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HSHHH tWWWBSB SJBH was not only a wonderful defensive 1 islated Into existence, is the territory Center, but also a powerful forcer. He was great in all .departments of the game. - "Then Peter was-4arger than John son. "Jack in condition that is before he began dallying with autos and booze weighed about 195 pounds. Peter fought at 210. "The bout between Jackson and Frank P. Slavin in London "is still re ferred to as the greatest glove con test in England. "There won't be any more fighters like the old-timers until conditions change. Present-day champs know nothing of the game. They go in and exchange wallops and the first one to get a punch on the jaw takes the count. I only wish -they could have seen such men as Peter Jackson, Jim Corbett, Prank Slavin, Tommy Ryan and a dozen other old-timers that they might realize how much they have to learn." o o COST $188 FOR THREE VOTERS TO CASTTHEIR VOTES New xYork, Nov. 4-In the recent election it cost the city of New York $188 to record the votes of three citi zens. There were four election inspec tors, drawing pay for four registra tion days', at $7.50 per man total, $120; four elections inspectors, at $12 per man, on election day $48; one ballot clerk, election, day -$8; one election clerk, election day $12. And, on election day, there came to the polls the duly qualified voters of the Ninth election district, by name Max Boehm, Paul Boehm and Paul Maher. This odd state of affairs is due to an absurdity of legislation which might have been avoided if the law makers had mixed a little common sense in with their lawmaking. This, however, is something which law makers dislike extremely "to doj so, pefhansr it was not to be expected Ttie Ninth election district, as leg- embraced between 97th and 110th Streets, 5fh and 8th avenues. In other words, it is the northern part1 of Central Park. Its three voters are the proprietors of McGown's pass tavern, a famous old restaurant which is just inside the park wall at 105th street, his son and his auto mobile porter. There are three other inhabitants of the Ninth election district Mrs. Boehm and two waiters. , But New York isn't a woman suffrage state yet, and the waiters haven't been naturalized. In fact, this fall's vote was a third larger than had been pre viously cast from the Ninth district, because Paul Bohm just cameof age this summer. The first McGown's pass tavern was erected in 1748. It did not bear the name, however, until 1759, when a family named McGown. "bought it and maintained it as a tavern all through the revolutionary war. It has been burned and rebuilt a num ber of times. The city built a new polling place for the three voters this fall, the old one having fallen into decay, and, so long as the present election districts remain, the earliest returns received will always be those showing who carried Central Park. o o- "W Ks "I hear, professor, that you've1 mastered every tongue except one." "Yes, every one, except my moth- er-in-law's. I can't manage that!"" ijsmemmmmmamai ?j&uaj;mU.jf j?gia4bjaJi5aabyjjjMBijiiijTjjB MIIMlHMHMHMM