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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume IPrejudice, War and Poverty

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume I: Prejudice, War and Poverty [Following Corfield came Sheffield’s first British champion, Gus Platts, whose career was interrupted by the First World War. Invalided out of the front line after serving in Egypt and France, Platts continued to box, sometimes in defiance of the orders of his military superiors. Meanwhile, Platts’ former colleagues used boxing as a form of relaxation away from the real fighting, their equipment provided by a campaign led by a Sheffield newspaper, which in response received many letters of thanks from the trenches. Winning the title late in his career, Platts was a short-lived champion but post-retirement, in his role as a publican, he had to use skills learned in the ring as a deterrent to the excesses of the perpetrators of Sheffield’s infamous 1920s ‘Gang Wars’. Racial prejudice in boxing is also examined in this chapter.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume IPrejudice, War and Poverty

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-63544-2
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195 –255
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-63545-9_6
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[Following Corfield came Sheffield’s first British champion, Gus Platts, whose career was interrupted by the First World War. Invalided out of the front line after serving in Egypt and France, Platts continued to box, sometimes in defiance of the orders of his military superiors. Meanwhile, Platts’ former colleagues used boxing as a form of relaxation away from the real fighting, their equipment provided by a campaign led by a Sheffield newspaper, which in response received many letters of thanks from the trenches. Winning the title late in his career, Platts was a short-lived champion but post-retirement, in his role as a publican, he had to use skills learned in the ring as a deterrent to the excesses of the perpetrators of Sheffield’s infamous 1920s ‘Gang Wars’. Racial prejudice in boxing is also examined in this chapter.]

Published: Feb 21, 2021

Keywords: Gus Platts; First World War; Jack Johnson; Racism; Sheffield Gang Wars

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