Vintage boxer footage - circa 1919... need help to ID

Discussion in 'Boxing' started by slipthejab, Jul 3, 2010.

  1. slipthejab

    slipthejab Hark, a vagrant! Supporter

    Interesting vintage boxing clip... apparently of a Swedish boxer circa 1919. So this would be one of the earliest clips of a boxer on film if the date on the Google video is correct.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7741076720778779216#


    I'm trying to find out who this might be.

    That it's labeled 1919 puts this in the era of giants... fighters like Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey who fought each other on July 4th, 1919. For those who haven't done a lot of reading on vintage boxing... that is the same Jess Willard who beat the legendary boxer Jack Johnson! Jack Dempsey wrote one of the seminal boxing instructionals -

    This might be:
    But the dates don't exactly match and the look is different. Not sure how accurately the clip is titled.. Clabby was from Indiana - though not sure if there is a tie-in to being Swedish. Anyone know if Clabby is a Swedish name? My guess would be no.

    Any ideas who the boxer in the footage might be?
     
  2. robnj

    robnj Valued Member

    STJ

    The last frame that video says quote:

    "Viking Cronholm meets the B. Boys"

    I googled viking cronholm and found this:

    http://www.aikidojournal.com/blog/2...jitsu-demonstration-by-swede-viking-chronolm/

    The article shows a youtube video of a person who might look similar to the fella in your video who was a jujitsu guy and before a boxer. The quality is bad though ---hard to tell.

    J Clabby photos don't like the guy in the video you posted. See below.

    http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/clabby-jimmy.htm
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163449292/
    http://www.hhs59.com/clabby.htm
     
  3. slipthejab

    slipthejab Hark, a vagrant! Supporter

    Ok wow I saw that and it went right past me. :p

    Good stuff! That's what I was after. Yes it appears this is Viking Cronholm. The Jiu Jutsu footage was cool. Interesting to see the crossover even back then. Physical culture as it ever was. I managed to find quite a few run downs on him mostly in Swedish though... as luck would have it my mates from Sweden are in town... so they don't know it yet... but it's translation time! :p
     
  4. robnj

    robnj Valued Member

    STJ,

    It looks a lot like him in that jujitsu video. Video was cool--and so was the idea that a boxer would cross-train in JJ.

    Here is a link to babelfish
    http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

    cut and paste your websites or url into the the page and click translate swedish to english.
     
  5. Moi

    Moi Warriors live forever x

    Might be koyo?
     

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