Female Boxers.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2934, 26 June 1888, Page 3

Female Boxers.

Concerning the Amazonian proclivif.ties of our ancestresses, which we had occasion to refer to the other week, we came across another curious illustration recently in another old newspaper, from which it would appear that the public defiances between persons of the sofi sex .some hundred and liity yeais n»o won; as common us chiillnnges among the heroes of the P.R. were during the early years of the present century, The paragraph just referred to runs us follows: "Ad Mr Stokes' Ampithoatre in Islington road, this present Monday, being the 7th day of October, 1731, will be a comploto boxing match between the t'qg following championesses: 1 Challenge : Whereas I, Ann Field, of Stoko Newington, ass driver, wellknown for my abilities in boxing in my own defence whenever it happened in my way, having ken affronted by Mrs Stokes, styled the European cbampioness, do fairly invite her to a trial of her best skill in boxing for £lO, fair rise and fall, and question not but to give her such proofs of my judgment as shall oblige her to •acknowledge me ehampionwa of the stage to the entire satisfaction of all my friends. 1 " The answer to this delianco was couched in the following terms: "I, Elizabeth Stokes, of the City of London, have not fought this way since I fought the famous boxing woman of Billingsgate, twenty-soven minutes, and gained ut complote victory which is six years ago; hut as the famous Stoke Newington ass woman dares me to fight her for the £lO,l do assure her I will not fail meeting her for the said sum, and doubt not that the blows I shall present her with will be more dillicult for her to digest than any she ever gave her asses." We are sorry to say we have not been ahlo to trace whether the " ass woman" or the victress of Billingsgate was the conqueror.—Lyttelton Times.