Sport: Match-Seeker
In San Francisco is a pugilist looking for a fight. Age, 21. Weight, 147. Height, 5 ft. 7 in. Nationality, Mexican. Sex, female. Her nose is slightly askew; otherwise she shows no marks of her profession.
Senorita Carmen Lucia de la Rosa, after presenting credentials to show that she was a regular ring-woman in Mexico, besought San Francisco promoters to arrange a fight with any man or woman of her weight. But in San Francisco, women are not even permitted to be spectators at a bout.
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