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Theboxing Biographies Newsletter Volume 4- No 10 6TH May , 2009 1 TheBoxing Biographies Newsletter Volume 4- No 10 6TH May , 2009 www.boxingbiographies.com If you wish to receive future newsletters ( which includes the images ) please email the message “NEWS LETTER” [email protected] The newsletter is also available as a word doc on request As always the full versions of these articles are on the website Please Help if you have any information on the following I am doing research on 2 Canadian fighters from the mid 1930's -40's . They are Sonny Jones and Katsumi Morioka . Sonny was a very good welter and Katsumi was a very good bantam . I know that they both had quite a few fights in the UK . Any info or pics would be greatly appreciated . Name: Sonny Jones Career Record: click Birth Name: Jordan Jones Nationality: Canadian Birthplace: Edmonton, AB Hometown: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Born: 1915-03-16 Died: 1944-08-28 Age at Death: 29 According to the Jan. 4, 1946 TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE, Jones was killed in action in France during World War II serving in the Canadian Army. Name: Katsumi Morioka Career Record: click Alias: Jimmy Morioka Birth Name: Katsumi James Inomata Nationality: Canadian Birthplace: New Westminister, BC Hometown: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Born: 1915-09-11 Height: 5' 5½″ 2 Last year Volume 3- No 7 12th Nov , 2008 I published the first 2 installments of this 6 partstory but was unable to present the complete story as I did not have the third in the series. However this has been resolved thanks to a member of the Mizler family who have been kind enough to provide it, along with many other items, so we can continue to enjoy his career story. Some of the items which I received are: 1. CD of interview John Harding with Harry and Judah Mizler (believed to be mid 1980s). 2. Copy Extracts Programme 15 April 1937 ‘Harringay Arena’: [Bill: Tommy Farr .v. Max Baer and Petey Sarron .v. Harry Mizler]. 3. Copy Programme 18 January 1934, Royal Albert Hall: [Bill Johnny Cuthbert .v. Harry Mizler; Lightweight Championship]. 4. Copy Programme 2 October 1935, Royal Albert Hall: [Bill Harry Mizler .v. Gustave Humery]. 5. Copy Programme 12 November 1942, Caledonian Road Baths : Sgt/Instructor Harry Mizler (RAF) .v. Frank Duffy (Liverpool). 6. Copy Programme: 11 March 1930: London Federation of Boys Clubs Annual Boxing Championships. Harry Mizler .v. F Beards [ Under 8 Stone 7 lbs Senior] 7. Copy Contract 12 June 1936: Harry Mizler to fight Harry Crastner of Middlesborough 1 July 1936*. British Boxing Board of Control contract. *Fight did not take place on this date. Later fights with Crastner on 3 October 1938 and 20 Feb 1941. 8. Copy Contract 14 March 1935: Harry Mizler to fight Norman Snow on 11 April 1938*. British Boxing Board of Control contract.* Fight did not take place on this date. Earlier fights with Snow on 19 December 1933, 2 December 1935 and later fight on 2 March 1939. 9. Copy Contract 22 April 1937: Harry Mizler to fight Petey Sarron (in Johannesburg) on 5/12 June 1937. Transvaal Board of Control for Professional Boxing contract. 10. Copy Contract 14 October 1941: Harry Mizler (RAF) to fight Eric Roderick (RAF) on 3 November 1941. British Boxing Board of Control contract. Moe Mizler, signs contract as Harry’s Manager. 11. Article Boxing News: Part 3 of The Mizler Story by Roy Harley Lewis. 12. Letters (2) from Judah Mizler and from J S Trisk to “the Editor” Boxing demanding rematch of Berg with Mizler. 3 What follows are parts 1-5. The concluding part, along with a substantial amount of new and previously unpublished material will be in the next edition. I would ask that if you have any information concerning Harry, Judah, or Moe Mizler that you get in touch with me please. Name: Harry Mizler Career Record: click Nationality: British Hometown: St George's, London, United Kingdom Born: 1913-01-22 Died: 1990-00-00 Age at Death: 76 1952, Boxing News. Parts 1-5 THE-Perfect Fighting Machine descends on us so very occasionally yet, when he does, the tendency is to take him for granted. During the past half century who has there been worthy of that exalted title ?. In the United State Mickey Walker, Joe Louis, Henry Armstrong and Ray Robinson. Over here Jimmy Wilde, Jim Driscoll, Kid Lewis, Benny Lynch and Randolph Turpin, while the Continent has contributed the tragic Marcel Cerdan. Yet one finds the task of selecting the greatest boxers, from a class field, comparable to finding the sweetest fruit in a box of fresh strawberries. There have been thousands of fighters from every weight division who have reached championship class. Men who have won titles, others who have never been given their deserved opportunity, and youngsters whom fate has, treated cruelly. CLASSIC STYLIST And for every career, there is a story worthy of inclusion in the long history of boxing's annals. The burning question that constantly remains unanswered is . What qualifications are required to raise the good boxer into the immortal class ? Michelangelo once wrote: " Trifles make perfection, and Perfection is no trifle." But surely that is a matter of opinion. The only answer that covers the whole question is — results !. For as I see it, there have been, and still are. many who possess the every attribute 4 necessary to a champion's make-up, but lack that extra indefinable quality that bridges the difference between the forgotten man, and the name that springs at once to people's lips. Harry Mizler, who won the British lightweight title in 1934 at the age 21, and lost it two years later, was an outstanding example of an athlete once idolised and now remembered by only the few. Mizler, champion in his 14th professional contest at a time when there was an abundance of class performers, and who retired from the ring as recently as 1945, was the last of a long succession of outstanding Jewish scrappers. If you pin-point the essentials that constitute a great boxer, Harry had hem all. Boxing ability, punch and ability to take punishment. Mizler was a classic stylist who used with devastating effect the copybook English straight left which most present day fighters are taught, and so few perfect. After he outpointed Johnny Cuthert, of Sheffield, to annex the British lightweight crown, Charlie Thomas the referee said that Mizler's left hand was the finest he had seen since the days of Driscoll. Secondly, Harry was a boxer who used the heavy artillery in his right fist sparingly, but when he unleashed that weapon it usually spelt curtains for his opponent. His ability to spot the split- second opening in his opponent's defence, and at timing a blow were exceptional. Always handicapped by weak hands. Mizler actually broke both knuckles when losing for the first time inside the distance — the first of his contests with Jack Kid Berg. But in his initial year in the paid ranks he was undefeated in thirteen Marches — ten opponents were stopped decisively inside the distance. After damaging his hands Mizler was often rather apprehensive about punching too hard, but even so his record was studded with knock-out victories. Last but not least, while Mizler was no rugged two-fisted battler hewn from granite, his durability became legend. His never-say-die performance against the iron-fisted Gustave Humery on an October night in 1935, is still considered today one of the finest displays of gallantry and sheer guts seen in this country. CAME BACK TO WIN He won that fight. but the manner in which he survived knockdown after knockdown for seven seemingly endless pain-filled rounds, and absorbed enough punishment for ten men, brought tears to the eyes of hardened fight fans. The only comparison by present clay standards (for those who do not remember Humery) is to imagine any middleweight surviving all the punishment Randy Turpin could land out. Then coming back to stop the Leamington Licker with practically one punch in the eighth round. But that is what Mizler accomplished. Even his corner team begged the East Ender to give up, while only his wonderful lighting spirit enabled him to keep getting up from the canvas where the Frenchman unceremoniously dumped him time and again. The only man in that vast arena that night who had the same faith was referee Moss Deyong, who was condemned by many at the time for not stopping the unequal struggle to prevent Mizler 5 from sustaining serious injury. In fact, although Harry gained the decision and lots of glory, he was so badly mauled that he spent the two succeeding months recovering from the effects of the punishment. If anyone is in a position to comment accurately on Mizler the fighter, it is his old trainer and inseparable companion Nat Seller. Nat, who has trained as many good boys as he has hairs on his head, supports the theory that Mizler had the ability of a great fighter, and adds " besides his qualities as a boxer he was a remarkably clean living and conscientious lad." Why, then couldn't Harry go on to capture a World championship, or even retain his British title in that second defence in 1936 ? Perhaps after reading this story you will form your own conclusions. OVERTAXED STRENGTH Many factors have contributed to the issue. But even his intimate friends are divided in their opinions. Some say that Mizler's fate changed on the day his hands were seriously damaged, despite the fact that he went on in later years to win some of his greatest battles.
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