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A Sunday Prize Fight

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  • Title: A Sunday Prize Fight
  • Date: 6 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01162
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 6 September 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Thara Michaelis Brandi Faulkner Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "A Sunday Prize Fight." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01162.xml (TEI)
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A SUNDAY PRIZE FIGHT.—

A prize fight occurred yesterday afternoon,1 in a field back of Hudson City, some two or three miles from the Hoboken ferry, between a couple of bruisers, named Tom Hubbard, a New York boatman, and Sitterly, alias “Schenectady Boy,” a gentleman that resides in Williamsburgh and “does nothing” for a living. The latter has considerable reputation as a rough-and-tumble bruiser, but has never before been pitted. The parties fought 18 rounds, it is said, in “handsome style,” when Schenectady Boy was declared winner. Hubbard was badly punished about the face and eyes, and will not be presentable in society for some time to come. Schenectady Boy escaped face marks, but received some heavy blows on the neck and body.

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