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US Patent No. 245825 Boxer's Headgear by DeWitt A. Portal (1949) framed shadow print General Ulysses SUs Patent No. 245825 Boxers Headgear by Dewitt a Portal (1949) drawn in the postwar moment when amateur boxing was reckoning with its own brutality, Portal's schematic maps a padded crown and ear cups with the methodical care of a man who had watched too many fighters leave the ring rattled. The apparatus reads less like equipment than like an argument that the sweet science could be defended without being softened. About the Source Bella Frye sources