Tell me more about Nonpareil Jack Dempsey...

Yes, but it is not easy to catch it.

 

Looking it up, only transmittable if it’s in the lungs or throat through close contact, usually over an extended period of time (like living in the same household). Cannot be transmitted through sweat, sharing of cups or silverware.

So basically a fighter with tuberculosis would probably need to be at close quarters coughing into his opponent’s face repeatedly to risk spreading it.

(And, of course, they probably didn’t have a good handle on how it spread or how easily back in those days.)

 

1883-04-06 Ed McDonald (LPR)
1883-08-14 John Boylan (LPR with hard gloves)
1884-07-09 Tom Henry (LPR with hard gloves)
1884-07-30 George Fulljames (LPR with ordinary driving gloves)
1884-09-04 Mike Dempsey (LPR with gloves)
1887-12-13 Johnny Reagan (LPR with skin gloves)

The rest were MoQ.

 

Thanks! I’d be interested to see what the difference is between skin gloves, hard gloves, and driving gloves…like a picture of all 3 side by side would be awesome but I highly doubt it exists. When they say hard gloves, are they referring to padded gloves but the padding itself is hard? If so, I wonder what the padding was made of.

 

I don't think there was any difference between hard gloves, skin-tight gloves, kid (meaning a type of animal skin, not that they were used by young ones or were small) gloves or driving gloves, they were just gloves without any padding, made of skin of some animal. But I was just quoting how the next-day reports referred to them.