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Show GffT. D1CI ROBS HIT LIE VISITOR Noted Broadsword Fighter Here After Absence of Many Years. A distinguished visitor in .tho clU- Is Capt. Duncan Ross, champion broadsword broad-sword flghtor of tho world. Captain Ross Is from Glasgow. Scotland, but In his travels ho has visited most of the Important' Im-portant' centers and 13 no stranger to Salt Lake, as ho -was hero In 1SS7. At tills tlmo he made many friends and defended de-fended his title In a broadsword contest with General C. H. My de Agramonte, who is well rcmcmborod, and Major Ma-gulrc. Ma-gulrc. Captain Ross Is anxious to meet Sergeant Ser-geant Owen Davis of tho United States army, or any other expert swordsman, and will arrange a combat In this city If a suitable place can bo secured where horses can run. Ho conducts his battlos on horseback and a good-slzod field is necessary. Captain Ross Is 03 years of ago, but for all that ho is an athlete of note and has defended his title with somo of tho best swordsmon of tho country, only Inst summer defeating Maj. R. F. Reid, U. S. A. . He has but lately rotumed from Alaska, Alas-ka, where ho had an exciting experience, and Is now on his way homo to Scotland, Scot-land, but will bo in this city for several days grcotlng old friends mado during his visit more than twenty years ago. ITo wo3 at ono time one of tho most notod wrestlers and wolghtmen of America, Ameri-ca, having met champion after champion cham-pion In his favorite events and downed them. Ho won a world-wide reputation and It was not until ho wont into : .Ining In Alaska that his name was dropped from tho actlvo list of athletes. |