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Harry McConnell, originally Henry Francis McConnell, was born on May 12, 1899, in Camden. He had an older brother, Dan McConnell, who was a well-known journalist in Camden, writing for the Camden Post-Telegram and the Camden Courier-Post.
Main Street is a diagonal street in North Camden running southeast from State and Point Streets. The 1878 city directory listed it as starting at the Vine Street Ferry.
Dan McConnell (born c. 1873, Pennsylvania) was a Camden lightweight boxer of the 1890s and early 1900s, managed by Oscar A. Eastlack, who later ran an oyster house at 125 Main Street in North Camden.
Captain Dan McConnell, who has run an oyster house for many years at 125 Main street, has sold the good will and fixtures and some oysters to Billy Dieffendorff, a young man who is well known in the Poynts.
The wind-up at the Penn Athletic Club to-night between Danny Dougherty and Tommy Feltz should be productive of some good sport. There is not the slightest likelihood of this bout turning out to be one of those tiresome clinching affairs of which Philadelphia patrons of boxing have had a surfeit of late.
Tommy West and Young Peter Jackson are slated for a six-round argument at the Penn Athletic Club, Twentieth street and Montgomery avenue, to-night. Considering the distance that they are to travel they should go at a rapid gait.
Manager McCarthy has finally settled upon Jack Bennett to meet Owen Ziegler in the wind-up at the Penn Art Club, Twentieth street and Montgomery avenue, on Monday night next. They appeared at one of the early shows of the club, and put up a go that was worth travelling miles to witness.
The Broadway A. C., Broad and Ellsworth, will give the boys a run for their money to-morrow night. For the grand wind up it has two of the best men that could be secured, namely, Dan McConnell, the champion lightweight of Camden, and Tom Cleary, of Fairmount.
There should be some stiff milling at the National Athletic Club, Pennsylvania Hall, Eighth and Christian streets, to-night, that is, if judgment can be based upon the card. With one exception all the boys are known to be willing boxers and the exception, Harry Ramsey, of Washington, comes here with an excellent reputation.
To-night's the night when Crockey Boyle will have a chance to satisfy the ambition he has possessed ever since Ellwood McCloskey secured the decision over him at the Arena some time recently. The management of the National Athletic Club has acted wisely in matching these two well-known and clever fighters for its wind-up at Pennsylvania Hall, Eighth and Christian streets, to-night.
George McFadden and Jack O'Brien are matched to fight in New York May 18.
An event that is causing a considerable amount of talk at present is the six-round bout between Charles Norton, Billy Wilson's lightweight champion, and Dan McConnell, lightweight champion of New Jersey, which takes place at the Globe Theatre next Thursday evening, December 21.
The contest between Joe Allen and Tim Callahan, Philadelphia's premier feather weights, which has created so much interest and discussion in pugilistic circles, will come off to-night.
Some wise men had prophesied that there would be a shower of shooting stars last night, but the only shooting stars in Trenton were those that flashed and darted before Dan McConnell's vision during the five rounds he played with Spike Sullivan, in what was to have been a twenty-round bout at the Trenton Athletic Club.
Dan McConnell, of Camden, will meet Tommy Edwards in a six-round wind-up at the Broadway A. C., Broad and Ellsworth streets, to-morrow night.
The managers of the Quaker City Athletic Club believe they have scheduled one of the strongest boxing cards of the season for their show on Saturday night.
There will be heavy weights galore at the Quaker City Athletic Club to-night, and the patrons of boxing will be treated to two six-round bouts between big fellows.
The fifteen-round bout at the T. A. C. last night between Matty Matthews, of New York, and Dan McConnell, of Camden, came to an unsatisfactory ending in the middle of the seventh round, when Referee George Hendley decided that Matthews had fouled, and thereby declared McConnell the winner.
Dan McConnell, of Camden, and Matty Matthews, of New York, will meet tonight at the T. A. C. in a fifteen round bout, which should be a remarkably fine exhibition of the game.
The windup at the Nonpareil Athletic Club last night was between Joe Bernstein, of New York, and Joe Fairburn, of this city. It was a rattling six-round set-to in which the New Yorker clearly proved his superiority as a boxer.
All the boxing bouts for the testimonial to Bert Crowhurst, which is to be held at the Caledonian Club on Monday evening, have been arranged, and they include most of the best boxers in and around the city.
There is one thing to be said about the boxing entertainments at The Arena—you are never dead sure as to what is going to come off.
Maher and O'Donnell will wind up at Arena next Monday night. The proposed Maher-Sharkey match is creating great interest in pugilistic circles.
The Orange Street Opera House was well filled to-night to witness the boxing contests between Philadelphia pugilistic aspirants. There were six bouts, two of which were anything but tame.
The wind-up at the Southwark Athletic Club last night between the redoubtable “Bull” McCarthy, of this city, and Dan McConnell, who glories in the fact that Camden is his place of habitat, should have satisfied the most exacting.
There is plenty of good boxing scheduled for this week. To-night Kid Lavigne will meet Owen Ziegler at the Winter Circus.
If it’s not one thing it’s another. With the passing of the baseball season come the Knights of the Mitts, and from now on until the robins begin to do business in the spring time the space that has been devoted all summer to thrilling stories of life on the diamond, of base hits, of fumbles and muffs, will be turned over to the truthful chronicle of the doings of the king-pin pugs, and those who think they are king pins.
Local light-weights will have an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities if the well-thought-out plans of the Tuxedo Athletic Club do not miscarry. The light-weight tournament is now an assured fact, and the first meeting is down for July 9.
The holiday show of the Caledonian Club will be held at the club house, Thirteenth and Spring Garden, to-morrow evening. There will be three six-round contests.
Every available bit of room in the big Masonic Hall at Manayunk was occupied last evening by the throng of spectators numbering fully 1000 people, who assembled to witness the athletic entertainment held there under the auspices of some fistic admirers from the Cressen A. C. and from various parts of the city.
Three of Yale's freshmen crew are sick at present, and unable to row.