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	Book Review: Bummy Davis vs. Murder Inc. by Ron Ross
		Ross’s portrayal of Albert 'Bummy' Davidoff is an anecdotal account of the Jewish boxer’s life and his inherit entwinement with a city and culture that he couldn’t part with.
		'Bummy', as the media dubbed him, had to battle the street life, the stereotyping of the media and the victimization of this character.
		Ross’s enthralling account of the life of Al 'Bummy' Davis is a great read and helps to paint a picture of this much maligned and tragic hero.
	www.doghouseboxing.com /Chhim/Chhim012605.htm (577 words)

	Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter - Books - Boxing ...
		Bummy's life was intertwined with the Great Depression, the survival of the Brooklyn Jewish immigrant population during Prohibition, and the inevitable offshoot of Prohibition-Murder Inc., one of American history's most notorious band of killers.
		Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc. features a cast of colorful villains whom you'll love to hate, a boxing legend who was the unwitting pawn of fate, and the human drama of the boxing world.
		Davis who was a loyal, thoughtful, industrious and respectful guy, could never shake a negative image brought about by the exploits of his brother.
	www.boxing.net /10-22-0312306385-Bummy_Davis_vs_Murder_Inc_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Jewish_Mafia_and_an_Ill_Fated_Prizefighter.html (1044 words)

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		Bummy's victorious march onward was just beginning to catch on at the grove and Friedkin was the pride of the Broadway Arena and they were neighborhood enemies.
		Bummy was sitting in his dressing room clad in a terrycloth robe and he had his gloves on waiting to go.
		Bummy got fifteen thousand dollars and he had put the touch on Mike Jacobs for fifteen hundred and the following afternoon when Mike paid him off he told Bummy to forget the loan because it was worth it to see him do the impossible.
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	j. - ‘Bummy’ a gripping tale of boxing knockouts, Mafia rubouts
		The baby brother of two of the neighborhood’s most notorious racketeers, Bummy was tarred and feathered in the press as a mob-controlled lowlife.
		Ross’ Bummy acted as a big brother for a local mentally disabled man, turned down vast sums of money and put himself in danger by refusing to play ball with the mob, and beat up bullies as a child (and, admittedly, anyone else who looked at him funny).
		“Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc.” is a long-overdue redemption of a man slandered in life and death.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/22082/edition_id/446/format/html/displaystory.html (762 words)

	"It Was a Pleasure" - TIME
		Bummy Davis, who used to be one of the toughest kids in Brooklyn's notoriously tough Brownsville section, had punched his way into the big time with a lambasting left hook.
		Davis, stung by an alleged thumb-poke in the eye, forgot his professional acquaintanceship with the Marquess of Queensberry, relapsed into a fury of fouls.
		Soldier Boy Davis, reinstated by the New York State Athletic Commission (for good behavior at Texas' Camp Hulen) and given a six-weeks furlough from the Army, entered the ring a reformed Bummy.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,849411,00.html (535 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ross is out to rescue the reputation of Al "Bummy" Davis, one of the last of the great Jewish fighters who were so notable a presence in professional boxing from the end of World War I to the end of World War II.
		Condemned by the sporting press because of his brother, a well-known racketeer, Davis was as brave as he was tough, as honest as he was willing to take on any risk to fulfill his dream of becoming a champion.
		Davis was born Albert Abraham Davidoff in Brownsville on January 26, 1920.
	www.forward.com /issues/2004/04.01.30/arts2.html (737 words)

	Boxing: Fritzie Zivic: Maligned and Revered Part II Hardcore Boxing, hcboxing.com, ...
		Davis, whose colorful, but abbreviated life is chronicled in the book, Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter, was the younger brother of a racketeer.
		Davis was hurt badly by the punch, beat the count, and hung on until the end of the round.
		Bummy's actions reportedly became so flagrant that the chairman of the NYSAC signaled to the referee to stop the bout and disqualify Davis.
	hcboxing.com /Smith1292006.htm (3914 words)

	JEWSWEEK - Taking out a real hit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ron Ross' Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter counts on such ethnic nostalgia, yet manages to provide a portrait of urban Jews in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn during the 1930s and 1940s who were anything but nice Jewish boys.
		On the other side is Davis, and much of the appeal of Ross' book is how he pits the hard-working Davis against this assortment of murderers and racketeers.
		Davis, on the other hand, is a mensch, and there is something painfully genuine about him.
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	Megillah Books - GantsehMegillah.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is against this backdrop that author Ron Ross has penned his second boxing work, "Bummy Davis and Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter." This is much more than a boxing book.
		The story is centered around the short but fascinating life of lightweight contender Al 'Bummy' Davis (born Albert Davidoff) and his friends, relatives and enemies that pervaded the mostly Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn known as Brownsville.
		The incident led the N.Y. State Athletic Commission to suspend Bummy's license to box in New York State, and it wasn't until Zivic lobbied the commission a year later that Bummy's license was restored.
	www.pass.to /tgmegillah/reviews1.asp?id=21 (591 words)

	Buy.com - Bummy Davis Vs. Murder, Inc. : Ron Ross : ISBN 9780312335717
		A tough kid with a heart of gold, Al "Bummy" Davis grew up in the streets of Brownsville, New York on the fringes of the Jewish mob during the 20's and 30's-thanks to his older brother, a feared racketeer.
		Though he repeatedly stood up to mob kingpins, Bummy suffered a spectacular fall from grace as a result of a smear campaign by the press.
		Ron Ross' "Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc. is not just about one Jewish boxer, his meteoric rise to fame, and victimization by the press.
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	Bummy Davis VS. Murder Inc. - $14.95 : Murder Ink. Bookstore, Books, Goods, Murders and Beyond
		A tough kid with heart of gold, Al "Bummy" Davis grew up in the streets of Brownsville, New York, on the fringes of the Jewish mob during the twenties and thirties - thanks to his older brother, a feared racketeer.
		Ron Ross's Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc. is not just about one Jewish boxer, his meteoric rise to fame, and his subsequent victimization.
		Bummy's life was intertwined with the Great Depression, the survival of the Brooklyn Jewish immigrant population during Prohibition, and the inevitable offshoot of Prohibition - Murder, Inc., one of American history's most notorious band of killers.
	www.murderink.com /catalog/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&cPath=78&products_id=522 (210 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Bummy Davis VS. Murder Inc. : The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As the younger brother of Willie Davidoff, one of Buchalter's trusted bagmen, Davis never escaped his brother's shadow and the tabloids had a field day painting him as a dirty, low-life thug.
		To Ross, a former professional boxer and fight promoter, the story of Bummy Davis is inseparable from that of Depression-era Brooklyn, where the mob was still in its infancy and people were in desperate need of a champion.
		In the end, Bummy Davis probably died a hero, trying to stop a bar stick-up, because underneath it all he had the hero's fearless heart.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0312306385/reviews (783 words)

	REVIEWS FOR BUMMY DAVIS VS. MURDER INC.
		Pugilist turned biographer Ross spars with us in his debut, an account of the short, mostly happy life of fearless Al "Bummy" Davis (1920-45), a nice kid with a fierce left hook and a volatile, short fuse.
		Bummy Davis vs. Murder Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter
		Frequently looked upon as a pugilistic villain, even in his home city of New York, Davis's undeserved reputation reached its zenith in 1940 when he was disqualified against eventual champ Fritzie Zivic for roughly a dozen blatant low blows, thrown only in retaliation for Zivic's well known and oft-used dirty tactics.
	www.ronross.us /reviews.html (1328 words)

	Boxing Insider : News : Book Review: Bummy Davis and Murder, Inc.
		It is against this backdrop that author Ron Ross has penned his second boxing work, "Bummy Davis and Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter."
		Abe Reles, Pittsburgh Phil, Dasher Abbandando, Happy Maione, Louis Lepke, Albert Anastasia.Ross's description of their infamous exploits, through narrative and dialogue, makes the reader feel as if the author had been witness to all of their doings on a first-hand basis.
		In the midst of this environment of loan-sharking, extortion, bookmaking and murder, Al Davis did whatever he could to walk the straight and narrow.
	www.boxinginsider.net /news/stories/76077970.php (699 words)

	OOTP Developments Forums - Book Corner
		I knew a little about Murder Inc. The book covers the life and career of Bummy Davis from Brownsville against the backdrop of his community and Murder Inc.'s hold on it.
		It seems there is a HUGE discrepency between the author's view and the view held in the media at the time.
		If anyone knows where I can get ahold of some articles that were written about Bummy at the time, I would be interested.
	www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/printthread.php?t=52842 (1966 words)

	Sweet Science-Boxing
		howcards were advertised all over the neighborhood and Bummy's old man and Friedkin's father had to be pulled apart on the corner of Blake Avenue.
		Even more than the beating Ambers gave him, Bummy chagrined to the jeers and insults the crowd gave him as he walked back to his dressing room, where he cried like a baby.
		When Bummy returned to his corner he was told his handlers, "That sonofabitch is trying to blind me!"
	www.gamemasteronline.com /Archive/SweetScience/BummyDavis.shtml (3599 words)

	Jo Sports Inc.
		History: On November 1, 1939 Tony Canzoneri and Al "Bummy" Davis met in a scheduled 10 round bout at Madison Square Garden in New York.
		For Canzoneri, a veteran of 174 professional fights in 14 years, this would be his last fight.
		Unable to recapture the form that had beaten the likes of Kid Chocolate, Jackie "Kid" Berg, Johnny Jadick and Al Singer, Canzoneri was soundly beaten and stopped in 3 rounds by Davis.
	www.josportsinc.com /catalog/view.php?id=222 (135 words)

	Canarsie Shoot-out, Circa 1925
		It was then Patsy decided to do away with the gas station and opened up a bar and cabaret, which was right alongside of the L.I.R.R. and would not get any complaints of too much noise from the neighborhood.
		After a couple of years, Patsy sold the business to one of the famous fighters from Brownsville - the late Al (Bummy) Davis-who with his brother-in-law had just about taken over when the place was held up by three or four gunmen.
		He was told to shut-up and stay where he was, but he followed them out of the place and Eddie Fritz quickly grabbed his gun and went out after them.
	www.canarsiecourier.com /news/2004/0916/Old_Canarsie (515 words)

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		Davis, whose dad was a local merchant, had an older brother Willie who was a Lepke henchman.
		At the tender age of 25 having retired from boxing due to the rampant corruption and prejudices that existed and about to begin a new career, he was gunned down in a bar room stick up trying to protect his friends.
		what a masterpiece....it parrallels the rise and fall of jewish mobsters and al "bummy" davis during the great depression in brownsville, brooklyn, the toughest...
	www.amazon.com /Bummy-Davis-vs-Murder-Inc/dp/0312306385 (1769 words)

	Boxing and Hollywood \| TheSweetScience.com Boxing
		Perhaps on a very temporary basis, such as the college coed going to see ‘Cinderella Man,’ and then beseeching her date to take her to see a real prizefight because it seems to be such an ‘in’ thing."
		Ross, who is working on a Griffith biography, said that Castle Hill Productions just inked a six-month option on his Bummy Davis book.
		Perhaps Hollywood will continue to bring us reel-life boxing dramas and raise the profile of this sport until its real-life participants find a way back into the spotlight.
	www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/2203/boxing-hollywood (868 words)

	Jewish Fighters over the Years
		Davis was shot to death while coming to the defense of his friendly barkeep during an armed robbery.
		Fought as "Jackie Davis", proudly wore the Star of David on his trunks.
		Came from Brownsville section of Brooklynlike "Bummy" Davis, who he lost to in 1938.
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	The Big Gunfight At Patsy’s Bar
		After a couple of years, Patsy sold the business to one of the famous fighters from Brownsville — the late Al (Bummy) Davis — who, with his brother-in-law, had just about taken over when the place was held up by three or four gunmen.
		When these gunmen walked in, Eddie was quick enough to drop his gun among some empty cases of bottles, for if they searched everyone and found out he was a cop, they might have killed him.
		Lots of shooting went on, and poor Al Davis fell mortally wounded and it was thought the gunmen got away.
	www.canarsiecourier.com /news/2006/0216/Old_Canarsie (562 words)

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		Many a champ learned the trade at the Grove but most topping the weekly cards would become career contenders but entertain they did.
		And the Lightweights of the day doing biz at the Grove, or on Tuesday nights at the B’way Arena that packed them in with a shoe horn, were such attractions as Terry Young, Bobby Ruffin, Johnny Greco, Allie Stolz, Al "Bummy" Davis and Willie Joyce.
		The welters were a breed of if its own with superb talents listed among those never claiming a world title.
	www.braggingrightscorner.com /geo4.html (536 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bummy Davis VS. Murder Inc. : The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Martin's, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 0-312-30638-5Humming with wisecracks and crowded with oddball characters and lovable cranks, this mesmerizing anecdotal history rewrites the maligned legend of Jewish prizefighter Al "Bummy" Davis.
		Born Albert Abraham Davidoff in 1920, Davis was a plucky young street scrapper who rapidly became one of the most brash and charismatic boxers of his generation.
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	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		This may be going out on a limb, but I find it misguided to argue that when Jews are considered wimps or nerds, a vicious gangster is a positive role model.
		Don’t get me wrong: There have always been tough Jews, going back to Samson, and including the famous Circus strongman Breitbart, boxers Max Baer and Bummy Davis and wrestler Goldstein.
		But, similarly, there have also always been less-than-tough Jews who bested their tougher opponents.
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