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Jerry Jerome [Aboriginal boxer and Australian Middleweight Champion] and other boxers

Australia

1st quarter of the 20th Century

Original newspaper cutting of Jerry Jerome posing with a group of boxers. titled ‘Among the Boxers at the Sir Joseph Banks Training Camp. Back row: Harry Thomas, ‘Doc’ Carlton. Second row: Black Paddy, Young Warner, Harry Stone, Charley Taylor, Jerry Jerome, Alf Goodwin, and Jack Clarke’.

188 by 180mm (7½ by 7 inches).

In 1912 Jerome fought Black Paddy, champion of Western Australia, which was probably the first contest between two Aboriginal professional boxers. In the same year Jerome became the first Indigenous Australian to win a major boxing title, namely the Australian Middleweight Champion.

Harry Thomas - British bantamweight boxer who won gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Young Warner - Australian super welterweight boxer

Harry Stone - American boxer who mainly competed in Australia. He held the Australian lightweight and welterweight title for several years. He is one of only two boxers recognised for having fought over 200 bouts without being knocked out or stopped.

Charley Taylor - Australian heavyweight boxer

Jack Clarke - Australian welterweight

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