[Ads-l] Antedating of "White Hope"

[Bill Mullins]

[1909 Indianapolis Freeman 9 Jan 5/1

Jeffries, the retired ex-champion, may be induced to fight after all. He is said to be the white man's hope in wresting the championship from the big Negro.]


[1909 Oklahoma City Daily Pointer 23 Dec 1/4

Jas. J. Jeffries, the White Man's Hope [headline] ]




1910 Nevada State Journal 5 Jul 1910 1/2

The Public Must Now Find New "White Hope" to Regain Championship From the Colored Man [headline]


[1910 Los Angeles Herald 27 Jul 13/2

It may also be recalled that, on the day of the fight, the Examiner of this city had two young men stripped on an elevated platform in from of its office, reproducing in pantomime the blows delivered by the negro and white "hope of the race" in the Nevada ring.]


1910 Calument [MI] News 27 Aug 7/6

Jim Corbett has pricked the big bubble which floated out of the west a couple of weeks ago and another white hope has gone to rest in oblivion.


1910 Pendleton OR _East Oregonian_ 3 Sep 2/5

"As a result of the report published in the Inland Herald a few days ago regarding the fighting abilities of Forshaw, Burgo's "white hope," the promotor-to-be and Jack Scoles, a Phoenix lightweight, who holds a decision over the giant miner, mixed it Sunday morning in Dean's hotel, Burgo coming out second best," writes William Acchs to the sporting editor.

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white hope (OED 1911)

1910 _Wash. Post_ 18 Sept. (ProQuest)  Speaking of "white hope" possibilities, Tommy Ryan ... has one in tow that Tommy expects will deliver the goods some day.  The big Irishman, Con O'Kelly ... is the boy that Ryan thinks has the strength and nerve to make a heavyweight champion.

Fred Shapiro

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