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<mask> "Razor" <mask> (born 9 May 1968) is an English former professional footballer and television personality who is a club director at Enfield. As a player he was a central defender from 1986 to 2003, and was voted the 17th "hardest footballer of all time". He made his debut at Millwall, having been associated with the club since the age of 13, and also represented Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton, Liverpool, West Ham United, Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers and Swindon Town during a professional career spanning 17 years. He was capped once by England, in 1994. <mask> came out of retirement in 2015, aged 46, to play for United Counties League side Wellingborough Whitworth. He has since appeared on a variety of television shows including I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and Celebrity Masterchef.Club career

Early career
<mask> began his career at Millwall, before signing for Tottenham Hotspur in 1986. He broke his leg on his Tottenham debut against Liverpool and made only 11 appearances for Spurs, his only goal coming in a 2–1 defeat to third tier Port Vale in the 1987–88 FA Cup. In the summer of 1988 <mask> rejoined Millwall. Southampton
Ruddock joined Southampton in February 1989, in a £200,000 transfer from Millwall. A rugged, uncompromising defender, he soon became popular with the Southampton fans especially after confidently scoring a penalty against Newcastle United on 1 April in only his sixth game for the club, thus helping the "Saints" earn their first victory in 18 matches and start Southampton on a climb away from the relegation zone. His goal celebration after the 89th-minute penalty became known as the "Ruddock stomp". <mask> missed his next two penalties, allowing Matt Le Tissier to take over for the following season.Despite early disciplinary problems at The Dell, <mask>'s talents as a confident, left-footed defender earned him England Under-21 honours. Powerful in the air, he could tackle strongly but was also able to bring the ball forward out of defence. In the 1991–92 season, <mask> was a member of the Southampton side that reached the final of the Zenith Data Systems Cup, where they were beaten in extra time 3–2 by Nottingham Forest. After three years on the south coast, he was enticed back to Tottenham by Terry Venables in May 1992, with the tribunal setting the transfer fee at a "ridiculous" £750,000. Liverpool
Ruddock was signed by Liverpool from Tottenham Hotspur on a £2.5 million transfer. While at Liverpool, <mask> was famously involved in an on-field scuffle with Manchester United star Eric Cantona. <mask> responded to Cantona's taunts about his weight by turning down the Frenchman's collar.In 1995, he was absolved of fracturing Peter Beardsley's jaw with an elbow in a testimonial match. Beardsley contemplated legal action on the grounds that <mask> acted deliberately, but later decided to withdraw charges. In 1996, <mask>'s tackle on Andrew Cole of Manchester United in a reserve game at Anfield left the player with two broken legs, and <mask> claimed innocence, while Cole said he believed <mask> did not intend harm. However, in a 2010 interview with Talksport, he jokingly refers to the incident as "not big, and not clever", adding "but it was great", and that "I didn't mean to break both of his legs if I'm honest, I only meant to break one". Arguably his finest game for Liverpool came on 20 January 1996, when he scored twice for them in a 5–0 home league win over Leeds United. At Liverpool, <mask> was also part of the squad of the 1990s under Roy Evans, known infamously as the "Spice Boys", that included the likes of David James, Robbie Fowler, Jamie Redknapp, Jason McAteer, Steve McManaman and Stan Collymore, but left in 1998 when new coach Gérard Houllier joined. West Ham United
In July 1998, <mask> moved to West Ham United for a fee of £300,000 making his debut on 15 August 1998 in a 1–0 away win against Sheffield Wednesday.In October 1999 whilst playing for West Ham, <mask> was also involved in a bust-up with Arsenal's Patrick Vieira, with Vieira receiving a six-match ban and a £30,000 fine after spitting at <mask> after some verbal sparring between the two. In 56 games for West Ham, he scored three goals, was booked 14 times and sent-off once, in December 1998, in a 4–0 away defeat to Leeds United, for a dangerous tackle on Harry Kewell. The Hammers finished fifth in the Premier League that season – their highest finish for 13 years – and qualified for the UEFA Cup to end a 19-year absence from European competitions. Swindon Town
In 2000, <mask> moved to Crystal Palace on a free transfer, spending one season there before signing for Division Two side Swindon Town. He scored twice for Swindon, with goals against Colchester in the league and Hartlepool in the FA Cup. Relations turned sour when <mask> refused to quit after being advised to do so by a specialist; during a period of time where the club was in serious financial difficulties. The club responded by appointing Steve Coppell as assistant manager and taking <mask>'s coaching duties away.The board eventually stopped paying <mask>'s wages in an attempt to drive him out. He took the club to an employment tribunal and in December 2002, received £57,000, representing money lost in wages and loyalty payments, with an agreement to terminate his contract as player/coach. He was also accused by Crystal Palace chairman, Simon Jordan in November 2005, of "taking the team out and getting them wasted when we were fighting relegation". Wellingborough Whitworth
In January 2015, <mask> came out of retirement at the age of 46 years, to sign for United Counties League side Wellingborough Whitworth. Coaching career
In August 2018, <mask> joined the coaching team of Essex Senior League side Enfield. In June 2020 he became a club director. International career
<mask> won four caps for the England Under-21 squad and one in 1994 for England B when he captained the team against Ireland B at Anfield.On 16 November 1994, he won his only senior cap for England, playing in a friendly against Nigeria when Terry Venables was the national team's coach. Honours
Southampton
 Full Members Cup runners-up: 1992

Liverpool
 Football League Cup: 1994–95

West Ham United
 UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1998–99

Television career
In 2004, he appeared on the third series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. He exploited this by recording a charity single, a version of "Jungle Rock", with fellow contestants Lord Brocket, Peter Andre and Mike Read, performing as the Jungle Boys. In 2006, he was involved in the television programme Razor <mask>'s Pass & Move Soccer School where children released by academies were coached by <mask>. In 2006, <mask> helped produce Football Saved My Life a reality sports TV show for Bravo which attempted to change the lives of 15 dysfunctional men through their involvement with football. In November 2011, he appeared in James May's Man Lab on BBC Two, coaching James May on how to score a penalty kick in front of 20,000 Germans at Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen. James May missed the penalty.He appeared again in April 2013 as a member of the Manlab team representing China at the Rock, Paper, Scissors world championships. In 2019 <mask> appeared on BBC's Celebrity Masterchef Series 14 where he reached the final three. Personal life
<mask> was given the nickname "Razor" by teammates after they claimed to have seen the unrelated boxer <mask> billed as "Razor <mask>" in a boxing match at White Hart Lane; however, <mask> never boxed at White Hart Lane during his career. In 2011, <mask> declared bankruptcy. On 25 September 2014, he was featured in an episode of the Channel 5 programme Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away! where he was approached by High Court enforcement agents who were seeking to collect an alleged unpaid bill to a dog kennel of £3,000.During the encounter, <mask>'s wife used expletives while throwing water on the enforcement agents. In 2020, <mask> confirmed that he had been fitted with a pacemaker. Career statistics

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References

External links
 Liverpool FC profile
 LFCHistory.net profile

England profile

1968 births
Living people
Footballers from Wandsworth
English footballers
Association football central defenders
England under-21 international footballers
England B international footballers
England international footballers
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Crystal Palace F.C. players
Millwall F.C. players
Liverpool F.C. players
Queens Park Rangers F.C. players
Southampton F.C.players
Swindon Town F.C. players
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players
West Ham United F.C. players
English Football League players
Wellingborough Whitworth F.C. players
Swindon Town F.C. non-playing staff
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British TV series) participants

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<mask> (4 October 1906, Antwerp, Belgium – 12 June 1977, Thonon, France) was a Belgian-born South African artist and art teacher who achieved national and international recognition in his lifetime. Life

<mask> was born 1906, in Antwerp, Belgium, the seventh of eleven children, of whom only eight survived infancy. The family was French-speaking despite its Flemish roots; his mother's maiden name was De Ridder. He studied art at the Brussels Academy in 1924 under James Ensor, but halted his studies in 1925 for lack of funding, first working in a stained glass studio, then designing wallpaper – both of which experiences are actively reflected in many of his works. He also worked as a freelance cartoonist, but painted all the while. In 1933 he studied briefly under Henri Matisse in France (see Anecdotes), having met him by chance in an artist's supply shop in Cagnes, France. Thereafter he continued to paint and study full-time thanks to the sponsorship of his elder brother, Joseph Charles, and a group of friends.His break came in July 1939 when he won a scholarship in a competition organised by the Belgian Government, who commissioned him to undertake a painting expedition to the Belgian Congo. His travels and experiences there influenced him profoundly, and the visions and emotions of that period echoed through his work for the rest of his life. In 1940 his wife Lucette (née Josz, 1908–1997) and son Ludovic (1935 – ) fled German occupation of Belgium and joined him in the Congo. Lucette could not cope with tropical conditions and they moved to the relatively milder climate of the South African Cape rather than return to war-torn Europe. Early days in South Africa were difficult, and on occasion <mask>che traded paintings and drawings for food and other essentials. But he soon became a prominent member of the South African art community, exhibiting locally and later in Europe as well. As an active member of The New Group he contributed strongly to contemporary art in South Africa.He had a solid knowledge of both modern art trends and the history of European painting which he imparted in his role as teacher, a profession he regarded as equally important as creating. He taught at the Technical Art School from 1943 to 1945. In 1948 he founded the Continental School of Art in Cape Town, leaving in 1951 to become a lecturer at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. He was appointed Professor of Fine Art in 1962 (see Anecdotes) and his success as a teacher is attested to by the number of his former pupils who have become prominent artists themselves. <mask> retired from academia in 1971, but continued to paint prolifically, despite poor health, including several heart attacks. He travelled in Europe and eventually settled near Thonon, France, at his wife's behest. His health continued to deteriorate, and he could not travel to attend his own retrospective exhibition in Cape Town in 1974.He missed Africa terribly, painting African scenes while searching in vain for local inspiration. His new themes included hippies and musicians, but he destroyed much of this work. His European landscapes from this period are dark and depressed, in stark contrast to the vibrant African scenes that flowed nonetheless. His oils continued to sell well in South Africa, and his reputation grew. He succumbed to a heart attack in June 1977 following a fall, and poor medical care. 1971 Departed for Europe; settled in Thonon-les-Bains, France. 1972 Awarded the title Officer of Order of Leopold II by King Baudouin of Belgium.1974 Unable to attend Prestige Retrospective Exhibition of his work, South African National Art Gallery and Pretoria Art Museum
 1977 Deceased 12 June, Thonon, France. Art

<mask>'s work exhibits contrasting influences, both artistic and environmental. From delicate renditions of the diffused tones of Flanders, to powerful depictions of Africa's landscapes, people and light, <mask> conveys unmistakable moods and a realism that is both beautifully poetic and strikingly honest. "There must be blood in my painting... I must remain human at all costs," he wrote to his friend Baron Robert d'Huart in 1961. Education

 1924 Brussels Academy under James Ensor. 1933 Lessons with Henri Matisse, Paris, France.Awards

 1930 Silver medal, International Exhibition, Antwerp
 1951 Chevalier de Leopold II, King Baudouin of Belgium (Knighthood)
 1966 Medal of Honour, South African Academy for Science and Art
 1972 Officer of Order of Leopold II, King Baudouin of Belgium

Anecdotes

Relationship with Henri Matisse: <mask> <mask> met Henri Matisse when buying paint in an artists' supply shop in 1933 in Cagnes, in the south of France. <mask> had just purchased the last tube of Lemon Yellow when Matisse entered the store and asked the clerk for the same article. On recognising the famous man, <mask> offered him the tube of paint. Matisse declined, but touched by the gesture invited <mask> to visit his studio. They formed a strong friendship and Matisse coached the young artist while in Cagnes, and later again in Paris. Resemblance to Le Corbusier: On his visits to Paris before and after the war, <mask>che frequented many well-known contemporary artists and architects of the time. Due to some similarities in appearance, and especially the style of glasses both men wore, he was often mistaken for Le Corbusier, much to his delight and amusement.It is unknown whether the two ever met. As Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town <mask> shared the position of Dean of Art and Architecture on an annual rotating basis with William Leonard Thornton WHITE, referred to by colleagues and friends as Thornton-White, until Thornton-White's death in 1965. Direct descendant of Peter Paul Rubens: In the book on <mask> <mask> by Carl Büchner, published by Tafelberg in 1967, Büchner mentions <mask>'s direct descendance from the flemish grand master, a claim originating from and sustained by <mask> himself. While there is no reason to doubt <mask>'s good faith, the basis for the claim is unknown and direct descendance has not been researched or proven to date. Exhibitions

 1927 First one-man exhibition, Brussels. 1930 and 1935 La Jeune Peinture Belge, Brussels and Paris. 1937 Ghent Salon.1939 One-man art exhibitions, Elizabethville, Leopoldville. 1941 First South African one-man art exhibition, Cape Town. 1948 Overseas Exhibition of South African Art, Tate Gallery. 1948 to 1952 Exhibitions of International Art Club, South Africa. 1950 Venice Bienalle. 1952 Van Riebeeck Tercent Exhibition, Cape Town; Venice Bienalle. 1953 Rhodes Centenary Exhibition, Bulawayo.1954 Venice Bienalle. 1956 First Quad of South African Art. 1957 São Paulo Bienalle. 1960 Second Quad of South African Art. 1961 São Paulo Bienalle. 1963 São Paulo Bienalle. 1965 São Paulo Bienalle.1966 Republic Fest Exhibition, Pretoria. 1969 Group Exhibition, 'Le Petit Palais', Geneva. 1971 Republic Fest Exhibition. 1974/5 Prestige Retrospective Exhibition, South African National Art Gallery and Pretoria Art Museum. Public Collections
South African National Art Gallery; Johannesburg Art Gallery; Pretoria Art museum; Durban Art Gallery; William Humphreys Art Gallery; AC White Gallery, Bloemfontein; Hester Rupert Museum; Rembrandt Foundation; King George VI Gallery; University of Wits Art Gallery, UNISA. Bibliography
 van Essche, by Carl Buchner, 1967, Tafelberg, Cape Town, South Africa
 Art & Artists of South Africa by E. Berman, 1994, Southern Book Publishers

External links
 The New Group
 The Michaelis School of Fine Art
 Thornton-White

References

South African artists
1906 births
1977 deaths
White South African people
Belgian expatriates in South Africa
Belgian magazine founders

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<mask> (born 1952) is an American playwright, actor, theatrical director and author. She has written nine books on lesbian theater and sixty-five plays, musicals, and one-woman shows. A lesbian feminist, her work emphasizes non-traditional roles for women and lesbian characters. Early life
<mask> earned a masters in theater arts from Portland State University. <mask>'s best known work is The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, a one-woman play about the historical figure Joan of Arc. It has been translated into Portuguese, French, Italian, Bulgarian, and Mandarin and achieved first-class production in Brazil, starring Christiane Torloni. The script was published in The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays, an anthology of <mask>'s historical plays.The anthology was named the national winner of the 2008 Lambda Literary Award in Drama. Other notable work includes Ugly Ducklings, which was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the prestigious ATCA/ Steinberg New Play Award, an award with given annually for the best new play produced outside New York. It won a 2004 Lesbian Theatre Award from Curve magazine, and a $150,000 documentary on the play premiered in 2005 at the Frameline International Film Festival in San Francisco. In 2004, The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women was named national finalist for the Jane Chambers Award given by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist was presented at Actors Theatre of Louisville in the Juneteenth Festival of African American plays. It was a national winner of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, and is included in Random House's anthology Under 30: Plays for a New Generation. In addition to creative works, <mask> has published a manual on lesbian theater production, Take Stage!How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play, which was published by Scarecrow Press. <mask> also wrote Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors. The author of numerous feminist essays, <mask> was named contributing editor to the national feminist quarterly On The Issues and has published in the journals Trivia, Sinister Wisdom, Lesbian Ethics, and off our backs, as well as The Lesbian Review of Books, The Gay and Lesbian Review, and Lambda Book Report. Other publications include The Michigan Quarterly Review and Dramatists Guild Quarterly. <mask> served as a guest lecturer at Bates College from 1998 to 1999. The University of Oregon archive acquired her personal papers in 2004. In December 2014, <mask> was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award given by Venus Theatre, founded by Deborah Randall in Laurel, Maryland.During the ceremony also celebrating the theatre's 50th production, she revived the memories of actresses, playwrights and directors Eva Le Gallienne, Henrietta Vinton Davis and Minnie Maddern Fiske who faced tremendous opposition to their work from the cultural establishment of their time. The American activist and playwright John Stoltenberg, lifelong companion of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin, said about <mask>'s acceptance speech:Her acceptance speech, which she spoke off-the-cuff from notes, had a profound effect on the audience, because in it she described real and raw truths about what it means to work in theater as a woman.In 2018, <mask> was interviewed for an investigation about how invisible disabilities tend to be hidden by creative professionals in the American show business in order not to experience discrimination, having herself concealed for years her myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome, she suffered from since 1988. Works

Books
 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays (2008)
 Nine Short Plays (2008)
 Starting from Zero: One-Act Plays About Lesbians in Love
 The Spindle and Other Lesbian Fairy Tales (2010)
 Take Stage! Teacher (one-act play)
 The Pele Chant (one-act play)
 The Poorly-Written Play Festival (one-act play)
 Radicals (one-act play)
 The Rules of the Playground (one-act play)
 Sappho in Love (full-length play)
 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc (one-woman show)
 Souvenirs of Eden (one-act play)
 The Spindle (full-length play)
 Stigmata (full-length play)
 Thanatron (full-length play)
 Ugly Ducklings (full-length play)
 Valerie Solanas at Matteawan (one-act play)
 Women on the Land (musical)

Awards
 2014 Featured Playwright, 53rd World Theater Day sponsored by UNESCO, Rome, Italy. 2014 Hewnoaks Residency, Maine.

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Admiral <mask> (August 12, 1870 – February 4, 1946) was a United States Navy officer who served during the late 19th and early 20th century. His service included active duty in the Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War, American Intervention in China, World War I, as well as numerous smaller actions in South America. His service during World War I led to the further development of hydrophone technology to hunt submarines. Following World War I <mask> rose to the rank of  four-star admiral and served as Commander, Battle Force, U.S. Fleet (COMBATFOR) from 1931 to 1932 and as Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet (CINCUS) from 1932 to 1933. Service history

1891–1898
On June 6, 1891, <mask><mask> received his first assignment and was ordered to the protected cruiser . Though this assignment was still considered part of his training at the United States Naval Academy, from which he had only recently graduated, it proved to be his first experience with the functions of the Navy on the seas as well as on land. At the time Chicago was assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron under Admiral John G. Walker as the squadron's flagship.During his service on Chicago <mask> patrolled Atlantic waters from Maine to the West Indies, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. On 11 April <mask> was ordered off Chicago and ordered to return to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland for final examination. On July 1 <mask> was bestowed the rank of ensign, number 186 on the active list. <mask> was subsequently ordered to , part of the South Atlantic Squadron. New York was soon dispatched to patrol the South Atlantic and to protect American interests in Brazil following the 1893 Brazilian Naval Mutiny. During his time on New York <mask> lamented at the ports and nations visited. He described the ports as "desolate revolution-ridden places."During his time on New York <mask> visited Rio de Janeiro, Colón, various Caribbean islands, and Bluefields, Nicaragua. New York was dispatched to many of these locations to protect American interests during uprisings across South and Central America in 1893. From New York <mask> was briefly transferred to  before being assigned to his first division officer station aboard the gunboat . His service on Bennington marked his first of many tours in the Pacific. On March 1, 1895, <mask> was ordered to his first of many scientific posts of his career. Aboard , a Department of Fisheries vessel, <mask> conducted deep sea fishing and other oceanographic experiments in the Bering Sea and North Pacific. Albatross traveled extensively across the North Pacific, visiting most of the Aleutian Islands, Japan, Russia, and the Kingdom of Hawaii.After his scientific cruise with Albatross <mask> was assigned to the Naval Academy as a gunnery instructor. During this time <mask> found teaching agreeable, but the outbreak of the Spanish–American War would bring an end to his academic teaching for the time being. Spanish–American War

<mask> saw his first war sea patrol aboard the schooner  for collier duties under command of Commander George E. Ide. Justin performed collier and resupply duties around Chesapeake Bay before sailing for Cuba on June 2. However, before Justin was dispatched to the Caribbean <mask> was reassigned to the yacht  for port protection duties in New York Harbor under command of Lieutenant William Kilburn. Aileen was charged with maintaining the minefields protecting New York. <mask> recalled that while this was not particularly exciting, he found it strenuous.After a month of duty in New York Harbor <mask> was transferred to the Caribbean aboard . While Princeton did patrol off the coast of Mexico and Central America. The patrol lasted until the end of hostilities without firing a shot in anger or intercepting a single enemy vessel. With the Caribbean no longer experiencing active hostilities, Princeton was reassigned to the Asiatic Fleet and completed a redeployment through the Suez Canal, across the Indian Ocean to Manila. Once in Manila Princeton once again redeployed, this time to China to service a cruise for the American Minister in Peking, Edwin H. Conger, completing a tour of coastal China. Philippine–American War and Boxer Rebellion

At the start of the Philippine–American War <mask> was transferred to the captured Spanish gunboat Pampanga. Here <mask> experienced his first hostile action of his career.Pampanga acted in support of the United States Army providing resupply, naval fire support, and blockade duties in Lingayen Bay and Luzon. In one incident, Pampanga came under fire near San Jose de Buena Ventura receiving more than one hundred hits from small arms fire in a little under an hour. In March 1900 <mask> joined  in its relief of international forces during the Boxer Rebellion. After the end of the Boxer Rebellion, Oregon was put into reserve status. <mask> was transferred to  for the month of March before returning to Oregon to join the ship for her return voyage to the United States. 1901–1917

<mask> returned to teaching at the Naval Academy, becoming a mathematics instructor for both plebes and older students. After one year of teaching <mask> became an instructor on USS Chesapeake, a ship used for training midshipmen at the Naval Academy.In 1903 <mask> was assigned to the newly commissioned  as navigator before being replaced by a higher seniority lieutenant <mask> was quickly reassigned to the protected cruiser  again as a navigator. Des Moines sailed extensively in the North Atlantic, patrolling from the North Sea to the West Indies. At the behest of Admiral Bradford, <mask> was appointed as the navigator for Bradford's flagship, USS Minneapolis. <mask> completed Minneapolis final cruise before being decommissioned. Again <mask> found himself in a teaching position, this time at the New York Naval Yards School of Electrical Engineering. In 1908 <mask> requested a transfer to be put in charge of the Navy's Nautical School and commander of the schoolship . He was denied and returned to sea service aboard .Washington made several cruises along the Pacific coast of South America before returning for refitting at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Navy Yard in 1911. <mask> returned to shore duty, this time at the Secretary of the Navy's Office in Washington D.C. Again <mask> petitioned for a sea command, though this time he request was granted. In 1913 <mask> was granted his first sea command, the cruiser . After Galveston finished her outfitting in the Puget Sound Naval Yard she was ordered to join the Asiatic Fleet. <mask> transitioned well to his new role as captain of USS Galveston, receiving commendations from Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. Upon inspection by Admiral Winterhalter Gavelston and her crew were found to be excellent and fit for any duty with few exceptions. Gunnery on Galveston was particularly impressive under <mask>, winning the Naval Gunnery Trophy every year under <mask>'s command.This would prove to be <mask>'s final sea command until the end of World War I as he was transferred to the Bureau of Steam Engineering effective September 1915. World War I

With the American entrance into World War I in 1917 naval assets were deployed to European waters under Admiral Sims to counter German submarine raiders and surface threats. <mask> was sent along with several experimental listening devices, "K-tubes" and "c-tubes", designed to detect submarines. The United States Navy gave <mask> command over the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th submarine chaser squadrons and charged with training then deploying the squadrons against German submarine raiders. In order to conduct his tests the British Admiralty loaned <mask> three British trawlers as well as a P-boat, an auxiliary sub-hunter meant to externally resemble a submarine. Though <mask> only conducted his tests for ten days in the English Channel his results were resounding. Not only did he show that the American listening devices were superior to anything employed by European navies, but that submarines could be located and hunted by hydrophones.British Naval engineers had been working with this problem since the beginnings of the war, yet <mask> proved the concept practical and revolutionized anti-submarine warfare. <mask>'s success in the Atlantic motivated Admiral Sims to direct <mask> to establish an American naval base in the Mediterranean to operate submarine chaser squadrons. <mask> selected Govino Bay on Corfu for this task. A second base was constructed in Plymouth, and another in Queenstown. By the end of the war 142 American submarine chasers were operating out of these bases. <mask>'s work with submarine chasers and development of anti-submarine warfare instrumentation and tactics was instrumental not only in the defeat of German on the seas, but in the advancement of anti-submarine warfare while in its infancy. Later career

After the war <mask> was retained by Sims for his chief of staff until the withdrawal of the United States Navy in Europe in the Spring of 1919.For his help in defense of the United Kingdom, King George V made <mask> a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He also received Order of Leopold by the King Albert I of Belgium. The Navy Department decorated <mask> with Navy Distinguished Service Medal. Upon returning to the United States in March 1919, <mask> was ordered to Washington, D.C., where he was appointed Assistant Chief, Bureau of Navigation under Rear admiral Victor Blue. Due to the illness of admiral Blue, <mask> served as acting chief for five months before Rear admiral Thomas Washington arrived to take command. He then served at the Bureau of Navigation until June 1920, when he was given a command of newly commissioned dreadnought battleship USS Tennessee at Brooklyn Navy Yard. <mask> commanded the ship during the sea trials in Long Island Sound, which lasted from October 15 to 23, 1920.Tennessee under his command also won trophy for efficiency in naval gunnery. <mask> returned to the Bureau of Navigation in June 1922 and served again as Assistant Chief until July 1924, when he was ordered for instruction to the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated in June 1925 and was appointed Chief of Staff of the United States Fleet under Admiral Charles F<mask>. For his new billet, <mask> was promoted to the rank of Rear admiral on June 4, 1925. He was ordered to Washington, D.C. in February 1927 and appointed Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, the office where he served two times before. <mask> was now principally responsible for the personnel management of the United States Navy. He served in this capacity until May 1930, when was appointed Commander, Battleship, Battle Force.<mask> was promoted to the temporary rank of four-star Admiral on September 15, 1931 and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Battle Force stationed on Hawaii. After one year in this assignment, <mask> assumed command of United States Fleet, which combined the U.S. Pacific Fleet, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Battle Fleet and Scouting Fleet under one command. Admiral <mask> quickly responded when a major earthquake struck Long Beach, California and surrounding areas on Oct. 10, 1933. He provided assistance to the city from US Naval vessels stationed in Long Beach harbor. Tents, food, doctors and medical supplies were delivered to neighborhoods struck by the temblor. By the next morning 2,000 sailors of the Pacific Fleet patrolled the streets, providing security and offering aid to stricken civilians. Civilian-military relations greatly improved as a result of Adm. <mask>'s actions.In June 1933, <mask> assumed his final duty as Chairman, Navy General Board, an advisory body of the United States Navy. He retired from the Navy with his permanent rank of Rear admiral on September 1, 1934 after 43 years of active service. <mask> was seriously ill with the arthritis before the outbreak of the World War II and was not recalled for active duty. The University of Southern California in Los Angeles awarded made <mask> made an honorary Doctor of Science in June 1933. <mask> was also active in the American Legion. Admiral <mask> died on February 4, 1946, aged 75, in Long Beach, California and was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. He was posthumously promoted to the highest rank he held, Admiral.Decorations

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See also
United States Fleet

References

Further reading
 Florida State University's Digital Library maintains a large collection of <mask><mask>'s personal papers, including orders, commendations, and letters from his service in the United States Navy. 1870 births
1946 deaths
People from Batesville, Mississippi
United States Navy admirals
United States Naval Academy alumni
American military personnel of the Spanish–American War
American military personnel of the Boxer Rebellion
United States Navy personnel of World War I
Recipients of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery

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<mask> (née Drossin; born February 14, 1973) is an American long-distance runner. She was a holder of American records in the marathon (2006-2022) and numerous road distances. She won the bronze medal in the women's marathon at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. She is also an eight-time national champion in cross country. Early and personal life
Kastor is Jewish, and was born in Waltham, Massachusetts. She is an alumna of Agoura High School located in Agoura Hills, California. She ran collegiately for the University of Arkansas.She is married to <mask>. In August 2010, they announced that she was three months pregnant with their first child, Piper. As a result, she announced she would not compete in that year's New York City Marathon, held November 7. Her daughter was born in February 2011. Career highlights
In high school, Kastor won three California state cross country titles and two CIF California State Meet titles at 3200 meters while running for Agoura High School in Agoura Hills, California. She also competed in the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships all four years of her prep career, and competed in both the North American Youth Maccabi Games and the Pan-American Maccabiah while in high school. At the University of Arkansas she was a four-time SEC champion and an eight-time All-American.Post-collegiately, Kastor ran under coaches Joe Vigil and Terrence Mahon. Since 2015, she has been coached by her husband, <mask>, head of the Mammoth Track Club. Kastor has earned two silver medals (2002 Dublin, long race; 2003 Lausanne, long race) in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She holds U.S. records in the following events:

 Women's road 10 mile (set at the 2006 Berlin Half Marathon with a time of 51:31)
 Women's road 15K (set at the 2003 Gate River Run in Jacksonville with a time of 47:15)
 Women's road 8K (set at the 2005 The LaSalle Bank Shamrock Shuffle in Chicago with a time of 24:36)

Kastor formerly held the following records:
 Women's marathon (set when winning the 2006 Flora London Marathon with a time of 2:19:36)
 Women's half marathon (set at the 2006 Berlin Half Marathon with a time of 1:07:34)
 Women's 10,000 metres (set at Stanford in 2002 with a time of 30:50.32)
 Women's road 5K (set at the 2002 Carlsbad 5000 with a time of 14:54)

In recent years, Kastor has shifted her focus toward the marathon distance. After winning the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympic Marathon, she won the 2005 Chicago Marathon. In 2006, she won the London Marathon, setting an American record until Keira d'Amato broke record on 16 January 2022 (Houston Marathon) taking 24 second off (2:19:12). She placed sixth at the 2006 New York City Marathon and fifth at the 2007 Boston Marathon.Kastor is a featured subject in the 2007 marathon documentary Spirit of the Marathon, which follows her victory at the 2005 Chicago Marathon. 2008
In April 2008, Kastor won the U.S. women's Olympic marathon trials in Boston, Massachusetts. She finished with an unofficial time of 2:29:35, after overtaking competitor Magdalena Lewy Boulet in mile 23. Kastor ran most of the race from behind, while Lewy Boulet built a commanding lead very early on, running alone for most of the marathon. With some  to go, Kastor made a move to catch up to Lewy Boulet, stringing out the field. Lewy Boulet took second place in 2:30:19. In August 2008, Kastor pulled out of the women's marathon at the Beijing Olympics with a foot injury.At about the  mark, she dropped to one knee, holding her right foot. She attempted to rise, but dropped back down again and was forced to withdraw from the race. 2010

On March 21, 2010, Kastor competed in the first spring running of the New York City Half Marathon. After running the majority of the race in first, on her way to breaking the course record, she dropped to second place to finish behind Great Britain's Mara Yamauchi. It was announced in August 2010 that <mask> and her husband were expecting their first child, Piper Bloom, in March 2011. It was also announced that <mask> would be making her return to racing at the New York Mini 10K. 2012
In January 2012, <mask> ran 2:30:40 to place 6th at the Olympic Squad Houston Olympic Trials.2013

In January 2013, Kastor announced she would be running in the 2013 Los Angeles Marathon, to be held on March 17, 2013 where she finished third in 2:32:39. On August 10, 2013, Kastor placed 9th at the World Championship Marathon in Moscow with a time of 2:36. She stated that it may have been her last high-level marathon. 2014

In April 2014, the 41-year-old Kastor won the 2014 More|Fitness Half-Marathon in New York's Central Park in a U.S. masters record of 1:11:38. On September 21, 2014, she set the world record in the Women's Masters division for the half-marathon, at 1:09:39, while running in the Rock 'n' Roll Half-Marathon in Philadelphia. 2015

In October 2015, she broke the U.S. Women's Masters marathon record by almost a minute at the 2015 Chicago Marathon, running 2:27:47. Awards and rankings
Kastor was selected as the top women's marathoner in the world in 2006 by Track and Field News magazine.Among the honors Kastor has received from the USATF are:

2003 Jesse Owens Award as the top female track and field athlete in the US
USATF Runner of the Year in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2008
C.C. Jackson Award in 2002, 2003 and 2004
USATF Female Cross Country Athlete of the Year in 2001 and 2003, and as a team member in 2002 when the US team finished second at the World Cross Country Championships 8 kilometer run

She was inducted into the New York Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2001, and into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame on April 29, 2007. In 2003 she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Quotes

See also
List of select Jewish track and field athletes

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Living people
People from Mammoth Lakes, California
Sportspeople from Waltham, Massachusetts
Track and field athletes from California
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American female marathon runners
American female cross country runners
Olympic female marathon runners
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Chicago Marathon female winners
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<mask> (22 October 1902 – 28 September 1974), known simply as <mask> among his admirers, and dubbed "<mask>" by the press, was a British boxer who competed from 1920 to 1933. He held the British Empire middleweight title, the first non-white boxer to hold a major title during the British colour bar era, de facto reigning from 20 February 1926 to 12 July 1926. He also held the Northern Area championships at middleweight and light-heavyweight, respectively. A strategic and intelligent boxer, <mask> was considered to be one of the best middleweights of his era. He was known for his exceptional boxing skill, using an educated left-hand, as well a slippery defence that made him difficult to hit, while leaving his features largely unmarked throughout his thirteen-year career. Additionally, <mask> possessed a very long reach and rather good height. <mask> was regarded as one of the greatest middleweight boxers of his generation in the years between the world wars.As an amateur, <mask> learnt the fundamentals of boxing in the boxing booths of Bill Moore and Bert Hughes. After turning professional later in 1920, he defeated current and former champions, including former world welterweight champion Ted "Kid" Lewis in 1925. Due to then Home Secretary Winston Churchill's decision in 1911 to support a colour bar, he was banned from competing at both the Royal Albert Hall and National Sporting Club. Additionally, the British Boxing Board of Control would not sanction a championship bout with <mask> for the Lonsdale Belt, due to their Rule 24, which stated that title contestants "[...] must have two white parents", though despite this he defeated Harry Collins in Australia for the middleweight championship of the British Empire in 1926. <mask> became famous in Britain for his impressive victories, defeating European and British middleweight champion Roland Todd in 1927. In the same year, he also defeated future middleweight champion <mask>, and rounded up the decade thrashing European middleweight champion Leone Jaccovacci in 1928 and European light-heavyweight champion Michele Bonaglia in 1929. <mask> was a major boxing figure of the mid-20th century Britain, and though he never held any titles, he was important activist in the labour movement in Manchester in the 1940s and 1950s.Following the Second World War, <mask> joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and was a key member until his death. He was a co-founder of the New International Club in Manchester, which provided a vehicle for black political and social self-organisation in the city and campaigning against racism at home and abroad, including organising a concert and a rally featuring his hero Paul Robeson in support of the Trenton Six, which were both attended by 10,000 people. He was instrumental in influencing the dissolving the British colour bar in 1947, wherein Dick Turpin became Britain's first Black boxing champion in 1948; the decolonisation of Africa taking place in the 1950s to 1970s, with Ghana becoming the first sub-Saharan African country to gain its independence from European powers, led by Kwame Nkrumah, a delegate alongside <mask> at the 5th Pan-African Congress; and the implementation of the Race Relations Act 1965, making racial discrimination in public places unlawful. Early life
Leonard Benker <mask> was born on 22 October 1902 in Clayton, Manchester, England, in the suburbs of Cottonopolis; he was the first child of Margaret (née Maher) and William Benker <mask>. He was born to an English mother of Irish descent and a Sierra Leone Creole father, making him mixed-race;  and had two brothers, Albert and William, who were professional boxers, and one sister, Doris. His mother, Margaret, a pinafore machinist, was born in north Manchester; she was of Irish descent, with both her parents from Ireland. <mask>'s maternal grandfather, William, was from Roscrea, County Tipperary.<mask> described his mother as "Irish and proud of it", and spoke of her vicious treatment, such as her being facially disfigured after a brutal racist street attack in which she was targeted for being the wife of a black man. <mask>'s father, William, served with the British Army during the First World War, and worked for Elder Dempster Lines; he was a merchant seaman, boxer, and mechanical engineer from Sierra Leone, who had settled in Manchester after marrying Margaret. Though William was a middleweight, he claimed the heavyweight championship of the North of England in 1903, by beating Jack Lamb, who weighed 196 lbs, in two-rounds at Stalybridge, Manchester. His earliest home was at 12 Barnabus Street in Clayton, with his family lodging with Sal Connell, and his wife. He stated that the Connell's were like parents to his mother and surrogate grandparents to him. The family left Manchester for Leeds, where his father established a travelling boxing booth. He attended Jack Lane School and the Cockburn schools in Leeds.However, the outbreak of World War I soon brought the family back to Manchester, which would eventually lead to a young <mask> leaving school to begin to work as a foundryman at Crossley. <mask> grew up in a multi-cultural childhood with fellow immigrants of Jewish, Irish, Italian, and Yemeni background. Despite the ethnic and racial diversity that could be found in Manchester during the early 1900s, the family experienced much hostility and violence, with <mask> recalling being called ‘nigger lips’ and ‘Sambo’ at secondary school. Amateur career
In 1904, his father, William, took him his first boxing booth, albeit at the age of two, where he was announced by his father as "<mask> the Youngest Boxer in the World". In 1921, at the age of 19, <mask> was involved in a scuffle with co-worker at Crossley before being separated by their respective fathers. Recognising some talent, his father, William, decided to enter him in some bouts at a hall on the heavily working-class Ashton Old Road. <mask> and his brothers were taken to Alhambra Amateur Boxing Club in Openshaw, Manchester, which was run by former fighter Jack Smith,  who <mask> had impressed.<mask> was fascinated by the sparring at Alhambra, in which he remarked "They didn't cover their faces when an opponent hit them in the eye, they snorted and went in to retaliate." It was during this period he met Bill Moore, who got him into his boxing booth and made <mask> work, where he eventually fought Moore's toughest fighter: Sam Minto. <mask> later spoke of his victory over Minto whilst remarking, "That's the first stage in a boxer finding: his confidence. So I have a great debt owing to [Moore]." A few weeks after his third and forth amateur losses, he was persuaded by friends to enter a competition at a boxing booth at Gorton Fair, run by Bert Hughes. Hughes was impressed and offered <mask> a job which lasted six months, during which time <mask> greatly improved his boxing skills and stamina. <mask> had little knowledge of how to box, though he trained as best he could; with his mother, Margaret, provided an old clothes line which he skipped with, and fashioning him a pair of boxing shorts.Professional career

Early years
On 17 April 1920, <mask> made his professional boxing debut at age 17, under the tutelage of Fred Hall. He suffered his first loss to Young Marshall at the Alhambra Theatre in Openshaw, Manchester, and subsequently a fourth-round knockout by Marshall in his second fight at the Free Trade Hall, a result which lead to <mask>'s eventual move to the booths of Bert Hughes. His third fight took place at the Alhambra Theatre  on 1 January 1921. His opponent was fellow local teenager Jerry Hogan, whom <mask> knocked out in the third-round, to which <mask> remarked "[Hogan] shoved his chin on to my hand and down he went for the count. I really had no idea how I knocked him out!" Although <mask> had started his professional career in 1920, he had fought in boxing booths before turning professional. <mask> used the boxing booths for practice and in particular the booths of Bill Moore, with whom <mask> had nine fights for and won seven of them in Manchester, including that of hotly tipped Eddie Pearson on 31 January 1922, winning by a second-round stoppage.These early fights were not without trials, as <mask> had lost seven additional fights by way of points-decision, including his first fight abroad which was a points defeat by Frithjof Hansen in Copenhagen, Denmark. After the Hansen loss, <mask> returned to England and knocked Horace Jackson in the fourth-round at Drill Hall, Middlesbrough on 18 December, though he later suffered a close points-decision loss to Charlie Smith. From 9 February 1923, he remained undefeated with several encounters with Lonz Webster, Billy Pritchard, and Ned Dixon, until he suffered a loss to Kid Moose on 30 June. On 6 July 1923, at the Scottish Boxing Stadium, <mask> faced ex-Seaman, Jimmy Cox, in which from the first bell the pace was keen, with the decision eventually going to <mask>, who was the cleverer man, though lost another points-decision to Kid Moose shortly after. <mask> then had seven more fights in the space of three months, defeating Percy Calladine, Bobby Lees, the Irish welterweight champion Pat McAllister, Ernie McCabe, Johnny Bee, Lonz Webster, and Tom Plant all before rematching Johnny Bee. On 17 December 1923, with Albert Rogers barred by medical decree from meeting <mask>, Johnny Bee was called upon to oppose him at the Ring at catchweight, which resulted <mask> losing to Bee via points-decision. On 7 January 1924, after defeating Bill Bates, Albert Brown, and Harry Lem, he avenged one of his previous losses as he defeated Kid Moose, at the Olympia, Middlesbrough.Several days later, on 12 January, <mask> took on Herman van 't Hof, though suffering his first knockout loss in four years when van 't Hof floored twice with rights to the jaw in the eighth-round;  the bell saved <mask> as he went down for a third time, which resulted in one of his seconds pulling him out. On 14 January, <mask> returned to form in his points victory over former Midlands welterweight champion Jim Slater, and almost knocked him out later in the thirteenth-round. He then suffered three narrow decision losses: firstly to Billy Pritchard on 29 January, and again on 7 February, where he lost controversially on points to Canadian Kid Moose at the Liverpool Stadium at catchweight, despite nearly every punch he delivered finding Moose. His third loss of that time was a points loss to Billy Farmer, which reportedly lead to <mask> furiously entering Farmer's changing-room, after the bout, to say: "You beat me? Wat will my father say?". He then had six more fights in the space of one month, defeating Jimmy McDonald (1-3-0), Charlie Woodman (1-12-0), Lonz Webster (4-8-1), Joe Bloomfield (26-6-4), Bert Brown (0-1-1), and former BUI Irish welterweight champion Pat McAllister (68-57-32) by 30 March. On 24 April 1924, <mask> boxed fifteen rounds at Premierland against future Flanders middleweight champion Ernest Tyncke, and was awarded a points-decision by referee Charles Barnett.He returned to the ring, on 11 May, to face Ted Coveney at the National Sporting Club, Leeds, which resulted in <mask> securing another points-decision. On 12 June, <mask> deputised Billy Mattick at short notice to face former European welterweight champion Billy Mack (30-8-4) at Liverpool Stadium, where he suffered a decision loss when referee Tom Gamble awarded the fight to Mack. Mack was at a disadvantage in height and reach, and in the opening rounds he had to spring at his man to get home a head punch. <mask> boxed in a cool and clever style, using his straight left to the face in disconcerting fashion. About the middle round, <mask> was holding the lead, but thenceforward the honours went in Mack's favour. After his points loss to Mack, <mask> returned to defeat Jack Phoenix at Croke Park, Dublin on 21 June. On 26 June 1924, <mask> met Herman van 't Hof for the second time over fifteen rounds at 160 pounds at Premierland, Whitechapel, wherein he lost controversially via a points decision awarded by referee Moss Deyong.<mask> suffered as the result of a poor verdict, as he outpointed Hof for ten of the fifteen rounds. On 14 July, <mask> returned to the ring to face Johnny Brown of Hamilton (25-2-1) at catchweight at the Scottish Stadium, Govan. The contest was scheduled for fifteen rounds, and eventually they came together for a rally at close quarters, Brown forcing <mask> on to the ropes, and then finding the latter's chin uncovered he hooked him with a right, and <mask> dropped to the floor. <mask> seemed very distressed, and when the eight had been counted the bell went for the end of the round. <mask> was carried to his corner and before the interval had expired the towel came in from his corner, Brown thus winning via a referee-technical decision. <mask> returned on 7 August to secure a controversial draw against Frank Burns awarded by referee Moss Deyong, although he won every round by a large margin. In addition, too, he had Burns almost out in round-fifteen, although it must be said he once hit him low.Burns fought an uphill fight with atmost gameness but was never clever enough. On 19 August, he followed the draw with a questionable points-decision loss against European welterweight champion Piet Hobin in Rubenspaleis, Belgium, and a lost decision to Frank Fowler at the Festival Concert Rooms on 29 September. It was confirmed that <mask> would rematch Ted Coveney on 1 November, where <mask> was awarded the points-decision at the Holmeside Stadium. After the Coveney rematch, an accident sustained while driving prevented middleweight Fred Davies meeting Tommy Moran over fifteen-rounds on 11 November. However, <mask> deputised Moran and enjoyed all the advantages physically against Moran, and knocked him out in the fourth-round. A few days later, on 15 November, he secured a disqualifaction-victory against welterweight Pat Logue, as <mask> was hit low in the second-round, and this occurred once again in the third-round, which resulted in the referee disqualifying Logue. He then had three more fights in the space of December, defeating Pat McAllister, Johnny Bee, though only to be disqualified in the seventh-round for an accidental low blow against Billy Cook, despite knocking Cook down four times prior.After the disqualification loss, in January 1925, <mask> recovered with a fifth-round knockout of Ernie Millson, who was deputised over Marine Bill Trinder, and a points-decision over former Australian middleweight champion Charlie Ring in the following month. Rising up the ranks

<mask> vs Todd I
By 7 February, contracts had been signed for <mask> to meet former European middleweight champion Roland Todd (78-9-3) at King's Hall, Manchester for twenty-rounds. At the weigh-in, <mask>, 22 at the time of the fight, was inside the stipulated weight limit of 158 pounds; though Todd, 25, was slightly above 160 pounds. At that point in time, the crowd of 7,000 that attended was the largest crowd that had ever attended a boxing match in Manchester. Todd was beaten for the first time in England since his return from America, when <mask> gained the verdict on points, awarded by referee Joe Palmer on 23 February. Despite Todd being the current British and Commonwealth middleweight champion, the titles were not at stake for <mask> as the contest was at catchweight, and the National Sporting Club did not consider <mask> to be an Englishman. It was a battle of defences, in which the champion is a past master, but <mask> was very little behind his rival in this respect; in fact, Todd was sometime before he showed his old-time skill.<mask> used his feet well and jumped in to score points to the head and body. In the third-round, Todd cleverly avoided <mask> and sent a couple of stiff-rights to the chin. In round-ten, Todd seemed to have gained a lead, though <mask> stood up to his work and displayed capital defensive tactics and made things awkward for Todd, who was cautioned in round-eleven. <mask> used his left-hand cleverly and brought blood from Todd, whose lead was wiped off. <mask> had a narrow escape in the fifteenth-round, when Todd clipped him won the chin and send him reeling, to which Todd forced matters. The last two-rounds went to <mask>, who met and exchanged with Todd in the centre of the ring. The verdict of referee, Palmer, had caused considerable surprise as no one believed that reigning British and Commonwealth champion could possibly lose to <mask>,

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 with Todd being a pronounced favourite, and odds being freely offered against <mask>.Both fighters had alluded to a potential rematch in the future. <mask> returned on 30 March 1925, to secure a draw with Billy Farmer, before knocking out and avenging his loss to Billy Pritchard in the thirteenth-round to in the inaugural Northern Area middleweight title at the Hulme Town Hall. After winning the Northern title, he defeated Joe Bloomfield via points-decision, and then secured a draw with Fred Davies. He then had four more fights in the space of two months, defeating via second-round knockout, Albert Rogers (21-3-0), followed by Ernest Tyncke (33-14-5), and avenging his loss to the light-heavyweight champion of Holland, Herman van 't Hof (42-6-2). Of the van 't Hof fight, <mask> objected to the appointment of referee, Moss Deyong, due to Deyong's controversial judgement in his second encounter with van 't Hof, and the draw against Frank Burns, thus Ted Broadribb took charge. After outpointing van 't Hof, Billy Mack, who defeated <mask>, offered a rematch for £100 a-side. He then rematched and defeated Charlie Ring (24-8-3), whom had beaten many of Britain's finest light-heavyweights, via points-decision.<mask> vs Briscot
On 31 August 1925, <mask> easily outpointed Frank Briscot, the middleweight champion of Belgium, at The Ring. <mask> was described by The Leeds Intelligencer as "[showing] himself a master of boxing skill", and  as a "boxing wizard" by Shields Daily News. At the official weigh-in, a day before the fight, Briscot tipped the scales at 162 lbs, while <mask> weighed a couple of pounds heavier. Briscot made many determined attempts to force the fighting during the opening round. <mask> was wonderfully cool under the rushes of his rival, and left after left flashed out into Briscot's face. Just before the gong sounded, a right hook to the jaw followed immediately, but an upper cut from the same hand had the Belgian shaky on his legs. <mask> scored strongly with his left in the next meeting but he twice missed badly when trying for a knockout to the jaw with his right.Briscot attacked fiercely but with the exception of a few body blows he met with no success. In the third and fourth, <mask> made great play with his right and is rival had to take very severe punishment. Briscot once got him on the side of the head with a fierce right swing. For three rounds, the Belgian fought on doggedly under great difficulties, but although he was bleeding from the nose and lips, he was still strong and full of fight. He proved this in the eighth round, when he drove <mask> with some heavy swings twice or three of which reached the jaw. <mask> was hard pressed for a couple of rounds. Briscot was again severely punished during the eleventh, but remained on his feet to the end of the fight.He had been outclassed, but his courage granted him an ovation as he left the ring. <mask> vs Todd II
On 16 August 1925, The Sunday Mirror announced that <mask> would face Roland Todd at Belle Vue, Manchester at the end of September. Additionally, Hull Daily Mail announced the match as being agreed upon, with the contest will be deprived of championship status, albeit at the middleweight limit; the return match will be on 21 September, with Eugene Corri as referee. On 5 September 1925, The Liverpool Echo reported that <mask> would face former European middleweight champion, Roland Todd in Manchester on 25 September. On 25 September 1925, with a crowd of over 6,000, <mask> defeated Todd, the middleweight champion of Great Britain, on points at Belle Vue, Manchester. Todd, who was strongly fancied, was favoured six to four and had former middleweight champion Gus Platts in his corner. Both <mask> and Todd had successfully passed the scales at the weigh-in earlier that very day.In the initial round, Todd was first to score twice in succession with a flashing straight left. Afterwards, <mask> levelled matters by using both hands to the both. Round two distinctly favoured Todd, who clipped his opponent on the jaw with the right, and scored freely with the left, gaining a nice advantage. Both men exhibited great coolness, and a bout of in-fighting followed in the third, when Todd was twice shaken by a couple of right hooks to the face. Later, champion Todd retaliated with interest by bringing his left nicely into play, and scoring freely in a rally at close quarters. In this round, <mask>, whose work had been exceptionally clever, opened a cut over Todd's left eye with his hard straight hitting with the left glove. The fifth round was exceptionally interesting, Todd's left leads being cleverly stopped by <mask> who, in tern, scored with a stiff blow to the mouth.Subsequently, Todd again rallied strongly, and showing all his old-time cleverness in defence, took the round by a good margin. <mask>'s blows were powerfully delivered for the most part, but try as he would with his heavy right swings, he generally failed to connect owing to the clever defensive work of the champion. Up to round ten, Todd quite monopolised the scoring, with his experience staning him in good stead, and he was rarely at home when <mask> tried to launch an attack. At the end of the tenth, Todd held a nice lead on points, but at this stage the boxing took a wonderful turn. Todd was obviously tiring rapidly, and in the 11th round he was subjected to heavy punishment; <mask> making full use of his longer reach. Todd, however, was cheered for some good work at close range, but his injured eye by now had taken a rather serious turn. <mask> was always on top in the remaining rounds, Todd repeatedly hanging on.The referee, Eugene Corri, had no hesitation in declaring <mask> the winner. However, Corri's decision did not meet with the complete approval of spectators, which resulted in several free-fights taking place in the body of the hall. In the aftermath, Todd claimed that he did not legitimately lose his crown with the loss of the decision, though no British sportsman had supported Todd in this attitude. <mask> vs Rouquet, Kid Lewis
On 12 October 1925, <mask> was scheduled to face Georges Rouquet at The Ring, however, the bout was cancelled due to <mask> contracting the flu, with Charlie Ring taking <mask>'s place. On 8 November, Reynold's News wrote a piece stating the Rouquet's display against Ring was so impressive that may of the best judges felt that <mask>'s illness may have been a fortuitous circumstance. On 9 November 1925, <mask> beat Rouquet on points, after fifteen rounds, at the Blackfriars Ring. <mask> was by far the superior boxer, and possessed physical advantages in height and reach.Rouquet endeavoured to force the close work, but was steadied by a left to the jaw in the first round, with <mask> having the better exchanges. In the eighth round, Rouquet was very aggressive, and sent frequent deliveries to the mouth, causing <mask>'s lower lip to swell badly. Rouquet fought hard for a knock-out punch in the closing rounds, but <mask> was always ready to damage him severely wit a left upper cut. A year prior, on 23 February 1924, The Sportsman reported that <mask> and former middleweight world champion Ted "Kid" Lewis were originally scheduled to meet at the Belle Vue Gardens in Manchester on 3 March. On 7 October 1925, The Westminster Gazette announced that <mask> was matched with Kid Lewis for 26 November. The event was a fifteen-round contest at the 160 pound limit at King's Hall, Manchester. Boxers such as Tommy Burns, Roland Todd, and Jimmy Wilde would all be in attendance.The bout represented a contrast of styles, with the uncanny boxing skill of <mask> up against the experience and in-fighting of Kid Lewis. Opinions on the fight were mixed, although in general more pundits favoured <mask>, as some doubted Kid Lewis would break though <mask>'s "rare defence". The undercard contained Phil Scott and Charlie Ring's three-round exhibition, and Albert Marchant's encounter with featherweight champion Johnny Curley. Even at this stage of his career, <mask> still had his critics, with some doubting his capacity for withstanding heavy punishment, yet defeated Lewis with consummate ease at King's Hall, Manchester; making Lewis appear like a novice. Lewis had every opportunity, more so with referee W J Farrell allowing him to hold and wrestle, pull his man about, and hit with all the curious in-fighting punches he was accustomed to. <mask>'s long-left was applied so deftly that Lewis failed badly in his attempts at in-fighting, and after the first round, <mask> was never outpointed. Lewis opened with a left to the head, followed with two blows to the body, and a short clip to the chin, of which none appeared to carry much weight.<mask> did the better in what little long-range work there was. In the second-round, Lewis dashed in, only to be met with a two-handed attack to the body. Using the ring well, <mask> piled the left with wonderful accuracy, scoring to the head, and Lewis appeared quite powerless to defend himself. A right-hook from Lewis went astray, and <mask> took the opportunity to send his right to the jaw. Lewis missed when he jumped in with both hands at the start of the third-round. <mask> scared with a long-left, and also countered very effectively when Lewis shot his leading land to the chin. <mask> opened the fourth-round with two light-lefts to the head, and again clipped Lewis.Four times in quick succession <mask>'s left reached Lewis' face, but near the end Lewis stabbed with his left and just grazed <mask>'s chin with a right. Lewis tried hard in the sixth-round, but even in close-quarters he could only accomplish very little due to <mask>'s great defence. At the end of the sixth-round, after the bell had sounded and <mask> had turned to his corner, Lewis jumped after him and hit him, and act which caused some uproar. In the seventh, Lewis jumped in to score on the body with both hands, and <mask> soon retaliated with a straight-left and right-cross, and near the end shook Leiws with a left-hook to the jaw. In the eighth-round, Lewis did well in a spell of in-fighting, but often received <mask>'s left on his head. The fight ended in the ninth round, when Lewis complained of a damage hand and ultimately gave up the contest, with Lewis' corner throwing the towel in. The action from Lewis' seconds caused some surprised, although there was no doubt that Lewis was in a bad way, after the continuous prodding he received from <mask>'s left-hand throughout the fight.<mask> vs Hood I
On 18 November 1925, The Westminster Gazette revealed that welterweight Jack Hood had been selected by the National Sporting Club to fight Tommy Milligan for the welterweight title on 21 December, however, due to Miligan deciding to go to America, Hood was to meet <mask> at the Ring on 7 December instead. On 20 November, Birmingham Daily Gazette confirmed articles were in agreement for twenty 3-minute rounds at 154 lbs for £100 a-side and a purse of £400. On 4 December, prior to his encounter with Hood, it was revealed that <mask> would be travelling to Australia in the new year. At the official weigh-in, a day before the fight, <mask> tipped the scales at 159 lbs, while Hood weighed six pounds lighter at 152 lbs. From the inception of the match, <mask> had been prounced the favourite for money, with odds for him at 2 to 1. On 7 December, <mask> lost the fight via close points decision, awarded by referee Joe Palmer, in favour of Hood. Although <mask> did most of the forcing in the earlier rounds, Hood countered well with both hands.In the sixth round, Hood outfought <mask> and a hard right and left hook shook <mask>, and caused damage to his left eye, which had been cut in the previous round; Hood also did most of the attacking in the eighth round. <mask> displayed sound defence, and at the half-way stage there was little to choose between the men. The twelfth was a spirited affair, with Hood getting the better of the exchanges. There was little to choose between the men in the next three rounds, but in the sixteenth, Hood put in some fine two-handed boxing, and continuing to have the best of the latter rounds. Journey to Australia

The Collins fight
The Collins fight is considered to be a turning point in boxing history as it was the first time the British Empire championship was held by a black boxer during the period of Britain's boxing colour bar, which lasted from 1911 until 1948. On 26 September 1911, the colour bar came to provenance when the National Sporting Club imposed a "colour bar" in British boxing after, then Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, who initially remained unmoved, bowed to pressure when Randall Davidson, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Baden-Powell urged him to reconsider, and therefore declared the heavyweight encounter between <mask> and Bombardier Billy Wells an illegal one at that. On 18 January 1926, it was revealed that <mask> had arrived in Australia, under the engagement of Jack Munro, and was scheduled for five fights in Australia.He acknowledged that "[...] a coloured man can't hold the Lonsdale belt", though remarked that he was unsure of whom he had to meet, though expected to be first billed to box Harry Collins. On 4 February 1926, Birmingham Daily Gazette reported that a match was arranged to take place on 13 February at the Sydney Stadium between <mask> and Australian champion Harry Collins, in which is described as the middleweight championship of the British Empire. Birmingham Daily Gazette also revealed that <mask> has stated "down under" that he is the holder of the English title, though the British Boxing Board of Control rendered it vacant by taking it away from Roland Todd, whilst expanding "Owning to his colour, <mask> cannot fight for the English title, and his contest with Collins cannot be for the championship of the British Empire." Additionally, on 4 February, The Daily Mail also pointed out that as <mask> is ineligible for an English boxing title, the contest cannot be sanctioned for the championship of the British Empire. On 9 February, the National Sporting Club were described as being aghast at the suggestion and pointed out that although <mask> had beaten the current middleweight Lonsdale belt-holder, he cannot become English champion on account of his colour, as only full-blooded whites can hold the boxing titles in conservative England. If Collins were to have won the encounter with <mask>, he would have qualified for a meeting with the winner of the Tommy Milligan and Mickey Walker contest for the world welterweight title. On 20 February 1926, in a twenty-round contest, <mask> brilliantly defeated Harry Collins on points to win the vacant British Empire title.The fight was witnessed by 12,000 spectators at the Sydney Stadium, however, Birmingham Daily Gazette stated that, as <mask> was not the champion of England, the bout was incorrectly described as being for the British Empire championship. At the official weigh-in, <mask> tipped the scales at 157 lbs, while Collins weighed seven pounds lighter at 150 lbs. The gate money totalled £2,472, with each man receiving £617. <mask> scored with his left with monotonous regularity, and although he had not been credited with having power behind his punches, he connected with several telling rights. Collins paid most attention to <mask>'s body, but he seldom was allowed to get close enough to do any damage. In the twentieth round, <mask> sent in several powerful blows in quick succession, and had Collins in such a way that it appeared as if he could deliver a knockout blow at any moment. Collins, however, clinched on a couple of occasions, and he was in a bad way when the gong sounded, and <mask> was given the verdict by referee Joe Wallis.Colour bar removed
The colour bar remained in force even under <mask>'s win, which was deemed illegitimate by the National Sporting Club and other authorities in Britain. On 24 February 1926, Hugh D. McIntosh composed in an article for The Referee, wherein he spoke of his disdain for the British attitude in barring <mask>, to which he exclaimed "And because of that, I intend to hold championship contests for championships within the British Empire, for which I shall present special belts emblematic of the rulership of the various divisions of pugilism." He spoke of no colour or creed being barred, and maintained that such an action was prompted by what he classed as "unfair discrimination" against <mask>, who defeated Collins. He concluded by stating <mask> shall not be ruled out

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 of his rights as a middleweight champion, thus he was going to donate some special belts for various contests; the first of these contests being <mask> v Collins. On 24 March 1926, in protest against the National Sporting Club and other authorities in Britain, McIntosh confirmed to have had belts manufactured for the British Empire Championship battles decided in any state of the Commonwealth. After his defeat of Collins, <mask> met Tiger Jack Payne for twenty-rounds at the Sydney Stadium on 6 March, which resulted in <mask> winning via a points decision. According to The Sunday Timess editor, Solar Plexus, "Though Payne fought gamely and well from the go to stop, his well meat punches were, generally speaking, made to miss whilst <mask>'s blows were crisp and clean.The decision favouring <mask>, though undoubtedly correct, did not meet with general approval." On 12 March, it was announced that Sunny Jim Williams would be <mask>'s next opponent, while Tommy Uren spoke of wishing to fight <mask>. On 16 March, in an interview with Sydney Sportsman, Williams spoke of having his heart set on beating <mask>, to which he stated "I think I can beat <mask>. I have trained for this fight as I have not trained before, and if I am beaten, the boxing public will know what I did my level best." In front of a 4,000 crowd at the Sydney Stadium, in what was referred to as the "surprise of the year", Williams defeated <mask> via a close twenty-round decision. Williams landed good blows now and again, and rapid changes from orthodox to the southpaw stance worried <mask> a good deal. A sensation was caused in the eleventh-round, when <mask> went to the canvas as a result of a heavy right swing to the jaw.Williams was encouraged, and made the pace strong, in which used both hands freely, and had <mask> on the defensive. Of his defeat to Williams, <mask> claimed he tackled the clever American too soon, after his strenuous twenty-round battles against Collins and Payne; <mask> acknowledged that he was keen on avenging the defeat. On 27 March 1926, former Australia middleweight champion, Alf Stewart outpointed Ted Monson at West Melbourne Stadium in an eliminator to secure the position to face <mask> in his first British Empire title defence. After a satisfactory performance, <mask> successfully defended his British Empire middleweight title with a nineteenth-round knockout win. Stewart was severely handicapped by a nasty cut over the left eye, sustained in the seventh round. Up to the fourteenth round, Stewart seemed to have a chance, but in that session he went to pieces as a result of a right to the body, which was followed up by a perfect fusillade of rights to the jaw. Just as the bell went, <mask> shot out another punch to the jaw which nearly put Stewart out.Thirteen seconds before the end of the nineteenth round, <mask> dropped Stewart for the full count at the stadium. It was announced in April that <mask> would be making a second defence of his British Empire title at the Sydney Stadium against Tommy Uren, on 8 May. At the official weigh-in, <mask> tipped the scales at 156.8 lbs, while Uren weighed seven pounds lighter at 154 lbs. There was a crowd of 10,000, and the takings for the fight were £9,587. <mask> throughout the bout bout displayed superlative skill, and Uren, whose in-fighting ability was well known, was not allowed much opportunity to get into close-quarters. <mask> gave him no peace, and shot a few rights to the ribs, and it was not until the eleventh-round that he landed one at Uren's solar plexus, causing him to drop to the floor in intense pain. <mask> vs Payne II, Williams II, McGale
The following week, on 15 May, <mask> would later return to rematch Tiger Jack Payne, of whom he would he granted a twenty-round decision against at the Sydney Stadium.On 29 May, <mask> sought to avenge his loss by rematching Sunny Jim Williams at Brisbane Stadium, though lost via a very controversial points decision. Both <mask> and Williams equally weighed in at 159.6 lbs. The verdict of referee, Major Fred Craig, was met with a mixed reception, with many boxing enthusiasts believing <mask> was entitled to the decision, in which The Brisbane Courier wrote "<mask> and his father were astonished at the decision of [Craig], and there were many who thought <mask> won." Although disappointed with Major Craig's verdict, <mask> decided to remain in Brisbane for the purpose to accepting Frisco McGale's challenge. On 5 June, <mask> outpointed McGale in a match of twenty-rounds, wherein <mask> boxed with great skill and outpointed McGale in virtually every round. Return from Australia

Maintaining the colour bar
On 12 July 1926, <mask>'s recognition as middleweight champion of the British Empire was dropped when Tommy Milligan's victory over George West was officially advertised by promoters in Britain as being for the vacant British Empire title, on the basis that <mask> did not have two white parents. Thereon, after the events at Holland Park Rink, Milligan was referred to as the middleweight champion of the British Empire.By August 1926, <mask> had returned to England, after completing his successful tour of Australia. He fought and outpointed George West on 10 September, however, as the decision was not universally approved, the pair were brought back in November, to a crowd of 6,000 in Manchester, to which <mask> won by a wider margin. On 15 November 1926, <mask> returned to London to defeat former French welterweight champion, Maurice Prunier, at The Ring via points decision. The bout was for fifteen-rounds, and <mask> was able to keep Prunier away with his long straight left, whilst he sent in the right from time to time, and generally had the best of it. Prunier was always trying to make a fight of it, and in the twelfth round his stock went up considerably. In this he was very aggressive, and laid <mask>'s eye open with a left-hook which had a lot of power in it. <mask> was smart enough to keep him at a distance for the balance of the bout, and easily won on points by referee Jim Kenrick's verdict.The following month, on 6 December, <mask> was disqualified in the fifth round for hitting Jack Etienne low with the left hand, though he was cautioned in a previous round for a similar offence by referee Jim Kenrick. <mask> v Harvey I
After the Etienne disqualification, <mask> set his sights on <mask>, and in front of a crowd of 4,000 at The Ring, <mask> went the full twenty-rounds and defeated Harvey via a points decision. At the weigh in, <mask> weighed in at 160 pounds (72.6 kg), while Harvey came in lighter at 156.5 pounds (71 kg). Both boxers had their respective fathers as seconds. <mask>'s victory was beyond dispute, for he was much superior than Harvey, who hardly won a solitary round, and was nearly always out-scored. Harvey had a shade the better of the early rounds, more so the first and sixth, though <mask> appeared to be hitting the harder of the two, which was rather surprising as <mask> had failed to show that he had possessed a really good punch in the majority of his previous contests. From the seventh, <mask> began to wear Harvey down with good two-handed punches both to the body and the face.Harvey was never idle, and continually got home home straight and accurate lefts, but his right was not so much evident as usual. The punishment Harvey took sapped his strength and his face bore evidence of the hard punching <mask>. <mask> was practically unmarked at the close of the contest when referee Sam Russell announced the victor. He was the clear winner on points, and exposed Harvey's offensive and defensive weaknesses. After the fight, many felt <mask> had substantiated his claim to a meeting with Tommy Milligan. During the post-fight interviews, promoter A.W. Shuker confirmed that <mask> would face George West in Cardiff on 31 January.<mask> would later defeat West for the third time via fifteen-round point decision, before knocking out Horace Jackson in the fourth-round at Drill Hall, Middlesbrough on 17 May. After his victory over Jackson, <mask> travelled to Milan, Italy to face Leone Jacovacci at Velodromo Sempione, however, he lost a twelve-round points decision. Jacovacci had won with ease, flooring <mask> three times before winning on points. After the fight, <mask> revealed that the match was taken at short notice, and that he never allowed himself to settle down after his long journey to Italy. In May 1927, it was announced that <mask> and Ted Moore had signed articles to fight a fifteen-round middleweight contest at Olympia London, on 9 June, for a purse and side stakes amounting to £1,500. The top of the bill was shared with Pancho Dencio and Francois Moracchini. <mask> defeated Ted Moore via a points decision, on 9 June.Moore tried hard to win by knockout early on and ultimiately failed. In the second-round, Moore's left ear was badly damaged and the doctor advised that the fight he stopped, although referee Norman Clarke disregarded his advice. <mask> returned to the ring on 25 July at The Ring in London against ex-amateur champion Jack Elliott. At the weigh-in, Elliot's weight was 162 lbs, whereas one and one-quarter lbs less. The whole fight consisted of rushes by Elliot, with <mask> countering with fine skill. Twice in round-eight, Elliot had to be warned for head-butting. Elliot made a big effort in the twelfth round, only to fare badly.Elliot did his best, but did not win a single round. The punishment from Joshua would have put most men down, and due to winning: <mask> was expected to be matched with British, Commonwealth and European middleweight champion Tommy Milligan. Following his defeat of Elliot, <mask> had been touring music-halls and giving boxing exhibitions. On 19 December, <mask> avenged his loss, a loss via disqualification, by defeating Jack Etienne by way of a fifteen-round points decision at The Ring. <mask> returned to the ring on 1 January 1928, to defeat Piet Brand, the middleweight champion of Holland, in a fifteen-round contest at the Ring, wherein Brand retired in the tenth-round. Move to light-heavyweight

<mask> v Daniels
On 23 January 1928, fought former British light-heavyweight champion Gipsy Daniels at The Ring, the latter of which had recently lost to Max Schmeling in Germany. The fight would be <mask>'s at the light-heavyweight limit.At the weigh-in, <mask> weighed it at only 156 lbs for his match with Daniels, who was three-quarters of a pound inside the stipulated 179 lbs limit. Daniels' title was not at stake, as the weight stipulated was 1 lbs above the light-heavyweight limit. The big difference in weight notwithstanding, <mask> gave Daniels a lesson in boxing and ringcraft, and did everything to him except knock him out. He may have knocked Daniels out if he had let himself out to the full at any time during the last five rounds. As it was, <mask> defeated Daniels by a convincing margin of points. It was soon seen that Daniels was bent on mischief, but all he did was to make people laugh when he missed by "miles" with huge left and ring swings. After this, <mask>'s punching powder improved wonderfully, and he punished Daniels with terrific right upper-cuts and swing punches to the bdy and short arm blows to Daniels' jaw.At the result of the fight, there was joy in <mask>'s camp, as the victory of son's was of great importance in England and therefore meant that he would be in greater demand and may eventually go to America. Following <mask>'s win, he challenged British light-heavyweight champion Frank Moody, and a £1,000 purse had been offered. <mask> v Hood II
On 10 February, Leeds Mercury revealed that olympic welterweight champion Jean Delarge was to have met <mask>, though due to being cut out of affair on 8 February, was substituted by Hood because "a certain highly place personage" had expressed a wish to see both Hood and <mask> together. On 28 February, it was announced that <mask> would face Hood on 13 February at catchweight, in a rematch of their 1925 bout which resulted in a loss for <mask>. <mask> lost the fight via fifteen-round points decision. Vast crowds awaited the arrival of the Prince of Wales, as it was his first visit to the Blackfriars Ring, who specially attended to see <mask> fight. Twice the crowds broke through the police cordon, but opened a way for the Prince when he stepped out from his car.The hall was packed, and the audience sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, with the crowd outside joining in. After this the Prince chatted with Jimmy Wilde during the preliminary bouts. On taking the ring, it was seen that <mask> was the heavier of the men, though there was little in it regarding their respective heights. Hood was the first to enter the right, and it was noticed that he had a swelling on the left-side of his forehead. It was noticed that Hood fully clothed, and <mask> stripped, were both inside the 175 pound limit, with the actual weights not being taken. After two rounds of sparring, in which neither landed a telling blow, Hood got in several lefts to <mask>'s face. In the second, <mask> was warned for a low hit.The third-round was fought cleverly, both relying chiefly on the left hand, while in the next Hood scored the majority of the points, though <mask> levelled up in the fifth-round with a hard left to the jaw doing Hood no good. <mask> led off in the sixth-round with left and rights to the head, and later received a hard left to the jaw. Both missed well-intentioned aims in the next round, and then Hood landed a heavy left to the mouth. In the eighth round, Hood brought his right-hand into the picture, and smashed it into <mask>'s face, and followed up with a fine left. <mask>'s swinging punches brought him success, but he had difficulty in evading Hood's lead. Near the end of the ninth round, Hood received a hard right to the jaw from <mask>. <mask> became erratic in the eleventh-round, but he was able to score with his left.<mask> forced the pace in the thirteenth and fourteenth rounds. Late in the fourteenth, Hood connected with a left to the jaw. <mask> fought to the last gong, but Hood was always ready with his left hand, and in the fifteenth round he surprised <mask> with a right which shook <mask>. The referee, Sam Russell, awarded Hood with the victory on points. The fight was regarded as one of the best exhibitions of scientific boxing seen in Britain for years. Overall the fight between Hood and <mask> was one in which Hood boxed the battle of his career; his left-hand leads delighted the crowd. <mask>, who was two stones heavier, also gave a characteristic display of defensive work, whilst it being one of his more aggressive performances.Comeback
Prior to the Hood rematch, <mask> had signed to meet Frank Fowler at Leeds on 1 March, over fifteen-rounds. The contest was part of a large tournament at Leeds Town Hall, on behalf of the local Jewish hospital. <mask> avenged his loss and defeated Fowler at Leeds Town Hall, with the referee stopping the fight in the ninth round. Fowler was being badly punished in the ninth-round, but held on very gamely, although his right eye was cut. Fowler was bleeding and obviously puzzled by the defence and speed of his opponent. <mask> played for the head wit half-arm jabs and was practically unmarked when the contest was stopped. He then had two more fights in the space of the given month, defeating George Hetherington by stoppage and Ted Moore on points; which was followed by a fifth-round stoppage of George Schladenhaufen on 23 October.<mask> v Jacovacci II, Ara, Williams III
On 1 November 1928, it was confirmed that European middleweight champion Leone Jacovacci would face <mask>, and that the contest would take place in Manchester on 20 November. Jacovacci was the most feared middleweight in Europe at the time and the contest was claimed to be for the middleweight championship of Europe, which was held by Alexander Ireland, however, the International Boxing Union thought otherwise. The confidence of Georges Carpentier was that Jacovacci was capable of winning decisively under six-rounds. <mask> went the full fifteen-rounds, in front of 7,000 spectators in Manchester, and defeated Jacovacci via a points decision awarded by referee Joe Bowker. The crowd was the largest Manchester had ever seen at a tournament. In the early rounds of the contest, Jacovacci boxed at a hurricane rate, showering blows from all angles. He forced the battle, but <mask>'s calm skill made him miss many times.Jacovacci took a tremendous lot out of himself,

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