TOM SHARKEY, whose memorable 25-round battle with Jim Jeffries at Coney Island on November 3, 1899, is famous in the annals of the ring. Sharkey, who is now 36 years of age, on that occasion gave Jeffries the toughest fight of his career when the champion was in his prime, and a couple of months ago expressed his intention of challenging the winner of the Jeffries-Johnson contest, and to show that he was in earnest, started training right away.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1062, 14 July 1910, Page 13
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79TOM SHARKEY, whose memorable 25-round battle with Jim Jeffries at Coney Island on November 3, 1899, is famous in the annals of the ring. Sharkey, who is now 36 years of age, on that occasion gave Jeffries the toughest fight of his career when the champion was in his prime, and a couple of months ago expressed his intention of challenging the winner of the Jeffries-Johnson contest, and to show that he was in earnest, started training right away. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1062, 14 July 1910, Page 13
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