Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Roosevelt That I Know: Ten Years of Boxing With the President and Other Memories of Famous Fighting Men
Mike Donovan's ring record is one that any champion, including the greatest of modern times, might be proud of, for it includes bruis ing battles with' men of the foremost ring posi tions. His encounters with John L. Sullivan, Walter Watson, mcclellan, George Roche and Jack Dempsey were of the most astonishing character, and his match with Jack Dempsey, then the phenomenal champion, caused quite a commotion among the swell set in the East, for the old man, as Mike Donovan was called, simply astonished them by besting the crack champion, who was quite a young man in com parison with his rival. This engagement with Dempsey was the crowning feather in the pro fessor's scientific fighting cap, and the members of the New York Athletic Club, who, almost to.
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