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Possibly the same Kid Fredericks (given name: Alfonzo Capozzi of 797 Greene Ave in Brooklyn) that was arrested for stealing a car in July of 1919.

The following is from editor David Kehler and posted on 11-12-2020:

Kid Fredericks (ID# 267505) certainly was Alphonse Capozzi, and I have edited his BoxRec listing to that effect.

In 1920, in Alphonse Capozzi's unsuccessful appeal of his 1919 auto theft conviction, he testified that:

--he had been boxing for four years prior to his incarceration in Sing Sing, --he had boxed about 15 bouts in Brooklyn and two bouts in Manhattan, --he also had bouts in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New Jersey, --he used the ring name James Fredericks.

In an article about his conviction, published in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (7-23-1919, p. 5), it was noted that he used the ring name Kid Fredericks.

It is very possible that some Brooklyn bouts currently attributed on BoxRec to the Alphonse Capozzi Kid Fredericks were actually contested by Kid Fredericks (ID# 583490), who was William A. Fredericks, of Pottsville, PA, a boxer known to have appeared in Brooklyn rings.