Pete McVeigh
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Name: Pete McVeigh
Alias: McVey (sp)
Hometown: Seattle, Washington, USA
Pro Boxer: Record
Division: Lightweight
Manager: Lonnie Austin
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Per the Dec. 8, 1909 Tacoma Daily News, Pete McVeigh was the former amateur lightweight champion of the Pacific Northwest.
A Nov. 20, 1911 article in the same newspaper reported:
- Pete McVeigh, the little Seattle lightweight boxer, who a few short months ago was spoken of by Seattle newspapers as the 133-pound champion of the northwest, has evidently given up all hopes of making good in the ring. Pete has gone to work and says he will try to forget it.
- After splitting with his manager Pete tried the game alone and the picking was none too rosy. He got one or two matches around San Francisco where he boxed for $25 purses, and glad to get 'em, and was beaten two or three times. Then he returned to his Seattle home and now he is employed in a restaurant in that city and says he is going to devote his attention to something more lasting than the manly art.
- There was a time when McVeigh thought his services were worth a lot of money. He earned more coin here in Tacoma than he ever made in his life at one time, about $300, and yet he was not satisfied--wanted more. He was the high-priced kid when the local club managers went after him to accept matches. He maintained that he was worth more. When things got a little bad for Peter he went south and accepted starvation prices and was glad to get them.
- It is always that way with a boxer. He never knows when he is well off.
By 1911, McVeigh was fighting on the East coast, primarily around the Philadelphia area. The local papers often misspelled his name "McVey." Some even thought he was from Philadelphia.