Show Pugilism Benefit For Sporting Writer John B 11 Macon McCormick the sporting spoiling writer who is l no Oft La hopeless Invalid at Bath Beach i Island is i ito to be tendered a mon monster ster ethy st b r friends on March larch I 4 at Philadelphia hla Suddenly robbed of the which won him an n en enviable 1 viable position po sItton in n the th e newspaper news paper world Macon is prostrated in bod bed down and out ut pathetically striving to fight atone alone the overwhelming misfortunes that will inevitably too soon claim him a t victim His illness Ulness is of ot o such a nature that he requires attention and as his financial resources es ar ir limited his friends S hope hop to a n sum of money from the he benefit and outside subscriptions subscrIptions lions sufficient to enable eri ble him to spend r the few remaining months of ot his life In lit camfert and ond free from roni financial wor war worriment worriment Tile testimonial te will be given at nt t In Art Bull and wilLbe will be In charge of ota a number of the most noted sports sportsmen sportsmen men an and l sporting writers titers In the coun cowl country country r try John P F Eckhardt will be director director tor and aud a d the following men have been b en chosen KB n the finance committee J C Kennedy Patrick Patick T Smith H W V Schlichter and Dr Edward |