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BOXING NOTES.At the Lonox Athletic Club tho final bouts In the amateur boxing tournament will be fought to-nlgbt.Charley Dowling. oV Philadelphia, who ha* beaten a number of good men, wants to meet any 135-pound man before some club in this city.“Kid McCoy and Geoffreys Thorne, the English middle-weight boxer, will fight twenty-five rounds at the Broadway Athletic Club next Tuesday night, Thorne has won the middle and heavy-we\v*t amateur chamfonshlpa of Great Britain fo*i three successive years and Is the present holfcA of these titles. A. F. Bettlnson, tho celobratl^i English fistic authority and manager of the National Sporting Club of London, says that Thome is the best big man in England to-day and admitted that It had always been a source of surprise to him that he did not become a professional. He has beaten Craig, the “Coffee Cooler;*' “Cyclone Ered Morris And many English professional fighters in Impromptu bouts.
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Sat, Sep 02, 1899

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