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Show OLD BOXER COUNTED OUT Dcatji Conquers Benjamin Van Slyke, Nearly 90 Years Old. NEW YORK, Feb: 9. One of the oldest boxers in . the world. Benjamin ! Van Slyke, is dead nt his home here. He was 87 .tears oM and had been an : instructor In boxing on Broadway for I the last fifty years. His pupils included " bankers, brokers, actor and profes-j profes-j slonal men.' . Van Slyke was hale and hearty up to ' within a few weeks of his death, and less than two morths ago he accidentally acciden-tally knocked out a two-hundred-pound I; Jpil In a friendly bout. |