The P.R. Rascals.
London, Jan. 9. The Pelican Club has made a statement exonerating “Mr Abington " from the charge of instigating an attack on Slavin in the recent fight with Smith,
Peter Jackson, the Australian boxer, is known all over England as “ Peter the Great," He offers £lO to anyone to stand up to him tor four rounds, but as suicide is out of fashion in England no one seems anxious. A recent cable stated that Sullivan and Jackson will meet in May, and the following paragraph from a San Francisco newspaper has reference to the subject t -John L. Sullivan, it is said, has oast aside the colorlino barrier, behind which ha has sheltered himself for some months, In doing this it is a question whether John L. shows good sense or not, Alter all, it is perhaps better for him to take the ohances of being whipped by Jackson than to be hooted into disgrace by refusing to tight one of the cleverest and most human pugilists the worjd has ever known,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 402, 11 January 1890, Page 2
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174The P.R. Rascals. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 402, 11 January 1890, Page 2
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