Mosey King

He may have shared Tony Nelson as a boxing coach in his youth with fellow New London boxers Austin Rice, a contender for the World Featherweight Title, and Abe Hollandersky, a welterweight, and Panamanian Heavyweight champion.

Though King lost the six round bout by TKO, Sweeny was a talented boxer who would meet 1906 welterweight champion William "Honey" Mellody three times from 1903–4.

On May 1, 1902, at only eighteen, King won a fight billed as the Lightweight Championship of New England by defeating Shorty Gans in New Britain by knockout in sixteen rounds.

[7] King fought Willie Lewis, a future World Welterweight contender, losing in two twenty round bouts in 1902 in New Brittain, and New London, Connecticut.

On March 26, 1904 in Chicago, he lost in six rounds to Kid Goodman, an exceptional welterweight, who would fight champions Abe Attell, Harry Lewis, and Young Corbett II the following year.

King, who stayed slim and in physical condition throughout his life, boxed on a regular basis in short friendly matches with the boxers, wrestlers, and football players he coached.

In November 1920, the Evening times-Republican noted that the Yale boxing team anticipated the best season in their history, and that "nearly 200 candidates had expressed an interest in donning the chamois mittens."

Yesterday, when his seventh call was answered, three hundred pupils put their names down as candidates for the Yale boxing team.

[3] In January 1956, while taking one of his regular constitutional walks in New Haven, he was struck by a car while crossing Whalley Avenue, a busy intersection.

[1] In February 1957, a Mosey King Memorial plaque was presented to Yale Dean Clarence Wendell at a reunion dinner of the Atlanta Athletic Club.