THE CHINA MAIL OCTOBER 15, 1938.
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"Hell Cat" Elsie Mackinnon be- Elsie Mackinnon, once famous came famous. When she was throughout the Middle Western forty-one she had made enough States of America as the "female money' to retire. boxing wonder," has died at the age of eighty, in her New York home.
"TERROR" AT 60
But even when she was sixty she was feared in the East Side, New York, street where she lived.
The sight of the tall, closely-
Married at the age of seventeen to a small-time professional boxer, Elsie was widowed before she was twenty when her husband died of the injuries he received in a bare-cropped, grey-haired woman, with knuckle, fight which lasted four and a-half hours.
Elsie was certain that she could easily beat the man who caused. the death of her husband.
She assumed a man's name and challenged the boxer. When he accepted she began her training by aparring with bare fists against a sack of potatoes slung from the ceiling of her home.........
her broken nose and cauliflower ears, marching down the street was enough to. quieten any of the gangs of toughs who fought there.
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When the news of her death be- came known last week, hundreds of wreaths arrived at the little New York, house from towns where she' had battled forty years before.
The fight took place at Provi-2 MORE MOONS OF
dence, New Mexico. It was ad- vertised as a bare-knuckle fight to be fought to a finish with a maxi- mum time limit of six hours."
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Elsie was cheered when she en- tered the ring with her hair crop- ped close and wearing the Silk
knee-breeches and fancy shirt ́ad- opted by professional boxers of the last century.
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U.S. OBSERVATORY'S DISCOVERY
News was received in London last month from the Harvard Ob- servatory, Massachusetts, United