Flowers, Tiger, 1895-1927

LC control no.	n 2003023513
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Flowers, Tiger, 1895-1927 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Flowers, Theodore, 1895-1927 Georgia Deacon, 1895-1927
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1895-08-05
Death date	1927-11-16
Place of birth	Camilla (Ga.)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity	Boxing
Profession or occupation	Boxers (Sports)
Found in	Kaye, Andrew M. The pussycat of prizefighting, c2004: CIP t.p. (Tiger Flowers) galley (Theodore "Tiger" Flowers; nickname "the Georgia Deacon"; d.o.b. variously attributed as 1894, 1895, 1897 with Aug. 5, 1895 being commonly agreed upon; d. 1927; 1st African-American world middleweight champ) HickokSports.com, viewed Dec. 19, 2003: www page sports biographies (Flowers, "Tiger" (Theodore); boxing; b. Aug. 5, 1895, Camille GA; d. Nov. 16, 1927) African American National Biography, accessed January 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Flowers, Tiger; Theodore Flowers; The Georgia Deacon; Tiger; boxer; born 05 August 1895 in Camilla, Georgia, United States; won twenty-six fights, including two victories over Gans (1922-1923); won thirty-three of thirty-five fights, including rematches against Jamaica Kid and Anderson (1924); knocked out former middleweight champion Johnny Wilson in New York City, becoming a leading contender; won twenty-five of twenty-nine fights, including victories over middleweights Jock Malone, Lou Bogash, and Ted Moore (1925); won fifteen of eighteen fights (1927); defeated highly rated light heavyweights Eddie Huffman and Chuck Wiggins and former welterweight champion Pete Latzo, losing only to Leo Lomski, and boxed with future light heavyweight champion Maxie Rosenbloom; honors include, elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame (1993); first African American world middleweight champion; first black champion of any professional boxing division;died 16 November 1927 in New York, New York, United States)