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Show FRENCHMEN FLOCK TO BOXING EXHIBITION! 1 i PARIS. March 1. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) All records for at-; at-; tendance at a boxing program were shattered shat-tered recently in the little city of Le Mans i 1 in France when 23.500 spectators gath- 1 ered to watch the contests arranged by the Knights of Columbus. ' The riny; was set in an open square in the heart of the French city and ao great was the interest taken by the French residents that more than H000 of the natives na-tives gathered to watch the fighters. Vehicles of every description were seen near the square, the French peasants having driven for miles to watch the affair, af-fair, which drew, it- is said, the largest crowd ever in attendance at a boxing show in Kui'ope. |