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Show Former Pugilistic Champion 5lay Never Again Enter Ring. Denver. The Post asserts that Joe Gans, former world's champion lightweight light-weight pugilist, has developed tuberculosis tuber-culosis of the lungs, and may never again be seen in the ring. Referee Charlie White is quoted as being responsible re-sponsible for the statement that fifteen fif-teen minutes before Gans went into the ring for his recent battle with Jabez White, the English pugilist, he had such a severe coughing spell that for a time it was feared he would not be able to enter the ring. |