barry wrote:Very first issue...Tex Rickard and Lord Lonsdale...would they count?
Nope! According to my very first post, the person must be featured SOLO on the cover.
BTW: Barry (and others), what do you think of the recent format update of THE RING monthly issues? This format offers the Table of Contents (if that image has been scanned and uploaded to the BoxRec Wikipedia). Such as: http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/R ... ugust_1931
I like it better. It's really good to have the index so that anyone, who may be researching a certain fighter, can look through the index and find various articles, which some cases the article title may not mention who the fighter is, but still I think it is very helpful.
As to the other cover person...I don't know without looking, so I'll leave it alone.
Well since it looks like no one is going to get it, I saw the cover in a 1952 issue of Ring celebrating they're 30 year anniversary a couple of days ago...the final guy was none other than the man responsible for the Walker Law legalizing boxing in New York...James J. Walker!
P.S. Thomas Tate was a middleweight who never fought in the Olympics...John Tate did and Thomas Tate's brother Frank Tate did, but that was in 1984!
November 1925, Senator James Walker--the first non-boxer to be featured solo on the cover:
