Tag: History of Womens Boxing

       

Photos of females in the kitchen with boxing gloves – 1920’s      

Ruth Murphy vs. Vera Roah – 1916 photo   Title: [Stills of Billie Burke starring in motion picture, ‘Gloria’s Romance’, 1916: boxing with woman in gymnasium (198)] Date Created/Published: c1916.  Notes:  Photo copyrighted by George Kleine.  This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sedan-chairs; Motion pictures Stills; PI; Shelf.  Bookmark

Cartoon that was published in a British Magazine – July 22, 1914.  

June 8 1914 Tipton Tribune – page 6 Small brief comment in regards to female boxing.  They stated the following “Paris continues to give London tips in militancy.    The WOMENS BOXING match was the most  STRIKING example.

WBAN received a report that there is an article from the NEW YORK AGE  dated April 16, 1914, giving some details about a mixed race boxing tournament involving 10 women.   The writer who sent this in to WBAN stated, “It makes me think there must have been more going on in Harlem with women, since

In 1912, there was an extensive story on a fight that took place between two females:  Myrtle Havers, 19 years old, and Mable Williams, 22 years old.   The story was published in the New York World, in April of 1912. The bout was described as follows:  The two women fought with eight-ounce gloves.   The bout

  Vintage photographs depicting a terrific brawl between Fraulein Kussin and Mrs. Edwards.  Title: Mrs. Edwards & Frl. Kussin [boxing]   Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher   Date Created/Published: [1912]   Summary: Photo shows Fraulein Kussin and Mrs. Edwards who had a boxing match on March 7, 1912.   Notes:   Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of

By Dudley A. Sargent, M.D. (1912) Are Athletics Making Girls Masculine? A Practical Answer to a Question Every Girl Asks That there is a change taking place in our American girls and women is unquestioned. And it is so elusive, so baffling of description that it is proving the most attractive of subjects for discussion

Photograph of a female boxer in gloves – dated 1910 – 1911 – signed by the fighter from France.  Copyrighted by WBAN. All Rights Reserved.