Show it Adventurers Adventurers' J j Club Wrestling Tf for Life By FLOYD GI GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter I t tEET Fellow Adventurer Jack Kapsol of Brooklyn N. N Y M MEET Jack is a gas station attendant and comes into the club with flying fling colors and a story of a to hand-to-hand battle he had with a up hold man Speaking of hold holdups ups in gas stations I want to tell you about Bill Kernan a friend of mine who runs a service station in Miami Fla Bill was sitting alone in his lonely station one night last winter 7 There had been a lot of gas station holdups In town recently I and Bill was feeling pretty nervous this night He had quite abit a abit bit of money In the cash register and didn't like the looks of the it A weather It was raining cats and dogs and the streets were deserted Suddenly the light of ot a big car driving Into his driveway startled him The car skidded to a stop and two men Jumped out and entered the office Bill took one look at them and nearly fainted Both wore masks 1 Masked Devil and Pirate Hold Up Gas Station Without waiting for tor the command Bill raised his hands over his head I I and dropped weakly Into a chair He looked his night visitors over with popping eyes And no wonder 1 lOne One of ot them looked like e the devil I devil I mean menn exactly that that that-he he was dressed In n a devils devil's costume complete from horns horns' to toI I spiked tall I The other masked man was a n pirate and pistols and daggers peeped threateningly from his belt What a disguise Bill thought and with chattering teeth he told them to help themselves to the cash register Bills Bill's boss had told him not to resist In case of a holdup and Bill being an obedient obedient obedient obedi obedi- ent employee obeyed But the he men paid no attention to the cash 1 register The pirate Instead drew out a long pistol and leveled It at Bills Bill's trembling head Give us some gas or your life he gro growled led Bill Jumped at the command and amI quickly filled fined their tank He spilled a lot of ot the gas on the road but that didn't matter All AlJ he wanted to do was was to get rid of ot his dangerous customers as soon as possible A few tew gallons gallons gal gal- lons ions of ot gas was a cheap price to pay he thought Holdup Turns Out to Be Revelers' Revelers Lark Then as he finished filling the tank Bill Bm got another shock The devil reached In a mysterious pocket and handed him a five dollar bill Bill looked at the money In amazement A strong whisky odor came from tram the devils devil's breath Keep the change he muttered thickly And the two bandits climbed Into their big car and drove back to the fancy dress ball they had just left 1 This Time Its It's Really a Serious Affair That's one service mans man's story Jack Kapsol's experience wasn't quite so funny tunny and his bandit hadn't been to any masquerade either Jack had the night watch at his fathers father's service station on Liberty avenue In Jamaica L L. 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I One Saturday night night or or rather Sunday morning for it was 3 a a. a m. m Jack m.-Jack Jack was sitting alone waitIng waitIng waitIng wait- wait Ing for customers The date was December 1 1934 Business had been good that day and there was plenty of jack In Jacks Jack's cash register The street was deserted when hen a big blue Buick Bulck drove droe up and two tough looking characters asked for 10 gallons of ot gas Jack gave It to them i I IThe The Thug Swung an Ugly Black Jack Black Jack at Him and they gave him a two dollar donar bill In payment When he started Into the once to get the change one of ot the men men men-a a big fellow In a heavy overcoat followed him Hand all the dough over the big man ordered with a curse and pulled a heavy jack black out of ot his coat pocket Jack sa says s 's the jack black was an aD ugly looking weapon and the sight of ot It almost made him obey But he figured he couldn't give up his fathers father's money without a struggle Besides Jack Is an amateur wrestler and a pretty big fellow himself Jacks Jack's Knowledge of Wrestling Was a Life Saver He Be reached for the cash re register lster pretending to obey and then suddenly suddenly sud sad denly made a flying tackle at the holdup man maD Wham I 1 the Jack black-Jack whistled through the air and down went both men Jack had bad been too fast for the black blackjack He Be got under It as the weapon whizzed by his ear and grabbing the bandits bandit's arm applied a Japanese arm lock Did you ever see that hold Its It's a pip and you can snap a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's arm with it But the arm Jack held had a heavy overcoat on It and Its powerful owner broke the hold Jack got of a full Nelson Nelson NelIon Nel Nel- son son Ion on him next and was able to keep away way from the black And now comes as strange an ending as IlS any professional wrestling bout ever had bad The bandit had been smoking a cigarette when he came In The shock of ot Jacks Jack's attack had knocked the lighted cigarette on the floor In a a. corner of at the office was a keg of ot highly Inflammable freeze antifreeze solution Danger of Explosion Was Greater Than Robbery The tap top had bad leaked ed and as Jack struggled desperately on the floor be he besaw besaw saw to his bis horror that the cigarette had Ignited the liquid A blue streak I of flame Oame was already heading for the t keg The next minute might see see see-an an explosion that would make the wrestling match a tie with tie with both wrestlers dead I Jack didn't know what to do But his opponent did and he did It fast The bandit apparently had no desire to be blown up He saw caw the fire starting and he started with It Right out the door he ho went and slamming It after him was off In the car with his partner In a cloud of dust Jack had literally fallen out of ot the frying tryIng pan Into the fire I f The money was safe but now It looked like the whole place would go up In flames llames Jack Kicked Death Right Out the Door He Jumped for his leather coat cont and tried to smother the Increasing blaze The he burning liquid splashed on his arms and burnt them severely The wood of ot the keg was actually burning when be he tried t to move It to safety One spark on that keg and It would be all over He braced himself against the wall and with his pants leg burning kicked the keg off Its cradle and o out t the door Wow If that Isn't kicking dynamite what Is f But Jack Jock got sot away with It He Be stamped out the fire Inside the station and then took an Inventory The Inventory showed that he be had lost ono one I coat one pair of ot pants and last but not least two eyebrows 1 I O o 0 B Burk |