Wine and nightlife stalked Terry McGovern through the middle years of the first decade of the 1900s and as its grip on him tightened so the...
Terry McGovern: The Year of the Butcher – Part Two, The Dixon of Old “They used to say,” wrote The Washington Times, some years after McGovern’s...
One wouldn’t have thought that holding a big fight on a Thanksgiving would be a smart idea. True, many workers get the next day off and...
Gans is a wonderful fighter, but his showing in his fights during the last five months indicates that he has gone back to some extent. –...
Color ought not to cut any figure in the ring so long as a man is willing to do his best. – Joe Gans As 1903...
Where did you get this fellow? – Joe Gans, November 14 1902. I have embarked upon some difficult projects over the past thirteen years writing about...
Gans left the ring without a scratch – The Brooklyn Eagle, 25th July, 1902. Rufe Turner was a puncher. Between the dawn of the twentieth century...
This was the seventh meeting of the rival lightweights. In all previous ones McFadden held his own, making a brave stand against the colored wonder. Since...
Joe Gans of Baltimore lost the confidence and respect of the sporting public last night by deliberately quitting in the twelfth round of the bout with...
If asked to name the first big international prizefight on American soil, most boxing historians would name the 1921 match between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier,...