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Excerpt from The Cleveland Courier - May 1898...Fireman Jim Flynn fought like a wounded badger against the gallant Frenchman Raymond Berenger last night....It was Berenger, however, who shed the most blood in their ten round scrap at the Quebec City arena...Flynn's ferocious assaults offset the dark-haired former European champion's cleverness and forced him to hold and fight on the back foot....A pair of right-hand wallops in the sixth round opened a deep gash in Berenger's forehead and his face was a bloody mess when the final bell rang saving him from a certain knockout...In the semiwindup New England's Jim Duncan earned a ten round decision over "Iron Mike" Boden and convinced the latter to announce his retirement from his dressing room....At Mexico City Jimmy Bivins and Mexican Pete Everett, both seeing their best days behind them, mauled each other for ten rounds at the end of which the referee gave the win to Bivins....At Tattersall's in Chicago Billy Stift avenged a second round knockout loss to Klondike Haynes in January by administering the knockout drop to Haynes in round two of their fight late last week...At Los Angeles one Pittsburgh Jack Kelliher continued his downward spiral with a technical knockout loss to Bob "College Boy" Jones in the 9th round....At Brown's Arena in Brooklyn, New York Promoter Dan Hicks put on a card featuring new faces including New Jersey's Joe Jeannette, New York's Jim Stewart, Missouri's Ralph Calloway, Michigan's Al Kubiak, and others....