# Tom Gummer
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{{Infobox boxer
| name = Tom Gummer
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| realname = Thomas Gummer
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| weight = [Heavyweight](/source/Heavyweight), [middleweight](/source/middleweight)
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| nationality = [British](/source/United_Kingdom)
| birth_date = 1894
| birth_place = [Rotherham](/source/Rotherham), England
| death_date = 1982 (aged 87−88)
| death_place = [Rotherham](/source/Rotherham), England
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| total =24
| wins =16
| KO =13
| losses =7
| draws =1
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'''Thomas Gummer''' (1894–1982) was a British [middleweight](/source/middleweight) and [heavyweight](/source/heavyweight) boxer who won the British middleweight title in 1920 and went on to fight for the European title.
==Career==
Born in [Rotherham](/source/Rotherham) in 1894,["[http://records.ancestry.com/thomas_gummer_records.ashx?pid=7126377 Thomas Gummer (1894 - 1982)]", ancestry.com. Retrieved 29 November 2014] Tom Gummer served as a Private (and later Corporal and Sergeant) in the [York and Lancaster Regiment](/source/York_and_Lancaster_Regiment) of the [British Army](/source/British_Army),[{{cite news |title=Tom Gummer's Decisive Win |work=Sheffield Evening Telegraph |date=4 April 1916 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000276/19160404/078/0005| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}] and had his first professional fight in 1914. He won all of his fights (at least eleven) that year, and his first two of 1915, including a victory over former British [heavyweight](/source/heavyweight) champion ["Iron" Hague](/source/William_Hague_(boxer)) by knockout with three seconds of the final round remaining.[{{cite news |title=Sensational Victory: Gummer Knocks Out Hague in the Last Round |work=Evening Despatch |date=5 July 1915 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000671/19150705/115/0006| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}][{{cite news |title="Iron" Hague v. Tom Gummer |work=Hull Daily Mail |date=5 July 1915 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19150705/028/0003| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}] A planned fight in July 1914 against David Cohen (aka Dick Simmonds) resulted in a court case after Cohen took payment for the fight but then disappeared after seeing Gummer and becoming "nervous and frightened".[{{cite news |title=Nervous Boxer: Sheffield Contest That Did Not Come Off |work=Sheffield Evening Telegraph |date=17 July 1914 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000276/19140717/163/0006| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}] Gummer suffered his first defeat to [Gus Platts](/source/Gus_Platts) in August 1915, at which time Gummer was a heavyweight and Platts a [welterweight](/source/welterweight) and over 2 stones lighter, and his second to [Harry Curzon](/source/Harry_Curzon) in November.[{{cite news |title=Boxing at Sheffield: Platts Beats Gummer in a Remarkable Contest |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=30 August 1915 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000033/19150830/074/0003| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}]
In 1919 he faced both Platts and Curzon again, and won both fights.[{{cite news |title=Tom Gummer v Gus Platts |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=28 July 1919 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19190728/263/0016| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}]
He got his first British title shot in March 1920 against [Jim Sullivan](/source/Jim_Sullivan_(boxer)) after reigning champion [Pat O'Keeffe](/source/Pat_O'Keefe) retired from boxing; Gummer won after Sullivan retired in the 14th round.[{{cite news |title=Middle-weight Championship: Tom Gummer Beats Jim Sullivan in 14th Round |work=Lancashire Evening Post |date=30 March 1920 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000711/19200330/052/0003| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}] He followed this with a win over [Bandsman Jack Blake](/source/Bandsman_Jack_Blake) and a draw with Herbert Crossley before fighting [Ercole Balzac](/source/Ercole_Balzac) for the European middleweight title in Paris in December 1920; Gummer was knocked out in the ninth round.[{{cite news |title=Balzac Wins Middle-Weight Championship |work=Western Daily Press |date=18 December 1920 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000264/19201218/110/0008| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}]
He had a second shot at the European title in March 1921 against [Gus Platts](/source/Gus_Platts), a fight in which Gummer was also defending his British title; Gummer retired in the sixth round, losing his title.[{{cite news |title=The World of Sport |work=Gloucester Citizen |date=29 March 1921 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000325/19210329/049/0005| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}]
Gummer's final fight was against [Ted Kid Lewis](/source/Ted_Kid_Lewis) in February 1922 at The Dome in [Brighton](/source/Brighton); Intended as a fight for Lewis's British middleweight title, it was fought as a non-title catchweight bout after Gummer failed to make the weight; Lewis knocked Gummer out in the first round.[{{cite news |title=Gummer Knocked Out: Kid Lewis Wins in One Round |work=Dundee Courier |date=18 February 1922 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000164/19220218/121/0006| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}]
After retiring from boxing, Gummer played [football](/source/Association_football) for Rotherham Eastwood in the 1920s and worked as a boxing referee between the late 1920s and the 1940s.[{{cite news |title=Contests at Bridlington: Win for Young Squires by Narrow Margin |work=Hull Daily Mail |date=9 December 1929 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19291209/038/0005| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}][{{cite news |title=Sports Items |work=Derby Daily Telegraph |date=8 November 1922 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000327/19221108/013/0002| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}][{{cite news |title=Eliminator Referee: Appointment for Derby Contest: Mr. Tom Gummer of Rotherham |work=Derby Daily Telegraph |date=25 November 1938 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000521/19381125/072/0013| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}][{{cite news |title=Referees for Nottm. Boxing Bouts |work=Nottingham Evening Post |date=13 February 1943 |accessdate=29 November 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/19430213/040/0004| via = [British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive)|url-access=subscription }}]
Tom Gummer married Myra McMahon and they had four children together.