[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0247]
Description:
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "John L. Sullivan " the strong boy of Boston," as Vachel Lindsey called him, lost his heavy-weight title in 1892 to James J. Corbett, who is shown in the photograph above, an instant before he lost his title to Bob Fitzsimmons in 1897."
Date:
September 6, 1934
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