Irish Patsy Cline

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  1. Senya13

    Senya13 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=57681&cat=boxer
    I haven't done any research on him, but maybe somebody has? Any write-ups on him (not the next-day reports)? Today I stumbled upon a quote by Damon Runyon, Jan 25, 1930:
    "The cleverest boxer I ever saw wasn't Packy McFarland, but a kid called Irish Patsy Cline, of New York."
     
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  3. burt bienstock

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    Irish Patsy Cline was a clever boxer who lost only one bout in his first 34 fights,so clever was he...But he just wasn't as "clever" as the LW immortal Benny Leonard who beat Cline in 1914...
     
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  4. Nightcrawler

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    one reference i found..."a Ripley cartoon on lightweight contender "Irish Patsy" Cline entitled "New York's Latest Lightweight Contender" from November 3, 1916, shows up in the Vancouver daily over a year later "After World's Title."'

    i can't find much of anything on this dude...
     
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  7. Senya13

    Senya13 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  8. Senya13

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    Different Patsy Cline.
     
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    looks like the fight was in 1917 if i'm not mistaken burt
     
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  10. Senya13

    Senya13 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    They fought for the first time in February 1915, and based on 6 local next-day reports, Leonard did have the better of the fight.
    Anyway, that was Damon Runyon's opinion n 1930, and he started writing sports around 1906, if I'm not mistaken.
     
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  11. Surf-Bat

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    I just made a correction on Boxrec for his 8/24/1916 bout with Leo Johnson. Have a look and tell me what you think. Sounds like a win for Cline to me, but I bumped it up to a draw rather than the win originally listed for Johnson. Until I can figure out if Jack Kincaid's opinion outweighs the other sources or not.
     
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  12. Senya13

    Senya13 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Brooklyn Daily Eagle voted for Cline. NY Herald had it a draw. Naturally, the colored papers, NY Age (Aug 31) and Indianapolis Freeman (Sept 2) had Johnson the victor.
    Referee was Florrie Barnett
     
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  13. SLAKKA

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    jack has a fanatic check em all policy
    that i can tell you
     
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    Musta failed him this time around;). Most of the papers disagreed with him
     
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  15. SLAKKA

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    The old boy dosen't know how to email
    u gotta catch him on the fly at the ny public library
     
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