Just found nostalgic story reporting the Boston fight between the 42-year-old Sullivan and Joe Thomas, age 35, which was held Feb. 19, 1921. Both had fought the great Stanley Ketchel in earlier days, in fact Thomas went 20 rounds to a draw the first time he met Ketchel.
Anyhow, Sullivan and Thomas first met in January, 1908 (verified in old Ring encyclopedias) but this one was not in our data base until today when I inserted it.
Ring Record Books give different dates--1/21/1908 and 1/31/1908 so anyone can correct the date that I used if he has better info. Thanks.