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Show JOHN L. WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY (New York, Feb. 23. John L. Sullivan, Sulli-van, In his remlniscenco of the prize ring, which Is a dreary tale at best. Is making a laborious effort to ahow that lie was once the champion of the world. He presents an amazing; array of flgnrcB and cites many rea-j f ons to establish tho fact. If anyone ' tan make out head or tail, after going j over Sullivan's blue print, as to what j he la trying to get at, he can do more than I can. Sullivan starts out by referring to Tom Fig as the recognized English pugilist at one time. Fig was a personage per-sonage of note in the early part of the eighteenth century. Then Sullivan Sulli-van Jumps from Fig to Tom Cribb, who, according to flstiana, received championship belt about on hundred years after Fig had disappeared from the scene. Sullivan, however, gives no account of anything that happened |