The International spirit of the times. Containing a full report of the great fight between Sayers and Heenan [electronic resource] : A chronicle of the turf, field sports, literature, and the stage. : Extra. ... Special report of the great fight ... Victory of the Benicia Boy. ... The fight came off on the 16th April, as specially agreed. ...

Published:: [Boston?] : [publisher not identified], [1860]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 56 x 39 cm

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John C. Heenan and Thomas Sayers fought for the international boxing championship on April 17, 1860, "near the town of Farnborough," England. The fight officially ended in a draw. Cf. Fleischer, N. The heavyweight championship, 1949.
The American Antiquarian Society copy is annotated in a contemporary hand: So great was the popular demand for the earliest intelligence respecting this prize-fight, that this description which was entirely imaginary was published in advance of the event itself, & sold enormously. I bought this in the street in Boston. T.W.H. [i.e., Thomas Wentworth Higginson].
Text in four columns; printed area measures 50.5 x 32.7 cm.
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Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 10714).

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