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WEDNESDAY’ AFTBRNOON, AUARY 24, 1940.
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Big League Clubs
Of ‘Cut-Throat’
NEW YORK.
Owls, Texas
Mittville Usually
Aggies
“Henry hasn’t trained this hard
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will battle Pedro
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The Rice Owls,
den tonight in a
how happy Paris rabbit hunters
have
the big snow.
were over
ex-
in hunting "Hoover quail” after a the standings with
The
heavy snow. That's a new one on
this scribe, calling rabbits
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tually eliminated S uthern Method-
the title hint.
Babe Ruth was one of the greatest
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box office, if he
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;e from carnival
Jenkins,
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lightweight title.
slugging
as well as taking the finals from
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632
651
Total
Cuban from Tampa, Fla., in the
Gainesville, Texas
East California St.
bout of Cickie
feature 10-rbund
133
E. Leonard .. 189
cup, taking two
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Thomas
by Griffin with
3,000 was forecas
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not be amiss at this time.
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Total
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started out fighting for gasoline
Era. Bul-
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Hood 16.
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Denton T. S. 27,
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Washington U.
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up in St. Louis.'O ficials of that
eight bouts, a ba
cost something like $4,500. So far
y and Johnny Liddell.-This last
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boot may steal the show, as both
both
news,
or the ones to be purchased at Dal-
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seven of the boys
Fort Worth are of inferior
las and
quality, and that’s not likely.
others
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the tale. . .
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Lions Drop Cage
Tilt to Decatur
Read the advertisements regularly and get all the
good news.
Lew Jenkins to
Seek Revenge in
Fight Tonight
Two Coaches Quit
At Kansas State
FODDER The Texas Longhorn
officials have lined up an impres-
sive grid schedule for 1941. They
tonight for a
I loth the Leop-
schools. So, it looks
the most popular of
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ill
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left on the three
anced on his head
of Swat never managed to catch
on as a major league manager or
coach. Now comes the announce-
rough and tough wo idchopper from
Callisburg, Bart Ellis, and Otis
both games
chance at
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Jie
Wingert
Smith .
Gould .
Taylor .
Era 15, Bulcher
Valley View 49.
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SPORTS
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McCoy, Infielder
By TOM SILER
superintendent of
schools.
;UNCLE
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Santa Fe
Hanson.......124
Sanger 37, Denten 29.
Valley View 53. Rad Ware 28.
Era 36, Muenster 13.
Sanger 44, Valley View 18.-
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standing.
The Lion? will return the
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Motor Oil
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willingness to
prize fight without iking bothered get his drink tonight, because Hen-
by a nervous breakdown, but for, ry seems perfectly well. Too well,
the past 24 hours he has been as in fact, moans Eddie Mead, his cor-
here last* week end. defeating the
Valley View Eagles by a score of
44 to 18 to take top place.
The Indians won all four of their
' discussed. The meeting will begi
, at 7:30 o’clock. I
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held a 26 to 19 advantage at the
half, and increased this lead at a
fortable home in New York.
There may never be another like
the Babe. He was the game’s great-
est drawing card, and certainly the
greatest slugger of all times. For-
tunately he’ll never have to worry
about his next meal, for his salary
as a player for many years exceed-
ed anything then or since paid any
other diamond star.
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Southeast Corn
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Philadelphia Athletics said yester-
The Gainesville Junior College H
Lions dropped another conference.
tussle Tuesday night in Decatur,
when the Baptists handed them a
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a better coach
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Contenders Art Henry Armstrong’sEscapades Keep
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cabinet crisis or a
college, submitted their resigna-
tions January 20, M. F. Ahearn,
athletic director, blamed “personal
differences” between the two.
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players and barred the Cubs and
Browns because they "meddled"
with McCoy before he was made a
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But there’s one part of this paper where you’ll never
find anything but good news. That’s the advertising
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[ Dallas, Texas
since he won his first title," he
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coach, and Stanley Williamson
(lower), line coach at Kansas State
Daily Special
For Thursday, Jan. 25
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The new cereal!
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FRESH PORK HAM
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Crowd of 3,000 Due to
See Fourth Ranking
Lightweight Prospect
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Eagles Tuesday evening, winning Sanger Indians Were winners of
the basketball tournament, held
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GMC TRUCKS
PAY YOUR POLL TAX
Before midnight, January 31. If
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ruary 1.
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—and for the min who gave him
his start.
Jenkins, current ring sensation.
neighborhood bridge club. It keeps
fighter to four
|ing movie you’ve been waiting to
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ent to. any worthy cause when
four losses and
dropped three.
.The Owls and
more about the type of games
played by Texas high schools than _
coaches in the Southwest confer- Wilson, local fighter .
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[involves Four Clubs
under Griffin’s wing. He went to1
New York to stage an eight-match 1
winning streak. Alvarez has done
little toward building himself up as
a challenger.
But Jenkins thinks back to a
night when he was the local sen- j
sation—when he was in the middle.
of his climb and knockout victims
were strewn along the trail. Al-
varez came from nowhere to halt
his drive, scoring a technical K. O.
in the eighth round. The doctors
took twelve stitches over’ Jenkins’
eyes.
“I'd get a lot of satisfaction out
of evening up that score.” the thin- j
faced Jenkins said grimly.
He added that he also wanted to I
lend a helping hand to blind little J
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THRASHER’S
GROCERY
1 the Eagles.
The Era Hornets were winners
at This Stage
can promote a
team and
cost about $10,000. Either the cov- tyssanakfnds Kat
Sanger 25, Bulcher 15.
Denton T. S. 27, Unjon Grove-13.
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rolling along at
_____ _____ __ ______ _ ja 52-points-per-ga ne clip, pushed
plaining that there’s a lot of fun the Texas Aggies down a notch in
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ja 54 victory here last night.
Hoover game set a confere nce scoring rec-
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KENYON
A U TO ST O RE,
____. _ -tle royal and a
return fight between Wilson Own-
shaky as a hula dancer*. ” pulent manager.
—All on account of Henry Arm-i
quail.” Probably dates back to the
last Republican administration
when there was a scarcity of ani-
Bert Selman of th e versatile Rice
crew paced the,way for the victory
with 24 points.
Santa Fe bowlers were victors in
a three-game series with the Case
a
past season. In fact, they have al- Case Eagles
ways given of their time and tai-'JU' E.c.i
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Commissioner made a free agent
of him along with 90 other De-
troit hirelings.
So now McCoy sits by a newly- :
installed telephone in his Grand-
rille. Mich., home and carries on j 7
: egotiations with would-be em- |
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Today Rice is topping the lace
with six victories and one deft at.
Era Wins Consolation
Cup; Eagles Defeated
* By Sanger in Finals
VALLEY VIEW, Jan. 23.The
Sanger Indians
Win Cage Tourney
At Valley View
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card at the Gaine ville Athletic
Club, here Thursday night, will be
a three-round bou; 1 between the
- .. _____ clacked. “That’s: in a series whereinhe has lost only with any/club ‛untl15 days aVftr |
why F had to threaten to close thejtwoof bis last 54 fights. - ■ -- - — ■
--•- " went through a! The main bout is expected to go
routine today. :on about 10 p. m. (EST), when
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style of play, you can’t beat the' ently Gainesville fig zht fans are in
boys from Texas. ' - —— *
arid Pitcher George Coffman. Lan-
di$’ order annulled the deal.
McCoy informed the Chief go '
White Sox yesterday that he wait-
ed in the neighborhood of $40.1100
been none too smooth in his ef-
fbrts to build boxing into a paying
business in Texas.
I The show, with Jenkins, one of to sign and a three-year centract
the most popular fighters ever to at $10,000 per season.
Such advertising is news just as truly as a European
. ____ » tonight's win-
will take' undisp ited possession
A series of professional fights
will be staged at the club, begin-
hing in mid-February, according to
Trainer Eddie Davis. The first card
A meeting of the Gainesville
... , o . . . game Athletic club will be held tonight
hereat a later date, yet to be de- in the clubroom over Helpy-selfy
' | No. 2 on East California street, it
I is announced.
Election of officers and other im-
portant business matters will b
ence? Occasionally, of course, it’s) Ellis has proved
wise to pick a coach from some local fans with his
other section of the nation, just to mix it and Wilson pitj up a sizzling
become acquainted with his style scrap recently agf inst the more
trade with Detroit, giving the
gers Wally Moses for- the rookie
101 contests impressively to capture
J 50 first honors, defeating Bulcher.
Gainesville “B” squad, and Denton,
McCoy is very happy about it all.
The club that wins the game
mark when they ran up 121 points
— -s record was
and T. C. U. in
winning teams by H. J. Brown,
the Valley View
schools, it is reported, will order onas head man of
covers for their gridirons, each to
wil feature a local boy. Lacy Ca-
ion versus either Jimmy McNeil t
dr Joe Johnston of Dallas in a ten-
sound fracas. -f f
Want ads ring the cash register.*
’ At These Hor les For
Sale
Drive by any of th ■ following
addresses. Look th m over. If
interested I will sh ow you in-
teriors.
326 S. Morris SI.
1627 Belcher St.
80S Commerce S u.
Corner Denton-G amett
602 & Denton S .
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the main event due to start at IQ
p. m. (C. S. T.) j
The bout means nothing forfhi
Sweetwater, Tex., youngster wh
l School, Denton,, Pilot Point, Hood,
। Callisburg, Gaines ville,
cher, Muenster, Rad Ware, Union
’ veekly boxings Grove and Valley View.
appear here as the feature attrac- | Last year was his first with
Griftin’s boxingshow. A crowdot houselanaa megstreiffpromigoodDetritHe playedsgamesat
3nn * e huGiffin “*h . p s; Jenkins also is picked ringer was injured', batting .302.
along betting row to get that re- l scoring 38 runs and getting 58 hits'
' venge. .for 86 bases.
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so badly that he would top any
other offer. Pittsburgh was re-
ported as offering McCoy $35,000
i to sign. about $5,000 more than
| Was offered by the New York
। । Giants. Washington Senators and
DALLAS, Jan 24 (AP).— Lew Brooklyn Dodgers.
’ - — nee. -u--l Mack's high estimate of McCoy
ranking chai- was shown by the fact he made a
planned training, ivuuue uay. w quvul iu p.tli. ugi,, wici
He’d have probably been hit by a .Henry weighing 137 to Montanez’s
falling cross-beam." ' [144.
THESE P1‘“
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BELIEVING THAT the Leopard
band should be given recognition
for its part (in making the football
season the success it was, Grady
Culp initiated a movement here
yesterday to tender the musical Or-
ganization a banquet. To give im-
petus to. the movement, he starts
off the subscription list with a do-
nation of $25 from the Swimming
Pool Association, and serves notice
that he’ll be around for others who
are interested -to chip in any
amount they see fit. So when you-
see Grady coming, either hide or
start shelling out. There’s no ques-
tion but what Professor Nay and
his Musical Tooters contributed
materially to the success of the
smashed the conl erence scoring
, g,------ up 24 points. j !
XL . X , X XL X XL X- , That’s what might be called some;
they intend to see that the fields fancy shootin’. .. Jil tuny Kitts pink j.
nen Aa ticnrl pain cvr chino Rarh _ _ _ _ 2. , « r
. x school have invited
as we know there are only two cov- a conference He’s
sswiptTeexeherontetetxas uX than many give him ctedit for. : •
it is our understanding that each
Leopards Invade j PaePLans we: badly crippled I
NKv. ri fix 'without the services of two regu- I
McKinney Tonight Dok--
~. , . . An-exhibitiontilt, ichedt "e-
Coach Cecil Nabors takes his, the Paris Dragons Thursday , a-
Leopard cage outfit to McKinney has been called ‘off. due to the ill-
tonight for a conference tilt with I ness of local players, according to .
Swede MCMuny’s Lions. This will Coach Euline Shaw,
be the first meeting of the two _____ .. . .
clubs this season. A 1n ■ . • Av i
Neither the Leopards nor Lions AthletC Club
have been defeated in conference . .
play this year, and tonight’s win- • M nof ino aniorht
ner will take undisputed possession IVICcthE —V-lIEIIL
of first place in the conference • —----
of his welterweight title- if some- made Henry the 1-3 shot to make
thing doesn t ha open to him be- a successful defense of his title ths
forehand. 15th tim. h. l-o nut it in ion-rav
! Results of the games throughout
the meet follow:
Sanger 36. Gainesville "B" 14.
Denton T. S. 33,1 Era 25.
Pilot Point 27, Callisburg 17.
54. Selman, a
say they’re going t > S. M. U., the
scatterin; to various
like Texas is
this particular*
692 S: Grand A' e.
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mal and fowl life.
NO ONE ‘COUBTS but what
The PRINTING Industry Affords Unlimitya Euibities of
EARNING POWER
The little negro champion has a Lcoks Too Good' ,
ferortydorsssuppsseattommms in ana the followers of fistiana ap-
a ring. For example, Jacobs re- iparently aren.t very much con-
calls. he dislocated his sacro-iliac ceredover the fact.Henry looks
the day before the'ceferino Garcia "toogood".to fight. At least some
match Then he caught a badtcold 161000 oft hem are expected to wit-
before the Lou Ambers bout. And ness the battle, and pay some $50,-
once he hurt his hands in training 000 or tne lun -
and couldn’t go through with an- Montanez doesn't seem afraid
other scheduled strap. ! either. He is in great shape, ready
Never Feels Certain ito him, at Henry’s mid-section and ■
“I never feel certain that rf come out like a windmill, following
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Rice meets Baylor Friday and
Saturday nights here and Baylor
, . . .. would have to win
with the sport and will spend trie , retain much of a
remainder of his days in his com-; title.
Set Scoring Mark
54 to 26 beating.
’ The Baptists go off to an early
- lead and were never headed. They
For Catalogue and Complete Information, Write
9,-. V.cGarriott,
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Southwest Vocational
School
5800 Clarendon Drive
Cups were presented to
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CHICAGO, Jan. 24 (API.—A Z
half dozen or so big league base- a
ball clubs are engaged in a so- ,
SINCE DALLAS AND Forthowever, when they turned back
Worth school officials went to the the Aggies 67 to — “ '
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with Texas the runnerup with four
l . .. xl_ c wins and one loss. A. and M. find
baseball players the game has ever .Baylor each has list two games,
known, but for some reason un- S. M v and Texas Christian show
* known to sports writers the Sultan - - "
Henry, with only a single crown sa‛d. “He’s been
120 only to the Denton Tachers Col-
; lege Training School.
562 The Valley View
> Coach Doyle Pre* ton were hosts
group of athletes.
... - . 1 _ , , , . , not the quantity but! the quality of
will play L S. U Oklahoma, Colo- material that tellsH- -
rado and Oregon, and of course the coach Cecii Nabors his Leop-
six Southwest conferenceschoolsards to McKinney
. .This Oregon tilt will be played shot at the Lions,
in Austin on December 6. This is a ards and Lions are
the traditional game conference play, so
with the .Aggies, usually time ner wi — a:
when both teams pack away their of first piace in the
conference
moleskins. J . . This coming season standing
the Longhorns meet Colorado. Indi- _ ■ ’ - Li------------
ana. Oklahoma and Florida. ... v
Whitey Baccus, S. M. U.’s basket-
ball coach,* is still of the opinion
that Rice will win the Southwest
conference cage title. . . . We have
some doubt that the Owls will be
. able to beat out Texas. * . They I
kept up their good work last night.
THE TEXAS HIGH School
Coaches Association decided it
Could do no better in the way of
selecting instructors for the na-
tion’s largest coaching school than
by hiring two outstanding coaches
here in Texas. So, this August the
students will find Homer Norton
of the Texas Aggies and Dutch
Meyer of Texas Christian in charge
of classes at the school. This was
a wise selection, for who knows
forgets his chai npionship aspira- Dickie Griffin whose pathway has
tions tonight to battie for revenge - •
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Hand Composition, Linotype
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New Modern Equipment, Valued at More Than 1100,000.
Ee m Southwest conference basketball
T"0) a race became a fou -team affair to-
miuMITiday with prospect! of the field be-
! ing cut to three by the end of the
,RVILLE LEE OF Paris tells , week.
.last night. Theprevious
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1938.
mii• tren n a - to the teams which took part in
E111S-W11SO l BOUt ithe tourney. Those participating
included Sanger, £o!eEe Training
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By BILL WHITE ! “Yes, sir, soon’s I see Henry
.— —----, Jan. 24 ( AP).— climb into the ring, I walk outside
Mike Jacob®, mayor of Broadway’s and take a good long drink.”
The consensus is that Mike will;
to those who are willing to make sacrifices for the present to
attain achievement in the future. Wages depend entirely
upon the ABILITY of the individual. Prepare yourself now to
make your future earning power secure. Investigate our
courses of training in: ‘ -
and lunch money while a cavalr- 622
man at Fort Bliss. In fact it’s noth- "
ing to gain and everything to lose 58
because Alvarez has no National i
Boxing Association ranking.
Jenkins came here three years i
ago to get his start toward the top
meets Chino Alvarez,
will get McCoy, 21, an infielder by
trade, and McCoy probably will
get close to $40,000 and a five-fig-
ure contract for the 1940 season.
McCoy's fortunate position was
pot of his own making. Detroit
mishandled the youth in its farm
operations and Commissioner K. M.
Landis found out about it. The
Bill McClanahan of the Eallas J-----—J -- ; -m., - --
of Dallas ath-/boys are handy with their mitts
eeg azu az uaq 14 out of 6o44nd are willing to sling leather,
era have taken a big drop in price, duatin want te to Texas, - —------------- " -
A +he Ainec tA he nirohe cor at T)al- • 0 ... . I a _
118 of the consolaticn
108 out of three game® played, defeat-
83 ing Bulcher and Muenster, losing
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Arkansas has
Rice now has ruh up a total of
conference play
opposition.
Clearances of winter coats. A low-priced Caribbean
cruise. A new cereal, crammed with health. An amus-
mrontanez in Madison Square Gar- t.Etomgadnis arraid.he seems to be thtbe naffyoungBenjaoin
at sh " ? 15-round defense The bookies aren’t. They
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But after Sunday McCoy can "‛T "C,
hook up with any major league
dlub except Detroit, the Chicago .11..
Cubs or St. Louis Browns. Landis’
.A modern newspaper must report, all the
good and bad.
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Cage.Race
The night before Rice had
his ruling, so McCoy and all the
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putting on a fight with Armstrong the formula that.has. gained him foyers. ....... s-zoner
in it until I see him crawl through most of his notable ring triumphs none of the free agents could
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