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J Iff Al ^Anilau id jiiaic vi vuuuBoxers In Days Gone ByBY BOH BUCHANEmmetsburg-Eme Slater wrote, asking for stories os boxing, and I began to remember...Sars Dineen... Rocky Adams... joe Goeders.. Red Jackman... Francis Brady... Veni Trickle... and ever so many others.Boxing Illustrated, an international periodical devoted to the gentle art of break-busting will soon carry an article telling of the many top-flight boxers who have appeared in northwest Iowa; more than any spot on the globe of equal population..Bat let’s start witfc. Emmets-burg’s contribution to the manly' art- ■Rocky . Adams, a tall heavyweight, once stopped Ralph Alexander, the Waterloo fireman, who claimed the heavyweight title of Iowa. Later Rocky worked out with the famous Manas-jsa^MauIer in Chicago. .Aad, If you’re a fan with aspot of grey -m your bMr, you Lee Ramage on the west coast, and bis torrid battles with EmE Morrow aad Jack Phillips still live in memory,:• And Vem Trickle of Graettm-ger, a burly hard hitter' who scorned the more scientific moves. He lasted 5 cantos with Buddy Baer in Sheldon some 35 years ago,, boxed johnny Pay~. ehek in Speaeer, and never took -a. backward step regardless of the opponent 'And Barney HasseL He lasted the scheduled distance with Har- • xy Thomas, a legitimate heavy-‘ THE FAMED BAER BROTH£RS~Atithor Buchan puSed this photo from his file of dayswhen he was hobnobicg with the boxers. From the; left is Buddy Baer, Jack Phillips, Max Baer, Buchh and Dooley Wagner. *•.’weight challenger and. lost to Vera Trickle hi Qraettinger when Goeders Boxed Johnny Miler of Alhia who had won' immortality by dropping Joe Louis 7 times la the simon pure ranks.Ana how many recall; when Johnny Harris fought Artie SMre in Emmetsburg • back in the Hosting Twenties...? And there was dandle Pettit, who started.s;:.it'-i l‘L'- : •- - •iHm■■mmr, • :» s •rtsTHE AUTHOR S^tJAitESoff with Two-fon ^nyGalento. 'Hehry-Wmterboet is .at the left- and Ed Bdehan, formerly of Palo AltoCounty is in the background.in St. Mary’s gymnasium’. Later his faMIy was often, seen on television singing their hearts but to the great pleasure of listeh-ers.But did you know that Say Brqnsoh of Webster Gity beat the great jack Billon, the Hoos-ier Bearcat hack in 1909...? And fought another great bout with Dillon in 1910. And beat Jack' Britton in New Orleans that year and went ifi serous with Britton 10 years later in Cedar Point, Ohio,. And if. you remember : BiEy Petrolle, theFargo- Express, you. may not know he fought some pf first battles id-Sioux City; And; did you, know that town produced King Tut, Buzz Griffith and. his better known: heavyweight brother, Gerald Ambrbse ‘Tufiy’ Griffith? And. Davie Montrose, bom in Russia, started his career In Sioux City against .Earl- MacArthur and Earl, Puryear, top-fii$it bantams? And, as Newsboy Brown, Montrose lost in 15 cantos to-Corporal hay. Swartz ^ for ffieworld- .the■ELpcund._.diampilt;»ahip^ thf'Or-ient.' .....Sioux FaBs, South Dakota,' produced .some good men in Ai Van. Ryan* Russia LeRoy. ;anft Buddy. McDonald. - Jctony'Martin came from. Larchwood, jcp wa, aid, although a southpaw, fought' some good welterweights back .in'the 1930’s. ••••.•.' M'vTerril, Iowa, gave us Cliff Perry, hard hitting and muscu-• ? ■■■’:'W4y~■?i#; -■.• PK ' .s^lsjsfeSsisgg^^^ssiJACK-v BHILUPR .looked - -like-thiSrWhen -he:falt;^Rm-metsirorg’s Joe Goeders.lar heavyweight, and Skinny Sellar, a crowd pleasing HI pounder.And remember the programs in Electric Park, Waterloo; There Earl BEbIou RoJ-ger, Hard Oil Lehr, and_ the three Shipp brothers, A3,' Joe, and Fife were popular. : Spencer produced Wyman Swezey ' who fought the. top flight little fellows including Britt Gorman and Freddie Penn. And, although he started in. Algeria,. Jack Phillips often headlined cards id Spencer.. And there was Everett Strong, a middleweight who beat Bert Colima and Jock Malone.No, Ernie, I haven’t forgotten, but boxing is almost a forgotten sport But now the gcwernof has signed the bill making 15 found bohts legal in Iowa, we can look forward to a resurrection of boxing. 'There’s liff in the old game yet as long as Old Timers remember...
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Emmetsburg Reporter
Emmetsburg, Iowa, US
Tue, Aug 18, 1970
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