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The Big Men of Boxing a Retrospective
Researching right now Danny Hassett, MW/HW from the 1930s thru 1941 that we'll see introduced in the 1940 Ring and ran across this new venue to offer up for your data bases in you don't have. This as location of the first boxing match to be staged in Meriden, Conn. in 10 years in an Oct 1936 bout between Danny Hassett and Steve Carr. Not much of anything else on boxing history at it other than this one bout, but, interesting search finding a bit about the site.
City Hall Auditorium, Meriden, Conn.
Address 142 East Main Street
Rating 1
Seating Capacity: 1200
Meriden City Hall of 1907 (Photo) replaced two previous buidling on this site, one 1869-89 and the second from 1889, was destroyed by fire on Feb 14, 1904. This is till the location of the City Hall so would assume to be the site in 1936 where newspaper accounts discussed a fight between Danny Hassett of Philidelphia and hometown fighter, Steve Carr. This fight on October 13, 1936 was noted as the first boxing match in Meriden in 10 years. A couple accounts of the Carr/Hassett fight put the show as the Hall was packed and another account listed the crowd at about 1200. Assuming it was filled to capacity as this was a big time sport event in Meriden at the time, put the site capacity at 1200.
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