THE RING
CRIBB IN AMERICA. According to our American exchanges, Root and Byers were to fight before the National Sporting Club of 'Frisco on January 18. Manager Groom completed his card by signing Charles Thurston and Otto Cribb. Instead of having ordinary preliminaries to a main event, the club decided to give two twenty round fights. Cribb and Thurston were matched to fight twenty rounds at 145 pounds, weigh in at 3 o’clock in the afternoon of the fight. These two men will fight for a purse of SOCdol., winner to take all. Alex Greggains represented Thurston, and George Starting signed for Cribb. Both were so confident of their men winning that each was willing to agree to the win-ner-take-all condition. This is from another source:—“The coming fight between Otto Cribb and Charles Thurston in this city or Oakland should be about the hottest battle seen here in a long time. Both men are rushing fighters, and the contest ought not go more than ten rounds at the most, but the rounds should be very hot ones. They would put up the kind of a fight that the people seem to like, though it would not be a scientific battle/’
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New Zealand Mail, 21 February 1901, Page 48
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