Show ak K 0 IU adventurers K n wrestling za for life by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter fellow adventurer jack kapsol of brooklyn N Y jack M MEET is a gas station attendant and comes into the club with flying colors and a story astory of a hand to hand battle he had with a holdup hold up man speaking 1 of holdups hold ups in gas as stations I 1 want to tell you y ou about bill kernan a friend of mine who runs a service station in miami fla bill was sitting alone in his lonely station one night it last winter there had been a lot of gas station holdups hold ups in town recently and bill was feeling pretty nervous this night he had quite a bit of money in the cash register and like the looks of the weather it was t raining cats and dogs and the streets were deserted suddenly the lights of a big car driving into ills his driveway startled him the car skidded to a stop and two men jumped out and entered the office bill took one look nt at thern them and nearly fainted both wore masks masked devil and pirate hold up gas station without walting waiting for the command bill raised ills his hands over ills his head and dropped weakly into a chair he looked his night visitors over with popping 9 eyes and no wonder I 1 one of them looked like the devil I 1 mean exactly that he was dressed in a devils costume complete from horns to spiked tall the other masked man was a pirate and pistols and daggers peeped threateningly from his belt what a disguise bill thought and with chattering teeth he told them to help themselves to the cash register bills boss had told him not to resist in case of a holdup and bill being an obedient employee obeyed but the men paid no attention to the cash register the pirate instead drew out a long pistol and leveled it at bills trembling head give us some gas or your life he growled bill jumped at the command and quickly tilled filled their tank he spilled a lot of the gas as on the road but that matter all he wanted to do was to get rid of his dangerous customers as soon as possible A few gallons of gas was a cheap price to pay he be thought holdup turns out to be revelers lark then as he finished fiall filling the tank bill got another shock the devil reached in a mysterious pocket and handed him a five dollar bill bill looked at the money in amazement A strong whisky odor came from the devils breath keep the change he muttered thickly and the two bandits climbed into their big car and drove back to the fancy dress ball they had just left this time its really a serious affair one service mans story jack kapsolis Kap sols experience wasat quite so funny and his bandit been to any masquerade either jack had the night watch at his fathers service station on liberty avenue in jamaica L 1 one saturday night or rather sunday morning for it was 3 a m jack was sitting alone waiting for customers the date was december 1 1934 business had been good that day and there was plenty of jack in jacks cash register the street was deserted when a big blue bulck buick drove up and two tough looking characters asked for 10 gallons allons of gas jack gave it to them and they the thug swung an ugly blackjack black jack at him gave him a two dollar bill in payment when he started into the office to get the change one of the men a big fellow in a heavy overcoat foil followed owed him hand all the dough over the big man ordered with a curse and pulled a heavy black blackjack jack out of his coat pocket jack says the blackjack black jack was an ugly looking weapon and the sight of it almost made him obey but he figured he ha give up his fathers money without a struggle besides jack Is an amateur wrestler and a pretty big fellow himself jacks knowledge of wrestling was a life saver ile he reached for the cash rem register ister pretending to obey and then suddenly made a flying tackle at the holdup man wham the blackjack black jack whistled through the air and down went both men jack had bad been too fast for the blackjack ile he got under it as the weapon whizzed by his ear and grabbing the bandits arm applied a japanese arm lock did you ever see that hold its a pip and you can snap a mans arm with it but the arm jack held had a heavy overcoat on it and its powerful owner broke the hold jack got a full nelson on him next and was able to keep away from the blackjack black jack and now comes as strange an ending as any professional wrestling bout ever had the bandit had been smoking a cigarette when he came in the shock of jacks attack had knocked the lighted cigarette on the floor I 1 in a a corner of the office was a keg of alg highly ehly inflammable antifreeze anti freeze solution danger of explosion was greater than robbery the tap had leaked and as jack struggled desperately on the floor ile be saw to hla his horror that the cigarette had I 1 ignited the liquid A blue streak of flame was already heading for the ke keg g the next minute might see an explosion that would make the wrestling match a tie with both wrestlers wrest lers deada jack know what to do but his opponent did and he did it fast the bandit apparently had no desire to be blown up he saw the fire starting and he started with it right out the door he went and slamming it after him was off in the car with his partner in a cloud of dust jack had bad literally fallen out of the frying pan into the fire farel I 1 the money was safe but now it looked like the whole place would go up in flames jack kicked death right out the door ile he jumped for his bis leather coat and tried to smother the increasing blaze the burning liquid splashed on his arms and burnt him severely the wood of the keg was actually burning when he tried to move it to safety one spark on that keg and it would be all over he braced himself against the wall and with his pants leg burning kicked the keg off its cradle and out the dohrl bowl if that kicking dynamite what Is but jack got away with it he stamped out the tire inside the station and then took an inventory the inventory showed that he had lost one coat one ona pair of pants arid add last but not least two eyebrows I 1 ad service lc |