Reviving the La Salle Club

Reviving the La Salle Club
As noted in the above article from the March 7, 1943 edition of the Plain Dealer, west side boxing promoters held a fund raiser that year with the announced intention of "reviving" the historic La Salle Club which had operated out of St. Malachi School from 1894-1921, and then for several years thereafter in the Campbell Block. While the Club itself was not brought back, its tradition was returned to the Angle later in the year when promoter Thomas Lowery, John A. Keough (father of boxer Jackie Keough), and a third individual chartered the Old Angle Gym. Lowery and the third individual soon left the partnerhship, leaving Keough and a string of successive partners and successors to operate the gym for the next 32 years. | Source: Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections
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