Lew Powell

Name: Lew Powell
Birth Name: Llewellyn Arthur Powell
Hometown: San Francisco, California, USA
Birthplace: New Zealand
Died: 1966-04-11 (Age:82)
Height: 170cm
Pro Boxer: Record

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Lew Powell, of the San Francisco Olympic Club, had been the 135-lb. Pacific Coast amateur champion in 1908. [1]

Earlier, circa early 1906, after he had fought as a semi-professional, he was suspended by the amateur athletic association. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Powell was reinstated and participated in the March-April 1906 amateur tournament in San Francisco. [6] [7]

Powell won that 1906 tournament, Lightweight Division. [8]

He later applied for a permit to sell junk. [9]

He had a brother named Oscar. [10]

January 7, 1913 San Francisco Call article and photo: [11]; Los Angeles Herald [12].