Former boxing champion dies

VICTORIA, British Columbia — Two-time welterweight champion Jimmy McLarnin has died. He was 96.

McLarnin, a member of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and the International Boxing Hall of Fame, died on Oct. 28, in Richland, Wash., where he has lived for the past 13 years.

The Irish-born McLarnin, 62-11-3 with 20 knockouts in his career, stopped Young Corbett III in the first round of a May 29, 1933, fight to claim the world welterweight title.

McLarnin lost the belt to Barney Ross on May 28, 1934, won it back on Sept. 17, and lost it for good on May 28, 1935.