Photograph of Ben Levine at the Mac Levy Gymnasium at Madison Square Gardens

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Black and white photograph of Ben Levine at the Mac Levy Gymnasium at Madison Square Gardens. Levine is depited with six other men, all wearing suits. Man third from right is holding a trophy. Levine was a participant in the development of amateur sports competition from 1902 as a boy of 13 when he went to work for James Sullivan, President of the Amateur Athletic Union until his retirement from the A.A.U. in 1968. Levine's primary contribution was to Amateur boxing, which he first promoted prior to 1920. He staged the first Golden Gloves and was the Assistant Manager of te U.S. Boxing teams at the 1924 and 1928 Olympic Games and an international jurist in boxing at the Olympics in 1932.