The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-27

was playing football at Mt. Union
college in Ohio.
Back in those days" he says.
I'VE didn't have any complicated
eligibility rules in college football.
I was big and husky and tough,
and that's what counted. The
scholastic requirements were pref
ty elastic, too. which is how I got
in. was taking up art.
"At Is was as big ~ I am
today. 1 was tired of school
and 1 got a job as railroad
fireman by passing for FL.
Didn't have any trouble,
either"
But this job didn't hold him
long. He headed west and landed
a job in Kansas as a mule skinner.
He drifted on, and tied up with
a cattle outfit. He cooked for
the cowhands. He punched cattle.
One day, down in Texas, he saw
some cavalrymen come into town
and he liked their looks. SO he
enlisted and served a three-year
hitch. He did a lot of cooking in
the army, too.
And he did considerable fight
lng-with his fists. He was hard
as hickory, and as tough. He
weighed about 1873 pounds, was as
light on his feet as a tap dancer,
and was quite scrapper. He be-
came the light heavyweight cham
pion of his outfit and when his
enlistment was up he turned pro-
fessional.
THE first fur coat ever bought
my wife was with part Of a purse
won as a pro-" he tells you. "She
made me quit. though. She just
plain didn't like 1t. And when a
big Teller busted my nose one
night, that ended it."
TATTOOED
TOO
All the time that Jim Williams
was chasing cows and cooking
grub around a chuck wagon, all
the time he was in the army, he
never forgot that he wanted to
be an artist some day. The kid
who had enrolled in a college art
course at IA was now a man who
sketched at night in the cowboys
clubhouse and in an army bar
racks. While he was in the cav
airy he somehow picked up the
knack OF tattooing and his In
herent artistic ability made him
pretty good at 1t. For price he
tattooed lovely pictures on the
broad chests and brawny arms of
his mates.
This was a profession for which
Mrs. Williams expressed an even
greater dislike than for prize
fighting.
II brought my kit with me
out Of the army" he chuckles,
"and one day she found II and
never saw Il again"
But he still kept on with his
sketches, and he was still at il
after he had landed Job in a
machine shop in Alliance, o. 1t
was while he was working there
that he sent some sample cartoons
10 NEA Service in Cleveland. He
was hired promptly, and a short
tine later the first of the "Out
Our Way" cartoons was published.
Williams artistic talents extend
considerably beyond his daily and
Sunday drawings. In his ranch
home are two beautiful ship
models. every detail of which he
made with his own hands. One
is a Spanish galleon for which he
has refused many offers. He is
an expert silversmith. fine water
color painter, has even dabbled in
sculpture. He built his own swim
ming pool, supervised the digging
OF his lake. designed his own irri-
cation system. Once when he
wanted some stone-laying done
and had hired some experienced
men for the purpose, they baked
at some OF his own ideas, saying
they couldn't be executed. SO he
showed them how TO do it.
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