Frank Street

Name: Frank Street
Hometown: Spokane, Washington, USA
Pro Boxer: Record

Manager: Cy Paup [1]

Frank Street got his start as an amateur boxer in Spokane, Washington, under the tutelage of Johnny Judge. By 1910 he was living in the Tacoma area.

By early 1912 he was a member of, and a boxing instructor at, the brand-new Tacoma Athletic Club. [2][3][4]

In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds and a decision was to be rendered, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being illegal in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy. [5] Sometimes a six-round bout could be merely an exhibition. [6][7][8]. Sometimes it would questioned whether a boxer was truly an amateur or a professional, and Street himself was not immune to such criticism. [9]

By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. [10] And engaging in 145-lb. amateur bouts there. [11] (Professional boxing was supposedly shut down tight in Spokane at the time.) And pro bouts outside of Spokane. [12] Yet, out-of-state boxers were "flocking" to Spokane in 1913. [13]

By September 1914, he was a Spokane bartender. Tacoma Daily News, Sept. 12, 1914. (He engaged in an exhibition bout in a Spokane Armory benefit smoker Sept. 5, 1917. [14]))

Street was the former Pacific Northwest Welterweight & Middleweight Champion.

He is to be distinguished from the Portland, Oregon boxer Frank Street (circa 1918). [15]