by adminrevolutionca | Jan 19, 2022 | Inductees
“Their father was Barney “Kid” McCluskey, a one-time lightweight boxing champ of the Island, tough as an axe-handle from 37 years as a river-driver in the Maine lumberwoods, and their uncle Tom “One Man” McCluskey was one of prizefighting’s “Great White Hopes” in the...
by adminrevolutionca | Jan 19, 2022 | Inductees
James “Big Jim” Pendergast was associated with sports in Prince Edward Island, nationally and even internationally for more than 75 years. He was a participant, a promoter and a friend of that five-letter word “sport,” from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A native of...
by adminrevolutionca | Jan 19, 2022 | Inductees
“To beat him they had to be exceptionally good, to fight him to a draw was tops, to lose to him was not considered a disgrace.” This is how Harry “Kid” Poulton – Charlottetown’s “Wizard of the Ring” – was introduced upon his induction into the PEI Sports Hall of...
by adminrevolutionca | Jan 19, 2022 | Inductees
All but forgotten today, George Godfrey was the reigning “Black Boxing Champion of America” a century ago. In an era when law prohibited mixed athletic competition, white boxers routinely “drew the colour line” against their Negro counterparts. And so it was that...
by adminrevolutionca | Jan 19, 2022 | Inductees
George was born in Charlottetown on June 25, 1872. Life for most was hard at the time, but if you were black, it could be downright miserable. As a young teen, George had no plans to stick around, and as soon as opportunity presented itself, he left to start a new...
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