© www.boxinghistory.org.uk - all rights reserved This page has been brought to you by www.boxinghistory.org.uk Click on the image above to visit our site Iron Hague (Mexborough) Active: 1905-1915 Weight classes fought in: Recorded fights: 32 contests (won: 18 lost: 13 drew: 1) Fight Record 1905 Jan 21 Dan Lewis (USA) WKO3 Drill Hall, Doncaster Source: Sporting Life combined purse £30 £25 a side Apr 8 Dick Parkes (Goldthorpe) WRSF15(15) Volunteer Drill Hall, Doncaster Source: Sporting Life (Yorkshire Pitmen's Heavyweight Title) Hague 12st 7lbs Parkes 12st 4lbs combined purse £30 £25 a side Hague 19yo Parkes 27yo Aug 5 Albert Rodgers (Sheffield) WRTD6(20) Drill Hall, Doncaster Source: Mirror of Life Promoter: Billy Bridgwater combined purse £30 £25 a side 4oz gloves Nov 1 Sam Ogden (Parkgate) WKO3(8) Fairground, Mexborough Source: Manchester Sporting Chronicle 1906 Dec 22 Charlie Knock (Stratford) LKO3(20) Drill Hall, Doncaster Source: Mirror of Life Hague 13st 10lbs Knock 11st 6lbs £25 a side Knock 26yo Hague 21yo 1907 Jan 30 Tom Herridge (York) WKO2 Cavalry Barracks, York Source: Sporting Life Oct 28 Jack Scales (Bethnal Green) DRAW(6) Norfolk Road Drill Hall, Sheffield Source: Mirror of Life 1908 Mar 16 Frank Craig (USA) WKO4(20) Drill Hall, Sheffield Source: Sporting Life Hague 13st 0lbs Craig 11st 8lbs Referee: Tom Gamble combined purse £60 £50 a side May 11 Jack Scales (Bethnal Green) WKO2(20) Edmund Road Drill Hall, Sheffield Source: Sporting Life Hague 13st 0lbs Scales 13st 8lbs combined purse £75 £50 a side Jun 1 Cpl. Sunshine (1st RF) WKO4(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Sporting Life Referee: JH Douglas Oct 19 Charlie Wilson (Notting Hill) WKO5(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Sporting Life Wilson boxed for the British Middleweight Title 1909. Referee: JH Douglas combined purse £75 £50 a side Dec 14 Ben Taylor (Woolwich) WKO2(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Sporting Life Hague 13st 7lbs Taylor 14st 10lbs Referee: JH Douglas 1909 Apr 19 Gunner Moir (Lambeth) WKO1(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Sporting Life (British Heavyweight Title) Moir was British Heavyweight Champion 1906-09. Referee: Tom Scott May 24 Sam Langford (USA) LKO4(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Sporting Life Referee: Eugene Corri 1910 Feb 11 P.O. Curran (Plymouth) LKO15(20) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth Source: Boxing 19/02/1910 pages 593 and 594 Curran boxed for the British Empire Heavyweight Title 1911 and boxed for the British Heavyweight Title in 1916. Attendance: 5000 Feb 21 Jewey Smith (London) LPTS(20) New City BC, Sheffield Source: Rotherham Express Smith boxed for the World Heavyweight Title 1908. Referee: Tom Gamble Feb 21 Jewey Smith (London) LPTS(20) New City BC, Sheffield Source: Sheffield Daily Telegraph May 26 Cpl. Sunshine (1st RF) LPTS(20) Arena, Liverpool Source: Boxing 04/06/1910 page 326 Aug 15 Pte. W Smith (Royal West Kents) WPTS(20) Attercliffe Boxing Hall, Sheffield Source: Boxing 20/08/1910 page 602 Nov 7 Cpl. Brown (Grenadier Gds.) WKO18(20) Attercliffe Boxing Hall, Sheffield Source: Sheffield Daily Telegraph (British Heavyweight Title) Referee: J R Smoult Dec 5 Jewey Smith (London) WPTS(20) Attercliffe Boxing Hall, Sheffield Source: Boxing 10/12/1910 pages 138 and 139 Referee: J R Smoult combined purse £250 Dec 31 Cpl. Sunshine (1st RF) WKO9 Olympia Rink, Mexborough Source: Mexborough and Swinton Times Referee: JR Smoult Promoter: George Law Attendance: 600 1911 Jan 2 Cpl. Sunshine (1st RF) WKO9(20) Olympia Rink, Mexborough Source: Boxing 14/01/1911 page 282 Jan 30 Bill Chase (Forest Gate) WKO6(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 04/02/1911 pages 352, 353 and 354 Apr 24 Bombardier Billy Wells (Streatham) LKO6(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 29/04/1911 pages 655, 656, 657 and 658 (British Heavyweight Title) Wells was British and British Empire Heavyweight Champion 1911-19. 1912 Jul 8 Jim Robb (Biggar) WKO1 Stadium, Mexborough Source: Rotherham Express Aug 5 Tom Cowler (Whitehaven) LKO8(20) Stadium, Mexborough Source: Rotherham Express Referee: Tom Gamble Promoter: George Law £25 a side Aug 12 Tom Cowler (Whitehaven) LKO9 Stadium, Mexborough Source: Boxing 17/08/1912 page 383 Sep 23 Percy Whetton (Measham) LRSF10 Boulevard Rink, Leicester Source: Boxing 28/09/1912 page 522 1915 Mar 25 Bandsman Rice (Hounslow) LPTS(15) West London Stadium, Marylebone Source: Boxing 31/03/1915 page 374 Rice boxed for the European Light-Heavyweight Title 1913 and boxed for the British Heavyweight Title 1914 and 1915. Jul 3 Tom Gummer (Rotherham) LKO10(15) Pheasant Inn Grounds, Carbrook Source: Boxing 07/07/1915 page 142 Gummer was British Middleweight Champion 1920-21. Referee: Tom Gamble Aug 2 Bill Curzon (Bloomsbury) LKO3(10) Stamford Bridge, Chelsea Source: Boxing 04/08/1915 pages 203 and 204 Attendance: 35000 © This record was researched and compiled by Miles Templeton and Richard Ireland. It may be published elsewhere provided full acknowledgement and a link to www.boxinghistory.org.uk are included © www.boxinghistory.org.uk - all rights reserved This page has been brought to you by www.boxinghistory.org.uk Click on the image above to visit our site We have a lot more information on this boxer, and for all of the boxers listed on this record. Please email [email protected] or phone 07872 578596 for details.