Page Six THE PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE CITY AMATEUR CLUBS TO MEET South Van Show Good New Club Has Promising Talent Thanks to wholehearted support of district merchants and residents, Bill Garner’s South Van Athletic club had a ‘standing room only’ Sign up long before the first bout on its first boxing card last weel. The show featured Norm Dawson, dominion amateur welterweight Champion just back from the Empire Games in Aus- tralia, in an exhibition bout with Jimmy Symes. The main event brought together Eddie Troll, Aries club bantam fiash, and Loby Crooks, hard-hit- ting: SVAC favorite. Toby won on ageressiveness. The balance of the card dis- played a string of talent that spoke well for Garner's matchmaking prowess, not one bout being over- matched: Brian Whent (SVAG) vs. Stan Malley (SVAG), draw; Frank Gil- lis GSVAC) vs. Kato (Olympic), draw; Stan Vernon (SVAG) ys. Woolrich (Olympic), draw; Felix de Palmo (SSG) decisioned Fred Steel (unattached); Ron Vincenci (SVAC) lost to Frank Glaney (un- attached); Tommy Syme vs. Pever- all, exhibition; Harry Cunningham (SVAG@) decisioned T. Wiltzen (Cloverdale); Gordon Purser (SV AC) decisioned Bob Hickey (Olym- pic); Ed Lindy vs. Mike Burness, draw; Tony Crooks (SVAC) de- cioned Eid Troll (Aeries). Billy Hough did a good job of announcing as did Billy Oates on the judging. Tommy Panassa, our favorite referee, was the third man in the ring for all bouts. ORANGE HALL SATURDAY, 8:30 P.M. BOXING and WRESTLING EXHIBITIONS Vancouver Sports Ciub 099 9999O00906600000006 ~sPECIAL! While You Wait... Ven’s Half Soles and Rubber $1.00 AS GSscé es Empire Shoe Repairs Heels - - - -= Ladies’ Half-Soles - Bunka, For Long Time; Big = = — —— == wartz To H e ad Mailardville Card First Boxing-Wrestling Show To Be Staged In Valley Town Turnout Expected. s Featuring also the clever local youngster, Louis Sauve, and K. Olsen, heavyweight wrestler from Maillardville, the card is bound to be a sure fire affair. For his main wrestling event Langstaff has signed George Bunka, former Alta. and Sask. middleweight wrestling champion, who will tangle with EK. Olsen, Maillardville. Others to appear will be Sonny Griffiths, welterweight, who is mak- ing a comeback, Frankie Wagner, Cariboo lightweight champion, and little Helix de Palmo, current threat to the bantam weight honors of Canada’s Baby Yack. Powell River Wins Henderson Cup CUMBERLAND. One of the largest crowds of the season turned out to watch the local high-school boys lose the Henderson cup basketball fixture by a 30-29 score to the Powell River entry. In the girls' fixture for the Bell- Irving cup, the Cumberland High School girls brought home the trophy for the first time in defeat- ing the Powell River girls 31-29. 66 East Hastings Street ’ MiMixed Choir of 100 People Auspices: TICKETS: Cosmopolitan Concert EMPRESS THEATRE SUNDAY, APRIL 24... at S P.M. Gymnasium Display. 60-Piece String Orchesizra Songs, Musical Selections, by Ukrainian, Finnish, Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Scandinavian, Italian, English, and Other Talent Leslie Morris Will Address Gathering Joint Cosmopolitan Concert Committee In Aid of People’s Advocate and Weekly Clarion Bancing, Comedy, Etc. 25 Cents | } “We Do Patronize List’ of the Vancouver & New Westminster Trades and Labor Council Hotel & Restaurant Employees Union, Local 28 | Patronize a Union Restaurant... THE FOUR WHITE LUNCHES are on the Not For the first time in many moons, Maillardville vll have a really big time boxing-wrestling show, according to Promoter George Langstaff. : George has signed up the famous featherweight, Ernie Swartz, who leaves for a title match in the east shortly, and Al Ford, colored lightweight flash. | at stud as the one that wins, and as both are now top-o’-heap hosses and will get top price fees as they now stand, it is hardly likely that the much hoped for affair will come off. If it does, my jit still rides on the Admiral. =z * & Rumor that old man Jim Brad- dock is leaving his chimney corner and gonna launch a comeback, by erackey. I think the Braddock has his eye on some of that easy Euro- pean money. Incidentally, Gene Tunney= distillery makes Jack Dempsey whiskey which is sold at Jim Braddock’s beanery. The Aries club boxing show origi- nally scheduled for the Orange Hall last Wednesday was postponed on the refusal of the AAU to grant its Sanction. Reason given was that it was not in the best interests of amateur boxing to hold a program every week. Seems to be a regular habit with that august body these days. Evidently the AAU is bend- ing backwards protecting the bi- monthly am. shows at the WSC, the crowd that waits for a small elub to bring up a youngster and then calmly annexes him if he wants good competition. If not, he ean’t get the chance to fight very often owing to the hold up of AAU Sanctions on any show that threat- ens to give too tough an opposi- tion. Understand also that another club will bring in boys from across the line and with sanctions too. And come out fighting, boys ... I HEARD IT THIS WAY... Glenn Cunningham goes to Eng- land this August to meet Sydney Wooderston, England’s great miler. ... Stan Zbyszko wowed the cauli- flower trade in NY recently when he vehemently named himself the only guy to bring back an honest wrestling game. .. Promoters lost 4,500 fish in the Casey-O’Ma- honey burp tangle at the Garden last morith. . . . Ben Bernie do- nated an ambulance to the Spanish loyalists. . . . Sid Beech, five times winner of the western Canadian billiards title, lost a close decision to Canadian champ Trothil] in an “off the record’? game last week - . - Somebody should teach Eddie Troll how to punch and Pll bet he could lick anything his weight around here. ... This week’s post- ponement of wrestling here means that the under-cover “boycott” on its work. . . Washington fight moguls name Hostak as No. 1 chal- lenger to Freddie Steele’s crown. . - . Max Baer is touring the States : SS as a referee . .. Len Harvey By Art Schwartz ELL, maybe War Admiral and Seabiscuit will do a special at Belmont this fall but I have my doubts. After all, 100,000 berries is chickenfeed compared to the stud fees these two world beaters will drag in after their balmy racing days are over. The nag that gets licked in such a test will naturally be unable to attract as fancy a price¢% trounced Jack McAvoy ... Archie San Romani, sensational miler of a few years ago, is in Kansas try- ing to cure a lung disorder . . . Don Budge will not turn pro until he has licked the world (sez he) . . . The Yanks are sadly in need of Di Maggio, as witness their very poor showing this spring. . . Blind youngsters in Brantford, Ontario, played ice hockey last winter, used ! a tin can for a puck... . Maxie Sehmelling gives Hitler credit for raising the prestige of boxing throughout the world — which should make Tex Rickard turn over in his grave .. . $400,000 followed Seabiscuit to Agua Caliente re- cently. Kitchener Union Tops Hockey Honors For Rubber Workers KITCHENER. — Entering into an industrial league here for the first time, trade union members of the United Rubber Workers of America carried off top hockey honors this winter. Their entry into the league gained after much difficulty, the unionists Swept all opposition before them and at the close of the season last week attended a banquet in their honor at the YMCA where they were presented with the league shield emblematic of the senior city championship. Players were given small placques in honor of their hockey victories. The union achievement is ex- pected to give added punch to fut- ure athletic achievement among the United Rubber Workers’ members and already union members are looking around for fresh fields to conquer. During its first season in the league, the union did not lose a Single game. In addition it has administered two convincing de- feats to Selleos, the steel champions from Hamilton, and recently gave the strong Remington-Rand outfit a 5-2 lacing. Cricketers Out Of Hibernation Paul Boesch, circuit boss, is doing | Cricketers will swing into action at Brockton Point this Sunday when the nets will be placed for the first time this year. 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Sports independent amateur clubs and Various youth recreational clubs and centres have been called to a general meeting to be held in the Orang Hall, Friday, April 22. Purpose of the meeting is to dis- cuss means of developing a better community attitude toward ama- teur sport and to develop a heal- thier competitive spiirt among amateur and community bodies within the city. Organizations attending will be: Victoria Drive Recreational Club, Hastings Hast Community Centre, Windermere Community Centre, Dunbar Community Centre, Aries Amateur Athletic Club, Vancouver Sports Club, Manitoba Recreational Centre, North Shore Olympic Club, West Van Community Centre, and a number of language organiza- tions. Invitations have also been sent to all United Church Young Peo- ple’s Associations, YMCA, VAC, and the Meraloma Club. Bill Richardson, Victoria Road Ree maestro, stated this week that the meeting will tend to clear the air of all misunderstnding between the AAU and various clubs throughout the city wishing to run under AAU charters and with the sanction of that body. Bunka Wins VSC Squirm Tosses Preston In Hard Bout In the main event of last Sat- urday’s wrestling show at the VSC George Bunka, Tsar of the middle- weight burpers in these parts, used a new and improved airplane spin to win a hotly contested match from Bill (Baldy) Preston. Preston eame in weak, having just given a blood transfusion to a dying club member. Tarzan, shooting for a return match with Bunka, threw lanky Johnny Johnstone, but not without a hot argument. Vic Butler was underneath when the ref patted Billy Wiles on the back, making it even steven for this duo. The curtain raiser stole the show when Scotty Jackson and Bill Mas- son, arch enemies of the mat, slammed each other around for three rounds to a one-fall draw. Emil Lust Wins At Port Alberni PORT AULBERNI.—Emil Lust added another to his stack of fistic victims here when he poured the Cariboo Kid all over Russ Gatzke’s shiny new canvas at the Elks Hall in the second round of a scheduled ten-round main event. Dud Miller blasted out a third round KO over Red Campbell of Vancouver in the semi-final. Sonny Griffiths drew with Pug Biggs. In the special event of the eve- ning Russ Gatzke, promoter-fighter, won a split decision over Mascot Smith of Seattle. BEVAN,—Im a keenly contested Continued Suit soccer game last Sunday the Bevan married men defeated bachelors. —_— =~ “OVERSEAS EMPRESS OF BRITAIN SAILING JULY 8, Is3e RETURNING AUGUST 26, 1938 ©. VISIT « « ENGLAND, DENMARK, SWEDEN SOVIET RUSSIA (21 DAYS) FRANCE : INTERESTING — EDUCATIONAL PROGRESSIVE CONDUCTOR—MR. J. COWAN PHOKE OR WRITE FOR ILLUSTRATED FOLDER 59 YORK ST., TORONTO : EL. 5750 TOURS CRUISES STEAMSHIP RESERVATIONS x the local | down below and on deck, were in- competent. I have been going to sea for 30 years and have never seen anything like it. “The chief engineer made the statement.to me that the men were the worst he had ever seen, there being only one AB who could be called a seaman.” J. Maskell, ITBU secretary, de- clared to the Advocate that a fire- man who quit the Grey before she left Victoria had made a statement to a company official that he had been supplied with liquor while on the Grey and also in Vancouver. “I can produce a witness in the person of a government official who heard this statement on liquor- drinking,” Maskell stated. Invite Telford, Ewen To Speak CUMBERLAND, BGC, April 14— Preparations for monster May Day celebrations here are reported by the committee in charge. With May Day falling on Sunday, com- mittee has arranged for sports on Saturday, April 30, when free ice eream and soft drinks will be dis- tributed among the children. ~The demonstration will be held Sunday, with speeches at night from well known labor leaders. Tom- Ewen has been invited to ad- dress the people on behalf of the Communist party; Dr. Lyle Telford for the CCF; Colin Cameron, MLA (Comox-Alberni) as chairman. Eight Thousand Demand Embargo Petition forms signed by over 8,000 people in British Columbia, urging the dominion government to place an embargo on the shipment of war material to Japan, have been forwarded to Grant McNeil, MP, in Ottawa this week, by the BC section of the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy. The CCF leader has promised the League that he will present the petitions personally to Prime Minister Mackenzie King. WASHINGTON, DC, April 14. — The US administration has made $300,000 available for emergency loans to Washington State apple growers, principally in the Wenat- chee Valley. Continued /per cent unionized, and there Delegatio; , Wear me a woman, her arm /4 her 10-year-old boy who %| mayed, stood silently, and ve: i Beside me were two nun turned to me and said, Acas say that the government dd/p allow us to practice our rel) and that it is they, our er who are doing so!’” : “We ask Canadian and An) labor for the full power mora] and material aid on be # the democratic government | country,’ Preteceille Stated. | “We need food, milk for th dren, medical supplies for rm and civilian wounded. i “Moral force must remo-} stranglehold on Spain whic” vents us from buying the w} of defense. j “We urge a boycott on ma} of every kind, to and from. | Spain.” i Refusing to lose hope ov # Fascist advance toward th © the delegates said the coasta™ is Only one means of comm — tion between Barcelona and ~ cia and that supply will be ce On via the sea, where the as” rebel blockade is non-existen= Sistance will be more deter” than ever, but a lifting of th? DI bargo by sister democracies apt H spare thousands of lives. Spanish trade unionists, r bering 2,000,000 in the UGIA|S about 1,125,000 in the- Ana? (National) Confederation of I | are country’s harmony, ferences in religious and po! independence working together for | BI in pr j— without regard ta it affiliation, Preteceille said. IT Bj¢ try in loyal Spain is practical) been a tremendous influx of w 2] into metals, munitions and te id to release fighting men. Medical Supplies Sent To Ch Seventeen hundred pound: medical supplies leave British jumbia this weekend for Chin ¥ board the Empress of Russia | use of the medical unit unde: | direction of Dr. Norman Bett” Ganada’s ace surgeon now Shansi province. ifs SS a ee CARLETON CAFE Where Quality and Service Are Supreme 100% Union House 105 E. Hastings St. Johnny Kulsk, Mer. Tel. Sey. 4060 Private Dining BRooi for Banquets, Parties, Etc. 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