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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 763, 28 December 1908, Page 2

HEAVY-WEIGHT CHAMPIONS. (Siiuce 1891, under Marquis of Queensberry Rules.) 1891.— 80 b Fitzsimmons beat Jack Dempsey, 13 rounds, at New Orleans, I4th January. 1891.— James J. Corbett and Peter Jackson fought a draw, 61 rounds, San Francisco, 21st May. 1892.— Corbett beat John L. SulJi- . ran, 21 rounds, New Orleans, 7th September. 1894.— Corbett beat Charles Mitchell, of England 3 rounds, Jacksonville, .Florida, 26th January. 1896.— Fitzsimmons beat Peter Maher, 1 round, at Mexico, Texas, 21st February. 1897, — Fitzsimmons beat Corbett, 14 rounds, <at Carson City, Nevada, 17th March. Iggg. — James J. Jeffries beat Fitzsunmons, 11 rounds, at Coney Island, New York. 1899.— Jeffrtes beat T. J. Sharkey, 25 rounds, at Coney Island, 3rd November. 1902. — Jeffries beat Fitzsimmons at San Francisco, 8 rounds, 25th July. 1903.— Jeffries beat Corbett, 10 rounds, at San Francisco, 14th August. 1904. — Jeffries beat Jack Munroe. 2 rounds* at San Francisco, 26th August. 1905.— Jack O'Brien beat Fitzsimmons, 13 rounds, at. San Francisco, 20th December. Jeffries had retired, and the title had reverted to Fitzsiinmons. 1906.— Tommy Burns beat Marvin Hart, 20 rounds, at Los Angeles, 20th February. Hart had claimed' the title by defeating Jack Johnson. 1907.— Tommy Burns beat Jack O'Brien, 20 rounds, at Los Angeles, 7th May. 1807.— Tommy Burns beat Bill Squires, 1 round, at Los Angeles, 4th July. 1907. — Tommy Burns Beat Gunner Moir, 10 rounds, at London, 2nd December. 1908. — Tommy Burns beat Bill Squires, 8 rounds, at Neuilly, France, 13th June, 1908.— Tommy Burns beat Bill Squires, 13 rounds, at Sydney, 24th August. 1908.— Tommy Burns boat Bill Lang, 6 rounds, at Melbourne} 3rd September. .... ■ : \ *;_',, •.-.■•..:.'. ■.-"■...■: ."'<■ -.-:■•:.■.■■■ ..■ ■ -. ."■.'■••