Thursday, June 3, 2010

I'll drink to that!


Mike E. Collins was the inventor of Light-Welterweight weight class in boxing. He was also promoter of boxing matches and publisher of "The Boxing Blade" in 1920s. We have a good number of Collins' newspaper, which he published in Minneapolis. Here's one issue, dated April 12, 1924, which featured on its cover a "quintet of athletic frauleins from the land of the pretzel and schnapps."

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