Name/Title
Clipping about Boxing history, 1964Entry/Object ID
2021.34.18Description
Acc. No. 21.34.18 A-C
Subject Category: Sports, Boxing; Crolls' Gardens
Date or Period: 1964
Object: Clipping
Description:
A: Clipping, showing the image of a building, and two of people in a boxing pose. Headline: 'Great Early Day Fighters Trained in Alameda', subtitle 'Boxing, Alameda's Oldest Sport, Will Gather Next Tuesday at Officers Club'.
Sizes, various.
B & C are of the same article, cut into two sections.
History of Object: Clippings of article by Alameda Times Star sports writer Win Currier, which was published in June 26, 1964, discussing early boxing champions that trained at the Wigwam at Croll's Gardens. The occasion was an event staged by the Alameda Boosters at the Officers Club of NAS to send sports Editor Jack Clark to the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Acquired form: unknown
Catalog Date: 24 April, 2021
