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 national tournaments were held. In some years before and after World War II, U.S. Golden Gloves champions met a picked European team. Many Golden Gloves champions went on to become professional world champions, among them Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Barney Ross, Floyd Patterson, and Sugar Ray Leonard. Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) won six Golden Gloves titles, the first at the age of 14.