown with
Joe Humphries and what do you sup
'o,s Joe said? 1T was awful, WASH
~ he said sobcrly. Now, wnat ola
4 Z, mean by that?
You were like a wildcat, Tommy, and
alsiderng that you haven't got
lance in the world Of ever winning
ult, II was nothing less than nero
81 or martyrdom for you TO stahu up
. protection Of the ethics Of wresl-
Z the way YOU did Il was noble
tommy. Wen say IL was.
And through % all wasn't the
S,rsngler" coolo OF course, he
nsdnt stand still and let you run
NJ over him without answering DlI
p kind. Tommy. But how gently ne
u il. How reall, kind he was Inc
4 S;ungler" looks like man VINO al
4 uys holds his temper, doesn't ne
!'nmy? And if byszko had pulled 'he
ane roughhouse three night ago nc
rsuld have gotten away with H. 100
1 seuldn't he. Tommy? Yes, ne Wo.lu
By the way. We met Sula hevonpa"
ss he got % the elevated at Brooklyn
Bridge, and, what do you thinkE he
'ss grinning from ear 10 car. ne
saitsd few new tricks, old Sula dld'
Isnny)
Mark Of the Genuine
Well. Tommy. we should like 10 con
-hee this letter. but IL Is getting late
40 the copy reader wants TO 90 home.
We will have 70 close. We liked
~ The other matches, particularly the
t m which Dr. Roller tossed Pierre
Beige IN thirteen seconds.
hat was real wrestling. Tommy, and
i nad the mark of the genuine on IT.
Shd when Sula Hovonpaa met Ivan
nov Il was the funniest thing OF the
eason, and Il you were "rehearsing"
.hng that time we ought 70 tell you
'Seut Il, bu: cart.
Ahd when you and the stranger"
,Ay G!rand Rapids. Mich, Tommy, drop
shd see Emerson Dickerson. and give
a s our regards Only, Dick used TO
~ a gun, Tommy; wen tell you
- .oy the way. when you were explain
70 the boys the other night how
- b.. II IL. a - - Ill