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The Croxley Master: A Great Tale Of The Prize Ring

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .It was the publican who spoke.

Montgomery obeyed. He would learn all about it, no doubt, if he were patient. He stood up and turned slowly round, as if in front of his tailor.

"It's off! It's off!" cried the horsebreaker. "Why, mon, the Master would break him over his knee."

"Oh, that behanged for a yarn!" said the young Cantab. "You can drop out if you like, Fawcett, but I'll see this thing through, if I have to do it alone. I don't hedge a penny. I like the cut of him a great deal better than I liked Ted Barton."

"Look at Barton's shoulders, Mr. Wilson."

"Lumpiness isn't always strength. Give me nerve and fire and breed. That's what wins."

"Ay, sir, you have it theer—you have it theer!" said the fat, red-faced publican, in a thick, suety voice. "It's the same wi' poops. Get 'em clean-bred an' fine, and they'll yark the thick 'uns—yark 'em out o' their skins."

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Community Reviews

The Croxley Master or The Master of Croxley as my edition had it, and what I prefer, is a short and effective boxing tale by the literary master most known for his excellent Sherlock Holmes stories. I liked this one, even though I have little interest in the sport it so evocatively captures. It's ve

The Croxley Master is the first in a collection of short stories by Conan Doyle "Tales from the Ring and the Camp". I own a John Murray compendium edition of six volumes of short stories. Some years ago, in 1967, the BBC broadcast excellent dramatisations of some of these stories, and the Croxley Ma

Boring details of the old fights

This is not the sort of story I usually read but I have decided that I need to start reading all those other books I've picked up along the way to be read someday.
What a fun, fast-paced and interesting story about a medical assistant who has no hope of coming up with the money for his final year of

Boring details of the old fights