Every Joe Gans Lightweight Title Fight – Part 9: Jimmy Britt There is no difference between a white man and a colored man when they are...
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...
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...
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...
The lightninglike character of the defeat struck consternation into the hearts of the thousand Erne men at the ringside. They were dumfounded. Their champion had met...