The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

First Grand Fete of the Muscular Christians [from the New York Herald, August 14]

"First Grand Fete of the Muscular Christians [from the New York Herald, August 14]." New-York Saturday Press, August 18, 1860, 4.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

A renowned bare knuckled boxer, John Heenan, called the representative of the "muscular Christians" has a large festival thrown in his honor and is awarded a large sum of money.