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Old 01-08-2007, 11:20 PM   #278 (permalink)
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"The Legs of Freckles"
characters from
"The Legs of Freckles" from
Inside the Ropes
by Charles E. Van Loan
Small Maynard and Company
Boston, 1913
-has illustrations-
time period of fight 1890

Van Loan appears to have based Billy McGhee on "Australian" Billy
McCarthy, an opponent common to both the Nonpareil and to Fitz.

Billy McGhee MW 6 slugger

Frederick "Freddy" Hastings MW 1 boxer

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