Heenan, the bold Benicia boy.
[Dublin? : s.n.,
1859]
Dated from internal evidence - the text of the ballad is concerned with the forthcoming fight betwen Heenan and Sayers. They met at Farnborough on Tuesday 17 April 1860, and fought thirty-seven rounds in two hours and six minutes - information from the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' online.
First line reads: I am a bold Benicia Boy, and Heenan is my name.
In one column with an illustration above the title.
Heenan, John C., 1835-1873
Sayers, Thomas, 1826-1865
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