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Show EDDIE ROBINSON IS : HAVING MANY WOES Eddie Robinson Is having his troubles these days. It's all because everyone he's had up to toeing the scratch has resigned re-signed Just before he could get his fountain foun-tain pen out to clinch the contract. Robinson is looking for an opponent for "Bert" Danford for the end of this month. "Spider" Kelly accepted, then called it off on account of illness. Then Fred Rafael. Ra-fael. Britt's old sparring partner, wired from San Francisco he was Just stepping on board .the train to come on to Salt Lake. Then Rafael wired he couldn't come on. Now Tommv Markham eeeir.a the onjy one in sight, and yet Markham Is out of town. George Gardner promised Robinson to go against a good man and now George has left town. In sorrow Robinson sat down this morning and dashed off the following. fol-lowing. It .shows that Eddie Is about a block and a half behind Alfred Austin, the Poet Laureate of England. But then it s a good attempt at any rate. Here it I without any chloride of lime, to kill the meter: 'What's the uee of going away. When home, sweet home is the place to stay? With the birds singing all the long day Now is the best time to make the hay. Wonder what the bovs will have to say When they hear that in Salt Lake ite as warm a May? . Martin Mulvey will have it set to music. mu-sic. It will be called "The Locomotor Ataxia Two-Step. " |