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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1899
Page
7
In a brutal 25 round contest, Jeffries and Sharkey exchange hard lefts and rights. Sharkey fuels offense with repeated head blows and blood Fly, while Jeffries survives late rounds to claim victory amid a charged crowd.
In New York on November 3 spectators watched Jeffries leverage weight and powerful lefts to press Sharkey. The frenzied rounds featured hard exchanges, with Sharkey bleeding from the eye and Jeffries landing decisive blows guiding to a final bell and a Jeffries victory declared by the referee.
Betting opened 100 to 70 in favor of Jeffries. Jeffries led early and both fighters bloodied with Sharkey showing wild, aggressive swings. The crowd roared through each round as the Californian pressed the attack and Jeffries found a second wind in round twenty two.
A boxing match ends without a clearly announced decision, sparking a loud reaction from the crowd. Spectators shout for both winner and loser as a great murmur of disbelief fills the arena.
At Coney Island November 3 a packed ringside watched Jeffries and Sharkey clash in a brutal ten round match that ended when Jeffries glove flew off. Moran defeated Goulette in a preliminary ten round 128 lb bout as an enormous crowd pressed in under 400 arc lights despite heavy rain and gale force winds surrounding the arena.
A crowded Music Hall with about two thousand listening as Captain Bill Daly reads the returns. The crowd wavered as Sharkey landed sharp blows on Jeffries, staggering him while Daly warned the audience to keep order amid the tense boxing scene.
The bulletins of the fight came too fast preventing his usual comment, and when the final round was read the crowd applauded wildly to the referee Siler’s verdict, a decision popular in Boston.
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