Mr Tommy Loates is listed in the Jones 1000 as being born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 6, 1867, time unknown. Well, in all fairness, the date is correct but the town is not: Loates was born in Derby (pronounced Darby) England. We have rectified his time to 10:32 AM giving him a 26 Scorpio... Continue Reading →
He was born Julius Wilford Arndstein in Norway on July 1, 1879, the son of a German Jew named Moses Arndstein and his Dutch wife, Thekla Van Shaw¹. They came to the United States when he was an infant and received a good education and worked as a contractor for a time. But Nick was... Continue Reading →
It's hard to be a boxer ad not want to get hit in the face. Sooner or later, no matter how good you are, you will run into someone who will punch you in the kisser and you'll fold like a cheap card table. That is the story of Pretty Boy Karl Schulze, number 831... Continue Reading →
Jack Dempsey is one of Marc Jones's notables and comes in at 228. He does not provide the place, but that's easy enough to fix, he was born in a coal mining town in Colorado. The time Jones has is also on Astro.com but does not work with the known biographical details of his life,... Continue Reading →
Max Baer, born Maximilian Adalbert Baer, is a well known American boxer, cemented into popular culture through his son, Max Baer, jr of Beverly Hillbillies fame where he played Jethro Bodine. With the death of Ellie May, Donna Douglas, Baer fils, is the latest surviving member of the cast. https://youtu.be/VQexg3K8hKY Marc Jones just notes CST... Continue Reading →
Marc Jones has Schmeling at a standard unknown time with no place, so we put in the Prenzlau location from Astro.com. This chart is what we got. This is the time that Astro.com has for Schmeling 10:50 am. The hour does not change Schmeling much, but it is a rectified time -- which we prefer... Continue Reading →
The city of Vernon is best known today for its meatpacking plants and slaughterhouses, but nearly a century ago vied with Madison Square Garden for the title of "Boxing Capital of the World." In his Vernon Arena, promoter Jack Doyle staged 20-round world championship fights and, between bouts, allowed the sporting set to refresh itself... Continue Reading →
There are a few issues with Jones's notation on Danny Cox. First he has him born in Washington DC while Boxing Record lists NYC. We went with Boxing Rec, and suspect that Mr. Cox was born in Hell's Kitchen near Times Square. The Jones chart is the first in Green; ours follows. A second issue... Continue Reading →
The Best Tennis ever? The green chart below is Marc Jones's time for tennis great Don Budge; the black is Michel Gauquelin's; we are going with the latter time because like Sir Don Bradman, Budge changed the game with his backhand style. The Jones times does put Uranus in the tenth but not as a... Continue Reading →
