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Show MOVIE COWBOY I NOT TRUE TYPE Says Screen Hero Is Product Pro-duct of Shadowland, Not Reality PRINCETON", N. J., July 8. Whn the movie fans get the truth about the 1" boy from this stately seat of learn-Ing learn-Ing ihey may be surprised. The word does not come from this seat of learning learn-ing exactly, but rather from a product prod-uct of it Philip Ashton Rollins, trustee trus-tee of Princeton, and some time cowboy cow-boy when the West was raw. Kootball was not lough enough for Rollins In the old days of the flying wedgfej so he tucked his diploma under un-der one arm and a gun under tho other, oth-er, took Horace Greely's tip and went out to see the country. NO USE FOR Girx "ne of the first things Rollins dis-! covered when he gots out west was thai he bad little or no use for the gun and even less for the diploma. The fact that Rollins had made a very Important Im-portant touchdown against Yale at one time did not cause any Western mayors may-ors tC meet him with a band. 'This cowboy historian says the real cowboy was not much like the one seen in the movies the.ic days Tho real killers and bad men of the West In the days now gone were not cowboys cow-boys at all, but just "tough guys." The pistol had one use to which the average cowboy would, from time to time, 'enthusiastkally devote it, and that was the production of noiee. When put to use the. weapon was fired either directly upward into the air or slantingly downward at the ground, for the West had no blank cartridges. On such occasions the pistol effects would b- supplemented by Indian-like screeches and coyote-Ilk'- howls. BAD MAN DNKEAli As to the bad man, he was more often a boaster, this historian says. Tazewell Woody, famous as colonel j Roosevelt's guide in the west, was standing in a saloon with left elbow on the bar, ripht nan. I hanging by his I side, and eyes luckily pointed at the I mirror behind the bar. He caught In 1 the mirror the reflection of a head poked momentarily into the saloon s doorway and belonging to a man who had publicly stated his purpose of killing kill-ing Woody at sight. This man having apparently thought the coast to be clear, and th if the saloon contained a sufficient au-i idlcnce turned his horse rode through , the doorway and boldly said. "Has an gent here seen that feller Woody? I'm huntln' for him'" At that Instant i the man realized, for the first time. Ithat Woody was in the room and he I realized also that, though he himself was facing Woody's back, the mirror negatived this advantage He saw-that saw-that right hand hanging Idly down The bad man backed out through the j doorway ami on his own initiative, rode out of the state. |