"Spider Empson" issued a challenge at Bokchito, Oklahoma and that's how the Reverend Carl Prentice, who is here for a revival meeting starting Monday at the West Bank Church of the Nazarene, was nearly sidetracked from the ministry, he recalled here today. 'Spider Empson said he'd give $5 to anybody who'd be lucky enough to last three rounds with him," said the gentle but sturdy minister. "I don't go three rounds with him, I knocked him out in the second round.

Photo is dated 1963.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.