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December $8, 1937

The Ruling Clawss

By REDFIELi |

Tonight’s the night for the WA mix at the Auditorium
and it looks like a star night on Hollywood Boulevard. Kid
Hogan, Ralph Connor, Tiasto Rantala, Esko Varila, George
Bunka, Mike Paul, etcetera, etcetera, every one a main

eventer in his own right, all on
Paul, Bunka

the same card for two-bits. Sounds
like a pipe dream to us after we've

paid five and six times that
y amount to sleep through some of
ea. ard the local pro shows recently.

These boys crowd the Vancouver
Sports Club hall to the rafters on
Saturday nights and we're looking
forward to another capacity crowd
at the Auditorium tonight.

WA Charity Show
Lined Up

Arrangements for the ultra-ultra
sports show at the Auditorium,
under auspices of the Workers’ Alli-
ance, were completed here Wednes-
day with the signirg of Mike Paul
and George Bunka to head the
wrestling card.

A fast, clean show is promised
by George Miller, Vancouver Sports
Club impressario, who has been
diligently engaged in obtaining the
best talent available in the inter-
ests of Santa Claus.

Four bouts of boxing have been
arranged, featuring Sakoe and
George, local Japanese flyweights,
at 74 lbs.; Taisto Rantala and Esko
Varilla, 88 lbs., and in the semi-

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The passing of Fred Lake has
jJeft an ache in the hearts of all
old-timers who knew and loved him
in the hectic hockey days before
the war. Fred is definitely en-
shrined in the Athletic Hall of
Fame as one of hockey’s truly

great.

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Ted Moore’s pro card, originally
slated for December 1, is off again.
This time it’s the fifteenth. Rea-
son: Hibberd’s injured hand. Ted’s
shows have improved considerably
of late, but there’s plenty of room
for improvement yet.

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final, a featherweight tilt between
Kid Gammen and Gordie Purser,
which looks like a show-stealer.

Kid Hogan, well known Austra-
lian welter, who has kayoed some
of the best “down under,” meets
Ralph Connor, local Wancouver
Sports Club favorite, who is also a
KO artist of no small moment.

In the grunt and groan section,
Bill Masson and Alf Dahl will make
merry for three 5-minute rounds.
Such favorites as Scotty Jacksow
and Ed Bolton, and, in the semi-
final, Stan Snowden and Paul
Singh, Vancouver Sikh, will follow.

Main squirm go is the card’s
chief claim to recognition. The re-
doubtable George Bunka, Alberta
champ, Saskatchewan champ and
runner-up to the Dominion title,
will pit his skill against Mike Paul,
city Ukrainian champ, who boasts
he will take the Bunk out of
Bunka.

Tickets for this, the first big
show to be sponsored by the Van-
ecouver Sports Club, are on sale at
143 East Cordova street at 25 cents.

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The Golden Glove campaigners
from Vancouver surprised us some-
what by getting as far as Los An-
geles. Well, here’s an apology,
boys. Better luck next time.

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And still another of Cyclone Tay-
lor’s youngsters makes the head-
lines. This time it’s Ted, who
moved out of the Pee Wee ranks
into the Juniors and, if family tra-
dition means anything, we humbly
ask that you watch the headlines
five years from now and bear out

* * *

the prediction that this young
fella’s name will be somewhere
around.

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We read with considerable regret
that Red Horner of hockey fame
has reformed in fact, it’s hard to
believe. it’s our contention that
the flashing, dashing, fighting
Horner has been responsible for
some of the crowds that show up
when his team is playing. But a
Sunday school Horner, uh, uh, it’s
just a lull, we hope.

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Then there’s the new game some
bright lad invented out of hand-
ball and rugby, called—excuse us
—Jarcone. Sounds like a honey,
put will somebody please try box
lacrosse on skates?

Buxton Kayoes:
Dado In Seattle

SHATTLE—Billy Buxton, hard-
slugging Victoria fighter, kayoed
Speedy Dado of Los Angeles in the
second round of a scheduled 10-
round fight here Wednesday. Bux-
ton weighed in at 125 Ibs., Dado at
128:

“Tn, two, three, four, sir.

“Out, two, three, four, sir.”

Anti-Nazi League
Will Boycott
Schmeling

NEW . YORK.— Unless Max
Schmelling, former heavyweight
champion, agrees not to take his
earnings back te Nazi Germany,
he won’t be popular with Amer-
ican sports fans in his fights in
the United States. The non-
sectarian Anti-Nazi League an-
nounced this weex that it fully
intends to enforce its boycott
against the German heavyweight
unless he will agree that none of
his earnings will go back to Nazi-
land.

Shutout For
Nanaimo

Scores 5-0 Victory
Over Alberni

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NANAIMO. —WNanaimo City ad-
vanced into a second place tie with
Galahads in the Nanaimo section
of the Upper Island Soccer league
as a result of their 6-0 shout-out
victory over Port Alberni West
Coast United here.

stiffly contended by the visitors

was scored by Forrester on a cor-

ner kick by Jones. Im the second
the Port Alberni team wilted, to
allow Grey, Forrester, White and
Brough to follow through with a
goal apiece.

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Referee was S. Craig-

AUDITORIUM

TONIGHT,

8 EXHIBITION

SHOWING THE CREAM OF B.C.

4 BCUTS

8:30 P.M.”

NO RESERVED SEATS

BO

BOXING

Admission 25c

UTS OF WHIRLWIND ACTION
°S AMATEUR TALENT

3 2-minute
Rds. each

74 Ibs. - - JACKOE VS. “GEORGE”

88 Ibs. - TIASTO RANTALA vs. ESKO VARILA

134 lbs. > “KID” GAMMEN vs. GORDIE PURSER
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KID HOGAN

Australia, wt. 146.

MAIN EVENT

DS.

RALPH CONNOR

Vancouver, wt. 14614,

4 BOUTS

BILLY MASSON
SCOTTY JACKSON
STAN SNOWDEN

GEORGE BUNKA
Sask. and Alta. Champ.

MAIN EVENT
US.

5-minute
WRESTLING Rounds
YS. ALF DAHL
Vs. ED BOLTON
VS: PAUL SINGH

MIKE PAUL

B.C. Ukrainian Champ.

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By ALLAN LEHMAN
Federated Press

HE United Auto Workers, one

union which has accepted sports
and recreation for its members as
an integral part of trade unionism,
has taken ano-
ther long step
forward. This
time the auto-
workers mean
to give the
golden-spooned
sountry clubs—
with member-
ship open to
executives and
straw bosses

only a real
run for their
swank. They

hope to show the workers through-
out the country just what can be
done with a country club run for
trade union wage earners exclu-
sively.

But what makes the whole shin-
dig ring with honest endeavor is the
fact that the Negro trade unionists
of the UAW, representing Flint,
Pontiac and Detroit, are the ones
taking all the initiative. The Negro
committee has already begun nego-
tiations for the purchase of the has-
been exclusive and beautiful Holly
Valley Country Club.

Just to try and give a 10-second
tintype of how this group of auto-
workers intends to make its contri-
bution to the cultural life of labor
in Michigan, here is a description
of the recreational plant at Holly
Valley:

Unions Take
Up Baseball

Several Leagues
In East

NEW YORK — Basketball has
taken American trade unions by
storm. All over the country labor:
leagues can be found getting into
full swing as they prepare for a
long, hard winter grind before one
team emerges on top with the local
union court crown. Other sports are
coming in for their share of the
glory... soccer, bowling, swimming,
table tennis and even winter sports.

In Philadelphia, the Committee
for Industrial Organization has es-
tablished a fast-moving basketball
league that is giving the Quaker
City plenty of thrills. None of this
walk-away, one-sided basketball for
the Philly teams either. It takes
top-notch playing to earn a victory
in the Philadelphia CIO League.

Gleveland comes through with
another sparkling labor basketball
season under the auspices of the
Cleveland Labor Sports League.
Practice sessions have been held
and a six-week exhibition season has
been launched preparatory for the
championship play which begins
January 3, 1938. Three leagues—
Glass A, Glass Senior B and Class
Junior B have made it possible for
twenty-four teams to participate
in the league play-

Detroit is another town where the
CIO has taken great strides in or-
ganizing union athletics. Ten fives
from various locals of the United
Automobile Workers of America
have embarked on a season of fast-
moving league action. The CIO has
built up quite a sports program in
the Detroit area, starring with base-
pall and moving along into basket-
ball.

And in New York City the New
York Trade Union Athletic Asso-
ciation has been building what
looms as the biggest rival the Cleve-
Jand Labor Sports League has. Right
now a ten team basketball circuit
giving New Work labor fans plenty
fo cheer about, with overtime bat-
ties, beautiful offensive and defen-
sive work, and a close fight for the
championship which won't be defi-
nitely decided until way out in April.

Plans for inter-city competition
are being worked on by the Phila-
delphia and New York leagues.

Around the East the International
Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
has three leagues going — in New
York City, New Jersey and Con-
necticut.

Wews comes from Chicago that
the Youth Section of the Interna-
tional Workers Order has launched
a basketball tourney that started
out with a bang on November 20.

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Fight Braddock

LONDON. — Tommy Farr, Welsh
heavyweight, has agreed to fight
Jimmy Braddock, former world
champion, at Miami, Florida, on
February 26, it was stated here this
week. Agreement was reached in
a trans-Atlantic telephone talk.

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Holly Valley Country Club is just
a short distance from Flint, Pontiac
and Detroit. Its gargantuan set-up
includes a club house, 12,200 square
feet, two dining rooms, a ballroom,
a general lounge and a ladies’ and
men’s lounge, two kitchens, card
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The building is constructed of the
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The club is surrounded by 250 acres
of beautiful grounds, two spring-
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for tennis, baseball, golf, track, chil-
dren’s playground and sufficient
space to accommodate and house
1.000 campers without the slightest
congestion. The entire kaboodle of
facilities are suited for year-round
eultural and recreational activity.

The aim of the Holly Valley As-
sociation, which has been formed
by the Negro auto-workers for the
purchase of the elub, is-not to cre-
ate a separate jim-crow recreational
centre. But the whole project has
been started by them to initiate a
cultural centre for the use and en-
joyment of the entire trade union
movement and those sympathisers
of labor also wishing to participate.

The executive committee of the
union announced in a recent session
in Detroit that membership sub-
scriptions taken out for the small
sum of $10 each are going like hot
cakes. If someone had ventured to
predict a couple of years ago that
a stunt like this would be pulled off
by a trade union, we would have
blamed it all on the corner saloon
and hanged the culprit to the near-
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Gollingwood Workers’ Alliance:
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first division of the Juvenile Soccer
league, with seven games played,
two won and five lost. The WA
team, with four points, is six behing
league-leading Maccabees.

Feature of Vancouver and WDis-
trict Soccer league second division
games this Saturday will be the
clash at Wilson Park between CCF
and Varsity, with the CCF eleven
generally favored.

The CGE team, formed only this
season, is now getting into its
stride after a few initial reverses.
It is overcoming its early weak-
mess in team work, which was
largely responsible for the two de-
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