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Palooka, XL: 1914
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 5:05pm.
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September 1914. The boxer Fred Welsh in New York. Note the cauliflower ear. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
A lover...AND a fighter.
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 3:05pm.
On behalf of women everywhere...um, YES.
(What a handsome man, despite the ear and crazy eyebrows...)
Long-lost relative?
Submitted by H.M.E. on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 11:25am.
Well, maybe not, but he DOES look eerily like my dad:
http://www.vadron.com/Thumbs.htm
If someone had sent this to me as an old picture of him, I'd have believed it!
Welsh vs Danofsky
Submitted by Alex on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 8:50am.
He resembles H. Danofsky, Class of 1921 at Gallaudet University, to me!
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