National Archives Identifier: 533195 records a series of pictures and summary from
Field Day 1922 at Fort Kamehameha, twenty years before
Mike Lacche won the
Welterweight Base Boxing Title, featured was a closely contested baseball championship game between the
Fort Ruger and
Fort DeRussey baseball teams.
National Archives Identifier:26337 has surviving film footage from the Department of Defense of the semi-finals of the 1953 Hawaiian boxing tournament.
Stay tuned as Michael Lacche Boxing and Army Historians continue to research and publish records of Mike Lacche's Title run.
U.S. Army records show (click here for the National Archives site) Fort Kamehameha, Hawaii had a long history of athletic competitions: from boxing to baseball, basketball to archery.
