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Inarticulate,Maybe
But Not So Dumb

By LESTER RODNEY

A THLETES, like newspapermen and sailors, were supposed
to be dumb until a few years ago.

Fiction, the screen, press, radio, and stories around town por-
tray the hewspaperman as a cynical, wise-cracking lone wolf
sharpie with a definite leaning to liquor and little concern with
the affairs of the everyday world he reported.

The sailor was likewise supposed to be a lazy, shiftless
roamer who preferred liquor to work and Wages and a woman

in every port to both.

The athlete was held to be men-
tally bounded by the confines of
the sports section and not aware
of anything more significant than
his roommote’s batting average or
rolling with a punch.

Well, the newspapermen got to-
gether and formed themselyes a
dittie Guild, where all the Ione
wGlves bared one big, strons white

fang at the publishers, who had
been extracting and Knocking
them out one by one- And the
Sailors got together in a union,

which placed decent hours, food
and wages on the agenda well
ahead of a woman in every port
and a bottle of port with every
women.

That left the athlete. The dumb-
bell of the lot. Sh. Don’t talk poli-
tics with McQuirk, hell Jose sleep
and drop a punt in the big game.

That's what the newspapers said
—and hoped—the majority of the
newspapers anyway-

But these past few years have
given some definite indication that
athietes aren’t so dumb—and have
Biven rise to the thought that may-
be they never were so dumb as
they were supposed to be.

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HERE was the Brooklyn Eagie
Strike, where the most pro-
minent athletes in the country ral
lied to the support of the writers
they knew, the boys who had to
so cut on strike to live live human

beings and self-respecting journal-
ists. ... There were Joe Louis and
Jack Dempsey and Tommy Farr
and Jim Braddock and Joe DiMas—
€10 and Lou Gehrig and others on
& committee to help the strikers.
- - - Not one sports figure granted
an interview to the Bagie scabs
during the strike. .. Dumb, eh?

There were the two most popu-
lar baseball players in the coun-
try, Joe DiMaggio and Dizzy Dean,
defying an unwritten and un-
American ban to let the world
know that they thought a Nesro
pitcher was the greatest in the
world, and that they thought
Negro stars should be admitted to
the major leagues, an opinion since
echoed among the balll players of
the land.

There were many other things.
There were the boxing bouts for
the Scottsboro boys, soccer games
for Loyalist Spain, there was cham-
pion of the world Henny Arm-
strong the day before his biggest
fight composing a stirring poem in
which he wanted to know why
people who were opposed should
fight each other, instead of work-
ing together for peace . and
there was the extra fury and flash-
ing dynamite in Joe Louis’ Hsts as
he raced from his corner to blast
the foul-mouthed Wazi Schmelling
and his “Aryan” insults for Louis’
people to the canvas for the quick—
est kayo in heayyweight history.

Looking Back At Fight
Game During 1938

A former St. Louis shoe-shine boy, Henry Armstrong, was
the sensation of the year in boxing. After winning the world
featherweight title in 1937, Armstrong added the welterweight
and lightweight titles to his name. Thus, Henry became the first

fighter in history to rule three divi-
Sions at one time. Henry volun-
tarily relinquished the feather-
weight championship later.

Ti Joe Louis’ was a life-saver to
boxing in 1937, Henry Armstrong
was the man who kept it out of
the dump in °38. He beat Barney
Ross for the welterweight criwn,
and nosed out Lou Ambers for the
lightweight title. He beat a lot of
new faces, and wound up the year
by spotting Ceferino Garcia 12/
pounds and beating him in defense
of his welterweight laurels. Arm-
strong was definitely the fighter of
the year.

Now for the other divisions. Joe
Louis stopped Max Schmelling in
one round to firmly establish him-
Self as a real heavyweight cham-
pion.

Another Negro who pronounces
his name the same way as Joe,
John Henry Lewis, clung to his
light heavyweight crown although
he apparently has cutgrown the
175-pound limit. Joe and John
Henry fight for the heavyweight
title on January 25.

The middleweight title is clouded.
Solly Krieger kayoed Al Hostak,
Ehe man who trounced Champion
Freddie Steele, to gain general re-
segnition as the world 160-pound

Good Crowd Enjoys
vSC Card

Frank Hall, former BC middie—
weight champion, performed before
a fair sized crowd of sports fans
at the Vancouver Sports Club Sat—
urday night and pinned his oppon-
ent, Cliff Parker, amat£ur middile—
weight titleholder of Alberta, twice
in their six-round bout.

The club's middleweight cham-=
pion, Scotty tJackson, took the only
fall of the semi-final match from
Bill Wales, and Johnny Tutte took
Johnny Lamchuk in the only fall
of the opening bout.

ruler. But Freddie Apostoli, a two-
time yictor over Kreiger, is perhaps
the best of the middleweights.

The featherweight division is in
a jam. The N-B.A. recopsnizes Leo
Rodak. The New York Commission
recognized Joe Archibald, who beat
a good contender, Mike WGelloise,
after Armstrong gave up the cham-
pionship.

Sixto Escobar regained his world
bantamweizht title by beatings
Harry Jeffira in Sixto’s native Puer
to Rico. Although the flyweights
draw little water. Little Dado of
the U.S. and Peter Kane are about
the best of the lot.

Boxing produced one kingpin
who thad no nival. He is Mike
Jacobs, who established himself as
the tsar of boxing promotion.

ULFTA Mourns
Death of Member

Funeral services for Mrs. W.
Janush, 747 East Pender, will be
held Saturday at 2 pm from the
Ukrainian Labor Temple, 805 East
Pender, to Mountain View ceme-
tery.

Mrs. Janush

collapsed from a
heart attack Tuesday night and
died shortly after being admitted
to the General hospital. She leaves
‘to mourn her passing her husband,

eight children and eight grand-
children. Alex, James Wettie and
Polly are married, while John,

Mike, Peter, and Polly are at home.

The late Mrs. Janush was an ac-
tive and popular member of the
Women’s Section of the Wkrainian
Labor Farmer Temple Association.

OTTAWA, Ont, Dee. 29—Retire-
ment of W. A. Found, deputy min-
ister of fisheries, became effective
Saturday after 40 years’ service in
the government department.

The deputy minister was in Van-
ecouver last October when the inter—
national Pacific Salmon Investizga-—
tion Commission was formed fol-
lowing the Fraser River sockeye
treaty with the United States.

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National

Convention

Muscle Men To
Gather In City

pes educationalists are

expected from all parts of
Canada to attend the Canadian
Physical Education Association
convening here in 1939 it was an-
nounced by Ian Wisenhardt, di-
rector of the Provincial Recrea-
tion Centres.

A convention committee of
seven was elected comprising Ian
Bisenhardt, president; G. John-
son, recording secretary; Paul
Hozooclin, corresponding secre
tary; Bric Martin. treasurer; the
Misses Dorothy Glahn, Elsie
Robertson and Louise Stirk, ex-
ecutive members.

Miss Gertrude E. Moore was
elected representative of the
British Columbia section to the
convention.

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The City
In Brief

All members are urged to attend
the Mothers’ Council
Tuesday, January 3,
O’Brien Hall, 404 Homer Street.
isleection of officers will take place.

Winner of the turkey, raffled in
aid of the Mackenzie-Papineau
Battalion rehabilitation fund, was
T R. O’Brien, 3428 Cambridge
Street, with ticket No. 139.

¥YCEL members and their friends
are invited to attend the League’s
Wew Year’s eve party and dance.
Tickets can be purchased in ad-
vance at 50 cents at Room 49,
Plack Building. Refreshments.

Winners in the Jewelry Workers’
Union drawing were: Summerville,
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