New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
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 BY "GRAVY."
SAILOR PETROSKEY QUIT RING TO BECOME AN EXPOSITION
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| Sailor Ed" Petroskey will pass his 1 twenty-fifth milestone today, the well | known middleweight boxer having i been born in Pittsburg, Pa., April g,
 1890. 1t was recently announced that | the Sailor" discouraged by the lick 1 ing he received at the hands of l Fighting Billy" Murray, has decided | to quit the ring for keeps. At twenty | five Petroskey has many years to go before senility overtakes him, and he l will probably pull many a comeback 1 before he finally doffs the mitts. In I the meantime the husky scrapper is
 said to be walking a beat at the San | Francisco exposition, clad in a nifty | khaki uniform and swinging a swagger stick. He won't need the latter weapon if anybody starts any 1 thing, for although the Sailor stubbed his toe and fell down in his efforts to overtake the elusive middleweight
 championship, he still packs a punch
 that is decidely unpleasant for the recipient. There was @ time when Petroskey
 was classed among the topnochers among the middleweight contenders
 but in his last few starts he hasn't finished very strong. Like many other
 boxers, Petroskey started his fighting career while serving Uncle Sam in the navy, and he holds an honorable dis charge from that organization. Most of his early fights were held in San Francisco and Oakland. He began to take on the classy boys in 1912. On the first day of that year he defeated George (Knockout) Brown, the Greek middleweight, in ten rounds at Oak land. A little later he was matched with Frank Klaus, the Pennsylvania Dutchman and who was then claiming the middleweight title. Klaus got the decision in a twenty-round bout in San Francisco. Later in the year Pe- troskey was defeated by Charlie Grande at Oakland, but in 1913 he redeemed himself and knocked out Grande at Vallejo. The Sailor then knocked out Montana Dan Sullivan and fought two draws with Bob Me- AlHster, both over the twenty-round route.
 The tar had another chance to get front seat in the middleweight ranks when he fought Jimmy Clabby at San Francisco, but he lost in twenty rounds. Ed wasn't satisfied, however, and he mingled with the Hoosier again in Los Angeles early last year, again losing the decision in twenty rounds. In the meantime he had been defeated by another Hoosier, Jack Dillon, in a twelve-round affair at Butte. Last August he was de- feated by George Chip in twenty rounds at San Francisco.
 The worst blow of all to the Sailors championship aspirations came last November, when he was knocked out in the second round by Billy Murray That was the first time in his career the tar had ever been knocked out. Murray sent him down for the count of nine in the first chapter, and in the second put over the soporific punch. Petroskey had a good alibt, however, as he had been sick and was not in good form when he met Mur- ray
 Petroskey is one of dozens of modern boxers who got their enthusiasm for the ring game while serving in the army. None of the sailors have ever become champions, however, although Tom Sharkey at his best was the su- perior of most of the big fellows of his day. --.r