Appropriate for the day.
A Jewish bantamweight who was born in Kiev on Christmas day in 1915, <a href="http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=045931" target="_blank">Baby Yack</a> made the 1936 Canadian Olympic team but boycotted the Hitler games in Berlin along with teammate Sammy Luftspring. A great amateur who reportedly won 90 of 100 fights, he was a bantamweight contender in the late thirties. Yack beat Frankie Martin, Henry Hook, Carlos (Indian) Quintana, Lefty Gwynne, and Lou Transparenti. He lost to Hook in a rematch (before beating him again), and was also beaten by Small Montana, Georgie Pace, and Henry Jeffra.
As usual, no photo on this end. Merry Xmas to most and <i><u>h</u>ag urim sameya<u>h</u></i> to some!
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