\ ’ press with every issue of the day and times. At every opportunity he. drove Press Builder Extraordinary HAT which stood out most in OV Bill Bennett’s life as a fighter for socialism was his tireless and consistent struggle to maintain and develop a fighting labor press. Ol’ Bill’s success as a campaigner was derived to no Frgtieil extent from his very wide circle of readers, friends and old cronies; But it ae founded on the fact that he tied up the imperative need for a workers home to workers seeking the truth of events going on around them that | they would never find it in the slanted ‘‘news” and biased editorials of a commercial press which was itself an. integral part of monopoly capitalism. “Tf workers want to know something about economics, or Politics either,”? he wrote in reply, to an alleged treatise on modern eocnomics pub-_ lished by a Vancouver daily, “they should not seek such knowledge from the hack editorial writers of the capitalist press. The work for which these §Imonkeys-on-a-stick are paid, sometimes thirty pieces of silver, is not to make economic problems clear to the workers, but to confuse them. } “That is why we need our own press; that is why papers like the _ Pacific Tribune are absolutely necessary.” —TOM McEWEN, in HE WROTE FOR US: The Story of ; Bil] Bennett, Pioneer Socialist Journalist. ’ Wis What will you do in our drive for new readers? Get a sub- today TENENIBN BIE! AU BUBB RIEU RRM B ERB URE BRIBE RU ESR TT UE UE THESE ARE OUR LEADING PRESS CLUBS Kitsilano 3 Liv: Fairview: 7 Philip Halperin — é Grandview 8 Sea and Shore _.- 6 West End 8 > 6 ees : é ee SPORTLIGHT . By BERT WHYTE —— TAKE A WALK around town and you find‘opinion divided on the world’s heavyweight championship bout September 23 in Philadelphia between Jersey Joe Walcott and Rocky Marciano, (Most fight filberts agree that Walcott, unlike Tennyson’s brook, can’t go on forever, but the cagey old veteran has surprised so often that some think he'll upset the dope again and get the nod over Marciano. “Yioou like Rock to win,” Don Guise of ‘the Civic Employees Union said to me this week. “What odds will you give me?” I like 'that. He’ll bet on ‘the ch'iamp if the gets odds. What’s the world coming to, when a heavyweight champion enters the ring as underdog in the betting? (Can Marciano take Walcott? Yes, I think so. Jersey Joe will walk around, pivot, shuffle and do his little two-step, but surely Rocky won’t be fazed by this cute act. Maybe he’ll think Walcott lis all gloves (see cut) in the early stages of ithe battle, ‘but when the old champ begins to tire the Rock should crash through ‘his defences. . : The 28-year-old Brockton belter is being compared to Jack Dempsey in his early years. He hits hard with either hand, is Jersey Joe may look like this to Marciano. as tough as they come, and is most dangerous when hurt. Marciano isn’t yet a ‘fighting machine like Dempsey in 1919, | however. He's a more open target than Jack ever was, and his boring in style isn’t as effective as Dempsey’s ‘bobbing, weaving attack. In knocking out clever Harry Matthews in two rounds Rocky uncorked a paralyzing left hook which most experts didn’t know lhe possessed. Fiact is, this left wasn’t so good until he began cultivating it in strenuous gym sesions recently. Which shows that he’s still learning his trade. ‘ Start talking about Marciano and soon you find yourself selling Walcott short. Hell's bells, how can that old man continue fin the ring at his age? Facts are stubborn ‘things, and the facts show that Jersey Joe confounds the experts (and his opponents)’ every time out. Nevertheless, here’s my prediction: Rocky Mar- ciano ‘to win the heavyweight ‘title from Jersey Joe Walcott by a knockout. : * * * “GOING TO the Pep-Woods fight?” I asked a shoe-shine boy on Hastings Street the afternoon of the bout. “Naw,” he said, “I know what will happen without going, Willie Pep will win it easy on points, but he won’t exert himself tnless Woods gets too cocky and sneaks one in. But I don’t think he’s that good.” - The lad knew his boxing. Pep was jnst too classy all the way. Once when Woods landed a hard one Willie mur- mured: “Watch yourself, son.” Woods glared at him. * * * ONE SEASON crowds another. Big league biaseball is catch- ing the headlines at the moment, with flag winners in ‘both the National and American still in doubt. But down in a corner of the sports pages appears a story saying that the National Hockey League opens its. 70-giaame 1952-53 schedule on October 9. Base- ball and football finals will be on then. ‘So we have the spectacle of horsehides, pigskins and pucks competing for attention. What is this, anyway—summer, fall or winter? PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 19, 1952 — PAGE 11 pg ii daly 5