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Show BOXING CONTEST NEAR CHICAGO IS PREVENTED fliicaeo, Sept. 1 Deputy sheriffs disappointed live hundred Chicaco nnd Jollet sports last nlht by preventing a boxing contest at Leafy drove, ten miles from Chicago. The piindpal lx n. fielary of the box Inc contest nt Leafy drove, ten mllei from Chicago The principal biTieflciary tS the boxini; carnival was to have been Harry Forbes, former bantamweight champion nnd a member of the May brn j;aiiK of swindlers, recently con-vlctcd con-vlctcd of part l( l);itlnpr In "fake prize flcht' swindb-s througbout the country. coun-try. Forbes, through the aid of several sev-eral friends who pledged security In the sum of .-,hmi, was recently r leased en ball nnd returned to this city. The same friends arranged the affairs which was scheduled for last eyenirr. The former champion wad to have fought six rounds with Frank-! Frank-! Kelly, a West side bantamweight. Two preliminaries between local lightweights also were scheduled |