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Purse for Jeffries and Corbett.J. H. Herman, manager and matchmaker for the Fort Er! Athletic club, announced that he will offer a purse of $25,000 for a twenty-round boxing contest between Jeffries and Corbett.He has written to the champion and exchampion making the offer, and if satisfactory answers are received he will, he says, at once post a forfeit of $5,000 as a guarantee that the contest will take place wdthout interference.“Do you anticipate any interference from the Canadian authorities?” ho was asked.“It is not certain that the match will be pulled off in the Fort Erie clubhouse; it will be remembered, however, that three championship con- jtests between lightweights and middle-weights have already taken place across the river,and there has been no infraction of the Canadian law governing boxing contests.”The fight will be pulled off in June, if possible.
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Newton Daily Herald
Newton, Iowa, US
Fri, Feb 20, 1903
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