When Steve was about nine months old Ray was writing a story about a Topeka woman that did not like the boys shorts they had at the store and designed some of her own. Ray wrote the story and they took her son's picture but it did not meet with the City editor's approval as he thought her son was too old. Six is not too old. Anyway she made Steve a pair and they took his picture in them along with her son. It ran in the paper with the story. He got a letter from the Topeka Mayor:
Dear Steve,
We want to congratulate you on the interesting picture which we have taken from the Wednesday morning Topeka Daily Capital. It looks like you are on guard pretty low for an adversary the size of Ronnie. Perhaps your daddy taught you to carry your dukes low since you may process a speed sufficient to counter the advantage in height and reach shown by Ronnie in the picture,
We invite you to bring your Mother and Daddy to this office some day for a little visit, perhaps you can demonstrate some of your best in the field fisticuffs as well as some of the new models in sportswear, etc.
Very truly yours Frank Warren, Mayor, and Ray D. Hodgell, Secretary
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