Luther McCarty “is the embodiment of all that goes to make a ring champion, the possessor of speed, hitting ability, an aptitude for learning the finer...
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...
It is the night of September ninth 1899 and Pedlar Palmer is dreaming of home, the pattering of rain against New York glass carrying him back,...
Thomas Hauser’s Literary Notes Clay Moyle is 65 years old and has written biographies of Sam Langford, Billy Miske, and Tony Zale. He has also collected...
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...
In olden days, many boxers were drawn from the ranks of newsboys. The newsboy boxer was a staple of so-called smokers during the early decades of...
BOOK REVIEW by THOMAS HAUSER — George Dixon was boxing’s first Black world champion. “For a decade leading into the twentieth century,” Jason Winders writes, “few...
Jere Dunn was a referee of some importance during the late nineteenth century, a period when professional boxing was in flux as the modern Queensberry rules...
The black champion walked to his corner at once and began preparations for departure while McPartland was still struggling against fate on the floor. – The...