James G. Clark (February 26, 1914 – September 12, 1994), also known as Jimmy Atkinson, was an American boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]
He was born James Clark Atkinson in Norfolk, Virginia, to parents Ernest Atkinson and Beatrice Davis.[1][2]
At the 1936 Summer Olympics he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the middleweight class after losing his fight to Henryk Chmielewski. After the Olympics, he turned professional with a career record of 19 wins and 20 losses.[1] His biggest professional win was a first-round knockout of Tony Zale on February 21, 1938 in Chicago.[2]
Clark was inducted into the Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Buffalo Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998.[2] An Army veteran of World War II, he died at the age of 80 in Jamestown, New York.[2]
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