Today we look at a first for the sport of boxing. On May 24, 1901 at Toronto, Ontario the first title fight to held in Canada took place between welterweights James "Rube" Ferns of Kansas and William "Matty" Matthews of New York. It was the third time that the two fighters had met for the championship in the past year. The two fighters had split their last two meetings in Detroit.
At the time this bout was held, Matthews held the title going in but, lost it when he suffered a 10th round knockout. It was the last time that Matthews would fight a title fight. The fighters would fight three more times before their careers ended. Ferns fought his last fight in 1906 and Matthews fought one fight after that in 1908. Matthews died in 1948 and Ferns in 1952.
Tomorrow we will look at a high scoring game in Womens Basketball.
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