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Can anyone identify these boxers please.

My Step-father who was a reporter for Boxing News can be seen as the young man watching. I believe the date is late 40's to early 50's.

Any suggestions would me much appreciated.

Simon

Simon A wrote: ↑02 Aug 2018, 13:47 Can anyone identify these boxers please.

My Step-father who was a reporter for Boxing News can be seen as the young man watching. I believe the date is late 40's to early 50's.

Any suggestions would me much appreciated.

Simon

no photos fella, maybe retry upping them

Would like to help with this but need to see the pic!

would need to see the photo

Seems to me there are quite a few people that want to help with this, including me.

Who was your stepfather Simon? And, will you please upload the image. If you don't know how to then we can advise

Miles Templeton

Please can someone explain how to attach a JPG image?

Thanks

Simon

try uploading the pic to an image hosting site. it will generate a link for u. then paste the link between these [img] [img], with a / added before the 'i' in the 2nd box


at the moment u dont have a link between the image boxes

Thanks for letting me know.

The reporter's name is Cyril Tiffin and he can be seen watching between the 1st boxer's feet. The other picture has him seated at the table on the left. There is a copy of the Boxing News on the table. Is the large man shaking hands on the left a boxer?

Thanks

Simon

This is getting silly.

If you email me the picture Simon then I will put it up for you

Miles Templeton

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Right guys, Simon has emailed me the pictures and I will now put them up, one at a time

Here is the first one

Miles Templeton

And this is the second one

Miles

I can tell you straight away that the Boxing News on the table in the first image is dated June 9th 1948.

Miles Templeton

Ok, I have sussed the first picture. The third guy from the left is Vivian Brodzky, who was then the owner of Boxing News. The fourth guy on the left, the smaller of the two shaking hands, is retiring Boxing News editor, Bert Callis.

I think the guy in the middle, who is also reflected in the mirror is future editor, Gilbert Odd.

The rest of the lads will be BN staff and reporters. I do not know who is shaking Callis' hand, the guy on the far left, but I will do some digging.

Miles Templeton

The action shot is much harder. I get the feeling that the guy on the right might be Frank Johnson of Manchester, the British lightweight champion in the 1950s. I enclose another picture of Frank, again on the right, what do people think?

Miles Templeton

Actually I don't think it is, the profile of the nose looks different

Simon - is there anything on the back of this action picture which might reveal some further details about when or where it was taken?

Miles

Regarding the man who is shaking Callis' hand, the obvious big name to have wheeled in to such an event, who was then in the UK training for a World title defence, was Gus Lesnevich. This chap has the same colour eyes and there is something similar about the two but I am unconvinced. Does anyone else have a view?

Miles

Thanks Guys

It's great to be able to put names to some of the people in my Step Dad's past.

Have asked Miles to upload some more pictures from the Boxing News.

Simon

prewarboxing wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 18:06 Regarding the man who is shaking Callis' hand, the obvious big name to have wheeled in to such an event, who was then in the UK training for a World title defence, was Gus Lesnevich. This chap has the same colour eyes and there is something similar about the two but I am unconvinced. Does anyone else have a view?

Miles

Looks more like Tommy Farr than Lesnevich

It isn't Tommy Farr. I think he looks a bit like Bob Hope but I can't believe it would be him. Hope was in London in 1948 and he liked his boxing and he is the kind of fella who Brodzky would know (he mixed in wealthy company). But not him surely?

Miles

Joe Baksi?

Also looks like a young reg gutteridge sitting down with the 3 pens in his top pocket....

evrenb wrote: ↑09 Mar 2019, 07:12 Also looks like a young reg gutteridge sitting down with the 3 pens in his top pocket....

Not Gutteridge, that is Cyril Tiffin, the step-father of Simon who initiated the thread.

Joe Baksi is a very good call. There is a strong likeness. Anyone else agree?

Miles

Baksi had the classic crooked boxer's nose and the guy in the picture seems to have a pretty straight one.

Baksi was in England in '46 and '47 fighting Freddie Mills and Bruce Woodcock, but not in '48. Back then it wasn't like they would hop a plane to attend a dinner. It was a week on a liner and they would generally be headed over the briny for a fight or some money-making reason. So I would doubt Baksi.

Tricky one, isn't it?