louisdeponthieu

Louis De Ponthieu; Carl Morris; Leach Cross (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Leach Cross (b. 1886) was known as "the fighting dentist." He was indeed a dentist, born Louis Wallach in an Orthodox Jewish immigrant family on the Lower East Side. He won forty-three fights and fought five champions to draws. See Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience by Peter Levine (Oxford University Press 1992). Carl Morris (1887-1951) was a Kentucky fighter known as "the Original White Hope." cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/morris-c.htm

• carmen egypto said:

  And ... Zeca Floriano ? He was a brazilian sportsman,son of "Marechal Floriano Peixoto",the second president of Brazil !

• Matt Steenhoek said:

  those look like some bad mofo's

• parkermulligan said:

  Louis de Ponthieu, the French lightweight query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9500EED7123CE633A...

• scireformido said:

  Here's Carl's record at boxrec.com.