Word: winnsboro
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...Winnsboro, S.C., he had been the 75-lb. runt of an amateur boxing team. Sometimes, on trips with the team, he had to serve as mascot and second when there was no boxer on the other squad small enough, i.e., under 100 Ibs., for him to fight. After he moved to Seattle with his mother in 1945, Glisson filled in one night for a dishwasher in a short-order restaurant. He made so much noise that a customer, Horse Trainer Ralph King from nearby Longacres, asked the waitress who he was. Said the waitress: "He ought to be a jockey...
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