Parade of the Tomato Cans

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Bob Burn
uncle of Jem Burn, brother of Ben Burn
1819-1821
1 3 0
1819-03-16 L Tom Shelton 12 0:16 Mousley Hursy
20 guineas
1819-06-01 L Tom Shelton 37 0:35 Hounslow
100 guineas
1820-05-16 L Tom Spring 18 0:30 Epsom
100 pounds
1821-06-13 W Gibletts 0:20 Room, Biw Street
10 pounds

Bob Burn HW slugger 0

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Israel Belasco
Brother of Abie Belasco
1817 - 1823
2 2 0
1817-07-17 L Ned Brown 31 0:31 Mousley Hurst
1819-09-15 W Kit Barlee 41 0:48 Tarbury Common
50 pound purse
1821-10-30 W Saubders 14 0:32 Mousley Hurst
10 pound purse
1823-03-19 L A. Mathewson 0:44 Mousley Hurst
25 pound purse

Israel Belasco HW boxer 1

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Maurice Delay
born 1802
179 lbs
1823-1824
3 1 0
undated w Giblets
1823-00-00 w Maurice Pope
1823-06-13 W Blackman 6
1824-02-11 L Ned Baldwin 26 0:42 Mouslry Hurst
a grudge match over the favors of a widow, Mrs. Melsom
arrested for robbery and transported shortly thereafter

Maurice Delay HW slugger 1

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Tom "Bear River" Smith
Thomas James Smith
B 1840-06-12 New York, NY
D 1870-11-02 Abilene, KS
MW boxer

Tom "Bear River" Smith MW slugger 1

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Billy Marshall
born c1672 in Ayrshire, Scotland
died c1791 Kirkkudbright, Scotland
Bartley Gorman in his memoirs BAREKNUCKLE describes him as anotorious bandit and boxer, the King of the tinkers of Galloway.
said to have deserted the army 7 times and the navy 3 times. Married 17 times. Fathered 4 children after the age of 100.
Marshall appears to have legandary status in gypsy folklore.

Billy Marshall HW slugger 4

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Jack Cabbage
(Jack Strong)
"Iron Arm Cabbage"
died 1824-09-29 drowned himself
1817-1823
5 - 2 - 0
1817-10-03 W (Birmingham)Tom Hall 14 0:30 Dandry, Glouster
10 guineas
1819-09-29 W Ab Newton 14 0:14 near Bristol
100 guineas
undated W Jem Bailey
1820-03-28 L Jack Martin 75 1:12 Farnham Royal, Bucks some sources have Stowe
100 guineas
1820-08-14 W Joe Parish 8 0:07:30 Mousley Hurst
25 guineas
1823-03-26 L John (Jack) Cooper 51 0:59:30 Hampton Common
50 pounds
Cabbage's seconds Tom Cribb & Tom Belcher threw in the sponge
1823-07-15 W (Irish) Tom Banks 26 0:59 Yate Common, Gloustershire
10 pounds a side
Cabbage was a carousing womanizer. He had impaired vision in one eye prior to Cooper bout possibly blind.

Jack Cabbage HW slugger 1

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Bill Abbott
154.5 lbs
brother of Dick Abbott
1818-1832
7 - 2 - 1
1818-06-16 W Dick Hares 0:30 Wimbledon, London
10 guineas
1819-02-02 W Dolly Smith 138 1:15 opposite Woolwich (London)
20 guineas
1819-03-02 L West Country Dick West 1:10 Peter Street, Westminster, London
10 guineas
1820-02-18 W Johnny Raw 40 1:20 Epson
12 guineas
1820-08-28 w Pittman 27 0:30 Wimbledon, London
5 pounds
1821-11-06 W Tom Oliver 33 0:54 Mousley Hurst
10 guineas
1821-12-18 W Phil Sampson 43 0:47 Mousley Hurst
50 pounds
1822-10-22 D Jem Ward 22 Mousley Hurst
50 pounds
honesty of the fight questioned
1823-1825 inactive
1826-11-27 L Sam Larkins 30 0:33 Figgett Hall, Newmarket
35 pounds a side
1827-1831 inactive
1832-06-26 W Search 7 Old Oak Commons, London
5 pounds a side

Bill Abbott HW slugger 3

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Bill Abbott
154.5 lbs
brother of Dick Abbott
1818-1832
7 - 2 - 1
1818-06-16 W Dick Hares 0:30 Wimbledon, London
10 guineas
1819-02-02 W Dolly Smith 138 1:15 opposite Woolwich (London)
20 guineas
1819-03-02 L West Country Dick West 1:10 Peter Street, Westminster, London
10 guineas
1820-02-18 W Johnny Raw 40 1:20 Epson
12 guineas
1820-08-28 w Pittman 27 0:30 Wimbledon, London
5 pounds
1821-11-06 W Tom Oliver 33 0:54 Mousley Hurst
10 guineas
1821-12-18 W Phil Sampson 43 0:47 Mousley Hurst
50 pounds
1822-10-22 D Jem Ward 22 Mousley Hurst
50 pounds
honesty of the fight questioned
1823-1825 inactive
1826-11-27 L Sam Larkins 30 0:33 Figgett Hall, Newmarket
35 pounds a side
1827-1831 inactive
1832-06-26 W Search 7 Old Oak Commons, London
5 pounds a side

Bill Abbott HW slugger 3

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Dick Abbott
brother of Bill Abbott
1856
1 - 0 - 0
1856-09-09 W Jem Daly 53 1:00 Long Reach
10 pounds a side

Dick Abbott HW slugger 1

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Dick Abbott
brother of Bill Abbott
1856
1 - 0 - 0
1856-09-09 W Jem Daly 53 1:00 Long Reach
10 pounds a side

Dick Abbott HW slugger 1

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Dick Acton
"The Snob"
1821-1828
3 - 4 - 0
1821-08-21 W Joe Nash (The Baker) 32 1:10 Kilburn,London
20 guineas
1821-08-29 W Evans 18 0:40 Edgeware, London
20 guineas
1821-12-18 L Massa Kendrick 17 0:25 Mousley Hurst
20 guineas
1822-02-23 W Massa Kendrick 32 0:35 Mousley Hurst
25 guineas
1822-06-12 L Jem Ward 6 0:14 Mousley Hurst
25 pounds
1823-05-06 L Peter Crawley 13 0:16 Blindlow Heath, London
50 pounds
1824-1827 inactive
1828-03-18 L Jack Nicholls 6 Parson's Green, London
50 pounds a side

Dick Acton HW slugger 1

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John Ward
brother of Jem and Nick
1824-08-23 W Jerry carter 5 1:15 Bow Common

John Ward HW slugger 1

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Jack Adams
born 1804-11-01
died 1842-12-14 at Birmingham
132 - 140 lbs
1830-1838
5 - 4 - 0
1830-11-25 W Pick (Bristol Youth) 12 0:17 Horsham Green
5 pounds a side
1831-05-24 W Young Richmond 13 0:21 Colney Heath
a purse
1832-04-03 L Tom Smith 125 2:40 Colney
25 pounds a side
1832-08-09 W Jerry Donovan 17 0:36 Cockfoster, London
25 pounds a side
1833-10-24 W Jack Jones 9 1:20 near Liverpool
5 pounds a side
1834-10-21 W Tom Smith 14 0:41 Greenstreet Green, Kent
50 pounds a side
1835-08-23 L Hammer Lane 16 0:42 Woodstock
50 pounds
1836-1837
1838-06-05 L Owen Swift 2 Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France
50 pounds a side
Adams claimed a foul, but Swift received the stakes
1838-09-05 L Owen Swift 34 1:15 Villiers, France
50 pounds a side
(On 1839-06-05 Adams and Swift sentenced by the Paris Tribunal of Correction to 13 months imprisonment, but bith men had returned to England.0

Jack Adams LW slugger 2

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Bill Atkinson
born 1808-02-01
132 - 139 lbs
1826-1837
9 -2 - 1
1826-10-21 W Sam Merryman 43 2:23 Claypole Hall, near Nottingham
10 pounds
(reported in Fistiana, not in Goldman)
1826-11-26 L Dick Hill 64 2:15 Breaston Field
5 pound to 4 pounds
1827-1828 inactive
1829-03-10 W Jack Randall 41 Leicester
20 pounds a side
1829-06-16 D Ned Stockman 58 0:59 Selston Common, Derbyshire
50 pounds a side
ring broken in
1829-07-14 W George Trueman 0:45 Breaston, notts.
purse
1830-04-08 W Charles Wootton 73 1:30 Great Dalby, Leicestershire
50 pounds to 45 pounds
1831-03-29 W Parkes 37 0:56 Measham, Leicestershire
25 pounds a side
1832-06-26 W Charles Wootton 96 3:00 Sawley, Notts.
50 pounds a side
1833 inactive
1834-03-04 L Owen Swift 32 0:40 Stoke near Newport Pagnell
50 pounds a side
1834-03-24 W Izzy Lazarus 12 0:18 near Nottingham
10 pounds a side
1834-11-11 W Ned Murphy 28 0:59 Iver Heath
25 pounds a side
1835-1836 inactive
1837-11-22 W Sam Merryman 34 2:10 Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
50 pounds a side

Bill Atkinson LW slugger 4

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Tom Brown
"Big Brown"
born 1793 Bridgnorth, England
210 lbs
1825-1831
3- 2 - 0
1825-07-12 W Tom Shelton 15 0:15 Plumb Parke, Stony Stratford
100 pounds a side
1826-1827 inactive
1828-04-08 L Phil Sampson 42 0:49 Bishop's Wood
500 pounds
1829-03-24 W Isaac Dobell 17 0:22 farm near Bridgnorth
300 pounds to 250
1829-11-24 W Isaac Dobell 4 0:21 Crowborough, Sussex some sources give Uckfield
200 pounds a side
1830 inactive
1831 L Phil Sampson 24 Doncaster some reports have 27 rounds, some report a draw
200 pounds stakes
robbed of fight by a mob
1832-03-12 action brought against the stakeholder for giving up the stakes, and recovered at the Stafford Assizes, damages 200 pounds,

Tom "Big Brown" HW slugger 2

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Jack "Hammer" Lane
born 1815-12-15
150 lbs
1832-1864
8 - 2 - 1
1832-11-18 W Harry Ball 21 0:35 Smithwick
20 pounds a side
1833-11-18 W Hewson Smithwick
10 pounds a side
(much dispute and fight finished the following day.)
1835-03-17 W Jack Green 23 0:38 near Birmingham
25 pounds a side
1835-09-15 W Tass Parker 48 Kensale Corner
25 pounds a side
1836-05-10 W Owen Swift 104 2:03 Four Shire Stone, Warwickshire
50 pounds a side
1836-08-23 W Jack Adams 16 0:42 Woodstock
50 pounds
1837-03-07 W Tass Parker 96 2:00 Woodstock
50 pounds a side
1838-01-15 W Byng Stocks 10 0:22 near Bicester, Oxon
50 pounds a side
1840-06-09 L Young Molineux 53 1:12 Worksop, Notts
100 pounds a side
1841-02-02 L Yankee Sullivan 19 0:34 crookham Common
50 pounds a side
(Lane broke arm)
1864-06-28 D Jack Grant 34 0:50 Kingswood common, Shropshire
10 pounds a side

Jack "Hammer" Lane MW slugger 4

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"Surrender" Lane
born 1816
133 lbs
1835-1837
0 - 2 - 1
1835-09-15 D G. Tench
20 pounds a side
1837-03-07 L Izzy Lazarus 34 0:55 Woodstock
25 pounds a side
1837-12-05 L Hodgkiss 27 0:53 Shenstone near Birmingham
25 pounds a side

"Surrender" Lane LW slugger 0

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Crow Lockett
"Oxford Chicken"
born 1821-07-26
died 1863-07-18 in Oxford
148 lbs
1833-1842
4 - 2 - 0
1833-08-15 W Luke Rogers (Hereford) 1:30 Oxford Race Course
a purse
1837-02-13 L Lewis Palmer 30 1:41 Northampton
10 pounds a side
1837-04-25 L Lewis Palmer 65 2:20 near Woburn, Bedfordshire
25 pounds a side
1839-01-17 W Tom McKeever 27 0:35 Hurley Bottom
1841-04-27 W Tom Snow 55 1:45 Knowle Hill
20 pounds a side
1842-12-27 W Byng Stocks 32 0:55 Twyford
25 pounds a side
? tried for seconding Smith of Cookham. Sentenced to 2 weeks imprisonment and togive bail in 40 Pounds not to break peace for 2 years.

Crow Lockett LW boxer 1

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Tom Maley
born 1817-12-21
136 lbs
1834-1843
9 - 3 - 1
1834-04-14 W Tom Chute 0:15 Copenhagen Fields
2 pounds a side
1834-06-21 W George Cooper 0:25 Maiden lane fields
2 pounds a side
1835-05-05 W Mike Lynch 1:45 Hornsey Wood
5 pounds a side
1836-08-30 L Izzy Lazarus 34 0:55 Colney Heath
15 pounds a side
1938-08-30 W Jack Hannan 11 Halfway House, Gravesend
25 pounds a side
(struck foul)
1839-11-12 W Jack Greenstreet
1839-12-10 W The Chelsea Doctor 15 1:35 opposite Northfleet, Essex
25 pounds a side
1840-06-23 W Sam Merryman 26 2:01 Hanslop, Bucks.
25 pounds a side
1840-10-06 L Edward "Ned" Adams 64 1:58 near Royston, Cambridgeshire
50 pounds a side
1841-07-12 W Welch 10 0:23 Margate
25 pounds a side
1841-09-21 D Jem Cross 111 4:22 Woodstock/Cumner meadow
50 pounds a side
6 rounds, 37 minutes at Woodstock
disturbed by Beaks
adjourned to Cumner meadow 104 more rounds
neither man able to beat the other, draw agreed
each man received 50 pounds
1842-07-25 W Jem Cross 22 Woodford Heath, Warwickshire
100 pounds a side
1842-12-13 Sch. Jack M'Grath near Leicester
100 pounds a side
M'Grath grabbed by police. Adjourned to 1843-02-21
1843-02-21 L Jack M'Grath 76 2:38 Canvey Isle, Essex
100 pounds a side

Tom Maley LW boxer 3

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Edward "Ned" Marshall
"Screw"
died 1839-02-27 age 28
1836-1839
3 - 1 - 0
1836-11-30 W Dan Bufton 11 0:30 Beech lanes
10 pounds a side
1837-09-05 W Jack Lee 8 Lichfield road
5 pounds a side
1838-01-09 W Bill Lane 7 near Birmingham
1839-02-27 L George Terry 33 0:45 Tipton, Staffordshire
fatal to Marshall

Edward "Ned" Marshall HW slugger 1