Bud Anderson

Name: Bud Anderson
Birth Name: Arthur Jay Anderson
Hometown: Vancouver, Washington, USA
Died: 1977-07-01 (Age:89)
Height: 168cm
Reach: 170cm
Referee: Record
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

Manager: Dick Donald
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Bud Anderson was born either Sept. 13, 1887, or April 8, 1888--depending on the source.

He had his appendix removed in July 1913. [1][2]

Around this time in July 1913, former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries was touting Anderson's skills. "Careful management is all that is required to make a champion out of him." [3]

But, at the same time in mid-1913, others thought: "Like a good horse that has been run to death, Anderson was rushed to the front too soon." [4]

In late 1914 he was recovering from gall-stone surgery, per the Sept. 16 Tacoma Daily News (Tacoma, WA, USA).

He retired from a professional boxing career in August 1915 to devote his attention to the raising of livestock on a ranch. Per the July 28, 1919 Tacoma News Tribune, he was seriously injured when a shipyard co-worker turned a compressed air-gun on him as a practical joke. (See the July 1, 1913 Tacoma Daily News for another photograph of Anderson.)