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Show Sporting Offer. Melbourne Inmnti, the famous billiard bil-liard player, who has recently joineci the volunteers, was touring In the Antipodes An-tipodes a little while back, and found himself stranded at Forth, western Australia, with two days to wait for a boat. Strolling up to the principal hotel in the place and making first, as was his wont, for the billiard room, ha found it deserted save for the marker, mark-er, a likely looking youth of seventeen or thereabouts, who promptly invited him to have a game. '"No, thanks !" replied Inman. "Oh. come now, be a sport! I'll giv you 50 in 100." "No. thanks!" came the answer once-more, once-more, repeated this time with considerable consider-able emphasis. "I'm Inman, the champion cham-pion !" "Oh, well. sir. If that's so I enn only give you 80 In 100!" was the quite unexpected un-expected reply of the Juvenile marker Pearson's Weekly. |