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INTRODUCTION
especially to Dr. Francis A. Harris, of Boston, for his invaluable paper on the physiology of athletic training; to the Boston Herald, for its enterprising publication of the article on boxing, the plates of which The Herald generously presented to me; to my friend, John Donoghue, the sculptor, for permission to engrave his great statute of "The Boxer;" and to the Editor of Outing, for the use of several illustrations from that interesting magazine.
John Boyle O'Reilly.
