the end of the round with both men clinching, the total score was 52 for Mace and 32 for Davis. It was a convincing win for Mace who landed more blows, but Davis showed well against a top-rated opponent. At the age of fifty-eight, on 7 February 1890, he fought a match with the much younger boxer Charlie Mitchell of Birmingham in Glasgow, Scotland for the vacant English heavyweight title, but lost in four rounds. Exhibitions As Mace rose to become the British champion he supplemented his income with exhibition work in the popular Victorian travelling circuses, becoming a circus proprietor himself for a short time. Most notably, he toured Lancashire with Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal in the late summer and autumn of 1861—Fanque being England's first black circus proprietor. Fanque was later honoured in the Beatles song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" In the summer of 1870, he gave three-round exhibitions in New Jersey and New York with American champion Joe Coburn. In 1878–79, Mace had as many as 30 three-round exhibition exhibitions with John Thompson in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and two with the Australian champion he had mentored, Larry Foley. These exhibitions, fought with gloves, paved the way for the worldwide acceptance of gloved boxing, and eventually the newer Queensberry Rules which required new gloves for each boxer. In 1882 he toured New Zealand where he discovered future world heavyweight champion Bob Fitzsimmons. With the help of his protégé, Australian champion Larry Foley, he schooled a generation of mostly Australian boxers, including the Caribbean-born Peter Jackson, multiple-weight-class champion, British-born Bob Fitzsimmons, and Young Griffo. In 1883, he returned to America as manager of the New Zealander Herbert Slade. He toured extensively with Slade in exhibitions in the latter half of 1882 in New Zealand and in the first half of 1883, first in New York, and then back in England. Around 1885, he performed a benefit with his close friend and boxing partner Bill Clark in New York. On 10 February 1883, Mace returned to England after the death of his son Edward Albert from drowning in the Thames, and resumed his English exhibitions by April of that year with Herbert Slade. In 1884, he performed English exhibitions with Ed Smith and Jack Smith and toured England with exhibitions against Jack Knifton and Charlie Mitchell from 1886 to 1887. He continued to fight the occasional exhibition