| Overall UK Wins: 0 | Overall UK Losses: 1 | Win % 0 |
Date of Death: May 21, 1932
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
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Date | Matchup | W/L | Score | UK Fouls | Opp Fouls | UK FTA | Opp FTA | UK DQ | Opp DQ | Technicals | Officiating Crew |
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1/18/1909 | Kentucky at Advent Memorial Club | L | 27 - 41 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | - | Referee - James Chambers (Kentucky) and Umpire - Morris Isaacs (Advent) |
Obituary - Cincinnati Enquirer (May 22, 1932)
M.H. Isaacs Killed by Train; Deaf, Could Not Hear Whistle
Morris H. Isaacs, 71 years old, 3978 Hereford Avenue, was killed instantly last night when his automobile was struck by a fast Pennsylvania passenger train at Stop 17, Wooster Pike, Tower Hill.
Mr. Isaacs, who had been stone deaf for years, was on the rack signaling to a friend to join him in the machine when he was struck, witnesses said.
Because of his deafness, Mr. Isaacs could not hear the warning whistle from the locomotive. He had maintained a camp at Tower Hill for years and always had crossed the railroad carefully because he realized the handicap imposed by his deafness. He had to cross the railroad on his way to and from the camp.
Although he had made his home with his son, Stanley Isaacs, attorney and former Chairman of the Hamilton County Boxing Commission, for the last few years, Mr. Isaacs passed the summer months at the Tower Hill camp.
He was widely known in Cincinnati sports circles because of his long interests in sports, particularly boxing.
Taken first to the Hamilton County Morgue, his body later was removed to the Weil Funeral Home, 3901 Reading Road.
Mr. Isaacs has been in the insurance business for 30 years. Before that he was in the sports department of The Enquirer.
During the World War he paid his own expenses to France to do Y.M.C.A. work and supervise recreational activities of the Thirty-seventh Division. His son was a Captain in the division.
While arranging his camp at Tower Hill during the last few days Mr. Isaacs had been taking his meals with Fred Iuens. Witnesses said he was motoring to Mr. Iuens' when he was struck by the train.
Isaacs paid his own expenses to France during the World War to become a Secretary for the Y.M.C.A. He had been refused active service because of his age.
During the war he became known as "General Sunshine" because of his untiring activity in promoting boxing bouts and other forms of entertainment for the soldiers. He had been an amateur boxer in his younger days.
He also took an active interest in the welfare of the members of the former Thirty-seventh Division when it was encamped at Camp Sheridan, Alabama. He left his business in Cincinnati to be with the volunteers and also to be near his son in that division.
Born in Australia in 1861, Mr. Isaacs came to this country when only 3 years old, and in 1878 moved to Cincinnati. He performed distinguished relief service here during the flood of 1884 and received a letter of commendation for his efforts from the Mayor of Cincinnati at that time.
Shortly afterwards he became assistant sports editor of The Enquirer, leaving The Enquirer in 1906 to go into the insurance business.
He was an honorary members of the F.W. Galbraith Post of the American Legion and honorary life member of the Cincinnati Gym, a life member of the Elks, a past member of the Blaine Club and a member of the Cuvier Press Club. He also was a Director of the Newsboys' Protective Association, and was active in the B'nai B'rith, Hebrew organization, and in the Big Brothers' Association.
In addition to his son, Mr. Isaacs is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rae Isaacs, also of 3978 Hereford Avenue; two sons, Robert and Clayton, New Mexico, and Samuel, and three daughters, Mrs. Sarah Herman, Mrs. Julia Denitz and Mrs. Birdie Hollander, all of Los Angeles.
Interested in sports from early boyhood, Mr. Isaacs was one of the earliest supporters of the Cincinnati baseball team, and once raised a memorial fund of $10,300 for Harry M. Weldon, former widely known sports editor of The Enquirer. He was the originator of many amateur baseball organizations in Cincinnati.
A little more than a year ago Mr. Isaacs was elected an honorary member of the Newboys' Protective Association. Both he and his son formerly were newsboys.
Tribute to his activity was paid in a book published by Harry Ellers and Ren Mulford Jr. on "Baseball in Cincinnati."
During the 1913 flood Mr. Isaacs passed three days and nights in the flood areas assisting bereaved families, several of his friends recalled last night.
Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at the Weil Funeral Home. The body will be cremated and the remains taken to Trinidad, Colo., the burial place of Mr. Isaacs' parents, in accordance with a request Mr. Isaacs had made.