Mixed Matches in the Past – February 29, 1916

HELEN HILDRETH, the Lady Pugilist, was having the best of it in a MIXED FIGHT with Johnny Atkinsson, when the POLICE and BOXING COMMISSION Fred Wenck jumped into the RING and ORDERED the stop to fight!  – Grupp’s Gym, N.Y.C.

In another publication, they reported the following HILDRETH:   Tonight, the vaudeville that was the  talk of the town last Miss Helen Hildreth,  the boxing girl, will fight in a three-round bout, assisted by assisted by John Atkinson in “Fighting” It Out.” This young lady is the only girl  who ever defeated a man in a prize ring.   Publication:  Middletown Daily  Times – May 6, 1916, page four.