Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1913 — TALKING SPOILED HIS TRIP [ARTICLE]

TALKING SPOILED HIS TRIP

Passenger Beating His Way Was All Right Until He Himself Gave * the Whole Snap Away. i Jack Grace, the veteran boxer and iglobc trotter, likes to tell stories •bout himself and retails one wherein Honolulu proves to have offered him a welcome unaware. "I had been Stopping in Honolulu rwlth the Jeffries-Johnson fight picftnres and decided that I wanted to go

to Yokohama. I knew the chief engineer on the Manchuria, which was due In port in a couple of days, and I thought 1 would save |2OO fare by riding with him. “When the ship came into port he told me that I could have the second engineer’s cabin. " ’Stay inside a couple of days, and then come out and mix with the passengers. There are about 300 on board,’ he told me, ‘and I do not think you will have any trouble.’ "I followed his instructions, and

after the secend day I came out from hiding. We were within a few days of Japan, and I was regaling a bunch in the smoking room with some stories when a company checker looked at me closely and asked: " ’Say, who are you?’ “I did not know him, so proceeded to tell of my experiences, and relate what a good friend I had in the chief engineer. ' Riding the rods is hard work; I told him, but traveling first cabin on these transpacific liners is a PiP*.

"The checker left without explain Ing his official position, but I notlcet about three hours afterward that th« ship slowed down. I also saw thai the a sister ship on th* same line, was passing us and ata getting ready to stop. Well, the; only gave me time to grab up my press book, that other shirt and ai old pair of boxing gloves I was cap rying, when they transferred me tt the other ship. “Going back? Say. did you ev« holystone a dsckT"