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"Battling Pete's' Last Engagement"
characters from
"Battling Pete's' Last Engagement" from
Inside the Ropes
by Charles E. Van Loan
Small Maynard and Company
Boston, 1913
-has illustrations-
setting circa 1900
Battling Pete, a Joe Grim type of welterweight pre-lim fighter, had given up the ring. When One Round Ryan plans to fight three men in one day with a special purse to anyone who can last 4 rounds, Pete make a comeback. He's planning to get married and needs the money. The four fighters in this exhibition are:
Peter "Battling Pete" Hansen aka "Whalebone Pete", aka "Kid Ivory", aka "The Swedish Punching Bag" WW 1 slugger
Isidore Goldstein aka "One Round Ryan" aka "The Fighting Pawnbroker" WW 6 slugger
Shadow Belcher WW 2 boxer
Wolf Benson WW 2 slugger
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