Preliminaries to the big bout

Bellows, George, 1882-1925 · 1916

For the first time in New York prize-fight history, many fashionable women appeared in the audience. (Bellows) / Society attends a big fight at Madison Square Garden, New York. -GB Though considered one of the prize fight group, the emphasis in "Preliminaries to the Big Bout" is on the extraordinary presence of affluent women, rather than on the action in the ring. (Mason)