Page Six THE PHEOPELE’S ADVOCATE January 21, 1938. . The Ruling Clawss By REDFIELD By ART SCHWARTZ _f&\ USTIN DELANEY, whose “Tip-Off” in the Province is a Bue of two reasons why I read the paper, writes: “Ted oe is one of the dumbest guys in the world when asked a out the purses he pays his fighters,” and no wonder, Austin m’lad. I know of one fighter who was offered twenty-five whole shiny new Canadian dollars to fight a six-round bout on the iast card. This same fighter, exploding expletives and synonyms with great disregard for tender ears, suggested to this corner. If Moore had as much brain as he has nerve, he'd be a greater man than Tex Rickard” S - Howsomever that may be, whether the boys were paid off handsomely or not, credit must be given to Moore for the entertain- ment dished out on Wednesday’s card. Every fighter but Dixon did his best and that’s ali that any erowd can ask. Dixon didn’t in- tend to fight, that was very ap- parent, and nobody can blame INickason or Moore for that. Even the best cards sometimes come a eropper, However, Ted should lay eff the phony publicity, such as reversing the Ryan workouts in which Ryan was publicized as hay- ing an easy time with his sparring partners which, to those who saw them, is laughable. Ryan was completely outclassed eyery time this department was there. = * + The Penn State University, for the first time in its athletic history, will not elect a permanent football captain for the ensuing year. Anew Captain will be appointed by the coach before each game. Which should result in a pretty kettle of fish Gi I may coin a phrase). = * = With the return of the slow ball to the major leagues, the try for one run instead of a whole cluster of tallies will most likely be the vogue for 1938, with a whoiesale increase Of bases stolen on the baseball high- ways a sure-fire prediction. = s = Art Turner, one of Canada’s fore- most lightweights a few years ago, was One of the watchers at the Ar- cade. Art, who is now 2 well-to-do young business man, had intended to donate his fighting togs to some deserving youngster, but the smell of the resin and the thud of leather on firm flesh brought back the old fever, and Art has decided to hang onto ’em. .. Turner is only 23 now and looks in good enough condition to give any of the present crop 2 good run for their money. * % * HERE AND THERE .. . Balti- more raised the Preakness stakes to 50 grand, making 1t even Stephen with the Kaintucky Darby which is a smmart move. .. Experts say that the Ranger is the fastest racing: yacht ever built... Biggest heart— breaker in golfing history was the brassie shot of A. J. Locke, South African amateur, who smacked the little white pill for a distance of 900 yards to hole out, after his op- ponent, A. Padgam, had landed within one foot of the pin with a drive of similar distance... Kilrain’s last fight with Sullivan paid him $1100—$600 from the crowd and $500 from the $10,000 winner's purse donated by John L.... Sullivan was the first and Jack Sharkey the last heavyweight champ from Boston .. YOU’LL ENJOY OUR HOME-STYLE COOKING The Baltimore Cafe 100% Union “Always a Warm Welcome” 331 CARRALL ST. “SEY. 31 Sidelights Tommy Farr, 23-year-old miner from Wales, redoubtable fighter, and incidentally, a steady reader of the progressive press, is so whole- heartedly clouting his sparring part- ners into fairyland while training for his bout with Jim Braddock that one by one they are leaving. Only Jack Tebo, Edmonton, has been able to stay on his feet for two rounds. .. Qne ex-pug reporting on Farr says he is the hardest working fighter he has ever seen... Harr has grown somewhat and has de- veloped much more speed, accord- ing to onlookers. Only two thin white scars under his eyes tell of the terrible mauling he received at the hands of Joe Louis during their championship struggle last year. Farr, however, is confident he will be world champion before he is twenty-five. Jack Dempsey has two dotters ... Qne Willie Minsky (tab him), Jew- ish middleweight, will soon make his bow to fite fans way down east. . . New Work fight managers report difficulties in luring amateurs into the pro ranks. It seems that they make more dough by staying pure, expenses, dontcha know. . . Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom is blooming forth as a ham. He has a fat part in the new Charlie Chan flicker “Chan at the Ringside.” .. Henry Armstrong will fight Chalky Wright (formerly Mae West's chauffeur who fought here a few sSeason’s ago) at Holly- wood any day now... Flowers will be in order for Chalky. . - . Bob Fitzimmons once fought a fight to the finish in Australia and received 10 shillings ($2.50) for doing so. - - Times haven’t really changed so much at that... They still pay that way in Vancouver. .. Harry Mizler wants to fight Lou Ambers in Lon- don next mo... Frankie Blair, high- ‘ly rated eastern welter, has a whole- some respect for his hide. He re- cently turned down an offer to meet Cef Garcia in Hollywood... Tommy Loughran runs a beanery in Philly. .. “Da Preem” ain’t through yet, no Sir! He's gonna be a rassler now. . -. Tris Speaker, former baseball bigey, has been appointed chairman of the Cleveland Boxing commis- sion for the 2nd consec. year... . Boston Bees made the biggest gain in stolen bases jumping from 23 in 1936 to 45 in 1937. .. The American league stole 101 more than the Na- tional last year. . . Francis Lederer of the Movies was once an amateur wrestling champ at college. . . As man-getters the U of Illinois co-eds rate 11-7 per cent higher than the Canadian Mounties. . . 99 per cent of the graduate cuties having cap- tured hubbies. .. Grace Bradley also of pix fame can lick almost any kid at marbles. . Ernie Swartz con- stantly makes Moore’s headliners look like rank amateurs. - - Sports writers look for the return of the million dollar fight gate in 1938, business “recession”” notwithstand- ing. . . 1987 will probably go down in history as the “Age of Chiselry.” = = > King Clancy of hockey fame was worth $35,000 to his original pur- chasers, the highest price ever to be paid for a hockey player. Clancy was recently fired from his first managerial posish for reason given as ‘Inefficiency,’ which tale has a phoney tinkle to it in this corner. Maybe Clancy can’t take orders from Gorman, what? Hit (eee In Japan Not Sportsmen’s Wish, Says Beech MacPaps Take First In Ritle Shoot Canadians Take Part In Fiesta ALBACETE, Spain—(By mail)— The MacPaps are good shots. At the British battalion’s recent sports fiesta here a team from the Cana- dian battalion led the WBritishers with a total of 255 out of a possible 400 in an inter-unit marksmanship competition. While the Britishers had several good individual marksmen, they Came second to the Mac-Paps in all- round form. Teams shot at ranges of 100 and 200 metres, five shots to a Man on each range. In bomb-throwing the Americans of the Lincoln Battalion took first honors, with the Mac-Paps a close second. Football games in which the Brit- ish Battalion and the Anti-Tanks met Spanish teams ended in defeat for the two former squads after stiff tussles. The Lincoln-Washingtons, however, came out on top in their game. Later, boxing events were staged in the Plaza de Toros here. Fight Notes Bobby Carrington has improved immensely. Julius Troll, although the cleverer, was not strong enough to take Kennedy. WPettipiece had the greatest disappointment on the ecard. He had Smith out on his feet at the end of the fourth, only to lose in the fifth by the TKO. route. Ernie Swartz, well named “the blonde bombshell,” showed the only championship style on the card, when he exploded a sweet left with terrific velocity on Hughes’ whisk- ers, hanging up his 102nd win out of 113 starts. CONTENTS of NUMBER ‘64 page Spanier montages. Covers: war; America, new gs—more than 200 pictures, Gort ae pose rar; the peace that le ack soe 3 world master; sun- Not youl That's never been at peace a sin take you weeks fo read an 3 an hour in one issue of P WAR IN SPAIN. Issue No. These are not just more war pictures. They form a fearless camera record of the forces that bring on war and of why the world has gle minufe since the so-called end of the war-to-end-wars. Get this gripping new —skim Its pages—see for yourself why WAR IS HERE! 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Bunka Runs Amok Gives Great Show With Lott Reminiscent of Musty Musgrave at his best, George Bunka and Don Lott put on one of the most rousing exhibitions seen in a long while at the VSC last Saturday. Bunka, ever a roughhouser of the first water, squirmed in and around and all over Don Lott to take the first fall in the third round and, anxious to do away with his burly opponent in as short order as pos- Sible, strained at the leash between rounds, Managing to break away from his handlers before the bell to give a fair imitation of Man Moun- tain Dean and his running jump. But the wily Lott waren’t nowhars around, said gentleman having tak- en a powder to another corner while the referee, none other than the tough Toughy Thomas and a goodly section of over-enthusiastic ring- Siders aided and abetted by sundry seconds pounced upon the runaway Bunka and smacked him into dreamland from which he didn’t emerge until 20 minutes had passed, Rematch Arranged “The rematch will be a honey,” said Harry Miller, adding further that the boys are now mortal ene- mies and will probably fill the house next time out. The match was de- clared a draw. Bill Massen, feeling in the most definite pink, had declared loudly and long that he could lick any two men in the club. His bluff was called by Bud De Silva and another gentleman. The best he could do was to draw with both in two ten- minute rounds. Guy Cantrell added the Fritz Schmidt scalp to his growing col- lection in the third bout. Eric and Alf Dahl put on a hair-raising three-rounder that resulted in a draw. The biggest hand of the evening Was given to three Canadian Japa- nese tumblers who were introduced by Fritz Schmidt. These lads put on a performance of tumbling which drew round after round of applause from a crowd larger if anything than the record-breaking crowd of two weeks ago. Thistles Trounce Twigg Island Collingwood Thistles inflicted a sound trouncing upon the Twigg Island squad at Collingwood park last Saturday in the Third Division Juvenile Soccer League, when they played a splendid combination game to get the big end of an 8-0 score. Playing better football than the score indicates, both teams indulged in several exhibitions of roughhouse that kept the fairly large crowd in- tensely interested. Collingwood Workers’ Alliance were defeated 3 to 0 in a practice game with Marpole Liberals last Saturday at Killarney Park. NEW YORK, Jan. 20—Progress- ive sport circles and all antifascist groups are considering pretest to fhe United States Olympic Commit- tee on their introduction of a drive to raise $400,000 for the participa- tion of American athletes in the 1940 Olympic Games to be held at Tokio, Japan. The move to raise funds was de- cided at a recent meeting of the American Olympic Association, where committees were struck off and future plans for the Associa- tion to follow were decided upon. In view of Japanese aggression in Ghina and the recent bombing of the United States gunboat Panay, the move to praise funds to send young American sportsmen to fascist Ja- pan will no doubt be a failure. Many well-known athletes of Olympic calibre have already voiced their opinions in favor of boycotting the 1940 games should they be held in Japan, and have been quoted as being in favor of moving the Olym- piad to another country. Commenting here on the growing movement to boycott the Olympic Games if they are held in Japan Sid Beech, prominent Vancouver sportsman and fight manager, said: “There is so much high feeling in the world today against the Japa- nese invasion of China that to hold the next games there will be entire- ly against the will of sportsmen the world over. Certainly no boy of mine would take part.” Radials Go To Island To Meet All-Star Soccer Squad Wanaimo soccer fans will get their first squint at Vancouver's Radi- als Saturday, when that worthy squad journeys to Nanaimo to take party in the much looked-forward- to match with the Upper Island League All-Stars. Matt Gunniss has been named referee, kick-off taking place at 2:30 pm. A double-header at Kerrisdale park will feature the full slate of first and sceond division district league matches on Saturday, com- plete schedule of which is listed below: First Division 2:30—St. Regis vs. Abbotsford, Templeton Park (north); referee, H. Axelson. 2:30 Excelsiors ws. Services, Cambie Street; referee, A. Hunter. 2:30 — Frasers vs. Varsity, Sap- perton Park; referee, A. G. Murphy. 3:15 — Kerrisdale vs. Viking, Ker- risdale Park; referee, J. R. Bowler. 2:30 — Maccabees vs. West Van- couver, Powell Street; referee, R. Hewitt. Second Division 2:30 — CCF vs Pro-Rees, Wilson Park; referee, Dickinson. 2:30 — Varsity vs. Boxers, Mc- Bride Park; referee, W. J. Marshall. 52-00 — Kerrisdale vs. Hammonds, Kerrisdale Park; referee, A. Good- To Aid Miners Recommendation of the executive of the Trades and Labor Council that unions assist striking Minto, Nova Scotia, miners in their pres- ent strike was endorced by dele- gates Tuesday. In a letter to the council, the strike committee stated that oper- ators were out to smash the United Mine Workers of America in that province because it was an affil- jate of the GIO. Efforts to obtain conciliation had been unsuccessful, the letter informed. Soviet Film Rated as the Soviet Ukraine's greatest musical film, Watalka Pol- tavka, an operetta, will be shown at the Labor Temple, 805 Hast Pender, January 24-29, with two shows daily, 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Matinee Saturday, 2 p.m. Admis- sion 35 and 40 cents; children, 15 cents. Hold Whist Drive The West End branch of the Young Communist League will put on a whist drive and entertain- ment at 1273 Granville, Tuesday, January 25, 8 p.m., in aid of the Wew Advance magazine drive. FSU Sponsors Meet A public meeting will be held Sunday, January 30, 8 p.m., in the Royal Theatre, under auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Speakers will deal with the menace of Japanese aggression against the USSR. Plan Boycott Meet Under auspices of the Women’s Gommission of the CP, a mass meeting to rally support for Jap- anese boycott will be held Sunday, January 30; 8 pm. Churchmen and other progressive spealkers have been invited to speak. Mothers’ Council Social Vancouver Mothers’ Council will hold a social Tuesday, January 25, 2:30 pm. at O’Brien Hall, 404 Homer, when an address on China will be given. Youth Rally A mass rally in aid of the new youth magazine, New Advance, will be held Sunday, February 6, 8 p.m., in the Royal Theatre. New Advance Drive Announcement was made this week by Jack Phillips, drive man- ager for New Advance, that the latest issue has arrived from the East. Prizes of value are offered ijn the current drive contest, as follows: To the winning YCL dis- trict, $25 library; winning branch or club, a radio set; winning man or woman, $25 suit or ensemble; to every reader who turns in $10 or more, a fountain pen, compact, cigarette lighter or case. To those who got $50 or more, a week-end case or suitcase. Philips reports Babe Grad as having $12.77 in hand, Sarah Rosman $9.87. Booklet Best Seller The provincial office of the Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion announced this week all. , Orange Hall will be available for Concerts, Meetings, Etc. After February i, 1938. Apply to H. R. MILLER, V-S8.C., popular booklet,, “Hello Canada,” — is 10 cents. ance to delegates at the Trades and Labor Council this week that chair “to shoot questions” at Ki- wanian Leo Sweeney, who will be permitted to “clear up some miis- understandings” at nest council | meeting. because of statements alleged to have been made by him to the Gyro Club recently, Sweeney in a letter ed to address the council. Charter Installed: Reporting that he was installing a charter that night for the re- cently organized Boot and Shoe Workers, Charles Stewart, Street Railwaymen’s delegate, was en- thusiastically applauded by the Trades and Labor Council, Tues- day, when he stated that the only way to make the trade union legis- lation do some good, was to go ahead and organize. cil, stated his committee was ready at all times to assist locals to build their union. Complaints Lodged Poor food, high prices and lack of accommodation were complaints lodged with Union Steamship com- pany this week by BC Coast Dis- trict Gouncil, International Wood- workers, at request of union mem- bers. : Agitation against services «cn ships operated by this company has been carried on for a number of months, particularly in view of the fact that high transportation rates are paid by loggers going to and from camps on the coast, BC Lum- ber Worker states. Investigation has been promised by the company and a report will be sent to the union as to findings. Draw Postponed The suit draw arranged in con- nection with the Communist party’s current financial drive has been postponed from Jan- uary 21, the date originally set, to February 21, according to an announcement made this week. Hastings Auditorium 828 Past Hastings St. MODERN DANCES EVERY Thursday and Saturday § to 12 Malmin’s Popular Orchestra ADMIZISSION — Only 25c¢ also INDEPENDENT WHIST DRIVE Every Thursday with Free Admission to Dance Pool. $5.00 monthly prize. that the authorized price of the ALL or CARETAKER iz S50 ¢ TICKE POST NO BULLS EEN. (HAMBERIAINS ORCHESTRA. iy) OE | Around The City | Will Hear Sweeney | President Jamieson gave assur- © they would be permitted from the # Under fire from organized labor to P. Bengough asked to be allow- . Stewart, chairman of the organ- - izational committee of the coun- — H Two first Prizes $5.00 each, etc., and Also two other prizes and a | TICKETS at 50 cents can be obtained from: The People’s Advocate, Room 10, 163 Wes | Hastings Street. The New Age Bookshop, 28 East Hastings Street.