Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-27 | Page 32 | Troubles of " Tallest Man in America"

Troubles of db e Tallest ivian in America ff if 1 take tofe a flier at some of them there While al says he hc they better too look out t By James F. F Taylor v vI PUSHED PUSHED doors of Dowling l x I place on upper Eighth Avenue walked in and was Jf k k w n f r h s about to ask for Mr Dowling Dowlin when I saw what I N took to be a pair of black satchels reposing there each a with a leg sticking out of the top I allowed my eyes to travel upward until they encountered a tre tre- tremendous t f body above the legs with a pair of long arms Ge r 1 hangin down the sides and the hands at the ends of w i ithe the arms were proverbially speaking as big as hams e My eyes still travelling ward ceiling after covering q a seemingly endless expanse of waistcoat they rested o on a big blond face with a good mouth and a firm i m chin set off with a pair of pf light blue blueeyes blueeyes blueeyes eyes with a sort of twinkle in them And on the top of all this so that it looked like the first ray of the climbing sun illuminating a mountain peak was a crop of auburn hair TH HERE RE was nc no need for me to ask who he was That great animate mountain of a man with the long heavy pink face could be no other than George Dowling himself He overtopped the other men in the room as a lofty oak k does a gr group up of scrub pine The sun coming in m through a window cast his shadow across the floor up the sidewall and there was a good piece of it on the ceiling itself When I had introduced myself to Mr Dowling and he had condescendingly bent forward to save me from shouting up to him I asked him how tall he was the deep voice rumbled and said Ta Taller ler than any other man in m these ere United States So now you know how tall George Dowling is And from this point reader on-reader on reader you may listen to Dowlings Dowling's own account of himself learn why he ma may enter the ring and try to beat Willard ard and why he thinks he can do it also why it itis is tt gether pleasant to stand seven fe feet t two and one-half one inches in your stocking feet The Th fact fact that Dowling fowling was born in London of Irish parents will explain an occasional lapse into a somewhat ish brogue-ish Cockney dialect a WELL JELL WELL then I you myself I ave b been en ere f three months and I ave written a pome tailed called E E Never Blamed the Booze which tells a fellah who thought V e was a bloomin talK taiK and e drank till he got filled up to the neck so that if e didn't keep is ead up ed spill it it And Ande e up like until e looked like a bloomin balloon balloon bal bal- balloon loon and the first thing e e knew he be was he-was was fight a-fight- in of snakes and ridin a of purple r and e kicked off and never could tell what ailed im E blamed it on to but re e e never blamed the booze Some pome d j that was and its it's got a moral Well that's got nothing to do with what Im I'm goin to tell you I weigh pounds and measure seven feet two and a Sl half inches without shoes which are number my on seven- seven When I 1 was eight years year eary old I 1 teens and I wear an eighteen collar and a two two- could lick the schoolmaster dollar doUar hat Every bloomin stitch I wear Ive I've and e e knew it t got to get made to my measure e except a pocket x f M e r rr r M Ms s t 4 a George Dowling fowling 7 l feet 2 23 i inches tall weight 28 pounds thinks of entering the prize prie ring to beat Jess Willard and even then theR Im I'm liable to lose the blamed think my fingers Only he didn't say blamed I reminded George that his talk was going into print and nd asked him to make it a trifle more anaemic He promised and continued So Billy Gibson you Gibson you know Billy Gibson the fight promoter welt well well e card eard of me and e comes up to me and looks me over and I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess I looks good to him because e asks me to think of gem goin into the ring with the white and blime me if I aint it over I Could I get aw away y with it Well I should smoke a teapot teapot teapot tea tea- pot Ive I've got and strength Ive I've done a lot of bf amateur and I think Im I'm there with the kick and andI I like the money that's in m it and and believe me theres there's a precious sight of it in boxing So when I takes a flier at some of them there white they better look out else Ill I'll step on em Willard I dont don't know But Im I'm Im I'm bigger than im SNOW NOW I got my height from m my father lather and my mother a as they were both big big- men and women standing over six feet Now believe me bein as big as I am am is no bloomin joke because theres there's theresa a limit to everything to-everything and Ive I've passed it