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ark:/16417/th7zrjmllg0p8Clifton D. Prewitt-Frank Turner fight, January 19, 1949. One fighter delivering blow to other's face.Image
ark:/16417/th7zqs3rtwcfcBen Simpson Jr.-Raymond Horne fight, January 19, 1949. Image
ark:/16417/th7zq799v55psBilly Smith (left) and Carl Hudson, both of Lexington, take a peek at the lineup of mittmen who start swinging tonight in The Herald-Leader's annual Golden Gloves tournament. Both are in the Open division, and Smith--thanks to few entries in the middleweight ranks--must beat only Walter Scott for a championship.Image
ark:/16417/th7zpkv2s9rznPortrait of R.C. Woods, James Collins, A.B. Johnson, and Charles Riley. 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/th7zdp6th6nhtGerard H. Owens-Charles Holland fight, January 17, 1950. Photo shows fighter on left readying to deliver strong right to opponent.Image
ark:/16417/th7zd2f6g9s0rPierre Jackson-Joe E. Dawson fight. Jackson (right), Frankfort, prepares to move in and rip away the guard of Joe E. Dawson, Lexington, in their Golden Gloves fight. The classy Jackson won on a decision, although Dawson put up a good fight.Image
ark:/16417/th7z9fjlrkf39Lorendz Smith - Gerard H. Owens fight, January 18, 1950. Photo shows the two boxers in the ring; they punch each other with arms outstretched as the referee stands on the left.Image
ark:/16417/th7z909fjx545Greendale Houses of Reform and its young men training for 1949 Golden Gloves. Front row, James Collins, James Harper. Back, Jimmy Wainscott, James Riley, and Rex Workman.Image
ark:/16417/th7z8vx13x58qPortrait of Elmore Underwood, a welterweight who was in the Army Transportation Corps during the war. He is a member of the African-American team of the Kentucky Houses of Reform.Image
ark:/16417/th7z6l8kzhn35William Sullivan - R. T. Couch Jr. fight, January 18, 1950. Photo shows a boxer who has fallen or been pushed out of the ring; he lies on the floor next to the ring and reaches up towards the ring with one hand. The onlookers react, and some reach out to help him up.Image
ark:/16417/th7z6drnwzvpbGolden Gloves African-American Novice Champions 1950. They are, from left to right, James Fisher, Lexington, light-heavyweight; Russell McNeal, Lexington, lightweight, and Charles Kennedy, Greendale, bantamweight. Back, Edward Martin, Lexington, middleweight, and LeRoy Garvin, Kentucky State College, heavyweight. Note: This was all of the African-American novice champions, as there were no flyweight, featherweight or welterweight entries.Image
ark:/16417/th7z2qv3pxtnjJimmie Burns-Dempsey Hale fight, January 13, 1949. This was a lightweight African-American fight.Image
ark:/16417/th7z26xjk8spfGeorge W. Carter-Norman D. Warren fight, January 12, 1949. It was a welterweight African-American division fight which Carter won.Image
ark:/16417/th7z09dl9bkhdFrank Rose, left, the physical education director at Houses of Reform and coach of Reform school's team in 1949.Image
ark:/16417/th7xwn8qmfhjkRobert Spickard - Carlos Lee Edwards fight, January 18, 1950. Photo shows one boxer stumbling as the other stands nearby with his left arm outstretched.Image
ark:/16417/th7xpmxh5qgd6Gene A. Cottrell-James Collins fight, January 13, 1949. This was a welterweight novice division which Cottrell won.Image
ark:/16417/th7xfqf8fpwr4These pictures were taken at the Herald-Leader Golden Gloves fights which were held at Woodland auditorium. Shown are Kenneth Faust, of Versailles, and Dan Gilbert, of Wilmore.Image
ark:/16417/th7xd59wfm684Jimmie Burns-Dempsey Hale fight, January 13, 1949. Photo shows one fighter ducking other's blows.Image
ark:/16417/th7xd327zsxvwRichard Price-Robert Higgins fight.Image
ark:/16417/th7x8t9fb2bltPortrait of Igerald Rogers, Dunbar High School middleweight. He is a member of the African-American team of the Kentucky Houses of Reform.Image
ark:/16417/th7x4ttwfhbl8Shot of Mrs. Arthur Curtis, Mrs. Earl Mullins and Shirley Mullins. 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 Mrs. Arthur Curtis, Mrs. Earl Mullins and thirteen-year-old Shirley Mullins, excited spectators in a ringside row. January, 1950.Image
ark:/16417/th7x128zc0vhsLeonard Long-Earl Dailey fight, January 13, 1949. This was a lightweight novice division fight. Photo shows one man receiving left punch across the face.Image
ark:/16417/th7x0w0wjvq6qEllsworth Taylor-Clyde Rowland fight, January 18, 1950, Novice featherweight class. Taylor, 121 pounds, from Lexington, defeated Rowland, 125 pounds, from Greendale. Photo shows fighter on left reeling from other fighter's punches.Image
ark:/16417/th7wwz6831g6gCrowd shot, opening night, January 26, 1948. Watching from ringside seats are Dick Reinhold, seemingly about to nibble a knuckle; George Young and Mr. and Mrs. Ulan Penrod.Image
ark:/16417/th7wj2q63jln9Bobby Routt losing fight to Ronnie Brown at Louisville but winning "most courageous" award. Missing with a left thrust and catching one of Ronnie Brown's swats flush in the face, Bobby Routt is shown while waging his losing fight in the flyweight finals of a regional Golden Gloves tournament at Louisville. The Nicholasville boy, winner of an Open title in the recent Herald-Leader tourney, weathered such a storm stirred up by his Louisville opponent that he was awarded a trophy as "most courageous" fighter in the regional meet.Image
ark:/16417/th7w7pdvs7lpwHarold Cook-E.P. Adams fight. Ringsiders see countless expressions on fighting faces in The Herald-Leader's annual Golden Gloves tournament, and here are some grimaces "frozen" by Leader Photographer Ralph Looney in the midst of hot action during Monday night's program. Two Lexington boys, Harold Cook, hidden by his foe's glove, and E.P. Adams, almost hidden by his own hair, fight.Image
ark:/16417/th7w25wcnt0zcPortrait of Clifton Prewitt. Although these two Golden Gloves entrants are in widely separated weight classes, they have at least one thing in common--each will be gaining his first ring experience. At left is Jimmy Rose, nineteen-year-old heavyweight from Nicholasville, who drives a truck for the Plumbers Supply Company. At right is Clifton Prewitt, also 19, of 337 Rose Street, a featherweight who works in the call office of a local laundry.Image
ark:/16417/th7vxcpgk7cc3Picture made Sunday, January 25, 1948, when fighters weighed in. Roger (Buck) Wilhoite, Kenneth Arnold, Ora Boots, Frank Spann, and Carl Hudson.Image
ark:/16417/th7vwz3g7wmfjKeno Faust-Dennis McDonald fight, middleweight white novice class. Faust, of Versailles, tall and with black hair, defeated McDonald of Cynthiana. Photo shows fighter on left delivering jab to other's face. January 17, 1950.Image
ark:/16417/th7vwbgc4sl6fPortrait of James Fisher. 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. James Fisher, upper right, 408 Campbell Street, will be captain of the Dunbar football team this fall. He is a heavyweight. Only two more days remain for amateur boxers to register in the tournament; the deadline for entries is Tuesday.Image
ark:/16417/th7vt289fd0t8Picture made Sunday, January 25, 1948, when fighters weighed in, African-American division. Jimmy Burns, Elmore Underwood, Osborne Price, and Joe Dawson.Image
ark:/16417/th7vt1vnw7tcwPhotos taken at the weighing in in basement of Herald-Leader. John W. Hall, Lexington; Jimmie Burns, Mt. Sterling; Roland Johnson, Versailles. 1949.Image
ark:/16417/th7vs59rlc5hvLeonard Long-Woodford Blake fight, January 19, 1949. This was a lightweight novice finals fight which Long won.Image
ark:/16417/th7vmv49jh0pmKeno Faust - Ed McFee fight, January 18, 1950. Photo shows the two boxers in the ring; the boxer on the left is holding his right arm up, while the boxer on the right stands with his hands in front of his chest. The referee stands on the left.Image
ark:/16417/th7vm46ztk521Photos taken at the weighing in in basement of Herald-Leader. Edgar Allen Boggs, Richmond; Joe Dawson, Lexington; Lester Ballew, Richmond. 1949.Image
ark:/16417/th7vlp89xwt8rTraining at Charles Young Community Center. Robert C. Arthur, William Perry Smith, Elmer Clark, John Hall, Jimmy Fox, Gilbert Ray Roberts and James Fisher. Students in the free boxing school at the Charles Young Community Center are putting pointers on using the heavy bag to practice. John Hall is hitting the bag.Image
ark:/16417/th7vllmn5n4v4Kenneth Arnold-Jack Crowe fight.Image
ark:/16417/th7vczgfjxjv3Although without formal instruction in the sport since he took up boxing four years ago as a middleweight , Pierre (Perry) Jackson had won titles in two lighter classes of other meets before he captured the African American heavyweight championship in The Herald-Leader's 1948 Golden Gloves tournament last week. Voted the sportsmanship award by officials and newspapermen who saw all the bouts in the tourney, the twenty-year-old Kentucky State College athlete from Henderson is shown receiving that trophy from Larry Shropshire, Leader sports editor. A KSC junior, he is regular center on the school's football team.Image
ark:/16417/th7v61wtk8pl5Bill Hampton-Thomas Shuck fight.Image
ark:/16417/th7v3wx99fg84Ellsworth Taylor - Clyde Rowland fight, January 18, 1950. Photo shows two boxers facing off in the ring; the boxer on the right has his left arm outstretched in preparation for a punch.Image
ark:/16417/th7v0tnz1hd31Harry Blackstone, famed magician, feels the magic fist of Bruce Kunkel, Golden Gloves light-heavyweight who won his second TKO of the tournament Wednesday night at Woodland auditorium. Kunkel, a University of Kentucky student, is a former Lafayette High football player.Image
ark:/16417/th7tzfw53wgb3Picture of featherweight novice division, as Bobby Jones of Lexington fights James Wainscott, Greendale. Jones, wearing striped trunks, won.Image
ark:/16417/th7twwvrf6fcrPierre W. Jackson-Joe E. Dawson. Fighters shown readying to deliver blows.Image
ark:/16417/th7tksjrmblnxW.O. Housh-Tommy Nolan Jr. fight.Image
ark:/16417/th7tjtxbw1231Tommy Kelly-Billy Joe Wright fight, January 17, 1950. Photo shows one fighter blocking blows of other.Image
ark:/16417/th7tcvx36sxh1Bobby Wagoner - Edward Sharpe fight, novice welterweight semi-finals, January 19, 1950. Photo shows the two boxers in the ring. The boxer on the right throws a left punch as the boxer on the left blocks the shot. Wagoner was the winner of the bout.Image
ark:/16417/th7tbg4mz97sxMiss Betty Clardy of Herald-Leader Golden Gloves Headquarters fills mail ticket requests from sports fans who want to see every blow that is struck in the big Golden Gloves tournament which opens January 10.Image
ark:/16417/th7t5t1jqz1jrFrank Baxter (in white trunks)-Millard W. Nicholas 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. Picture shows fighters in defensive positions. January, 1950.Image
ark:/16417/th7t43ltzl5svClifton D. Prewitt (right), Lexington, is shown completing a swing which sent his opponent, Cooper Johnson, Greendale, down for the count in the first knockout of last night's Herald-Leader sponsored Golden Gloves amateur boxing bouts at Woodland Auditorium. The win for Prewitt came in 1:58 of the second round of the novice featherweight match.Image
ark:/16417/th7sx39d0jf1jSpike Bailey-Carl Hudson fight. The camera catches a part of the excitement as little Spike Bailey (left) unsuccessfully attempts to whip Carl Hudson, who withstood the continual charge of the game Bailey and won.Image
ark:/16417/th7svv1r87pw0These pictures were taken at the Herald-Leader Golden Gloves fights which were held at Woodland auditorium. Shown are Cooper Johnson, of Greendale, and Clifton D. Prewitt, of Lexington. Prewitt won the match by a knockout.Image
ark:/16417/th7sp6xsvktfjThese pictures were taken at the Herald-Leader Golden Gloves fights which were held at Woodland auditorium. Shown are Marion Corn of Lexington and Daniel Wish. Corn won the match.Image