NOON

Jeremiah , the a umed name of John Calvin. b. London 5 June 1829; employed in Calvert’s brewery; pugilist 5 feet 8 inches in height and 9 stone 4 pounds in weight; beat Young Greek 1849 and Wm. Gray 1849; beat J. Hazeltine £50 a side, 86 rounds in 3 hours and 12 minutes at Frimley 16 April 1850; fought a drawn battle with James Ma ey £100 a side, 88 rounds in 3 hours at Dean Wilts hire 19 Nov. 1850; beat Hazeltine again £50 a side, 78 rounds in 3 hours and 10 minutes at Long Reach 17 Aug. 1852; beat George Lane £100 a side, 21 rounds in 44 minutes at Long Reach 5 April 1853; beat Plantage net Green the Black £50 a side, 34 rounds in 82 minutes at Half-way House 7 Jany. 1854; fought Wm. Barry £100 a side, 16 rounds in 90 minutes at Shell Haven 1 Dec 1854, they renewed the fight 23 Dec. when the referee declared it a drawn battle; was second to John Jones in his fight with Mike Madden at Long Reach 11 Dec. 1855, when Jones was killed, Noon was tried for manslaughter at Maid stone 14 March 1856 and acquitted; called Jerry or young Noon after Anthony Noon, the pugilist, who was killed by Owen Swift in a fight 26 June 1834; second of Tom King in his fight with James Mace 28 Jany. 1862. d. of consumption in St. George’s hospital, London 1 Aug. 1871. bur. Tooting cemet. 5 Aug. John Hannen’s British Boxing (1851) 32–3; Illust. sporting news iii 449 (1864) portrait .