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| Former Boxing Champion And | camp an evangelist. on April 27. ■! Ci»n**trr to Prrarli Ilcro Sunlt;l.«v 1925.—- About 1920 Joe left IndianamdV 111■lit wei where h lend of A! {I )cc-r baron ■« While hr‘i ticipatcd inlt; 1 ‘s and hold vous with |•s men. He Irni s «oii-fhim andHohe■f*1kn*»c it eh;his crown n He knockedury and toe pe-twenticth.• than 300 of these touts. He became mpion and held 1000 until 1903. it Battling Nelson during the first round in seven different fights. Once he fought j 100 rounds with Jack McClelland,; a widely known lightweight.Other ring notables to test | Perccnic’s metal were Kid McCoy. Bobby Walden and Joe Oans whom he fought in Chicago. One of his triumphs was the knockout over Pedlar Palmer, the great English heavyweight.At the close of his boxing career Joe dropped into Indiana shortly after prohibition and set up one of the fastest and most efficient bootlegging organizations of that period.His gang was one of the toughest of the Ohio river and he became notorious for his bootlegging. It was in Indiana that Joe gained his reputation of a “tough guy’* and a gangster, and it was in the same state thut, several years later, he reformed and bc-tho (»uni;bcvLorIIfC i ll,f theI States. In he was con-to neai iv ^ lt;at a single meeting.The Rev. Joe Percent* is close 70 years of age. his fatherwas Italian and French and his; mother was a fullblooded Cherokee Indian. He has two children, the older being Frank Percenterwho has been director of athletics at the University of Illinois.
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Sikeston Standard
Sikeston, Missouri, US
Fri, Jun 11, 1937
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