Show D BACK A PIT FROM Fl EL ELBA RA B A THE ON THE HOTEL RETURN STENOGRAPHER OF T R it ELI the big days come and andA WELL A gone goneI I suppose you ou wore ready for It t r remarked the th Hotel A Stenographer casually as she fastened the last lost hook on her type typewriter typewriter writer cover preparatory to shutting up shop hop for or the day Huh Ready Beady for or replied the tho Cigar Man lan who had wandered wando red over OTer from his counter for or tho the usual twilight chat What happened Did the comet come como back The Mistress of ot the Keys turned In her chair and stared long and hard at the knight of ot tho tim fragrant weed For or goodness sake saker I she exclaimed you been Como Come out of It The Cigar Man hl Come Como here her so r I 1 can whisper it to you she said Dont tell anybody Its a secret Teddy came carao homer h mer Ohl breathed the Cigar Man Ian surf suf dpn Im wIe You Tou mean Roose Volt Velt FIne Youre To rethe the lad with the high brow all all right Howd you ou guess It Yes Ses e Roosevelt Roosevel Teddy ex cx president pro Rough Bough Rider or Cr Lion Tamer and nd the greatest Press Pres Prose Agent in this or any other age agel N Nd w youre hep to him bim Sure sure of course I knew that stalled th the Cigar CI r Man tan visibly embar embarrassed maced Only I l Just It for Or a minute You seo eo Disremembered ItT it Interrupted the tho Stenographer Nobody could member it Huh Not on your last summers straw hat He let Jet you Why hes been b be on n In hi the tHo jungles JUn les for tOI fora a ft ae year r and we wo know every overy day dllY ho had eggs eG for or breakfast t whether they the were fried on both sides ldes or Just up What dont you read the Naw NawI awI I sell om em promptly rom Uy replied r the Cigar Man Ian I seen the often orten about abo t Teddy hobnobbing around but generally K all a busy man can To o is isto Isto Isto to keep up with the fight tight and baseball dope y yo BeeT see Oh I see aeo But m friend ob o oj j ted the Stenographer It if yr U t only knew It Teddy Tedd is l providing the tho great greatest est cat fight dope that over ever came carno out of 0 a 11 prose press pr on clean pink paper The Th Cigar Man perked Up Immedi Immediately ImmedIately Is Toddy Todd a he asked askO eagerly lIe He Is and then some somo replied tho the Stenographer If It kept up with the news newa oud know all about his return to America He Ho took on alt all the best heavyweights across acro the ocean and sent em to the mat matTor for Tor the every time and then Gear Gr exclaimed tho the Cigar Man now How did I 1 come to miss It Has lIas he be tackled Jack lack Johnson yet otT No m friend bos hos Just waiting until Jeffries finishes him and then I be bo surprised but what hed go after the Big Fellow You Tou see lice hes Just waiting until Jeff proves hes hos Come Back Now over on the other side ho h got the decision on every one ono of 0 em emclean clean straight knockouts all too every one ono of 0 em Theres King Haakon and Francis Jo Joseph Joseph Joseph seph and the Kaiser Kal er and I 1 never heard of 01 none of them pugs pu Interjected the Cigar Man cautiously Who are they The Hotel Stenographer paused to summon the tho right words for reply Honest to goodness m friend she he said with heroic effort to conceal hor her for a man who runs the clear cigar elii and news nes counter of 0 a 11 hotel you are tho the limit I 1 cant under understand understand stand how a man with as perfect a 11 sporting news education as youve got could ve ye 0 neglected this subject so completely Honest bo ho It aint fair air to yourself to do it You dont know those thole heavy heavyweights weights I Who ho are ar they I 1 aln aint t quite sure aure but what youre ToUro kid din me Now fax far bo it from me to knock for that aint my m line but I 1 do say ilia to you as one friend to an another another another other that for tor a man with your nat natural natural ural ual talents to neglect them the way TOU to Is suicidal Now you listen to me here take that chair and dont open your mouth and Ill tell you the whole business lIs from rom the tap of or the tho gong till the And Ill give It to you in your our own language too toom toom m friend The Cigar Man an sank pank obediently Into the proffered chair gazing glUing admiringly at his fair all informant Of 0 course you remember some whores where around a year Tear or so ago when Teddy stepped down from Crom his training quarters at tho the White Whito house houlle Well Vel lots of ot wise guys said Mid then he be was Waa all In Ina a They wanted to offer him a Job up at some ome dude colletto collero as a boxing Instructor or something like that Others Of here thought lIe he ought to open oven ovena a school himself for a few of ot the pout political ical loal heavyweights In Congress But he see It that way So 50 what does de debe he be do but announce In the sporting columns columna that hes hos off ort for or a long trip to Africa starting in In as na IS you see lIeo by not drawing the tho color line Well WeIl be ho landed in Africa taking along his hie son liOn a few tew professors a cam camera camera era ora and a R typewriter as sparring part partners partners ners nero Ordinary roadwork heavy enough to keep him fit he ho argued so 80 ho set out on a hike across a good portion of ot the Dark continent Now there are lots of Johnsons In Africa in the shape of 0 Jackals Lions Tigers Elephants etc et Just so to I speak of course m in friend you see sec secand and a little welterweight called the tho that Is IK some ome boxer lIe He took em cm all nIl on in turn and knocked their blocks off getting the heavy end or of orthe orthe the purse pur e every wallop After a while he ho concluded hed finished his train trainIng trainIng Ing and was open for or engagements So So his manager who aint a B friend of ot Nelse Aldrich fixed up a few ow dates datos for or a barnstorming tour of ot Europe and other countries that dont have a R banon ban on the manly art From then on m in friend Teddy Todd showed his hl class He made a tour of Egypt and a 11 couple of side trips ringside de details details tails talla of ot all of them being published I H Hp p I 1 f I j 1 lt IL Stepped Steeped lull lino the for the tho BUr B Bout Boat Then he ha lit into a town named Porto ask Dapro Dalfo Tony outside at tho the fruit stand to toll toil you ou something about It This town bad had a big tent on ono one of its commons and ind proceeded to have havo big doings for or Teddy inside It Before Defore the bout could be pulled ort oft It seems T R n had to accept honorary citizen citizenship citizenship ship of or tho the ancient and honorable city Just like most of the athletic clubs In this state you know when the tho referee concludes his introduction with Both boys are members of this club Tho rho mill Itself was quito a flossy lossy I Ione IOne one opponent the tho mayor of the tho town met mot him with a carriage bedecked with flowers Just to sort lion of or get him used to what was coming comm later the populace pelted pelt him with wit nosegays tied with ribbons bearing the suggestively sympathetic words Long live IIvo Roosevelt I 1 might say in pass passIng log InK m friend that this custom Is It used by bJ the tho natives before a scrap in tho the hopes of getting the goat of the vis visitor vl visItor nut But it work with T 1 It R Ithen Then hen In la order to make him nervous Oh Im I Wise Ton Mean lIe Reese welt they the kept him standing outside the ring for or a couple of or hours while they the named a street In his honor The only exercise they the allowed him with which to keep himself warm was to break a nifty little tittle flower had bad been stretched across acro the tho street str This I be don until the tM referee called Timo and ho be h call can it until Teddy Tedd had bad stood there two hours listening to speeches ll O he by b the various of the town challenging the tho winner But Dut tho the natives made a dreadful fox paw as the tho French say They served tea In the hopes of ot getting the American fighter groggy This much to toT toT toT T liking but he fell to like a Rough Rider In the end his op opponent opponent the mayor was so full ull of 0 the cheering beverage that he be faund some flaw In the articles ar of or agreement and refused to enter tho the ring The opu populace lace laco promptly cheered Teddy Tedd all bets bet having been bean declared off and decor decorated decorated decorated his training quarters with Vene Venetian Venetian Venetian tian lanterns I while t band played In Inthe Inthe inthe the public square quare Right at this stage of the game gamo an on unusual stunt was pulled off O G Pin chot a likely lad had hll come all the way over from the bureau of or forestry at Washington D C to see T R It About what You can search me He was In training for a scrap p with a lightweight named Ballingor It seems scorns and both fighters had passed more than the usual number of ot bouquets at each other T It R took him off ot Into the woods up on a mountain the news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper boys baTs and there up In the top of a tall tree they got together What about I dunno perhaps O G P wanted T R Il to act as referee When they came down from tho the mountain neither of them th m had black eyes so the sotto must have been a friendly one The rhe next day Teddy and his train trainers ers hiked over oer to Veinna The sports of ot this thi burg are arc sticklers for the eti etl etiquette etiquette quette QueUe of the game As far as I can dope It out their plan seems to be to head bead all nU sorts of honors on the visiting fighter tighter pat him on the back Jolly him along tell him hes the whole cheese etc in tho the hopes of giving him a n swelled head Then you see m in friend hell get careless s with his guard and ant the home lad can slip one over oyer in the first few ow rounds The aged Emperor ICing Francis Joseph started the ball rolling He received T R It in his private rate vate gymnasium lum at the Horburg palace Instead of In the regular chamber felt his biceps bleeps put him on the scales scale tossed the medicine ball a awhile awhile awhile while with him and told him hint what a piker all others were beside him The mill was Wall held without seconds am and nobody present so theres no telling tellin how It came out Both men stepped steppe from Crom under the tho smiling however The crowd gave T R n a great sendoff and extended the tho glad hand on all an sides which of course proved extremely em embarrassing embarrassing embarrassing to our former president Every newspaper in America published a running account of the meeting An un ual event prevent JL a satis saUs satisfactory factory meeting In Hungary yes where whore the Huns Buns come com from bu bunot but not necessarily the hons hone T R It was al althere all there thore ready to deliver and was wu much at the outcome Tho The Huns crowded in the street In front of or his quarters quarter all the timo time and cheered cheer d him like Uke fans Cans behind a winning boll ball team I dunno but maybe mayb this was to get him himon himIn himen on In his ear The promoter was an nn Arab named El EI ab el ol and was supposed to do It but he be In Instead Instead Instead stead he led Colonel Rosevelt Into tho the government breeding farm at a little place called There Thero they trotted out a score acore of or pureblooded I Arab stallions for T Rs Its Inspection Just think of that The outcome was a pipe They Just had to naturally pry iry T R B loose from those thoRe horses It broke the scheduled fight Every Amen Amerl American up sold said can newspaper new paper In describing It Mr Ir Roosevelt hugely enjoyed his visit to the breeding farm tarm etc for tor a 0 column and a half hatt Next on the program was Gay Cay Paree The French president has hall been on the Job for tor some time so he know knew just Jus about all there Is to know about th the jolly town Behind him were all th the tho cooks of France real cooks cook m friend not like the ones weve got Kot downstairs in the cuisine cul lne with names namesT T R It broke training In the eats line IIno for Quito quite a II while But there jere In InGay Gay Cay 0 Pareo Pares he declared the lid off orr Fal FallIero lIero the Pres Pros stopped the hand handshake handshake shake and countered with a gala little dinner at tho Elysee palace He visited tho the tomb of Napoleon a former advocate of the Big Stick a I dozen or so 80 of the tho museums and th the opera in which last mentioned place he almost almo t broke broko up the tho show because the people preferred him to the war warblers warblers biers behind the tho footlights After these preliminaries ho he stepped d Into th the ring for the big bout It was all held at a popular athletic club known as 4 th tile the Sorbonne under police pollee protection Th The president of the Academy of at Moral an and Political Sciences was the referee am and the number of or paid admissions totalled T Roosevelt stepped from hi his corner comer promptly at the tap of 0 the gong glanced up quickly at the tune turo machine to see lIeo that It was read ready for business and sailed Balled right In He uppercut with a stinger to tho the Jaw on the duties of ot Individual citizen citizenship citizenship ship and followed with a II Jolt Jolton jolton on oil the he idle rich In the tho breakaway ho slipped over his hl favorite punch puncho a on the strenuous life For Forten Forten Forten ten rounds ho he took It easy ea forcing tho the fighting at Intervals only onty At the tho be beginning beginning ginning of or tho the thirteenth round his seconds signaled him hint to go In and fin finish finish ish lah his man roan lIe He did with th that blow that Is his tried and trusty race ce sui sul suicide aide cide Ho ITo was declared the winner and the excitable French gave him a great groat ovation All the American papers car oar carried carricO ricO ried tho the fight by b rounds King Albert of 0 Belgium was w s the next on the list lIat and aud when T It R entered tho the arena several thousand people had been turned away at itt the gates Including including ing the chief of police The King and andT anc andT T R n had met before In America so this was In the nature of a return engage encase encasement engagement ment The Marquis of ot rules were violated at the tho start when whon Albert stepped under the ropes attired In tho the fatigue uniform of a colonel of ot the tho guards tho the cracked Belgium regi regiment regIment ment mont Ho IIo further fouled by springing forward before the referee could make the tho introduction and grabbing T R n by bythe bythe bythe the hands This so 80 pleased the sports lat at the ringside that they the set lIet up a cheering The Tho fight was then post postponed pOstponed postponed for or dinner which lasted so long that the scrap was waa 8 called off You Youcan Youcan Youcan can Judge for r yourself m friend how howlong howlong long Ions that feed lasted by b the t act that the American newspapers used up two columns of space in telling about It The rhe next day our Teddy skipped over to Holland just for tor a little three round exhibition for that country at M Mou you ou dont don t know Is governed by b a II queen and the old enough yet et to brush his hla own LIT lr much less lea If put up his dukes So 50 e went Yent ort oft nice and nifty no decision being boing given The Tho Tl American papers published pubU hed something this about It The Hague lague April Theodore Roosevelt the he shifty American pug was as d dhere dhere here at midnight with Several delegations of local ocal sports were laying for him at the railway station and when he stepped fr from rom the train they let him have It lt T TI TR TB R B I replied happily to the enthusiastic reception Tho The police were powerless to o check his violent rushes In which |