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i have framed a few of them and they look better if printed on a rough quality off white paper. The artists of the day were i think fairly fast in doing the drawings and this is an article about one of the best of them. They were a bunch of nutters mind you and a few were a bit racist by any standard. The depictions of jack Johnson are the worst.

 

If you were to mention the name T.A.Dorgan with regard to boxing I think few people would have any clue as to who he was. However , the mention of the name TAD would elicit a very different response. As a collector of old newspaper articles and cartoons I have long admired his work but not till very recently knew much about the man behind some of the best fight reports, and artwork, produced over some twenty or more years.

 

This lovely tribute to TAD was published on 23rd June 1929

 

Dry or Hilarious Wit, Near the End.

No man ever loved life more tumultuous, zestful, jovial life. No man ever had a harder fight to live at all. And "Tad" is dead. His "dime-a-dozen ticker." as he called his ailing heart, has ticked out., But T. A. Dorgan, the cartoonist whose sense of humor raised him into a class by himself in the affections of young and old everywhere, wouldn't want any "tear squeezing" now. He hated "sob" stories about him when he was alive, and his astounding courage, his uproarious vitality in the face of extraordinary odds, tempted many a writer to play up the jinxes that Tad conquered.

 

Tad had only one obsession—to keep as many people laughing, or at worst smiling, ns he could. Almost from the beginning of his career his cartoons

took on. .They made people laugh at themselves and at their idols of Ring, Diamond and Turf.

 

When he was a small baseball playing Mischievous kid on the side street sand Lots of San Francisco , Tad wanted to become a great pugilist. He

followed John L. Sullivan and Jim Corbett along the streets, appropriately worshipful. Then he had an accident while playing around a house moving

job that crushed off four fingers of his right hand. That ended his pugilistic aspirations- but it gave America a great cartoonist.

 

He became a “Southpaw” – his own Coinage –and began a steady rise. Arthur Brisbane saw Tad’s talent and Tad became the great editors Favorite protégé . Tad made millions laugh For twenty five years. He created his famous Animal characters, “Judge Rummy”, “Fedink”, “Reno Ruth” And “Bunk”, and he probably created more vigorous American Slang than any other man has – or ever will.

 

Eight years ago the doctors told Tad that he’d have to withdraw completely from the life along Broadway, at the ringside and in the stands that he had taken part in so long and joyously. He shrugged and kept on Drawing his cartoons: for eight years of seclusion. During which he couldn’t even walk upstairs in his Great Neck, Long Island home he continued To keep his pen attuned to the pulse of life. few of his vast Audience knew that he was less active than in the past.

 

Tad who’s phrases like “The cat’s pajamas” , “Yes, we have no bananas” , “cheaters”, “skimmers” and “as busy as a one armed paper hanger with the hives” ran from coast to coast and became virtually a part of the language was always fond of practical jokes. He could perpetrate them with an originality peculiarly his own.

 

For instance, Tad once gave Harry Hershfield, the cartoonist, Two tickets to a boxing bout in the old Madison Square Garden. Harry and another friend of Tad’s went to the match, passing Tad in the lobby. They had excellent box seats and after the fight tad came up to Harry and said “You’re the luckiest guy I ever hope to see. I gave you two tickets dated a year ago just to see the commotion

At the box office when you presented them. But they let you in ! the jokes on me”

 

Again, Tad and Tom Powers, another famous cartoonist, once attended A six day bike race. On the way out early in the morning Tad got Into an altercation with a member of the crowd who was trying to Shove his way out too fast .Tad “socked” him and the man called the police. At the station house Tad gave his name as “Thomas Jones”. Later, when The jailer came round to let the cartoonist out – his adversary had not Pressed charges – Tad had forgotten his alias and didn’t respond When the name “Thomas Jones2 was called. He merely thought What a lucky fellow that man Jones was for being released.

 

To the last Tad kept an atmosphere of laughter around him – as well as in the Myriad homes where his drawings and sharp running comment were enjoyed. Death may hover always at the door, and that was the case throughout those Sequestered long years, but Tad could laugh and think up collapsing glasses and dancing plates with which to surprise his wife and mother. He Out gamed death. and his created and popularised have gone into the language of the English speaking world.

 

He had the American gift of skinning down to the point in the “balloons” ( the hand lettered words in cartoons and comic strips ) as well as in his drawn characters. He has joined the ranks of great native humorists and satirists like Nye and Twain and Riley and future generations will

absorb much of the spirit of his lifetime through his quarter of a century of contributions.

 

Strangely his last “Indoor Sports” published posthumously had in black Letters in one of the “balloons” “This will be the death of me”

 

 

 

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may have done some already but better quality this way

 

 

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Ther must be loads of guys whose ring names would get the pc brigade winging their heads of.

 

Would he become the cadbury/nestle kid

 

midget wolgast would be the vertically challenged wolgast

 

brown bomber - ethnic targetting person

I wonder if they took it as in insult or just put it down to gimmick....it amazes me at times what the promoters got a way with at the time and thats not including the corruption!
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I am sure that most of them found it insulting but had no choice other than put up with it if they wanted to earn any money.
Your're quite right ofcourse rob, the need to put food on the table outweighed the need to be treated as an equal!
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