The amateurs didn't know everything about boxing, but they had plenty of fight. And that's what draws the crowds. Last week 19,216 noisy fans crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to boo and applaud the Golden Gloves's national finals. The fans saw plenty of the wild haymakers and weird grimaces which made good action shots for the photographers at the ringside (see cut). A few connoisseurs went for a special reason: to take a look at Negro Bob Foxworth, 22, touted as the coming Joe Louis.
They found it was a little too early to tell. But Foxworth, fresh out of the...
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