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Old 08-17-2010, 09:54 PM
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It has been asked in another thread about the Gordon Sisters. During the last part of the 19th Century and the first decade of the 20th, the Gordon Sisters were a well known vaudeville act. Their act consisted of a staged boxing match, and also featured "fancy bag punching" Thomas Edison capatured a piece of their stage act. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPG0na-Aemk

Sadly, the bag punching part of it wasn't filmed. Personally I don't know if it ever was. I have read copies of reviews in issues of Variety of their act. They usually more than pleased their audiences. One of the sisters, Belle, is featured in one of the bag punching instructional books of the era (maybe one of the Spaudling books, not positive at the moment).
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Another excellent find Dutchman.

Outside the spins, that didn't look to staged to me. Whilst they might have been light hearted blows, to me it did look like they were going for it.
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The booklet that has the pics of Belle is one of the Fox books " Boxing and How to Train" originally published in 1913. It's available on line free in a pdf format.
The Gordon Sisters were a fixture in the vaudeville houses on Coney Island during the era prior to the great Dreamland fire of Memorial Day 1911. The Island was not quite the same after that.
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The booklet that has the pics of Belle is one of the Fox books " Boxing and How to Train" originally published in 1913. It's available on line free in a pdf format.
Do you have a link?

I have her book "Physical Culture for Women" which has several floor bag photos and a side (wall) bag pic as well as some other non-bagging pictures of her. Unfortunately, my copy is missing the last plate, don't know which bag photo that would have been, plus all the ads are missing.
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This is where I found it.
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperbac...-train/4325249
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