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Yesterday’s Heroes: Gammy Smith, manually in the color of photography and the need for the National Boxing Museum

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Yesterday's Heroes: Gammy Smith, manually in the color of photography and the need for the National Boxing Museum

By Miles Templeton


John Vail, a very generous man, recently contacted me. He had manually in the color of a photograph of a long -term warrior, Gammy Smith from Cambridge, whom he wanted to go to a good home. Gammy was an venerable friend of Father John, and when Gammy died in 1988, he did not leave his family to convey a photo, so John wanted to give it to me.

For a long time I think that there should be a national boxing museum in the area, just like in football, and if there was such a place, it turns out to be a natural location for a attractive song that you can go to. When I get time, I’m going to check if you can do something in these lines.

Hand -colored photos were also very popular. Colorful photography, when Gammy was in 1920, was practically non -existent and only in the 1960s. This process became normal in the case of personal photographs. That is why all photos of venerable great ones, such as Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, and even Rocky Marciano, are in black and white. For a adolescent boxer from Cambridge in 1927, to ask the artist to hand the colors of his black and white photo, it was quite unusual, but that’s what Gammy did, and the created portrait is quite attractive. Although I knew the name of Gammy Smith and examined his struggle record, I didn’t know much about him or the details of his ring career. I think it is right now to decorate this color, so uncommon, with a miniature look at its exploits.

Gammy was in medium weight and a great member of time. In the 1920s, most adolescent boys were all shorter than today, and the stones were lighter. Times were hard and the diet was not good, especially for boys from the working class. Most professionals in Great Britain in 1927, when Gammy was taken, weighed no more than nine and a half stone, and most of them ran between the fly and lightweight.

This made Gammy stand out and did not have to fight next to countless little boys to bet. He was part of the so -called “Cambridge School”, a group of fighters from the city who all emerged at the same time and who all trained together at the boxing school. Gammy together with Archie Allen and Brothers Ed and Gilbert Stubbings were the spine of the “school” and completed the bills for the exchange of corn in their hometown in the 1920s. He had 20 professional competitions, of which only eleven were reported on the pages Bn.

There was so much boxing around, and BN, grabbing most of them, still skipped a huge amount. That is why boxers’ careers from this period are so hard to examine. At the beginning of his career, Gammy suffered two losses in Bedford, going down to Johnny Seamarks, a very good warrior and Harold Bass by knockout. Then he packed several times in Ipswich, winning one and losing, then restored with a long series of victories to exchange corn.

His first 15-runder took place there in 1928 against Londonian Mick Harris. It was a return because Gammy beat him six months earlier within 12 rounds. Harris was dissatisfied with the sentence during the first meeting, and Gammy was too content to meet him again. They both fought in front of the packed house and Bn The report states that Gammy has clearly won this competition. In his next competition, Gammy knocked out a Canadian in five rounds, and then followed this good victories over the Canons Bert and Bill Softley.

Gammy Boxled at the Blackfrires a few time before the Głębocie in 1930, with a record 11-9. He is forgotten now, but this picture is proud. Thanks, John!

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Version – Marco Antonio Barrera wins a furious and electrifying rubber match over Erik Morales

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Marco Antonio Barrera

Marco Antonio Barrera in MD 12 Erik Morales
November 27, 2004; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV
Mexican warriors Barrera and Morales ended their epic trilogy in a properly urgent style, creating another unforgettable war. Entering in the start, in the case of the Super Feather WBC Morales belt, the series stood with one winner per item. Morales won the initial meeting in Super-Bantam in 2000, and Barrera secured the creation of a rematch in 2002 in a featherweight-the decisions were questioned. Accordingly, the verdict in the rubber match also caused a debate. As in the previous two meetings, bitter enemies got involved in a furious fight, and the electrifying 11 round turned out to be particularly cruel. Ultimately, Barrera went to the top and adapted Morales’s achievement, becoming the three world letter.

Do you know? At that time, WBO Feather Highland Scott Harrison was interested in an observer in Ringside. He hoped to catch the winner.

Watch out for: In the middle of nine, the fighters are involved in the clinch, and Barrera is bursting morale at the back of the head with a legal apparatus. Uninvited by his opponent, Morales refuses to touch Barrera gloves when the judge was asked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctlipjgecq

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On this day: Felix Trinidad and Fernando Vargas are sharing, fouls and exhilarating violence

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Felix Trinidad

Felix Trinidad in RSF 12 Fernando Vargas
December 2, 2000; Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV
A lot was expected about the battle of unification of power between Trinidad and Vargas and, fortunately, did not disappoint. Trinidad, who defended his title WBA, jumped out of the blocks and twice started in the opener twice. Vargas returned a favor in the fourth round, sending Trinidad to a mat. Even worse for Felix, he was also deducted to a low blow. The same violation meant that the next point was taken from Trinidad in seventh place, before Vargas lost the point after a closer south of the border in 10. Constant violence with the view lasted to 12., in which the trio knocking up from Trinidad finally ended to a perfectly exhilarating competition.

Do you know? Former victim of Trinidad, Kevin Lueshing, called Boxing news Offices to discuss a brutal conclusion to fight. He said: “It caused a terrible memory of how he finished me.”

Watch out for: The complete HBO Pay-Per-View transmission is available to watch on YouTube. In Undercard he presents himself like Christa Martin, William Joppy and Ricardo Lopez.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngk4rafo574

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When Jack Johnson visited Great Britain

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Jack Johnson

This is the latest in the occasional series about the heavyweight champions of the world and their visits to Great Britain. In previous articles I wrote about Primo Carner and Langford himself, and this week I will look at Jacek Johnson and his British concert tour of 1908. Jackjohnson came to Great Britain on Monday, April 27 from the States, when the German steamer, Kronprinz Wilhelm, did in Plymouth. He was accompanied by his manager, Fitzpatrick himself, and two men immediately followed the train from Plymouth to the Paddington station in London, checked in at the Adelphi Hotel, and in the evening he visited the British Botker, in the field of eight circles, to see 20 rounds.

Johnson was in Great Britain to hunt Tommy Burns, also visiting London, to force him to defend the title, which, as we know, took place in Sydney eight months later. Two men exchanged words in Sporting Press and Burns, who stayed in Jacek’s Castle, in a pub in Hampstead, immediately published 1000 pounds from The Sporting Life, stating that if the Johnson camp was fitting to this amount, the fight was turned on. Fitzpatrick opposed the terms for which Burns insisted on the proposed match and refused to cover money. Johnson challenged the shooting moir, but it was rejected when Moir drew a color line and refused to meet the American.

Johnson spent the majority of this summer, appearing in various music rooms in Great Britain, boxing at exhibitions with a wide British heavyweight, including Jewey Smith, Jam Styles and Fred Drummond. In those days it was quite lucrative for the highest level boxers. Then he was tailored to Ben Taylor (Woolwich) to a 20-round competition in Plymouth. Jack trained on a fight at Regent’s Park and at the Junior High School at the National Sporting Club. He left the Waterloo station on July 30 to go to Plymouth for a fight, which was to take place the next day in Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Mill Street. A vast contingent of fans welcomed him in the city of Devon, which at that time was the center of the fight of the great importance.

Jack Johnson had to chase his fight with Tommy Burns

The competition, as you can expect, turned out to be one -sided when Johnson defeated Taylor with ease, raising him 11 times in front of a judge called Halt in the eighth round. After the duel, Johnson praised Taylor at his break, stating that he never met a player during his entire career. Later that night at the Mount Pleasant Hotel gathered at the Mount Pleasant Hotel, near the cosmopolitan, where Taylor founded his training camp, and Jack appeared to give Taylor again congratulations to Taylor for organizing such a good competition.

Johnson took part in a series of exhibitions in Dublin, and then in Bristol, where he participated in the Bristol City Vs Everton football match in Ashton Gate – his first experience in sport. Until September 7, he returned to London and announced that in October he was adapted to Box Mike Schreck at the National Sporting Club. On September 14, Schreck manager Jimmy Kelly was announced that the fight was not turned off because Schreck could not be relied to get to a decent condition for the fight.

Together with Burns in Australia, Johnson remained high and desiccated, without a significant fight, so the National Sports Club organized a competition against Sam Langford, which took place at the club on November 9. What would be a coup d’état – a match between the two best bulky scales in the world – but unfortunately this did not happen. On Monday, September 21, Johnson left the Charing Cross Station on the planned Łódź train at 13.20 to France to start a long journey to Australia, where he finally met and defeated Tommy Burns three months later.

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