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A Renaissance of Fighters and Indian Revenge Tales
A New York boxing revival is traced from 1878 when Prof McClellan popularized glove fights under Queensberry rules, inspiring a surge of amateur boxers in Madison Square. It discusses training, heart, and dangers of overtraining, urging medical checkups and measured routines. In Arizona Territory a Haulapai camp massacre follows a feud with an informant, Peas, who shoots tribal members and is pursued. two bucks are killed and a girl among the injured.
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New York Star
Zamecocks
New York
C. McClellan
Marquis of
Queensbury
McClellan
Michael Donovan
Marquis
Mr. Donovan
Mike
Donovan
Police
Madison Square
John
Boston
Charles Mitchell
England
Dominick McCaffrey
Stockton, Hill
Arizona
Detroit Free Press
Hill
Cerbat Range
Peas
Indiana