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Billy Yeager
| BORN |
Fought out of
New York, New York |
| WEIGHT |
135-150 lbs |
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1886
Dec 14 George "Nut" Hagen
Camden, NJ
ND 7
Dec 23 Nitchie Golden
Philadelphia, Pa
ND
1889
Jan 31 Jack Lynch
Philadelphia, Pa
ND
Feb Paddy Duffy
Boston, Ma
SCH
-This bout
was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Feb 4 George "Nut" Hagen
Philadelphia, Pa
ND
Mar 4
-Yeager was considering traveling with a company about the country
to spar
Mar 25 George "Nut" Hagen
Philadelphia, Pa
EX
Jul 18
Walter Campbell Philadelphia, Pa EX
Sep 14 Jimmy Mitchell
Philadelphia, Pa
EX 3
-Was the
verdict "ND 3" ?
Oct 1 Jimmy Mitchell
Philadelphia, Pa SCH
-This bout
was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Oct 31 Jimmy Mitchell
Philadelphia, Pa
EX
Nov 11 Walter Campbell
Philadelphia, Pa SCH
-This bout
was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Nov 25 Fred Woods
Philadelphia, Pa
ND 6
Nov 27 Jimmy Mitchell
Philadelphia, Pa SCH
-This bout
was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Dec 21 Walter Campbell
Philadelphia, Pa
EX 3
Dec 23 Walter Campbell
Philadelphia, Pa
ND
1890
Jan 6 George "Nut" Hagen
Philadelphia, Pa
SCH
-This bout
was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Jan 13 Walter Campbell
Philadelphia, Pa
ND
Mar 7 Walter Campbell
Philadelphia, Pa SCH
-This bout
was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Jul 24
-Yeager was scheduled to appear in Lebanon, Pa
1891
Feb 25 John Stannard
Wilmington, De
ND
Jun 8
Jimmy Mitchell Philadelphia, Pa SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Dec 12
Fred Woods Philadelphia, Pa SCH
-This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
1892
May 24 Frank Myers
Philadelphia, Pa
SCH
-This bout
was scheduled; The outcome is not known
1893
Jun 14
-Philadelphia (Pa) Times reported that Yeager struck George W.
Glover
with a cane during
an attempted robbery; Yeager was apprehended;
Glover was in
danger of dying
1894
Mar 3
-Yeager seconded George Siddons vs Danny Russell in Bridgeport, Ct
Aug 27
-Yeager seconded Al O'Brien vs
Charles "Rough House" Burns in New York, NY
Oct 10
-Yeager was paralyzed in his right arm and side with an attack of
pleurisy
1895
Mar 8 Jerome Quigley
Philadelphia, Pa
SCH
-This bout
was scheduled; The outcome is not known
May 3
-Judge Bregy sentenced Yeager to two years in the Eastern
Penitentiary
for assault and
battery on George W. Glover
*** The Following Bouts Are Reported But Not Confirmed ***
Undated
Jack "Bubbles" Davis
L 4
1889
May Stewart
near Canton, Oh
ND 5
-Police
intervened; Perhaps, it was a different "Yeager" who fought Stewart
1892
Dec 14 Fred Morris
Philadelphia, Pa LK 2
-Billy Yeager (white) denied he fought this bout; The Philadelphia
(Pa) Times
reports the Yeager
who opposed Morris in this bout was a
black man
Dec Paddy Gorman
D
-Reportedly,
this bout was held during Nov-Dec 1892
1893
Nov 30 Joe Butler
L 4
*** Much
Data Was Provided By Luckett Davis ***
Review courtesy of
Tracy Callis, Historian, International Boxing
Research Organization
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