| Main Performers | Gerald John,
Edgar Basel,
D Glanville,
Kurt Reitinger,
Ron Hinson,
B Helmuth,
H Duffin,
H Nicolai,
Les Morgan,
Herbert Schilling,
Johnny Thurgood,
G Scharf,
Alf Lay,
Heinz Hauptmann,
Arthur Howard,
H Thielemann,
Robert Shaw,
Willi Lahr,
R Miles,
Abraham Rosenberg - boxers |
| Set List | G John v Edgar Basel - John winner (Eng)
D Glanville v Kurt Reitinger - Glanville winner (Eng)
R Hinson v B Helmuth - Hinson winner (Eng)
H Duffin v H Nicolai - Nicolai winner (Frg)
L Morgan v Herbert Schilling - Schilling winner (Frg)
J Thurgood v G Scharf - Thurgood winner (Eng)
A Lay v Heinz Hauptmann - Lay winner (Eng)
A Howard v Thielemann, - Howard winner (Eng)
R Shaw v Willi Lahr - Lahr winner (Frg)
R Miles v Abraham Rosenburg - Rosenberg winner (Frg) |
| Performance Notes | The event was broadcast by the BBC from 21:30.
This was the first inter-city match between a London team and one from the Continent.
Film footage of this event is available from British Pathe (Film ID 2573.17). Running time 1min 32secs.
Associated Press Archives holds B&W British Movietone footage of the event (BM56226).
"Frankfurt Amateurs at the Albert Hall
A team of amateurs from Frankfurt - the first German boxers to appear in a British ring since the war - met a team representing London at the Royal Albert Hall last night. The Frankfurt men proved worthy opponents and London did well enough to win by six bouts to four. A large crowd supported the Frankfurt venture and gave its boxers a sporting reception.
The match started well with a quick and clever bout between the flyweights G John of Slough and E Basel. This gave the referee - now inside the ring - little to do, but evidently kept the scoring judges busy for it was only by a majority vote that John won on points. John's aggression, perhaps, entitled him to this though Basel's style was preferable to the south-paw rushes of the winner. At the bantam weight B Glanville of the Army also was the attacker at first, but K Reitinger fought back hard, if much too wildly in the last two rounds, and compelled Glanville to pick his own punches with the utmost care. Almost at the end of the bout the referree disqualified the German for his use of the head in charging to the assault.
The long reach of B Helmuth, even though his left was little more than a defensive prod, kept him in the fight with R Hinson in the feathers. Hinson, for all his two-handed efforts, was stangely ineffective, and he even allowed Helmuth to use his right as a lead in the third round. However, the referee decided that Helmuth had no further chance, and so London became three up.
The Frankfurt lightweight, H Nicoli, gave his side a timely success by a lively two-handed effort against H Duffin of Earlsfield.. A majority vote decided the issue. This was followed by a bout at the light welterweight in which L Morgan of Rotax found himself opposed by the European champion H Schilling.
The latter also could claim to 175 victories in 190 contests, so that Morgan did remarkably well to stand up skilfully, even effectively, to the hard-hitting German for the best part of two rounds. Though beaten down eventually Morgan twice out-boxed Schilling in the second round before the referee stopped the fight. The Frankfurt welter G Scharf was a tireless battler and the Army man, J Thurgood had to show some clever ducking as well as an admirable steadiness and stiff counter-punch to win on a majority vote. The score thus became 4-2 with four to go.
It was another hard fight at the light-middleweight and H Hauptmann who had rather the better left and following right, must have been within sight of winning when A Lay of Battersea weakened him with a right pile driver to the body. The Frankfurt man did little for the rest of the third round. Frankfurt's last chance of saving the match went in the Middles when A Howard of Crown and Manor BC completley outfought Thielemann inside one round. Frankfurt, however, ended well by winning both of the last two contests. The stocky W Lahr beat R Shaw of Battersea - a majority vote once more settling the matter - at the light-heavyweight. Finally A Rosenburg, who used his left and right more assiduously than R Miles of the Polytechnic, recovered well from a stiff right to the jaw in the third round to win the heavies decisively enough on points." (The Times 18 October 1951) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1951/205) |