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1893-02-05 Picnic Grounds Dance Pavilion, Nameoki, Illinois, US

• Harry Sharpe W TKO Frank Crosby

Source for the result: The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL (2-6-1893, p. 6). Source for a preview of the card: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO (2-5-1893, p.11). Purse: $500 + 75% of the gate receipts, amounting to $1500. This was a clandestine bout for the lightweight championship of Illinois. Attendees took a special train for St. Louis to a destination not announced in advance. Madison County authorities prosecuted the boxers, who were subsequently jailed for about a year in Edwardsville, IL, for the crime of prizefighting. For more on the prosecution and imprisonment of the boxers, see St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO (10-30-1893, p. 8); (11-25-1893, p. 10); and (3-4-1915).