New Britain herald., 1928-05-25
MULDO0N SPENDS
 BIRTHDAY IN BED
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New York, May e5.-1Pt-Today, for the first time in s3 years, Will liam Muldoon. old ironsides Of the New York state athletic commission, is spending his birthday in bed.
 Instead Of rising at t. exercising strenuously for two hours, break fasting at and then riding horse back for three hours more the box CT, wrestler, Shakesrearean actor and physical culturist is spending the day abed in his room at the Hygenic Institute near White Plains N. f., cut off from friends, telephone and newspapers.
 On May 10 Muldoon fell 1J feet from q raised platform to the ground, pumping the back Of his head and injuring ribs on his left eide. An old touch os neuritis re- turned and his doctor put him 10 bed and ordered absolute quiet for the old warrior
 "I have no message he told a visitor who won through 10 his bed-- aide, and ] am still Of the opinion that one Of the greatest of all yr- tues is patience for those who are growing old. There is nothing so bad as an impatient bad-tempered old person. They are unhappy them selves, and they make those about them unhappy.
 Grateful" He Says
 Y am grateful for the privilege of living in these times when there is so much that Is wonderful that We can appreciate
 What asks the New York Herald Tribune will the professor" the old Roman, the Iron Duke, the solid nan-he is given all those titles be thinking Of today as he lies on his bed of pain, silent and aloneo
 Perhaps Tunney
 Gene Tunney, perhaps. Fine lad, Gene. clean and square and brave. Just the kind of fellow the Pro fessor' would like 10 see more of in the boxing business. He and Gene. who Is 30 today, spent their birth days together last year, the Pro lessor riding twelve miles through 8 drizzling rain on horseback to have dinner with Gene at the Biltnlore.
 Perhaps hell he thinking Of the old days when he was a champion hlmself-champio Of the world at Graeco-Roman wrestling. Took the title from Clarence Whistler and held it several years. retiring unde- teated
 Those were the days-four years of service, from 16 10 20. with the army Of the Potomac-"hashslin er' in cheap restaurants and bouncer tn dance halls Six years on the New ,ork police force, then the wrestling end after that the fighters aching them. training them, keeping them from drinking themselves to doath-- brave. glorious old days
 ''kid" Mccoy
 An. those fighters. The "Profes- sor's' eyes gleam. All champions that he handled. Jack Dempsey. the nonparel. Kid Mccoy. now in San quentin prison, poor lad And the greatest day Of all in 1889 when John l.. Sullivan broke nenrly all of Jake kilrain's ribs, but not his heart.
 The last epic Of the prize ring. the professor says. Seventv-five rounds with bare knuckIes and the fight only stopped by Mike Dono- vans throwing the towel in from lakes corner to keep his fighter from being killed by the Boston strong boy. Kilrain--he had the heart. He'd have died before he'd have quit there in the mud along side the river at Richburg, Miss.
 Held Ethel Barrymore
 He'll probably be remembering when he played Charles tho Wrestler In "As You Like It," being thrown every night. Trooping as spartacus the sladiator-John Drew. Mime, Modjeska. Rose Coghlan, McCul-- tough. Georgia Drew handing him bundle 10 hold one night in the wings at St. Louis and the bundle the infant. Ethel Barrymore. Glorious nights, those.
 But his friends say it will be only a little while till the Professor" is pack in his gymnasium again.
 Ell live to be a 'undred and then turn into a cigar is the opinion or Joseph Jared, English physical instructor at the institute.