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Show - Sixteen Die in Prize Ring. New York. in all the history of the prize fighting game from Tom Cribb's time down . to the ' present, there has not been recorded in a single year anything any-thing approaching the number of deaths directly due to boxing contests that have occurred thus far this season. sea-son. The death at Presque Isle, Maine, of Dllly Dunning, one of the few boxers box-ers that could point to a draw with Jack Johnson, world's champion heavyweight, made the sixteenth fatality fa-tality of the prize ring in 1910, while there are at least two other boxers now lying at death's door In hospitals, including the veteran, Andy Daly, favorite fa-vorite ten years ago. |