The first week in December 1895, saw a football match play out between Blantyre and Hamilton Harp. Reporters in the Hamilton Herald were quite descriptive about this match, and rather than focusing on the skill of the players, it was other observations in the report that made this worthy of retelling here, as opposed to […]
Pictured here in November 1933, is boxer Frank Markey (on the front left with hands in his pockets), at a weigh in at Dundee with boxer Jim Cowie. This was an important fight for the 1933 Scottish featherweight championship final. Unfortunately, Frank was beaten, but under controversial circumstances. Jim Cowie, Dundee, became feather-weight champion of Scotland […]
Benny Lynch was a Scottish Fly weight professional boxer born in the Gorbals in 1913. He was considered by some to be one of the finest boxers below the lightweight division in his era and often been described as the greatest fighter that Scotland has ever produced. In 1935, at the age of 22, during an interview with newspapers, […]