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auu iu uc mmncu wmuii unv ytm.An event interefting to the amateurs of the fcience of boxing, took place on Saturday, which may be deemed decifive agninft the public expectation of another conteft between its two famous profelfors:Humphieyf, orr Saturday lafl, went to the fchool of Mendoza, and, after the tifual fparring of the feveral pupils was over, called upon Iiim, in the prefence of the company, to declare whether he intended to fight him again or not, offering to meet him on his own terms, as high or as low as he pleafed. Mendoza, in reply, flated, that he had no money, nor friends that would advance any. Humphieys told him he did not care how low, he only wanted to bind the match-adding, that he might a I Co fix upon a period, as he might name any time within a twelvemonth, if he thought his'health would not admit now. or within a few month'. Mendoza would not aflcnt to any propofal that was made to him, and icpron: hed his adverfary with motives of envy and jealnufy for vififing his flt;_hoo1. Humphreys difavowed every im-pttlfe of that kind, and faid that Mendoza had fo often receded from private engagements, 1 owever flrongly hi? word was pledged, that he was determined to bring him to fome public decifion, from which he could not retraft will)-
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London Chronicle
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jul 05, 1788
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