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Show TRIED TO KNOCK OUT DEATH. A tying rugllif Spars with Invisible Enemies. He died with Uis hands up. That was tli ending of William Bren-nan. Bren-nan. From tlia time he could walk until the hour when he was carried from the prize ring to his dying bed be had cultivated culti-vated his pugilistic abilities, and when he lay gasping and delirious, after the knock out administered by Frauk Gerrard in a set to at Chicago the other night, be clinched his fists and sparred at the air as though engaged In a contest for the belt of life with the angel of death. BREXKAS. GERRARD. Brcnnan and Gerrard wore "lightweights," "light-weights," and the match between them that resulted so disastrously was arranged by "backers" who thought they could make money out of the two poor brutes who stood up and thumped each other at their masters' bidding. The battle lasted for only five rounds. Then Brennan was hauled out of the ring like a slaughtered beef, and his conqueror received what is popularly termed an "ovation." When the beaten fighter had breathed his last, however, the police stepped In and arrested five of the chief abettors of the affair, who later on will have to answer the charge of manslaughter. |