Month: January 1929

Female Boxer Polly Burns call male boxers Palookas – 1929

Female boxer Polly Burns, who fought in the 1920’s as a featherweight, pulled few punches when talking about the featherweight division with the men.  In the 1929 Police Gazzette she referred to those boxers as a Lotta Palookas.  In the article she talks about how she learned the fine art of boxing from her late