Show BOER TEllS HOW HOVE HE MADE START Rudolph Is entertaining the th natives in New York and by his stage dialect Dutch is being given much space In the papers The Boer is tell teU telling tellIng ing some good stuff front from a press agents point of view Here Is some of at atthe the best he is quoted as telling of his experiences I have hae had many man hard years Now I 1 shall shaH have the thc best besL I went vent to sea for foi eight years and traveled around and around the world everywhere I 1 lived fed in all aU different lands Sometimes I 1 was a wrestler Sometimes I 1 was a chef Sometimes I 1 waited on tables or trained fighters lighters Sometimes I 1 I 1 had hard times Once in South Africa r I had a lot Jot lotof lotof of money but I 1 spent it Then I 1 went Into the tho business of ot getting for forthe forthe forthe the diamond mines I 1 got a guinea a ahead ahead ahead head for them I spoke many lan Ian languages languages In the interior I learned four native dialects I would talk with the th natives and persuade them thorn to go to work Then I would tie them up two together in jn n batches of twenty paint the name of the mine on their backs with white paint and send them along Afterward I began to box I won and lost many fights lights L II Fighting in England In England I went to o fighting in a tent I was with Bowker He picked the easy marks and gave me the big fellows and he wanted most of the money mone I am the star he Jie said Yes but I can whip you I said Wed get geta a couple of hundred people in collect the pennies and put up a couple of bouts Then wed shoot them out again One day a big negro came in and insisted on fighting Bobby Dobbs He whipped Dobbs When hen the next crowd came ia in a he jumped up and insisted on fighting Dobbs again Dobbs got an another another another other licking The next time the tent filled he hopped up and hollered for a alight light fight with Dobbs I told the people Dobbs hand was broken The negro nade a holler and I said Ill Til fight you myself if It you dont keep still stillI I 1 was a little fellow and he lie was big so it looked like a joke But he jumped Into the ring I whispered back of ot my hand to assistants for the Iron gloves When we saw we were up against a tough proposition we used gloves with strips of lead across the knuckles like the old Roman cestus The first clip I hit the negro opened his cheek and he heran heran heran ran out of the tent and down the street We all turned out and chased him and we had to run our legs off o to get our gloves back |