Shaggy Dog Story; One-Two Punch

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   Two gems from the NYHT obituaries.

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SHAGGY DOG STORY(?)

   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 20 May 1949, pg. 18, col. 5:

_Dr. Thomas Hinkle,_
_Wrote Dog Stories_
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_Author of 24 Books for_
   _Young People_
   ONAGA, Kan., May 19.--Dr. Thomas C. Hinkle, seventy-two, physician and author of dog and horse stories for young people, died at his home here last Friday.
   Dr. Hinkle's first book, "Tawny: A Dog of the Old West," was published by William Morrow Co. in 1927.  His twenty-fourth, "Vic: A Dog of the Prairies," is scheduled for publication in July.  The publishers have on hand three other manuscripts by him.
   Dr. Hinkle was born in Laciede, Ill.  He attended high school in Junction City, Kan., and obtained his medical degree from the University of Kansas in 1904.  He was later ordained a Congregationalist minister.
   His books found a wide audience among adults as wellished in  as among the young people for whom they were primarily intended.  The late William Allen White, editor of "The Emporia Gazette," said of "Shag: The Story of a Dog," published in 1931, that "here is a dog story that will stand among the best dog stories in this country."

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ONE-TWO PUNCH

   The RHHDAS has 1811, then 1902.  Could the 1811 cite be wrong?...Even if it is, 1902 seems a little early for this fighter to create and popularize it.
   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 19 May 1949, pg. 20, col. 8:

_Willie Lewis Dies,_
_1900 Ring Favorite_
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_Fought Carpentier and_
   _Ketchell; Was 64_
   Willie Lewis, sixty-four, prominent welterweight from 1900 until his retirement in 1915, died yesterday at Polyclinic Hospital.  Mr. Lewis fought such ring greats as Stanley Ketchell and Georges Carpentier, of France, in the years before World War I.
   Known as a tough fighter who went out of his class to meet middleweights, light heavies and heavyweights, he never won a title but was a contender during the major part of his boxing career.  After losing to Ketchell, he went to Europe and became extremely popular, especially with the French.  He was credited with being one of those who introduced American ring methods in that country and was supposed also to have originated the "one-two" punch.
   After retiring from the ring he became manager of a cafe known as the Chateau Thierry on East Fourteenth Street.  While working there one night in 1920 he was shot at close range by one of three gunmen who entered the cafe.  Newspapers of the following day quoted doctors as saying that he could not live but he recovered completely.  The reason for the shooting was never learned.
   Mr. Lewis was popular with fight fans because of his clean-cut appearance and because he was known always to put on an honest fight.  His admirers called him the "Gas House Champion."

(The best source to check boxing news of the 1900 period is THE POLICE GAZETTE.  The American Periodical Series microfilm of this publication ends about 1899, however--ed.)