jesswillard
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[Jess] Willard (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded December 2013
[Jess] Willard (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded December 2013
Jess Willard (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded November 2013
Jess Willard (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded June 2010
Jess Willard (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2010
Bill James, Eddie Campi, Jess Willard (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded April 2009
Jess Willard (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded September 2008
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Jess Willard (LOC)
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Juan Montiel said:
Buena
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swanq said:
Looks to be the boxer, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess_Willard. He was world heavyweight boxing champion from 1915 to 1919.
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Art Siegel said:
"The Great White Hope" who took the title from Jack Johnson. This negative is dated 3/3/16, but he arrived in New York on February 25th from Chicago to train for a March 25th fight, so this might well have been taken then. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20A12FD345C1373...
Jess Willard (LOC)
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In Memoriam: budderflyman said:
Boxing champ. Could he have beat Ali or Frazier? Nope.
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Wystan said:
A giant at 6'6, 240 pounds, Jess Willard faced charges of second-degree murder stemming from the death of his youthful opponent, John "Bull" Young, from a blow to the head in the ninth round of a boxing match on August 22, 1913. Willard's powerful right uppercut had driven Young's jaw up into his brain. On January 13, 1914, a jury found Willard not guilty. In 1915, after defeating Jack Johnson in Havana, Willard became heavyweight champion of the world -- but after that he avoided fights as champ, because Buffalo Bill was paying him a minimum of a thousand dollars a day to appear as an attraction in the fabled Wild West Show -- easy money that Willard would have lost, had he lost the title. (He finally did lose -- in 1919, to Jack Dempsey, in Toledo, Ohio.)
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In Memoriam: budderflyman said:
Yes, they are still buzzing about that boxing match in Toledo.
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Wystan said:
Ah, yes -- I hear that buzzing whenever I get near Maumee -- I used to think it came from motorboats on the river. Here is a Bain/LOC full-view photo of Willard, taken on the same occasion, and posted on Flickr on June 4, 2010:
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Richard Norton said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess_Willard