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DONNELLY AND COOPER ON THE CURRAGH.
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tive value in Sayers' life to his countrymen, no matter what objection may be made to prize-fighting.

Sayers proved that a small man can easily defeat a big and heavy one by skill, pluck, and endurance. He was five feet eight and a half inches in height, and a hundred and fifty pounds

UPPER-CUT—OLD-FASHIONED.

in weight; but the "Tipton Slasher," who was six feet one inch in height, and two hundred and five pounds in weight, and a good boxer, was a mere child in his hands.

And when Sayers fought John C. Heenan for