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Died. James Pilkington, 78, of Manhattan, oldtime policeman, Civil War veteran, contractor, boxer, wrestler, trapshooter, sculler, oarsman, bowler, trackman; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1879, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Athlete Pilkington won the national amateur championship in both boxing and wrestling on the same night...
Died. Francis King Murray, 33, of Andover, Mass., instructor at Phillips-Andover Academy, onetime Leland Stanford footballer and trackman, son of Dr. Augustus Taber Murray, leader of the Friends Church in Washington, D. C. (attended by President Hoover); of kidney disease; in Boston. Surviving him are his two famed brothers-Robert Lindley Murray, national tennis champion in 1918, now with Hooker Electrochemical Co. at Niagara Falls, N. Y.; and Frederick ("Feg") Murray, Olympic trackman in 1920, now an able cartoonist and sportswriter on the New York...
Brilliant Trackman...