PRIZE FIGHT BETWEEN WOMEN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1140, 6 September 1882, Page 2

PRIZE FIGHT BETWEEN WOMEN.

— ~ ■ 11. A brutal scene took place behind the Corporation Gas Works, Middlesborough: Two women quarrelled as to which was the best pugilist, and they agreed to fight for the supremacy. There was a large attendance of men and women, who formed a ring. The conditions of the fight were that there was to be no pulling of hair, kicking, or scratching. The women stripped to the waist, divested themselves of their earrings, hairpins, and fingerrings, and after shaking hands in regular pugilistic fashion, the encounter commenced. At the first round both women buried their hands in each other's hair, and at the conclusion of the ninth round—the various

rounds being timed by a man —both ' had succeeded in blacking each other’s eyes, and their faces were covered with bruises, At the conclusion of the fight the victorious female went up to the other woman and asked her to acknowledge that she was the best woman. This was readily done, and the fight terminated. There were no police present, and the victorious party moved off home amid a crowd of her admirers. A second fight between women occurred in Albert Road shortly afterwards, and in this instance one woman caused blood to flow pretty freely from her antagonist’s nose.