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Show OLD PUG IS DEAD Gc&-ge Rookc, Famous Old Filter, Dies in New Jersey Hospital. NEW YORK.-Nov. 1. George Rooke, 62 years old, who at one time claimed to be middle-weight champion pugilist of the world, is dead in a Newark, N. J., hospital. He was comparatively unknown un-known to the your.ger generation of pugilists pu-gilists and rporting jnen in general,, but a quarter of a century ago he was- a star in pugilistic circle?. All his contests were fought with bare Knuckles. -His last fight was when he defeated "Paddy" Ryan in Chicago, twenty-five years ago. |