From Roger Smith #2

Trainer_Irvin_Klauder_on_Seils-Sterling_1930s0001, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. As noted before in these postings, I draw from the words of Bill Johnston, who remembered that there were very few like Clyde Beatty and Terrell Jacobs in attaining the big time, but many like this man, earning a living in the steel arena, while like most of us, getting relatively little renown. Fred D. Pfening, Jr., in his superb article, "Masters of the Steel Arena", in the May-June 1972 issue of BANDWAGON, gave Klauder due notice. In the December 28 entries herein for Seils-Sterling, we see that in their own rosters, Klauder's given name is spelled both Erwin and Irvin. In his caption for this shot, Pfening splits the difference, listing him as Irwin. It's good to see a colleague of the Depression Era, generally unheralded, have his moment in this circus historical journal. Roger Smith