This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends.
Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989. From the mid-1960s through the early 1970s, the "Bellflower Bomber" and his brawling brothers were top local drawing-card. The under-sized Quarry fought the best heavyweights of his day--including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman--but he never won the title. After he retired, he suffered from pugilistica dementia--severe brain damage from repeated blows to the head--testimony to the physical dangers of boxing. He died in 1999. Photograph caption dated July 17, 1965 reads, "Irish Jerry Quarry gets a big kiss from his wife Kathy last night after he stopped Willie Davis in 1:43 of the third round. The Valley owned and managed heavyweight is undefeated in five professional bouts. Quarry's bout was scheduled as a six-round semi-main to the Luis Rodriquez - Memo Ayon fight at the Olympic."
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image
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1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
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