Packet 5: Tossup 14

For more “pep,” this man’s wife added over 100 instances of the all-caps word “CRACK” throughout a book about him by former miner John Flood. Charlie Chaplin asked this “bloke” about the “baddies” while he was having oyster cocktails for lunch with Raoul Walsh and his pal Jack London. While working as a reporter for The New York World, this man published an article on the world’s first feature film, which he had a personal stake in since he had (-5[1])disqualified one of its subjects, Bob Fitzsimmons, while (15[1])serving as referee for his fight with Tom Sharkey. Glenn Boyer used a portrait (15[1])supposedly depicting this man’s scantily-clad wife (*) Josephine on the cover of a bestselling hoax (-5[1])memoir (-5[1])titled I Married this person. This man and his wife fabricated most of his story to Stuart (-5[1])N. Lake for a 1931 “biography” that inspired his portrayal by Henry Fonda in John Ford’s My Darling Clementine. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, name (10[2])this lawman played by (10[1])Kurt Russell (10[1])in Tombstone. (10[1])■END■ (10[6])

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