Sport: Death of Welsh

A chunky little Welshman named Frederick Hall Thomas, who had used the name of Freddie Welsh because he was proud of his race, who was for three years (1914-17) lightweight boxing champion of the world, lay on his face on the bedroom floor of a cheap Manhattan hotel, last week. He was alone and he was dead. On his bed was a copy of a biography of Elbert Hubbard, opened at a page containing, among other passages, the sentence: "Get your happiness out of your work, or you will never know what happiness...

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