"20b Contest",AWESOME, Fight, REPORTS

[StarshipTrooper]

How Would you guyslike to read some Awesome fights

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Due to a request a short time ago, I have found a site with over a hundred Newspaper descriptions featuring ALL THE GREAT OLD-TIMERS,..... Sit back and click on the links and pick a fight, and read about fights like JACK BRITTON Vs TED KID LEWIS,..& Philadelphia JACK O'BRIEN Vs JOE CHOYNSKI ...Or maybe BENNY LEONARD Vs FREDDIE WELSH,.... How about KID McCOY Vs TOMMY RYAN__ & ___ABE ATTELL Vs BATTLING NELSON ______

ARE YOU Slaving at the chops yet ??

Try these links http://senya13.blogspot.com/search/l...Joe%20Choynski

Great stuff!

[McGoorty]

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

You can find a ton of old fight reports there up til 1922. As a quick example, here's a few other next-day reports on that Leonard-Dundee fight alluded to;

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/se...hType=advanced

The Google News Archives can also come in handy. You get the NY Times coverage up to the early 1920's and then later on during the 1980's I believe it is. Also tons of wired reports covering all eras;

http://news.google.com/news/advanced...arch?as_drrb=a

Thanks for those added links,,.. this thread is turning out to be the place to come for the facts,... some of the fight descriptions were done by very talented writers.... The place to come for many links..... Mate, your post above is great.

[McGoorty]

Thanks for those added links,,.. this thread is turning out to be the place to come for the facts,... some of the fight descriptions were done by very talented writers.... The place to come for many links..... Mate, your post above is great.

Thanks to Yogi, I found a wonderful newspaper from Jan. 15th 1917. It has repots of many great fighters plus an awesome Cartoon about MW Al McCoy, it's hilarious........ you can read on this one page about Les Darcy, Ritchie Mitchell, Jack Dillon, Johnny Kilbane, Battling Levinski, Kid Williams and more....http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...5/ed-1/seq-10/http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...17-01-15/ed-1/,http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/

[McGoorty]

I just found a very funny newspaper quote on Les Darcy :-- From the El Paso Herald :-------- "Les Darcy, the noted Australian scrapper, is reported as being headed for our shores. He evidently thinks that (Jack) Britton, (Jack) Dillon, (Mike) Gibbons, (Ted Kid) Lewis,....etc. Will be easier picking than the German Army. Maybe he's right ------ Anyhow, Mr. Darcy never did claim to be a gunfighter."......... LOL..... Proof ??? here tis. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...rRange&index=3

[Greatest1942]

Thanks to Yogi, I found a wonderful newspaper from Jan. 15th 1917. It has repots of many great fighters plus an awesome Cartoon about MW Al McCoy, it's hilarious........ you can read on this one page about Les Darcy, Ritchie Mitchell, Jack Dillon, Johnny Kilbane, Battling Levinski, Kid Williams and more....http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...5/ed-1/seq-10/http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...17-01-15/ed-1/,http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/

The google newspaper archives are great source...I generally look in them first...

Google has made it easier to look into and search them too.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=1427,3941947

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...e+boxing&hl=en

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...s+boxing&hl=en

Some of the recent articles I read...just thought of sharing.

[Greatest1942]

The google newspaper archives are great source...I generally look in them first...

Google has made it easier to look into and search them too.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=1427,3941947

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...e+boxing&hl=en

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...s+boxing&hl=en

Some of the recent articles I read...just thought of sharing.

Dempsey vs Jeffries

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...jeffries&hl=en

Other interesting reads :-

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...jeffries&hl=en

I dont want to pollute this thread, with useless links but I read these very recently and found this interesting

[McGoorty]

Dempsey vs Jeffries

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...jeffries&hl=en

Other interesting reads :-

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...jeffries&hl=en

I dont want to pollute this thread, with useless links but I read these very recently and found this interesting

No mate you are doing a great job, I hope we can maybe discuss some of those rare fights. The first site is excellent because it is all presented in easy print and all the fighters a nd fights are just a click away. When you think of how many great Un-Filmed fights on there for for us and so vividly described, you realise what gems those greats were....... On the sites which show the actual newspaper pages, these are the source materials, but they are very time consuming,.... I just read of an Abe Attell fight,... it seems that Attell was a nasty piece of work, he taunted and tortured his opponent for twenty rounds, and enjoyed cutting his poor victims face into ribbons.... It was incredibly brutal and at the end of twenty rounds,..... Attell had NOT ONE DROP OF PERSPIRATION on him...... and was totally in another class to his hapless opponent,... It seems that Abe Attell was furious that they had found such a poor opponent that he had decided to be so vicious,....... Attell was only happy against the best...... What a Featherweight BEAST.

[Greatest1942]

No mate you are doing a great job, I hope we can maybe discuss some of those rare fights. The first site is excellent because it is all presented in easy print and all the fighters a nd fights are just a click away. When you think of how many great Un-Filmed fights on there for for us and so vividly described, you realise what gems those greats were....... On the sites which show the actual newspaper pages, these are the source materials, but they are very time consuming,.... I just read of an Abe Attell fight,... it seems that Attell was a nasty piece of work, he taunted and tortured his opponent for twenty rounds, and enjoyed cutting his poor victims face into ribbons.... It was incredibly brutal and at the end of twenty rounds,..... Attell had NOT ONE DROP OF PERSPIRATION on him...... and was totally in another class to his hapless opponent,... It seems that Abe Attell was furious that they had found such a poor opponent that he had decided to be so vicious,....... Attell was only happy against the best...... What a Featherweight BEAST.

I use that first site too...but generally use the google news papers because of simply the coverage and the data...

[Yogi]

Thanks for those added links,,.. this thread is turning out to be the place to come for the facts,... some of the fight descriptions were done by very talented writers.... The place to come for many links..... Mate, your post above is great.

Cheers, bud.


Couple more links to sites I've visited on occasion;

http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.o...sp?Skin=BEagle

Used to visit that one quite a bit in researching some of the earliest days of gloved boxing. Has coverage of the later days of the bare knuckle era as well.


Sports Illustrated's Vault has also come in handy on occasion if you're looking to read more modern writings from the 1950's on;

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/

[McGoorty]

Cheers, bud.


Couple more links to sites I've visited on occasion;

http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.o...sp?Skin=BEagle

Used to visit that one quite a bit in researching some of the earliest days of gloved boxing. Has coverage of the later days of the bare knuckle era as well.


Sports Illustrated's Vault has also come in handy on occasion if you're looking to read more modern writings from the 1950's on;

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/

All these links are great, I've been reading contemporary accounts of the two Les Darcy vs Eddie McGoorty fights,.... The reporters accounts of those two fights are incredible, it seems that they were two of the greatest all-time fights,... A good writer can make reading a fight as exciting as being there... Very great fights those two,... but decidedly one-sided, seems that McGoorty was totally outclassed but he was freakishly brave,,,,, only a complete knockout could stop him from trying....... they were on that google site above.