The Washington times., 1921-02-06
SAYS GS"
Baer:
Childhood Fun in Rough
town-Mayhem Was q
Frolic, Arson Was Sweet
Dreams and Homicide
a Doctors Pre-
scription.

There seems to be some adverse
Endorsement of the fighting ability
OF Gink Fowler. The boys claim
that they can't find his record in
the Police Gazette. That Is the
fault of the police and not the
gazette. Gink's metropolitan sta
tistics were compiled by Stopgo
Gogo. the famous japanese traffic
cop. a.. =
Gink was one corrugated hombre.
Listen and learn. He was so tough
that he rode into Roughtown on a
wildcat, beating him across the
withers with a hot rattlesnake.
Don't look for Gink's measurements
in the Boxers De Gotha. He stands
supreme in the Gypsy Dream Book.
He peeled an opponent like a po-
tato. He thought that wood alcohol
was the elixir OF life and once in
vaded a sewing circle of infuriated
grizzlies to learn the secret Of eter-
nal youth.
You speak OF honor? Honor was
a family legend with the Rough
town FowIers. or course, this
branch OF the family is only dis
tantly related to the Labrador Fow-
lers, who know nothing OF the finer
things OF life. Even the family
skeleton was champion over the
things that walk by night and de-
part with the crow of the rooster.
Everything was touch in that
clan. Grandpop Fowler had whiskers
Each hair on his chin was as strong
as the Atlantic cable. He died.
His destination was the usual
terminus Of the Fowler folks. They
established Weejee Board liason
with him. The Weejee plank threw
off sparks. The message was that
Sheol was the far and frozen north
compared with Roughtown.
Men, with a spirit like that in
representative American family, Is 1t
any wonder that now the Kaiser Is
in Grand Rapids, Holland, making
furniture out of defenseless logs?
And echo, like a barber, hollers
Next"
The only soupstain on his record
is the fight with Soakum Yurself.
the famous Turkish atrocity. The
referee stopped the fight in the
twenty-hrst round without even
giving the boys a chance to start.
The fans claimed the lads had
working agreement not TO work.
1t was one OF his easiest defeats.
He was ten to one before the fight
started, but eighty of the Constan-
tinople massacre experts pals
jumped into the ring and made 1T
eighty to ten, 1t was the hibit in
those days, when your man was
losing to jump in and cut the ropes.
They cut the ropes this time and
Gink fell right of the tree.
AS per usual, Glnk was awarded
this Eight on a foul. Soakum step
ped on Kinks back and Gink claim
ed the works. The referee slipped
the oil to the public and left be-
fore the Klux Klux got a chance
to find out how he stood on light
wines and beer.
They were men in those days.
Gink's uncle once broke his leg
trying to pick his teeth out OF
season, They sent a comic Valen-
tine to the doctor and he arrived
via the Roughtown Railroad, which
charged the usual government mile
age of three cents wreck.
1t was an express. Only made
one stop. After that one stop the
passengers got free transfer to
the emergency Limousine.
The Doc wanted to give Unk
some ether. Unk drank II and
called for a chaser.
They gave him some more ether
and Unk offered to buy one for the
Doc. He thought the next round
was on him.
They finally got him to sleep.
set his leg, but he stayed in the
clinic for two years more with a
fracture i'm his skull that looked
like the delta of the Nile.