By 1923 Clyde was working small mixed groups of big cats to start 42 uninterrupted seasons in the steel arena. Next, he came under the tutelage of another great trainer, John "Chubby" Guilfoyle. His first and certainly influential boss was the legendary wild animal trainer Louis Roth. On August 16, 1921, at dawn, he and Howard Smith clambered into a boxcar on the DT&I Railroad, bound for Washington Court House, OH, and joined Howe's Great London and Van Amburgh's Wild Animal Circus. He graduated from nearby Chillicothe High School, but had already succumbed to the world of the circus. Clyde Raymond Beatty was born on June 10, 1903, in Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio, the eldest of nine children.
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