Show L love 0 v le mellows prize t arize fighter J aa w girl brings desire for education to former terror of the boxing ring 51 IS RJ SEEKING ANOTHER DEGREE kid wedge at 41 enters harvard almost penniless to obtain phd degree left lumber camps to be pual pugilist list A story of if great love loc of a ell corror reer if r littral buird battles in ili the ting avd and of a tight light against tuberculosis cleale to light at tt a few dais bays ngo ago when kid eld wedge forty one jonm old of arizona registered in the V ina ail if u a t e cluel Clu ul of t atre tere lie la Is to stud st lil for ills his ill 13 degree fifteen idars ago atle of kid adge waa vas ue de to te be feared fp tired in tile lie timber lands of the middle ATI west vor for airs fors lie biad lit in tile itlie rings of that region at twenty lie left the lite woon laeh lw eh lie worked Morl pl with lumber iny ing crews and took tit up the fighting ganic game for lila his profession in ili tile the next six years lie fought 08 battles anil and won 63 of them romance entered life then when he was twenty six canie his romance ninia lie ile met inet the daughter ol of a wisconsin doctor she was it 11 bradu tile of it nebraska college ond and for far removed from wedges station tn lit life but they were married thell thellie Th enlie lie tile pi gi eat cat difference in their intellectual standards so lie he gave ur up tile the ring to secure till nil education with the money lie ho find earned us its a prize fighter for six yours years lie attended a 0 preparatory school where lie did 12 years of elementary work to prepare for college ile he entered the university of nebraska but the war interrupted his work ile he went to ciuni grant as a boxing instructor and there another obstacle appeared the doctors pro bounced bilm ailin tin im incurable victim ol of tuberculosis with ith but six months to lie he wont to HN el paso inso tex to begin a different diner battle and in ili a year lie wasn was gasn n well man inan won degree of A B thou then le ile entered the university ot arizona and finished the work lit lie hit had begun nt at tile university of nebraska lie he was given ills his degree of A it II lie ile was as forty years old then and became principal of the high schol at ilenson benson ariz that was the position lie he held field until the end of last sear when hen lio lie rt signed reigned to go kast and continue his studies lie made the lie trip of thousands nildA ot of miles allies in ili freight cars and on the rods lie ile started stalled etli 10 traveling expenses s till and reached cambridge with ga cents in ills his pockets when the next nest semester opens tit nt harvard after the midyear mid year examinations kid wedge former boxer former coriner lumberman former hobo and fornier former lying flying cun sump five will open up tile hooks books that will make blin n doctor of philosophy |