| Main Performers | Harry Mason,
'Hamilton' Johnny Brown,
Ernie Rice,
Louis Saerens,
Ted Kid Lewis,
Marcel Thuru,
Pierre Charles,
Charley Smith,
Jim McKenzie,
Piet Versteeg - boxers |
| Set List | Welterweight - Harry Mason v 'Hamilton' Johnny Brown (winner) - vacant BBBofC British Welter Title
Welterweight - Ernie Rice (winner) v Louis Saerens
Light Heavyweight - Ted 'Kid' Lewis v Marcel Thuru (winner)
Light Heavyweight - Pierre Charles v Charley Smith (winner)
Bantamweight - Jim McKenzie (winner) v Piet Versteeg |
| Performance Notes | "Mason and Lewis Lose Their Fights
The programme at the Royal Albert Hall last evening promised some excellent boxing but, in the end, such good boxing occured was forgotten in the disorder - childish rather than fierce - which followed the referee's decision as to who had won the chief contest... Eventually at the end of 20 rather dull rounds, the referee was invited to give a decision and he - like most impartial people - preferred Brown's clumsy efforts to Mason's lordly indifference to hard facts.
This decision created the kind of uproar which is becoming far too frequent in boxing halls - if one may so describe the Albert Hall - and even Mason's challenge to a return match could not have pentrated far beyond the ring seats. The promoter, however, suceeded in staggering his audience into silence by the astounding annoucement that the referee should never referee in the hall again. On which magnificent note one unhappy incident closed and another was ushered in...
Now it is possible to revert to unfortunate incident No. 2. This consisted of disqualification of Kid Lewis in the first round of his contest with young French middleweight champion Marcel Thuru. Lewis, looking a trifle portly, was over in his opponent's corner with commendable speed when the gong first sounded, but found a very fine specimen of manhood waiting for him..."
(The Times, 9 October 1925) |