Jim Stewart
Name: Jim Stewart
Birth Name: John Henry Loerch
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died: 1918-09-26 (Age:31)
Height: 183cm
Reach: 193cm
Referee: Record
Pro Boxer: Record
Trainer: Joe Jeannette
Jim Stewart was born in Brooklyn in 1888. In his prime he generally weighed well over 200 pounds. He attracted considerable attention in a brief amateur career while studying to be an architect, before turning professional in 1907. He was managed by Dan McKetrick, who took him to Paris, France, for a series of four fights in 1909-10. He died of the Spanish Influenza at the end of World War I at Camp Dix on September 26, 1918.
Source: Mecca Cigarette card (source of the photograph on this page).
- According to a pre-fight article in a French newspaper from April 16, 1910 Stewart stood 1 meter 83 centimetres tall or six feet.
- April 11, 1912. Stewart was scheduled to box ten rounds with Sailor White at the Maspeth A.C. but was stricken with an attack of pleurisy and was forced to back out.
- After his second bout with Gunboat Smith in which he took several blows to the back of the head, Stewart complained of double vision. His eyesight worsened in his next fight with "One Round" Davis and he was unable to defend himself.
- A fight with Carl Morris at Sapulpa, OK was scheduled for March 17, 1913 but just as the men were about to enter the ring, the state adjutant general with a squad of state guards from Tulsa, marched to the ringside and declared the fight off.
Stewart took a job as a driver and porter at a resort in upstate New York. When his vision seemed to improve he returned to the ring in 1915.