Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-11-17 | Page 20 | Tiger Flowers Answers Final Call; Leaves $100,000 to Family

Tiger Flowers Answers Final Call Leaves to Family NEW YORK Nov floe By 17 The M- M With a prayer on his Ups lips Theodore Tiger Flow Flow- Flowers ers ers the praying deacon prize ring dIed In a private hospital l last lut night after a minor n Clad hi the Titer Tiler bathrobe rr r.r. ing the hu huge e yellow ellow head of a jungle cat cal across the shoulders shoulders-a sIght in n rings aU all ov over r the coun the taciturn Georgia negro who once held the worlds world's middleweight cham went ent to the operating room In the sanitarium of Dr W W. O. O Fralick to undergo an for fora a growth over his IUs right eye As the anesthetic wu was being admin admin- the Tiger a a. deacon In his church at Atlanta Oa murmured murmured- If I 1 should die before I wale wake I 1 pray the Lord my soul to take Without regaining more than semi semi- after the opera operation lion per per- r- r by Dr Fr Flowers en died sUddenly at p p. p m m. heart cOll collapsed af after t he be had been thought out of danger The surgeon pro ro his death due to status Little more than a year ear ai ago Harry Oreb who ho l st st. his to Sn Flowers in ina a a. decisIon bout at Madison Square darden Carden February 25 26 1926 died under un- un under der similar circumstances ar after rJ an operation for removal of bone from his nose flowers lost his crown to Mickey Walker on a a. round 10 de- de decision cislon In Chicago December 3 3 1926 Dr that Flowers Flower death was as one case m He said the boxer was Vias In splendid condition before the operation and had rallIed well ell Death occurred so suddenly Dr Fralick that he was unable to reach the pa aide from an another ther room coons a at the call of a second physician before the nd end had c come me COLORFUL CAREER The colorful Tiger WhO whose e c career extended over nine years eara had been a unique figure Ur In ring history