mccarty

I think that is an "H" on the negative, and this is Henry Irslinger on the left, an Austrian best known as a champion wrestler. www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/h/henry-irslinger... However in 1914 he was managing Tom McCarty. In a newspaper article from November, 1914, McCarty is mentioned as "the newest White hope", referring to the effort to find a white boxer to unseat Black boxer Jack Johnson, who had won the heavyweight championship in 1908. news.google.com/newspapers?id=PPxbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mlQNA...

Thanks for providing the links artolog. It appears that Henry Irslinger was managing Tommy McCarty in 1914. We'll make the change to the caption and add the date to the record the next time we update.

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104057457 www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104057131

Luther McCarty (not McCarthy) also here and here.

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Nebraskan Luther McCarty (1892-1913)- not McCarthy, though his name was often misreported as such in the press of the time- was a heavyweight who began fighting professionally in 1911. On New Year's Day, 1913, he was declared "White Heavyweight Champion of the World" after defeating Al Palzer in a fight at Vernon, California. His promising career (his nickname was "Luck") was cut short when he died of a brain hemorrhage on May 24, 1913, shortly after being knocked out by Canadian boxer Arthur Pelkey two minutes into a fight at Calgary, Alberta. Pelkey broke down and cried on hearing the news of McCarty's death. His own career seems to have been adversely affected by the event. He lost the title in his next fight, on January 1, 1914, and though prior to the McCarty fight he had suffered only three losses and had won over twenty bouts, afterward he had only four wins in more than twenty fights. Luther McCarty's BoxRec bout list.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_McCarty

McCarty, until his untimely death, was one of the "Great White Hopes" intended to get the World Heavyweight title back from Jack Johnson.

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