The Golden Gloves was founded to “provide opportunities that build character, self-respect and lasting leadership skills” and is still at that chore.
The first round grimace by Sammy Patton, left, a 118-pounder from Columbus, Ohio, was just a preface to his whirlwind finish that won a decision over Claude Cole of Chicago at the Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions in February 1947.I mean in person and up close, where you can smell the sweat and hear the grunts and the cheers and perhaps even sense the pride and the pain? Boxing can be brutal and bloody. It can also be beautiful.But it has likely long been off your radar.
Three rings of action kept the heads of fans moving during the Golden Gloves tournament of 1954 at Chicago Stadium. In 1923, the Tribune, long having shed its distaste for the sport, organized an amateur boxing tournament that would be the foundation of what would soon become formally called the Golden Gloves. This event was what the Tribune called “a great boxing carnival … the greatest amateur boxing tournament ever held in Chicago,” featuring some 424 young men fighting over three March days at the Ashland Boulevard auditorium.
But the aim of the Golden Gloves has always been goals beyond potential fame and riches. It was founded to “provide opportunities that build character, self-respect and lasting leadership skills” and is still at that chore., a native of County Mayo in Ireland. He came here in the mid-1960s and became a Golden Gloves champ, a union pipe fitter and started McGarry’s Boxing Club out of his home in the Beverly neighborhood.
I boxed for a time, at the old gym near Navy Pier. It was called the Fire Department Gym because firefighters ran it and then-Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn used it to keep his men in shape. But it was really for everyone, to play basketball, volleyball, exercise and box, which I enjoyed for a time in my early 20s until getting knocked flat by a skinny teenager, thus ending my ring “career.”But I became a great admirer of the sport and those who taught and fought.
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