In regards to Freddie Gilmore, he had four known bouts in Australia during 1916. It could be that Darcy met Gilmore at the time. Frank "Frosty"...
It seemed that Les Darcy and the people advising him went out of their way to get newspaper coverage at the time that he arrived in the U.S.,...
In regards to President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, he was reelected by a very close margin over the Republican candidate, Charles Evans...
Greg, I don't know if Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States, had Billy Hughes on his mind to a great degree. While being a massive...
Greg- I have never learned how to create links on posts. Sorry about that. When using the Trove website, I tried to narrow my search results...
In regards to the ticket sales for the bout between Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons, there may have been a lot of orders for tickets coming in, but...
In regards to the size of Jack Dempsey's purses, the goalposts were moved dramatically because of Dempsey's bout with Georges Carpentier. Yes,...
Staging a world heavyweight championship bout in Shelby, Montana was a harebrained idea, plain and simple. Shelby is a small town located in the...
Wilfredo Benitez would take Pipino Cuevas apart, probably stop him to boot. - Chuck Johnston
A fairly lengthy biography titled "The Life of Les Darcy," appeared in serial or installment form in a newspaper called the Newcastle Morning...
It has been a habit of mine to sign off on every post since I started doing it on the Cyber Boxing Zone message board over ten years ago. At the...
While reading some American coverage about Les Darcy arriving and being in the United States, I sensed that there was a huge American groundswell...
Wilfredo Benitez seemed to be a very unstable individual even during his heyday as a great fighter. Under the circumstances, it is little wonder...
In my book, journeyman boxers are quite competent. They are far better than the so-called "stiffs." In other words, the word of "journeyman" is...
While fighting in Australia, Darcy was making a substantial amount of money compared to the average weekly wage of Australian adult male workers...
