[1903] Fans applauded Jack Johnson's challenge to Jeffries-Corbett winner?

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  1. mrkoolkevin

    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    And these differences are extremely trivial but this quote appears in the St. Louis Dispatch on May 20, 1904, in a column from Robert Edgren as "This will be the first time that Jeffries has fought a man like himself, huge, strong, rough, rugged."
     
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  2. janitor

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    Here is my quote compared to the one provided by mrkoolkevin.

    I consider his argument to be very reliably established.
     
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