An autographed display of Jess Willard Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World between 1915 and 1919, signed in pencil on an album page and dated May

An autographed display of Jess Willard Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World between 1915 and 1919, signed in pencil on an album page and dated May 14 '39, mounted besides two pictures of Willard, one with his manager, framed & glazed, 35 by 28cm., 13 3/4 by 11in. Jess Willard was a working cowboy from Kansas who ended the reign of the first black heavyweight boxing champion (see previous lot) in a fight at a racetrack in Havana, Cuba, 5 April 1915. The imposing Willard stood 6ft. 6 1/2in. and weighed 245 pounds. Willard's reign was ended by Jack Dempsey (see next lot) in 1919.