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Memories of Jimmy Sharman's Boxing Stadium. This photograph from the National Library of Australia really took me back. It shows Jimmy Sharman's boxing troupe at a country show in 1959. The drum (centre) would start beating to draw the crowd. Those like my brother and I would be attracted by the noise, and come drifting across the rutted dusty ...
online in 2006. James (Jimmy) Sharman (1887-1965), boxer and showman, was born on 20 June 1887 at Narellan, New South Wales, fifth of thirteen children of locally born parents James Sharman, labourer, and his wife Caroline, née Brailsford. Leaving school at about 12, he took a labouring job on a dairy farm and soon after began fighting in ...
Newspapers & Gazettes. Browse. Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser (Qld. : 1860 - 1947) Thu 28 May 1936. Page 10. JIMMY SHARMAN'S BOXING TROUPE.
In 2005 at the Mitchell Library NSW he found a photograph in Jimmy Sharman’s personal collection that suggested Jimmy Sharman did not enlist in the First World War and continued to tour his Boxing Troupe. After 15 years of research and writing Jimmy Sharman’s Boxers is his first Novel.
James ("Jimmy") Sharman senior (20 June 1887 – 18 November 1965) and junior (1912 – 24 April 2006) were father and son Australian boxing troupe impresarios. Born in Narellan, New South Wales Jimmy Sharman Sr had established a boxing tent in 1911 at Ardlethan near Temora .The tent visited 45 to 50 shows each year.
Newspapers & Gazettes. Browse. Bowen Independent (Qld. : 1911 - 1954) Mon 4 Jul 1938. Page 1. Jimmy Sharman in Town.
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