Going Nowhere Fast
Harry Wills
&
Leo Johnson
New Orleans
Circa 1916
In an America haunted by the specter of Jack Johnson, the lot of the black heavyweight was not a promising one. Of a group of superb black fighters young Harry Wills was one of the most skilled Unfortunately, Wills found himself confined to almost exclusively fighting other black fighters. The man in the back seat Leo Johnson , billed as the World's Colored Lightweight Champion, suffered from a similiar fate to Harry Wills being forced to fight other black fighters, but never getting a opportunity in the white world.
But that Spring, Wills had other burdens to bear as well,
Fighter's Fiancee a Suicide
New Orleans, Feb. 12- On what was to have been her wedding day, Edna Jones, negress fiancee of Harry Wills, negro heavyweight knocked out last night by Sam Langford, killed herself shortly before noon. Wills was to have married the girl this afternon.
-Washington Post, February 13, 1916
Vintage Original Realphoto Postcard
Size: 3 1/8 X 5 1/2 inches
Matted to size. Full card has paper loss at top border.
Price: $ 265.00
3000-0258
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