1914

May 29 Bainhall WPTS Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Jun 26 Sam French's pupil (Plymouth) LPTS Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Oct 16 Young Knowles (Plymouth) WPTS(4) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Nov 6 Teddy Murton (Plymouth) WPTS(4) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

1915

May 14 Evan Edwards WPTS(4) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

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Frankie Ash (Plymouth)

Active: 1914-1933

Weight classes fought in:

Recorded fights: 134 contests( won: 77 lost: 36 drew: 18 other: 3)

Source: Boxing 19/05/1915 pages 30 and 31

Fight Record

Source: Boxing 06/06/1914 page 150

Source: Boxing 04/07/1914 page 260

Source: Boxing 24/10/1914 page 572

Source: Boxing 14/11/1914 pages 46 and 47

Jun 11 Ned Sinclair W Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Oct 22 Tom Clifford W Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Nov 27 Hood WKO1 Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

1916

Feb 14 Tommy Davies (Treherbert) LPTS(6) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden

Mar 10 Tommy Davies (Treherbert) WPTS(10) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Mar 31 Billy Ralph (Poplar) WPTS(10) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Apr 28 Teddy Benton (Kingsland) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Jun 2 Tal Jones (Maesteg) DRAW(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Jun 30 Tal Jones (Maesteg) LPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Sep 8 Tommy Griffiths (Pontypridd) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Dec 1 George Hunt (Old Ford) WRTD14(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Dec 18 Young Chips (Tylorstown) WPTS(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden

1917

Jan 18 Young Myers (Bradford) WPTS(10) Pudsey Street Stadium, Liverpool

Jan 26 Dai Davies (Tylorstown) DRAW(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Mar 23 Tommy Griffiths (Pontypridd) LRTD8(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

May 21 Billy Matthews (St James) WPTS(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden

Jun 25 Young Chips (Tylorstown) WPTS(6) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden

Source: Boxing 16/06/1915 page 93

Attendance: 4000

Source: Boxing 27/10/1915 page 11

Source: Boxing 01/12/1915 page 72

Referee: J T Hulls

Source: Boxing 05/07/1916 page 170

Source: Boxing

Source: Boxing 06/12/1916 page 83

Source: Boxing 20/12/1916 pages 105 and 106

Source: Boxing 16/02/1916 pages 223 and 224

Source: Boxing 15/03/1916 page 294

Source: Boxing 05/04/1916 page 342

Source: Boxing 03/05/1916 page 30

Source: Boxing 07/06/1916 page 108

Matthews boxed for the European Featherweight Title twice in 1922.

Source: Boxing 27/06/1917 page 114

Source: Boxing

Source: Boxing

Source: Boxing 28/03/1917 page 287

Griffiths sub for Tommy Davies(Tylorstown)

Source: Boxing 23/05/1917 page 54

Jul 7 Billy Matthews (St James) WPTS(15) Harrow Football ground, Stratford

1918

Jan 18 Wally Trainer (Forest Gate) WRTD11(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Feb 8 Ned Dixon (Porth) DRAW(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Mar 15 Ned Copp (Treorchy) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Apr 5 Tom Price (Pentre) WRTD14(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Apr 29 Billy Matthews (St James) DRAW(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden

May 20 Billy Aston (New Tredegar) WRTD8(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Jul Tom Coates (Gilfach) WPTS(15) Queens Hall, Cardiff

Jul 6 Tom Coates (Gilfach) WPTS(15) Queens Hall, Cardiff

Jul 12 Andrew Newton (Marylebone) WRTD12(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Aug 30 Jack Kid Doyle (Salford) WPTS(15) Drill Hall, Plymouth

Oct 11 Harold Jones (Ferndale) DRAW(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Nov 25 Jack Kid Doyle (Salford) WPTS(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden

Source: Boxing 11/07/1917 page 141

Source: Boxing 23/01/1918 page 168

Source: Boxing

Price sub for Will Dixon(Porth)

Source: Boxing

Source: Boxing

Referee: Joe Palmer

Source: Boxing

Referee: JT Hulls

Source: Boxing

Referee: JT Hulls

Source: Boxing

Referee: JT Hulls

Referee: Joe Palmer

Source: Boxing

Jones boxed for the British Bantamweight Title 1920.

Source: Boxing

Ash 7st 7lbs Doyle 7st 13lbs

Referee: Mr Hulls Promoter: Harry Marks

Coates sub for Ned Dixon

Source: Sporting Life

Source: Boxing

Source: Boxing

1919

Jan 6 Dick Heasman (Southwark) WPTS(20) Pitfield Street Baths, Hoxton

Jan 31 Seaman Patten (RN) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Feb 27 Berny Nolan (Birkenhead) WPTS(15) Pudsey Street Stadium, Liverpool

Mar 14 Gus Legge (Abertillery) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Aug 22 Johnny Morgan (Caerphilly) WRTD10(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Sep 6 George Dando (Merthyr) WPTS(20) St James Hall, Newcastle

Sep 19 Arthur Bishop (Caerphilly) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Nov 10 Young Scanlon (USA) LPTS(6) Pitfield Street Baths, Hoxton

Nov 21 Dick Heasman (Southwark) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Dec 19 Lewis Williams (Penygraig) LRSF11(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

1920

Feb 6 Gus Legge (Abertillery) WPTS(20) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Mar 12 Jimmy Buck (Castleford) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Apr 26 George Langham (Clerkenwell) LPTS(15) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden

Apr 30 Jack Birch (Oldham) WRTD7(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Jun 4 Stanley Lewis (Pontypridd) WDSQ11(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Source: Boxing 05/03/1919 pages 108 and 109

Source: Boxing 19/03/1919 page 143

Referee: Joe Palmer

Source: Boxing 27/08/1919 pages 132 and 133

Source: Boxing 10/09/1919 page 180

Source: Boxing 08/01/1919 page 462

Heasman boxed for the British Flyweight Title 1918.

Match made at 7st 12lbs

Referee: W Coman

Source: Boxing 05/02/1919 pages 46 and 47

Source: Boxing 24/12/1919 page 516

Referee: Joe Palmer

Source: Boxing 11/02/1920 page 63

Source: Boxing 17/03/1920 page 142

Source: Boxing 28/04/1920 page 248

Source: Boxing 24/09/1919 pages 230 and 231

Referee: Joe Palmer

Source: Boxing 12/11/1919 page 369

Source: Boxing 26/11/1919 page 426

Referee: Joe Palmer

Referee: J H Douglas

Source: Boxing 05/05/1920 pages 270 and 271

Source: Boxing 09/06/1920 page 377

Referee: J T Hulls

Jul 9 Kid Morris (St George's) WRTD10(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Oct 22 Bugler Harry Lake (Plymouth) DRAW(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Nov 8 Tal Jones (Maesteg) WPTS(6) The Ring, Blackfriars

Nov 22 Wattie Williams (Dowlais) LPTS(6) The Ring, Blackfriars

Nov 26 Jack Kid Doyle (Salford) WRTD6(15) Free Trade Hall, Manchester

1921

Feb 1 George Mapplebeck (West Melton) WPTS(15) Free Trade Hall, Manchester

Feb 25 George Viriot (France) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Mar 11 Bugler Harry Lake (Plymouth) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Apr 22 Johnny Chislett (Treherbert) DRAW(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

May 27 Billy Morris (Birkenhead) WRTD9(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Jun 20 George Garrard (Acton) WPTS(15) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden

Aug 12 Arthur Bishop (Caerphilly) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Sep 16 Glyn Stephens (Blaenavon) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Oct 3 Jack Kid Doyle (Salford) WPTS(20) Windsor Hall, Bradford

Source: Boxing 27/10/1920 page 208

Lake was British and British Empire and European Bantamweight Champion 1923.

Source: Boxing 10/11/1920 page 232

(Flyweight Belt competition 1st series)

Referee: Moss Deyong

Source: Boxing 14/07/1920 pages 455 and 456

Referee: Joe Palmer (London)

Source: Boxing 11/02/1921 page 470

Source: Boxing 02/03/1921 page 46

Referee: JT Hulls

Source: Boxing 16/03/1921 page 79

Source: Boxing 24/11/1920 page 268

(Flyweight Belt competition 2nd series)

Referee: Moss Deyong

poor decision

Source: Manchester Sporting Chronicle

Source: Boxing 17/08/1921 page 16

Source: Boxing 21/09/1921 page 96

Source: Boxing 05/10/1921 page 121

Match made at 8st

Referee: Eugene Corri Promoter: Fred Blakeborough

(West of England Flyweight Title)

Source: Boxing 27/04/1921 page 174

Source: Boxing 01/06/1921 page 256

Source: Boxing 22/06/1921 page 296

Referee: CH Douglas

combined purse £150

Nov 7 George Garrard (Acton) WPTS(15) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden

Dec 9 Fred Vincent (Abertridwr) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

1922

Feb 24 Johnny Chislett (Treherbert) DRAW(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Mar 7 Johnny Chislett (Treherbert) WPTS(15) Lime Grove Baths, Shepherds Bush

Mar 21 George Garrard (Acton) WDSQ13(15) Lime Grove Baths, Shepherds Bush

Apr 7 Bugler Harry Lake (Plymouth) LPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Apr 13 Johnny Chislett (Treherbert) WPTS(15) Pudsey Street Stadium, Liverpool

Jun 9 Andre Gleizes (France) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Jul 21 Harry Pullen (Blackfriars) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Oct 7 Johnny Jones (Treorchy) WPTS(20) The Ring, Blackfriars

Nov 11 Johnny Jones (Treorchy) WRSF13(20) The Ring, Blackfriars

Nov 17 Milton Rees (Treorchy) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Dec 2 Teddy Murton (Plymouth) DRAW(20) The Ring, Blackfriars

Source: Boxing 15/03/1922 page 76

Source: Boxing 29/03/1922 pages 108 and 110

Referee: Joe Palmer

Source: Boxing 12/04/1922 page 144

Match made at 7st 11lbs Lake 8st 2lbs

Source: Boxing 09/11/1921 page 200

Match made at 8st Ash 7st 12lbs 8ozs Garrard 7st 13lbs 8ozs

Source: Boxing 14/12/1921 page 271

Source: Boxing 01/03/1922 page 48

Match made at 7st 12lbs Ash 7st 11lbs 8ozs Jones 7st 11lbs 12ozs

Source: Boxing 15/11/1922 pages 218 and 219

Match made at 8st 1lb

Referee: Matt Wells

Source: Boxing 22/11/1922 page 236

Source: Boxing 19/04/1922 page 152

Source: Boxing

Source: Boxing 26/07/1922 page 383

Promoter: Harry Jenkins

Source: Boxing 11/10/1922 page 140

Source: Boxing 06/12/1922 page 266

Match made at 8st 2lbs

Referee: Matt Wells

1923

Feb 5 George Mapplebeck (West Melton) NC13(15) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden

Mar 23 Kid Kelly (Plymouth) WPTS(20) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Jun 15 Harry Corbett (Bethnal Green) WPTS(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth

Jul 28 Teddy Murton (Plymouth) DRAW(15) Home Park, Plymouth

Sep 20 Billy Hindley (Horwich) WPTS(15) Pudsey Street Stadium, Liverpool

Oct 22 Jim Hanna (Belfast) WPTS(10) Dublin

1924

Feb 12 Johnny Buff (USA) ND(10) Jersey City USA

Mar 28 Bushy Graham (USA) LPTS(6) Syracuse USA

Sep 23 Ty Coleman (USA) LPTS(10) Scranton USA

Oct 25 Panama Al Brown (Panama) LKO1 New York City USA

Dec 15 Harry Corbett (Bethnal Green) LRTD8(15) Pitfield Street Baths, Hoxton

Referee: C H Douglas

combined purse £150 £25 a side

Source: Boxing 28/03/1923 page 526

(West of England Flyweight Title)

Kelly boxed for the British Flyweight Title 1924.

Source: Boxing 07/02/1923 page 408

Match made at 8st Ash 7st 13lbs 8ozs Mapplebeck 7st 12lbs

Hindley boxed for the British Featherweight Title 1926.

Referee: Tom Gamble

Source: Fred Heatley (Boxing Historian)

Source: Sheffield Daily Telegraph

Source: Sheffield Daily Telegraph

Source: Boxing 20/06/1923 page 144

Corbett was British Featherweight Champion 1928-29.

Source: Boxing 01/08/1923 pages 239 and 240

Referee: Joe Palmer Promoter: Mr Chiswell(Devonport)

Source: Boxing 26/09/1923 page 108

Source: The Scotsman

Source: Western Mail

Source: Boxing 17/12/1924 page 297

Match made at 8st 8lbs

1925

Feb 2 Young Johnny Brown (St George's) LRTD9(20) Premierland, Whitechapel

Mar 10 Kid Francis (France) LPTS(10) Paris France

Jun 24 Alf Barber (Brighton) LPTS(15) The Dome, Brighton

Jul 30 Teddy Baldock (Poplar) LPTS(15) Premierland, Whitechapel

Sep 13 Mark Lesnick (Stepney) NC8(15) Premierland, Whitechapel

Oct 18 Mark Lesnick (Stepney) LDSQ13(15) Premierland, Whitechapel

Nov 5 Tiny Smith (Sheffield) DRAW(15) Premierland, Whitechapel

Nov 29 Tiny Smith (Sheffield) DRAW(20) Premierland, Whitechapel

1926

Jan 17 Mark Lesnick (Stepney) WPTS(15) Premierland, Whitechapel

Feb 11 Teddy Baldock (Poplar) LPTS(15) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington

Brown boxed for the British Bantamweight Title 1928.

Match made at 8st 4lbs Ash 8st 2lbs 4ozs Brown 8st 2lbs 8ozs

Referee: Sam Russell

£100 a side

Source: Record published in Boxing News in the 1960s

Source: Boxing 04/02/1925 page 408

Baldock was British Bantamweight Champion 1928 and 1929-31 and

British Empire Champion 1928-31.

Match made at 8st 2lbs

Referee: Sam Russell

£50 a side

Source: Boxing 01/07/1925 page 335

Barber boxed for the British Flyweight Title 1927.

Match made at 8st 2lbs

combined purse £150 £50 a side

Source: Boxing 05/08/1925 pages 410 and 411

Referee: Sam Russell

Source: Boxing 02/12/1925 page 269

Match made at 8st 9lbs

Referee: Sam Russell

£50 a side

Source: Boxing 16/09/1925 page 93

Source: Boxing 21/10/1925 page 172

Match made at 8st 1lb

£50 a side

Source: Boxing 11/11/1925 page 220

Source: Boxing 20/01/1926 page 380

Ash 5/2 travelled up from Plymouth on the midnight mail

Source: Boxing 17/02/1926 pages 24 and 26

Match made at 8st 2lbs Ash 7st 13lbs 8ozs Baldock 8st 0lbs 8ozs

Mar 17 Young Stanley (Battersea) LPTS(15) Premierland, Whitechapel

May 23 Phil Lolosky (Aldgate) LPTS(15) Premierland, Whitechapel

Aug 29 Kid Nicholson (Leeds) LPTS(15) Stadium, Leeds

Sep 24 Van Ackeren (Begium) WPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester

Nov 7 Alf Kid Pattenden (Bethnal Green) LPTS(15) Premierland, Whitechapel

1927

Apr 22 Billy Hines (Merthyr) WPTS(15) Plymouth

May 19 Dom Volante (Liverpool) WPTS(15) Pudsey Street Stadium, Liverpool

May 28 Young Freddie Welsh (Pontypridd) WPTS(15) Wyndham Hall, Plymouth

Jun 12 Young Stanley (Battersea) WDSQ12(15) The Ring, Blackfriars

Jun 20 Phil Lolosky (Aldgate) DRAW(15) The Ring, Blackfriars

Aug 18 Tiny Smith (Sheffield) WPTS(15) Skating Rink, Ilford

Sep 1 Len Fowler (Birmingham) WPTS(15) Skating Rink, Ilford

Sep 14 Emile Pladner (France) LPTS(10) Paris France

Oct 3 Henri Scillie (Belgium) DRAW(15) People's Palace, Poplar

Match made at 8st 6lbs

£25 a side

Source: Boxing 26/05/1926 pages 220 and 221

Match made at 8st

£100 a side

Source: Boxing 24/03/1926 page 107

Pattenden was British Bantamweight Champion 1928-29.

Source: Boxing 27/04/1927 page 164

Source: Boxing 24/05/1927 pages 230 and 231

Volante boxed a British Lightweight Title Eliminator 1932.

Match made at 8st 8lbs

Source: Boxing 01/09/1926 pages 29 and 30

Nicholson boxed for the British Bantamweight Title 1928.

Source: Boxing 29/09/1926 page 109

Promoter: Albert Bird

Source: Boxing 10/11/1926 page 228

Source: Boxing 23/08/1927 page 30

Source: Boxing 06/09/1927 page 70

Source: BoxRec

Source: Boxing 04/10/1927 page 147

Promoter: Sports Enterprises Ltd.

Referee: Tom Gamble

Source: Boxing 31/05/1927 page 260

Source: Boxing 14/06/1927 page 303

Source: Boxing 21/06/1927 page 328

Match made at 8st 4lbs

1928

Jan 4 Emile Pladner (France) LPTS(12) Paris France

Jan 17 Jack Ellis (Todmorden) WRTD8(15) Free Trade Hall, Manchester

Feb 14 Billy Housego (Paddington) WPTS(15) Free Trade Hall, Manchester

Apr 22 Joe Greenwood (Bolton) LRSF13(15) Premierland, Whitechapel

Apr 27 Bert Gallard (Mile End) WPTS(15) Wyndham Hall, Plymouth

Sep 10 Kid Nicholson (Leeds) LRSF5(15) Alcazar, Edmonton

Sep 29 Freddy Morgan (Gilfach Goch) WPTS(15) Shaftesbury Hall, Swansea

Oct 17 Billy James (Birmingham) LPTS(15) Kent Street Baths, Birmingham

Oct 31 Bert Kirby (Birmingham) DRAW(15) Kent Street Baths, Birmingham

1929

Jan 30 Rene Challenge (France) LPTS(10) Paris France

Oct 3 Bud Walley (Singapore) WPTS(15) The Ring, Blackfriars

1930

Mar 27 Kid Oliva (France) LPTS(10) Salle Wagram, Paris France

Jul 1 Arthur Boy Edge (Birmingham) LPTS(15) Rink Market, Smethwick

Referee: Sam Russell

Source: Boxing 02/05/1928 page 640

Source: Boxing 11/09/1928 page 136

Match made at 8st 8lbs

Source: Western Mail

Source: Boxing

Source: Boxing 24/01/1928 page 413

Source: Boxing 21/02/1928 page 475

Match made at 8st 8lbs

Source: Boxing 25/04/1928 page 618

Kirby was British Flyweight Champion 1930-31.

Source: Record published in Boxing News in the 1960s

Source: Boxing 09/10/1929 pages 226 and 225

Ash 8st 1lbs Walley 8st 0lbs

Source: Yorkshire Post

Morgan boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator 1931 and was Welsh

Area Flyweight Champion 1929-30 and 1931-32.

Source: Boxing 23/10/1928 page 230

James boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator 1929.

Source: Boxing 06/11/1928 page 267

Source: Boxing 09/07/1930 page 28

Edge boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator twice in 1931 and again

in 1932 and was Southern Area Flyweight Champion 1931-33 and Southern

Area Bantamweight Champion 1933.

Jul 7 George Aziz (Egypt) WPTS(15) Promenade Pier Pavilion, Plymouth

Oct 6 Bert Kirby (Birmingham) LPTS(15) Pier Pavilion, Plymouth

1931

Oct 15 George Marsden (Nottingham) DRAW(15) Town Hall, Oxford

Nov 9 Bud Walley (Singapore) DRAW(15) Baths, Greenwich

1932

Feb 21 Dave Crowley (Clerkenwell) LPTS(15) The Ring, Blackfriars

1933

Jan 14 Stan Davies (Maltby) LPTS Drill Hall, Falmouth

Jan 28 Ted Wydall (Penzance) LRTD14(15) Camborne

Feb 20 Roy Lock (Bristol) LRTD5(15) Barton Hall Baths, Bristol

Jun 6 Spin Anson (Camborne) DRAW(15) Skating Rink, Camborne

Source: Boxing 08/10/1930 page 230

Referee: Johnny Summers

Source: Oxford Mail

Marsden boxed a British Bantamweight Title Eliminator 1935.

Source: Boxing 11/11/1931 page 8

Source: Western Evening Herald and Western Evening News (Plymouth)

(West of England Bantamweight Title)

Wydall was West of England Bantamweight Champion 1933.

Source: Boxing 22/02/1933 page 9

(West of England Flyweight Title Eliminator)

Lock was West of England Flyweight Champion 1933.

Source: Boxing 24/02/1932 page 6

Crowley was British Lightweight Champion 1938.

Source: Boxing 18/01/1933 page 14

Promoter: Bob Lewis

Source: Boxing 01/02/1933 pages 14 and 15

Source: Cornish Echo and Falmouth and Penryn Times

Promoter: George Ford

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