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Show DENVER GIANT IS NEW WHITE HOPE New York, Aiig. 21. Denver has a "White Hope" who Is more massive, magnificent and stupendous than our Woohyorth building or Pennsylvania station The Colorado conqueror is Oscar Withers, who ate his first meal in Middlesboro, Kentucky. Oscar Is old enough to voto next November, towers 6 feet 10 Inches In his gaiters and displaces 2G0 pounds of lead shot. Ho has a reach 86 1-2 Inches and is severely handicapped In every hoarding houso in which he lives. Dick Gilbert, a Denver middleweight, is handling Oscar, and Dick says that his man has Jim Cor'bett and Jack O'Brien and Adeline Genee all beat for being fast and clever and quick and light on his feet. Of course, he has the stock lS.2-Inch balk-line wallop wal-lop in either band and can also "assimilate "as-similate punishment" and play a phonograph. phon-ograph. Oscar Is so big that even his picture can't be reduced small enough to get In the paper. Gilbert threatens to bring him to New York next month. |