New York Clipper: Sporting News Broadside. 17 x 23" [sight] broadside from The Clipper circa 1860 announcing various items of "sporting news," including a "great sculling match" featuring championship rower Joshua Ward, and the proposed visit of English bare-knuckle prize fighter Tom Sayers to the U.S., when he will spar with John Heenan in the "fight of the century." The New York Clipper, later shortened to The Clipper, was the first American paper entirely devoted to entertainment, and the first to prominently report on sports, covering chess, boxing, sculling, football, and baseball. Framed, 32 x 26". 

Toned and soiled with several stains and scattered water damage. Not examined out of frame.