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ark:/16417/th7164tdjb0jkOsborne Price-Richard L. Price fight, January 19, 1949. Photo shows two fighters grappling.Image
ark:/16417/th7165fcpqv9qPortrait of Roscoe Dowling. Here are some of the young athletes who will be seeking honors in the African-American division of the Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament opening Monday night at Woodland auditorium. Roberts, Williams, Burns and Higgins all competed in last year's tournament. Williams, reported to be one of the most improved boxers in Lexington, was a featherweight in 1948 but will compete as a bantamweight this year. Burns was a 1948 finalist in the African-American lightweight class. Roberts is a featherweight, Johnson a lightweight, Donegan and Dowling middleweights, Higgins a welterweight and Whitten a light-heavyweight.Image
ark:/16417/th7168s5jpgdvPortrait of John C. Wilhoite. Wilhoite is the heavyweight member of the brother-team that will represent the Wilhoite family of Scott county in The Herald-Leader Golden Gloves sectional tournament, which begins Monday at Woodland auditorium. Only one of the boys could come to Lexington when Golden Gloves pictures were being taken. John C. made the trip and Roger L. (Buck) Wilhoite, a light heavyweight, stayed at home to feed the stock on the family farm.Image
ark:/16417/th71692p8c4clCharles McElfresh-Ronald Roberts fight, January 12, 1949. Photo shows one fighter punched into corner.Image
ark:/16417/th716l8ksk4j4Bruce Kunkel, left, and Lorendz Smith. Bruce Kunkel (left), former Lafayette High School football and basketball star, and Lorendz Smith, also a former Lafayette student, filed their claims yesterday on Golden Gloves novice championships. Both are University of Kentucky sophomores, and both served last summer as lifeguards at Castlewood pool. During High School days, Kunkel also was a track star and Smith was a church league basketball player. Kunkel is studying engineering; Smith is an arts and science student.Image
ark:/16417/th716mr22xdvfPortrait of Pierre (Perry) Jackson.Image
ark:/16417/th716n1lbxnc9Portrait of Russell McNeal. Three of the Golden Glovers above are students at Dunbar High School and will make their first tries for Golden Gloves glory in the tournament next week at Woodland auditorium. Russell McNeal, upper left, 344 East Short Street, is the third representative from Dunbar. He is a lightweight. Only two more days remain for amateur boxers to register in the tournament; the deadline for entries is Tuesday.Image
ark:/16417/th716vzzd0dq3Mayor Tom Mooney presenting Jack Childers, Greendale, with trophy for being best fighter in Greendale delegation. City patrolman Zeke Dexter, coach of Greendale team, in center, February 4, 1948.Image
ark:/16417/th716wqn3sf5xLeonard Long-Earl Dailey fight, January 13, 1949. This was a lightweight novice division fight. Photo shows two fighters in corner.Image
ark:/16417/th7170dskv6dbPhotos taken at the weighing in in basement of Herald-Leader. Leonard Young, Lexington; Leroy Whitten, Lexington; Randle Bush, Midway. 1949.Image
ark:/16417/th71712tjqgbkCrowd shot, February 4, 1948.Image
ark:/16417/th7172lcgttmlBobby Wagoner - Edward Sharpe fight, novice welterweight semi-finals, January 19, 1950. Photo shows the two boxers in the ring. The referee stands at the left. Wagoner was the winner of the bout.Image
ark:/16417/th7174g4sbsmtPortraits of Walter D. Scott, left, and Clarence Crawley. These two Golden Glovers, if their service boxing records mean anything, should be hard to beat in The Herald-Leader tournament, January 26-February 4 at Woodland auditorium. Walter D. Scott, light-heavyweight, fought with the Iowa Seahawks during the war and won 18 of 22 fights. Clarence Crawley, a heavyweight, rolled up an impressive ring record in the Army. Both are Lexingtonians.Image
ark:/16417/th7174kx40z5fBen Simpson Jr.-Ollie Miller fight. Simpson, local junior-high school student, is finishing a potent right swing during the course of a bout in which he earned a decision over another novice welterweight.Image
ark:/16417/th7177tc00xwsPortrait of Charles Rankin Carter. The word among boxing coaches is that Charles Rankin Carter of 768 Bennett Avenue may be one of the big surprises of the Golden Gloves tournament which opens Monday at Woodland auditorium. Carter, a native of Nicholasville, is a fast and hard-hitting member of the Shamrock club coached by Zeke Dexter and Frank Robinson. He's a shipping clerk by trade.Image
ark:/16417/th717b4rszt6nKeno Faust - Ed McFee fight, January 18, 1950. Photo shows the two boxers in the ring; they are punching towards each other's faces with arms outstretched.Image
ark:/16417/th717bjc2pnnkLeader pictures of opening night at the Herald-Leader Golden Gloves. Hubert Shipp-Johnny Matthews, middleweight novice division. Matthews was the winner. January, 1948.Image
ark:/16417/th717dd7gd7m0Portrait of Leslie Yates, Leonard Ivey, Willis Kanatzer and Robert O'Harr. Ready to start swinging, here are some of the Fayette county boxers who will compete in The Herald-Leader Golden Gloves tournament opening Monday night at Woodland auditorium. Very few of them have had previous ring experience and officials look for wide-open battling for championships in all divisions and weight classes.Image
ark:/16417/th717lsl4l6frDamon Pierce-H.C. Collins fight, January 12, 1949. It was a welterweight novice division fight which Pierce won. Photo shows man on right reeling back from punches.Image
ark:/16417/th717vzt1q607Picture made Sunday, January 25, 1948, when fighters weighed in. Red Shannon, Woodford White, Billy Moore, Spike Bailey, and Billy Hampton.Image
ark:/16417/th7182zwlmkt2John Hall-Bob Buchanon fight.Image
ark:/16417/th7183w2jjhqdPortrait of Osborne Price. Price opened (on Friday, December 26, 1947 at Roosevelt Boulevard) a training quarters for African American boys interested in boxing in the Herald-Leader Golden Gloves sectional tournament. Osborne Price was an experienced boxer and Golden Gloves lightweight champion in 1940.Image
ark:/16417/th7186hkhbp8pBobby Casper-Leslie Burton fight at Louisville, January 27, 1949. Photo shows Burton taking heavy blow from Casper.Image
ark:/16417/th718d1rmx997Ben Simpson Jr., 111 Leader Avenue, defending Open welterweight champion, weighs in for the Golden Gloves tournament beginning tonight at Woodland auditorium as Bobby Wagoner, Paris, Open lightweight contender, waits in line. Sergeant E.C. Hale of the Fraternal Order of Police checks the scales. Blue Grass Lodge No. 4 of the FOP is co-sponsor of the tourney with The Herald-Leader. Simpson and Wagoner, who went to the semi-finals of last year's Novice lightweight class, were among the horde of Glovers who were given physical examinations and weight check-ups at The Herald-Leader building yesterday.Image
ark:/16417/th718f0h3sf80Kentucky State College entrants. L. Dixon, C. Maul, L. Dix, and N. Warren. 1949.Image
ark:/16417/th718h6blggd6Frank Spann-George Herold fight. Photo shows one man hunching on ground while other man walks away.Image
ark:/16417/th718k2c3q7qjJames R. Woods-Walter D. Scott fight. This should have been the practice of James R. Woods (right), Versailles, who has just taken a punch thrown by Walter D. Scott, Lexington, who went on to win a decision in The Herald-Leader Golden Gloves tournament.Image
ark:/16417/th718rk5w02k2Carl Maul-Sammy Turner fight.Image
ark:/16417/th718vrctpx0dMarion Corn-William Earl Kanatzer fight, January 17, 1950. Photo shows each fighter getting punched in the face.Image
ark:/16417/th718wptwzxnqMarion Corn-Daniel Wish fight. Photo shows one man being knocked to the ground.Image
ark:/16417/th718wq29ffndLorendz Smith-Keno Faust fight, January 24, 1950. Fighter on right holds other fighter's shoulder as he (the left fighter) readies a punch.Image
ark:/16417/th719cdnj67s6Portrait of Thomas Shuck. Thomas Shuck of Lexington, a former marine, entered the novice welterweight class of The Herald-Leader Golden Gloves last week. He is a University of Kentucky sophomore. He's been in training for two months for The Herald-Leader charity event.Image
ark:/16417/th719cjtg65fjPortrait of Edward P. Adams. Adams, a Lexington theater usher, looks forward to winning a Golden Gloves championship in his ring debut. Adams was the fourth novice to register for middleweight competition in the big tournament. Image
ark:/16417/th719d0sxf3vxPierre Jackson-John Jackson fight. Man taking blow from other.Image
ark:/16417/th719f4hqcqd5James Terry-Frank Ritter (pin stripes) fight. One man on ground about to punch standing man in the crotch. December, 1948.Image
ark:/16417/th719j206d5l0John C. Wilhoite-Jesse Dunagan fight. Referee counting out one of the combatants.Image
ark:/16417/th719prwgb393Photos taken at the weighing in in basement of Herald-Leader. Ray Horn, Richmond, open; Daniel Wish, Lexington, novice; Glenn Brotherton, Richmond, open. 1949.Image
ark:/16417/th719xxvv0tkjBob Buchanon-Deotha Rankin fight. Man is shown readying to deliver blow to other's face.Image
ark:/16417/th71b6n12f585Ben Simpson Jr. (stripes)-Damon Pierce fight. Ben Simpson of Lexington is shown after flooring Damon Pierce of Greendale for a knockout in the second round of a scheduled three-round bout at the Pre-Golden Gloves boxing matches at Woodland auditorium. Simpson weighed in at 141 pounds with Pierce scaling at 145. Refereeing is Captain Winfield Scott Chadwick. Last night's bouts were sponsored by The Herald-Leader as will be the Golden Gloves starting January 10.Image
ark:/16417/th71bb8bk03dlPre-Golden Gloves fight, December 20, 1948. Jackie Johnson (light trunks) taking down Jerry Hanley.Image
ark:/16417/th71bf2gjmz81Portrait of the 1950 Golden Gloves Novice Champions. From left to right, in front, Ellsworth (Skip) Taylor, UK student from Plainfield, New Jersey, featherweight; Charles Keelin Jr., Greendale, bantamweight; Smith Trowbridge, Lexington, lightweight; and Bobby Wagoner, Paris, welterweight. Back, Billy Morris Routin, Greendale, heavyweight.Image
ark:/16417/th71bldsjm0s6James Hipps, left, being examined by Dr. Harry Herring and Kurts being examined by Dr. Ballard F. Combs. January, 1949.Image
ark:/16417/th71bqvkzsbltThree Burton brothers receiving instructions from their brother Dick, Shamrock Club coach. Leslie, left, won the Open featherweight championship last year and will defend it in the tourney which begins next week at Woodland auditorium. Osie, right, won the Open light-heavyweight title in 1949, but has slimmed down to a middleweight this year. Kenneth, second from right, is only sixteen, so this will be his first try in the Gloves. He's a lightweight. Dick is a former Golden Glover, too. Still another brother, Forrest, advanced to the semi-finals of the 1948 tourney. Only today and Tuesday remain for amateur boxers to enter next week's tournament. To enter, just clip the entry blank which appears in today's Herald and mail it to the Golden Gloves headquarters, Herald-Leader building, Lexington 15, Kentucky.Image
ark:/16417/th71bs3fs1t3jPortrait of Charles Covington, whose previous athletic experience has been in football and basketball, will show local amateur boxing fans on December 20 what prospects lie ahead of him in the ring. He is matched on that date in the pre-Golden Gloves show at Woodland auditorium against James Terry, who made a good showing while losing his first bout in the Novice division of the last Golden Glove tournament. Covington is a junior at Lafayette High School.Image
ark:/16417/th71bs86xht9hMayor Tom Mooney in crowd watching Golden Gloves. 1950Image
ark:/16417/th71bwpxj8hpdLeader pictures of opening night at the Herald-Leader Golden Gloves. Hubert Shipp-Johnny Matthews, middleweight novice division. Matthews was the winner. January, 1948.Image
ark:/16417/th71bwqdnzg9sDennis McDonald-Kenneth McCray fight. There's all kind of action in any program at the Golden Gloves tournament--solid socking, furious flailing with heavy gloves, fast work in the corners as fighters rest between rounds--as shown by these pictures taken by Leader Photographer Ralph Looney during Monday night's session at Woodland auditorium. There's Dennis McDonald, with Kenneth McCray on the canvas at his feet.Image
ark:/16417/th71clx50gn99Photos taken at the weighing in in basement of Herald-Leader. Leonard Wills, Mt. Sterling, open; Calvin Newton, Richmond, novice; Bob Routt, Nicholasville, open.Image
ark:/16417/th71cmlljd601Leader pictures of opening night at the Herald-Leader Golden Gloves. Forest Burton-Harry Paul fight, welterweight division. Paul is on mat; he eventually won the match. January, 1948.Image
ark:/16417/th71cpsjmgbx4Gilbert Ray Roberts, a second, January 13, 1949.Image
ark:/16417/th71cqhl9d2mkPierre Jackson-John Jackson fight. Fighters readying to deliver blows.Image
ark:/16417/th71cr9gtr974Portrait of members of the African-American team of the Kentucky Houses of Reform.Image