Larry Foley.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 8 September 1917, Page 3

Larry Foley.

. Jack Hamilton, a Queensland member of Parliament, and m spoilt, was once entertaining the well-known athlete and boxer Larry JPoley, in -Brisbane, when he suddenly remembered that he had to attend a funencul. ■> "Sorry to leave you, but' I must go now. They must be burying him by thoe time. . What about coming with meP" , . "Is he one of us?" asked Foley, who was a devout Roman Claitihailic. "Ho is," said the member of Parliament. "I'll 00," said Ualrry. They hiaajed a cab and drore ' qff to the Toawtoqg cemetery. When they got there they mere puzsled to know &t which paint of 'the cemetery the burial wag taking .place. "Anis which part of the' cemetery, me man," riaid Larry to the cabmen, "is . the ißomian Catholic burying ground?" "Ob, over there," said the cabman, "next to where the Chinamen are buried." - ""Wlhlat! [" "exclaimed Larry Foley. "What do you meiauP" gjid with that he hauled the cabman down from the cab and w£ped the road with him. "Nfexb to where the /Chinamen are buried, ehP I'll t&cbe yea to insult a daceot Christian. -Nest -to the heathen Chinese, eh? Take that! ond that I—" Only the intervention 1 of Jack Hamilton saved the cabman from <a lingering experience! in a hospital; but,' when the oabmlan heard that it was the redoubtable 'Larry Foley who had handled him he (thanked the champion boxer for whalt he had done. "It's an unexpected eaid he.