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[email protected] Name: Tom Sharkey Alias: Sailor Born: 1873-11-26 Birthplace: Dundalk, Ireland Died: 1953-04-17 (Age:79) Nationality: Irish Hometown: San Francisco, California, USA Stance: Orthodox Height: 5′ 8″ / 173cm Reach: 70½″ / 179cm Boxing Record: click The following story was published 18 May 1932.- The San Mateo Times and Daily News Leader Sharkey, once Ace of Ring, now Option Seller. Tom Sharkey, worlds welter, middle and heavyweight champion of the nineties, the Irishman who, as a little boy of 9 ran away from his home at Dundalk, Ireland, working his way on sailing vessel’s out to China. India, and down to Australia, where he fed the native pearl divers cocoanut milk as they came up for air from their work, who came to Brooklyn to join the United States navy. Who as a world renowned fighter ,rich in money and crowned with success, went home to Dundalk, Ireland as the prodigal son to buy back for the family the old farm from which they were evicted when he was a baby, to buy brass beds that thrilled the countryside, and to buy for his mother a cook stove. 2 Partner of Jeffries Who, after climaxing his fisticuff history with exhibition bouts at King Edward VII's Jubilee a London, England, became a figure in partnership with Jim Jeffries in the saloon history of California.