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THE PECGPLE'S ABYOGATE

February 11,

By REDFIELD

By Art Schwartz

Bes HARRIS and Joe Cronin have climbed out on the
old limb this early in the season by throwing out the sug-
gestion that the Yanks will not win the pennant for the third
consecutive season. Thus the gauntlet has been thrown into the
teeth of the nation’s best sportswriters, although this doesn’t
mean anything, anyway, same writers having been known to

Wake the odd error now and then.¢
On the other hand, Joe McCarthy
_comes out flatfooted with a very
pronounced “But definitely, yes.”

Whatever the answer, the fact
remains that the Yankee power-
house, Gehrig, Di Maggio, Selkirk
and Dickey cannot be depended on
to win the bit of fluff through
their hitting powers alone. Rather,
the situation depends upon the
ability or otherwise of the Champ’s
hurling brigade which, despite my
prediction of a Yankee year in ’38,
eauses a slight furrow of apprehen-
Sion between these noble brows.

The Yanks have, of course,
Gomez and Ruffing, both twenty-
game winners last year, and two
stalwarts in Andrews and Hadley,
although neither can be classed a
big winner even at his best. Pear-
son cracked up toward the end of
the season after a brilliant start |
and it remains to be seen just what
@ winter’s rest has done for his
balky flipper. Last of the regulars
is Johnny Murphy, claimed to he
the best relief pitcher in any
league.

By reason of the above, there-
fore, the original forcast stands,
albeit with fingers crossed. I
realize that hitting talent is not
near as important to a winning
team as pitching talent. However,
with a near great chucking squad
and a super-great assault squad the
Yanks should come through on

top.
= = * +

Wild Bill Boyd, Nate DPruxman’s
Jatest meal ticket, is one of the
few heavyweights who can and
will take a sock on the chin—90 per
cent of ’em can’t. Boyd has just
left the navy where he took part
in some 73 scraps (pugilistic) and
now intends to make his dough

that way.

* * *

It cost a Seattle promoter $26,000
to build Al Hostak into his pres-
ent hall-jamming greatness. Fred-
die Steele was also built by Seat-
dle and, of the $100,000 he has
acquired from the ring,-the North-
west city has contributed at least

three-quarters.
* * = *

The Aries Club, under Jess
Adinall’s wing, has been offered a
elub-to-club go with the best in
"Powell River a few weeks hence:
Tl take the tree again with a sug-
gestion that three out of four
Aries come back with a win.

= > = *

Look For: Steele to come back
stronger than ever. ... John Henry
Tiewis to give up the light-heavy
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Large Audience
Sees RPWU Show

OTTER POINT. — A capacity
crowd, composed of Victoria visit-
ors, local residents and boys from
Milligan’s camp, heartily enjoyed
a minstrel show and concert spon-
sored by the social committee of
the Relief Project Workers’ Union
in this camp last HBriday-.

Spontaneous applause which
greeted the performance fully jus-
tified the efforts of Jack Trace,
whose supervision and direction
was responsible for the excellent
show.

Fintertainers, all taken from the
ranks of the camp workers, in-
cluded Sue Wasan, Fred Williams,
Hector Lasko, ‘“Soapy”’ Joe Hodg-
son, G O’Brien, FE: (King) Cole;
Harry Bill, Roy Small, IN. Friesen,
H. Davey, W. Saunders, J. Philip,
J. G. Miller, Silver Pateman, social
committee convenor, and Tommy
Rogers form Milligan’s Camp.

A collection of $18 was taken to
defray expenses and to assist in
production of future socials.

The second half of the show in-
eluded a comedy skit by Jack Can-
uck, musical pugilist, and Blackie
Baker, followed by recitations
from J. Maloney and L. R. Peters.

Clint Johnson, Archie Smith and
Gurly Butler each took a crack at
Bing Crosby’s business and ren-
dered vocal selections of no mean
calibre. Harry Haywood wound
up the affair with a short comedy
monologue.

diadem and head for the green
heavyweight pastures.
* * * %
Screenings — Wrestling, doing a
flip-flop at Ny’s Hippodrome last
gate, drew $850. Rent alone is $700.
..- Wrestling trust borrowed 12,000

from Sandor Szabo. Recent
headline, “Szabo Wins Pacific
Coast Title.” . . . Joe Medwick, 37's
most valuable baseballer, started

out as a three-letter man at Car-
teret high and was the best pitcher
the school has ever had. ... The
late Howie Morenz started out as
a goalkeeper and let 21 pucks in
is first game. . . . Burp Barons,
unable to understand john Q@ pub-
lic’s Maine-Vermontish attitude to-
ward rassling, convened in NYawk
last month to figure out new
means of ring mayhem... . Result:
a couple of tons of mud is laid up
on the canvas for the pachyderms
to work in, but still no crowd.

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Buxton No Match
For Nickason

Hits Canvas
Ten Times

Now that the smoke from. our
latest battle of the century has lift-
ed and gone rolling down Denman
street into the harbor, Vancouver
has in its place one of the most
terrific stenches ever to hit the old
burg. Fite-fans must realize by
now that something must be done
to or for the prize-fighting game
(I almost called it “racket”’) here,
or let it forever rest in peace. This
is the second of the more phonier
affairs and another one will just
about KO the works.

Buxton hit the canvas with his
knee so often that if he hasn’t got
“housemaid’s knee I miss my
guess.” It certainly was not the

same Sonny Buxton that fought |

here a couple of years back, and
if that is a sample of his best he
should stick to stevedoring and let
brother Billy carry the family
fight.

Gus West, manager of Ray Price,
who was to show against Swartz
in a six round go, gives out that
Ray was having no part of the
blonde destroyer and dogged the
trip at the last minute. West had
to bring Kid Lee to sub. Lee hit
the dust after a minute and a half
of the first round.

Billie Giles, the colored boy, took
a funny-looking count in the first
round of the curtain raiser, ob-
viously well pleased with himself
at earning the stipend without
raising a hand. Charlie Williams
of Duncan did the damage.

Julius Troll, 18-year-old light-
weight, is being brought along far
too fast. Troll was outweighed by
Six pounds and put on a game show
under terrific punishment which,
he later admitted, was the worst
he had ever received. Troll has
the stuff, but this system of over-
matching will soon ruin him and
should be nipped right now.

Pro-Recs_ will “meet Richmond
for the third time Saturday to de-
cide which team will advance to

the semi-finals of the GVAA
Soccer - League’s Wilkinson Cup
series.

CONTENTS of NUMBER 3

64 pages—more than 200 pictures,
charts, montages. Covers: Cost of last
world war; the peace that led back to
war; America, new world master; sun-
RG set of Britain’s empire; the peace game
at Geneva; rise of the dictators; world

war for markets; Fascist international

defense of democracy ; preparations fos
new world war; America and peace.

@ Short, pithy articles by Richard Storrs

Ghilds, Frank C. Wanighen, Georg
Seldés, Maxwell S. Stewart, Christophe

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Sooke Camp
Gives Show

Victoria, Camp
Boys Mix

SOOKE:—Bill (Tiny) Metcalfe,
i172 1bs., from Project Camp 104,
drew with Jackie Patterson (170),
amateur ex-welterweight champion
of BG, in four rounds of fast action,
during which time both boys threw
caution to the winds and laced
each other with everything in the
bag.

Metcalfe, a member of the
RPWU, showed surprisingly well
against the more experienced Pat-
terson and figures to take the Vic-
toria bay next time out. He uses
the same bobbing, weaving style
used so successfully by Jack Demp-
sey and can take a sock on the
chin with the best of ’em, as well
as hand them out.

The semi-final between Harry
(Kid) Haywood, RPWU sports
committee convenor, Iost a close
decision to Billy Knowles, Victoria,
ex-featherweight champ of BC, in
a hair-raiser scheduled for. three
rounds.

Stan James brought his boys
from Victoria for these fights here
on January 28 and will, we under-
stand, be bringing another contin-
gent soon. James refereed the
matches and had his hands full.

Prelims Good.

The prelims were of the best
slug variety, with Frankie Plight
(129) catching too many on the
whiskers from George Bishop to
lose by a technical KO in the sec-
ond canto of a scheduled three-
round go.

Wal Christianson won over
Mickey McGuire by reason of a
damaged ankle which forced the
ever-ready McGuire to call a halt.

Bill Bodaly and Jack Stake, Vic-
toria welter, boxed three exhibition
rounds, no decision, as did Killer
Sherlock G36) and Jack Canuck,
and Buck Buchanan (130) and Art
Tyons (152). This last was a honey,
with Art’s weight counting in the
final round. No decisions were
given, however, in the exhibition
bouts in which all fighters were
boys from the camp.

Highlighting the program was
the wrestling match between Ernie
Riley (170); from the camp, and
Taiffler (165), from Victoria. The
boys grunted and groaned through
three four-minute rounds with
neither being good enough to floor
the other. Frankie reffed the
rassling and L. R. Peters, camp
secretary, did the announcing.

Maccabees Beat
Alliance Squad

Playing in a heavy wind that
amounted at times to a gale Col-
lingwood Workers’ Alliance and
Maccabees soccer squads showed
excellent football under adverse
conditions, with the Macs takine
a 3-1 nod over the lighter WA
team.

Marpole Liberals are the next
team to meet the redoubtable Atll-
ance boys at Oak Park tomorrow
(Saturday) and all WA players are
requested to meet at Norquay Park
at 1 p.m. Saturday.

Benny Lynch
Scores Over Filhol

GLASGOW.—In a non-title bout
held here Benny Lynch, world fly-
weight champion and Lonsdale belt
holder, scored a technical KO over
Maurice Filhol of France in the
fifth round of a scheduled ten-
round match.

Filhol entered the ring with a

three-pound advantage over Lynch,
but was no match for the dynamic

Youth Group Plans
Centre In North
Vancouver

Working on a plan to organize
2 youth cultural and sport group
in North Vancouver, is a group
of young people whose endeavors
in this behalf are already at-
tracting considerable interest on
the North Shore.

Worth Vancouver CCF Club has
given the use of its hall to the
group one night a week. :

After the youth have estab-
lished an active organization, it
is planned to strive for the set-
ting up of a community centre
along the lines of the Vancouver
West End Community Centre.

Six-Man
Football

Will It Sweep
Canada?

When next fall rolls around,
six-man football, the fastest grow-
ing sport in America, may find a
place on the Canadian gridirons.
It has swept the United States
northwest like a prairie fire, tak-
ing all schools and colleges before
it, and it is coming east to intrigue
the boys who like fast, wide-open
football which isn’t hampered by
time out for injuries.

Six-man football came into being
as a result of the high cost of
equipping 1i-men teams and was
too tough on communities with
little financial backing. Six-man
football to these schools has been
a  life-saver. Based on 1i-man
football, it’s much easier to play
and coach. It’s cheaper to support
and has been found to be much
less injurious to players.

Stephen Eppler invented the
pastime in 1934 and in 1937 more
than 600 teams were playing.
Wearly all six-men teams were
high school teams, mostly from the
rural sections, furnishing the play-
ers with a fine training in the
rudiments of football for future
use—when and if they were ever
to get to college.

The rule which requires the ball
to be passed and not merely han-
dled is the only major difference
between the two varieties of the
sport. The ball must actually pass
through the air after leaving the
passer’s hands and before entering
the receiver’s hand. This does not
apply to forward pass plays only,
but to all others:

To equip an i1i-man American
team costs an average of $40. Com-
pare that amount with the $13
average of a six-man team.

Three-minute warm-up before
each half, unlimited substitution,
soft headgear, fewer number of
men, and encouraging of place-
ment and drop kicks are all safety
measures. Six-man football is giv-
ing thousands of American kids a
chance to play the game that they
might not otherwise have had.

Hit Tokio
Olympiad

World Protest
Against Japan

PARIS. — An active campaign
against holding the 1940 Olympic
Games in Tokio is being conducted
here. Feeling against Japan runs
high, and it is being stressed that
the preparations under way for the
holding of such an important event
as the Olympic Games in Tokio,
while China is being ravaged by
Japan in a mockery to all real
sportsmen.

Members of the Irish Olympic
Games committee have backed the
stand taken here and have declared
that Japan must not organize the
games while present situation ob-
tains in China.

Support for Norway’s claim to
organize the winter games is grow-
ing rapidly. It is mooted that the
eity of Oslo, together with the Nor-
wegian government, will supply the
necessary finances. Charles Hoff,
Norwegian ex-pole- vaulting cham-
pion, has protested against Japan
and has expressed a desire to see
Great Britain organize the sum-
mer games,

In the Zurich paper, Sport, Jim
Hoffen writes: “From all over the
world a big democratic movement
against Tokio is needed. This
would be a grand gesture to peace-
lovers. Gannot we force the Inter-
national Olympiad Committee to
take a stand conforming to sports-
manship? We must act.”

Favorite Dies
After Steeplechase

GATWICK, Eng.—Sir Lewllyn’s
li-year-old Ego, one of the favor-
ites for the Grand National classic
at Aintree on March 25, collapsed
and died recently after finishing
fourth in the four-mile Steward’s
handicap steeplechase. Ego was
made a 20-1 shot for the Grand Na-
tional this week when first accept-
ances of the 57 entries were an-
nounced. Another Grand National
entry, Arthur Sainsbury's Blue
Shirt, was the winner of the
Steward’s handicap.

Eigo’s death was attributed to an
unsuspected heart ailment which,
combined with his age and the
arduous steeplechase run, combined
to bring about the tragic end to his
career.

The CCF eleven defeated BC Box,
runners up, 1-0 in a second divi-
sion Vancouver and District Soccer
League game Saturday.

Briton.

Gouncil, local trade unions, Victoria

6,500 Represented At Meet i
Victoria Sets Up |
China Committe!

VICTORIA, BC, Feb. 10 —Decision to set up a committe | p
organize a campaign for medical aid to China, was made <}
public meeting here Wednesday when 19 delegates, repres:
ing approximately 6,500 people, laid plans for extension of 4
work of the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy.

Among the organizations repre- = 2
sented were: Trades and Labor| merce building, Friday; Febri\§
25, the first show from 7 to |
p.m., the second from 8:45 to 15
p.m. ie
A large gathering of observer §&
the meeting heard Rev. Bryce
lace; Joseph Hope, Chinese repr
ative; Norman Goe, Trades and
bor Gouncil, and Bill Carson, yc
representative, plead the causi #
invaded China. '

Resolutions endorsed urged §&
embargo on war material to Ja.
and a strengthening of the boy &
on Japan-made goods. Strong ©
test against the Quebec pad § |
law was also made.

Youth Council, Chinese Youth |
Gouncil, Chinese Wational Salva-
tion Bureau, Advance Youth Club,
as well as other women’s and fra-
ternal organizations.

Officers of the committee will
be at 14380 Cormorant street, or in
eare of Victoria Unity Produce,
Cormorant street, where bandages,
elothing, drugs and other medical
supplies to be sent to China will
be collected.

Two showings of the moving pic-
ture, “China Strikes Back,’ will be
given in the Chamber of Com-

Japanese Hired At Lower Wages
Victoria Trades Council |
Protests Firing Of Logge:

VICTORIA, BC, Feb. 10.—Organized labor here has. tal
a stand against the Kapoor Lumber company which recently
placed white loggers with Japanese on the city watershed ©
lower wages, the Trades and Labor Council backing the prot
registered by Alderman Alex Peden, who protested this act
in the city council.

Twenty men had been logging®
on the watershed, receiving 75
cents per thousand feet, but were
notified by the company two
Months ago they would have to
accept 65 cents per thousand and
provide their own tools. Refusal
to accept this cut resulted in hir-
ing of Japanese, who have been
working, ever since. It was decided
to request the city council to have
the Dominion fair wage clause in-
serted in all future contracts for
work.

The Trades Council will also
make representation to the immi-
gration authorities at Ottawa, the
provincial department of labor and
the Trades Union Congress to pre-
vent entry into Canada of motion
picture crews from the United
States to manufacture movies at

tion would affect making of qu
pictures in Victoria,
Proposed increase in radio lice
fees were protested by the cour
The following were appoin
chairmen of active committees |
the council: Press, W. H. Youk
Legislative, C. Chivers; Audit <
Finance, R. W. Nunn; Build
Trades, H. White.
James Wilson was elected sec
tary of the council in the place
Miss Evelyn Johnson, who resi
ed to take a position as sch
teacher in the Peace River distr
The council elected three d
gates to attend the newly organi
branch of the Canadian League
Peace and Democracy, after he
ing an address by Ered Fox, r
resenting the league.

Toronto, holding that the oo

Unwin Assists Union

Edson Loggers Strike, Win
Restoration Of Wage Cui

EDSON, Alta., Feb. 10—Confronted by the Alberta gc
ernment’s recent statement that “nothing could be done becat
amendments to the Minimum Wage Act were now law,” cre
of three lumber camps declared a strike on wage reductions |
week and in two days won an agreement which restored i
wage cuts and established the right of collective bargaining.
Officials of the TWA learned on :
January 19 that lumber operators Sibbalds, Menerys and Frank C
had been successful in their pres- | Sers camp and, despite provocati
sure on the government to reduce | Were maintained solidly.

the minimum wage for lumber All truck drivers, tie-loaders a
workers to $30 a month and board | landing men were solidly w
—a cut of $6 a month for inex-| the strike, involving 400 logge
perienced workers and $13.02 for; and with the assistance of R. T
experienced men. Tie hackers’ | win, Mi.A (#dson), a reversion
minimum was lowered by 25 cents. | the previous scale was agreed ur
Union officials armed with reso- | and the operators agreed to me
lutions against these amendments, | union officials when called.
obtained a hearing with the gov-
ernment, but without satisfaction.
Camp delegates of the union pro-
ceeded to negotiate with lumber
operators for a maintenance of the
original wage scales, but met with
refusals. Strikes were called in

Appreciation of the trade uni’
policy of the PA was shown tl
week by a donation of $9 to t
sustaining fund of the paper irc
Local 468, Bakery and Confectic
ery Workers’ Internationa! Unior

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