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Old 07-23-2016, 05:08 PM   #28
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Clipped from the July 25 1891 Halifax Chronicle Evening Edition...Hank Griffin took Sullivan's American title away with a 12 round decision in his hometown courtesy of Referee Bat Masterson...Bob Fitzsimmons bounced back from his loss to Godfrey with a workmanlike thrashing of South Afrikanner Kallie Knoetze...Jimmy Bivins gains a measure of revenge in a rematch with Young Peter Jackson....George Chuvalo met with multiple travel obstacles and failed to appear in Vancouver but was replaced by young Jerry Quarry of California in the match with Joe Goddard...Big Joe McAuliffe copped the referee's decision over Steve O'Donnell at the famed Melbourne Boxing Club then boarded a steamer for America...Hard punching Pat Killen won the recently vacant Pacific Northwest heavyweight championship in a gruelling brawl with Mervine Thompson the Cleveland Thunderbolt...
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