Tony Galento
I can lick the bum' Washington, D.C., Nov. 9. Rollicking Tony Galento, Orange, N.J., pubkeeper, sounding off today at the offices of the D.C. Boxing Commission where he laid on the line for Secretary Harvey L. Miller a ten-grand note as a challenge to Joe Louis for a championship bout. The money will be forwarded by Miller, an official of the National Boxing Association, to Charles E. Reynolds, President of the NBA, 11/9/38. (original text)
- Date
- 1938
- Photographer / author
- on publication. Creator(s)
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 625 × 765 pixels
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