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Michael Tenerelli (aka Mickey Blair)
Mickey Blair, born Michael Tenerelli in 1908, was a professional boxer hailing from Camden, NJ.
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Rocco Auletto (aka Roxie Allen)
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Vincent Scola
Vincent Scola, born on June 16, 1911, according to Social Security records, was the oldest son of Domenico and Maria C. Scola. However, census records and newspaper accounts suggest that he was actually a year younger.
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Roxie Allen
ROXIE ALLEN was the ring name used by Rocco Auletto, who was one of the many fine Italian boxers who came out of South Camden in the 1920s and 1930s, and was considered by some to be among the best local fighters of his era.
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Ryan Honored at Special Fete
Camden Courier-Post - November 3, 1966 More than a score sportsmen from the Camden area attended a surprise 75th birthday party to Tom Ryan , retired sports editor of the Courier-Post, in Kenney's Camden last night.
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Camden Reached Peak in Boxing in 1919-20
Standout Performers Appeared in Bouts Held at Armory Camden has had its ups and downs in the boxing game, but probably reached its peak so far as performers are concerned when bouts were held at the Haddon Avenue Armory during 1919-20.
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Life Hereabouts by Charlie Humes
A nostalgic Charlie Humes column recalling Camden and Gloucester City's boxing heyday at the Armory on Haddon Avenue and the fighters — Roxie Allen, Mickey Blair, Eddie Chaney and dozens of others — who filled it.
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Webster Will Join Forces With Georgette, Prince
Camden Courier Post - November 20, 1948 By TOM RYAN A new boxing triumvirate soon will be formed in Camden, it was learned today. Those involved are Tony Georgette, Joe Webster and Eddie Prince, all Camden residents.
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Detectives attend Brennan funeral
By GEORGE ZACHARIAS As they prepared to take John Brennan on his last ride, Rocco Auletto , known to the fight world as Roxie Allen , was held in $5000 bail for further arraignment next Friday and detectives spread the dragnet for five men believed implicated in the gangland execution at 17th and Rittenhouse Streets.
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Nearly 4000 Witness Old-Timers in Action
Camden Courier Post - December 20, 1939 Past and Present South Jersey Boxers Go Through Paces in Charity Show NO DECISIONS RENDERED By FRANK KOPESKY They turned back the sporting pages last night, month after month, year after year.
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Ex-Fighters Are Set for Charity Show
Jersey Joe Walcott and Roxie Allen in Feature at Civic Hall Tomorrow Present and past greats of Camden boxing will do their all for charity tomorrow night, when they appear on a card sponsored by the United Democratic Clubs of Camden at the Camden Convention Hall.
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Smallwood Likely to Surprise Pepe
Camden Courier-Post - August 15, 1933 Wilmington, Del., Middleweight, Meets Veteran Philadelphian on Friday When Johnny Pepe, veteran Philadelphia middleweight, mingles with Joe Smallwood of Wilmington, Del.
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LUCAS TO OPPOSE BASHARA IN WIND UP
Whitman Park Lightweight Meets Old Rival in Feature Bout Here Friday Lew McFarland, matchmaker for the newly organized Camden Sporting Club has arranged another attractive card for this Friday night's show at Grip's Pennsauken township open-air Arena.
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Roxie Allen Freed, Will Re-enter Ring
Camden Courier Post - June 10, 1933 Former Camden Boxer Paroled After Serving Two of Four-Year Sentence Roxie Allen came home yesterday, sans the rough and reckless spirit of the youthful ring warrior who went to state prison more than two years ago.
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Pardons Court Spurns Plea to Parole Mrs. Lilliendahl; Roxie Allen May Be Freed
Prison Officials Decline Comment on Report Camden Boxer May Be Released Today; 92 of 612 Appeals Succeed Trenton, June, 8,-Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl of Vineland, who has served six of ten years for the man slaughter of her husband, Dr. A. William Lilliendahl, today lost a second opportunity for freedom.
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Roxie's Pals Confess
Pair Held With Camden Boxer Admit Landisville Robbery - Fifth Man Hunted With four suspects, including Roxie Allen , Camden welterweight boxer, still held without bail, the State Police today continued their search for the fifth bandit in the $200 holdup of a Landisville poolroom Sunday afternoon.
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Roxie Allen Held as One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup
Pugilist and Pal Identified as 2 of 4 bandits in Landisville Robbery Players Lined Up, Relieved of $200 Robbers Flee in Stolen Car With Crippled Man at Wheel Roxie Allen , Camden's famed welterweight boxer, and one of his pals were arrested last night and Identified, according to police, as two of four men who held up a craps game early yesterday at Landisville.
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Bail Is Denied Roxie Allen in Robbery of 15 in Craps Game
Three Pals of Camden Boxer Also Jailed at Shore for Grand Jury Quartet Identified by Poolroom Owner Limp Betrays Fighter at Landisville - Says He Did Not Aid Holdup Identified as four of the five bandits who held up and robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom yesterday, Roxie Allen , well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths are under arrest today.
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Camden Boxer Aims to Return to Ring
Camden Courier-Post - August 11, 1930 Young O'Connor Wants to Stage Comeback in Police and Firemen Show "In this corner, Young O'Connor , of Camden.
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Trenton 'Phantom' Gains Verdict Over Local Italian for Third Straight Time
Camden Courier Post - September 19, 1928 By TOM RYAN Before one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed a boxing shot at the Convention Hall , Vincent Forgione, of Philadelphia.
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Gorman Meets Test Against Joe Bashara
Hard-Hitting Middleweights Meet in Prelim to Forgione-McGorgary Bout Tuesday Successful so far in a comeback campaign launched recently, Joe Bashara, hard-hitting middleweight from Baltimore, will stack up against a tough customer in one of the preliminary bouts at the all-star show arranged by the Matthew Purnell Post 518, Veterans of Foreign Wars , at the Camden Convention Hall next Tuesday.
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Allen Takes Thumping But Gets Even Break
Former Maine Ringster Wins Four Rounds, Loses Three, Splits One in 8-Round Fuss A chorus of 1500 enraged voices, raised in a discordant unison, greeted the announcement of a draw decision handed down by Referee Ray Smith at the conclusion of eight rounds of legal assault between Roxie Allen and Emory Cabana at Twelfth and Federal streets last night.
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Michaels Anxious to Beat Spearing
Riverside Youngster Out to Erase Cabana Defeat; Spearing Has Iron Jaw The Joe Spearing -Joey Michaels bout, which is slated as the semi- windup to the Roxie Allen -Emory Cabana fight at the Public Service Park on Friday night, is attracting nearly as much interest as the wind-up.
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Spearing May Give Michaels Real Tilt
East Camden Lightweight is Rapidly Developing Into Windup Performer Joe Spearing , of East Camden , who meets Joey Michaels, Riverside slugger in the eight-round semi-final to the Roxie Allen -Emory Cabana bout at Public Service Park on Friday night, is rapidly fighting his way into the windup class.
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Allen Tops Eddie Reid
Camden Courier-Post - February 14, 1928 Atlantic City, Feb. 14. Roxie Allen , Camden lightweight, defeated Eddie Reid, New York negro. in the windup battle at the Northside A. C. here last night.
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Roxie Allen Faces Reid In Shore Final Tonight
Februrary 13, 1928 Roxie Allen , local lightweight idol, will climb back into the ring again tonight when he opposes Eddie Reid, New York, in the windup of eight rounds at Joe Wenke's Northside Club, Atlantic City.
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Frankie Rapp Favored to Eclipse Records of All Local Boxers
Critics Predict Great Ring Future for Former Camden Catholic High School Baseball and Basketball Star Has Scored 12 Knockouts in 17 Bouts By Tom Ryan Is Frankie Rapp , South Camden lightweight due to eclipse the performance of every scrapper who has ever been developed here?
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Roxie Allen Starts New Year in Impressive Style by Shading Al Del Galdo in Convention Hall Finale
Camden lightweight Roxie Allen opened 1928 by defeating New York's Al Del Galdo over eight rounds at Convention Hall, on a card that also saw Kid Boots and Joey Michaels of Riverside score first- and second-round knockouts.
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Spearing Challenges Local Lightweights
Camden Courier-Post - June 11, 1927 Joe Spearing , star Camden lightweight who has been showing in Philadelphia a great deal lately, is anxious to fight in Camden again, and desires shots at Roxie Allen or any other leading 135-pounder hereabouts.