Tag: Arnold R. Cream (aka Jersey Joe Walcott)

Arnold Raymond Cream on January 31, 1914, outside of Camden NJ, later known as boxer Jersey Joe Walcott.

FELIX BOCCHICCHIO was born in Pennsylvania on August 31, 1906. He is best remembered today as boxer Jersey Joe Walcott's manager during and after his rise to the heavyweight championship in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He had a long and colorful career prior to and after the Walcott era in a variety of activities, both legal and on the other side of the law.  

I grew up at 422 Mickle Street and left in March 1953 to join the Air Force. At that time there was very little crime in the neighborhood. Jersey Joe Walcott lived at 331 Mickle Street, when he became World Heavy Weight Champion.

The history of a Mt Ephraim hotel reveals a story that could have been script for Hollywood movie staring James Cagney or Edward G Robinson.

JOEY ALLEN was the name that Angelo Anthony Levecchia boxed under from 1928 through 1943. He was born in Camden, New Jersey on November 12, 1912 to Anthony Levecchia and his wife, the former Anna Maria Onorati. His father worked for as a laborer for many years at Camden Forge. Angelo Levecchia was one of at least six children, coming after Henry and Nicholas and before Lillian, Mary, and Joseph. Under the ring name of Joey Allen, he became one of the many fine boxers that emerged from South Camden in the 1920s and 1930s.

EVESHAM — Services will be held Friday for Angelo A. Levecchia, a featherweight and light- weight boxer who fought as "Joey Allen."

Billy Cephas, former Haddonfield High School baseball and football star, makes his debut tonight as a professional boxer.

Camden has had its ups and downs in the boxing game, but probably reached its peak so far as performers are concerned when bouts were held at the Haddon Avenue Armory during 1919-20.

Jersey Joe Walcott, an amazing old man of the ring who wouldn't be licked, today is the new champ -- the world's oldest heavyweight championship -- in an astounding climax to an almost unbelievable saga of the ring.

Maple Shade Progress - July 28, 1949
Maple Shade's so-called "plumbing warehouse" proved to be just what residents suspected it to be - an elaborate gambling establishment.

Camden Courier Post - November 20, 1948 By TOM RYAN A new boxing triumvirate soon will be...

On the days Jersey Joe Walcott doesn't box for his forthcoming return bout with heavyweight champion Joe Louis there's little activity at his Grenloch Park training camp. Yesterday was one of Walcott's off days and the camp personnel took it easy.