Show The Passing of a Popular BY GEORGE L. L GEIGER SAN FRANCISCO FEANCISCO Aug 7 The The awful mockery in the life of the gi white way the mockery of the laugh that rings when loosened by wines fling fl ft fie ing like water the hollowness and arid emptiness of the title Good Fellow 1 hypocrisy of the man who scrapes and shuffles b before fore you when youre you're wIn w win wo woin in the barkeep to death death all all these things were shown painfully plain by incident here Sunday evening Before going ahead any further I want to go back a a. few years TI Th was then a a. young fellow whom the world hailed as the the king of light weight weigh It was Young Corbett who was pushing his way up ladder of fame in style He was making money money barrels barrels of it He was dined and wi win Wined theres there's the point And in return he wined and dined his cheer scraping admirers I Life to Young Corbett was a a. rose to be plucked And he plucked unmindful of the thorn He wined wined and and the wine and the pace made h dizzy As the wine rushed to his head the strength in his arms arms Isis his st stin atIn ste in trade trade left left him But it was music laughter and more wine What r rhe he lie care for money In an afternoon he made more than plodding labor labo make in a lifetime Didn't he have to do the right things by his pals pal Sure More wine Another hot bird and oodles of wine waiter That was a few years ago just a few Now for yesterday Picture an immense immense low building black with smoke of noisy trains shunt shunt- shunting shunting ing ing- back and forth Picture pushing here and there the sounds o of offar far farewells wells and the tho cries of porters train train- trainmen trainmen men and general hubbub of a a. terminal It was the same old scene in the same sam old way at the Southern Pacific bayside bayside bayside bay bay- side terminal in Oakland The overland overland overland over over- land limited was just about to steam out for its trip towards the far east In the crowd was a a. stocky young fellow fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low with a woman at his side Th The couple attracted no special attention attention- they might have been Johnny Jones the ribbon clerk at the tho Emporium ant anti and Mrs Jones an hour ago Sally Smith also of the Emporium starting 01 ou life and their honeymoon together J might have been any any young oun man man young woman of thousands just them in one of the tho cities around bay But ut it was Young Corbett real r n n Billy Rothwell Bothwell and Mrs Rothwell bride of a few davs days Such Sucha a d di ture One One just just one man man man med them across the bay from this of the Oakland terminal Jack G Gan Gan an old this pal pal this solitary individual being there alone to s say y goodbye iJ i the time leaving leavinA all the s sadder F FA was a sad spectacle Bothwell i 5 out on the observation platform waved Grace a farewell The Th y rounded a curve cune and Young Co disappeared from sight and from the minds of fight fans of the thi coast The very money that took Ro Be EoJ east cast was raised at a pugilistic g ga 1 in Ins ing last Fridas- Fridas evening y B Billy Ily Jordan ma made e a lit little tIC the ring ring- The old lId announcer tears in his eyes told of Corbet CorbettS I IB s mer prowess and wound up hi hiby hiby hia by asking the fans present to to 25 i and make a purse for the once at aD king of the light weights A Adli fd fans threw money into the r It IJ for all the world worM like throwing flies Dies to kids But no one smile fans had heart enough to chi chin their mite without a sneer for i 1 11 pathetic m Unwept forgotten ahl and What a a. bitter lesson Jesson V Vi hat a chin ch oh in just a few years rears Yh hl j thought lit the mighty little gladi the yesteryear who pounded on t tho the ho and shouted More v lv waiter walter waiter Your best and bring ill t tubs would just a few fow vear stand with hung hunA heal head beside ai an n. n ring character asking the as asIans asse fans Ians to throw their spare change a pile so 50 the man at his si side e could back baek east You cant can't have and eat it is homespun sQ which like all homespun F wool and a yard wide and the U fellow part is one no thinking u I will play after the lesson taught thel little Billy BUly M |