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English boxers: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B04EED7163DE633A...

Other Bain/LOC photos of Young Joe Fox and Sapper O'Neill: Danny Morgan and his School for Fighters:

Thank you! Spelling corrected.

Wystan: It'll take a while before the change appears in Flickr.

According to NYT of October 2, 1913, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B04EED7163DE633A... Sapper O'Neill and Young Fox were British boxers and George McDonald their manager. McDonald and O'Neill had arrived the day before. Young Fox was expected a couple of weeks later.

Thanks, Wystan. Will submit for correction to the catalog record.

Other Bain/LOC photos of Young Joe Fox and Sapper O'Neill:

Another Bain/LOC photo that includes Young Joe Fox and Manager George McDonald:

See an earlier picture of McDonald and Young Fox.

Young Fox is a British boxer and McDonald his manager.

Bain's caption does not identify the man at right.

Another Bain/LOC photo of Ed "Gunboat" Smith, newly posted to Flickr on November 26, 2010:

Dal Hawkins appears to be an ex-boxer by 1914. See boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=10974&cat=boxer NYT of Oct 29, 1914 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D16F73F5A15738... suggests that he had a training facility for boxers "on the Westchester Road."

boxrec.com/media/index.php/Jimmy_Buckley indicates that a Jimmy Buckley managed Ed Gunboat Smith.

NYT of Jan 2, 1914 indicates that Young Fox and Sapper O'Neill were British boxers query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0DE1D6173EE733A... See also www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/4690774390/ and www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/4445862462/

McDonald is George McDonald, manager and boxing promoter.

Other Bain/LOC photos of Young Joe Fox and Sapper O'Neill:

[This photo is from the Bain News Agency's January 1914 photostream, posted on Flickr by the Library of Congress.] New York Times story, January 1, 1914: "Sapper O'Neill, the English lightweight, who sprang into popular favor recently by his clever work against Fred Halsband at the Atlantic Garden Athletic Club, will oppose Johnny Harvey, one of the most rugged of New York's army of 133-pounders. Another English boy, Young Fox, will get a chance in the semi-final against Kid Herman of Pekin, Ill. Fox recently made a most favorable debut against Joe Mooney at Madison Square Garden." [In military terminology, a Sapper is a combat engineer, who accompanies the frontline troops into battle. Primary among his duties is the disarming of unexploded bombs. Perhaps Sapper O'Neill received his nickname during previous Army service?]

Sapper O'Neill www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107643658 Young Joe Fox www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21061873 George McDonald www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107643821