Sailor Fred Kramer

Name: Sailor Fred Kramer
Birth Name: Franklin Henry Kremis
Hometown: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthplace: Springer, New Mexico, USA
Died: 1967-01-24 (Age:69)
Stance: Southpaw
Pro Boxer: Record

Sailor Fred Kramer may have also fought as "Bud Oliver" in some places.

According to an item in January 5, 1925 edition of the Albuquerque Journal on the Newspapers.com website, Frank Kremis, "an Albuquerque boy" while fighting as "Sailor Kramer," knocked out Danny Kramer to win the "featherweight championship of Pacific Coast." "After Bowling Dannie over," Kremies went down to Australia, "where he took the championship belt from Bert Spargo." Danny Kramer had lost to Louis "Kid" Kaplan by a technical knockout in the ninth round in a bout with the vacant New York State Athletic Commission version of the world featherweight title at stake in New York City on January 2, 1925, three days before the item about Frank Kremis (alias Sailor Kramer) appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. (Sailor Fred Kramer's record on BoxRec.com shows that he had a total of six known bouts, all scheduled for four rounds, with Danny Kramer, all which went the distance. In the series, each fighter won two bouts by decision while the remaining two ended in a draw. Bert Spargo's record on BoxRec shows that only one bout with Frank Kramer, an American featherweight. Spargo won the bout by a technical knockout in the tenth round in Melbourne, Australia on August 12, 1922.)

According to the U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 database on the Ancestry.com website, one Franklin H. Kremis was born in Springer, New Mexico on November 4, 1897. On May 18, 1922, Kremis swore that he was living in Los Angeles, California, where he followed the "occupation of Boxing." He planned to visit China, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia for the purpose of "Boxing." He intended to sail aboard the Oceanic from San Francisco, California on June 13, 1922.

According to the Find-a-Grave website, one Frank Henry Kremis was born on November 4, 1897 and died on January 24, 1967. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.