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no.263march-april 2012
When Boxing Struck Gold...
The fight in the desert that set boxing on a new path with a new leader.
Also in this issue: Nat Langham - he fought the odds and won.
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1. CHAMPION PUGILISTS FOLK ART CANE: Rare hand carved wooden folk art cane entitled Champion Prominent Pugilists. Carved at the top is James J. Corbett, likely heavy-weight champion at the time. He is followed by John L. Sul-livan, Charley Mitchell, Peter Jackson, Robert Fitzsimmons and George Dixon. Ornate metal handle and a metal tip at the end. 36” long. EX. $5,000.00
2. JOE LOUIS SIGNED HEAD GEAR-1942 ARMY EXHIBI-TION: Joe Louis’ original U.S. Army head gear which he wore in exhibition with U.S. Army amateur Jimmy Mack in 1942 and which has been signed by both Joe Louis and Jimmy Mack and dated 1942. EX.$4,000.00
3. RAY ARCEL APPRECIATION AWARD: Award is metal on a wood base. It is engraved, “GRATEFULLY PRESENTED TO RAY ARCEL IN RECOGNITION OF HIS INVALUABLE SERVICES TO US AND IN COMMENDATION OF HIS FINE EFFORTS THAT ENCOURAGED EACH ONE OF US TO ATTAIN THE HEIGHTS IN OUR PROFESSION. HE MADE US CHAM-PIONS BUT TO US HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN “OUR CHAMP” FRANK GENARO BILLY SOOSE TEDDY YAROSZ JACKIE FIELDS LOU BROUILLARD CEFERINO GARCIA ABE AT-TELL GOLDSTEIN CHARLIE PHIL ROSENBERG FRED-DIE STEELE TONY ZALE BOB OLIN JIM BRADDOCK MARCH 16, 1950. EX. $1,500.00
BOXING AUTOGRAPHS:4. JAMES J. CORBETT INK SIGNATURE: Bold Ink on paper,
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FROTH): Inscribed to promoter Jim Coffroth, 8” x 10” in ink, EX. $1,000.00
6. GENE TUNNEY SIGNED PHOTO (TO JIM COFFROTH): Inscribed to promoter Jim Coffroth, 12” x 16.” NRMT. EX. $1,500.00
7. FELIX TRINIDAD-WINKY WRIGHT SIGNED CON-TRACT: Signed by Trinidad, one page, full ink signature. EX. $500.00
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NELSON-GANS-FINISHED CONTEST-GOLDFIELD, NEV. SEP. 3rd ‘06. 12 Original Photos, 30” x 39.” EX. (SHOWN ON PAGE 11) $10,000.00
9. GANS-NELSON SOUVENIR POSTER: Postfight, 25” x 35.” Linen Backed. EX. (SHOWN ON PAGE 10) $5,000.00
10. GANS-NELSON FULL TICKET: Full, on site, 2 5/8” x 6 ¾,” EX. (SHOWN ON PAGE 6) $5,000.00
11. GANS-NELSON FACTSHEET: Pre Fight, 8 ½” x 11,” dated 8/11/06, EX. $375.00
12. GANS-NELSON SOUVENIR POSTCARD: Illustrated, 3 ¼” x 5 ½,” VG. (SHOWN ON COVER) $425.00
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This saloon token was worth 5 cents at Rickard's Goldfield place. Rickard owned at least 3 Northern's in his life, two in Alaska, and a Southern. When you bid on these you bid against Nevada collectors, token collectors, and Western collectors. This little gem (actual size about 3/4 inch) with a photo of his Southern saloon fetched about $400. The Del Monte token on the cover, went for $470 while we were putting this issue together.
I tipped off Lou and Craig on what the lead story was this time and Craig decided to run some Goldfield fight material. I included most in the story and hope you don't mind switching back and forth to see what stuff costs. Of course not everything you see in the story is Craig's and nothing else is for sale so look closely... Both Heritage and Le-lands are planning BIG auctions this spring with excellent boxing sections. Heritage is already up and Lelands will soon follow. Josh has teased us with the warning that he will have the best Mike Tyson collection ever. Word is that consignor worked for Ja-cobs and will provide dynamite provenance. He also picked up some vintage items over the years so us old guys will be in there bidding as well. Heritage has some great graded cards as well as Cassius Clay gloves and a lot more. We are privileged to have these two companies advertising in BCN, especially so we get a sneak peek once in
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No matter how long you collect you will forever be seeing something you haven’t seen before. The little gold pan you see here is a small 1.5” pin and is one of the more unique fight souvenirs we have seen. Gold in color, it depicts a pan of gold with the fight-ers’ names in the pan and “Goldfield” in enamel on the handle. How neat is that?
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From the Other Two Fights...
At right you will see one of the great posters in our hobby. The other, and just as fantastic is in Lou's ad on the last page. They represent the last two fights be-tween Nelson and Gans in 1908, just two months apart. Gans' skills were basically gone by then and he would die just two years later after only one more fight, a non-decision with Jabez White.
The End of the Fight...
Though Nelson's manager put up a half-hearted protest, everyone in the stadium saw the blow. Gans is the winner though on the canvas in considerable pain. Both fighters were badly bloodied.
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His was a story that had been told in boxing a thousand times before and many times that since. A kid running the street finds boxing and it redeems him. But this wasn't Brownsville in the 1990's, it was England in the 1860's. And the fighter that emerged became a name in the progression of the sport from the back alleys to its dubious respectability today. Last issue we presented Jem Mace, a notable step in that same progression. This time we look at the man who preceded him, his man-ager and mentor, Nat Langham (1820-1871).
As if being an urchin in early 19th century Eng-land wasn't bad enough, one day young Nat would be permanently punished for a minor theft. Nat stole a hot potato from a local market vendor. The vendor chased him down and shoved the potato into Langham's mouth, burning his mouth and tongue so badly, he would have difficulty speaking the rest of his life.
Though Langham would battle ill health all of his life as well as his speech impediment, he became the best middleweight in England and later the man to whom others came to arrange matches and sanction bouts. He had a boxing booth and a tavern. That tavern served the "Fancy" and helped legitimize the sport. He was inducted into the IBHOF in 1992.
While active he beat an up and coming
Tom Sayers and, as such, is the only man Brits will admit ever defeated Sayers. You may re-member that the Heenan fight was broken up by Sayers' fans and was technically a draw.
Recently a signature of Langham has sur-faced on an IOU. While no exemplars are known, the IOU was originally found in a scrapbook put together in the 1860's with some other Langham material, including his death certificate.
Photos of Langham do exist. I have seen two differ-ent even though they would have to be exceedingly rare since he died in 1871. Antique prints can be found.
Nat Langham: Rare man, Rarer signature.
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Gold strikes, Death Threats, Tex Rickard, Boomtown, and a hell of a fight between two of the best...
Goldfield, Nevada, 9/3/06. You wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else!
From the History of Nevada website:Goldfield Daily Sun Monday Evening, September 3, 1906“The streets of Goldfield were literally jammed all last night with a holiday crowd of persons from all parts
of the country and from all walks of life. Trains rolled in at intervals all night, the last arrived at five o’clock this morning. From Reno came a special carrying three hundred people. . . Few of the excursionists went to bed, and all were ready for the music, which was furnished by the Firemen’s band stationed on the balcony of the Miners’ Union building.
“The crowd was well handled by a small army of special deputies, and there was no disorder. Everybody was good-natured, and thoroughly enjoyed the great day. Eastern visitors will go away with nothing but the most pleasant remembrance of the hospitality of the “desert rats,” and firm in the belief that Goldfield is the greatest gold camp in the wide world, and is peopled by the best on earth.”
Few fights have captured the fight crowd’s imagination like the Gans-Nelson fight in Gold-field, Nevada in 1906. This is especially true considering it was a lightweight fight. But Jack Johnson had beaten Tommy Burns half a world away and for many US fans the heavyweight championship was beyond their interest, or, for some, their tolerance.
Then there was Nevada, itself. Nevada was not just wild and largely still untamed, it was where dreams went to live or die in streams trickling through fields of real gold. For a saloon owner who had already lived a lifetime of adven-
Thinking they would drain Gans strength by making weight, Nelson's manager, Nolan, insisted on 3 weigh-ins. This, likely the last, just before the fight, was in the ring.
Nelson arrives in Goldfield
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the bacon” by winning in the 42nd round on a foul. Nelson, battered and bleeding, would hit Gans low and clearly intentionally and then not complain when disqualified. See the "End of the Fight" following this article.
It was a fight to the finish. Forty-two 3 minute rounds. Neither fighter would be the same after the fight though both would win more fights and Gans would lose twice to Nelson. By then it was thought the tuberculosis that was eating away at the “Old Master’s” life had dimin-ished his skills as well.
An excellent detailing of the fight and its aftermath can be found in Aycock and Scott’s biography of Gans. Read that book.
What about the memorabilia of this fight? There is a surprising amount actually that has survived until today.
To start with, there can be found the program and ticket to the fight but either one of these would cost you dearly. Hakes sold the program for about $1,500 in 2010 and the full ticket will run you much more than that. You may find the ticket stub for about $400. While site post-ers have been found for the two later fights which Nelson won, not this one as far as we know. There is a post-fight souvenir poster, shown here and for sale at Jo Sports (so’s the ticket) and a poster with real photos of the fight on it.
But there are the Dana photos which won’t set you back a month’s salary. Unless of course, you bought that grand album of them that sold a few years back. That album was filled with photos of the fight and of events the days just before the fight.
There are individual photos and postcards that emerge from time to time, the latter in both pre and post-fight varieties. Shown on the cover is a postcard and a saloon token from the Del Monte. Elsewhere you will find
This remarkable photo collage poster may be one of a kind.
When the gold ran out the boom went bust. Now Goldfield mostly a ghost town. But there is this monument to the fight.
a token in this issue from Rickard’s saloon, the Northern. Enjoy the day that a little unruly gold camp became
the center of the sporting universe.
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he was warned that his new “manager,” Shanghai Larry Sullivan, that so much of Sullivan’s company’s money was on Gans that if he lost he would never get out of Gold-field alive.
Later, Nelson would have cause to worry for his life as well. His manager, Billy Nolan, threatened to take Nelson and leave town if he didn't get all his demands met. Local miners caught wind of this and 500 of them were marching on Nelson's camp to lynch both Nolan and Nelson when Rickard intercepted them and held them back.
Then, when referee George Siler came to town, Rickard, himself told Siler that if Gans didn't get an even break, Siler wouldn't get out of town alive, either.
It was an actual case of three men in a boxing ring who had their actual lives on the line.
Nelson would finally come to scratch as the man who beat the man who beat the man. He had beaten Jimmy Britt, who says he beat Gans, even though Gans actually got the decision and retained the title. But, as we all know, that’s plenty to make a fight interesting.
Rickard had put the total purse, $30,000, in gold, on public display in a local bank's window. It was that kind of promotion. The whole fight was Rickard’s idea and it almost involved Terry McGovern.
The town fathers of this brand new boomtown got together to decide exactly what sort of promotion would put Goldfield on the map. One leader wanted camel races, that animal being used in the mines around Goldfield. One chap wanted the town to dig a hole and fill it with beer. With these sorts of community leaders, is it any wonder Rickard’s idea won out?
Rickard sent McGovern’s manager, Joe Humphries, a cable making him the same deal he would later make with Nelson but McGovern’s manager thought it was a joke and threw the telegram away. Gans-Nelson was Rickard’s second choice.
But could any fight live up to all this pre-fight drama? What followed in Goldfield was one of the most storied fights in ring history. It was a classic fight between the bull and the matador. Scarcely has there ever been a fighter tougher and more aggressive than Battling Nelson and never had anyone seen a fighter quite as skilled as Joe Gans. And it was to be a fight to the finish.
The fight started with Gans simply meeting Nelson's bull rushes with stiff jabs and straight rights but as the fight wore on Nelson's manager would instruct him to fight dirty and foul at every opportunity which he did
In Goldfield, it was Gans who would “bring home
Nelson's signature is not difficult to find but Gans is nearly impossible.
A post-fight poster.
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tures before coming to Goldfield, this event would start a ride to more than even he had ever dreamed. Tex Rickard was about to change his own life and boxing forever. John-son-Jeffries, Dempsey-Carpentier, the new Madison Square Garden, the roaring fights of the ‘20’s, all started in a town that had burgeoned to 30,000 people almost overnight; where tents served as some buildings and the law was still mostly a suggestion. And boxing was not just popular in Nevada, it was, unlike most other states, actually legal.
The participants were well known to all. While Joe Gans would start the trek to Goldfield to win $10,000 and regain lost respect, he would find when he arrived he was actually fighting for his very life. Just before the fight
Just before the fight Gans (at arrow and in the same robe as seen at the weigh-in) leans over the ropes.
The program has been reproduced and novice collectors have been fooled. The original
program is easily discernable. The original cover has almost a cloth feel to it and is much
darker than shown even here. There is no "Price, 50 cents" on the repro and the word,
Cont. page 10
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