About this title: Boxing Day The Fight That Changed the World Jeff Wells On Boxing Day, 1908, 20 000 spectators gathered at a Sydney stadium to watch the fight between Jack Johnson, a black Galveston streetfighter, and Canadian Tommy Burns. The match pitted a white versus black man for the first time in a heavyweight championship bout. Ringside, writer Jack London was witness to the merciless and clinical destruction of the Johnson...or so it was thought.
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Sports, Sydney
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780732264802ISBN:0732264804
Description: Fine in None Issued jacket. 245 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. In This Absorbing Tale Of Pride And Prejudice In Turn-of-the-century Australia, Jeff Wells Recounts The Little-known But Utterly Fascinating Story Of Burns-Johnson, The Boxing Match That Pitted White V. Black For The Very First Time In A Heavyweight Championship Bout. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper Sports, Sydney
Date Published: 1998
Description: 245 pp, b&w photographic plates, rear wrapper creased, else very good copy in pictorial, limp wrappers. Norman Lindsay Lone Hand cover reproduced on rear wrapper. read more
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