When Boxing was Big in Butte, Montana Prior to World War I, prizefighting in the United States was controversial. Preachers denounced it from their pulpits and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...