San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-16

They Have Influence.
Benny Leonard's Mother.
Jack Dempsey's Wife.
- By Damon Runyon -
Service, Inc.
WHOSE BREAD EAT"
i.
Long ago in a village street
A bakers wagon trundled its beat,
And on one side some words read
That all these years run through my
head
These are the words that to memory
cling:
Whose bread eat
His songs sing"
II.
Many a time my jobs seemed tough
And the dough / got didn't seem
enough.
Many time I've thought my boss
Was chucklehead and total
loss
Then to mind these words would
spring:
"Whose bread i eat
His songs i song"
Paste these limping verses in your
hat.
Read them whenever you feel dis
posed to criticize your employer, or
the game you follow:
Whose bread eat his songs j
sing"
The ladies, God bless 'em, seem to
be exerting a more or less marked in
fluence upon what someone many
years ago profoundly termed The
Manly Art of Self-Defense.
The author of this immortal title
may be excused on the ground that he
had never seen Quentin Romero Rojas
in pugilistic action.
Benny Leonard, lightweight cham
pion of the world, retired from bust
ness after devoting thirteen of his
twenty-nine years of life to chin
chopping, stating that his mother de-
sired his retirement.
The most captious critic could
scarcely carp at this noble response
TO the call of filial duty, however be-
lated the answer might appear. As
long as Leonard remains retired he
would be a mean man indeed who
would aim the digit of suspicion Mt
his motives, or sentiment, or Gin
cerity.
Jack Dempsey got himself married.
and rumor runs that one Of several
reasons why he isn't going to fight
any more or, at least much mere is
that his wife objects. The other rca-
sons are unimportant, as any married
man will tell you.
"What nah wife doan lax, All jos
nat'ch'ly hate" as the colored man re-
marked.
Thus, two Of our most notable
champions seem TO be removed
from the field of their sinccrest en-
deavor as a result of feminine in
fuence, and it is not for the writer
10 say that this influence in these
cases sin't all for the best. 1t gcner-
: ally Is.
The influence in fistiana Of third
lady tends in a slightly different di-
rection. This is Mrs. Charles Vein
crt. wife Of the celebrated Newark
Adonis." .... ...
The Adonis, in other days was
one of the gayest blades of the New
ark cabarcts, where they used to come
mighty gay, at that. He spent several
years distributing one Of the most
has obenTycd in twenty vcars through
lbc NIGHTTIME nooks Of his homo town.
In New York we call them deadfalls.
The thing that was bound to hap
non bonncncd Tho Adonis rot so ne
'o,,Idn't IicL, yorr littIcet nov His
Tas a verv sad case. some folks shed
toors about II Tbon the Adonis got
married,
We povt boar of him vborping some
,,-a,.,, fair fabtors ali oyer Jersey
Tvs Firo,IY be wboncod old Iuis
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noocs.orv 70 brinc Tho kJonis we'll for.
n,arJ ne an obioct Ioeson In moral and
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pni ~ w Wdinort boJ rromobt his
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salu Sn I To- am ,, - ionat nod
etro H., .bo or,or tboroof
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part 9y not E SaErmS JuSI INV L snu al, AZ
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eted enough OF nis fost utstinS u oe
up tneFe III tHc money AGAIN.