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For anyone who's interested, Battling Levinsky knocked the stuffings out of "Sailor" Carroll, in March, 1916, in New London, Connecticut. It is listed as a "No decision", because decisions were not given in many states in those days, no matter how one-sided a fight was. This was supposed to curb fighter's violent tendencies, and promote boxing as the "manly art of self-defense", but it actually did the opposite, because the only way a guy could credit for an official victory was by a knockout.
The New London Day reporter gave Battling Levinsky an easy victory, and folks, "Sailor" Carroll had one rough tenth round at the Lawrence Hall in New London, in March, 1916.
The reason I am writing is because Sailor Carroll, in a posed photo from two days before the fight, is pictured in the New London Day as a black heavyweight, and I think that was a mistake. I have seen Sailor Carroll's photo on the internet, and the one I see is blonde-headed. In the account of the bout, they don't make fun of the black man, as was common in those days(you think they only did that in the South? Try looking at almost issue of the New London Day from that period![on microfilm, at the New London Public Library-The Day has a fantastic photo of Al Palzer, around New Year's Day, 1913, when he fought Luther McCarty]), nor even mention his race. This leads me to believe that Sailor Carroll was the white Sailor Carroll that I saw in an internet photo.
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