![]() The heavy weight title bout took place on Main Carson City, Nevada, which legalized boxing specifically to host this fight, beginning the long and storied relationship between the Silver State and the sweet science. ![]() A five frame fragment is held the National Media Museum in the UK, and approximately 19 minutes are available for viewing, but OCLC locates no fragments in institutions. ![]() Though fragments such as this survive, the film in its entirety is considered lost. At over 100 minutes, the film is the first feature length release anywhere, and, with an aspect ratio of 1.65:1, the first widescreen film ever produced. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch, while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of the ring about to trade punches. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. Bartlett (1850-1926), Vermejo Park, N.M., famous turn of the century grain speculator known as the "Wheat King Of The World," with his custom engraved bookplate on the front pastedown. Lavishly bound in three-quarter red levant morocco with marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titles and decorations, gilt top edges, and marbled endpapers. Includes a closing chapter on the obsolete British sports of cudgeling, backswording, and singlestick. Much discussion of early types of swords, such as Two-Hand Sword, Rapier Foil, Dagger Foil, Stiletto, Flamberge, Small Sword, Falchion, and Broadsword, with their uses illustrated by accounts of famous fights from the history of combat, legendary duels, private quarrels, public feuds, and prize fights. A detailed history of swordplay tracing the sword and its use from the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries. Grant Richards, London, 1901 First Edition 8vo, 367 pages illustrated.
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