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2 Boxers Die on Titanic

Professional boxers lost their lives when the Titanic foundered. 

Chicago Examiner

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Leslie Williams and Arthur Bowen

Coming From Wales for Fights

Two professional boxers of Wales, Leslie Williams and Andy Bowen, lost their lives when the Titanic foundered. They were on their way to this country to enter the boxing game at the expense of Frank Torreyson of McKeesport, who was to have been their American manager. With the two pugilists was Bowen's sister, Miss C. G. Bowen, who was saved by the Carpathia.


[Note: Bowen did not have a sister on board, the reference may be to Grace Scott Bowen, an unrelated first-class passenger.]

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Encyclopedia Titanica (2011) 2 Boxers Die on Titanic (Chicago Examiner, Saturday 20th April 1912, ref: #11847, published 25 January 2011, generated 30th June 2024 08:37:19 AM); URL : https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/2-boxers-die-on-titanic.html