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THE CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT BETWEEN HEENAN AND SAYERS, ON APRIL 17 1860
Jack Macdonald - Filly Mulligan - Joseph Cusick - The "Benicia" Boy - Thomas Sayers - Morrissey - Jeremy Welsh - Harry Bruston
From a sketch by our artist, Thomas Nast Esq. Engraved by A.V.S.Anthony on board the "Vanderbilt" on her return passage.
(Reproduced from double page --- in the New York Illustrated News).

Another contemporary view of the match.

Note how all the audience - even those on the near side of the fight - face the artist


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