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	IBHOF / Barney Ross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ross became just the third boxer in history to win world titles in three weight classes -- lightweight, junior welterweight and welterweight.
		Ross turned pro in Chicago in 1929 to help support his family after gunmen shot down his father, who worked as a grocer.
		But it was Ross who won the rubber match in 1935, scoring a unanimous decision over McLarnin at the Polo Grounds in New York.
	www.ibhof.com /ross.htm (285 words)

	Barney Ross: A Friend for Life
		Barney’s mother, distressed and depressed by her husbands death, would suffer a nervous breakdown forcing the family to be divided, sending Barney and brother Morrie to live with family, his three younger siblings into an orphanage.
		Ross also said in an interview that Sparky to “was almost always present when he fought both as an amateur and as a professional “ When Ross began his career he trained at the Kit Howard Gym in the loop area of Chicago.
		Barney Ross was a legend in the Ring, a survivor of the streets of Chicago,, drug addiction, malaria, The Fightingest Marine on Guadalcanal, a hero in the struggle for a Jewish State, and despite all of the publicity surrounding the assassination of both Kennedy and Oswald a friend of Ruby’s for life.
	www.eastsideboxing.com /news.php?p=332&more=1 (1404 words)

	Barney Ross
		Barney Ross was a tough fighter whose excellent physical fitness and stamina made him a champion three times over.
		Ross grew up in Chicago, where he was raised by Orthodox Jewish parents who wanted him to become a Hebrew teacher.
		His family was opposed to fighting of any kind, but after his father was killed in a holdup and Ross became the breadwinner, he convinced his mother he could make money in the ring.
	www.fighttoys.com /Ross.htm (102 words)

	Barney Ross
		Ross entered the ranks of boxing’s greats in a brutal series of three fights for the welterweight (147-pound) crown against Jimmy McLarnin, who outweighed Ross by several pounds, was a harder puncher and had a reputation for beating Jewish boxers.
		Ross’ most courageous prize fight was his last, in 1938, against Henry Armstrong, the only man to hold the featherweight, lightweight and welterweight crowns.
		But of all the things Ross achieved in his life and all the obstacles he overcame, the one that meant the most to him was having earned enough money in the first Canzoneri fight to reunite his mother with her three youngest children who had been placed in an orphanage.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/ross.html (1010 words)

	Barney Ross
		Barney Ross was the World Lightweight and Junior Welterweight Champion from 1933 to 1935 and World Welterweight Champion in 1934 and 1935 to 1938.
		Barney was awarded the Silver Star for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action” and received the Distinguished Service Cross and Presidential Unit Citation from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
		Ross was elected to the Boxing Hall of Fame in 1956 and to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
	www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/BarneyRoss.htm (404 words)

	Boxing Blog - TheSweetScience.com » Blog Archive » Barney Ross Book in February
		Ross was born on Dec. 23, 1909 to hardscrabble beginnings in Chicago’s Maxwell Street ghetto.
		Barney Ross was one of the first professional athletes to use his celebrity in support of his religious and political beliefs.
		Diagnosed with cancer of the throat and jaw in 1966, Barney Ross died on January 18, 1967 at the age of 57.
	blog.thesweetscience.com /2006/01/09/barney-ross-book-in-february (690 words)

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		Barney observed years later that "Everything that happened to me afterward, happened because of that senseless, stupid murder." He took odd jobs, some illegal (racketeering), including one as a messenger for Al Capone in Chicago.
		Ross won a 10-round split decision over Canzoneri (considered the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world before their bout), and became the first boxer in the modern era (Queensbury Rules) to win two titles simultaneously.
		Ross had been knocked down in the ninth-round (the first knockdown of his career), and was so upset at himself that he jumped up and knocked McLarnin down 45 seconds later.
	www.jewsinsports.org /profile.asp?sport=boxing&ID=3 (1423 words)

	MG Robert Ross
		Robert Ross was a seasoned veteran of the Duke of Wellington's campaigns and a strict disciplinarian who drilled his men relentlessly.
		Ross, again leading from the front, had his horse shot out from under him while directing his regiments in the eventual capture of the cannons and a badly wounded Barney.
		Riding to the sound of musketry to be at the front with his men, Ross had mingled with the skirmishers and was shot through his right arm and breast.
	www.myedgemere.com /local_history/mg_ross.htm (1121 words)

	:: - Legends Features - Fighter Bios
		Legend has it that Barney Ross once worked for Al Capone and only his Jewish faith stopped him from becoming a made man. The super-tough Ross would have made one hell of gangster, for in the ring he was fast and strong with bundles of heart.
		Barney became involved in racketeering to earn money for his separated family, before moving on to the slightly more lawful pursuit of boxing and turning pro in 1929.
		Ross’ progress was aided by an iron chin and in his entire career he was never stopped inside the distance.
	www.secondsout.com /Legends/bios.cfm?ccs=235&cs=8615 (572 words)

	Standing Strong \| Metropolis Magazine \| May 2002
		When Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney was selected to design a new federal campus to replace Oklahoma City's terrorist-destroyed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, she knew the project would reflect both a culture of loss and the hope of renewal.
		What Ross Barney didn't know then, of course, was that the terrorist attacks on September 11 would cause her building to be judged in an entirely different light from the one in which it was designed.
		Her firm, Ross Barney + Jankowski Architects, is devoted largely to public buildings, and her methods are well suited to the sensitive site.
	www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0502/ob/ob02_0502.html (1372 words)

	Barney Ross - TheBestLinks.com - Actor, Baseball, Babe Ruth, Boxing, ...
		Ross' ambition in life was to become a Jewish teacher, and he wanted to become a Talmudic scholar.
		In his last fight, Ross defended his title, on May 31 of 1938 against the fellow member of the three division world champions' club Henry Armstrong who beat him by a decision in 15.
		In retirement, Ross was soon called up by the United States Marine Corps, who waived him in because they wanted him to teach soldiers boxing.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Barney_Ross.html (982 words)

	Ross, Barney. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		After an amateur career, Ross turned professional in 1929 and lost only four decisions in 82 fights.
		Ross lost the title to Henry Armstrong in 1938.
		During World War II, in action in Guadalcanal in 1942, Ross won the Silver Star for gallantry in action by saving three wounded fellow marines.
	www.bartleby.com /65/e-/E-Ross-Bar.html (190 words)

	The Cyber Boxing Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barney & his older brother moved in with a cousin & the three younger siblings were placed in an orphanage.
		Barney trained at the Catholic Youth Center were the boxing coach was the very clever old-time fighter, Packy McFarland.
		Barney being a smart lad, wisely absorbed all the tricks of the trade that the old cutie, McFarland taught him.
	www.cyberboxingzone.com /boxing/ross.htm (2726 words)

	Repeat Writings on Architecture - Architecture in a Time of Fear
		Seven years ago, Ross Barney's designs for Chicago schools won her the daunting job of designing a new Oklahoma City federal building to replace the Alfred P. Murrah building, decimated by a car bomb in 1995 in what was then the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil.
		Ross Barney had to find ways to meet the tougher Security Level IV safety standards developed by her client, the General Services Administration, without building a glorified bunker.
		Still, as Ross Barney bluntly puts it, "ultimately you can destroy any building." Special arrangements have had to be made for several HUD employees who have simply refused to make the move.
	www.lynnbecker.com /repeat/rossbarney/oklacity.htm (1328 words)

	Barney Ross's Greatest Battles
		Ross entered the ranks of the boxing greats in a brutal series of fights welterweight championship fights against Jimmy McLarnin, who outweighed Ross by several pounds, was a harder puncher and had a reputation for beating Jewish boxers.
		In his autobiography, Ross recounted that a rabbi once told him that, since he was a Jew in the public eye, he would have to lead an exemplary life.
		Of all the things Ross achieved in his life and all the obstacles he overcame, however, the one that meant the most to him was having earned enough money in the first Canzoneri fight to reunite his mother at home with her three youngest children who had been placed in an orphanage.
	www.ajhs.org /publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=258 (1130 words)

	Ross Barney Revisits the School
		Ross Barney then discussed a science building that her firm is currently working on, the James I. Swenson Science Building at the University of Minnesota in Duluth, Minn. In order to illustrate the area's mining history, Ross Barney initially used a load-bearing rock called taconite for the building.
		Ross Barney explained how this rock did not work out because it had stress fractures when it was tested.
		Ross Barney closed her talk by discussing different issues to consider when designing a building.
	www.arch.uiuc.edu /events/news/2004/11_08_04 (427 words)

	HBO PPV.com > Web Exclusives > Bert's Boxing Beat
		The party of the second part, Barney Ross, had emerged from three fights--boxing’s first great "Trilogy"--with Jimmy McLarnin, having won two of their three battles and gone undefeated, save for his one loss to Mclarnin in the second of their three fights, for more than seven years.
		But Ross, who had fought 80 times, losing only three bouts in his 10-year career, thinking his experience, talent and weight advantage would be too much for the challenger, took on both Armstrong and the jinx.
		And although Ross, a deft worker, won the first two rounds, punching, sticking and moving out of range of the onrushing Armstrong, they were the only two rounds he would win--except for the seventh when Armstrong was penalized for a low blow.
	www.hboppv.com /web_exclusives/bert_sugar/may04.shtml (1477 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Today's Honorary Subscriber is the American boxer Barney Ross (1909-1967), who was one of the greatest welterweights of all time.
		Ross was born Barnet Rasofsky in New York City and raised in Chicago where his Orthodox immigrant parents operated a neighborhood grocery store.
		When the United States entered World War II, Ross joined the Marines and was sent to fight at Guadalcanal in the South Pacific, where he earned the Silver Star for valor by defending his wounded comrades with rifle fire and hand grenades, killing twenty-two of the enemy.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=717 (467 words)

	Nextbook: Fight Club
		Here he talks with Douglas Century (whose biography of Barney Ross is forthcoming in Nextbook's Jewish Encounters book series) about the boxers of the 1930s and the causes they appeared to stand for.
		And in the case of Barney Ross, the big moment was when he's fighting Jimmy McLarnin three times in 1934 and 1935.
		You read about Benny Leonard, Barney Ross, going right back to Daniel Mendoza in 18th-century England, these Jewish fighters say that boxing was the sport most perfectly suited to Jews because it's an art of self-defense.
	www.nextbook.org /cultural/feature.html?id=220 (2016 words)

	j. - Boxer Barney Ross’ bio is thrilling but flawed — like its subject
		Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky in the Chicago ghetto in 1909, Ross honed his skills breaking the noses of Italian, Irish and fellow Jewish ghetto-dwellers and then returned home to be whipped by a cat-o-nine-tails wielded by his Orthodox father, who forbade the Rasofsky boys to fight.
		But Ross’ boxing career is only a fraction of this story, and perhaps not even the best fraction at that.
		The affinity between the old and young man is obvious in Century’s warm and delightful reminiscences, and Rasof is a living treasure trove of oft-ribald tales of Chicago in its gangster and Art Deco heyday.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/28159/format/html/displaystory.html (632 words)

	AIArchitect, January 24, 2005 - Three Architects Win 2005 Jefferson Awards
		Ross Barney’s portfolio of public projects demonstrates a lasting legacy of excellence.
		Ross Barney is noted for her professional and civic involvement in her community as well, and in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, has served in many aspects as a security adviser.
		The jury noted that Ross Barney’s office offers an unusual reflection of society at large in that it is one of the most demographically diverse firms in the country.
	www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek05/tw0121/0121tjawards.htm (1027 words)

	John Abraham
		He got me in touch with Ben Ross whose brother was Barney Ross the fighter.
		Barney Ross owned a saloon in downtown Chicago, like my friend and all the recruit station Marines drank at Barneys”s as the saloon was only a block away from the recruit station.
		Ben Ross took me personally up to the recruiting station and we were treated like heroes, since Ben had bought them a lot of drinks.
	www.olypen.com /lastman/Abraham.htm (859 words)

	aiasinfo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ross Barney is scheduled to speak on Thursday, January 2, 2003.
		Ross Barney has been recognized for her recent work on the new Federal Office Campus in Oklahoma City to replace the bombed Murrah Federal Building as well as the U.S. Border Station in Sault St. Marie, Michigan.
		Ross Barney was instrumental in the design of the Little Village Academy for the Chicago Public Schools, winner of a 2002 AIA Honor Award, as well as the Barrington Area Library Addition and Glendale Heights Post Office for the U.S.P.S. www.aiasnatl.org/forum/impressions.html
	www.aiasnatl.org /info/0206/forum.htm (538 words)

	Barney Ross Whitehead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barney Whitehead was born near Smiley, Texas and grew up in that area.
		Tom likes to say he couldn't do his job as a computer tech without watching his Dad fix everything from cars to the foundation of their home with what he had available.
		Needless to say, Barney is the real brains behind this operation.
	www.thebarbecuepit.com /brw.html (157 words)

	Random House \| Books \| Barney Ross by Douglas Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his father’s murder, his mother’s nervous breakdown, and the dispatching of his three younger siblings to an orphanage, all before he turned fourteen.
		Ross began his career as the scrappy “Jew kid,” ended it as an American sports icon, and went on to become a hero during World War II, earning a Silver Star for his heroic actions at Guadalcanal.
		“Barney Ross’s life is a curious mix: a boxer with a religious streak who was haunted by the death of his own dad.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780805242232 (460 words)

	Barney Ross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barney Ross was born on New York's Lower East Side, December 23, 1909 and was christened Barnet Rosofsky.
		Ross started his pro career in 1929 as a fightweight and gained the top rung of the ladder when he won the title from Tony Canzoneri in Chicago in 1933.
		In beating Conzoneri, he not only won the lightweight title but the junior welterweight crown as well.
	jewishsportshalloffame.com /Hebrew/JSHF/Barney_Ross.htm (297 words)

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