The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-10-22
7. R. DISCLOSES
HE IS BLIND IN
HISLEFT EYE
Accident Happened During
Presidency When He Boxed
With Artillery Officer.
HE RECEIVES At "FARM"
Weighing Fourteen Pounds
Less. lie Outdistanccs Mayor
Mitchell i'm Foot Race.

Merry once In a while Col Roosevelt
decides that chopping cord of wood be-
fore breakfast or hiking few miles
around Oyster Bay Is entirely too tame
for one OF his strenuous mind and body.
% he HES himself away to place where
he can find river or hunt deviltsh or
scar the tusks from an elephant or nit
himself against the tender mercies Of a
Zeal trainer of men. and then he comes
back refreshed and tells people about IT
with smile. 1t does him so much good.
Well. that's what he has been doing
during the last two weeks up at Jack
Coopers rest farm near Stamford, Conn.
ana ne received the representatives of
Awaiting world yesterday and told them
what fine time he had had. Jack
Cooper Is the kind Of person. according
20 the Colonel who can take a blue
elooded hypochondriac of morbid ten
dencies and with a few twists of his
eexterous wrist turn him into a red
olooded fire eater who thinks he can lick
the whole German army.
II was noticeable yesterday that the
Colonel hadn't forgotten about his divi-
sion which he wished to take to France
When he concluded the interview he
eaid with rising infection:
i don't think any of you nee.' ask
now am. but IL you need any enlighten-
nent will say that I am feeling we'll"
Hts Wind Is Good.
That was very evident. After a puff
UnE army of contemporaneous historians
And admirers had followed him around
ne half mile track Of country path
which winds up and down and througA
an interesting cabbage patch and all out
OF breath had watched Col Roosevelt
steam into the gymnasium to show the
place where clergymen and prizefig ters
and ex-Presidents are worked into con-
Siiion to 80 out and resume their laify
occupations one was inclined to believe
that the Colonel was feeling very we'll
indeed. He didn't even take a long
breath and he posed for his picture
sxht times without minding 1t a bit
He has lost pound day for four
feen days, and when he comes back he
intends to jump into the municipal cam
paign and take OF few more making
two or three speeches for John Purroy
Mitchell who was in the little CIRCLE that
started around the running track in the
wake OF the only Teddy. But the Mayor
showed that campaigning Is even more
Strenuous than training. for he quit at
the quarter mile mark and went back to
New York to take another fling at Judge
Eyan.
The Colonel hasn't wrcstled or chopped
trees or boxed at Jack Cooper's. but he
has done everything else in the way of
training, and in connection with boxing
~ made public something which mighty
q" persons know about. It is that he
Is blind In his left eye. Here is the way
th@ Colonel described the accident:
NO. I haven't wrestled since I was
Governor at Albany" he said in answer
20 = question. II was wrestling with a
pan named Leonard and he was 80
god that he could take care of himself
fnd me too but when he went away
f"gsu 10 wrcstle with an oarsman. One
.aY vrenched my shoulderblade loose.
t'oko three of my short ribs and one of
u" "'rsman's long ribs. and gave up
t'7t "a a pastinne.
Artillery Ofirer Did II.
Tho last boxing 7 did was in Wash
gtoi- ! boxed with my aids most Of
we time, but one day a young Captain
Or Artillery came along and broke some
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