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Show 'Major Taylor in Australia -when he was bo little that he pocked at the race under ft fat man's legs." Sounds like a pipe dream, but It' as true an anything you ever heard. And old man "Mac" grinned again. no oo NO REAL COMERS IN SIGHT IN PUGILISTIC RANKS New York Just scanned the pugilistic pugi-listic horizon witl, tho trusty glass and there doesn't seem to be anything big In tho line of comers. It is a strange thing when ou stop to think a second time that there aro few real good comers on the map. Look at the best men In all classes that have been good men for tho past five or ten years. Jack Johnson has been tho best heavyweight for the past Bcven or eight years, although he was kept in the background nnd pot given a chance. Now he is so good that there isn't a white man within miles of him. Sam Longford as a middleweight mid-dleweight has been a champion for six or seven years, too. Sam has been taking them all Into camp, nnd If thero is a bird around IDS who can trim the tar baby we haven't seen him yet. Tako the welters, Willie and Harry Lewis. They've been in the game teu years at least and aro as good as any lu tho world right now. Wolgast, as a lightweight champion, Iq still unknown, but it s a good even money bet that either Abo Atteil or Owen Moran can beat him, and neither Abe nor Owen is a chicken at the game. If there are any comers In the pugilistic pu-gilistic game, where are they concealed? con-cealed? Kuockout Brown U the only boy in th east who has a chance at the lightweight titlo under the guise of a chicle Brown beat Murphy, who boat Wolgast, and on that we figure the awkward lad in the Morgan stable In the running. But where, oh, where, are tho Test of our budding champions? Floyd McFarland, who was paired with Jackie Clarke in the recent six-day six-day race, is au older bird at the bicycle bi-cycle game than most of us imagine. Saw 'Mac" the other nUht after the sprint,' and alter being kidded a bit by Wllllo Lewis, who was his pjl la Europe, Eu-rope, owued to his record.1 "Yon wouldn't believe that I was riding when both Frank Kramer and FranUio Clarke were kids, would you? KiRht, just the same. FTank told" me that he used to beat th.3 fence to se i me race years ago. "Little Jackie Clarke saw ine race |