Show 9 V TIJUANA'S GAMBLING DIVES OFFER THRILLS GALORE MANY TRAVELED HORSE DRAWS HUGE HUGE- CROOS jd Times rime Brought Back Backby J I by Visit to Famous f Race R Track b. b Z you meet Frank Cavan avan of New ew York Tork t n ln San Diego and he be tells you about bout 4 Tijuana 1 Yeh Teh Ive I've been een at Monte Carlo and ajl those European gambling heavens and I never seen anything like Tijuana p where I mean places where t. t they run the games games jUt Ju t outside the racetrack inclosure All Alt these birds T from Iowa and Kansas that come down from their Los Log Angeles homes homes- 5 and nd the Easterners who drift down to 7 ceo ee the races the races tho globetrotters who follow all all crazy to get et In td pla play the wheel bet the cases or shoot hoot craps crape tey r ey climb cUmb over o each cach other to get set near the tables tables honest They pack In there so tight the Ute back rows have hive J J. Jo pass their money mone over the shoulders f lot Of the rows in front and holler hotter to somebody to get down for them It R in the afternoon even during 5 oes on the ithe races races big big crowds crowds' all the tha time time time- to midnight its it's at a a- but from 6 o clock o'clock t riot toL Nothing like it i iry ir the world world world- 5 nowhere f I 1 stopped in San Diego a day on a Western trip and went on down to to n The e casinos s were g going full fulli l Tijuana le leg cf l 1 acar 4 i Took a look i Inside and got twenty wenty feet teet from the doors when I I 1 Iran ran up against the mob packed in Around round the tables Just just as Frank deh de- de Far Par I could see everybody as h must have been een betting silver dollars The tables were stacked with silver silvert the floors bore sagged S ft t SUNNY JIM COFFROTH rH s IS STILL SUNNY yi j sr You lOu au cou could J d 1 hear lear the chink clink clank of the iron men rolling roiling and IJ hounding across the boards the whir fW wheels the clatter of the little rollS roll roll- ball balls the chant of the attendants S out w winning Inning or losing numbers A td a crash every ery now and then as If it Ife e mone oBey rOney was coming in so fast hey wl 1 To to open a trapdoor and sho elit shovel it In the cellar But there was little 1 I irand and nd No diamonds and andon w on the Iowans and Kansans RJ 4 om U lA Lbs s Angeles No Xo palatial fit fit- Smoke dust burnt matches 1 tn papers hot dogs excited people i t g each other around to get nea Ough to pUt a silver sliver dollar doUar on one onet t t A JI t hundred wheels This was after- after Jo At tt night they say its it's differ differ- Big Big m money y yg g gambling itlie then Thou- Thou I instead of dollars doltar I V went int along to the racetrack I like old times Umes at Sheepshead or r Graves End or Belmont Park I er the er-the the grandstand were rows roW's of 1 J rs each on a raised platform and rubbing odds long lines I IP P on up to place pace bets Mahogany 1 I U all one wall regular old did time i along the shelves behind it ft it I beer crowds crowd with foot on the I 1 bar rail Visitors from the tes sampling tequila the Melcan Mclean Uld lighting distilled from cactus I cc I en n a shout They re oft off and I Ii crowd rushes for the Ia lawn on in int t t of the grandstand just grandstand Just as at ati I If i or Belmont Belmont and and the theties i ties les down their slates and Ji raking bets I 0 Just as at an any anytime 5 time mc East Eastern th m racetrack Horses and ancl bright colors stands filled titled people who might have ave stepped Ight over from Sheepshead or orBel Bel nt Park of ot the old days Except t tt t t there is a sprinkling of or Stetson n. n ed ed Westerners from Montana Te Texas Texas Texas-a a-a a a few Mexicans in orts of costumes Down along the them m iti rail ran are more inore bookies In their r. r nil Between races raceR they are beS be'S bebr be- be S 'S P bj by long lines of ot bettors men The bet openly r here The They are barred from the theand and under the stands ere e the lon long bar Is Is 1 promoter of or Tijuana bg g. g strolls from the clubhouse i. i In the the theold old days davs they called calle I Sonny Jim because when he hea a jl light fight ht promoter in San Francisco i f ever leyer drew a rainy day for an outi out but cr r bout TOUt Bt you beat heat this this' asks Sunny waving his hand at th the pale ture tur- tur S e blue sk alcy When V you C came by h lx years e a ago we had a rainy i id J d I don dont don't t think it its it's rained since I 1 this year anyway Every d da day y Just this Some racing weather weatherS isn isn't t tOMMY RYANS RYAN S t PED OFF OF JEFFRIES s Jim goes KOes somewhere to see i tut t something Perhaps a cocktail I Over y O er beyond be ond where the crowd thins Ule l I see ee a man back turned W fd d me with shoulders a yard a e. e a. a bulging neck and ears I Id I'd d 11 w Tom Sharkey who ought fought Jeffries Fitzstmmons-aU Fitzstmmons all the thea a Jj great roan men of a quarter century ago turned with a grin Except for a me gray hair over the ears he looked juat about he way he did when he f I. I fought Jeffries at Coney Island I WI Uti Xen eb doing fine grinned Tom holding down a track Job MakIng Mak Mak- fIng Ing a living I 1 dont don't need much I Im I'm m I l snappier than when I had a couple of I 1 hundred thousand dollars Costs Coats me e n a day to live JIve like a kl king lg flown down here I find nd the ra rut rest t is velvet Walt I got I fo 10 attend to something Got a aIn win win- H ner in each race today II s. s f T Theres Baron Daron Long over there I t ild McCoy there talking to him l Yeb h Ji S the old W Kid I Looks Ju just t as good I Jt U taa s when he was fighting and I hear was married again la lat last t week or week or It lt two weeks ago I 1 forget ti Sharkey grinned i it 11 Ues Hes a wod wonder r r Id I'd like ke to to know V iho he gets geH ts away with writh It It He Ue looks look i a million dolta dollars but he h hasn't n t IS got anything on me with my three a day daj t. t An ZAny of the other boys bos around I ask asked d. d At Sure said eald S They all an f el et off and Except andon on i Except Tommy Ryan sommy hag liaa an oil station and is get get- rich building bungalow Jos i s A Angeles es lies He's smart courts court and aud he hew In tl ht It If It U t for Ryan I 1 Ilie f w- w have ha been champion He lie showed Jeffrie or of that the t I crouch rou h when I expected Ji Jim to to io s stand standup and up straight the way he did in the first fight I couldn't hit him and h he broke three ribs over my heart Inthe in inthe Inthe the ninth round But Dut I chased after him for twenty five rounds 1 Id I'd 1 have beat him but for Ryan Im I'm not knocking Jim He Hes He's s a prince His word is his bond No better man ever lived lI He lies lie's s the best friend I ever had But I think I could have beat him if he hadn't used the crouch KID ON DECK TOO n Here e McCoy discovered ered Sharkey harkey and came over to shake hands They battled once in New ew York McCoy McCoy- knocked flat fiat on his shoulder er blades twice and Sharkey bounced up and broke McCoy la In two with a a. left swing on the the- belly S Say Tom said McCoy McCo you jou ou were born too early You iou ought to tobe tobe toc tor be c coming i a along now t to fight this Firpo r How about t ft it Id fight him tomorrow t before breakfast chuckled chuckle Starkey but I Iu dont don't need the O l Im I'm hap happier Ier without u ert it S Look said Sharkey See that big fellow felloe running back to box That That's C C. B B. Irwin of Wyoming the biggest winner at the track He has hils I sixty good horses in his string Helen Helenh Cook A Aberdeen Har Harry D D. and n nat i W J bunch h Hes He's a tine fine fellow and n a good sport Im going over o and say Ray hello to him said McCoy suddenly tl I 1 I haven't ha seen him since he bailed me out Balled Bailed out sounded Interesting S I but the Kid Ild vanished without explaining ex ex- cx- cx Anybody else eJae you jou know in sight I asked Sharkey I Well wen said Tom theres there s J Judge dge Ro Rose o and Nelson and young CasI Cassid Cas- Cas sid aids that's that the son of or Mars tara Cassidy Cassidy- I and there theres there's s George Shilling and Dan Delaney Delane over there and McCarthy with this book right us and me cousin Squire Sharkey from Ireland Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land over the here the big fellow fellow- were we're all big in our family An theres there's Tod Too Sloane the old old md td Jockey jocke Jock jock- I e ey An you see that guy standing up there by the steps kind of gloomy 1 lookin J Sure I said That's Alec Greggain Greggains Greg- Greg gain Jain gains who once ought fought eighty rounds f I I with Buffalo Costello for th the worlds world's i I m middleweight Greggains II t came title over ver He lie admitted I that the world orld went well but he just Just happened to be thinking about Floyd Johnson and how Floyd Flod had thrown away a chance to get get getup up amidst the million milIon dollar purses I 1 took him back S to New York said Greggains He Ha had the stuff in him But he didn't remember what I told him h There er are only three things thing hl t to boxing XI I s showed e Johnson but he forgot all about it and went wenton wenton on and let tet Willard punch his head off when Willard shouldn't have laid a glove glov on him him- See here Its here its it's easy eay r Greggains fell into boxing position advanced turned went through the motions of or hitting ur T T ought to shown him the crouch said Sharkey suddenly It If n an hadn't taught Jeffries that IM IU have been champion Not but what Jeff Jett is lB a fine fellow tetlow Hes He's the best beet ever over lived Jived It dont don't make any allY dif dlf- dif dif- ference now anyhow Im I'm happy with me good goOd health and three day da meals meats a a. Half Halt a a- dozen horse races had been run very run very fine races bravely races bravely con con- tested tested and and the crowds crowds' were lining up for another c crack k at the bookIes f when I left The They run races raceLa l afternoon aft aft- art art- at Tia Juana but I Ivas vas wa trav tray tray- cling eUng on limited time Coin Going out out I glanced into the casino a again aln Packed to the doors Met tet wal a bird who ho was as also aiso leaving perhaps early perhaps to pad u up us old bankroll This is a great game down here he said Its It It i the only tree free place on earth Did you jou OU try any tequila Smooth as silk and and what a kick Gee Every Everything's things got a a. kick Vo to it down here II s Copyright 1924 b by the Bell Syndi- Syndi S cate ate Inc LUc |