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HISTORIC FIGHTS RECALIED

... HISTORIC FIGHTS RECALIED NEW YORK, Saturday. Gentleman Jim Corbett, the former heavy-weight boxing champion, who knocked out John L. Sullivan, died to-day at his home, aged 67. He had been ill for over a year with heart disease, but had not been confined ...

Published: Monday 20 February 1933
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
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... weeks’ visit to England. wife off. Lord Bessborough was there to see his GENTLEMAN Deat of a Famcus With the death of “ Gentleman Jim ” Corbett, heavy-weight cham n of the world for five ears, at his pio Island home on Satur di a v at the age of , there ...

Published: Monday 20 February 1933
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

il-ROI. D FIGHT

... il-ROI . FIGHT. Gentleman Jim Corbett, the fanner world's heavyweight chantron, was a link with an ago in loving which has passed away. for his greatest light with Peter Jackson, the negro, took plate in 191. when the old bare-fist prise fighting was ...

Published: Monday 20 February 1933
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CORBETT DEAD

... CORBETT DEAD One of Last Links with Bare- Knuckle Fighting 61-ROUND FIGHT Gentleman Jim Corbett, the former world heavy-weight boxing champion, who knocked out John L. Sullivan, died yesterday at his home in New York. He was sixty-seven years of age. ...

Published: Sunday 19 February 1933
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 281 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OLD CONTEMPTIBLES

... general secretary. Mr. Thomas S. Quick 'London): and honorary treasurer, Mr. G. H. Smith (Croydon). FAMOUS BOXER DEAD Gentleman Jim Corbett, tho former heavy weight boxing champion of the world, died in New on Saturday, aged yearn. Corbett's greatest ...

Published: Monday 20 February 1933
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

STOP PRESS

... retired hart 0 Beaut* not 32. Little not 13. ex. LUNOH SCORE; NORTHERN OItTS. tor two JIM CORBETT. Now York. Friday. Gentleman Jim - Corbett, tho famous boxer, lo -.inking rapidly.— Exchange. 4AFANBSE CABINET. The japtmme Cabinet late last night ended ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1933
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 438 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

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... all. It was a record—£s.ooo purse and £9.000 stake money—and it made his name world-famous. GAY LIFE They called him Gentleman Jim and Pompadour Jim because of his trim mode of dress. but he didn't mind. In the ring he was a battler with nothing ...

Published: Sunday 19 February 1933
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 538 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR WESTERN

... Blosse, who went to Canada from West Vale, Halifax, has for many years been pastor of Baptist church in Newfoundland. -GENTLEMAN JIM CORBETT DEAD 5 Years World Champion Heavyweight ...

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... the funeral yesterday Private William Henry Harper Staffs Regiment at 13 Cull-avenue Stafford been of Reghneot -u :- GENTLEMAN JIM CORBETT DEAD SOCIETY GIRL AND RIDING MASTER Englishman to Appeal in “Betrayal” Case New York Saturday GIDNEY HERBERT HOME-WOOD ...

Published: Sunday 19 February 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE LIGHTER

... Asquith's death in i„ from here that Lord Oxford's ° °V * I the graveyard five years ago ab ,lOS jj' j 61-Round Fight- Gentleman Jim Corbett, th heavyweight champion, was a vaV . , boxing which has ; greatest tight—with Peter Jack* took place in 1891, ...

Published: Monday 20 February 1933
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE LEIPZIG SPRING FAIR OPENS sth MAR

... 2,- Diesel hx•oinotives, and electrical c , i.: ment. HIS CHIEF FIGHTS RECALLED. Tho death k announee(l from New V of Gentleman .Jim Corbett, the I , r heavyweight boxing champion of the a, who in 1592 won fame by Rnatellip2: eoveted title from the ...

Published: Monday 20 February 1933
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2112 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Dim OF A YORKSKIRetMU

... DIARY: OF-4-YORKSHIREMAN “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, A Leeds heavy-weight champion of the world Memory of from 1892 to 1897, who has died in New York at Timm” Corhett, the ge of 66, visited Leeds alter retire- ment from the ring. 1 remember seeing him ut ...

Published: Monday 20 February 1933
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1258 | Page: 6 | Tags: none