A HAPPY PARTY IN OLD SEATTLE

Robert Coughlan

January 31, 1955

Although at present Seattle is not a major boxing center, in the 1930s it was the middleweight capital of the world. The championship changed hands four times in 35 months in the same Seattle ring. The Post-Intelligencer recently reprinted this picture, made at a party for then-champion Freddie Steele (seated, center). Behind Steele are his manager, Dave Miller, and Al (The Vest) Weill. The partygoer on the left, who has been credited with running the middleweight division "like a gaffed slot-machine," is fat and gray now but he still calls himself Frank Carbo.