Upon his untimely passing of tuberculosis in 1910, he became the youngest (i.e. most recent born) world champion to die. Succeeding George Dixon though later that year the unenviable status passed to Stanley Ketchel.
Professional boxer. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame
in 1990.
World lightweight boxing champion, 1902-1904 & 1906-1908.
Biography in: "The Boxing Register: International Boxing Hall of Fame
Official Record Book". Third edition. pp. 108-109. Ithaca, NY: McBooks
Press, 2002.