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Show H The Slugging Match T HE slugging mr ,ch between the two big ones has been transferred from California to Ne- H vada, and the enthusiastic ones are wend- H ing their way toward the Truckee to gratify their H taste for that kind of sport. The Odyssey H tells how, when Ulysses returned from Troy to H Ithaca he found things around his palace in a H demoralized state. That the suitors who were H seeking the hand and fortune of Penelope had H grown insolent in their fancied security, and H that one morning they urged on a fight between H the disguised Ulysses and a sturdy mendicant, H Who was living on the alms of the court. The H story tells in all the pomp of Homer's verse how, H when the battle was joined between the two, H Ulysses debated in his own mind whether he H would kill the poor devil opposed to him or merely H knock him out; that finally fearing that the H suitors, who were looking on, might suspect some- H thing if he finished his opponent by a single blow, H he contented himself with giving the beggar a H simple upper cut which finished the fight. We H have referred to that event of the long ago H, ' merely as an excuse to hope that no fear of re-H. re-H. ' suits will retard either of the gentlemen at Reno, H but that the fight will be for blood from the very |