more "jazz" from San Francisco, 1913

[George Thompson]

     Gunboat Smith must have taken several shots of the old jazz tonic
before making up his mind to fight Sam Langford in New York.  ***

     S. F. Call, September 22, 1913, p. 7, col. 2  [from a sports column of
prizefighting news headed "Slattery's Spikes"]



     Chesty Los Angeleno There with the Jazz.

     While the Parade was going up Market street a friend of mine
introduced me to a man from Los Angeles.  Naturally, I asked him if he had
come to San Francisco for the Festival.

     "Not at all," replied the Gentleman from the South, "not at all.  I
merely came up here at this time to avoid the crowd at home.

     And, as a matter of fact, I really believe he thinks he meant it.

     S. F. Call, October 22, 1913, p. 3, col. 3   [from a column of
anecdotes from a civic ceremony & parade, by L. W. (Larry) Harris.]

GAT
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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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