Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-11-17 | Page 4 | Ends Colorful Career

ENDS COLORFUL CAREER IK z 1 v f. f v a k I uk MP ATLANTA Ga Nov 17 United Press Press Tiger Flowers who died in New York last night was an idol of the negro boys of Georgia and known to white folks as the whitest colored man in the ring His career as a boxer brought him wealth He owned probably the most ornate mansion of any ti negro gro in Atlanta But his neighbors say the ring honors he won never went to his head On Sundays when ho was in town he lie went humbly to Butler street negro Methodist church wearing somber black clothes and a black tie He was a deacon of the church but never made pretense of using the title for publicity purposes His funeral here is expected to be one of the most elaborate in the history of the negro section of the city Flowers was far from being the typical pug The money he made some some of it went to help build new churches some to needy neighbors It t was said Flowers never passed a beggar without giving him something