gibbons

More Bain photos, from the same session, of boxing brothers Tommy and Mike Gibbons:

Thanks for connecting the images artolog.

Cardinal James Gibbons (1834-1921), the second American to become a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church; encouraged American Catholics to support the labor movement, saying "It is the right of laboring classes to protect themselves, and the duty of the whole people to find a remedy against avarice, oppression, and corruption." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gibbons

See hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a47937 for an 1886 photo of the cardinal.

Thanks, penny, for the information about Cardinal Gibbons. I'd like to keep the discussion going. Do you have any idea what he might have been doing in Milwaukee?

According to the NYTimes, Gibbons attended a convention in Milwaukee in August 1913 when the American Federation of Catholic Societies met there, and he performed the formal opening ceremonies at St. John's Cathedral.

Here is a working link to the New York Times story of August 11, 1913: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=940DEFDF123FE633A...

Tommy Gibbons was born in either 1891 (the year usually given) or 1894 (his own claim) and died in 1960. He was the younger brother of middleweight boxer Mike Gibbons. He began fighting professionally in 1911 and retired from the ring in 1925 after 94 wins, 5 losses and three draws. In 1923, he challenged heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey for the title, losing by a decision, though he became the only boxer to last a full 15 rounds with the Manassa Mauler. Like his brother, Tommy Gibbons was a hard hitter who gained a large percentage of his wins by KO. He was knocked out only once himself, in the twelfth round of his final fight, by future heavyweight champion Gene Tunney. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993. BoxRec biography page. BoxRec bout list.