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| An un-named Pocklington youth had a boxing match at Quarry Hill in the York Road near Leeds with a Lancashire lad for a £5 a side wager match. There were 20 rounds and the fight lasted and hour and eighteen minutes and the Pocklington "Canny Lad" was declared the winner. From: Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, Sunday March 14 1841 |
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