| Notes: Dust jacket condition: No Jacket. Author's presentation copy, inscribed, "With compliments, the Author". Bound in green cloth. 2" tyear tocloth at lower edge rear gutterl Light wear to extremities. Tightly bound. Text free of highlighting and writing. 6 preliminary leaves, 467 pages plates, portraits, facsimiles 21 cm. Abe "The Newsboy" Hollandersky (December 3, 1887 ? November 1, 1966) became the second American boxer to win the Panamanian Heavyweight Title when he defeated Jack Ortega in nine rounds in Panama City on May 30, 1913. American congressmen, Naval personnel, and canal workers were among the crowd of nearly two thousand who watched Hollandersky gain victory over an opponent who outweighed him by over thirty-five pounds. The New York Times announced Hollandersky's best known win the following morning. Hollandersky was reputed to have fought an unprecedented 1,039 boxing matches between 1905?18, as well as 387 wrestling matches.The record of 1039 bouts from Hollandersky's autobiography was featured for decades in the Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe it or Not, The Ring Record Book, and hundreds of short newspaper articles made available as Associated Press fillers, appearing most frequently between 1930 and 1970. The most common fight total cited by Hollandersky was 1039, but as Abe fought additional exhibitions he increased the count, thus a few sources that interviewed him after the publication of his book quote higher totals.[--Wikipedia Boxing. United States. -- Navy. |