Scout Boxing Competition

Cambridge District Scout Archive

From 1923 references to Scout and Cub boxing competitions occur in District news sheets and Annual reports.   C-L de Beaumont (DCM) presented a Trophy.  The whereabouts of the Trophy is unknown.

Two Wolf Cub Trophies exist but have lost the winners names. (See Wolf Cub Boxing)

From other records we have Scout winners

• 1925    8^th Cambridge Harvey Goodwin
• 1930    9^th Cambridge Queens Choir
• 1931    9^th Cambridge Queens Choir
• 1932    8^th Cambridge Harvey Goodwin
• 1933    8^th Cambridge Harvey Goodwin
• 1934    23^rd Cambridge

• 1935    x
• 1936    29^th Cambridge
• 1937    29^th Cambridge
• 1938    29^th Cambridge
• 1939    7^th Cambridge
• 1940    12^th Cambridge
• 1949    Last mentioned as being held

Cub winners

• 1927                8^th Cambridge Harvey Goodwin
• 1931 or 32       8^th Cambridge Harvey Goodwin

The photographs are from Cambridgeshire Collection,

National advice recorded in 1932 is that boxing for Cubs should stop.  Concerns raised about the damage inflicted by boxing at an early age were backed by strong medical advice.

JWR Archivist Feb 2019