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Cap · 07-17-2015, 03:36 PM

Here's a great character study of heavyweight Jack Munroe published in a newspaper and taken sometime between the Tom Sharkey and Jim Jeffries fights. Munroe was born in Boularderie, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and like a lot of young guys from that area travelled on the shoe-leather express looking for adventure and a better way to earn a living than working in the coal pits. He ended up working the mines near Butte Montana. One of my grandmother's uncles came from that same area around Glace Bay and went off at 18 to "be a cowboy". They were hard men like Mickey MacIntyre and Roddie "Big Pay" MacDonald.

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07-17-2015, 03:36 PM	#32
Cap Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Large Province in God's Country Posts: 7,969	Here's a great character study of heavyweight Jack Munroe published in a newspaper and taken sometime between the Tom Sharkey and Jim Jeffries fights. Munroe was born in Boularderie, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and like a lot of young guys from that area travelled on the shoe-leather express looking for adventure and a better way to earn a living than working in the coal pits. He ended up working the mines near Butte Montana. One of my grandmother's uncles came from that same area around Glace Bay and went off at 18 to "be a cowboy". They were hard men like Mickey MacIntyre and Roddie "Big Pay" MacDonald. Cap Attached Images __________________ "...There were Giants in Those Days.."