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class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">John Blake</div><br />1890<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Great_Yarmouth" title="Great Yarmouth">Great Yarmouth</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="dday deathdate">1960-09-02</span>)</span>2 September 1960 (aged 70)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Great_Yarmouth" title="Great Yarmouth">Great Yarmouth</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">British</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Statistics</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Weight(s)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Middleweight" title="Middleweight">Middleweight</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Height</th><td class="infobox-data">177 cm (5 ft 10 in)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Boxing record</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Total fights</th><td class="infobox-data">18</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Wins</th><td class="infobox-data">9</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Wins by KO</th><td class="infobox-data">4</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Losses</th><td class="infobox-data">8</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">No contests</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Blake</b> (1890 – 2 September 1960), better known as <b>Bandsman Jack Blake</b>, was a British boxer who became British <a href="/wiki/Middleweight" title="Middleweight">middleweight</a> champion in 1916. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bandsman_Jack_Blake&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in Tower Street, <a href="/wiki/Great_Yarmouth" title="Great Yarmouth">Great Yarmouth</a>, in 1890, John Blake was the son of a fisherman.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended the Nelson School in Yarmouth and joined the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Norfolk_Regiment" title="Royal Norfolk Regiment">2nd Norfolk Regiment</a> of the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> at the age of fourteen, serving in several overseas countries, leading to his 'Bandsman' title which stuck throughout his career.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His boxing career began in the army; He was entered into a boxing contest without his knowledge while serving in <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Initial success led to his pursuing it further and by 1912 he was army champion of India.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He left the army and turned professional in 1912, and remained unbeaten in the first two years of his professional career, including victories over <a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Dixie_Kid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Dixie Kid (page does not exist)">the Dixie Kid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Harrison_(boxer)" title="Jack Harrison (boxer)">Jack Harrison</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_Johnny_Johnson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Young Johnny Johnson (page does not exist)">Young Johnny Johnson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Georges_Carpentier" title="Georges Carpentier">Georges Carpentier</a>, writing for the <i>People's Journal</i> in January 1914, was highly complimentary of Blake, describing him as a "most promising man", and having "the right stuff in him...the right temperament".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 1914, despite being very much a middleweight, he fought for the British heavyweight title against <a href="/wiki/Bombardier_Billy_Wells" title="Bombardier Billy Wells">Bombardier Billy Wells</a>; Wells won with a fourth-round knockout, inflicting the first defeat of Blake's career.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 1914 he fought American <a href="/w/index.php?title=Joe_Borrell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joe Borrell (page does not exist)">Joe Borrell</a> in a fight billed as being for the 160 lbs world title; Borrell knocked Blake down as he was returning to his corner after the bell at the end the fourth round, and with Blake unable to continue the referee declared it a no contest.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 1914, after the outbreak of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, Blake put both his boxing career and his forthcoming marriage on hold and rejoined the 2nd Norfolk Regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was wounded in action in September 1914 and returned to England, where he was treated at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Herbert_Hospital" title="Royal Herbert Hospital">Royal Herbert Hospital</a> in <a href="/wiki/Blackheath,_London" title="Blackheath, London">Blackheath</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blake was still unbeaten at middleweight and won fights against <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicol_Simpson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicol Simpson (page does not exist)">Nicol Simpson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harry_Reeve" title="Harry Reeve">Harry Reeve</a> before losing to <a href="/wiki/Pat_O%27Keeffe" title="Pat O'Keeffe">Pat O'Keeffe</a> in May 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A year later he fought O'Keeffe for the British middleweight title, taking a twenty-round points decision to become champion.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> O'Keefe regained the title in January 1918, knocking Blake out in the second round.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blake lost to Army champion Corporal Tooley of the <a href="/wiki/Grenadier_Guards" title="Grenadier Guards">Grenadier Guards</a> in April 1918, and his final fight was a win by fourth-round knockout against Arthur Cameron in 1921.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After retiring from boxing, Blake played football for Yarmouth Town, swam and <a href="/wiki/Angling" title="Angling">angled</a> competitively, and became a boxing referee.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between the wars he was a <a href="/wiki/Publican" title="Publican">publican</a>, running the Army and Navy public house on Blackfriars Road in Yarmouth.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the rest of his life he worked as a swimming instructor at an open-air pool in Great Yarmouth.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blake died at his home on North Denes Road on 2 September 1960, aged 70.<sup id="cite_ref-GYM_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GYM-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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