Page Six ABSEEID g SPE eye leas ADVOCATE December 31, 1937 By ART SCHWARTZ T this time of the year it is the custom for sportswriters good and bad to express at great length their many and varied opinions on who’s who in the sporting world. Here- with then, my humble year-end opinion. Starting with American foot- ball, Pittsburgh is IT and on the game subject I pick Alabama to walk away with the Rose Bowl game, yes, I know they have a featherweight team. . In base- ball the New York Yanks are tops with Lou Gehrig of the same club, my choice for the most outstand- ing ball player of the year... and Dizzy Dean the phoniest. Dizzy has the stuff but too much of the spoiled child in him has also spoiled him. . . Donald Budge for #he absolute best in the entire fennis field—he performs best when the going is toughest, in direct opposition to Poland’s great star, Jadwiga Jedrezejowski, bet- ter known as “Ya-Ya,” who suffers severely from stage fright in big match play. In wrestling, which isn’t very important anyway, lll take Bronko Wagurski, who is also some stuff in f’ball ’n such—that is, unless Jim Londos decides to come back. War Admiral and Sea Biscuit for first and second in the hoss racing, Svith Austin Taylor's Indian Broom gating the year’s big disappoint- ment. In footracing, Archie San Romani will be top-notch miler shortly after the New Year. « Wow for Canada. In football the Winnipeg Blue Bombers get the vote and New Westminster's “Oril- ; lia” Salmonbellies are Mann Cup folders, and for next year I like | Andy Paul's Indians to sweep the field. Put down Guy Patrick’s men to cop the hockey honors with the Spokane Clippers running a close second. The year’s biggest razz- perry to Toronto the “Good and Tight,” as Bill Forst of the Proyv- §nce calls ‘em, for the tight-fisted miserly attitude toward their Em- pire Games representatives a week or so ago. (Censorship won't al- jow me to enlarge, but call around sometime). The biggest laugh in on Larry White, manager of Fred Apostoli, who has been howling at the heels of Freddie Steele for a crack at ¢#he middle title and,° for the in- formation of you fans who have perhaps been wondering why Hred- Gie hasn’t kicked in with a bout for the ‘Frisco boy, the big joke is this: When Freddie was an UD= an-coming lad he tried very, very hard to get a shot at the then- title-holder, Young Gorbett, and was given a great run around by Corbett’s manager who at that time was this same Larry White. So if Freddie is now having a private little chuckle all to him- self who would say him nay? Apostoli wouldn’t last and | ATTENTION! Progressive Organizations! Complete Public Address System for Kent. LEAGUE FOR PHACE AND DEMOCRACY Room 17 = 615 W. Hastings St. Sawdust Burners For Stoves, Restaurant Ranges, Heaters, Boilers, Furnaces, and Bake Ovens See the new 8% Streamline Kitchen Unit. 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In the lightweight class Lou Ambers is still my idea of the biggy in this spot, Armstrong is still too light to be rated here—a hard feather puncher is OK in the feathers but Lou has weight, reach and enough experience to beat Armstrong for some little while yet. Featherweight — Armstrong is king here, with Jackie Wilson and Freddie Miller following. Freddie is undoubtedly the best little boxer and ringmaster of the trio, but is on his way out and will be fur- ther down the list next year. In the bantams, Harry Jeffra is the undisputed ruler and Lou Salica should be second, while Toronto’s Baby Yack will make third for himself by this time next year. Then lastly, the flyweights are ruled by Benny Lynch, who will be in the same spot next year, too. Adding to the year’s best this and that, Ill pick Hal Straight for the best sportseripter, with Bill Forst running him a close second, followed by the very good Hymie Koshevoy whose stuff doesn’t ap- pear often enough. Spent a sides half hour on the pier at Hnglish Bay Christmas Day, watching the Polar Bear club do their Stuff in the ice cold briny. Amidst variegated “oohs” and “ahs” and “don’t-see-how-they- can-stand-its,” George Dricos and Anne Mundigal trotted through the white Ghristmas and non- chalantly trucked into the drink, freezing this person right to the marrow. ‘We do it for the pleasure it gives us,” said the beaming George after the half hour dip, and added that they do it every day of the year. Some stuff, if you ask me—tI get chilled by just looking at the Shelloil Christmas greeting sign. I hate to end the year by say- ing, “I told you so,” but, by gum, the opportunity is too great to be wasted. If you’ll refer back to this corner in last week’s paper you will find a little note on Jimmy Ghapman’s trip to the east, which we modestly predicted to fop. Word comes that Jimmy was knocked kicking on Tuesday eve, and Jimmy does hate to get his face mussed. So look for him back and quite soon. Jack Allen ne on doing it and getting away with it, not con- tent with being responsible for the ruin of half a dozen or so of Van- couver'’s leatherpushers, he has to inveigle young Chapman away from the home fires and before the kid is fully acclimatized is put against a fighter like Mog Mason, who has it all over him in every- thing. Come, come, Jawn, let’s all be a little more human next year. The next pro on card is tenta- tively set for January 19 and the boys will begin training any day now. I sincerely hope that this eard will mark the beginning of a successful year. (That should be good for a ducat, Teddy). Yours for a New Year crowded with happiness. ) , Wishing Our Customers and Friends a HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR! 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Sonny Jones Gets Eleventh Rating Gordon Wallace Noi Included Horrible Henry Armstrong, Har- Vancouver Midgets Beat Seattle Pee Wees lem’s man-mauling mite, has been =—— given the top in two of the fight VANCOUVER brackets, featherweight and light- weight, by the Ring Book in its yearly ratings. Just why this was done is easily seen by the impres- sive string of knockouts the col- ored flash has left behind him dur- ing the past year, while champion Lou Ambers was practically at a While Vancouver Lions were taking a beating from Seattle Seahawks on Christmas Day, Johnny Clark’s Midgets avenged Vancouver by inflicting a 3-2 score. on the Seattle Pee Wees. The little fellows put on a swell show between periods of the pro- | Standstill. gram. Armstrong is managed by Al Goals were scored by Mc- Jolson (stage, screen and radio) Kenzie, Anderson and WPorteus and has so much action packed into his lithe frame that he has been called the best fighter in the world, pound for pound, and that includes some mighty fine fighters. Sonny Jones, Vancouver Negro, has been rated eleventh in the welterweight division, being the only Ganadian fighter to appear in these rankings. Significant is the absence of Gordie Wallace (re- member?) who was rated in eighth place a year ago. The only other Canadian in the Ring’s ratings is Baby Yack from Ontario who is given seventh place and deserves third. The British Empire is repre- sented by Jack Carroll in the welters, Jock McAvoy, and Eddie Wenstob in the light heavies and Tommy Farr and Benny Lynch in the heavyweight and bantams re- spectively. representing Rimstad, Hutton and Merrill respectively. All Pee Wees in the Icop are emulating an idea that origi- nated some years ago in the east and are taking the names of the adult players of the various teams in the professional league. Kid Chocolate Scores In Havana HAVANA, Cuba.—Kid Chocolate, ex-feather king, took just four rounds of a scheduled ten to clout one Johnny Mirabella into dream- land with a piledriving right, which shows that the aging kid still has plenty of kick left, and may bear out the prediction of some that he may come back. The Ruling Clawss By REDFIELD “Santa Claus is here, sir.” Re Wishing Our Ever-Growing Radio Audience A Happy and Prosperous New Year! The Pioneer Voice of British Columbia } ee N pee) AN pee eS NN ED SY PFN PEN EN ENED PAD IED rE WATS oa eed eal Ressland Miners Lose To Alta. Studenis ROSSLAND. — Rossland’s erack hockey team, the Miners, suffered a 42 defeat at the hands of the University of Alberta’s touring student body last week which came somewhat as a sur- prise to the good people here. Art Townsend, Alberta coach, playing defense, scored two in the first period, with CGowland scoring for Rossland on a solo play. The visitors held the Mimers at bay in the second period and added one more goal te their total on a wild play that ended with Stanley scoring from McKay’s beautiful pass. Wanless scored for the home team in the third, but was evened by Stark’s tally for Alberta in the dying moments of the game. Ask Transfer i ee as LL a We Wish All Our Customers and Friends... a Happy and Pros- perous New Year ~ Cw REGENT TAILORS 324 W. Hastings Street a VANCOUVER’S OWN TAILORS cths nln nflin. othe otha afte olli..sfa. othe sie, olde nile, .alte. ohn cilia. .ftee. Rina. tlirnnthds..0llia.n tiie. .tillin. Al, Of Olympiad World Opinion Hits Tokyo Choice LONDON.— Sportsmen the world over are adding their voices to the protest against holding of the Olympic Games ] in Tokyo in 1940. The manner in which the last Bames were organized in Berlin, the deliberate stressing of the military character, has brought home to many that, if the Olympic Games are held once more along these lines, they will cease to be a demonstration of the world’s finest athletic youth for peace. The International Olympic com- mittee and the Olympic Congress, which decide according to the statutes on the holding of the Olympie Games ,are now confront- ed by the decision—either to com- ply with the wishes of sportsmen or to organize the games in Tokyo without and against the great Majority of sportsmen. Im a recent. statement, Oskar Soderlund, president of the Swed- ish and International Boxing Leagues, declared: “Japan should never have been commissioned to organize the games, To our peaceful con- ceptions the idea is quite abhor- rent that Japan should carry them out, for games are an impossibility in a country at war.” e | Soderlund’s opinion is also ex- pressed by Edwin Wide, “the flying schoolmaster” and Swedish ex champion runner, who states: “Public opinion is universally in- spired by the will to peace and holds violence in abomination. The situation is perfectly. clear to all who are not involved financially, politically or in some other way in the war drive of ‘the world to- day. INot a man—not a penny for the Olympiad in Tokyo.” At the conference of the League of Nations Union here, Woel Baker, English 1,500-metre runner of the Antwerp Olympic Games in 1920, appealed for action every- where to ensure the transfer of the games to another country. Demands are now pouring into the Olympic Congress which- is being held in Cairo shortly that the games be transferred to Hel- singfors, Finland. Intercity Games Called Off Intercity League soccer games at Wanaimo and Victoria were called off on Christmas day owing to the heavy snowfall which created bad playing conditions. Bronko Wagurski, football star and claimant to the world’s wrest- ling championship, was handed a surprise package on Christmas Day in the shape of an 8-pound baby boy. The Bronko is expected to champion, scered a technical KO over Vancouver’s Jimmie event. On the same card Chuck Woods, Detroit, Mich., eked cut a debatable decision over Gordon Wallace, Canadian ex- welter champion of Canada. SYDNEY, Australia Donald Budge lost to Baron von with Australian tennis fans. tige and won much more by defeating Jack Crawford, Aus- tralia’s best, in a brilliant exhibition match before 40,000 fol- lowers of the game. ARCADIA, Calif.—Sally’s Booster, winner of the $10,00@ Longacres handicap, died at the Santa Anita track last week from causes undetermined. | NEW YORK.—Joe Louis will meet Nathan Mann for the ; heavyweight championship of the world in February, 1938. rived in America for a year’s stay in the US, announcing that he intends te whip everything in the heavyweight ranks: Polar Bears Take Christmas Dip Dricos, Mundigal Brave Bay _Clad only in the briefest of black silk bathing suits, two of Vancou- Farr Is Confident He’ll Beat Louis In September NEW YORK—Tommy Farr arrived this week with the an- nouncement that he intends to lick Joe Looey next September if Joe is still the head man in the heavies. Tommy thinks Joe will be head man tho’, saying, “Hell knock Schmeling colder than a turkey. Joe is bound to have learned plenty since their last fight and don’t forget that Max will be two years older in June than he was when he feught Schmeling.” Farr will stay in the USA til next Christmas hoping to bring home about $200,000 worth of bacon with a series of fights, both exhibition and real-honest- te-goodness slugegfesting. The prospects for the two hundred grand are quite bright for the British lad whe has al- ready signed up for a match with ex-champ Baer if and when he beats Braddock in January. Bear Club, inches of snow for their daily dip into the icy waters of English 41 degrees above is icy, try it some- time). walks and shuddered in good- natured amazement while the pleasure-loving polars did their stuff for a full half hour. George Dricos has been king of the polar bear club since he won the crown by swimming a mile and a half on New Year’s Day, 1931, having had no serious com- petition spring up in the mean- while to take it from him. 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