Gene Cline

Name: Gene Cline
Birth Name: Eugene Cline
Hometown: Fresno, California, USA
Birthplace: Kansas, USA
Died: 1949-01-09 (Age:49)
Pro Boxer: Record

Early 1924 newspapers reported that Gene Cline had fought over 300 battles in seven years.

According to his obituary in the January 11, 1949 edition of the Fresno Bee, on the newspaper database of Ancestry.com, Gene Cline, 49, died from a cerebral hemorrhage while on duty as the police chief in Tehachapi, California, on Sunday (January 9, 1949). His funeral was scheduled to take place in Fresno, California on January 12, 1949.

After serving on the police force in Delano, California, Cline was the police chief in Firebaugh, California for four years, until 1945. He resigned to accept a job with a bigger salary in Bakersfield.

Also according to the obituary, Cline had been born in Nebraska (some records say that he had been born in Kansas). He came to Fresno from Newman, California. His boxing career started in 1915. He won the Pacific Coast Lightweight Title from Oakland Jimmy Duffy.

Cline was survived by his widow, Mrs. Edith Cline; two sons, Eugene and James W. Cline; one daughter, Mrs. James Dorsey; mother, Mrs. Emma Bishop of Waterford, Pennsylvania; three brothers; a sister; and two grandchildren.

Much of the linked fight record is courtesy of Charles E. Johnston of the International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO).