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Show WHITE HOPE !8 A GIANT Morris Has Strength of Gotch and "Hack" x Combined New York, Sept 9. A party of New York boxing experts returned to town today after a visit to the iNew Jersey training camp' of Carl Morris, tho Oklahoma giant who will Jbox ten rounds with Fireman Jim FIynn in Madron Square Garden, a weeli from tonight, ajuch mystery thus far ha8 attended the work'of the "white hopo" Tvho thinks ho willx be the man to whlp'Japk Johnson some day. Those in chnrge of his affairs are sworn to secrecy, but his New York guests say that he proved at lortSt one thing to them, namely, that he is "the biggest big-gest pugilist physically in the world and as strong as Gotch and Hacken-schmldt Hacken-schmldt combined." He Bhowcd the critics that ho Is trained, down to bone and muscle, with limbs', back, chest and lungs abnormally ab-normally deelopedi He measures six feef. four and a quarter Inches In bare foot, .weighs 237 pounds and has a reach of 79 3-4 inches, greater than that of any first class heavywolght recorded, in ring history. That he can hit jvith tremendous force, he shpwed by sonie practice with immense im-mense boxing gloves, each weighing twenty-two ounces. |