Since Mark posted Frankie "Kid" Covelli, here is a scrappy featherweight who fought him three times, beating him twice.
<b><font size=3>Pete DeGrasse</b></font>
Canada
Career, 1927-41
<a href="http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=031419" target="_blank">Record</a>: 75-51-22 (4)
Style: Boxer
Fouls seldom
CFB/S 9/10
HP 1
CKD 2
CKO 1
REC 2
CUTS 2
AP 3
KI 5
AGG 6
END 10
DEF -2
FS 3
OR 3
DP 2
CON 1
INT 7
PRF 10
FI 1
FO 3
CU 2
GK 0
CLI 70
Punches
J 20/0
H 20/0
CR 20/0
CB 20/0
UC 20/0
PL 38
CP 40
PM 60
Rate 7
A leading contender, DeGrasse battled and lost to some of the biggest names in boxing in the late thirties, including Henry Armstrong, Petey Scalzo, Jackie Wilson, Chalky Wright, Mike Belloise, Al Roth, and Pete Sanstol. He also posted victories over Roth, Georgie Hansford, Young Rightmire, Lew Feldman, Vittorio Tamagnini, Petey Hayes, and Benny Brostoff.
A St. Regis Indian, DeGrasse fought out of Flatbush. There is a superb picture of him <a href="http://www.antekprizering.com/degrasselapresse.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Along with Maxie Rosenbloom, he appeared in <i>Mr. Moto's Gamble</i>, a 1938 "ring mystery" from Twentieth Century Fox.