Robert Ripley

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The clothing queen, you'll be a Colgate Brush, let's fang. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Bill Stann, bringing you the 346th edition of the Colgate Shave Cream Sport's News Reel featuring strange and fantastic stories.

Some that are legends others mere hearsay, but also interesting we'd like to pass them along to you. Our special guest tonight is, believe it or not, Bob Ripley. But before we introduce the famous cartoonist Bob Ripley, let's begin with real one.

Portrait of a rivalry. Many years ago, shortly after the turn of the century, there occurred one of the greatest sports rivalries this country has ever seen. It was a rivalry between two great champions. One was named Dan Patch.

And the other was named John R. Braden. Dan Patch came from Minneapolis. While John R. Braden came from Preskile, Maine. Both were great runners, both were great track stars, and both that record after record.

But Dan Patch and Minneapolis and John Braden and Preskile, Maine, were in a class all by themselves. And since they were forever breaking each other's records, even though one did live in Minneapolis and the other in faraway Preskile, Maine, the public began to clamor for these two track stars to be brought together.

Our arrangements were finally made for a race between these two, after their first race. They ran against each other many times. Sometimes John Braden would win, sometimes Dan Patchid win. Their rivalry became so famous that their hometowns of Preskile Main and Minneapolis, that hundreds of thousands of dollars on each one of them whenever these two sports rivals laced each