National Sporting Club
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The National Sporting Club was a private members' sporting club founded in London on 5 March 1891 by John Fleming and Arthur Frederick Bettinson. Operating from premises at 43 King Street, Covent Gard
The Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII) congratulates Jimmy Wilde at the National Sporting Club, 31 March 1919
Sketch of a National Sporting Club audience, 1897
"Peggy": caricature of Arthur Frederick Bettinson published in Vanity Fair, 22 November 1911
Illustration of the contest between Peter Jackson and Frank Slavin at the National Sporting Club, 30 May 1892
Pat O'Keeffe
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Pat O'Keeffe was a British professional boxer became the British champion in both the welterweight and middleweight weight classes. His professional career spanned the years between 1902 and 1918. In
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…should receive compensation. Harding describes championship belt holders, especially serving men, as patriotic symbols during the war. He records that Pat O'Keeffe undertook recruiting and that his trainer recalled the cry, "Join the army and you'll be a champion like me!" The NSC positioned itself as a "playground…
O'Keeffe in a 1908 press photograph
O'Keeffe instructing troops in boxing at Camberwell during the First World War