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| Former Boxing C hampion And | came an evangelist, on April 27,11 C. imlcr lo Preach Here Sunday . 1025.About 1020 JewReJoe IVnd .1 |left Indiana; iffO where he friend of AJ! i beer gbaton{lt; \ While hc't lartlclpflted in I res and held t lezvous with j i hen men HeMil ISt, IV tk’eit. . incident cns * his life anW i 1 anK!PelitRoosevelt's eye. a fact tlU i.n wfi.cji* cii' fljHi At iiiici I1 i 1 lt;« 1 itr ]deposit, a* in bnnklt; r wr* i inda ftill 1 I ' r. ’ • “•VIwhere hed g. mbSvr hi wan roiil!the\; ev list Billy !w.t* ti’Ugti rt'i’l m.ii.'i-| supremacy both in the |p hS . ear i :eif■) i fe, and |shortly afterwa Percent's cmiward he attend ing conducted and was cofftfc Hlt; entered a,lt; j i*i -'ii'iPllig ,ifi*l !!(*■ activities. He fought1 and git ado dt im-olhs later amickle battles in the]t'xistance of craround the end of the century and the be- .Since that Id: ! preaching the (the twentieth.; Throughout themore than 3(*0 of these.j Evansville, whIII IT I'etcdmmiiIII), I I it I rrevival mein., vfcc'vool of theology 1 fi om it somefid fir !l hi* lt;«l,liielty and running, iv he hat IwenKnlt;tweight champion and held I persons at u single meeting. jcrown from 1900 until 1903. J The Rev. Joe Percente is close;to 70 years of age, his father] was Italian and French and his IHe knocked out Rattling Nelson luring the first round in seven different fights. Once he foughtmother was a full blooded Choro-100 rounds with Jack McClelland, kct Indian. He has two children,a widely known lightweight Other ring notables to test Percente’* metal were Kid McCoy, Bobby Walden and Joe Gans 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 guy1' and a gangster, and it was in the same state that, several years later, he reformed and be-thc older being Frank Perccnte, who 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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