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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 52, 11 October 1887, Page 4

A desperate prize fight for the championship of North-eastern Pennsylva nia, was fought at Nanticoke, on July 5. The principals were Tom Hoar, of Wilkesbarre, and Peter Hurley, of Nanticoke. The fight was kept as secret as possible, and only a few friends witnessed the mill. Seventyone rounds were fought, and the two tnen went at each other like bulldogs. At first some attempt was trade to obey the rules, but as the fight progressed it became a rough and tumble contest, which continued to the end of the battle. After the faces of the men had been battered into jelly, and two or three ribs broken, the fight was over, and the referee decided in favour of Hurley at the call of the seventysecond round, as Hoar said, “ I cannot see, so I guess I’ll have to give up.” A challenge appears in the English papers on behalf of Samuels, the aboriginal, stating that he will run any man in England or America, bar Hutchens, for £5OO a-side, and that reasonable expenses will be allowed for the match taking place in Australia.