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The Cyber Boxing Zone Encyclopedia -- Old Timer

Tom "Stockings" Conroy
(Thomas Francis Conroy)

BORN  1888; Resided in Troy, New York
DIED April 9 1911; Troy, New York
HEIGHT 5-9
WEIGHT 190 lbs
1897
May 10 Jim Hughes                 Troy, NY                          KO  6
May 26 Wally Wicks                Troy, NY                           W  1
          -Police intervened; Some sources report "TK 1"
Jun 21 Ed Dunkhorst               Syracuse, NY                     SCH   
          -This bout was scheduled; The outcome is not known
Aug 10 Fred Lang                  Troy, NY                          KO  5
Sep  7 Ed Dunkhorst               Troy, NY                           L 10
Nov 16 Tom Duffy                  Troy, NY                           W 12
          -Conroy was said to have had about a dozen bouts and was unbeaten

1898
Jan 18 Charlie Goff               Troy, NY                           L 20
Apr 19 Steve O'Donnell            Troy, NY                          WF 17
May 10 Dick Moore                 Troy, NY                           D 20
          -Some sources report "W 20"
Jun 10 Bob Armstrong              Philadelphia, Pa                  ND  6
          -Some sources report "L 6"
Jul    Jim Jeffries                                                SCH   
          -This bout was scheduled but cancelled;
           Conroy was ill and could not fight
Aug 16 Ed Dunkhorst               Troy, NY                          WF  2
Sep 13 James "Doc" Payne          Troy, NY                           L 20
Nov 17 Charley Stevenson          Philadelphia, Pa                 SCH   
          -This bout was scheduled but not held; Attendance was low;
           The purse was too small - not worth fighting for
Dec 19 Frank Childs               Chicago, Il                        L  6
          -Perhaps, this is the 5/26/99 bout

1899
Feb 15 Peter Maher                Hartford, Ct                      LT  7
          -Police intervened
Apr 25 James "Doc" Payne          Troy, NY                           W 20
          -Some sources report "KO 5"
May 26 Frank Childs               Chicago, Il                        D  6
Jul 21 Bob Armstrong              Brooklyn, NY                       L 20
          -Some sources report "New York, NY"
Aug 18 Soldier Wilson             Yonkers, NY                       TK  8
Oct 24 Jack Cattanach             Troy, NY                          TK  2
          -Reports vary - "W 3" - "TK 3" - "KO 3"
Dec 19 Gus Ruhlin                 Brooklyn, NY                      LT  7

1900
Jan  1 Jack McCormick             Troy, NY                          KO  4
         -Some sources report "WF 5"
Jan 20 Whit Haughey               Philadelphia, Pa                  ND  6
         -Some sources report "D 6"
Mar  9 Peter Maher                Youngstown, Oh                    LF  5
Mar 29 Tom Sharkey                Baltimore, Md                     LK  2
          -Some sources report "LK 3"

Undated
       Tom "Jabber" Carey         New York, NY                      LK 11

*** Much Data Was Provided By William Schutte ***

Review courtesy of Tracy Callis, Historian, International Boxing Research Organization