"Nat in the entire run of his mag sold Harry way short" He rated him third at middleweight all time, behind Ketchel and Ryan, but ahead of...
Fair enough, and I'm happy to read a polite post. It is possible I am wrong, but I do think, whatever his faults, Fleischer was a good reporter...
"Do you think anyone cared or remembered who James Fair was at that point?" You think that Sports Illustrated would hire a writer to write on...
"I think I'll take her word over yours" So would I. Hers is not in question. You made a sensational charge--that Harry Greb's life was...
A dying woman was answering the phone? No one else about? Why wasn't she in a sanitarium?
I am just quoting the article in Sports Illustrated. I have no idea if it is correct. I do know that you can not libel the dead, so who sued him?...
Fair enough. Like I posted, the original complete article is available online at the Sport's Illustrated Archive.
Well, Tunney wrote the same in his autobiography. I wouldn't put all that much stock in Tunney claiming this, but Fair writing it means something...
"If you are a gambler" If I am the gambler, I don't put money on a guy who was bested twice. If Greb won this fight as easily as you claim, he...
This thread seems to be generating more heat than light, unfortunately, but I came across this article in Sports Illustrated, March 27,...
I would want to know why Muldoon handpicked the referee for Tunney and then complained about the decision.
So Patsey Haley was appointed referee by the NYSAC headed by William Muldoon with the instructions to limit Greb's LEGAL tactics like bouncing...
"He cut his teeth in the New York Newspaper business during the advent of yellow journalism" And so did most of the other reporters you are...
Was he penalized points for it?
