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Yeflerday was fought at Tottenham-Court Booth the- great Boxing-Match beuveen Stepiieafon the Coacnman and Taylor the Barber j there was a prodigious crowded Houfc of Nobility and Gentry, at five Shillings a Ticket : Tne Odds bttoie they began was fix to four on the Coachman, who has but one Eye ; and though the Coachman at the very beginning of the Battle (truck tne Barber jult.above the Eye TuchUBlow, that the Wound feem'd as if done with a Sword, and the Blood gufb’d out and run into that Eye that-he could fearcely fee, yet the Barber Hung him feven times fuccrffively, fought away boldly, and beat him in eleven Minutes ? Peartree was the Coachman’s Second, and Bofwell the Barber’s. There were vaft Sums of Money’ loft on this Match: A noble iordtook a Bett of 500 Guineas to 100 that the.Barber would beat the Coachman. During the Batile, Part of the Benches fell down, ftveral were hurt* and a Man had liis Tliigh broke.1 t 1 1 • t » r /it 1 • 1 t 1
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London Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Feb 03, 1739
Page 2
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David L.
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