Classic Boxing Autobiographies-The ROAR OF THE CROWD(1926)

[Caractacus]

by Jim J. Corbett (published in 1926)
Has anyone here read it and how would you rate it ?

[Caractacus]

[prewarboxing]

I thought it was called "The Roar of the Crowd". Read it a long time ago and very much liked it. If I were to read it again now, with a more critical eye and knowing much more about the history of that time, I wonder if it would still stand up. I must track it down and find out.

Miles Templeton

[Caractacus]

aww, your right it was THE ROAR OF THE CROWD.
THE CROWD ROARS was the name of a movie starring James Cagney.
(who use to box some)

[Caractacus]

If you don't mind me asking what elements of your critical eye of it would you be looking for ?
also
As far as Jim J. Corbett's UK connection (other then both of his parents having immigrated to the USA from Ireland)
His first real boxing instructor (at age 16) at the ( new)Olympic Club in San Fransico
he writes was Walter Watson who had been imported from England
(with whom Corbett had taken boxing lessons from 3 x a week)
what is known of the background of Walter Watson ?
you gotta wonder if he had contriibuted or how much to Corbett's then new method of "Scientific Boxing".
( and I don't think that one has to be Sherlock Holmes to see that Corbett looks to have included what looks to be some Fencing tactics into Boxing.

[Caractacus]

Jim J. Corbett at age 46 years (1912)
looks like he and Kid McCoy are re-enacting their fight from years earlier.