Following the deaths of his parents through his childhood, he had itinerant employment through New South Wales, until a chance meeting with a boxing trainer, who encouraged him to try the sport.
Australian career
His height was 5 ft 7½ in (1.71 m), weight 125-140 lbs[4] and had a reach of 68 in (173 cm)[5] He won the Lightweight championship of Queensland in 1887 and Lightweight Championship of Australia 1889-1891.
American career
He immigrated to the United States in 1892[6][7] arriving in San Francisco on the steamer, Alameda.
His professional career included:
won 11 (KO 11)
lost 1 (KO 1)
drawn 3
Total rounds boxed 292[8] and included bouts with:
He took a job as a boxing trainer at the University of Chicago. There he married Adele Abbot, a proof reader at a printing company on 28 June 1905 in Cook County, Illinois, and they had two children, a son John H. (born 1908) and a daughter Elizabeth (born 1909).[12]
References
^Rochelle Llewelyn Nicholls, Joe Quinn Among the Rowdies: The Life of Baseball's Honest Australian
(McFarland, 2014) page 129.
