The bear fell into an expensive bass viola and busted it up, and the promoters wanted Abe to pay for it, instead of paying him for the bout.Īnd the fought human beings, lots of them, mostly on Navy ships. He fought a muzzled bear and punched him on the snout, knocking him off the stage of the vaudeville house in which all this was going on. He fought a kangaroo in Australia and lost.(the kanga nailed him with his tail and broke a couple of things). Abe had a lifetime Navy pass for any ship anywhere in the world and he used it. He sold the Navy newspapers and the boys had their reading matter aboard even if there was a hurricane blowing. He did not chip paint, or flash semaphores or prepare meals at a 40-degree angle. Navy, and Abe was Navy for the rest of the way.
The family landed in New London, Conn., then as now an important base for the U.S. He was born in 1888 in some God-forsaken Russian village and got out and went to England and then to the U.S. The Seven Book Hunters submitted the book and a check for then-sizeable amount of $7.50, which was promptly.Ībe must have been something. Book hunters scour old stalls on special orders and when they get what you want you pay list. It was published in 1930 and revised through 1944, and to get a copy the services of a book hunter had to be obtained. flag with 48 separate and distinct stars.Since Abe the Newsboy was opening and closing in the publishing business no expenses were spared. Navy" and "God Bless America," plus a U.S.
The legend included such sentiments as "Hero of a Thousand fights," "With U.S. of Los Angeles, and it had gold stamping on the front cover, which you do not see much any more, even in the memoirs of ex-presidents going for $19.95. It was published by the Abe the Newsboy Publishing Co. 'The life Story of Abe the Newsboy" was privately printed, of course. The other guy might get the girl and the money, but if you wanted to know many homers Mickey Mantle hit rightie and how many leftie, step this way.
Not how, but 20 years ago this writer was a fact hound, not to be confused with a trivia hound. Upon retirement, he wrote a book, "The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy." Most of his bouts were aboard naval vessels. The 1952 edition carried all this information under a sub-head, "Most Contest Fought." It read: "Abraham Hollandersky, known as Abe the Newsboy, a world traveller, engaged in 1,309 contests in every part of the globe and also in 387 wrestling matches between the years 1905-1918. And he also had 387 wrestling engagements. He had 1,309 fights, according to the Ring Record Book, which lists this as a high-water mark. Abraham who? Abraham Hollandersky, who fought under the name of Abe the Newsboy from 1905 through 1918. Muhammad Ali may have been the Greatest but Abraham Hollandersky was the Most.
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