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Show JESS WILLARD sORGETFUL "I note with some surprise that Jess Willard says In his autobiography running in the Examiner Exam-iner that he never touched liquor in his life." The speaker was Thomas A. "Williams, a salesman sales-man of Henry Distson and Company, the saw and tool concern. ' I am surprised at this statement because I remember very well seeing Jess Willard in com-jany com-jany with his manager, Tom Jones at Reno on the Fourth of July, 1913. Willard had fought Davis that day. It is possible that Willard has never touched liquor in his life, but It is not probable ,In view of what I saw of him that day. If Willard had not touched liquor that day, then liquor had most certainly touched Willard, and with no gentle touch either." San Francisco Town Talk. |