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Show CONTEST AT CARDS LASTS TWENTY YEARS TWO CIVIL WAR VETERANS ARE THE PLAYERS. One of Them Wins Tn Consecutive Games, Thus Acquiring the Village Championship. Traverse City, Mich., March 12. Two civil war veterans, John W. Wallace Wal-lace and D. W. L&zelle, have just completed. com-pleted. In their home village of Man-celons, Man-celons, a card playing contest that has lasted for twenty years. Two decades I ago, an agreement was made that the village championship should be accorded ac-corded to that one of tho two soldiers who could win ten consecutive games. Night after nlgbt, alternating between be-tween the home of the two contestants and omitting Sundays, the contest has f gone on far a score of years. Several times, Wallace bad nine games to his credit, only to lose the tenth to Lazelle. But patiently and carefully the1 score was kept and It Is said that In all the twenty years of playing not an angry word was spoken by either of the two contestants. When Wallace won his tenth con- ' secutlve game Wednesday night, Lazelle La-zelle promptly challenged him for an- ' other series, 'but Wallace declined on , the ground that neither he nor his op- ponent would live long enough to complete com-plete another conteBt. I , |