This collection contains ephemera related to Julius J. "Jule" Ritchey of Lancaster and his career as a middleweight boxer.
Admin/Biographical History
Julius J. "Jule" Ritchey was born in 1895 in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood. During his career as a middleweight boxer, he fought 75 bouts, won 65 of them and had 4 KOs. He fought alongside local contemporaries Leo Houck, Rosey Stoy, and Tim Droney. He trained in various places around the world, including Havana, Cuba. Ritchey later worked from Armstrong until he retired in 1960. He died 9 January 1983 in Lancaster.
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Jule Ritchey Collection (MG0913), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Accession Number
Unknown.MG0913
Other Numbers
MG-913
Other Number
MG-913
Classification
MG0913
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Transferred from Boxing Information File, 13 May 2003. Transferred from Document Collection, Box 32, Folder 9, Items 1-7, 13 April 2022.
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Johnny Houck, right, and Bill Hoover, with copy of LCHS Journal. Polaroid.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
The great Burns - Squres fight. Bill Squires and Tommy Burns fighting with Jim Jeffries as referee at Colma, California, c. 1907.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Houck Collection. Houck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Houck. The Houcks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Eddie Connolly's famous Sea View Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ. Left to right: Jimmy Kelly, trainer and manager; Eddie Connolly, one of the best lightweights of the nineties who hled the Canadian crown; Simon McNulty, a fight manager; Bill Harris, a bare knuckle fighter; Bill Blunt, New York sportswriter and Doc McCormick, club medico.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Hauck Collection. Hauck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Hauck. The Haucks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Newspaper photographs: Featherweight champion Kilbane getting into shape at Leipersville. Bantamweight champion Kid Willisams splitting wood in Farimount Park. Williams and his trainer Billy McCarthy on the road. May have been training for a fight in Philadelphia in 1915.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Hauck Collection. Hauck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Hauck. The Haucks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Lancaster, PA, Monday April 6, 1925. Joe Lynch and Len Brenner picture taken at Nev Campbell's gym on North Queen Street at Orange Street, third floor. April 5, 1925, this picture shows "Bill" McCarthy of New York at left who looked after Lynch, Joe Lynch ex-world's bantamweight champion, promoter "Doc" Landis, Len Brenner, Nev Campbell and Harry Buckius. Picture was taken the day before the fight.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Hauck Collection. Hauck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Hauck. The Haucks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Standing at right is Johnny Hauck, standing at left is Charlie Mayser. Seated from left to right are: Bill Boothman, Leo Houck and Earl Rebman.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Hauck Collection. Hauck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Hauck. The Haucks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
Boxing poster: Veron Campbell vs. Fred Blackburn, Billy Kolb vs. Tom O'Hara, Bill Jones vs. Tom Daily, Nev Campbell vs. Shine Brown, Clyde Royer vs. Jim Baker.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-63, the Johnny Hauck Collection. Hauck was a local boxing historian and brother of noted local boxer Leo Hauck. The Haucks grew up in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood and were known as all-around athletes.
