Card of the Day - 2021-12-26

Our second card, from Sunday 26th December, was C798-420.1 [tobacco : UK] Cope "Boxers" (1915) 21/100. A three part set, 420.1 are these cards numbered 1-100, 420.2 are all Army boxers, and are numbered 101-125, and 420.3 is just a single card, presumably un-numbered (?), of the "New World's Champion", who was the heavyweight Jess Willard, renowned for beating both Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey. And the rather neat link again referred to a breed of dog, the noble and stately boxer.

Our man is James John "Jim" Corbett, and he was actually an American professional boxer and World Heavyweight Champion, best known as the only man who ever defeated John L. Sullivan. I am not sure why he is featured getting on a bus? But I bet the guys at Fight City know, because their web page on his is just exhaustive, it even includes a link to watch footage of him sparring with Gene Tunney in 1925.

However I bet they dont know that he appears in John Player`s "Dandies" - take a look at the card at the New York Public Library