RE: ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM FIGHT

[Pj Enright <java@pacbell.net>]

Darren Tanke wrote:
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>  8. QUARRY 75, DPP. In my last posting I noted having relocated an old
> Barnum Brown quarry. I'm still unable to find a date for this quarry, though
> we know it is dated just prior to WW I and up to about 1916. Can any of you
> help solve a mystery? Paleontology is like detective work and I have some
> clues to work from. In the quarry was some very old newspaper fragments. How
> they survived Alberta's climate I have no idea, but there they were. A
> partial story on one of these newspaper fragments relates to an upcoming
> heavyweight boxing match between a FRANK MORAN and a BOB (or ROB) MARTIN,
> scheduled for JULY 1st. I figure the chances of these 2 men fighting on the
> same day in seperate years highly unlikely. Can anyone on the list find out
> the year of this fight for me? Any boxing trivia fans out there? I've tried
> the internet without success and due to software problems, I cannot access
> relevant chat groups. Once I know the year of this boxing match, I can more
> confidently date the age of the quarry, and then go through Brown's field
> notes for that year and by process of elimination, narrow down to what was
> actually taken from that quarry (other than simply "a hadrosaur" as per my
> last update). My gut feeling is that the quarry is 1915, but a date for the
> July 1 MORAN/MARTIN fight would settle the matter once and for all. I'd be
> grateful for any input on this. Please reply offline. If I get the answer I
> need, I'll bring everyone up to speed on this situation in my next update,
> or, if I get an answer right away, I'll post something in the next day or two.
> 
>  Darren Tanke
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> Darren Tanke
> Technician I, Dinosaur Research Program
> Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Box 7500
> Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. T0J 0Y0
>

Bob Martin KO'd Frank Moran on July 12, 1921.

Pj Enright

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