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Show . WHY Sl'lT "CHAMP" CLARK? & The nexuspeaker's full name is James Beauchanmp Clark. When ho went out Into the world he discovered that Clark was the sixth most common com-mon name hvAruorlca. and that James was nearly" ns prevalent as John or the measles." James B. also was curiously cur-iously numerous, and James B. Clark far from unusual. In the young man's towu was'aVuian of that name who UBed to got his letters and throw them nway. i This wns very annoying. annoy-ing. So ,the future statesman dropped drop-ped Jnmesl and became Beauchamp Clark. Beauchamp !b a well-known name oiit WOBt. They pronounco it Beechamrllke that of the Englishman who makes pills Now, one of the incoming speaker's hobbies Is accurate accur-ate expression, and it Irritated him to be called-Beecham, when ho should have been called Boahom. with the accent onhe shorn. Painstaking in vestlgatlon finally convinced him that only a Frenchman could say it properly, prop-erly, anyway, so he made up his mind to drop one of the syllables, and after aft-er duo consideration he picked Beau as the oiie to go. Since then he has been plain Champ Clark, and is so designated almost Invariably. We hear of Representative Underwood, Congressman PPayne, et al., but never oNRepresentatlve or Congressman Congress-man Clark. It is always Champ Clark, as If hyphenated, with accent on the Clark. Harper's Weekly. ' A nn |