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Jumbo Gauvin - HW, Vermont (Record Research Continued)

Tue, Feb 04, 1936, Burlington Daily News, Vermont - Jumbo Gauvin lost a six rounder to an Al Barcan of Plattsburgh Barracks even though Barcan went down for counts of nine three times! Barcan kept plugging away at Gauvin's head with his left and had Gauvin grobby in the final round. In the end the judges called the bout a draw but the crowed showed their opinions that Barcan was the victor when he left the ring to loud applause.

Tue, May 05, 1936, Burlington Daily News, Vermont - Pete Gandara, of Barre, 180, substituting for planned Jumbo Gauvin, 195 opponent, Mel Sheppard, managed a draw for the contest by the referee despite Gauvin having the better of the fight in the first 4 rounds. In the final two, rounds, Gandara launched a barrage of straight lefts to the face and hard rights to the mid-section of Gauvin to apparently show the referee enough to award the draw. In this article they referred to Gandara as "the Spaniard".

A number of newspaper accounts from May 18-21, 1936 with preliminary hilites of a Fight card at the Armory in Newport, Vermont on May 21st. This fight card will feature Jumbo Gauvin in a heavyweight bout against Gene Bernier from Lewiston, Maine as the Second Main Bout. The first Main Bout is listed with Light Heavyweight Babe Beatty, Sherbrooke, 170 pounds vs Hub Parker, Newport, 165 pounds. This is the fight BoxRec lists under Babe Beatty, Welterweight from Sherbrooke. These articles mentions Gauvin as from Orleans. Assuming that being Orleans, Vermont.

Fri, May 22, 1936, The Newport Daily Express - In the fifth round of the scheduled eight rounds between Gene Bernier 200 pounds and Jumbo Gauvin, 197 pounds, Gauvin connected a hard right to Bernier's head and knocked him cold. Bernier couldn't stand up to the barrage of rights and lefts from Gauvin and was dropped to the canvas seven times for long counts. This report gave Gauvin credit for it being his 18th consecutive KO?

Fri, Jun 26, 1936, The Caledonian-Record, St. Johnsbury, VT - At the Town Hall in Hardwick, Bill Ferguson of Portland, Maine racked up with 18th fight without a loss with a 6 round technical knockout of Jumbo Gauvin. The fight was scheduled for eight round. Gauvin was the favorite in the match having a sizeable weight advantage and had built a reputation of being a terrific slugger the Caledonian-Record recorded. But, Ferguson's experience played out to victory. The sixth round was less than a minute old when Ferguson sent a left into Gauvin's left eye that brought a stream of blood. The two fighters fought on but then another left mad a mess further of the cut and Referee Firpo after looking at the injury, stopped the fight. A side note, the Caledonian-Record ran a pre-fight article on June 24 and said that Ferguson had fought 15 amateur fights and then had fought 17 professionally up to meeting Gauvin. Ferguson's BoxRec listing showed him only 8-0-0 record, all fights being in 1936. Gauvin fight is not listed.