Harry Jacobs, famous boxing promoter, died in London yesterday afternoon at the age of sixty-one. Mr. Jacobs’ name was known to thousands of boxing enthusiasts. He had staged in his time some of the most important boxing matches in the world and was known in the boxing world as the Rickard of Great Britain.
“Harry Jacobs’ death was sudden, but not altogether unexpected,” Fred Dartnell, the well known sporting writer in the “Daily News,” stated. “He had been seriously ill for some time, and should have gone to Madeira, but remained in London to direct his last promotion. To the more modern boxing fan he was known merely as the arbiter of the noble art at the Albert Hall, but he gained his baptism as a promoter at the old Wondeland Hall in the East End. Like his prototype, Tex Rickard, he lived in exciting times in those days. It needed a masterful personality to sway the unruly elements which made up the boxing game then, and Harry Jacobs never failed to rise to the most exacting occasion.”
Rabbi Chaim Nahum Kaufman of Jerusalem, died in Albany, N. Y., on Thursday, at the age of 44. Death was due to pneumonia. The body will be taken to Jerusalem. A widow and seven children survive.
Jacob Derelowitz, said to have been the oldest resident of Baltimore, died at the Jewish Home for Incurables, at the age of 111. Mr. Derelowitz was born in Russia. His life spanned the period between Napoleon and Lindbergh.
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