Doug Lewis

In 1924 Doug Lewis was the Canadian amateur welterweight boxing champion and was selected to represent his country at that year’s Summer Olympics. In the opening round he won his bout against Sweden’s Edvard Hultgren by decision and then advanced to the quarter-finals after his opponent, Italy’s Giuseppe Oldani, was disqualified “for repeatedly holding in the clinches” in round two. After another win by decision against Hugh Haggerty of the United States, he was defeated by Jean Delarge of Belgium, the eventual gold medalist, in the semifinals, but won a bronze medal after Ireland’s Paddy Dwyer forfeited the third-place bout. Lewis turned professional after the Olympics and won his first fight, against Abe Prince of the United States, by TKO in October 1924. In a career that stretched nearly ten years, he made only one bid for a major title, the Canadian welterweight in 1927, and lost against the defending titleholder George Fifield. He retired in June 1933, after winning a bout against Canadian Paul Amato, with a record of 23-8-2.