Tag Archives: 20th Century Sporting Club
Walter St.Denis
Walter St. Denis (Sports editor. Born, Pembroke, Ont., Mar. 19, 1877; died, New York, NY, Feb. 15, 1947.) When boxing returned to New York as a legal sport in 1911, the Frawley Law did not permit official decisions on bouts. Fans (and bettors) turned to newspaper experts for the determination of winners (and losers). Of the […]
John Reed Kilpatrick
John Reed Kilpatrick (Executive. Born, New York, NY, June 15, 1889; died, New York, NY, May 7, 1960.) An end who earned All-America honors at Yale in 1909 and 1910, John Reed Kilpatrick was a military officer, a construction executive, a boxing promoter, president of the Rangers for the better part of three decades, and […]
Ed Frayne
Ed Frayne (Sports editor. Born, Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 8, 1892; died, Van Nuys, CA, Nov. 26, 1944.) Returning from California in November 1926, Edward J. Frayne became sports editor of the New York American, the morning broadsheet owned by William Randolph Hearst. Hearst also owned the tabloid Daily Mirror (started just two years earlier) and […]
Bill Farnsworth
Bill Farnsworth (Sports editor. Born, Milbury, MA, June 7, 1885; died, New York, NY, July 10, 1945.) Part of the triumvirate of Hearst newspaper stars who dominated the boxing business in New York in the 1920s, Wilton Simpson Farnsworth was sports editor of the Evening Journal for its last 12 years (1925-37). Farnsworth teamed with […]
