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Show j Jumper Brodie's Klvnl. j Meredith Stanley, the Cincinnati boy who challenges "Steve" Brodie, the champion bridgo juniper of the world, is a very daring younir fellow of alwut 28 years of age. Hii Inniruct. Inn,, vet n - long;, i(np was from the Cumberland Cumber-land Paver bridge. When it was claimed last April that he bad jumped 15 feetiutotwelve feet of water on the Kentucky river, Brodie declared de-clared the feat impossible. im-possible. He said that experts declared de-clared that when he (Brodie) jumped Ksiuamt staslkt. 148 feet from tho Brooklyu bridge he sank thirty feet. From this he believed that Stanley Stan-ley would have been killed iu descending 3SS feet in twelve feet depth. Brodie, however, issued a challenge to Stanley to jump from three bridgre aud swim 100 yards, the match to be decided by the best two in three. Stanley's Stan-ley's challenge of Brodie is for one jump aud a swimming race of 100 yards. A match will probably be arranged for nest spring. |