Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 70. Slick Skaters and Sweet Singers. Say, sport—You dont knownothin about the old days when weusta play checkers for excitement onwinter evenins in the corner grocery—back in the times when Cash Wat-son was the champeen ice-skatejumper—do you? Thats goin backpurty far, boy—back to the skatinpark of Collins and Casette, betweenBrady and Main on Seventeenth, when screwheel club skatesfirst came into style, and when all the young fellers and theirgals had the skatin fever in its worst form. Of course. Cash Watson was the original rough
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . 70. Slick Skaters and Sweet Singers. Say, sport—You dont knownothin about the old days when weusta play checkers for excitement onwinter evenins in the corner grocery—back in the times when Cash Wat-son was the champeen ice-skatejumper—do you? Thats goin backpurty far, boy—back to the skatinpark of Collins and Casette, betweenBrady and Main on Seventeenth, when screwheel club skatesfirst came into style, and when all the young fellers and theirgals had the skatin fever in its worst form. Of course. Cash Watson was the original rough-ridinice-skater, and when he took to jumpin, all the others took aback seat. When it came to fancy trick and graceful skatin,though, Miley Blakemore stood at the top of the heap, andhe performed with the speed of a greyhound and the graceof a gazelle. But you kin tell the world they aint been no real ice-skate jumpin since Cash hung up his worlds record byjumpin over twenty old-fashioned school benches. Thats what Cash done, sport. Started out to jumpo
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