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THE PEOPLE’S

ADVOCATE

February 25,

HE FLIES THROUGH THE AIR—

Not all the enthusiastic

lads and lassies who mix themselves up with the North Shore scenery over weekends may be able to do this, but there’s no doubt about the

growing popularity-of sling.

O-HUM, and so Mike Jacobs stuck another hundred thou’ in his waistcoat pocket and said, “What a good boy am I.” And so, dear children, until Joe Louis defends his title the next

time—sood night! + * *

Looking over the current issue of Ring I notice in sixth place on the grapple ratings the name of a Hindu, one Rham Singh. That is

not unusual, but this is: Rham Singh is none other than a local boy who at one time was not con- Sidered good enough for our weekly mat goes, not even as a prelim. He used the name of Ojaghar Singh here. Singh was a member of the VSC, and noting his style and possibilities, Tiny Bazano, Alex Boyston, and Jack Locharno under- took to teach him the game from top to bottom. The result is that the India boy is now coining heavy

sugar in the eastern mat wars. *

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Think Moore's contract with Wickason is usury? Look this over. Jimmy “We Wuz Robbed”

Jones, manager of Sonny Jones and Katsumi Moriaki, pays all expenses out } of his boy's pay, then splits the ; remainder 50-50 ; with Sonny and 55-45 with Kat-

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That explains Popular VSC why he refused Wrestler Blackburn's offer to take Sonny

over and have him in Madison Square Gardens in 4 period of six months. Blackburn is the boy who showed Joe Louis the way-

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I still think Jimmy McLarnin got in a lucky punch the night he fought Young Corbett for the cham- pionship. This Gorbett guy keeps doing the impossible. What now, Fred Apostoli? Wuz we robbed?

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sheet, the Gymnast. It’s worth it, and then some. * Rumors have been seeping out of the land of the Swastika lately that Max “Der Schlager’ Schmeling car- ried the African Benfoord over the route in their recent comedy in Hamburg. In fact it’s hinted around that the populace was “‘not to expect too much” of Max as he had hurt his hand in training. This, of course is just the plain old bulloney. Max will pretend to be getting older and will enter the ring at such odds that a nice bet will just about pay off the German national debt (or do the Nazis pay their debts?) Should he win. =

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Seandal sheets come with the heading ‘‘Wise Money Rides On

Mann.” Figure it out for yourself. Louis poured him on the canvas in three easy ones. Rumors had been running riot along Broadway that Louis was in no shape to fight. Consequently, more shirts than ever before were riding on the short ender.

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SCREENINGS ... Crowds at the VSC Saturday nite shows are ask- ing for Paddy O’Brien to show .. . Eastern Amateur Hockey League members haye been barred from Madison Square Gardens on accu- sation that they have been receiy- ing weekly salaries of from $30 to $75 per week.

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The year 1937 was a year when nations fought in undeclared wars while prizefighters declared wars and then wouldn't fight.

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Three hundred and seventy-five grappladdicts assembled in the Vancouver Sports Club’s Orange Hall headquarters last Saturday night and bellowed lustily as 340 pounds of human flesh slithered, bumped and steeplechased around the rope-enclosed mat of the club arena.

Pitted against each other were the arch rivals of middleweight wrestling (pronounced “rasslin’’’), George Aberhardt Bunka and Don Fisherman Lott, just fresh from a week on the open sea and looking as tough as a restaurant steak. “Lott was all lined up to meet the Boston Kid, but would not hear of it, saying, “I want Bunka.” Bunka he got—and how!

The first fixe minutes of the bout did not show much, except the stealthy panthering of Bunka up and down the ring and Lott beating his hairy chest and de- manding that the Uke champ “come and get it.” Finally Lott opened up like a blizzard and started off the most hectic match in the club’s history by stamping on George’s pedal digit and follow ed up with several more of the same calibre and not sparing horses either.

Jackson’s Hands Full.

Scotty Jackson, third man, had his hands full during the entire affair, cautioning Bunka every third second for hanging, stran- gling, biting, hair pulling, gouging, kmeeing and numerous other cute little tricks that rather spoiled the early part of the evening for Lott.

Bunka took the first fall after twenty minutes with a reverse Boston crab, and after much chas- ing Don finally caught up with him and held him long enough to take the second fall, using Jimmy Londos’ famous toe hold.

The final fall was taken by Don Lott when Referee Jackson was flat on his .tummy suffering from a body slam.slipped to him by Bunka a few moments before in a free-for-all.

Paddy O’Brien subbed for Jack- son and gave the fall to Lott, but Bunka threw down on Dons imme- diately, pinning him, and was de- clared winner by Jackson, who came out of the fog just in time to catch the last fall.

The crowd came to its feet as one man, demanding that Lott be given the title. This Jackson re- fused to do on the grounds that he was the referee and did not see the first fall. It looked for a minute like a free-for-all, but with the exception of one or two major verbal battles around the ringside there was no actual demonstration of violence.

Boston Kid Loses.

Rounding out the bang-up card, the Boston Kid, who showed so well against Bunka a few weeks ago, lost to the heavier Mike Kol- bas in three five-minute rounds. Leo Williams and Fritz Schmidt pleased with what looked more like a wrestling exhibition than 4 match, so smooth and evenly did the boys work, using every hold in the bag.

Sailor Hogan and Frankie Wag- ner, a likely looking young fellow. with a great wallop and plenty of the main boxing

style, drew in event. Jimmy Dumont stepped up an-

other rung on the ladder of fistic fame by ekeing out a close decision over Mickey Kackie. This was the best boxing bout on the card and bad the fans hoarse from cheering. Dumont is improving greatly with each appearance and should soon see some high-class scrapping.

Amateur Athletic Association

LONDON.—Great Britain is reported to be ready to with- draw its ski team from the 1940 winter Olympic Games in Japan. The decision is expected to be conveyed to other com- peting nations within the next fortnight. The London Daily Mail said the news will be conveyed by Arnold Uunn, “Father

of British Skiing,” at the Interna- tional” Ski Conference in Lahti, Finland, where twenty-five nations will be represented.

Anger over the movement to bar ski teachers from competing in the Olympics is said to be behind the British Ski Club’s move to with- draw from the winter games. The British Ski Club is the governing body of the sport in this country.

Japan, backed by Italy and Ger- Many, will demand that teachers be excluded from competing in the 1940 games at the Lahti meeting.

Great Britain, supported by Aus- tralia and Switzerland, maintains that it is illogical to bar instructors and sanction “amateurs” who have been trained over long periods and at state expense.

Rift From ’36 Games

London papers say that the ma- jority of the nations were split into two camps by the rift started in 1936 at the German Olympic Games and it is thought possible that the winter games may never again be staged.

There is also a growing feeling on the part of the British public that the 1940 games should not be held in Tokio. Many sporting clubs have already expressed their desire to see a strong boycott movement get under way, and leading British sportsmen and writers have in- dicated that the holding of the games in Japan would be a slap in the face to sport lovers the world over.

Letters are appearing regularly in the London dailies urging 2 boycott agianst the holding of the 1940 Games on Nippon territory.

The British Amateur Athetic As- sociation executive council, in meet- ing here last week-end, unanimous- ly adopted a resolution against British participation in the sched- uled 1940 Olympic Games at Tokio.

The resolution, which further urged a boycott of the Tokio games by international athletic federations came on the heels of a biting reso- lution passed at the Empire Games at Sydney, Australia.

Delegates at Sydney voted against participation in games held in any country at war.

Japan Unlikely To Compete In Cup

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TOKYO.—The financial burden of the Chinese war may force Japan to withdraw from the 1938 Davis Gup tennis matches, authoritative sports circles intimated this week.

The Japanese entrance in the challenge rounds usually cost about 50,000 yen ($14,500), which Japa- nese tennis patrons, over-burdened with special war-time taxes, are not expected to be able to put up.

Japan was selected as Canada’s opponent in recent Cup drawings.

Steele May Not Fight In Northwest

SHATTLE.—It is not likely that the Northwest will see Steele in action this summer as forecast earlier. Steele has demanded $60,000 to meet Al Hostak who, by the way, goes to bat with Swede Berglund, San Francisco toughy, next week.

Wate Druxman, Seattle promoter, seems to think that 60 grand is too much to bring the Tacoma boy into Seattle, figuring that $25,000 should do the trick. Steele, how- ever, has other ideas and probably intends to make a little hay while his star is still bright, before tak- ing a chance with the up-and- coming young Hostak, who packs dynamite in either fist and is known throughout the fistic world as a “spoiler.”

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Cock=Fighting Thrives In Indies

TORONTO. — Canada’s income tax dodgers, the coupon clippers of the Oakes variety, lose and fortunes on the cock fights in the West Indies paradises where they live to escape the lawful levy on: the tremendous incomes they de- rive from their native country.

Cock fighting, which is barred from this country, thrives in Ber- muda, Cuba and other islands in the Carribean. Cocks are renowned for their gameness and once they are pitted against each other will fight to the death.

Tf an owner discovers that he has a cowardly bird, a quick twist of the neck ends its career, but it is rare that a cock shows fear.

The sport itsclf has been the cause of much controversy, there being those who claim the birds’ natural instinct is to fight and that to deprive him of battle is against his nature, and those who point out the horrible wounds suf- fered during a cock fight as proof of its cruelty.

There is no question that the ad- dition of razor-sharp gaffs about three inches in length is man’s idea and not the “game” cock’s. These gaffs enable the birds to in- flict injuries much more severe than would otherwise be possible and a well placed thrust by a bird wearing one will mean the end of his adversary’s career.

Gamecocks have their wings clip- ped short to enable them to jump higher and in most cases their combs are clipped to cut down the possibility of wounds.

Like the Roman gladiator of old his life is a short one, but while he lives and is victorious he is

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izes that his bird must have the best of everything if he is to pre- serve his strength and fighting in- stincts.

Cock fighting is now a sport of the wealthy idle, and any fight that takes place in this country does so without the sanction of the auth- orities who have placed a ban on it as sport.

A few months ago the discovery eame that cock fighting was being sponsored near Hamilton, Ont., by W. J. Southam, the newspaper pub- lisher. He was arrested after a raid, but was treated leniently by the magistrate who tried his case.

Harrison May Get Championships

SEATTLE.—Harrison Hot Springs will probably be named as the

scene of the Pacific Coast hydro- plane and runabout championships and the national runabout cham- pionships this year, says the chair- man of the Seattle Outboard Motor- boat Racing Association.

Hal Griffin Speaker at Concert

Dr. Almond Harper’s Metropoli- tan Symphony Orchestra and en- tertainers proved their popularity at last Sunday night’s concert held in the Orange Hall, under auspices of Vancouver Sports Club, when an audience of three hundred attend- ed. Garfield White was master of ceremonies.

Hal Griffin, acting editor of the People’s Advocate, was well re- ceived when he spoke briefly on the sports movement and fascism.

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Low Wages

In New ‘Bonanz:

ZEBALLOS, BC, Feb. 24.—(Special) —Although this n™

ing town has set a near record mined to cover initial costs of

scarcer and never was a gold strike utilized to exploit labor }

such an extent.

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in that enough gold has be operations, never was mor:

Zeballos is a sea of mud in which ¢ swarms of people continually splash around when they are not crowding into tents, lean-tos and shacks. Men sleep on floors, on and under tables and even on shelves, with the atmosphere of these makeshift abodes, heavy with the stench of rain-soaked clothes hung up to dry.

The CPR’s Maquinna calls at this point on the west of Vancouver Island three times a month, always to unload work-seekers who are eager-eyed after reading articles in Vancouver Sunday supplements on the Zeballos bonanza. Some leave as soon as they have looked the but there are always

usual pay and out of this $1.20 meeded for board. :

PeeCee, ten miles away.

metal in this totally unorgani” town work on contract in gas j quartz dust for an average of $1} per foot for tunneling. A gang six miners, working two shifts, | cently From this they had to deduct ec;

Wages are paid by the Trites ct

hand to wood-cutting and shz4 building. Two dollars a day is ©

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place over, others who stay. pany. e she Nanaimo Friends Hear Ravenor 0 €

Many Groups In Valley _ Work To Aid Volunteer

Joe Kelly, leader in the On-to-Ottawa trek, now an offic ih in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion in Spain, is sure of } f Easter parcel, J. C. Chivers, provincial organizer for the Frien of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, told the PA this wee A miner friend from Britannia copper mines handed in $5 wi the request that the committee pack a parcel especially for hi:

City Project Workers Meet

Demand For More Work Receives Overwhelming Support In Vote Taken

The idea of individual pare for each volunteer has caught Chivers stated, with the result tk money and goods are beginning ~ pour in.

Groups of Friends are springi up in the rural areas around Ni

transforming skeins of wool in garments of all descriptions. Lea ing committees are those led

Mrs. Mossman, Newton Statio Mrs. Farnsworth, South Westmi

H ster; Mrs. Scott, RR. 3, New We: F ere minster; Mrs. Baedek, Mrs. Blix- e Mrs. Oja, Sunbury; Mrs. aii A +4 Aes Cloverdale. i rally o e Workers’ Alliance a ? iati waas held last Sunday at Orange The Parent Teachers Associatic Hall at Sointula has sent in $10. .f fa when results of the recently | prince Rupert, Chinese worke circulated Guesonneine to city assisted Mr. and Mrs. Gomez & project workers was the main| cond $13.34 and a large parcel ff question under discussion. goods. In East Vancouver, t) Cc. Crawford reported that the |Sam O’Brien group, with thirtee overwhelming demand of project | members, is knitting socks fi ewes was for more work to en- | Master parcels. ave eee ESSE SEEEEL SSE aN Donations toward the rehabilit PrOpew ye , tion fund, to be used for voluntee In a general outline of conditions Who are returned in poor healt among unemployed, J. Cunning- this week reached $10.35. 5 ham, well known militant in the! Nanaimo, which speaks with pric unemployed movement, recalled of its volunteers in Spain, Shar early days of struggle before re-! Robertson and C. Beasor heard ¥ lief was placed on an organized | Ravenor, guest speaker for tt basis, declaring that with living | local committee of Friends la; costs rising and prospects of relief ; week-end in Union Hall, TF being cut, the militancy of the old | meeting was well attended, t days will be again needed to main- | audience showing great interest i | tain life and health. the struggle of the Spanish peop W.-Woodhead, WA official, stated | 2nd the role played by the Inte that as unemployment was a social | 2ational Brigade. question which effected whole com- munities, the question of unem- Boycott Japanese Goods. ployment was also a problem of | Many organizations, and that their assistance was necessary if prog- — Vancouver Sports Club — ress was to be made and living | SATURDAY, 3:30 PM. SHAR standards retained. Building of the Workers’ Alliance @ BOXING by means of an organizational cam- paign on city projects in order to © WRESTLING press for immediate needs was RAN HALL i urged by R. Jones. g ax SzEE an ae WORKERS — COME IN AND MEET THE GANG ANY TIME! Reading Room — Rest Room ~ Fruits — Lunches — Coffee Just across the street from the Fishermen’s H.Q. — 169 E. Hast. -

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