THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
Wliiiam Louis “Colonel Bill” Hayward
By Sally Mitchell
To Bertina Hayward, Colonel Bill’s devoted and understanding wife, who has prolonged his life by her tender care, and cheerfully assisted me in searching through family albums, records newspaper clippings for biographical data about her husband, this work is gratefully dedicated.
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“Yes, three people made Detroit famous, he chuckled,
“ Henry Ford, Joe Louis and I.”
When Bill was about ten years old, his
mother and father went to Peru to
manage a rubber plantation leaving his
sisters and brothers in the care of their
grandparents who reared them for
the next ten years.
THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY
July 4, 1910
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Duke Kahanamoku accepting the Olympic Gold Medal
from King Gustav, Stockholm, Sweden 1912
Duke Kahanamoku
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Jim Thorpe
Photos by
Bill Hayward
Bill Hayward
YEAR BY YEAR
Dan Kelly
Wartin Hawkins
E.J Muller, Gaston Strobino and Bill Hayward
Gaston Strobino won the bronze metal in the marathon
1920
BABE
DIDRIKSON
Boyd Brown
