FEMININE PUGILISTS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 151, 4 June 1879, Page 2

FEMININE PUGILISTS.

The San Francisco ‘Chronicle’ or January 26 says that the sporting world is excited at the prospect of a glove contest between two women, to come off on the 24th February at one of the public halls of the city. Both candidates for the honours of the ring are as yet untried in fistic vsarfaie. Ihey will, however, bo given the requisite discipline by competent trainers. Their names are Mollie Berdan, a Lancashire lass, and Lewis, a Californian damsel, born in Calaveras, and their homos are in two of the small and delectable streets that nestle under the aristocratic skirts of Nob Hill. Miss Berdan'is a blonde of a pronounced type, with hair almost flaxen. If a- .natures mv regular, and have boon .....kL mio. Her hands are

snub;, wlm.c, ar.n Wen-mrs:i.-.. • is mild ami quiet, Mllier than n • **nd belligerent. Miss Lewis is a ‘'decided brunette, with sparkling eyes peeping out from under a tangled_ fringe of jet black hair. She is lithe or figure, and her arms are long. She seems inclined to bo belligerent and slightly vicious, Her conversation is snappy and energetic. Hie terms of the contest areas follows Wo, the undersigned, Mellie Berdan and Jessie Lewis, do agree to meet in a glove contest to compete for a purse of 250 dollars, the one displaying tho most science and endurance to be awarded the purse. Mellie Berdan, Jessie Lewis. Witnessed : Billy Jordan, Billy Uiley.