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The Salem Crescent Athletic Club was a boxing team from Harlem in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It was established with support from the Salem Methodist Episcopal Church, and was located in its basement.[1][2] The coach was boxing trainer George Gainford.[2][3] It had many successful boxers including Sugar Ray Robinson and Buddy Moore, who each won Golden Gloves championships at Madison Square Garden in 1939.[4]
- ^ Haygood, Wil (2009). Sweet Thunder. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 9. ISBN 9781400044979.
- ^ a b Hauser, Thomas (2010). Boxing is–: Reflections on the sweet science. University of Arkansas Press. pp. 4–5. ISBN 9781557289421.
- ^ Shropshire, Kenneth L. (2007). Being Sugar Ray: The life of Sugar Ray Robinson, America’s greatest boxer and first celebrity athlete. BasicCivitas. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9780465078035.
- ^ Pelisson, Gerard J. (2009). The castle on the parkway: The story of New York City’s Dewitt Clinton High School and its extraordinary influence on American life. Scarsdale, New York: The Hutch Press. p. 318. ISBN 9781883269302.
