This content is protected Jack Carroll was in line for a shot at McLarnin. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/181689948/20613293
Here is Jeff Smith's old manager talking about how good Jack Carroll was and on Ambrose Palmer. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/181689601/20613261
Why McLarnin can't take up offer to fight Jack Carroll. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/181688533/20613165 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/181688766/20613174
Article about current heavyweight champion, Max Baer http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/181688570/20613174
Jack Kid Berg loses European title ti Gustave Humery http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/181688269/20613135
McLarnin wants to fight Jack Carroll if he can beat Ross in upcoming fight. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/181689948/20613293
Peter Jackson The Black Prince of the Ring http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/181688014/20613116
Is Jim Braddock easy money for Max Baer ???? http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/181687775/20613105
Greg, I found quite a bit about Jimmy Leto, who had three bouts with Jack Carroll, while looking at U.S. Census Records tonight. It appears that Leto's widowed mother worked as a cigar maker while raising a family of seven children in Tampa, Florida. Jimmy apparently had at least two older brothers, Tony and Peter, who also were professional boxers while his remaining older brother, Joe, was a proprietor of a gymnasium. A professional boxer from Tampa named Tony Leto had a total of 132 known bouts, mostly as a featherweight, during a career which lasted from 1924 to 1934. According to the 1940 U.S. Census Records, Jimmy had completed four years of high school, which means he probably did enough to be awarded a high school diploma. If the census information is true, Jimmy had a high level of education for a top professional boxer at the time. - Chuck Johnston
Greg, Jack Carroll drew huge crowds during the last few bouts of his career. One of those bouts reportedly had a gate of 6,000 pounds, which must have been the biggest one for a boxing event in Australia during the 1930s. The record gate for a boxing event in Australia at the time was about 26,000 pounds, which the world heavyweight title bout between Jack Johnson and Tommy Burns drew during 1908. I don't think that any bout of Les Darcy's drew a gate of much over 4,000 pounds. It appears that Darcy usually received about 25% of the gate receipts in all of his bouts for Stadiums Limited. Keeping that in mind, you can take reported purses that Darcy had received from Stadiums Limited and multiply them by four to estimate the gates that certain bouts of his drew. - Chuck Johnston
Well Carroll was somewhat of a ring genius, he had awesome skills and was one of the smartest technicians ever. I know this about Darcy, there were never empty seats at Sydney Stadium when he fought and still he is the most popular fighter we ever had. Carroll obviously fought during the depression and only two things kept Aussie spirits up in those hard times... the incredible exploits of Don Bradman the great cricketer and biggest idol of all Aussie sport history... the other was boxing, the public was simply boxing mad.
I do not know what a ticket to the fights in Sydney cost during Darcy's day but the capacity of the joint was between 6 and 7000 so if you find out what the tickets cost and those for ringside were you can work out the gate. The Johnson Burns fight was held at the same exact place but then all there was were the wide open spaces and a ring. The stadium came after that fight.
