Amazing! Maine Stories: 1999-1879


Chair and scale belonging to Dave the Guesser, ca. 1950

Chair and scale belonging to Dave the Guesser, ca. 1950
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Maine Historical Society

Dave, born in Portland in 1909, likes to show off his muscles. He's only 5 feet, 5 inches tall. But he has muscles from his other job as a furniture mover.

Some of the muscles might be left over from his career as a boxer. He started boxing at 16. Glovsky even fought New England Amateur champ Irish Jim Feeney to a draw in 1925.

But his boxing career was no match for his mother. She chased him out of the ring one night. Dave respected her wishes and moved away from boxing.

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