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This would be as contenders for the world lightweight boxing champion in 1914. He fought Freddie Welsh in 1914 and lost the title to him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Ritchie en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Welsh

Richard Arthur Norton: Thanks for providing additional information about Ritchie. We'll include it next time we update the description.

In another Bain/LOC photo, Willie Ritchie sails with Mrs. Hicks:

Another shot from what seems to be the same photo session, of Ritchie and his entourage:

wow! nice!

I remember these old tables in our local Barber Shop-Pool Hall. Now in Heritage Park Calgary. :)

so cool.

Can I have this and frame it????????

George W. Moore was the loser in an October 1914 challenge for the three-cushion billiards world championship, according to the Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for 1915 books.google.com/books?id=-mITAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA314&s... @Riverbear2010: Any of the Bain photos can be down-loaded in high resolution from the Library of Congress. Follow the Persistent URL link above.

Archie Newfong was born on 15 October 1910. He was the descendant of the Ngugi people of the Moreton Bay area and a Chinese fisherman. Archie Newfong, like many Aborigines living on North Stradbroke Island, was employed at the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum, which was established in 1865 to provide shelter and care for the poor and needy of Queensland. In 1920 the Aboriginal workers of the institution began a campaign for cash wages, not rations but for equal pay under the awards applying to white employees. Archie Newfong was a superb sportsman playing cricket and football. He was also a boxer. One year he won the Amity Cup on his horse, “Pet”. The Amity Cup was a horse race along the beach at Dunwich held each year. In 1941 Archie became the heavyweight boxing champion of Queensland. After the World War tWO, Archie became active in the Incapacitated Servicemen and Women Association serving as a welfare officer helping returned diggers put their lives back together. He went on to become State President for seven years from 1977. Archie and his son John were active campaigners during the 1967 referendum, which gave power to the Commonwealth Government to legislate on Aboriginal matters. John went on to become a journalist for a major newspaper and was heavily involved in the 1972 tent embassy in Canberra. In 1988 Archie Newfong was appalled to hear of the motion moved at the RSL’s national congress by the Victorian president, Mr. Bruce Ruxton. The motion called for Aborigines to be race-tested before being allowed to claim government benefits. The motion was widely condemned and Archie campaigned in the Courier Mail on 29 September to have the motion rescinded. The Courier-Mail reported on 22 April 1991, that 80-year-old Archie Newfong had unveiled Australia’s first Aboriginal war memorial in the Jebbribillum Borta Park at Burleigh Heads. Throughout their lives, Archie and his wife Edna campaigned for the betterment of Aboriginal people. His wife was Edna Crouch, who came from a famous sporting family. She had represented Australia in the national women’s cricket team that played England in 1935. Their exemplary lives deserve to be better known. Source: thecommunityleader.com.au/in-the-community/local-history/...