Titel: SV: Larsson, Lars Harry
Skrivet av: Maud Mårtensson skrivet 2019-12-31, 11:26
Lars Harry även diskuterad här, https://forum.rotter.se/index.php?topic=130105.msg1322165#msg1322165.
Artikeln från The New York Times, January 19, 1964, Section M, Page 16 verkar kunna handla om Harry. Länk https://www.nytimes.com/1964/01/19/archives/larson-75-quits-the-lobster-trick.html.
Några citat från artikeln:
"Rocking‐chair retirement does not sit well with Larson, who has no living relatives."
"They finally got me to Gothenburg, my home in Sweden."
"I won the national light‐ weight championship at Malmoe in 1910,” he said. “At that time my weight was 67½ kilos. That's about 148 pounds. In 1914, 1915 and 1916 I won the Swedish title in the featherweight class."
"My favorite grip was the Lindena, in which I would bend back and toss my opponent over my head whenever he put a bear hug on me. I got to the finals in the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 before I had to quit because of bad mat burns on my legs and face."
"Larson came to the United States in 1910, and with time out for the Olympics and a visit home in 1922, spent 20 years building bank vaults for the Mosler Safe Company. He started lobstering in 1934 and was extremely successful until 1955."