Underground Prize Fight Scheduled Outside Seattle
Welterweights Charley Hall and Tommy Flynn have signed articles for a secret, high-stakes bout featuring bare-knuckle aesthetics and two-ounce gloves.
Articles have been signed for a finish go between Charley Hall, known as the Chicago Butcher Boy, and Tommy Flynn, now of this city, to take place on or about the first of November, at some point within 100 miles of Seattle. Both men are welterweights and will fight at catchweights under rules with two-ounce gloves. Hall has quite a reputation throughout Puget Sound. Of Flynn little is known, but a great deal is expected from him. The fight will be for $250 a side and in private, each man being restricted to ten spectators.
“The fight will be for $250 a side and in private, each man being restricted to ten spectators.”
In an era when boxing was frequently policed and suppressed, organizers held private matches in remote locations to bypass the law. This echoes the long history of 'vice' and underground nightlife that flourished in Seattle's shadows, away from the watchful eyes of city authorities.
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