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Name
  
Jimmy Sharman

Died
  
April 24, 2006

Children
  
Jim Sharman


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Spouse
  
Christina McAndleish Sharman (m. ?–2003)

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Jimmy Sharman senior (20 June 1887 – 18 November 1965) and junior (1912 – 24 April 2006) were an Australian father and son, both known as boxing troupe and entertainment impresarios, with Sharman junior also a rugby league player.

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Jimmy Sharman senior

Born as James Sharman in Narellan, New South Wales, the fifth of thirteen children to James Sharman and Caroline Brailsfield, as Jimmy Sharman he established a boxing tent in 1911 at Ardlethan near Temora. The tent visited 45 to 50 shows each year. His son, Jimmy Sharman Jr, took over the business in 1955. The tent formed part of the Australian Show landscape until 1971, when regulations barred boxers fighting more than once a week. A member of the "Showmans Guild of Australasia", he then turned to dodgem cars in partnership with Reg Grundy.

Jimmy Sharman junior

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Sharman junior was born, as James Michael Sharman in Narrandera, New South Wales. He attended his first Sydney Royal Easter Show in 1926 working in his father's tent. Sharman junior played rugby league for Western Suburbs Magpies. He was fullback in Western Suburbs' 1934 premiership win against the Eastern Suburbs. In 1938 he became First Grade captain. He retired after 7 seasons in 1939 to become a journalist, taking over the boxing tent from his father in 1955. Sharman played 45 games between 1935 and 1939, scored 12 tries and kicked 11 goals. He was awarded life membership in 1998.

Jimmy Sharman's Boxing Tent

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Many famous boxers worked in the Sharman tent, including:

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  • Frank Burns (middleweight champion)
  • Graham Burns, Jeff Burns, Ted Burns, Charlie Burns
  • Teddy Green (bantamweight)
  • Harry Mack (featherweight)
  • Mickey Miller (bantam and featherweight)
  • George Cook (heavyweight)
  • Jack Hassen (lightweight)
  • Billy Grime (triple titleholder)
  • Jackie Green (triple titleholder)
  • Dave Sands Aboriginal boxer
  • Greg McNamara (light-heavyweight)

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    Famous Indigenous Australians to work in the tent include:

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  • George Bracken, Aboriginal lawyer
  • Geoff Clark, former ATSIC chairperson
  • Douglas Nicholls, later Pastor with the Churches of Christ in Australia and then Governor of South Australia
  • Max Stuart, convicted murderer and Arrente elder

    • Some boxers came from the Cherbourg Aboriginal mission, near Nanango, Queensland.

    Legacy

    In 2003 the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales honoured Sharman Jr. with the title of "Show Legend".

  • The Australian rock band Midnight Oil's 1984 album Red Sails in the Sunset includes the song "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" whose lyrics assert that Sharman exploited the Aboriginal boxers he employed in his show.
  • The Australian rock band Cold Chisel's song "Yesterdays" has lyrics which refer to Jimmy Sharman's boxers [1].
  • The 2007 Peter Carstairs film September features its main characters - 15-year-old boys Ed and Paddy - setting up a boxing ring on Ed's family's wheatbelt property in anticipation of a visit by Sharman's boxing troupe. Paddy later joins the troupe.
  • Jimmy Sharman Jr's son Jim Sharman became a theatre and film director known especially for the musicals Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Rocky Horror Show, and the movie version, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  • One Paul Kelly track, "Rally Around the Drum", written with Archie Roach, was about an Indigenous tent boxing man.

    • References

    Jimmy Sharman Wikipedia
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