Jimmy Sharman's Boxing Tent
Many famous boxers worked in the Sharman tent, including:
- Frank Burns (middleweight champion)
- 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)
Famous Indigenous Australians to work in the tent include:
- 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.
In 2003 the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales honoured Sharman Jr. with the title of "Show Legend".
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