Golden Gloves Boxing
This
picture was taken in 1947. We have
listed as Back Row, left to right: Harold Guldager, Allen Walden, Jim Walden,
Harvey Dallman (Trainer), Hjalmer Friton, Ed Walden, & George Gustafson. Directly in front, left to right: Shimschock
& Eckstein.
Amateur boxing enjoyed enormous popularity in the 1930s, '40s and well into the '50s. It was a simpler, more innocent time for the sport of boxing, with gentlemanly heroes like Joe Louis (nick named Brown Bomber) who was considered to be a worthy role model for children. For the most part, the seamy underside of the sport remained hidden.
Children
even received boxing gloves as Christmas or birthday gifts and were cheered on
by their parents in amateur matches the same way young football players are
encouraged today. Black eyes were badges
of pride to young fighters who sneered at wearing protective headgear. Boxing as been known as the "sweet science". Many hours were conducted on learning the
correct workings of the right technique of boxing for the boys; a complete
devotion.
For Harold Guldager, Allen Walden, Jim Walden, Harvey
Dallman (Trainer), Hjalmer Friton, Ed Walden, George Gustafson, Shimschock and
Eckstein they were of the many here in Sleepy Eye that took on the roles and
attempts to becoming the next Golden Glove winner, through the many black eyes,
sore muscles, and bruised egos. In the
eyes of themselves they were winners, perhaps not in the eyes of national
championships but in their eyes they themselves, made of heart and steal, they
were Champions to themselves and their teammates.
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