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		<title>Abe Hollandersky</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: Made hollandersky fight photo smaller&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[file:Hollandersky1914.jpeg|240px|left]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[file:Newsboy.Abe.the.jpg|right]] &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;boxer&amp;gt;173038&amp;lt;/boxer&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
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In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  According to the &#039;&#039;Hartford Courier&#039;&#039;, he boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
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His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by around thirty-five pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
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Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great world champion [[Joe Walcott]] in November, 1918, and decade long world featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] whom he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London in 1916 near the end of Attell&#039;s boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
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During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing well past his boxing retirement to San Diego.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed a long cruise, in early 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, that went overland to San Pedro and then followed the &amp;quot;Good Will&amp;quot; cruise to Hawaii.&lt;br /&gt;
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During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
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After retiring from professional boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers, though he continued to stage exhibitions for charities, and to provide training for Navy men.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successful movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
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# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, &#039;&#039;New London Day&#039;&#039;, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions or prize fights, February 1912, possibly at Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, or inland.(“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Welter and lightweight Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
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In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, and in his personal boxing record at the back each of his books, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. According to his book, his last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won.  This bout was not covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;, but the details of Abe&#039;s travel&#039;s to Honolulu were, including his arrival and departure dates.  Governor Farrington, provincial governor of Hawaii at the time, and according to Abe, in attendance at his last fight in Honolulu, had formerly been an owner of the Honolulu Star-Telegram.&lt;br /&gt;
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At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, several of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
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He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery as was his wife Freda a decade later.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
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*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&amp;amp;GRid=5040641&amp;amp;PIpi=116134751 www.findagrave.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fight:360115&amp;diff=858701</id>
		<title>Fight:360115</title>
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		<updated>2020-04-25T13:10:48Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;It is important to note that the promoters of this fight and Jack Ortega were also arrested after the foul was called, and that the riot that ensued was a result of the strong suspicions of the crowd and the police that the fight was fixed and that Ortega had taken a dive to cover strong betting he and/or Crouse had made on the fight.&lt;br /&gt;
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All ticket receipts were refunded, according to the article, &amp;quot;Crouse in Chain Gang in Panama&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Pittsburgh Press&#039;&#039;, Pittsburgh, Pensylvannia, pg. 20, 20 August 1913.  After Crouse was sentenced to a Chain Gang, the promoters of the fight were released, but Ortega may have served a bit longer.  That law enforcement and the crowd suspected the fight of having been fixed is described in the article, &amp;quot;Buck Crouse in Bad&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Altoona Tribune&#039;&#039;, Altoona, Pensylvania, pg. 6, 18 August 1913. Abe Hollandersky in his autobiography describes having been present at this fight and that the effects of it on Panamanian boxing fans reduced the house receipts for a period in Panamanian boxing.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ortega was from San Jose, California originally, and had served around 10 years in San Quentin Prison for assaulting an 11 year old girl.  He and several of his brothers had had repeated brushes with the law.   After completing his sentence, he came to Panama City and won the Heavyweight championship.  He had boxed for a few years before his arrest, and was known as a boxer prior to his prison term.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fight:1982851&amp;diff=858700</id>
		<title>Fight:1982851</title>
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		<updated>2020-04-25T13:05:55Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: described Chip and Gibbons in more detail&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Fight 1982851&lt;br /&gt;
Abe Hollandersky vs. Tommy Connors, Panama City Panama, April 26, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
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This fight was described in &amp;quot;Tommy Connors Wins From Panama Fighter in Fifteen Rounds&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Scranton Republican&#039;&#039;, Scranton, Pennsylvania, pg. 14, 8 May 1914 &lt;br /&gt;
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Connors, a Scranton boxer, dominated the bout, and would shortly fight [[Kid Norfolk]], whom Hollandersky had already met.  Connors may have had weight on Hollandersky, and most certainly had a five inch advantage in height and reach.  The article noted Connors won on a fifteen round points decision.&lt;br /&gt;
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Connors fought both George Chip, and Mike Gibbons, two great world middleweight contenders, in his career, though he lost to both by newspaper decision.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fight:825714&amp;diff=820365</id>
		<title>Fight:825714</title>
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		<updated>2019-09-08T17:07:50Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: Created page with &amp;quot;This fight was for the Australian middleweight championship and fought for a purse of £500 per side.  It was the most important fight of Foley&amp;#039;s career and his greatest victory.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;This fight was for the Australian middleweight championship and fought for a purse of £500 per side.  It was the most important fight of Foley&#039;s career and his greatest victory.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Aby_Belasco&amp;diff=819536</id>
		<title>Aby Belasco</title>
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		<updated>2019-09-02T17:40:10Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:Randall.Belasco.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Aby Belasco&#039;&#039;&#039; was a pioneer bare-knuckle boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Bare-knuckle Boxers|Belasco, Aby]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Belasco, Aby]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Barney_Ross&amp;diff=761023</id>
		<title>Barney Ross</title>
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		<updated>2018-10-10T17:29:12Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: /* War Hero */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:BarneyRoss$T2.JPG|left|300px|thumb|Barney Ross]]           &lt;br /&gt;
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 1990&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Old Timer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/oldtimer/ross.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[File:ILBOXINGHOFLOGO IL State Martial Arts Boxing Hall of Fame 2014 logo contender.jpg|right]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;boxer&amp;gt;008996&amp;lt;/boxer&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Trainer:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[Ray Arcel]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Managers:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[Gig Rooney]] (1929-1930), [[Sam Pian]] &amp;amp; [[Art Winch]], [[Sol Gold]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;[[:Category:Barney Ross Gallery|Barney Ross Gallery]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
*Won the [[Chicago Golden Gloves]] Featherweight Championship on February 23, 1929, defeating [[Jackie Davis (of Springfield, IL)|Jackie Davis]] by a three-round decision.&lt;br /&gt;
*Won the [[Intercity Golden Gloves]] Featherweight Championship on March 27, 1929 in New York City, defeating [[Al Santora]] by a four-round decision. The bout was declared a draw after three rounds, so they boxed an additional round to decide the winner.&lt;br /&gt;
*Defeated [[Tony Canzoneri]] in 1933 to win the World Lightweight and Junior Welterweight Championships.&lt;br /&gt;
*Held the World Lightweight and Junior Welterweight Championships when he defeated [[Jimmy McLarnin]] to win the World Welterweight Championship in 1934. Ross and [[Henry Armstrong]] are the only two fighters to hold three world titles simultaneously, although some historians question the recognition of Ross&#039;s junior welterweight title at that time. &lt;br /&gt;
*Named [[The Ring Magazine|&#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039;]] [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1934 (along with [[Tony Canzoneri]]) and 1935.&lt;br /&gt;
*Ross&#039;s autobiography, &#039;&#039;[[No Man Stands Alone]]&#039;&#039;, was published in 1957.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[Ring Magazine&#039;s Boxing Hall of Fame|&#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039; Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1956.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1981.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1990.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[United States Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;
*The [[:Ring Magazine: May 1994|May 1994 issue]] of &#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039; ranked Ross as the third greatest junior welterweight and fourth greatest welterweight of [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|all-time]].&lt;br /&gt;
*In 1999, The Associated Press ranked Ross as the second best junior welterweight and fifth best welterweight of the 20th century.&lt;br /&gt;
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==War Hero==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Rossmarine.jpg|220px|right|thumb|Marine Barney Ross]] &lt;br /&gt;
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Ross enlisted in the U.S. Marines and became a much-decorated [[Combat Veterans|veteran]]. He was 32-years-old and had to obtain a special waiver on the usual requirement that Marines be 30 or under. &lt;br /&gt;
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Although he was assigned to work as a boxing instructor, he requested that he be sent into combat. He was sent to Guadalcanal Island, one of the most brutal U.S. military engagements against the Japanese.&lt;br /&gt;
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On November 19, 1942, Ross and three comrades were were attacked by Japanese troops while on patrol. His three fellow Marines were wounded and Ross shepherded them into a crater where he protected them throughout the night. He fired over 200 rounds of ammunition and was credited with killing seven Japanese snipers and 10 probables. By the morning, two of his colleagues had died and though wounded, he managed to carry the sole survivor to safety. For his brave efforts, Ross received the Silver Star, Purple Heart, and a Presidential Citation. &lt;br /&gt;
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While recovering from malaria and his wounds in a military hospital, he developed an addiction to the morphine he was treated with. At the height of his addiction as a civilian, he was spending $500 per day. In September 1946, he voluntarily appeared in the U.S. Marshal&#039;s office in New York and requested admittance to a federal drug treatment facility. Ross was admitted to the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital near Lexington, Kentucky, and was discharged by Dr. Victor M. Vogel in January 1947. Doctors predicted it would take a year to get clean, but, though agonizing, he kicked the habit in four months. &lt;br /&gt;
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The 1957 movie &#039;&#039;Monkey On My Back&#039;&#039; was about his life and addiction to morphine. Ross approved the script but was upset with the advertising. &amp;quot;The advertising makes it seem that I am still a narcotics addict and that defeats the whole purpose of the picture,&amp;quot; he said. He sued the producers for $5 million, claiming defamation of character, but settled out of court for $10,000 in 1960. &lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&amp;quot;Ross had style, combatively and socially. His manners were impeccable; his generosity and thoughtfulness have become almost legendary.&amp;quot;&#039;&#039; [[Alan Ward]] (1967)&lt;br /&gt;
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According to his 2013 autobiography, &#039;&#039;Anyone Who Had a Heart&#039;&#039;, p. 40, award-winning songwriter Burt Bacharach said that in the mid-1950s while on a USO tour in Libya with the Harlem Globetrotters, he had Ross as his roomate. Bacharach describes a night with Ross when the former champion tried to pick a fight with a couple of Arabs in Tripoli after having a few drinks.&lt;br /&gt;
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==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NWYhAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=vYcFAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=5253,2657819&amp;amp;dq=junior+welterweight+new+york+state&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Barney Ross Defends One Title This Week&amp;quot; Associated Press, November 13, 1933] &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bDkuAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=itUFAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=4438,5710166&amp;amp;dq=barney+ross+purple+heart&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Little Barney Ross Slays The Giant; Beats Narcotics Habit In Four Months&amp;quot; International News Service, January 15, 1947]  &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wq1UAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=qjsNAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=4509,2660291&amp;amp;dq=barney-ross+monkey-on-my-back&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Barney Battles Movie Business&amp;quot; Associated Press, May 15, 1957] &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ross.html JVL Biography]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;amp;GRid=903 Find a Grave]&lt;br /&gt;
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 title=[[World Lightweight Champion]]|&lt;br /&gt;
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 title=[[World Light Welterweight Champion|World Junior Welterweight Champion]]|&lt;br /&gt;
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 title=[[World Welterweight Champion]]|&lt;br /&gt;
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 before=[[Jimmy McLarnin]]|&lt;br /&gt;
 title=[[World Welterweight Champion]]|&lt;br /&gt;
 after=[[Henry Armstrong]]|&lt;br /&gt;
 years=28 May 1935&amp;amp;ndash; 31 May 1938&lt;br /&gt;
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Chicago Tribune Golden Gloves Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Intercity Golden Gloves Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Three Division World Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:American World Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World War II Veterans]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Sol Gold]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Gig Rooney]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Sam Pian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Art Winch]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame Gallery]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Barney_Ross&amp;diff=761012</id>
		<title>Barney Ross</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Barney_Ross&amp;diff=761012"/>
		<updated>2018-10-10T16:24:30Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: /* War Hero */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[File:BarneyRoss$T2.JPG|left|300px|thumb|Barney Ross]]           &lt;br /&gt;
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 1990&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Old Timer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/oldtimer/ross.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[File:ILBOXINGHOFLOGO IL State Martial Arts Boxing Hall of Fame 2014 logo contender.jpg|right]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;boxer&amp;gt;008996&amp;lt;/boxer&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Trainer:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[Ray Arcel]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Managers:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[Gig Rooney]] (1929-1930), [[Sam Pian]] &amp;amp; [[Art Winch]], [[Sol Gold]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;[[:Category:Barney Ross Gallery|Barney Ross Gallery]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
*Won the [[Chicago Golden Gloves]] Featherweight Championship on February 23, 1929, defeating [[Jackie Davis (of Springfield, IL)|Jackie Davis]] by a three-round decision.&lt;br /&gt;
*Won the [[Intercity Golden Gloves]] Featherweight Championship on March 27, 1929 in New York City, defeating [[Al Santora]] by a four-round decision. The bout was declared a draw after three rounds, so they boxed an additional round to decide the winner.&lt;br /&gt;
*Defeated [[Tony Canzoneri]] in 1933 to win the World Lightweight and Junior Welterweight Championships.&lt;br /&gt;
*Held the World Lightweight and Junior Welterweight Championships when he defeated [[Jimmy McLarnin]] to win the World Welterweight Championship in 1934. Ross and [[Henry Armstrong]] are the only two fighters to hold three world titles simultaneously, although some historians question the recognition of Ross&#039;s junior welterweight title at that time. &lt;br /&gt;
*Named [[The Ring Magazine|&#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039;]] [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1934 (along with [[Tony Canzoneri]]) and 1935.&lt;br /&gt;
*Ross&#039;s autobiography, &#039;&#039;[[No Man Stands Alone]]&#039;&#039;, was published in 1957.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[Ring Magazine&#039;s Boxing Hall of Fame|&#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039; Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1956.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1981.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1990.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[United States Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;
*The [[:Ring Magazine: May 1994|May 1994 issue]] of &#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039; ranked Ross as the third greatest junior welterweight and fourth greatest welterweight of [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|all-time]].&lt;br /&gt;
*In 1999, The Associated Press ranked Ross as the second best junior welterweight and fifth best welterweight of the 20th century.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==War Hero==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Rossmarine.jpg|220px|right|thumb|Marine Barney Ross]] &lt;br /&gt;
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Ross enlisted in the U.S. Marines and became a much-decorated [[Combat Veterans|veteran]]. He was 32-years-old and had to obtain a special waiver on the usual requirement that Marines be 30 or under. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although he was assigned to work as a boxing instructor, he requested that he be sent into combat. He was sent to Guadalcanal Island, one of the most brutal U.S. military engagements against the Japanese.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On November 19, 1942, Ross and three comrades were were attacked by Japanese troops while on patrol. His three fellow Marines were wounded and Ross shepherded them into a crater where he protected them throughout the night. He fired over 200 rounds of ammunition and was credited with killing seven Japanese snipers and 10 probables. By the morning, two of his colleagues had died and though wounded, he managed to carry the sole survivor to safety. For his brave efforts, Ross received the Silver Star, Purple Heart, and a Presidential Citation. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
While Ross was in a military hospital recovering from Malaria and his wounds, he developed an addiction to the morphine he was treated with. At the height of his addiction as a civilian, he was spending $500 per day. In September 1946, he voluntarily appeared in the U.S. Marshal&#039;s office in New York and asked to be admitted into a federal drug treatment facility. Ross was admitted to the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital near Lexington, Kentucky. He was discharged by Dr. Victor M. Vogel in January 1947. Some doctors predicted that it would take Ross a year to get clean, but, though agonizing, he kicked the habit in four months. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The 1957 movie &#039;&#039;Monkey On My Back&#039;&#039; was about Ross and his addiction to morphine. Ross approved the script but was upset with the advertising. &amp;quot;The advertising makes it seem that I am still a narcotics addict and that defeats the whole purpose of the picture,&amp;quot; he said. He sued the producers for $5 million, claiming defamation of character, but settled out of court for $10,000 in 1960. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&amp;quot;Ross had style, combatively and socially. His manners were impeccable; his generosity and thoughtfulness have become almost legendary.&amp;quot;&#039;&#039; [[Alan Ward]] (1967)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
----&lt;br /&gt;
According to his 2013 autobiography, &#039;&#039;Anyone Who Had a Heart&#039;&#039;, p. 40, award-winning songwriter Burt Bacharach said that in the mid-1950s he was on a USO tour in Libya with the Harlem Globetrotters, with Barney Ross as his roomate. Bacharach describes a night with Ross in Tripoli when the former champion tried to pick a fight with a couple of Arabs after having a few drinks.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NWYhAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=vYcFAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=5253,2657819&amp;amp;dq=junior+welterweight+new+york+state&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Barney Ross Defends One Title This Week&amp;quot; Associated Press, November 13, 1933] &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bDkuAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=itUFAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=4438,5710166&amp;amp;dq=barney+ross+purple+heart&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Little Barney Ross Slays The Giant; Beats Narcotics Habit In Four Months&amp;quot; International News Service, January 15, 1947]  &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wq1UAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=qjsNAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=4509,2660291&amp;amp;dq=barney-ross+monkey-on-my-back&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Barney Battles Movie Business&amp;quot; Associated Press, May 15, 1957] &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ross.html JVL Biography]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;amp;GRid=903 Find a Grave]&lt;br /&gt;
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 title=[[World Welterweight Champion]]|&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Chicago Tribune Golden Gloves Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Intercity Golden Gloves Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Three Division World Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:American World Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World War II Veterans]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Sol Gold]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Gig Rooney]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Sam Pian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Art Winch]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame Gallery]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Barney_Ross&amp;diff=761011</id>
		<title>Barney Ross</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Barney_Ross&amp;diff=761011"/>
		<updated>2018-10-10T16:18:17Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[File:BarneyRoss$T2.JPG|left|300px|thumb|Barney Ross]]           &lt;br /&gt;
[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 1990&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Old Timer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/oldtimer/ross.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:WBHF Logo.jpg|right|thumb|200px|World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[File:ILBOXINGHOFLOGO IL State Martial Arts Boxing Hall of Fame 2014 logo contender.jpg|right]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;boxer&amp;gt;008996&amp;lt;/boxer&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Trainer:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[Ray Arcel]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;Managers:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[Gig Rooney]] (1929-1930), [[Sam Pian]] &amp;amp; [[Art Winch]], [[Sol Gold]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &#039;&#039;&#039;[[:Category:Barney Ross Gallery|Barney Ross Gallery]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
*Won the [[Chicago Golden Gloves]] Featherweight Championship on February 23, 1929, defeating [[Jackie Davis (of Springfield, IL)|Jackie Davis]] by a three-round decision.&lt;br /&gt;
*Won the [[Intercity Golden Gloves]] Featherweight Championship on March 27, 1929 in New York City, defeating [[Al Santora]] by a four-round decision. The bout was declared a draw after three rounds, so they boxed an additional round to decide the winner.&lt;br /&gt;
*Defeated [[Tony Canzoneri]] in 1933 to win the World Lightweight and Junior Welterweight Championships.&lt;br /&gt;
*Held the World Lightweight and Junior Welterweight Championships when he defeated [[Jimmy McLarnin]] to win the World Welterweight Championship in 1934. Ross and [[Henry Armstrong]] are the only two fighters to hold three world titles simultaneously, although some historians question the recognition of Ross&#039;s junior welterweight title at that time. &lt;br /&gt;
*Named [[The Ring Magazine|&#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039;]] [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year|Fighter of the Year]] for 1934 (along with [[Tony Canzoneri]]) and 1935.&lt;br /&gt;
*Ross&#039;s autobiography, &#039;&#039;[[No Man Stands Alone]]&#039;&#039;, was published in 1957.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[Ring Magazine&#039;s Boxing Hall of Fame|&#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039; Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1956.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1981.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1990.&lt;br /&gt;
*Inducted into the [[United States Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;
*The [[:Ring Magazine: May 1994|May 1994 issue]] of &#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039; ranked Ross as the third greatest junior welterweight and fourth greatest welterweight of [[Division-By-Division - The Greatest Fighters of All-Time|all-time]].&lt;br /&gt;
*In 1999, The Associated Press ranked Ross as the second best junior welterweight and fifth best welterweight of the 20th century.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==War Hero==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Rossmarine.jpg|220px|right|thumb|Marine Barney Ross]] &lt;br /&gt;
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Ross enlisted in the U.S. Marines and became a much-decorated [[Combat Veterans|veteran]]. He was 32-years-old and had to obtain a special waiver on the usual requirement that Marines be 30 or under. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Although he was assigned to work as a boxing instructor, he requested that he be sent into combat. He was sent to Guadalcanal Island, one of the most brutal U.S. military engagements against the Japanese.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On November 19, 1942, Ross and three comrades were were attacked by Japanese troops while on patrol. His three fellow Marines were wounded and Ross shepherded them into a crater where he protected them throughout the night. He fired over 200 rounds of ammunition and was credited with killing seven Japanese snipers and 10 probables. By the morning, two of his colleagues had died and though wounded, he managed to carry the sole survivor to safety. For his brave efforts, Ross received the Silver Star, Purple Heart, and a Presidential Citation. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
While Ross was in a military hospital recovering from Malaria and his wounds, he developed an addiction to the morphine he was treated with. At the height of his addiction as a civilian, he was spending $500 per day. In September 1946, he voluntarily appeared in the U.S. Marshal&#039;s office in New York and asked to be admitted into a federal drug treatment facility. Ross was admitted to the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital near Lexington, Kentucky. He was discharged by Dr. Victor M. Vogel in January 1947. Some doctors predicted that it would take Ross a year to get clean, but, though agonizing, he kicked the habit in four months. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The 1957 movie &#039;&#039;Monkey On My Back&#039;&#039; was about Ross and his addiction to morphine. Ross approved the script but was upset with the advertising. &amp;quot;The advertising makes it seem that I am still a narcotics addict and that defeats the whole purpose of the picture,&amp;quot; he said. He sued the producers for $5 million, claiming defamation of character, but settled out of court for $10,000 in 1960. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&amp;quot;Ross had style, combatively and socially. His manners were impeccable; his generosity and thoughtfulness have become almost legendary.&amp;quot;&#039;&#039; [[Alan Ward]] (1967)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
----&lt;br /&gt;
According to his 2013 autobiography, &#039;&#039;Anyone Who Had a Heart&#039;&#039;, p. 40, award-winning songwriter Burt Bacharach said that in the mid-1950s he was on a USO tour in Libya with the Harlem Globetrotters, with Barney Ross as his roomate. Bacharach describes a night with Ross in Tripoli when the former champion tried to pick a fight with a couple of Arabs after he and Bacharach had consumed a few drinks. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NWYhAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=vYcFAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=5253,2657819&amp;amp;dq=junior+welterweight+new+york+state&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Barney Ross Defends One Title This Week&amp;quot; Associated Press, November 13, 1933] &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bDkuAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=itUFAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=4438,5710166&amp;amp;dq=barney+ross+purple+heart&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Little Barney Ross Slays The Giant; Beats Narcotics Habit In Four Months&amp;quot; International News Service, January 15, 1947]  &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wq1UAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=qjsNAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=4509,2660291&amp;amp;dq=barney-ross+monkey-on-my-back&amp;amp;hl=en &amp;quot;Barney Battles Movie Business&amp;quot; Associated Press, May 15, 1957] &lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ross.html JVL Biography]&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;amp;GRid=903 Find a Grave]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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 title=[[World Welterweight Champion]]|&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Chicago Tribune Golden Gloves Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Intercity Golden Gloves Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Light Welterweight Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Three Division World Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:American World Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:World War II Veterans]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Sol Gold]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Gig Rooney]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Sam Pian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managed by Art Winch]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame Gallery]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Illinois Boxing Hall of Fame]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
	</entry>
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		<title>Abe Hollandersky</title>
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
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In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  According to the &#039;&#039;Hartford Courier&#039;&#039;, he boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
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His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by around thirty-five pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
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Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great world champion [[Joe Walcott]] in November, 1918, and decade long world featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] whom he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London in 1916 near the end of Attell&#039;s boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
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During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing well past his boxing retirement to San Diego.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed a long cruise, in early 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, that went overland to San Pedro and then followed the &amp;quot;Good Will&amp;quot; cruise to Hawaii.&lt;br /&gt;
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During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
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After retiring from professional boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers, though he continued to stage exhibitions for charities, and to provide training for Navy men.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successful movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
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# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, &#039;&#039;New London Day&#039;&#039;, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions or prize fights, February 1912, possibly at Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, or inland.(“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Welter and lightweight Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
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In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, and in his personal boxing record at the back each of his books, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. According to his book, his last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won.  This bout was not covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;, but the details of Abe&#039;s travel&#039;s to Honolulu were, including his arrival and departure dates.  Governor Farrington, provincial governor of Hawaii at the time, and according to Abe, in attendance at his last fight in Honolulu, had formerly been an owner of the Honolulu Star-Telegram.&lt;br /&gt;
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At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, several of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
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He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery as was his wife Freda a decade later.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
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*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&amp;amp;GRid=5040641&amp;amp;PIpi=116134751 www.findagrave.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Sam Berger</title>
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Managers:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[James J. Jeffries]], [[Billy Papke]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Sam Berger&#039;&#039;&#039; had been the national amateur champion before he turned pro. In October of 1907 Berger was appointed boxing instructor at the University of California. During this time he acted as both promoter and referee for various contests. After his boxing career, he became a successful businessman, operating a clothing store in San Francisco. He died in San Francisco after a long illness.&lt;br /&gt;
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*Jan 20 George Sullivan             San Francisco, CA                KO  4&lt;br /&gt;
*May 25 William Rodenbach           San Francisco, CA                 L  4&lt;br /&gt;
Berger won the Amateur Heavyweight Championship of the Pacific Coast at San Francisco, CA.&lt;br /&gt;
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*Sep 21 William M. Michaels         St. Louis, Mo                    TK  3&lt;br /&gt;
*Charles Mayer               St. Louis, Mo                     W  &lt;br /&gt;
Berger won the 1904 [[Olympics]] Heavyweight Gold Medal by defeating the previous two men. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Olympic Gold Medalists|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:1904 Olympians|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:American Olympians|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managers|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers|Berger, Sam]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Managers:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[James J. Jeffries]], [[Billy Papke]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Sam Berger&#039;&#039;&#039; had been the national amateur champion before he turned pro. In October of 1907 Berger was appointed boxing instructor at the University of California. During this time he acted as both promoter and referee for various contests. After his boxing career, he became a successful businessman, operating a clothing store in San Francisco. He died in San Francisco after a long illness.&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Amateur highlights:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
1904:&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*Jan 20 George Sullivan             San Francisco, CA                KO  4&lt;br /&gt;
*May 25 William Rodenbach           San Francisco, CA                 L  4&lt;br /&gt;
Berger won the Amateur Heavyweight Championship of the Pacific Coast at San Francisco, CA.&lt;br /&gt;
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*Sep 21 William M. Michaels         St. Louis, Mo                    TK  3&lt;br /&gt;
*Charles Mayer               St. Louis, Mo                     W  &lt;br /&gt;
Berger won the 1904 [[Olympics]] Heavyweight Gold Medal by defeating the previous two men. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Olympic Gold Medalists|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:1904 Olympians|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:American Olympians|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managers|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish boxers|Berger, Sam]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Managers:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[James J. Jeffries]], [[Billy Papke]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Sam Berger&#039;&#039;&#039; had been the national amateur champion before he turned pro. In October of 1907 Berger was appointed boxing instructor at the University of California. During this time he acted as both promoter and referee for various contests. After his boxing career, he became a successful businessman, operating a clothing store in San Francisco. He died in San Francisco after a long illness.&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Amateur highlights:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
1904:&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*Jan 20 George Sullivan             San Francisco, CA                KO  4&lt;br /&gt;
*May 25 William Rodenbach           San Francisco, CA                 L  4&lt;br /&gt;
Berger won the Amateur Heavyweight Championship of the Pacific Coast at San Francisco, CA.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Sep 21 William M. Michaels         St. Louis, Mo                    TK  3&lt;br /&gt;
*Charles Mayer               St. Louis, Mo                     W  &lt;br /&gt;
Berger won the 1904 [[Olympics]] Heavyweight Gold Medal by defeating the previous two men. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Olympic Gold Medalists|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:1904 Olympians|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:American Olympians|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Managers|Berger, Sam]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish boxers]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Young Barney Aaron</title>
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
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He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
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He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
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Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
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On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
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===First taking the American Lightweight Championship, September 1857===&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion Johnny Moneghan near Providence, RI, over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
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After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
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===Retaking the American Lightweight Championship, June 1867===&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. The source for the second Collyer bout is &amp;quot;The Prize Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Evening Telegraph&#039;&#039;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pg. 1, 13 June 1867.&lt;br /&gt;
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He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
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According to his &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039; Obituary, his most famous bout was a 17-round win in Mississippi City over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878. (From &#039;&#039;Jews in Sports&#039;&#039; page for Aaron, Young Barney.)(This fight also appears in priamry source, &amp;quot;Former Bare Knuckle Champion Passes Away&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Indianapolis News&#039;&#039;, Indianapolis, Indiana, pg. 11, 4 June 1907)&lt;br /&gt;
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He died a few days before Sunday, June 2, 1907, and was buried in Long Island, New York.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Retirement===&lt;br /&gt;
In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron, Young Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Jewish Boxers|Aaron, Young Barney]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
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He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
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He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of the fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
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Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
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On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
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===First taking the American Lightweight Championship, September 1857===&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion Johnny Moneghan near Providence, RI, over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
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After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
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===Retaking the American Lightweight Championship, June 1867===&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. The source for the second Collyer bout is &amp;quot;The Prize Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Evening Telegraph&#039;&#039;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pg. 1, 13 June 1867.&lt;br /&gt;
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He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
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According to his &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039; Obituary, his most famous bout was a 17-round win in Mississippi City over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878. (From &#039;&#039;Jews in Sports&#039;&#039; page for Aaron, Young Barney.)(This fight also appears in priamry source, &amp;quot;Former Bare Knuckle Champion Passes Away&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Indianapolis News&#039;&#039;, Indianapolis, Indiana, pg. 11, 4 June 1907)&lt;br /&gt;
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He died a few days before Sunday, June 2, 1907, and was buried in Long Island, New York.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Retirement===&lt;br /&gt;
In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Abe Hollandersky</title>
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
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In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  According to the &#039;&#039;Hartford Courier&#039;&#039;, he boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
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His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by around thirty-five pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
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Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great world champion [[Joe Walcott]] in November, 1918, and decade long world featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] whom he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London in 1916 near the end of Attell&#039;s boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
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During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing through 1920.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed a long cruise, in early 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, that went overland to San Pedro and then followed the &amp;quot;Good Will&amp;quot; cruise to Hawaii.&lt;br /&gt;
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During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
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After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successful movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
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# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, &#039;&#039;New London Day&#039;&#039;, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions or prize fights, February 1912, possibly at Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, or inland.(“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Welter and lightweight Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
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In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, and in his personal boxing record at the back each of his books, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. According to his book, his last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won.  This bout was not covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;, but the details of Abe&#039;s travel&#039;s to Honolulu were, including his arrival and departure dates.  Governor Farrington, provincial governor of Hawaii at the time, and according to Abe, in attendance at his last fight in Honolulu, had formerly been an owner of the Honolulu Star-Telegram.&lt;br /&gt;
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At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, several of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
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He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery as was his wife Freda a decade later.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
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*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&amp;amp;GRid=5040641&amp;amp;PIpi=116134751 www.findagrave.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Abe Hollandersky</title>
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
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In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  According to the &#039;&#039;Hartford Courier&#039;&#039;, he boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by around thirty-five pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
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Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great world champion [[Joe Walcott]] in November, 1918, and decade long world featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] whom he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London in 1916 near the end of Attell&#039;s boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing through 1920.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed two long cruises, one around 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, and one in April of 1925 to Hawaii. &lt;br /&gt;
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During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successful movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, &#039;&#039;New London Day&#039;&#039;, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions or prize fights, February 1912, possibly at Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, or inland.(“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Welter and lightweight Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, and in his personal boxing record at the back each of his books, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. According to his book, his last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won.  This bout was not covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;, but the details of Abe&#039;s travel&#039;s to Honolulu were, including his arrival and departure dates.  Governor Farrington, provincial governor of Hawaii at the time, and according to Abe, in attendance at his last fight in Honolulu, had formerly been an owner of the Honolulu Star-Telegram.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, several of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery as was his wife Freda a decade later.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&amp;amp;GRid=5040641&amp;amp;PIpi=116134751 www.findagrave.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fight:1513406&amp;diff=714500</id>
		<title>Fight:1513406</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: Created page with &amp;quot;Shaun Sullivan was a local baseball player as well as an occasional boxer.  According to local newspapers, he likely boxed Hollandersky on other occasions, though most meeting...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Shaun Sullivan was a local baseball player as well as an occasional boxer.  According to local newspapers, he likely&lt;br /&gt;
boxed Hollandersky on other occasions, though most meetings were probably sparring matches or exhibitions.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Abe_Hollandersky&amp;diff=713318</id>
		<title>Abe Hollandersky</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[file:Hollandersky1914.jpeg|250px|left]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[file:Newsboy.Abe.the.jpg|right]] &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;boxer&amp;gt;173038&amp;lt;/boxer&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  According to the &#039;&#039;Hartford Courier&#039;&#039;, he boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by around thirty-five pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great world champion [[Joe Walcott]] in November, 1918, and decade long world featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] whom he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London in 1916 near the end of Attell&#039;s boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing through 1920.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed two long cruises, one around 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, and one in April of 1925 to Hawaii. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successful movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, &#039;&#039;New London Day&#039;&#039;, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions or prize fights, February 1912, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, (“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Welter and lightweight Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, and in his personal boxing record at the back each of his books, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. According to his book, his last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won.  This bout was not covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;, but the details of Abe&#039;s travel&#039;s to Honolulu were, including his arrival and departure dates.  Governor Farrington, provincial governor of Hawaii at the time, and according to Abe, in attendance at his last fight in Honolulu, had formerly been an owner of the Honolulu Star-Telegram.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, several of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery as was his wife Freda a decade later.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&amp;amp;GRid=5040641&amp;amp;PIpi=116134751 www.findagrave.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
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		<title>Abe Hollandersky</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: /* Career Review */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[file:Hollandersky1914.jpeg|250px|left]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[file:Newsboy.Abe.the.jpg|right]] &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;boxer&amp;gt;173038&amp;lt;/boxer&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  According to the &#039;&#039;Hartford Courier&#039;&#039;, he boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by around thirty-five pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great world champion [[Joe Walcott]] in November, 1918, and decade long world featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] whom he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London in 1916 near the end of Attell&#039;s boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing through 1920.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed two long cruises, one around 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, and one in April of 1925 to Hawaii. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successful movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, &#039;&#039;New London Day&#039;&#039;, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Paddy Fenton]], fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions or prize fights, February 1912, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, (“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Welter and lightweight Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, and in his personal boxing record at the back each of his books, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. According to his book, his last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won.  This bout was not covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;, but the details of Abe&#039;s travel&#039;s to Honolulu were, including his arrival and departure dates.  Governor Farrington, provincial governor of Hawaii at the time, and according to Abe, in attendance at his last fight in Honolulu, had formerly been an owner of the Honolulu Star-Telegram.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, several of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery as was his wife Freda a decade later.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  According to the &#039;&#039;Hartford Courier&#039;&#039;, he boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by forty pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great world champion [[Joe Walcott]] in November, 1918, and world featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] whom he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London in 1916 near the end of Attell&#039;s boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing through 1920.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed two long cruises, one around 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, and one in April of 1925 to Hawaii. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successful movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, &#039;&#039;New London Day&#039;&#039;, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions or prize fights, February 1912, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, (“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, and in his personal boxing record at the back each of his books, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. According to his book, his last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won.  This bout was not covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;, but the details of Abe&#039;s travel&#039;s to Honolulu were, including his arrival and departure dates.  Governor Farrington, provincial governor of Hawaii at the time, and according to Abe, in attendance at his last fight in Honolulu, had formerly been an owner of the Honolulu Star-Telegram.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, several of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery as was his wife Freda a decade later.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  According to the &#039;&#039;Hartford Courier&#039;&#039;, he boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by forty pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great world champion [[Joe Walcott]] in 1916 and world featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] whom he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London in 1916 near the end of Attell&#039;s boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing through 1920.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed two long cruises, one around 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, and one in April of 1925 to Hawaii. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successful movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, &#039;&#039;New London Day&#039;&#039;, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions or prize fights, February 1912, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, (“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. His last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won, according to his book.  This bout was not covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;, but the details of Abe&#039;s travel&#039;s to Honolulu were including his arrival and departure dates.  Governor Farrington, provincial governor of Hawaii at the time, and according to Abe, in attendance at his last fight in Honolulu, had formerly been an owner of the Honolulu Star-Telegram.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, several of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery as was his wife Freda a decade later.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&amp;amp;GRid=5040641&amp;amp;PIpi=116134751 www.findagrave.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  According to the &#039;&#039;Hartford Courier&#039;&#039;, he boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by forty pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great world champion [[Joe Walcott]] and world featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] whom he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London in 1916 near the end of Attell&#039;s boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing through 1920.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed two long cruises, one around 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, and one in April of 1925 to Hawaii. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successfull movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, New London Day, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions, February 1912, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, (“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. His last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won, according to his book.  This bout was not covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;, but the details of Abe&#039;s travel&#039;s to Honolulu were including his arrival and departure dates.  Governor Farrington, provincial governor of Hawaii at the time, and according to Abe, in attendance at his last fight in Honolulu, had formerly been an owner of the Honolulu Star-Telegram.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, several of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery as was his wife Freda a decade later.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  According to the &#039;&#039;Hartford Courier&#039;&#039;, he boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by forty pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great world champion [[Joe Walcott]] and world featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] whom he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London in 1916 near the end of Attell&#039;s boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing through 1920.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed two long cruises, one around 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, and one in April of 1925 to Hawaii. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successfull movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, New London Day, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions, February 1912, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, (“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., around in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. His last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won, according to his book.  This bout was not covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;, but the details of Abe&#039;s travel&#039;s to Honolulu were including his arrival and departure dates.  Governor Farrington, provincial governor of Hawaii at the time, and according to Abe, in attendance at his last fight in Honolulu, had formerly been an owner of the Honolulu Star-Telegram.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, several of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery as was his wife Freda a decade later.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  He boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by forty pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great champion [[Joe Walcott]] and featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] who he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London near the end of his boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing through 1920.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed two long cruises, one around 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, and one in April of 1925 to Hawaii. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successfull movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, New London Day, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions, February 1912, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, (“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., around in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. His last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won, according to his book.  This bout was not covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;, but the details of Abe&#039;s travel&#039;s to Honolulu were including his arrival and departure dates.  Governor Farrington, provincial governor of Hawaii at the time, and according to Abe, in attendance at his last fight in Honolulu, had formerly been an owner of the Honolulu Star-Telegram.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, several of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery as was his wife Freda a decade later.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  He boxed several opponents aboard ship or at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by forty pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great champion [[Joe Walcott]] and featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] who he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London near the end of his boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing through 1920.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed two long cruises, one around 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, and one in April of 1925 to Hawaii. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record around 1907-8, he took a cruise with a portion of the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successfull movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, New London Day, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions, February 1912, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, (“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., around in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. His last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won, according to his book.  This bout may have been covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, many of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  At Guantanamo, he boxed several opponents at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by forty pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great champion [[Joe Walcott]] and featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] who he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London near the end of his boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, continuing through 1920.  He completed more sparring rounds while providing training to navy men during his world cruise around 1907-8, his work as a land-based boxing trainer for the Navy in 1919, and when he completed two long cruises, one around 1925 from New London to California via the Panama Canal, and one in April of 1925 to Hawaii. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record for 1907-8, he took a cruise with the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successfull movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, New London Day, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions, February 1912, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, (“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., around in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. His last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won, according to his book.  This bout may have been covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, many of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Fight:821931</title>
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&lt;div&gt;The &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039; for September 3, 1913, pg.  covered the story of both the fights with Ortega under the heading &amp;quot;Boxer Abe the Newsboy Here&amp;quot;, noting he had arrived from Panama on September 2, and would be staying in New York around two months.  He had come directly from Panama, and planned to return to Panama for a feature fight around Thanksgiving day.  He would fight the great boxer Kid Norfolk not long after his return in January of 1914 and probably did not actually return to Panama until December of 1912.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This first fight with Ortega was covered best by the article, &amp;quot;Abe the Newsboy a Champion&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, via Special Cable, pg. 8, 30 May 1913.  Special Cables to the New York Times are covered by ProQuest Historical Newspapers Service, but not included in all newspaper services that include New York Times archived stories.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The article spelled Jack Ortega&#039;s name as &amp;quot;Artega&amp;quot;, and noted &amp;quot;the fight was witnessed by two thousand people, including most of the members of the Congressional party now here.&amp;quot;  The congressional party, according to Hollandersky, was there partly to inspect the progress of the Panama Canal. The &#039;&#039;Times&#039;&#039; noted importantly that Abe &amp;quot;had all the better of it&amp;quot; when he was fouled in the ninth round and this collaborates Hollandersky&#039;s account of the fight in his autobiography.  The &#039;&#039;Times&#039;&#039; article fails to note that the foul was a blow below the belt, though a local Panamanian paper printed in Hollandersky&#039;s autobiography noted that  Ortega struck Hollandersky below the belt as a result of Abe being tangled in the ropes and Ortega, as a result, being unable to gage where his blow would land. The local Panamanian paper also noted that the fight was called immediately after the blow below the belt, and that &amp;quot;it was evident to all.&amp;quot;  The local article noted that the foul left a significant bruise on Hollandersky, which was observed by his seconds after the fight and that Hollandersky laid down in his corner for fifteen minutes to recover. Hollandersky&#039;s claim that the blow may have been intentional does not seem inconsistent with the circumstances, particularly considering his August bout with Ortega also ended in a blow below the belt.  Hollandersky&#039;s account from his autobiography claimed the blow was a knee to the groin not an accidental punch below the belt which it seems would have been evident to the crowd, unless it was shielded by Abe&#039;s body, and they were in very close to each other.  Ortega had been arrested in 1900 in San Jose, California for assaulting a young girl and had served 12 years of a life sentence before coming to Panama, where he could use Spanish, his native language. He had once been reported as having brutally kicked an opponent during a fight before his 1900 arrest in California.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Abe Hollandersky</title>
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  At Guantanamo, he boxed several opponents at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by forty pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky successfully defended his Panamanian Heavyweight title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of 1913, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great champion [[Joe Walcott]] and featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] who he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London near the end of his boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, and continued sporadically into the 1920&#039;s, when he completed two long cruises, one to Australia around 1922, and one to Hawaii in June of 1925. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record for 1907-8, he took a cruise with the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successfull movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, New London Day, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions, February 1912, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, (“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., around in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. His last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won, according to his book.  This bout may have been covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, many of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Willie Cappelli</title>
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According to the California Death Index database of Ancestry.com, one William Cappelle was born on August 9, 1892 in &amp;quot;Other Country&amp;quot; and died on December 12, 1948 in Los Angeles County, California.  His mother&#039;s maiden last name was &amp;quot;Rusolo.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the World War I Draft Registration database, one William Miam Cappelle was born on August 9, 1892 in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada and was a self-employed chauffeur in San Pedro, California.&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the magazine &#039;&#039;Our Navy&#039;&#039;, Volume 15, p. 21, 237, April/May 1922, Cappelle defeated Abe &amp;quot;the Newsboy&amp;quot; Hollandersky at Firman Park in San Pedro, California in a professional match in February of 1922.  Both men were at the end of long careers as boxers, though Hollandersky would continue as an exhibition fighter.  Hollandersky would later live in Los Angeles operating a store in Long Beach on Seaside Boulevard. The &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot; article printed Cappelle&#039;s name as Billy Capelle.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Abe Hollandersky</title>
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==Career Review==&lt;br /&gt;
Although the &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039; listed &#039;&#039;&#039;Abe Hollandersky&#039;&#039;&#039; as first among boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s, the majority of his purported 1,000-plus bouts were exhibitions, many on naval ships or Army and Navy training stations.  As hundreds of his bouts were aboard ship, often during cruises, or in foreign countries where he traveled with the Navy, the majority have never been reported. The personal tally of his fights which he included in his book and which were published with few modification by Nat Fleicher&#039;s &#039;&#039;Ring Record Book&#039;&#039; for the year 1944 contain persistent errors, most notably in the years of the fights and the number of rounds.  Hollandersky&#039;s most famous sparring partner was President Theodore Roosevelt with whom he may have exchanged a few playful blows when they met in September of 1906 aboard the Presidential yacht &#039;&#039;USS Mayflower&#039;&#039;.  Roosevelt had Admiral Robely Evans create a position for Hollandersky as &amp;quot;Newsboy of the Navy&amp;quot;, giving him access and transportation aboard all Navy vessals to sell newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In early 1912, where there is a gap in his boxing record, Abe sailed to Cuba.  At Guantanamo, he boxed several opponents at the Naval base than returned to New England to resume his boxing schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His large personal tally of fights also included benefits, as well as training and sparring matches. He reputedly had over three hundred wrestling matches as well. According to the May 31 &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039;, he became Heavyweight Champion of Panama on May 30, 1913 when he defeated Jack Ortega in Panama City, though outweighed by forty pounds.  Fighting as an underdog in both height and weight, Hollandersky won the favor of the crowd for his clean fighting and modest behavior, traits lacking in his challenger Ortega, who had done time in San Quentin prior to his coming to Panama. A number of more skilled American boxers followed Hollandersky to Panama City shortly after his championship win, diminishing his chances of retaining the title for long. Kid Norfolk, born in Norfolk, Virginia, was one of those boxers.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky defended the title once in a rematch with Ortega in August of that year, and then lost it to future International Hall of Fame boxer and &amp;quot;Colored&amp;quot; World Champion [[Kid Norfolk]] on January 18, 1914 in 25 grueling rounds in Colon, Panama. He fought the accomplished boxers [[Panama Joe Gans]], Al Rogers, Navy champion Tommy Teague, Italian Joe Gans, Bill Scott (exhibition), Connecticut State Welterweight Champion Contender Dave Palitz, Connecticut Lightweight Champion and Yale boxing coach Mosey King, and one time Featherweight World Champion contender Austin Rice during his career.  His most famous exhibition partners, both of whom he fought in New London included the great champion [[Joe Walcott]] and featherweight champion [[Abe Attell]] who he fought in four friendly exhibitions in New London near the end of his boxing career. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hollandersky acted as a boxing trainer for the Navy in WWI.  He began fighting boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of Navy men possibly as early as 1906, and continued sporadically in the 1920&#039;s, when he completed two long cruises, one to Australia around 1922. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During a conspicuous gap in his boxing record for 1907-8, he took a cruise with the Navy&#039;s Great White Fleet to Australia, aboard the &#039;&#039;USS Kearsarge&#039;&#039;, where he sold papers while in port, and gave a few boxing exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, as was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During his cruises, he fought exhibitions for the entertainment of the crew, and helped with training instruction for the boxing teams on some of the larger vessels.  He was a knockout victim of hard hitting &amp;quot;Buffalo&amp;quot; Eddie Kelly as a nineteen year old boxer in 1906 in a New York club, two years before Kelly fought Abe Attell three times in World Featherweight Title matches. Hundreds of Hollandersky&#039;s exhibition matches were with the Navy, and records of only a tiny number of these fights have survived. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After retiring from boxing, he moved to Los Angeles around 1926 and appeared as an extra in as many as twenty movies, often with other boxers.  In 20th Century Film&#039;s 1933, &#039;&#039;The Bowery&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky worked with ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy and boxers &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, and New York Jewish boxers Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. In MGM&#039;s 1938, successfull movie &#039;&#039;The Crowd Roars&#039;&#039;, Hollandersky was given a brief close up after appearing in a background gymnasium scene with boxers Larry Williams, [[Maxie Rosenbloom]], [[Abie Bain]], [[Phil Bloom]] and [[Joe Glick]], as well as [[Jimmy McLarnin]], Jack Roper, and Tommy Herman. Hollandersky also acted in Fox&#039;s 1928 &amp;quot;Dressed to Kill&amp;quot; and Paramount&#039;s 1930 &amp;quot;Roadhouse Nights&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A very small, but verified sampling of Hollandersky&#039;s better publicized exhibitions and benefits (which do not appear in his BoxRec record) include:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
# Bantamweight champion [[George Dixon]] Memorial Fund at Bower&#039;s Minery Theatre, New York, January 23, 1908&lt;br /&gt;
# Buck Falvey, Three Round Exhibition to Draw, Feb. 26, Cannonball Athletic Club, New London, February 27, 1909, New London Day, &amp;quot;About 250 Pack Club Rooms of Popular Athletic Club&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Austin Rice]], Featherweight Contender, exhibition for &amp;quot;Nest of Owls order 1382&amp;quot;, State and Bank St., New  London CT., January 17, 1911&lt;br /&gt;
# Young Sherman, sparring exhibition, Elks Lodge, New London, May 24, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Paddy Fenton, fringe welterweight Contender, New London County Fair, six rounds, possible knockout, circa September, 1911 &lt;br /&gt;
# Multiple exhibitions, February 1912, Guantanamo Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba, (“Abe ‘the Newsboy’ Here,” &#039;&#039;New York-Tribune&#039;&#039;, New York, New York, 21 March 1912) &lt;br /&gt;
# [[Dave Palitz]], 6 round exhibition, Richards Grove, Groton, Connecticut August 25, 1912&lt;br /&gt;
# &#039;&#039;USS Denver&#039;&#039; exhibition, off Panama City, boxed Sailors Mussbel, Medino, Koch, and Jiran, April 5, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott, 4 round exhibition in Variedades Theatre, Panama City, May 10, 1914&lt;br /&gt;
# Jimmy Perry of Pittsburgh, 53319, friend of Bill Crouse, off Panama, on Steamship Pastores, later USS Pastores, 6 rounds, 1913, Not fully verified, recorded in Abe&#039;s records, also &amp;quot;Killing the Goose&amp;quot;, Winnipeg Tribune, p. 19, Mon, 23 August 1913&lt;br /&gt;
# [[Abe Attell]], ex-Featherweight Champ, four 3 round exhibitions, Empire Theatre, New London, May 2-3, 1916 (New London&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Day&#039;&#039;, May 3, pg. 12, &amp;quot;The Two Abes Put on Lively Sparring Match&amp;quot;)   &lt;br /&gt;
# WWI War Benefit, 3 rounds with Dave Palitz, Chicopee, MA, December 19, 1917 &lt;br /&gt;
# Exhibition, 4 rounds with Frank Ryan, Navy Welterweight Champ, in New London, May 16, 1918, State Pier  &lt;br /&gt;
# United War Workers Campaign, 4 rounds vs. ex-welterweight champion [[Joe Walcott]], New London, November 1918 &lt;br /&gt;
# Last Exhibition with Austin Rice, two years before his death, three round exhibition at Groton Iron Works, New London, December 1919 (&amp;quot;Austin D. Rice Made a Good Record in Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Norwich Bulletin&#039;&#039;, Norwich, Connecticut, 18 January 1921)&lt;br /&gt;
# Billy Capelle, aka [[Willie Cappelli]], Lost 4-6 round professional bout in San Pedro, CA., around in February, 1922, &amp;quot;Our Navy&amp;quot;, May 1922, pg. 237&lt;br /&gt;
# Navy Flood Relief benefit, fought former Navy champ Mike Hector, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, February 3, 1937 &lt;br /&gt;
# &amp;quot;Night of Memories&amp;quot; benefit for Wad Wadham, Hollywood Legion Stadium, October 9, 1937. &lt;br /&gt;
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In late 1925, after cruising to Honolulu, Hawaii with the naval fleet for his last professional bout, Hollandersky posed with Jack Dempsey and Fidel LaBarba after he returned to Los Angeles to look for wrestling matches.  The photo was probably taken at one of Dempsey&#039;s exhibitions around December and ran in a number of newspapers around December 19, 1925 including pg. 13 of the &amp;quot;Indianapolis Star&amp;quot; when both LaBarba and Dempsey&#039;s fighting schedule took them to Los Angeles.  The heading in the &amp;quot;Star&amp;quot; read &amp;quot;Famous Boxing Champions Meet Again,&amp;quot; perhaps implying Hollandersky had met them previously. Boxer [[Larry Williams]] and wrestler and actor Bull Montana were friends and work out partners for Dempsey, and Montana wrestled with Dempsey as part of his workout routines on many occasions, often in front of a large gathering of press.  Both were acquaintances of Hollandersky as well, according to his autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hollandersky authored his self published autobiography in 1930 entitled &#039;&#039;The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with the U.S. Navy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.&#039;&#039; At page 384, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. His last professional fight occurred in June of 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii, before Governor Farrington, which he won, according to his book.  This bout may have been covered in the &#039;&#039;Honolulu Star Telegram&#039;&#039;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
At forty-two, Hollandersky married Freda Weinberg on June 7, 1931 at the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged on Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles in front of actors, boxers and top Navy brass, many of whom had watched him box on board ship.&lt;br /&gt;
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He died in San Diego on November 1, 1966, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.  He left no children.  His tombstone is headed with his ring name, Abe the Newsboy.&lt;br /&gt;
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*Fight record from the 1944 &#039;&#039;[[Ring Record Book]]&#039;&#039;, pages [[:Image: TheRing1944_484.jpg|484]] &amp;amp; [[:Image: TheRing1944_485.jpg|485]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==External Links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&amp;amp;GRid=5040641&amp;amp;PIpi=116134751 www.findagrave.com]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Hollandersky Abe Hollandersky Wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Jewish Boxers|Hollandersky, Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot;]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fight:135646&amp;diff=680567</id>
		<title>Fight:135646</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Jimmy Perry was in Panama City under the name &amp;quot;Billy Berry&amp;quot; looking for fights in late August of 1913, though it is hard to find records of his bouts.  Fellow Pittsburgh boxer [[Buck Crouse]] was there at the same time and fought a number of boxers, though for the most part, only his bouts with American boxers were recorded by the US newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Abe (the Newsboy) Hollandersky]] had defeated [[Jack Ortega]] for Panamanian Heavyweight Champion in Panama City in May, and had won a rematch with him in mid-August.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Killing the Goose in the Canal Zone&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Winnipeg Tribune&#039;&#039;, Winnipeg, Canada, pg. 19, 23 August 1913&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fight:135646&amp;diff=680566</id>
		<title>Fight:135646</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Jimmy Perry was in Panama City under the name &amp;quot;Billy Berry&amp;quot; looking for fights in late August of 1913, though it is hard to find records of his bouts.  Fellow Pittsburgh boxer [[Buck Crouse]] was there at the same time and fought a number of boxers, though for the most part, only his bouts with American boxers were recorded by the US newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Abe &amp;quot;The Newsboy&amp;quot; Hollandersky]] had defeated [[Jack Ortega]] for Panamanian Heavyweight Champion in Panama City in May, and had won a rematch with him in mid-August.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Killing the Goose in the Canal Zone&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Winnipeg Tribune&#039;&#039;, Winnipeg, Canada, pg. 19, 23 August 1913&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Jimmy Perry was in Panama City under the name &amp;quot;Billy Berry&amp;quot; looking for fights in late August of 1913, though it is hard to find records of his bouts.  Fellow Pittsburgh boxer [[Buck Crouse]] was there at the same time and fought a number of boxers, though for the most part, only his bouts with American boxers were recorded by the US newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Abraham Hollandersky]] had defeated Jack Ortega for Panamanian Heavyweight Champion in Panama City in May, and had won a rematch with him in mid-August.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Killing the Goose in the Canal Zone&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Winnipeg Tribune&#039;&#039;, Winnipeg, Canada, pg. 19, 23 August 1913&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: Created page with &amp;quot;Jimmy Perry was in Panama City under the name &amp;quot;Billy Berry&amp;quot; looking for fights in late August of 1913, though it is hard to find records of his bouts.  Fellow Pittsburgh boxer...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Jimmy Perry was in Panama City under the name &amp;quot;Billy Berry&amp;quot; looking for fights in late August of 1913, though it is hard to find records of his bouts.  Fellow Pittsburgh boxer [[Buck Crouse]] was there at the same time and fought a number of boxers, though for the most part, only his bouts with American boxers were recorded by the US newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Abe Hollandersky]] had defeated Jack Ortega for Panamanian Heavyweight Champion in Panama City in May, and had won a rematch with him in mid-August.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Killing the Goose in the Canal Zone&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;Winnipeg Tribune&#039;&#039;, Winnipeg, Canada, pg. 19, 23 August 1913&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
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		<title>Eddie (Babe) Risko</title>
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		<updated>2017-04-26T17:48:43Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;[[file:Babe_Risko.jpg|left|250px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;boxer&amp;gt;010516&amp;lt;/boxer&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Manager:&#039;&#039;&#039;  Joe Puff, [[Gabe Genovese]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Babe Risko&#039;&#039;&#039; had an extensive boxing career in the United States Navy, fighting as Sailor Pulaski, prior to turning professional.&lt;br /&gt;
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{{start box}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{Succession box|&lt;br /&gt;
 before=[[Teddy Yarosz]]|&lt;br /&gt;
 title=[[NYSAC World Middleweight Champion]]|&lt;br /&gt;
 after=[[Freddie Steele]]|&lt;br /&gt;
 years=19 Sep 1935&amp;amp;ndash; 11 Jul 1936&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:World Middleweight Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:American World Champions]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Polish American Boxers]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
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	<entry>
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		<title>Jack Herrick</title>
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		<updated>2017-01-03T11:52:37Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;human&amp;gt;55991&amp;lt;/human&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Manager:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[Harry Gilmore]] [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1912-08-29/ed-1/seq-16/]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Jack Herrick was born on February 4, 1891 in Hungary as John A. Herrick. As a boxer of record from 1910-20, he met contender Jack Dillon four times, and &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott four times in both New Orleans and Panama City, Panama. He once convincingly defeated &amp;quot;Steamboat&amp;quot; Bill Scott in Panama.  In Colon, Panama, he met future Colored Light Heavyweight Champion [[Kid Norfolk]], but he also fought extensively in and around Chihuahua, Mexico during his career. Several of his fights in Chihuahua were covered in El Paso&#039;s &#039;&#039;El Paso Herald&#039;&#039;, the city being 200 miles due north of Ciudad, Juarez.  The &#039;&#039;El Paso Herald&#039;&#039; once wrote that he followed boxer Abe Hollandersky to Panama City, which was booming due to the construction of the Panama Canal. While there, he boxed several of the same boxers as Abe. &lt;br /&gt;
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After retiring from a ten year career as a boxer, he moved to Los Angeles and became an actor, known and credited for his parts in the boxing-themed movies Broadway Billy (1926), One Punch O&#039;Day (1926) and the &#039;&#039;Our Gang&#039;&#039; movie, Fast Company (1924). He had lived in California during much of his early boxing career. (imdb movie base bio)&lt;br /&gt;
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He appeared as well in 20th Century Picture&#039;s 1933, The Bowery with several former New York boxers, ex-Middleweight Champion Al McCoy, [[Abe (the Newsboy) Hollandersky]], &amp;quot;Fireman&amp;quot; Jim Flynn, heavyweight Frank Moran, Phil Bloom, and Joe Glick. Herrick, whose features were regular and face unscarred, appeared in several credited movie roles, though he may have appeared in uncredited movie roles as well. Herrick was reliable and formerly knew many of the ex-boxers he acted with, insuring his ability to obtain future acting calls.&lt;br /&gt;
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He died on June 18, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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Fight 1380372, Abe Hollandersky Vs. Dave Palitz&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the &#039;&#039;Evening News&#039;&#039; of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, pg. 13. for September 3, 1914, this bout between Hollandersky and Palitz may have been poorly scored as a draw as Palitz was said to have knocked down Hollandersky in several rounds.  This article may be a reference to the January 2, 1913 bout in Claremont, New Hampshire, also ten rounds and between Palitz and Hollandersky, however, the bouts in Claremont were not as well known or well publicized.  The article went on to note that Abe was down in the tenth for well over ten seconds, but the referee refused to begin a count.  Hollandersky and Palitz fought together many times, and fought a number of boxers in common including Young Monty, Buck Falvey and Willie Collins.  They may have both fought Kid Carter, Kid Lewis, Terry Mitchell, and Young Ferguson, as all four are included in Abe&#039;s personal tally of fights and all fought in New London but are as yet unconfirmed.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: Created page with &amp;quot; Fight 1380372, Abe Hollandersky Vs. Dave Palitz  According to the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Evening News&amp;#039;&amp;#039; of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, pg. 13. for September 3, 1914, this bout between Hollandersk...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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Fight 1380372, Abe Hollandersky Vs. Dave Palitz&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the &#039;&#039;Evening News&#039;&#039; of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, pg. 13. for September 3, 1914, this bout between Hollandersky and Palitz may have been poorly scored as a draw as Palitz was said to have knocked down Hollandersky in several rounds.  This article may be a reference to the January 2, 1913 bout in Claremont, New Hampshire, however.  The article went on to note that Abe was down in the tenth for well over ten seconds, but the referee refused to begin a count.  Hollandersky and Palitz fought together many times, and fought a number of boxers in common including Young Monty, and Willie Collins.  They may have both fought Kid Carter, Kid Lewis, Terry Mitchell, and Young Ferguson, as all four are included in Abe&#039;s personal tally of fights and all fought in New London but are as yet unconfirmed.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653251</id>
		<title>Young Barney Aaron</title>
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		<updated>2016-12-13T12:45:53Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Pioneer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/pioneer/aaronyoungbarney.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
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He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
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He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
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Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
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On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
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===First taking the American Lightweight Championship, September 1857===&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion Johnny Moneghan near Providence, RI, over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
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After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
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===Retaking the American Lightweight Championship, June 1867===&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. The source for the second Collyer bout is &amp;quot;The Prize Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Evening Telegraph&#039;&#039;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pg. 1, 13 June 1867.&lt;br /&gt;
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He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
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According to his &#039;&#039;New York Times&#039;&#039; Obituary, his most famous bout was a 17-round win in Mississippi City over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878. (From &#039;&#039;Jews in Sports&#039;&#039; page for Aaron, Young Barney.)(This fight also appears in priamry source, &amp;quot;Former Bare Knuckle Champion Passes Away&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Indianapolis News&#039;&#039;, Indianapolis, Indiana, pg. 11, 4 June 1907)&lt;br /&gt;
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He died a few days before Sunday, June 2, 1907, when he was buried in Long Island, New York.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Retirement===&lt;br /&gt;
In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Bare-knuckle Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers|Aaron, Young Barney]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Pioneer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/pioneer/aaronyoungbarney.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===First taking the American Lightweight Championship, September 1857===&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion Johnny Moneghan near Providence, RI, over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Retaking the American Lightweight Championship, June 1867===&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. The source for the second Collyer bout is &amp;quot;The Prize Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Evening Telegraph&#039;&#039;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pg. 1, 13 June 1867.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His most famous bout was a 17-round win over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878 &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;(need a primary source confirming this bout taking place)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Retirement===&lt;br /&gt;
In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron, Young Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Bare-knuckle Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers|Aaron, Young Barney]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653115</id>
		<title>Young Barney Aaron</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: /* Boxing career */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Pioneer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/pioneer/aaronyoungbarney.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===First taking the American Lightweight Championship, September 1857===&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion Johnny Moneghan near Providence, RI, over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Retaking the American Lightweight Championship, June 1867===&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. The source for the second Collyer bout is &amp;quot;The Prize Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Evening Telegraph&#039;&#039;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pg. 1, 13 June 1867.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His most famous bout was a 17-round win over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878 &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;(need a primary source confirming this bout taking place)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Retirement===&lt;br /&gt;
In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron, Young Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Bare-knuckle Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers|Aaron, Young Barney]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653114</id>
		<title>Young Barney Aaron</title>
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&lt;div&gt;[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Pioneer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/pioneer/aaronyoungbarney.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion Johnny Moneghan near Providence, RI, over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. The source for the second Collyer bout is &amp;quot;The Prize Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Evening Telegraph&#039;&#039;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pg. 1, 13 June 1867.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His most famous bout was a 17-round win over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878 &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;(need a primary source confirming this bout taking place)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron, Young Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Bare-knuckle Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers|Aaron, Young Barney]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653111</id>
		<title>Young Barney Aaron</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653111"/>
		<updated>2016-12-12T18:07:21Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: /* Boxing career */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Pioneer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/pioneer/aaronyoungbarney.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion Johnny Moneghan near Providence, RI, over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. Collyer was described as being from Williamsburg, Long Island, New York.  The source for the second Collyer bout is &amp;quot;The Prize Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Evening Telegraph&#039;&#039;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pg. 1, 13 June 1867.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His most famous bout was a 17-round win over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878 &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;(need a primary source confirming this bout taking place)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron, Young Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Bare-knuckle Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers|Aaron, Young Barney]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653107</id>
		<title>Young Barney Aaron</title>
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		<updated>2016-12-12T17:52:50Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: /* Links */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Pioneer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/pioneer/aaronyoungbarney.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion [[Johnny Moneghan]] near Providence, RI, over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. Collyer was described as being from Williamsburg, Long Island, New York.  The source for the second Collyer bout is &amp;quot;The Prize Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Evening Telegraph&#039;&#039;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pg. 1, 13 June 1867.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His most famous bout was a 17-round win over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878 &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;(need a primary source confirming this bout taking place)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron, Young Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Bare-knuckle Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers|Aaron, Young Barney]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653106</id>
		<title>Young Barney Aaron</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653106"/>
		<updated>2016-12-12T17:48:56Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Pioneer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/pioneer/aaronyoungbarney.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion [[Johnny Moneghan]] near Providence, RI, over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. Collyer was described as being from Williamsburg, Long Island, New York.  The source for the second Collyer bout is &amp;quot;The Prize Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Evening Telegraph&#039;&#039;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pg. 1, 13 June 1867.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His most famous bout was a 17-round win over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878 &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;(need a primary source confirming this bout taking place)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron, Young Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Bare-knuckle Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653105</id>
		<title>Young Barney Aaron</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653105"/>
		<updated>2016-12-12T17:46:29Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: /* Boxing career */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Pioneer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/pioneer/aaronyoungbarney.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion [[Johnny Moneghan]] in Providence, RI over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. Collyer was described as being from Williamsburg, Long Island, New York.  The source for the second Collyer bout is &amp;quot;The Prize Ring&amp;quot;, &#039;&#039;The Evening Telegraph&#039;&#039;, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pg. 1, 13 June 1867.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His most famous bout was a 17-round win over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878 &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;(need a primary source confirming this bout taking place)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron, Young Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Bare-knuckle Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653104</id>
		<title>Young Barney Aaron</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653104"/>
		<updated>2016-12-12T17:44:05Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: /* Links */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Pioneer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/pioneer/aaronyoungbarney.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion [[Johnny Moneghan]] in Providence, RI over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. Collyer was described as being from Williamsburg, Long Island, New York.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
His most famous bout was a 17-round win over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878 &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;(need a primary source confirming this bout taking place)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron, Young Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Bare-knuckle Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Wasserman</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653103</id>
		<title>Young Barney Aaron</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Young_Barney_Aaron&amp;diff=653103"/>
		<updated>2016-12-12T17:36:50Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Wasserman: /* Boxing career */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Pioneer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/pioneer/aaronyoungbarney.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The &#039;&#039;Star&#039;&#039; is the primary source for most of fight information in the following narrative. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion [[Johnny Moneghan]] in Providence, RI over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. Collyer was described as being from Williamsburg, Long Island, New York.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
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His most famous bout was a 17-round win over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878 &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;(need a primary source confirming this bout taking place)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
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In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Bare-knuckle Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Young Barney Aaron</title>
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&lt;div&gt;[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 2007&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Pioneer Category&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/pioneer/aaronyoungbarney.html click]]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Young Barney Aaron&#039;&#039;&#039; (born on July 27, 1836 in London, England; died June 4, 1907, in Long Island, New York) was a boxer.&lt;br /&gt;
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He was the son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron.  He emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856. &lt;br /&gt;
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He was U.S. lightweight champion.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Boxing career==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Washington D.C.&#039;s &#039;&#039;The Evening Star&#039;&#039;, pg. 1, 14 July 1867, Aaron was born on July 27, 1836 at Duke&#039;s Place in the Aldgate Section of London. He was 5 feet, 5 inches tall.  &lt;br /&gt;
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Like his father before him, Aaron was a hard-hitting bare-knuckled fighter, but he fought in a new era under different rules than his famous father.  The elder Aaron battled under &amp;quot;Broughton&#039;s Rules&amp;quot;; Young Barney fought under the Pugilistic Society&#039;s &amp;quot;[[London Prize Ring Rules]],&amp;quot; which had been developed in 1838.  Modified in 1853, only three years before young Barney began his professional career, the Rules stated the ring should be 24 square feet, surrounded by two ropes.  Any knockdown marked the end of the round, and the downed fighter had 8 seconds to &amp;quot;come to scratch&amp;quot; unaided, or the fight was over -- under Broughton&#039;s Rules, a fighter had 30 seconds to return to the center of the ring, and had the help of his handlers.  Therefore, bouts were recorded according to the number of rounds and length of time; 3-minute rounds were not developed until the late-19th Century.&lt;br /&gt;
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On July 9, 1856, on Rikers Island, Aaron fought a mulatto named Johnny Robinson beginning at daybreak.  The bout lasted for 80 rounds, 2 hours and 20 minutes, and resulted in Aaron being declared the winner.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
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On September 2, 1857, he defeated American lightweight champion [[Johnny Moneghan]] in Providence, RI over 80 rounds.  The fight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes.  With the victory he became the first Jewish fighter to win a ring championship in America. &lt;br /&gt;
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After losing the title the following year to Patrick “Scotty” Brannagan on October 18, 1858, at Point Abino, Canada, on a foul, he entered a seven-year period of inactivity because no fighter would face him. &lt;br /&gt;
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He returned to the ring around July 20, 1866, and lost a 47-round bid to regain the title at Pohick Landing, Virginia against [[Sam Collyer]].   After an excruciating 2 hours and 5 minutes, both men were taken off on stretchers.  However, he defeated Collyer in the rematch on June 13, 1867, in a 68-round battle that lasted one hour and 55 minutes to regain the championship. Collyer was described as being from Williamsburg, Long Island, New York.&lt;br /&gt;
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He won newspaper headlines in July 1874 for foiling two pickpockets trying to steal from the Rev. Henry Thorpe, whom they jostled as the elderly clergyman was &amp;quot;riding downtown on a Fourth Avenue street car.&amp;quot;  Aaron applied some of his celebrated &amp;quot;scientific boxing&amp;quot; technique, knocking both thieves down into the street, after first having retrieved the reverend&#039;s gold watch, which he returned.[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:lu1x_dlr2e0J:www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.html+%22barney+aaron%22+young&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=26&amp;amp;gl=us] &lt;br /&gt;
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His most famous bout was a 17-round win over [[Arthur Chambers]] in 1878 &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;(need a primary source confirming this bout taking place)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
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In retirement, Young Barney remained in boxing by operating a gym in New York.  He also served as a referee and officiated the 1883 [[John L. Sullivan]] vs. [[Herbert (Maori) Slade|Herbert Slade]] bout.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Links==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=boxing&amp;amp;ID=21 Jews in Sports bio]&lt;br /&gt;
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaron, Young Barney}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Bare-knuckle Boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Jewish boxers]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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