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Golden Gloves, amateur boxing competition initiated by Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune. First sponsored by the Tribune in 1926, annual tournaments were held between Chicago and New York teams from 1927. The New York organizer was Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News. In later years the idea was taken up by other cities, and a national tournament was held. In some years before and after World War II, U.S. Golden Gloves champions met a European team.

(Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.)

The tournament’s name stems from the small gold charm in the shape of a boxing glove that is awarded to a winner. Many Golden Gloves champions went on to become professional world champions. Among them were Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Barney Ross, Floyd Patterson, and Sugar Ray Leonard. Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) won six national and local Golden Gloves titles, the first at age 14.

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The Golden Gloves tournament began to allow women in to compete against one another in the 1990s and by 1999 began holding a specially designated tournament for women fighters.