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isn't it "court martial?"

Thanks for the information! We’ll look into it.

A Kangaroo Court in this context is an informal or mock court usually performed by your peers for infractions. For example, if you are on a sports team and forget a piece of equipment the kangaroo court may punish you by making you buy a round of beers. It is generally considered a form of hazing. In the picture I can speculate that perhaps the young sailor showed up late for muster and is being publicly ridiculed. Maybe he will be punished by swabbing the deck. Based on body language, smiles of the audience, and informality this is clearly not a real Court Martial.

If it were real, he'd have to walk the plank . . . .

I once witnessed a pretty unpleasant 'Kangaroo Courts Martial' when a young sailor who was very dirty and did'nt wash as much as he should was dealt with by his peers. He was stripped, thrown into a bath of freezing cold water, the bath then having every bit of rubbish that could be found thrown into it and he was then scrubbed with long handled deck scubbers till he bled. It did the trick, that chap just about lived in the showers for a long time after that. One of the first things I learnt in the navy was this... "Cleanliness comes next to Godliness, and if you can't be Godly then by God you can be clean!" Any old Navy man will recognise that this is not a sailors yarn.

More about one of Bostonian D. Deshler's boxing bouts here: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9900E3D71731E233A...

And more about one of Brooklyn's M. Baldwin's boxing bouts here: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C00EFD61539E433A...

I like how a hundred years ago they were able to tag their photos with so much information. And you didn't need $1500 worth of computer gear to see it.

Well, these were "news" photos, so the photos were taken by photo journalists who understood the importance of documentation.

Great documentation.

Joe Mandot was a Los Angeles-based featherweight boxer in the 1910s and 1920s: www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=229207 &cat=boxer There are at least two other photos of Mandot in the collection so far.

I started a biography in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mandot

I found his World War I draft registration:

This is the New Orleans boxer. He was my great uncle and i have the original photos

Uncle Joe😌 from New Orleans not the one from Los Angelel.