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An Unusual Bet on Boxing Match

July 8, 2009 |  2:00 am


  July 8, 1889, Bet


July 8, 1889: Dutch Pete and Charles Beaucaire make a bet on the Sullivan-Kilrain fight. Evidently the loser will carry the winner in a wheelbarrow from the Anheuser saloon to the Nadeau Hotel, at 1st and Spring, and back. A band will accompany them.

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