Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-10-02 | Page 20 | Roll Is Lost by Willie Lewis in a "Gym" in Paris

ROLL IS JS LOST LOSI BY WILLIE VILL E LEWIS IN INA INA A GYM IN PARIS Dy By HAL SHERIDAN ShERmAN NEW EW YORK Oct Ocl 2 Willie Willie Lewis American boxer I ig Is home from Paris with witha a n hard luck luk t talc ilc When war x start started d. d said Willie I I had hadju ju Just t invested In all m my mon monc money about in iu a fine p lim In lii Paris I was as' as good money boxing and teaching leaching boxing A A. A weel neck Liter later r along camb tho the thoMar war Mar andI ws andI IH s forced to clo close c up shop hop There Thero wont won't bo be any an more boxing In France for u n Jon Jong time Theatres cafes arcs and und all all all- aorta all sorts of at amusement places are closed ed V Ill li never for forlet et the night war nar was declared rile streets were v crowded with will people shouting ano an and ringing and acting as If they eio wele half hulf crazy trazy with JO Joy Those Frenchmen are aie brave brav For days das before I left tho the streets crowded with men inca going to report for Cor set service e. e They carried little b baskets with bread and meat and wino swine to use at the tile start and they wore were all aill singing ln Thc They knew that many would never come back Jack but they were as ns cheerful as 1 if they were going to a pic plc- nic We Wo didn't got sot much to cat eat in Paris after war was declared Thc They wont won't sell seU you hardly enough h food for your our family Mrs Milton Henry rented an room eight apartment when hen she reached Paris from Chantilly had cots cols put in all the rooms and took l In a lot of or busted Americans She got sot up a good dinner for thorn them everyday every overy everyday I day and helped out everybody c she ehe he could She must have hwe given gl awn ny a or She gave ave her automobiles horses and h house at Chantilly Chant to the government go to ue during the war Milton Henry and Mrs Irs Henry and Tom Kennedy Kennelly and Jo Johnny Loftus and Guy Garner and nd my ray wife win and boy came over with me when we wo all nil had llad to leave Paris Parts at last All tho the women were put into cabins on La TouraIne and the men mon In Inthe Inthe Inthe the steerage The first night out we e were held up b by a cruiser and everybody was scared ared half hatt to death omen Women were swore crying and fainting all over the place We 0 thou thought ht it was as a German Gorman sure When wo we found out it was wab a French rench cruiser everything was aH all right