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Show THE PACE THAT KILLS. The fierce ltuftli to Win Various SI let of Championship. Tho "championship" busiuess seems slightly overdone. Not a week passes without with-out the announcement that some athlete has "trained too fine-' and broken down, or that somebody has been carried off a football field with fractured legs and smashed head, or that some "pugilist" has met death In the prize ring. The latest fatulity arising from zeal to win a doubtful doubt-ful distinction is announced from Boston, where Charles McCaffrey sought "fame" and found death. McCaffrey, who was known as the Canadian Cana-dian bridge jumper, climbed to tho top of the shears at the Atlantic works. East Boston, Bos-ton, t he other afternoon. The shears are two gigantic pillars which meet at the tops and aro built obliquely over tho water at an t anglo of about JO degs. They are used to step the masts of vessels, which accounts ac-counts for their great height. They aro about 150 feet above the surface of the harbor, har-bor, a dizzy height, and about 5 feet higher than the Brooklyn bridge railing. At the point whero tho pillars meet a flagstaff stands. McCaffrey clung to this pole before he made his terrible leap. He appeared to make a good leap, but when he got nearly to tho water it was seen that he had turned. He struck on his back, and probably he was killed instantly. The men who were with him lied. Some men in a yacht tried to rescue him, but tho body, which rose to the surface once, soon disappeared and was seen no more. |