Dec. 9, 1903 The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) Page 3 JOE GANS LOSES TO COLORED BOY Samuel Langford Defeats the Champion Lightweight. OVER...
Dec. 9, 1903 The Evening World (New York, NY) Page 12 LANGFORD ASTONISHES ALL BY BEATING CHAMPION GANS (Special to The Evening World.)...
Dec. 9, 1903 The Boston Journal Page 8 JOE GANS BEATEN BY SAM LANGFORD Cambridge Boy Is the Lightweight Champion as a Result of the Victory....
Dec. 9, 1903 The Boston Daily Page 1 JOE GANS IS BEATEN Langford Gets the Decision. He Fairly Outclasses the Champion. Has All the Better...
In Sam’s January 1927 interview with newpaper columnist Ed Hughes he would recount that Gans showed him stuff he had ever dreamed of before,...
"I generally hold with you on this one, but that Gans thing makes me uncomfortable. If I could find one press report mentioning his extreme youth...
Joe Woodman claimed that he looked up Sam's birth certificate and confirmed the 1886 birthdate but who knows if he really did. I certainly...
"I like to roll with you on this one Clay, but doesn't this make Langford 17 when he outboxed and outgeneralled Joe Gans? Something like that...
"No one knew Langford's age including himself, he picked a birth date out of a hat. Langford's best guess was March 1883 which makes him 23 when...
The sixth in Adam Pollacks wonderful series of books concerning heavyweight champions, beginning with John L. Sullivan, this work concerning the...
Al Hostak
"I'd be interested if Clay Moyle had found anything during his Langford research to indicate that Sam was keeping a wide berth from Dillon." I...
Funny that Eddie Leonard didn't know how to spell either of their names.
Part II: Part II - Another excerpt: I then went to Los Angeles for two weeks. The day before I closed in Los Angeles, I received a letter from...
Part I - Excerpts concerning James J. Jeffries from a 1934 book titled What a Life Im Telling You by a famous American minstrel/actor named...
