Exhibition Work
As Mace rose to become the British champion he supplemented his income with exhibition work in the popular Victorian traveling circuses, even 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 fall of 1861—Fanque being England's first black circus proprietor and later immortalised in The Beatles song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"
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