"TERRIBLE TERRY" - THE BROOKLYN TERROR

"No bantamweight or featherweight ever packed a more dangerous punch than did Joseph Terence McGovern the pride of Brooklyn". McGovern (1880-1918) won the bantamweight crown in 1899 when he knocked out Thomas Pedlar Palmer in the first round. He never defended the title and relinquished it in 1900. Fleischer ranked him as the greatest featherweight of all time. Sadly, he spent much of his later life in mental institutions and died of pneumonia and kidney ailment in the King's County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, on February 22 1918.

Paperback. 8vo. 64pp. Text illustrations. Blue stiffened card covers, with a picture of McGovern in boxing stance on the front cover. A very good copy. [Hartley, 699]

Date

1943

Publisher

The Ring

Author

Nat FLEISCHER

£32.00 (Code: 77209)

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