The New York herald., 1922-11-10
Heavy Hitter Throws Over
Twenty-Five Beauties as
Wife Looks On.
PARTY FOR JOHN KELLEY
Reporters and Photographers
Barred-From Getting in
Way of Performers.

greatest show, I am bound TO say, in
the world. But that makes no differ
ence. You can't come in. This is a
little private party given by John NJ.
Kelley. attorney for the Ringing
brothers Circus. which. as I said
However, you positively cannot
come in unless you agree not to say
n word about it unless the ladies and
gentlemen who are taking their lives
between thumb and forefnger by rid
Eng Fannie, Mr.. Kelley's vicious Hol-
stein bull, agree to the publicity.
THE chances are that / shall be
bawled out for talking to reporters as
it is. If should let you in this ranch
&c Mr. kelley's to-day where May
Wirth, Babe Ruth and maybe Big Bill
Edwards ride this prize winning Hol-
stein, you are going to embarrass Miss
Nyirth and Mr.. Ruth and Mr.. Edwards
with your questions.
''Of course I'll let you como in as far
as the field where the exhibition is
taking place. but I do want you to
promise that you will run off the moment
YOU see Miss Wirth or Mr.. Ruth show
signs of annoyance.
And think it is only fair to tell you
that this may be a pretty messy affair.
This bull, King Jess Homestead de Kol,
to give him his right name, has killed
his man a number of times. He may
not have killed them outright. but there
have been a number of queer looking
deaths around Englewood, N j., here in
the past five or six years and there Is
no proof that Fannie-we call him that
for short--hadnt something to do with
them.
Not thinking for a moment that any
one would be foolhardy enough to pay
any attention. Mr.. Kelley happened TO say
tho other night in the National Naudc-
VILE Artists palatial headquarters in
Forty sixth street that~no human being
could ride Fannie and live.
Mr. Kelley and May have been
friends for years and you know how 1t
is. May said that she wanted to ride
Fannie, but said that no reporters nor
photographers should be present. mas
much as she wanted IL to be a private
affair, without all this publicity. Well
John Kelley isn't the man to say no to
May Wirth. He pleaded with her to
reconsider, but no. she would ride Fan
nie. So John gave in.
when Babe Ruth and Big Bill Ed
wards and Tex Richard heard or II they
said that as long as there wasn't going
10 be any publicity they'd come along
and ride Fannie. too. Babe said that
he'd ride Fannie despite the fact that
his right hand is in bandages as a re-
suit of a dirty trick the Pullman porter
played on him on his way East after
his unprecedentedly successful barn
storming after his marvellous work In
the world series.
lust to amuse the porters Babe
agreed TO roll the bones with them one
night in the dining car. The Babe had
rolled the dorninoes for while and
then one OF the porters. thinking 70
hmuse the Babe. slipped him a pair of
red hot steel dice that had been roasting
Ia the kitchen.
Somehow or other this seems TO have
leaked out. John Kelley Is az fine a man
ns you'll ever see but he has enemies.
some enemy must have tipped off tho
newspapers Ill tell you what III do.
You reporters and photographers come
In and I'll speak to John and have him
Try to placate May wirth the champion
adv bare back rider of the world, and
Babe Ruth and Big Bill Edwards and
the twenty-five selected girls who came
over to take their quiet part in the
g,ffair. Say nothing 10 anybody about
IT, Maybe they'll never get wise"
SO the reporters got into John NJ
kelleys ranch at Harrington Park. near
EngIewood. n. j.. where they beheld,
standing meekly in the center Of an open
lot Fannie-Kinz Jess Homestead de
i<oi--the horrible Holstein bull.
Nearby stood Viola Brothers shore,
the writer who said that she was
ti,atherIng material for a book. Bulls
I Have Met Half Way" Big Bill Ed
wards was regarding Fannie through a
Microscope. Not far off Babe Ruth was
sitting on one end of a see-saw hurting
thc twenty-five collected and beautiful
girls skyward. one after another As
Tast as the girls would get OF the OPP
postte end OF the see-Saw the Babe
would hurl them. Mrs. Ruth stood by
spplauding. May wirth was pacing on
me field seeking the soft spots and a
lady who positively would not identify
herself was climbing Mr.. Kelleys art
house. hoping that nobody had a camera.
Fannie was fondly gazing at the
stable out of which he had been dragged
for .hc accession. Taking advantage Of
his abstraction. Big Bill hurled Miss
Wirth into the air. She came TO rest
on Fannies prairie OF a back Fannie
uttered below and uuiycred Tho
slaughter. Fannie wagged his tail
emitted another below and then took
on a most benevolent expression.
Miss Wirth stood on her head or
I'annies spine. Fannie seemed TO enjoy
H. Then May took TO her feet and did
"A little dance on Fannies broad back
You could have erected bungalow and
a commuters garden on Fannes back
Fannie almost smilad The horrbl,
Holstein had taken on all Tho vicious.
ness Of q field worker for tho Y. NJ
y. a.
They called on Babe Ruth 20 take
May Wirths place. The Babe vaultet
over Fannie's horns and landed on tho
1Ios.etn neck. Fannie shifted and looked
annoyed. but that's oil
''You try It. Bin" they told Mr.. Ed
wards. "Or no. wait minute. let's trs
something else Let Fannie climb ul
Your back. Bill"
But before Fannie couls be induced
10 climb up Big Bill Edwards's bach
they discovered that reporters were
prescnt end that. jus' as Frank Cook