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THE  NEW  YORK  CLIPPER  ANNUAL.
 

Jones' Woods, N. Y.    Aug. 16, at Camac's Woods, Phila¬
delphia; 19, at Boston, Mass.

I860—Aug. 20—Dan Kerrigan beat.James ("Austral¬
ian") Kelly, $2,000, 26 rounds, 46m.—Island Pond, Vt.

I860—Nov. 5—Sam Hurst ("Staleybridge Infant") beat
Tom Paddock, £400 and championship, 5 rounds, 9>^m.—
Berkshire, Eng,

I860—Dec. 4—James Fitzgerald beat James O'Neil,
$1,000, 61 rounds, 4h. 20m., foul—Maine.

1861—June 18—Jim Mace beat Sam Hurst £400 and
championship, 8 rounds, 40m.—London Circuit, Eng.

186S—Nov. 26—Tom King beat Jim Mace, £400 and
championship, 21 rounds, S8m.—Thames Haven, Eng.; but
would not fight atrain, and gave up the title.

1863—May 5—"Joe Coburn beat Mike McCoole, cham¬
pionship of America and $2,000, 67 rounds, Ih. 10m.—
Charlestown, Md.

1863—Aug. 31—Fred Falkland, Heenan's agent in the
Sayers match, died—New York.

1863—Sept. 1—Jim Mace beat Joe Goss, £1,000, 19
rounds, Ih. 55^m.—near London, Eng.

1863—Dec. 10—Tom King beat J. C. Heenan, interna¬
tional match, £2,000, 24 rounds, 35m. King Avas out of
time, but no one claimed for Heenan—Wadhurst, Kent
1864—March 26—Matt Gooderson died, 44—New York.
1864—May 14—Joe Coburn left New York for England,
to consummate his match Avith Jim Mace. They Avere to
have fought at PierstOAvn, Ireland, for £1,000, Oct. 4, but
Mace left for England the night previous, OAving to non-
agreement upon a referee; stakes drawn. Coburn re¬
turned Nov. 2.

1865—Jan. 3—Harry Lazarus, pugilist, murdered -Ncav
York.   Barney Friery hanged for the crime Aug. 17, 1866.

1865—Jan. 4—Joe Wormald beat A. Marsden, £400 and
championship, 18 rounds, 37m.—Horley, Eng. Wormald
forfeited the title to Mace.

1865—May 16—Jim Dunn beat BiU Davis, $4,000, 43
rounds, Ih. 6m.—Pike County, Pa.

1865—July 8—Billy Mulligan killed tAvo men, and was
himself killed by a policeman—San Francisco, Cal.

1865—Sept 23—WiUiam T. Bryant, who reported the
Heenan-Sayers fight for The Clipper, died, 40—Ncav York.
1866—May 24—Jim Mace and Joe Goss fought a draw,
£400 and championship, 1 round, Ih. 5m.—Longfield Court.
1866—June 20—Sam CoUyer beat Barney Aaron, $1,000
and lightweight championship,47 rounds, 2h. 25m.—Pohick
Landing, Va.

1866—Aug. 6—Jim Mace beat Joe Goss, £400,16ft. ring,
21 rounds, 31m.—near London, Eng.

1866—Sept. 19—Mike McCoole beat Bill Davis, $2,000
and belt 34 rounds, 34m.—Rhoads' Point, Mo.

1866—Nov, 6—John Morrissey first elected to Congress
from Fifth District, Ncav York; re-elected In 1868. Elected
State Senator from the Fourth District, N. Y., in 1875; re¬
elected, trom Seventh District, in 1877. Died May 1, 1878,
Saratoga, N. Y.

1867—AprUlS—Tommy Chandler beatWm.("Dooney")
Harris, $5,000 and middleweight championship, 23 rounds,
28m.—California.

1867—April 29—Joe Wormald and Ned O'Baldwin Avere
to have fought for championship; O'B. absent from start¬
ing place and had to pay forfeit. Wormald refused to
light Jim Mace for the title—England.

1867—June 13 —Barney Aaron beat Sam CoUyer,
$1,000 and lightweight championship, 67 rounds, Ih. 55m.
—Acquia Creek, Va.

1867—Aug, 31—Mike McCoole beat Aaron Jones, $2,000,
34 rounds, 26m.—Busenbark's Station, O.
1867—Sept. 26—Izzy Lazarus, pugilist, died—New York.
1867—Oct. 2—Matt  ("Rockey") Moore   beat   George
Rooke, $2,000, 25 rounds, 57m.—Isle of Shoals.

1867—Oct 15—Jim Mace and Ned O'Baldwin were to
have fought for £400 and the championship; Mace arrested
at a public house in London, and stakes afterAvards drawn.
1868—AprU 27—R. HoUywood beat J. Keating, $5,000
and featherweight championship, three rounds, 10m.;
Keatlng's arm broken in delivering a blow—Kentucky.

1868—Aug. 24—Billy Edwards beat Sam CoUyer, $2,000
and lightweight championship, 47 rounds, lb. 14m.—Cherry
Point, Va. Again, $2,000 and championship, 40 rounds,
47m.—Mystic Island, March 2,1870.

1868—Oct. 29—Ed. O'BaldAvin and Joe Wormald, cham¬
pionship and $2,000,1 round, 10m.; police arrested princi¬
pals ; stakes afterwards forfeited to O'B.—Lynnfield, Mass.
1868—Dec. 23—Abe Hicken beat Pete Maguire, $2,000
and lightweight championship, 5 rounds, 50in.—Perry ville,
Md.

1869—Aug. 17—Tom Allen fought C. Gallagher, $2,000,
11 rounds, draw—near St. Louis, Mo.

1870—Feb. 11—John C. Heenan and Jim Mace's Initial
sparring exhibition—New York.

1870—May 10—Jim Mace beat Tom AUen, $5,000 and
championship of America, 10 rounds, 44m.—NeAv Orleans.
1870—July 2—Jim Mace and Joe Coburn first sparred
together in public—Ncav York.

1870—Dec, 19—Kit Burns (Christopher Keyburn) noted
second and sporting man, died—Ncav York.

1871—Jan. 25—Jimmy Haggerty fatally shot by Wm.
Varley ("Reddy the Blacksmith"), Patsy Egan's saloon—
N.Y. City.

1871—Jan.—James  Molloy, sporting man, died—San
Francisco.
1871—May 11—Joe Coburn and Jim Mace met to fight
 

for championship and $2,000; military interfered—near
Port Dover, Can. They fought 12 rounds in Sh. 38m., near-
Bay St. Louis, Miss., Nov. 30; decided a draAV,

1871—May 25—Billy Edwards and Tim Collins, $2,000'
and lightAveight championship, 95 rounds, 2h. 15m.; dark¬
ness stopped the fight; stakes drawn—East Ncav York, N. Y..

1871—May 26—Joe Wormald, pugUist, died—Marine.
Hospital, Quebec, C. E.

1873—May 28—James Sandford (The Phenomenon),,
pugilist, died, aged 71—New Orleans, La.

18'73—Aug. 21—Jim Mace and Ed. O'Baldwin met tO'
fight for $2,000, but could not agree upon a referee; stakes-
drawn—Collier's Station, West Va.

1873—March 11—Wm. EdAvardsbeatW. Hitchen ("Faw¬
cett"), glove fight, purse, lb. 45m.—Manchester, Eng.

18'73—Sept. 23—Tom AUen beat Mike McCoole, $2,000, 7'
rounds, 20m.—near St. Louis, Mo.

1874—Aug. 11—Wm. Edwards beat Sam CoUyer, $2,000,
catch Aveight, 11 rounds, 24m.—Mill Creek, West Va, Ed-
Avards beat Pete Croker and "Fiddler" Neary in glove ^
contests, at N, Y. Casino, Jan. 26, and the BoAvery Thea¬
tre, Oct. 30, respectively.

18t4—Dec—Johnny Mackey, pugilist and trainer, diedl
—Windsor, Canada.

1875—March 24—Daniel Kerrigan, pugilist, died-N. Y.

1875—Sept. 27—EdAvard O'Baldwin, pugilist, shot;audi
mortally wounded by Michael Flnnell; died Sept. 29, N. Y.
City; burled in HoUyAVOod Cemetery, Brookline, Mass.,.
Oct 1.

1875—Dec. 17—Dominick Bradley, pugUist, died, 49—
Philadelphia, Pa.

1876—May 10—William Varley, alias "Reddy the Black¬
smith," died, 41-N. Y. CitA^

1876—Aug. 31—J. Weeden beat Wm. Walker (Philip
Koster), $400, 76 rounds, lb. .5&m.; fatal to Walker—near
Pennsville, N. J. Weeden sentenced to six years in prison
at Trenton, N. J., where he died Nov. 6, 1877.

1876-Sept 7—Joe Goss beat Tom Allen, $5,000 and
championship of America, 21 rounds, 48m., foul—Kentucky.

1876—Dec. 28—Boxing match, P. J. McDermott and D.
Davison, gloves; fatal to latter—Boston, Mass.

1877—March 6—Joe Coburn sentenced to ten years'
imprisonment for felonious assault with intent to kill
Policeman Wra. Tobias—N. Y. City. Sent to Sing Sing
March 8, and thence transferred to Auburn. Returned to
Slug Sing; released Dec. 7, 1882. Died, N, Y. City, con¬
sumption, 55, Dec. 6, 1890.

1877—June 2—Jimmy Welsh, ex-pugilist and second'
to Tom Sayers in his battles with Heenan and others,,
died, 58—London, Eng.

1878—Aug. 10 (about)—Louis Baker, Avho shot Wm,
Poole in New York in 1865, died—Paris, France.

1878—Nov. 27—Edward Elgee, time keeper in the Hee-
nan-King fight, and turfman, died—near London, Eng.

1879—March 13—Prize fight $5,000 and championship
of Australia; Lawrence Foley beat Abe Hicken, 15-
rounds, lb. 20m.—near Melbourne.

1879—March 27—Arthur Chambers beat John H. Clark,
$2,000 and lightweight championship, 136 rounds, 2h. 20ra.
—near Chippewa Falls, Can.

1879—May 8—John J. Dwyer beat James Elliot, cham¬
pionship of America and $2,000,12 rounds, 12in. 40s.—Long
Point, Canada.

1879—June 9—Owen SAvift, ex-pugilist, died—London.

1879—Aug. 18—Glove fight, $1,000; Mike Donovan and
W. C. McClellan, 93 rounds, Sh. 49m., draw—San Fran¬
cisco, Cal.

1879—Oct, 23—James Colbert, sporting man and back¬
er, died—N. Y. City.

1879—Oct. 23—Ted Napper, ex-pugilist, died—London,

1880—Jan. 30—Alec. Keene, veteran ex-pugilist, died,
55 years—London, Eng.

1880—June 1—Paddy Ryan beat Joe Goss, $2^000 and
championship of America, 87 rounds, Ih. 28m.—Collier Sta¬
tion, West Va.

1880—Dec. 24—John L. Sullivan beat John Donaldson,
purse, glove fight, 10 rounds, 21m.—Cincinnati, O.

1883--Feb. 7—Prize fight, championship of America
and $5,000; John L. Sullivan beat Patrick Ryan, nine
rounds, 11m.—Mississippi City, Miss.

1883—July 17—Glove contest, John L. Sullivan under¬
taking to knock Joe Collins, alias "Tug Wilson," out of
time in four rounds of three minutes each; he failed to ac¬
complish the task—Madison Square Garden, N. Y. City.

1883—Dec. 28—Joe Coburn's benefit; setto between Co-
burn and John L. Sullivan—N. Y. City,

1883.

March 1—James Elliott, heavyAveight pugilist, shot and
mortally wounded by Jerry Dunn, Avho Avas subsequently
tried and acquitted—Chicago, 111,

May 14—Boxing contest, medium sized gloves, four three
minute rounds; John L. Sullivan to receive 60 per cent, of
admission receipts and Charles Mitchell 40 per cent.; po¬
lice interfered in third round, Sullivan having much the
best of the encounter—N. Y. City.

May 29—Glove fight $2,500, Wm. Miller vs. Larry Foley;
40 rounds, Sh., draw—Sydney, Australia.

Aug. 6—Glove contest, four three minute rounds, Queens-
berry rules; John L. Sullivan won, H. A. Slade giving up
at the expiration of third round—N. Y. City.

Aug. 26—William ("Uncle Bill") Tovee, ex-pugilist, and