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Boxing: With Hints On The Art Of Attack And Defense And How To Train For The Prize Ring
Richard Kyle Fox
R.K. Fox, 1889
Sports & Recreation; Boxing; Boxing; Sports & Recreation / Boxing
Edward Hanlan, America's Champion Oarsman, With History And Portrait: Also, History And Portrait Of Edward A. Trickett, The Great Australian Oarsman
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The life and battles of Jack Johnson, champion pugilist of the world. Together with the complete records of John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Robert ... Tommy Burns, Peter Jackson and Jim Flynn
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Richard Kyle Fox was an American journalist, encourager of sporting contests. He is regarded for being the owner and editor of "The National Police Gazette" in 1877, who made it one of the most widely-read newspapers in its day.
Background
Richard Kyle Fox was born on August 12, 1846 in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and was the son of James and Mary (Kyle) Fox. His mother was a daughter of Henry Kyle, a Presbyterian minister; his father was a carpenter and mason.
Education
As a boy Fox was employed in the office of a religious paper, the Danner of Ulster, and out of his earnings paid two shillings a week for his schooling.
Career
For twelve years Richard Fox worked on the Belfast News Letter. In 1874, with barely enough money to pay their passage, he and his wife emigrated to New York, where Fox began as an advertising solicitor for the Wall Street Journal. Within a year he took the business managership of the National Police Gazette, whose incompetent owners were heading rapidly toward bankruptcy.
In 1877 he relieved them of their accumulated debts and worries and became sole proprietor of the weekly, which he conducted for forty-five years and bequeathed to his sons. During the first years of his ownership it was the most lurid journal ever published in the United States, its sixteen pages being filled with highly spiced accounts of crime and scandal, with illustrations that matched the text.
The whole paper was enlivened by a burly gusto; under “Noose Notes, ” for example, hangings were reported with the vivacity of smart dramatic criticism; and another department, maintained by volunteer contributors throughout the country, was devoted exclusively to “Crimes of the Clergy. ” From the beginning, however, some space was occupied by sporting news, and Fox gradually transformed his sheet into an intelligent sporting and theatrical paper, retaining only the luscious front-page illustration as a memento of its rowdy youth. Much of the advertising that he printed was open, however, to serious objection.
Richard Fox died at his home in Red Bank, New Jersey, leaving an estate valued at $3, 000, 000.
Through the "Gazette" Fox sponsored world championships in everything from wood chopping to water drinking to generate interest in his newspaper, and would featured articles on popular figures such boxer John L. Sullivan and Louis Cyr and Katie Sandwina, who were touted as the "world's strongest man and woman".
He originated the prize contest as a device for increasing circulation and likewise the practise of holding various events under the auspices of a journal. He offered medals and trophies for sculling, football, shooting, running, wrestling, and other contests. To John L. Sullivan he gave a $4, 000 belt studded with diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and sapphires, and later spent much of his leisure looking for a prize-fighter who could beat him.
He backed several of Sullivan’s most promising opponents, and is said, in all, to have given $1, 000, 000 to amateur and professional athletes. He himself played no games and did not know the rules of the commonest sports.
Quotations:
“Be interesting and be quick about it, ” was, in effect, his injunction to his reporters. “Tell your story in three paragraphs at most. If you can’t tell it in three, tell it in two. And if you can’t tell it in two, get out of here. ”
Personality
In England Fox was a social favorite. His shrewdness and insouciance are the subject of many picturesque anecdotes.
Interests
Fox collected costly furniture and rugs, traveled, and had a ranch at Arcadia, Los Angeles County, California.
Connections
Richard Fox married Annie Scott of Belfast in 1869. His first wife, by whom he had six children, died in New York in 1890, and in 1913 he married Emma Louise (Raven) Robinson, who survived him.