The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-26
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, July Zo.-1ne OtileE
~ dav I came across old Jack
Grace. the globe trottter. down near
the west side piers watching the
ships 20 down 10 sea. suppose
old Jack has done as much travelling
as any man in the land Maybe
more. He's been around the world
eight or nine times. There's scarce
Iy dot on the map that he hasn't
seen. can't tell you something in
teresting about. doesn't know some
one there. He used TO be a boxer in
his active days. He's thrown the
leather. as the boys say, on the
seven seas.
ThrouEb as a boxer he toured the two
hemisr-seres with other boxers, notably
Kid Mccoy and on other occasions he
iourneyed to strange lands to exhibit films
Of famous fights. Old Jack has been on
the move continuously since the early DOS.
One week you'd hear Of him in China. later
Ne would be in Africa. After a bit you'd
get letter from him bearing the post
mark Of some snail town in Mississippi or
Iowa or New EnE'and.
He has been the most inveterate gypsy
the sports world has known. restless.
he's met. the experiences he has hodl
There vas The time he landed in johannes
burg with Mccoy for the frst time. One
OF thc natives sold him a gold brick. This
town was the cradle Of the gold brick.
Near by. the great gold hields Of me
~ $50 b6yinT ne bricks. especially when
the sifcEers would take a hand saw and
cut Tight. through the middle Of them to
prove before YOUR very eyes that every
thinE vas on the up and I'D.
DUT somehow it never was and
ID the purchaser always wound up
back of the eight ball. Old Jack
can still remember how Jake Hill
derbrand, a rather famous Denver
sportsman, laughed when he told
him about he was stuck with a
gold brick. Hildebrand had a pub
in Johannesburg at the time. the
first American bar to be operated in
South Africa. Only an old rover
knows what a thrill it is to come
across a bar tender friend 1000
miles away from home.
forget how many times old Jack has
been to 81. Helens. -Four or fve any way.
II seems that whenever he hears some
thing about Napoleon that he hadn't heard
before he goes to the scene OF the little
Corsican's exile In the south Atlantic and
checks up on it.
Old Jack likes to recall his visits 20 St.
France celebrated historically as the
burial place Of French monarchs. Not so
uany years ago the sultan, Of Morocco was
banished to St. Denis following an. up.
rising in his Jurisdiction. He had 300
wives when the smash-up came says old
5 S@ the Ae0 a as Pf ResTd Of Of him he was
working on a banana plantation
IT'S hard to keep up with the
i places old Jack has been. To
him the seaports of the world have
been but flag stops on a dinky rail
line. One day in Zanzibar he saw
a flock Of militant monkeys crazed
by the heat fight to the death.
Watching Blanche Walsh in a dra-
matte representation in Calcutta
playhouse was something nobody
from the states would ever forget.
The last time old Jack was in Hong
Kong he met Willie Dean, an American
rider who gave him six straight winners
at the track. "And I lost six straight
races didn't play any of his tips"
Colombo is a popular port of call with
old Jack. This Is the capital of Ceylon
and the source of most of Sir Thomas
IIpton'x great wealth. Old Jack and Sir
Thomas are cronies. "Tommy's going to
win that mug this year, too"
q
Old Jack was squirting his eyes in the
afternoon sun as he looked out across the
There goes the Bremen he said.
7 suppose YOU are unhappy because
YOU aren't on her" I remarked.
This brought a snort. Where could
IL take me that I haven't been. I've
travelled from one end OF the world 70 the
other There's no place can go. or
want to go. I've seen everything
HERE the gray haired 61-year-
i i old globe trotter broke little,
and a quaver came into his voice.
1--WE been d blamed fool. All the
time I was rowing the world 1 didn't
take the trouble to pick out place
to live in. I've been going around
boasting that I'm at home in every
port in the land, when the fact is
no man was ever more homeless"