GUS RHODES -JACK JOHNSON'S NEPHEW AND SPARRING PARTNER

[enrique]

DOES ANYONE HAVE INFO ON GUS RHODES, JACK JOHNSON’S NEPHEW, SPARRING PARTNER AND TRAVEL BUDDY? HE SEEMS TO DISAPPEAR IN HISTORY, BUT HE WAS THE CLOSEST HISTORICAL WITNESS OF JOHNSON’S YEARS OF EXILE.

WE ONLY HAVE A 3-0-2 RECORD WITH ONE NC BUT RHODES MUST HAVE BEEN A CAPABLE BOXER FOR HE FOUGHT A 15 ROUND DRAW WITH FRANK HOCHE, A FRENCH FIGHTER WHO LOGGED TWO DRAWS AND A LOSS TO DIXIE KID, WENT THE DISTANCE WITH BATTLING SIKI AND HAD A CREDIBLE 35-9-7 RECORD.

SO ARE THERE ANY LOST INTERVIEWS OF GUS RHODES?

[Caractacus]

I tried to ascertain this in another thread.
He was still a teenager when he accompinied Jack Johnson when Johnson was on the run
in the 1910's so possibly he may have lived up until the 1960's..
I will bump up that thread (Jack Johnson's ancestry and Family tree)if I can find it.