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Could be the boxer from Chicago: www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=30118&cat=boxer Could be the same as memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@b... and memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@b... from the Chicago Daily News.

Manager is probably Harry Gilmore Jr., son of Prof. Harry Gilmore (q.v.) Gilmore Jr. also managed Packy McFarland, another Chicago fighter photographed by Bain. Note that there is a (backwards) inscription at the right: S.S. 3-24-13. So it was either shot, developed, printed, or (what?) on that date, depending on who or what S.S. was.

These people saw the cameera and it is interesting looking at their faces and seeing the different expressions as well as the dress styles compared to nowadays. The vintage sign above the entrance is cool and yet again this sis an amazing photo

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Fight Faces, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

£5 PAID FOR SEATS. (1946, January 29). The Muswellbrook Chronicle (NSW : 1898 - 1955), p. 2. Retrieved January 28, 2016, from www.nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107760807 BURNS—PATRICK FIGHT. (1946, February 1). Cloncurry Advocate (Qld. : 1931 - 1953), p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2016, from www.nla.gov.au/nla.news-article170736745 Wallis Comments On Claim By Boxer. (1947, February 19). Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved January 28, 2016, from www.nla.gov.au/nla.news-article195293811

Tommy Burns trained for this fight at McEwin's (not sure of the spelling) Gym Fairy Bower. The gym was located on the promenade and was also a waxworks prior to this. Tommy Burns was reported in the press as training in a secret location. I was living at the time with my family just above the gym in Bower Street. I still have an autograph given to me by Tommy.

"Jim Smith" was the alias for the welterweight Danish boxer Johannes Jørgensen, (1867-1913). On May 17, 1908, in Copenhagen. Johannes Jørgensen ("Jim Smith") defeated German welterweight Paul Maschke, who used the alias "Joe Edwards". [1] There are three LOC photos of "Joe Edwards" on Flickr that can be seen here.  

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