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62 Only six races or nations have produced natural boxers,—the Greeks, the Jews, the Negroes, the English, the Irish, and the Americans.

Within a century, the Jewish race has sent out some famous boxers; among them Daniel Medoza, once champion of England; and "Barney" Aaron, one of the best men of his time,—1819–34. There have also been many leading Negro boxers, the first of whom was Molyneaux, a contemporary of Donnelly in the last century.

But the greatest boxers since the classic days of Greece are the modern men of England and Ireland, and their descendants in America. And the latest are the greatest.

No English champion, up to his time, ever equalled Tom Sayers, who was a mighty man in the ring from 1846 to 1863. There was a