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Rocco Del Sesto · 12-31-2025, 05:02 PM

Wow.....few more hours left to 2025!! Gosh this year has blown by!!
Happy New Year a few hours early everyone!

I mentioned in the previous post I'm researching through some other fighters in the card that Andre Lenglet fought Al McCoy to earn his way briefly as it was into Ring Magazine's top 10 rankings in very early 1938. Looking at this fight card, I've come across a couple interesting things. Directly in this fight card, one match up is a Jim Howell who BoxRec had a 7-8-1 at the time going up against a Babe Beattie, 3-2-0. Nothing much to look at would think.

Well I first start looking into newpaper records for Babe Beattie. BoxRec shows him fighting once in 1932 then not again till meeting Bill Ferguson from Portland, Maine in February 1937. Well my immediate curiosity was what as the deal with Beattie between 1932 and 1937. Well I was having some difficulty finding Babe Beattie mentioned in early 1937 and specifically against Ferguson at first. What I have discovered I believe is BoxRec had two different records for this Babe Beattie. One with the Beattie spelling, a heApr 12, 1935avyweight with an overall 8-9-0 record. The second is a Babe Beatty, which BoxRec lists him as a welterweight with only 3 fights, all in 1936 and all against a Hub Parker. Some further looking through newspaper accounts appears to show that these are the same fighter going by Babe Beatty earlier in his career as a light heavyweight then I'm believing at least in the papers they started spelling him as Beattie, which I saw when first looking for the Jim Howell fight. While looking through this time period, I stumbled on these two newspaper articles for a Babe Beatty fighting a guy named Jumbo Gauvin. Right off I don't remember how I found these, but i lead me into another maze. Looked up this Jumbo Gauvin and BoxRec shows only 2 fights, one in 1936 and one in 1941. But, here is where he fought Mr. Babe Beatty...

Tue, Feb 16, 1937 and Sat Feb 20, 1937, The Newport Daily Express, VT - Jumbo Gauvin "of Orleans" this article states presenting the fight to be coming up on Newport boxing promoter Dave Sisco's upcoming fight show. Jumbo Gauvin is presented as the heavyweight champ of Vermont. Says that Gauvin and Babe Beatty who Gauvin is to fight are two of the very popular boxers in the area. The article on the 16th states Gauvin "of Fort Ethan Allen".

Fri, Feb 26, 1937, The Caledonian-Record, St. Johnsbury, VT - Light heavweight champion Babe Beatty stopped Jumbo Gauvin in the 4th round of a scheduled 10 rounder. At the outset of the fight, Beatty showed being aggressively cautious but the better boxer. Beatty trailed Gauvin of Fort Ethan Allen about the ring staying clear of a fast left that Gauvin would deliver on occasion. Beatty kept up the same tactics in the second outpointing Gauvin. The third round was pretty even, but then in the fourth, Beatty delivered a right hook to Gauvin's jaw that left him groggy. As Gauvin wondered over to the opposit corner, Beatty planted another. Leaning back clutching the top rope, Gauvin left himself open to lefts and rights from Beatty and eventually he dropped to the canvas in a puddle of blood from his nose.

12-31-2025, 05:02 PM	#10
Rocco Del Sesto Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Watkinsville, Georgia Posts: 2,057	Not Sure What To Call This Thread Wow.....few more hours left to 2025!! Gosh this year has blown by!! Happy New Year a few hours early everyone! I mentioned in the previous post I'm researching through some other fighters in the card that Andre Lenglet fought Al McCoy to earn his way briefly as it was into Ring Magazine's top 10 rankings in very early 1938. Looking at this fight card, I've come across a couple interesting things. Directly in this fight card, one match up is a Jim Howell who BoxRec had a 7-8-1 at the time going up against a Babe Beattie, 3-2-0. Nothing much to look at would think. Well I first start looking into newpaper records for Babe Beattie. BoxRec shows him fighting once in 1932 then not again till meeting Bill Ferguson from Portland, Maine in February 1937. Well my immediate curiosity was what as the deal with Beattie between 1932 and 1937. Well I was having some difficulty finding Babe Beattie mentioned in early 1937 and specifically against Ferguson at first. What I have discovered I believe is BoxRec had two different records for this Babe Beattie. One with the Beattie spelling, a heApr 12, 1935avyweight with an overall 8-9-0 record. The second is a Babe Beatty, which BoxRec lists him as a welterweight with only 3 fights, all in 1936 and all against a Hub Parker. Some further looking through newspaper accounts appears to show that these are the same fighter going by Babe Beatty earlier in his career as a light heavyweight then I'm believing at least in the papers they started spelling him as Beattie, which I saw when first looking for the Jim Howell fight. While looking through this time period, I stumbled on these two newspaper articles for a Babe Beatty fighting a guy named Jumbo Gauvin. Right off I don't remember how I found these, but i lead me into another maze. Looked up this Jumbo Gauvin and BoxRec shows only 2 fights, one in 1936 and one in 1941. But, here is where he fought Mr. Babe Beatty... Tue, Feb 16, 1937 and Sat Feb 20, 1937, The Newport Daily Express, VT - Jumbo Gauvin "of Orleans" this article states presenting the fight to be coming up on Newport boxing promoter Dave Sisco's upcoming fight show. Jumbo Gauvin is presented as the heavyweight champ of Vermont. Says that Gauvin and Babe Beatty who Gauvin is to fight are two of the very popular boxers in the area. The article on the 16th states Gauvin "of Fort Ethan Allen". Fri, Feb 26, 1937, The Caledonian-Record, St. Johnsbury, VT - Light heavweight champion Babe Beatty stopped Jumbo Gauvin in the 4th round of a scheduled 10 rounder. At the outset of the fight, Beatty showed being aggressively cautious but the better boxer. Beatty trailed Gauvin of Fort Ethan Allen about the ring staying clear of a fast left that Gauvin would deliver on occasion. Beatty kept up the same tactics in the second outpointing Gauvin. The third round was pretty even, but then in the fourth, Beatty delivered a right hook to Gauvin's jaw that left him groggy. As Gauvin wondered over to the opposit corner, Beatty planted another. Leaning back clutching the top rope, Gauvin left himself open to lefts and rights from Beatty and eventually he dropped to the canvas in a puddle of blood from his nose.