> It is the Ring I was thinking of. Established by Nat...[forget
surname] ?

Nat Fleischer. Then there's bad news.
[URL=http://www.cyberbox ingzone.com/ boxing/w0906- cogswell. pdf]see
this PDF file[/URL] (top of the last page):

He had an incredible collection of material. The collection which he
put together was remarkable and it is a terrible shame the way it
was handled. There is some material (in the current Ring offices)
but very little. Ring is now part of a larger syndicate. Someone
told me they actually have an offi ce in the basement of a building
in Pennsylvania. Mainly what they have is an extensive photo file.
There are some pieces of memorabilia left but very little. There
were a number of organizations that essentially preceded IBRO (the
International Boxing Research Organization) . In one of them was an
article by a member who took his family to the Ring museum. This is
when Bert Sugar was there. Getting on a freight elevator and going
to this room and the things were all over the floor, broken glass,
and people walking on them. It was just trashed. That's when it fell
apart. During a time when Dave Debusschere and other people owned it
and Sugar was hired to manage it. When Stanley Weston acquired it
upwards of 60% of it was gone. Lots of belts and things that just
never surfaced anywhere in any inventory that I ever saw. I have
pictures of things I've never seen anywhere else. After Debusschere
and those people defaulted, Nat Loubet, who had sold it to them
intact, had to come back. Not long after that the scandal broke,
with Johnny Ort and Don King padding the record books. When Loubet
found out he was humiliated but he had nothing to do with it. The
magazine had lost its credibility. What had started out as the Hall
of Fame museum was gone, trashed, it was just a mess. (Harry Shaffer)

How incredibly sad. Perhaps there might be a photographic record of Bendigo's prizes in that basement.

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