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Bob Diry (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Joe said:

  Bob Diry (aka Bob Deery) had a brief career as a middleweight boxer in the U.S., losing six of seven verified bouts in 1913 and 1914 (BoxRec page.)

• The Library of Congress said:

  whyaduck: thank you for the additional information about Bob Diry. We will update the photo information and reload the description.

• Wystan said:

  Other Bain/LOC photos of Bob Diry, posted on Flickr in May, 2010: And in August, 2010:

• Wystan said:

  On December 15, 1913, Diry, a middleweight, was knocked out by George Ashe in the third round of a contest at the National Sporting Club, in Brooklyn, New York. Diry was from Ireland, where his name was spelled "Deery." Although he had won a fight in November, this was his second loss in a row, and he would endure three more knockouts in 1914 before he hung up his gloves for good. Diry's boxing record: boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=73885&cat=boxer New York Times story, December 16, 1913 (NYT says he was a German, and had won several fights, but the record contradicts that statement): query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9807E...

• scireformido said:

  Hi Wystan. I tend to believe the Diry was indeed German, not Irish, as another NYT link credits him as the German middleweight champion (see his boxrec.com bio). The only source I'm finding that says he's Irish is the info at the top of his boxrec.com record, but I believe that's an error, and I'm also going to guess that whoever compiled his "official" record there got most if not all of the results and info from the same NYT links we're seeing.

Physical Therapy

from National Library of Medicine

• dabrooks84 said:

  Hell yeah

Eugene Sandow

from George Eastman Museum

• 16 older comments, and then…
• LisaYvonne said:

  Wow that is awesome!

• Miss History said:

  yeah, especially considering there were no steroids back then. At least I think there weren't.

• Angie Muldowney said:

  he looks like a marble statue - possibly from the lack of fake tan and baby oil that todays muscle-men would be sporting

• Sacred Eyes said:

  Eugene Sandow was the most amazing and the greatest bodybuilder that ever lived! (Take that, modern athletes on steroids!)

• Úbeda y un cordero en Flandes said:

  Ö