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Show ROOSEVELT WAS GIVEN BLACK EYE PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 27. Colonel Dan T. Moore, 310th field artillery regiment. Ninth division, stationed at Camp Meade, was the man dimmed former President Roosevelt's left eye in a boxing bout in the White house in 1905, it was disclosed today. Colonel Roosevelt acknowledged Sunday that his loft eye had been rendered useless use-less by a "husky young artillery captain." cap-tain." He declined to give his name. Colonel Moore acknowledged ho was "it" when the question was put squarely up to him today. "I did not know Colonel Roosevelt's eye had been put out until I read his statement Monday," said Colonel Moore. "But I have felt ever since he told of losing the sight of ono eye that I should be smoked out. Be sure your sins will find you out "Of course I am sorry I" struck the blow and that the colonel told about It. Although I never knew until I read his statement that his eye had been blinded, I instantly knew it was I to whom he referred, because there was . no other answering the description he t gave who could have done it. i "In 1005 I was a military aide at the White house. Another was Captain Fortescue, later a war correspondent in Europe and now a major of the national na-tional army stationed at Camp Lee. - Still another was Phil Sheridan, son i : of the hero of Winchester, who is ini- ' mortallzed in verse. "But the boxers of that time in the I White house were the president, ( Kermit Roosevelt and myself. For opponents op-ponents in other sports the president I when further afield, but when ho j wishes to don the gloves he chose) ' Kermit or me. Fortescue may have opposed him occasionally, but I doubt it, and I don't think Phil Sheridan ever boxed with tho president at all. That puts it squarely up to me. "Toll about the exact blow which blinded one of tho president's eyes? It would be as easy to tell about the shell that killed any particular soldier in this war. "Wnqn you put on the gloves with the president it was a caso of fight all the way. No man In the ring with him had any chance to keep track of particular blows. A good, fast referee might have known, but nobody else. "The colonel wanted plenty of action, ac-tion, and he usually got it. He had no use for a quitter or ono who gavo ground. Nobody but a man who was willing to fight all the time and all the way had any chance with him. That is my onl- excuse for the fact that I seriously injured him. There was no chance to be careful of the blows. He himself wouldn't have: stood for it. "I shall write the colonel a letter expressing my regret at the serious results of the blow. I cannot do more, and I certainly won't do less." Colonel Moore looked today, after a lapse of a dozen years, as though he could give a very good account of himself in the ring with most boxers. oo Vancouver, B. C, through its city officials, of-ficials, has handed an ultimatum to coal dealers to cut the price of coal or the city will step in and sell somo on its own account far below the price generally charged. |