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The Prize Fight Craze

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 9, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 47.

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The Prize Fight Craze

By Editor

THE great, wise public is again losing its balance over the hoped-for prize fight between Jackson, the colored pugilist, and J. L. Sullivan. The San Francisco Examiner truly says that “during the progress of the Emin relief expedition San Francisco has spent just about a third more on pugilism than the cost of Stanley’s march from sea to sea.”