Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-03-18
RECORDS OF The men.
Battles That Have Made Them
Famous.
Record.

inches; heaNY weight. brulpIaCe, EIHlOh
Cornwall, Eng; color white.
Dec II, 1859, three rounds. won, sgd
nev, Australia; Feb 10 1890; Jim Hall,
four rounds, lost Sydney Aust Nav 80
1890, Billy Mccarthy nine rounds won,
San Francisco June % 1900; Arthur Q.
Upham, five rounds ~knockcdout, New Or
leans, Jan II I69I;Jack Dempsey, thirteen
rounds knockout; New Orleans Jan 20,
1891; Abe Congle two rounds knockout
Chicago May I 1891; "Black Pearl" four
rounds won, Minneapolis, March , 1897;
Peter Maher. twelve rounds knockout
New Orleans April 80 1892; James Farrell
two rounds knockout Newark, n J May
1892; Joe Godfrey one round knock out,
Philadelphia May IL 1892, Jerry Slattery
two rounds knockout New York Sept 3
1892; Willard lender one round knockout
Admission Ala, March 8 1898; Jim Hall
four rounds Knockout, New ORR cans,
March IS, 1893; Phil Mayo two rounds
knockout Chicago May 80 1S93-War-
ner one round knockout Baltimore Sept s
1898, Jack Hickey three rounds won, New
ark N Jun II 1894; Joe Choynski five
rounds draw Boston July IS 1894; Frank
Kellar two rounds knockout Buffalo N Y.
Sept 20 1894; Dan Creedon two rounds
knockout New Orleans April 16 1895; Al
hl;.I, +braa ro,rIS GD0CGnnt Nau Nnrly
Oct 81 1895. James Ccrbett match off
Feb Fl 1896; Peter Maher one round
knockout, Langtrv Tex Feb 20 1896;
Peter Maher three rounds no decision
Madison Square n Y Sept Il 1896; James
Corbett matched Oct II 1896; Thomas
Sharkey matched Dec ; 1896; Thomas
Sharkey eight rounds lost foul San Fran
cisco.
Fitsimmons made his first appearance in
Mace at Timaru, New leland, in 1880.
He defeated four men winning the anna
teur championship. In 1881 he defeated
five men in competition one of them
being Herbert Slade. Other Australian
bouts in which he figured are these .Jem
Crawford three rounds; Bill Slavin seven
rounds; .Starlight" nine rounds; Arthur
Cooper three rounds; Jack Murphy eight
rounds Brinsmerd two rounds; Jack
Greentree three rounds; Dick Sandal four
rounds Conway two rounds; Prof West
one round; Pablo Frank two rounds; lack
Riddle four rounds; Eagner two rounds.
Defeated James J Corbelr, Carson
Nevada, March II, 1897, in IA rounds
Corbett's Record.
While an amateur on the Pacific Coast
he met and defeated about 2S amateu RS.
His first professional contest was with
Jake Burke The Irish lad,' whom he
defeated in eight rounds without a referee
cisco Cal; Frank Smith three rounds,
Salt Lake City; Joe Chovnski, one round
San Francisco bare knuckles; Joe Choyn-
ski four rounds San Francisco Cal; Jake
kilrai't six rounds New Orleans; Dom
mick GIcCaffery three rounds Brooklyn
New York Dan Campbell Portland Ore
gOn; had to sign agreement not to knock
him out or forfeit all claim to any share
~ tha ,rSa. La IlD. 81 p,.Ar;o
Cal, twentv-seven rounds with both
hands broken in the third round; Pete
Jackson, s%ixty-one rounds, San Francisco
draw; John J. McVay, two rounds, Phil.
adelphia; Jack Donovan, one round
Philadelphia, Pa; Bufles Davis, two
rounds, Philadelphia; Bob Caffey, three
rounds, Philadelphia; John Brady, tive
rounds, Philadelphia: Sailor Brown, on
round, Philadelphia; Mike Manahan, I've
rounds, Philadelphia: Jack Hockc>
thIee rounds, Philadelphia. Defeated b.
Galley, VIM Spillings and Joe Lannon al
in one night at Madison Square Garden
Mike Dyer, one round, Boston, Mass
Jack Grace, three rounds, Hartford, Con
Jack Hughes, four rounds, Jersey City
Pike McMarone, one round, Albany, N
Y; Jack Dockery, two rounds, Columbu
Ohio; Patsev Hughes, one round, Z
Paso, Tex; Dennis Oleson, one round
San Francisco; bested Jim Hall, in a
exhibition bout in Chicago, in tire
rounds; Johr l.. Sullivan. twenty-on
rounds, New Orleans; Peter Courtne,
allowed him to stay six one minute round
on account of kaleidoscope to take picture:
knocked out in the sixth; Charley Mitch
ell three rounds. Jacksonville. Fla.