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Show man.iceij by Thenias Foley, one of the oldest billiard manaf-H. How-Murphy How-Murphy pot the ball Is a r.iytory, for the 1 it 1 1 UF'-d In that same burned when Foley's billiard hall In thM city city was destroy! In the srreat fire of Foley, to use hi owr. worJo, wa "brea'.hless" 'when he read a ?torV to the effect that Murphy had Riven I Spaldlnv the obi ball. F'oW h;id j dune: t.. that bill with jrreat care iP I to the time It was burned, a It w.ii j proof that bis club had he;un the i reati-Mt pilrher in the world at that ' time. ntil he avs he knows positively I that the ball was lost In the flro I of 1871. J QMS. MURPHY. IS i GOLD BRICKED CHICUIO Oct. S. So no on- has "gold luTcked" Charley W. Murphy, prcsideut of the Chicago Nationals, and depended on the flight of time to coyer up hlJ footprints. On Wednesday, Murphy preaen'ed to A G. Spalding, one-time cham-jlou pitcher, the "bill which was used in Spalding's great game avftinst the Chicago While Stockings, at that time i |