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Jimmy McLarnin rides a bike.

July 24, 2023

Jimmy McLarnin, the Irish prizefighter, rides his bike in Swan Lake, New York, returning from the village with a basket full of groceries. (It looks, too, as though he dropped a pack of cigarettes.) It’s 1935 and the welterweight champ is in training for his bout against Barney Ross at the Polo Grounds in New York City. (McLarnin lost, in a close decision.) McLarnin retired from the ring in 1936 and took up, among other things, film acting. He appeared in Big City, an MGM taxi cab drama, and in the pugilist pics The Crowd Roars and Joe Palooka, Champ.

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