Got it...The Sign of Four.
 
"Very sorry, Mr. Thaddeus," said the porter inexorably.
"Folk may be friends o' yours, and yet no friend o' the master's.
He pays me well to do my duty, and my duty I'll do. I don't
know none o' your friends."
  "Oh, yes you do, McMurdo," cried Sherlock Holmes ge-
nially. "I don't think you can have forgotten me. Don't you
remember that amateur who fought three rounds with you at
Alison's rooms on the night of your benefit four years back?"
  "Not Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" roared the prize-fighter. "God's
truth! how could I have mistook you? If instead o' standin' there
so quiet you had just stepped up and given me that cross-hit of
yours under the jaw, I'd ha' known you without a question. Ah,
you're one that has wasted your gifts, you have! You might have aimed high, if
you had joined the fancy."

Sridhar

--- On Sun, 12/21/08, sridhar C <cs_gollum@...> wrote:

From: sridhar C <cs_gollum@...>
Subject: Re: [sherlock holmes society of india] Re: Sherlock Holmes new movie
To: SherlockHolmesSocietyofIndia@...
Date: Sunday, December 21, 2008, 7:43 AM






Dear Sumal and other Holmesians,
 
I am quite sure there is mention of a bout in another adventure where Holmes is
being threatened by a guy with a broken nose (or it could be "cauliflower" ears,
or maybe both) who later reminds Holmes how he had defeated the latter in the
2nd (or it could be the 3rd round) a few years back.
 
 
Sridhar

--- On Tue, 12/16/08, sumalsn <no_reply@yahoogroup s.co.in> wrote:

From: sumalsn <no_reply@yahoogroup s.co.in>
Subject: [sherlock holmes society of india] Re: Sherlock Holmes new movie
To: SherlockHolmesSocie tyofIndia@ yahoogroups. co.in
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 5:29 PM

Dear Holmes,
I think there is a boxing bout in a public inn" The Solitary
cyclist, in addition to what you have said
Sumalsn

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