Harry Fay

Name: Harry Fay
Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Birthplace: Castlebar, Ireland
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

• 1923 light heavyweight AAU Champ, also beat Paul Berlenbach as an amateur
• Turned pro out of Charleroi, PA, fighting there, in McKeesport, and Pittsburgh.
• Brother of boxers Ray Fay, Al Fay, and Marcel (Mushy) Fay

In retirement, worked in the bagage department of the Grace Steamship Line in New York.

Claimed to have been matched to fight Luis Angel Firpo in 1928. On way there, on Nov. 11, 1928, the ship he was on, the Vestris, rammed a coral reef, but Fay was one of the survivors. (Total on board were 129 passengers and 199 crew, about 110 perished.)