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for hours. The three of us travelled about a good 

 deal together, in America, in the nineties. Frank Ives 

 had the billiard- room in New York before M'Graw and 

 I took it. He led an indoor life and the atmosphere 

 he lived in affected his health ; the poor fellow died of 

 consumption. Yet in his earlier times he had been a 

 good baseball player and an all-round good athlete. 

 Bob Fitzsimmons, although not such a good racon- 

 teur as Jim Corbett, who has made plenty of money 

 at it, had a lot of anecdotes and possesses a fine dry wit. 

 Both Jim and Bob were staunch friends to one, and 

 have been level-headed enough to provide for them- 

 selves and their wives — ^to whom they have proved 

 devoted husbands. 



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