Boxer Died from Injuries in Fight 73 Years Ago," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 28, 2010
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SURVIVOR DD/MMM /YEA RESULT RD SURVIVOR AG CITY STATE/CTY/PROV COUNTRY WEIGHT SOURCE/REMARKS CHAMPIONSHIP PRO/ TYPE WHERE CAUSALITY/LEGAL R E AMATEUR/ Richard Teeling 14-May 1725 KO Job Dixon Covent Garden (Pest London England ND London Journal, July 3, 1725; (London) Parker's Penny Post, July 14, 1725; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org), Richard Teeling, Pro Brain injury Ring Blows: Manslaughter Fields) killing: murder, 30th June, 1725. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t17250630-26. Covent Garden was a major entertainment district in London. Both men were hackney coachmen. Dixon and another man, John Francis, had fought six or seven minutes. Francis tired, and quit. Dixon challenged anyone else. Teeling accepted. They briefly scuffled, and then Dixon fell and did not get up. He was carried home, where he died next day.The surgeon and apothecary opined that cause of death was either skull fracture or neck fracture. Teeling was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to branding. (Branding was on the thumb, with an "M" for murder. The idea was that a person could receive the benefit only once. Branding took place in the courtroom, Richard Pritchard 25-Nov 1725 KO 3 William Fenwick Moorfields London England ND Londonin front of Journal, spectators. February The practice12, 1726; did (London) not end Britishuntil the Journal, early nineteenth February 12,century.) 1726; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org), Richard Pro Brain injury Ring Misadventure Pritchard, killing: murder, 2nd March, 1726. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t17260302-96. The men decided to settle a quarrel with a prizefight. Pritchard knocked Fenwick down three times, using a left to the head. The third time, Fenwick did not get up, and he died an hour later. The surgeon said Thomas Hargrave 2-Feb 1729 KO Henry Hill London London England ND (London) Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, September 6, 1729; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org), Thomas Hargrave, killing : Pro Ring Fall: Manslaughter murder, 27th August, 1729. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t17290827-4. The two men fought for half a crown. Hargrave won the bout, and the two men went to an alehouse to have a drink. Hill put his head against the chimney, and died. The surgeon found much blood in Hill's abdomen, and attributed death to the bursting of blood vessels during a fall. Hargrave was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to branding. Phillips Oct/ 1730 KO Lloyd St. James London England ND (London). Daily Post, October 17, 1730. The verdict was that Lloyd died a natural death. The constable disagreed, and he and the coroner began physically Pro Ring Misadventure William Emerson ND 1732 KO Andrew Reed Great Yarmouth Norfolk England ND Charles John Palmer, The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth,with Goreston and Southtown, (Great Yarmouth: George Nall, 1872), 89. Pro Ring Joseph Greenfield 22-May 1734 KO John Jones Hampstead London England ND London Evening Post, May 30, 1734; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org), Joseph Greenfield, killing: murder, 30th June, 1734. The Pro Brain injury Ring Blows: Manslaughter Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t17340630-3. From the Old Bailey: "The Deceas'd said, he'd fight any Man for a Crown. The Prisoner, who was a Stranger to him, began to strip; but said he had not a Crown to venture, and so the Deceas'd and he agreed to fight for Love, as they call'd it. They boxt fairly; the Deceas'd had the better, and the Prisoner said he would fight no more, in the Nine-pin-Ground among Black-guards; but would fight it out in a Room. The Deceas'd was for having it out in the Ground. Then the Prisoner clapp'd him on the Back, and call'd him a good Lad. They shook Hand three times very lovingly, and went to boxing again. The Prisoner struck the Deceas'd upon the Temples, which made him stagger, and as he was falling the Prisoner kick'd Charles Troop 13-Jun 1751 KO George Bartholomew London London England ND Oldhim Baileyon the ProceedingsBreast and the Online Groin, (www.oldbaileyonline.org), and he fell down, and lay ,for killing dead; : murder, but he was 27th brought August, a 1729. little to The himself Proceedings in about ofhalf the an Old Hour. Bailey This Ref: was t17290827-4. on a Wednesday, The Pro Brain injury Ring Blows: Manslaughter pair met in an alehouse, and then fought for a prize of a shilling, a coin worth 1/20th of a pound, meaning its current money would be about £6 . The men took off their shirts and waistcoats, and shook hands. Their fight lasted about twenty minutes. There were several knockdowns, and once, Troop fell on top of Bartholomew, with a knee in his guts. The crowd called shame, but the fight continued. Bartholomew lost. He was carried home in a coach. His wife said he was bruised all over, "as black as a negro." He died next morning. There was a large contusion on his scrotum, and a skull fracture. Troop was convicted of John Hudson 28-Dec 1753 KO Thomas Moss White Conduit Fields London England ND (London) Read's Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, January 12, 1754; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org), John Hudson, killing: Pro Brain injury Ring Blows: Manslaughter murder, 16th January, 1754. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t17540116-40. The two men agreed to fight, for a prize of a leg of mutton, turnips, and some beer, to the value of a crown. They boxed between a quarter and a half an hour. Moss led at first, but then Hudson began knocking him down. Moss was asked if he wanted to quit. "I will fight," he said, standing up, arms at his side. So, Hudson knocked him down again. This time he did not get up, and blood was streaming from his ears and mouth. Moss's friends carried home, on their backs. He was put to bed, but he was already dead. The surgeon said Thomas Faulkner 5-Aug 1758 KO George Taylor St. Albans Hertfordshire England Heavy Bobcause Mee, of death Bare wasFists: extravasated The History ofblood Bare-Knuckle in the brain. Prize Hudson Fighting was (Woodstock, convicted of Newmanslaughter. York: Overlook Press, 2001), 20; H.B. Wheatley, Hogarth's London, English Pro Later Pictures of the Manners of the Eighteenth Century (London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1909), 149. Taylor, who was blind in one eye prior to the fight, lost John "Jack" Warren 9-Apr 1765 KO Phillip Juchau Moorfields London England Heavy Pierce Egan, Boxiana, London, 1812, 79; Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism, London, Hildyard, 1812, 56; Editors of Bell's Life, Fistiana: Or, The Oracle of the Pro Brain injury Ring Fall Ring, London, 1841, 265; Mee, 2001, 24; London Encyclopaedia, edited by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert (Bethesda, Maryland: Adler & Adler, 1986), 526. Juchau was thrown by a cross-buttock. He struck his head on a paving stone, and he died. Thomas Bradby Sep/ 1765 KO Murphy Tothill Fields London England ND (London) Lloyd's Evening Post, September 9, 1765. The jury's verdict was manslaughter. Pro Ring Blows: Manslaughter George Lovell (Gipsey 29-Jul 1768 KO Richard Berry St. Gile's London England ND (London) Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, August 4, 1768; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org), George Lovell, otherwise Gipsey Pro Ring Blows: Manslaughter George) George, killing, 7th September, 1768. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t17680907-84. While watching a prizefight, Lovell and Murphy had an argument. So, following the main event, the men stripped to the waist and entered the ring themselves. Murphy was soon knocked down, and Lovell began to leave the ring, but Murphy's second told Lovell to come back. So he did, and the fight resumed. Murphy was soon knocked down again, but this time, he Grant 27-Aug 1777 KO Skinner Lambeth London England ND (London)did not get Evening back up, Post, and Skinnerhe died waswithin a paverthe half and hour. Grant The was jury a ruled butcher. manslaughter. The bout lasted about 45 minutes. Skinner died while being taken home. Grant was Pro Ring William Tower 22-Nov 1784 KO Bill Day Barnet London England ND Pierce Egan, Boxiana, London, 1812, 488-489; Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism, London, Hildyard, 1812, 68-69. Day was dancing about, said Egan, "till at Pro Later length TOWERS caught him in one corner of the stage, and held him fast by one hand, while with the other he nearly annhilated DAY." The bout lasted 33 Robert Jones 22-Sep 1786 KO James Barrett London London England ND (London) Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, November 1, 1786; Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org), ROBERT JONES, Pro Internal Ring Fall: Manslaughter killing: manslaughter, 25th October, 1786. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t17861025-70. The men were hackney coachmen who decided to settle a injuries quarrel through a prizefight. They fought for about a quarter of an hour. Barrett fell, and died a few hours later. The surgeon said the brain appeared normal, but there was about a pint of blood in the abdomen, on the left side. The injury was associated with a fall on paving stones. Jones was convicted of John Clayton 26-Mar 1788 KO Samuel Fewster Moorfields London England ND (London)manslaughter, Public and Advertiser, fined a shilling April 7, and 1788; ordered Old Bailey to serve Proceedings a week's imprisonment. Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org). JOHN CLAYTON, killing: murder, 2nd April, 1788.