World Lightweight Champion 1912-1914... A typed letter signed (6-9-31) to Max Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, requesting to be considered as the third man in the ring for the upcoming Schmeling-Stribling heavyweight championship fight... Ritchie would lose the honors to appointed referee George Blake... Comes with the original mailing envelope and a Western Union telegram in which he refers to in the letter... Letter measures 8.5 x 11"... Usual folds, overall condition is fine... Nicely signed in black fountain pen ink

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