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Cap · 10-29-2016, 02:37 PM

From the Toronto Telegram...John L Sullivan the famed "Boston Strongboy" has announced his intention to travel from Boston to San Francisco taking on all comers in 4 round exhibitions...Frank Childs has offered to meet Sullivan in Chicago "if he dare show his face." and Big Joe McAuliffe says he salivates at the prospect of trading punches with the "Big bag of wind from Boston" and avenging his previous loss...James J Corbett has personally hurled the gauntlet down at George Chuvalo during an appearance by the latter on the stage at the Savoy Theatre in Montreal...In Cleveland local boy Gus Ruhlin took on hard-punching Pat Killen in the biggest challenge of his young career and stopped the Pride of the Northwest inside the distance...Sometime today Joe Kennedy (195 lbs.) and Fred Russell (205 lbs.) will climb through the ropes at the Empire Theater in Denver and battle for Kennedy's Pacific Northwest championship scheduled for 12 rounds...

10-29-2016, 02:37 PM	#58
Cap Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Large Province in God's Country Posts: 7,778 Blog Entries: 4	From the Toronto Telegram...John L Sullivan the famed "Boston Strongboy" has announced his intention to travel from Boston to San Francisco taking on all comers in 4 round exhibitions...Frank Childs has offered to meet Sullivan in Chicago "if he dare show his face." and Big Joe McAuliffe says he salivates at the prospect of trading punches with the "Big bag of wind from Boston" and avenging his previous loss...James J Corbett has personally hurled the gauntlet down at George Chuvalo during an appearance by the latter on the stage at the Savoy Theatre in Montreal...In Cleveland local boy Gus Ruhlin took on hard-punching Pat Killen in the biggest challenge of his young career and stopped the Pride of the Northwest inside the distance...Sometime today Joe Kennedy (195 lbs.) and Fred Russell (205 lbs.) will climb through the ropes at the Empire Theater in Denver and battle for Kennedy's Pacific Northwest championship scheduled for 12 rounds... Attached Images __________________ "...There were Giants in Those Days.." Last edited by Cap; 10-29-2016 at 04:14 PM.