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SPORTLIGHT

By BERT WHYTE -

ARTHUR KING, the ex-Toronto lightweight, gets a fourth
spot ranking in the September Ring ratings, and is, incidentally,
the only ‘Canadian to win recognition in any division. Alhead of
King are champion Lauro Salas of Mexico and three US. con-
tenders, James ‘Carter, George ‘Araujo and Luther Rawlings.

I remember seing King fight several times in Toronto some
five or six years ago, when he was still a stripling. He was fast
and flashy, had a good punch and
the aggressive instinct without
which no fighter can get to the
top.

These qualities, important as
they are, won’t get a fighter very
far in New York unless he also has
the right connections. It is a fact
that professional boxing (like
many professional sports and some
amateur ones) has become a rack-
et, with big-time gamblers con-
trolling the destinies of the men
who do ‘the fighting.

If King ever manages to get a
bout with Salas he might bring
Canada its first world champion-
ship since the days of Vancouver’s
Jimmy McLarnin. Compared to
such ring greats as Joe Gans and
Benny Leonard, King doesn’t look
so good—but then, neither does
Salas. Not long before he took the
crown from Jimmy Carter, Salas
lost a 15-round decision to Jimmy
in Los Angeles. The best that can:
tbe said for Lauro is that he’s al-
ways in there giving his best.

King recently dropped a 10-
round decision to George Araujo
at the Garden, but it was a split
igen id Biases verdict and the crowd seemed to
think that Arthur had won the nod. “There were moments during
the bout when the Canadian thad ‘Araujo missing like a crude
novice.” wrote Jersey Jones in Ring magazine.

* * *

_ LAST WEEK I wrote a piece proving that you can’t beat the
races, so what happens? The biggest crowd of the season flocks
to Hastings Park on Labor Day and shoved $312,384 through the
pari-mutuel wickets in an effort to prove me wrong.

Well, I must admit that I was there myself, hoping that my
little sheaf of two-dollar bills would grow, arid grow, and grow.
Instead they shrank, and shrank, and shrank, until the seventh
and eighth races, when Abdullah and Lou Gallator ran as I
gambled they would, and saved me from bankruptcy.

‘Abdullah ran a beautiful race to beat the favorite, National
Debt. Ronnie Williams kept him close to the rail all the way,
and when the grey challenged in the stretch, Abdullah had enough
left to hang on down Heartbreak Lane. He paid a respectable
$9.90 on a win ticket, :

* > an *
ANYONE WHO doubts that the 1952 Olympic Games were
a mighty force for peace should read a report on the Games
written ‘by a 22-year-old University of California student and pub-
lished in the Los Angeles Times. ‘A sports writer on the sheet

commented that the student, Dick Hamilton, “wrote it rather
laboriously, ‘because his right hand was almost shot off in Korea.”

“When the Russian Olympic team marched on the field at
Helsinki on opening day thousands of ‘hate-filled eyes followed
them,” wrote Hamilton. “Among those eyes were mine. I had
come ‘to ‘hate anything or anybody connected with Communism.
I saw an arrogant, ‘hardened, ‘bitter group of athletes. At least
that’s what T ‘thought I saw.

_ “But I was sadly mistaken. On the following day, the first
actual day of competition, I saw a Russian turn and shake the
hand of the ‘American who had just beaten him. As the Games
progressed ‘this happened not once, not twice, but every time a
similar situation arose. . .

“T believe that if the people of every country could see the
(Games ‘in their own back yard,’ closer harmony would be auto-
matic. I also believe that if the people of the world could con-
duct themselves ‘as their athletes did at the Olympic Games, war
would ‘be on ‘the way out.

“T only hope that the Olympics can be staged more frequently,
and that by watching 'the men and women who compete, the nations
of the world will see how ridiculous bloodshed is and settle down
to live at long last in ‘peace on earth, ‘good will to men’.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 5, 1952 — PAGE 11