REVELSTOKE to host BC BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS

THE 2011/2012 PROVINCIALS at REVELSTOKE: by Brian Zelley

2011/2012 Provincial Championships
Host Club: Revelstoke Boxing Club.
Coaches: Sam LeRose and Angelo LeRose
SAM LEROSE, Coach and Manager

REVELSTOKE BOXERS EXPECTED TO COMPETE
From early announcements, Revelstoke is expecting four of it's
boxers will be ready for action in the home town Provincial
tournament that will assist in selecting the various BOXING BC
teams for National Championships.

FLASHBACKS - 1984
One of the many past Provincial Championships tournaments in
the past was the 1984 tournament that took place in the
BVABA Training Centre in Burnaby. The head official in-charge
was FRED FULLER.

In the senior open divisions, the champions were:
Roger LaFlame (Williams Lake), Joe Pendry (Kimberley).
L. Rolfe (Astoria), T. Holmes (Shamrock), Wayne Welsh
(Kelowna) and heavyweight Dan Zaleski of Astoria.
Intermediate (Youth) champions were:
Gauthier, Wilson, Brown, Noel, Beltrame and Butter.

in preliminary action in the senior middleweight division.
Shamrock Boxing club boxer TREVOR HOLMES upset veteran
boxer from the Astoria Boxing club ALEX ANGELOMATIS, and
in the finals earned a unanimous decision over K. Price of
Williams Lake.

An interesting result was Langley welterweight AL HARPER
earned a RSC victory over DANNY THOMPSON of Olympus, but
failed to make the final bout against JOE PENDRY who had
stopped GERALD PETERS of Vernon in a prelim bout, while
Harper earned a unanimous decision over S. JACKSON of the
Queensborough Boxing club.

THE CHAMPIONS
One of the first news reports was the victory by three members
of Thistletown Boxing Club coached by Graham McIntosh in Kelowna
with a three for three result. One of the names announced was
Connor McKinley.

Tom Speirs, Spruce Capital Warriors earned two
victories to win the Provincial ligh-heavyweight open senior
division. The Prince George club coached by Wayne Sponagle
was expected to have four boxers compete.

BOXING BC Prepares for 2011/2012

BOXING IN BC READY FOR ACTION IN 2011/2012 by Brian Zelley
BOXING in BRITISH COLUMBIA AT THE BELL

THE BOXING BC CLUBS are warming up for potential action in the ring
with tentative schedule of events:

BC PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE FIRST major tournament will be the Provincial Championships
scheduled for Vancouver Island November 26 and 27th.

This tournament is an important first step in establishing the
various teams for action in National oompetition in junior,
youth and senior open competition.

The senior and youth novice tournament is expected to take
place in December, and all the other regular tournaments
will take place in different regions of the province.
They would include Diamond Belt, Silver Gloves, Emerald
Gloves, Golden Gloves, Bronze Gloves and the Buckskin Gloves.

RECENT YEARS EVENTS:

A previous S.I.N. Tournament was jointly hosted by two Kelowna based clubs.

FORMER GOLDEN BOYS FROM 1968 and 1969 BC GOLDEN GLOVES tournaments include
1968, RAY LAMPKIN of Portland, and 1969 NEIL KNIGHT of Seattle.

The 2012 BC GOLDEN GLOVES is expected to be held in april in
the Okanagan region, in 2010 it was held in Langford community of
Greater Victoria when the 1960 Golden Boy, Al Curtis was recognized.

The Golden Gloves is the oldest annual tournament in British Columbia
and was started in 1939 with the help of The Vancouver Sun newspaper
and The Active Club. In 1967, Dick Findlay become a double golden boy,
he had won the special award in 1966 and 1967, and in 1968 he was named
Golden Boy runner-up. The 1959 Golden Boy was Jack Straza

DIAMOND BELT CHAMPIONSHIPS

Names from 2011:
Abdul Hamil, Christopher Cordova, Dave Funk and Dylan Bishop.

Tournament expected to take place in January 2012. The tournament
has an interesting history with the 1967 tournament being one of
the 2011 inductees into the BC AMATEUR BOXING HALL OF FAME.

Guest referee for the 1967 tournament was ROCKY MARCIANO. The Diamond Boy
was Dave Wylie. Dave defeated three opponents to win the
special award during the Cenntenial year of 1967.

BC Boxers in the finals:
Derek austin, Ron MacEachern,
Frank Scott, Wayne, Boyce,
Brian Zelley, Dick Coulson,
Freddy Fuller, Pat O'Reilly jr.,
Dennis Rorick, Ron Wilson,
Marijan Kolar, Bill Taylor.

some of the other boxers were;
Dick Findlay, Kalman Santosi,
Clint Page, Rick Fleck,
Chester Douglas and Ed Williams.

EMERALD GLOVES
The Emerald Gloves will be a
March 2012 engagement in Delta.

The Emerald Gloves as a long history
that was founded by Bro O'Grady
The first double Emerald Boy was
JIMMY WALTERS On a traditional
basis it was for many years a junior
open tournament, but now it is wide open.

in the mid-Sixties one of the Emerald
Gloves champions was the London Boxing
Clubs' Gary Van Buskirk and
the Nanaimo Newcastle Boxing Club's
Mike Lazare. Of course, over
the years there have been many boxers
that have gone on to open class senior
competition with a variety of results.

2011 EMERALD GLOVES

SILVER GLOVES
The Silver Gloves will take place at the end of
February 2012 in the Fraser Valley region.

During the Sixties some of the shows were hosted by the Richmond
Boxing Club. In 1968, Nanaimo boxer Tony James competed
in the Silver Gloves and then turned to 1968 Golden Gloves
held in Vancouver and in his opening bout, James faced 1967
Canadian Featherweight ChampionWayne Boyce, Astoria Boxing Club.
Wayne won the decision, but many thought the unknown
Tony James earned thedecision.

Over the years the Silver Gloves gave Novice senior boxers an opportunity to
gain experience, and for many it served as a stepping stone towards open
senior activity.

In 1981, the tournament was held in Campbell
River. Now, thirty years later it will be
held on the mainland, but the thrill for
the many boxers competing in their
first tournament will be the same.

1979 Flashbacks
In Chilliwack, Nanaimo boxer Lee Campbell scored three KO's
to win the 1979 Silver gloves middleweight division.
But, Nanaimo boxer Norm Greenwell
lost a decision to Kelowna's Joe Mercer in
the finals of the light-welterwight division,
Dale Walters of Burnaby edged Don Preston
of the Nanaimo Boxing Club.

BUCKSKIN GLOVES
This tournament was revived in the Seventies
due to the efforts of ED WILLIAMS and ROGER ADOLPH.
For 2012, this tournament will be the last in the 2011/92012
BC Amateur Boxing season. It is expected to take place in
June 2012 in the Vancouver Squamish region.

CHANGES in the PROCESS for BOXING BC
As of October 2011, Boxing BC has three interim executive members
until additional steps are taken to elect a new president
and other executive members and board of directors.

There are no clear front runners for the position of president.
But, recently a name that has come forware is ROGER ADOLPH.

SIXTIES FLASHBACKS - ROGER ADOLPH

COACHES CORNER

UNSUNG HEROES, Assistant coaches and Trainers: By Brian Zelley

photos, Alan Brown and Dan Wright

Looking through the pages of old boxing programs or the list of
clubs on an old BOXING BC annual report will seldom
include the many names of all of the coaches and trainers
many of which are the key reasons boxers become skilled.

Looking back to the Sixties for instance one of the coaches
was ex-boxer BILL SELFRIDGE but his name would not
appear on any Provincial tournament programs.

Take the Seventies and Eighties an the names of most
of the coaches and trainers of the Vancouver Island boxing clubs
were not high profile names on a Provincial basis such as
JOE PRESTON and CLARK MCLELLAN, DAN WRIGHT,
JACK SNAITH and active boxer ALAN BROWN and others.

In Victoria in the Seventies and Eighties, how many will
remember names such as GORDIE MCGAW and
LARRY MONTGOMERY. coach LOU BUJDOSO had to quit
the Victoria Athletic Association and form his own club
the VICTORIA JAYCEES before he was recognized.
Then there was IAN WEIR in the Nineties.

2010/2011 BC REGISTERED COACHES

some of the registered coaches that are often invisible in
publications include names such as Todd Alain, Steve Bailey,
Andre Mavros and many others,

PAST COACHES and TRAINERS
Difficult to select specific coaches for top ten rankings
because we all judge them by different yardsticks. But,
one overlooked coach was BOB DECKER. Maybe that was
because he did not coach long enough in British Columbia.
However, if we consider his performance in the Sixties in
Seattle with boxers like Gary Ferrari and Neil Knight
then our whole evaluation of him in BC would change. But, I am
sure some of the boxers that trained at the Shamrock Boxing Club
at the Main Street Gym would have to credit Decker with above
average coaching skills. Another name that is not likely to
receive wide spread ratings would be former Chemainus boxer
SKIMP WILLIAMS. When he coached, he did not try to
teach boxers his own style of boxing but was flexible. And,
for me on a personal level he was the best dude to have working
your corner. He only worked two of my fights in 1964, but those
two times cemented his standing as one of the best cornermen in
BC Amateur Boxing. He demonstrated his skills in the dressing room
and then before the opening bell and aced the corner work by knowing
what to say, how to say it and when to say it. Great timing in the
verbal corner work and the ability to get the boxer to take control
and keep it throughout the bout. I will not try to compare the others
that I had from 1964 to 1973, but if I had him in 1967 and 1968 who knows
what could of happened.

FEB. 9, 1961, Chemainus-Ladysmith Chronicle
"SKIMP WILLIMS WINS DECISION OVER DANNY MACDONALD"
The event was a boxing card hosted by the Salt Spring Island
Boxing club. Danny was from the PPCLI Boxing Club.

Fiacco charged with whipping Canadian boxing into shape

Fiacco charged with whipping Canadian boxing into shape

NAMES and FACES of BC BOXING

BC BOXERS 1970 to 1975

                       (photo from the files of the Victoria Athletic Association)

Larry Adams, Rick Albrechtsen, Peter Alec, Nelson Ali, Dale Anderson,
Ken Anderson, Lloyd Anderson,  Shane Anderson, Alex Angelomatis,
George Angelomatis, Derek Austin, Neil Austin, Cliff Ballendine, 
Scott Bannink, Mark Barr, Steve Bellis, Peter Beltrame, Willie Benallie,
Alex Beveridge, Rick Biden, David Blair, Jimmy Blair, Peter Blair,
Barry Blatter, Wayne Blatter, Dean Bohn, Gary Bridal, Graydon Britton, 
Alan Brown, Dean Bruckshaw,  Fred Buckle, Murray Burton, 

Kevin Carney, Barry Cartwright, John Casano, Fred Clarke, 
Steve Connolly. Joe Cooke, Lou Cooke, Mike Cote, Danny Crawford,
Wayne Crowe, Lorne Daigneault,  Capi Damani, Bob DelRio, 
Perry Demosten,  Gary Desrosiers,  Paul DiBenedetto,  Rod Dickie, 
Chester Douglas, Ian Douglas, Sid Douglas, Randy Durante, Rick Eedy,
Bruce Edwards, Malcolm Eldridge, Danny Elgie,   Ron Elgie, Dwayne Evenson,  

                              NEIL AUSTIN - JOE COOKE - FRANK SCOTT
                              (Courtesy of Freddy Fuller and the Scott Family)

Jim Fidler, Derek Flanagan, Mike Frank, Tony Francis, Freddy Fuller
Kerry Gallagher, Scott Galloway,  John Gamble, Bill Gariepy, Titch Gill, 
Mickey Griffin, Roman Grimard, Lorne Hamer-Jackson, Les Hamilton, 
Billy Hardie, Todd Hatley, Danny Herman, John Herman, Kevin Howard,
Derrick Hoyt, Shane Hoyt, Jim Hunter, Keith Hunter, Tim Hunter, 

Hamid Ismail, Chris Ius, David Ius, Gary Ivers, Mike jaeger< Lyle Jack

Ken Jesson, Clyde Johnson,  Billy Johnstone, Brian Jones, Kelly Justaon,

Arnold Kelly, Hugh Kelly, Bill Kennedy, Gary Kuipers, Roger Laflame, 

Kurt Lang, Gordie Lawson, Don Louis,  Wes Luke,  Darren Lussier,   

WILLIAMS LAKE BOXING CLUB

Leif Albrechtsen, Coach

Ed McCaffrey, Joe McCaffrey, Ken MacDonald, Tommy MacDonald

Sid McKnight, Jimmy MacMillan, Tom McMurchie, Brian Majors, 

Laurie Mann,  Jack Meda, Monty Mold,

Malcolm and Matt Montgomery, Buzz Montour, Sonny Mullis, 

JACK MEDA - Prince George Boxer

Danny Neal, Glenn and mike O'Connor, Mike and Pat O'Reilly

Danny O'Sullivan, Jamie Ollenberger, Darryl Olsen, Don Orr, 

Danny O'Sullivan and Brian Zelley

(photo courtesy of Dorothy Zelley)

(Training for the Silver Gloves)

John and Paul Panke, Roy Pattison, Bob Pegues,  Joe Pendry, Gerald Peters,

Harold Prince, Ian Pye  Robrt Ratcliffe, Gary and Geoff Robinson,

Laurie Rorick, Sheldon Samuels,  Taac Sasagawa, Frank Scott,

John Silver, Arnie Smith,  Jack Snaith,  Jim Stevenson, Andrew  Swim, 

Kelly and Super Sumra, Danny and Gary Tatton, 

Lance Taylor, Ron taylor, Lanny Thom, Danny Thompson,

 Dave Thornhill, Steve Tohill, Glenn Tubbs, Tom Turnbull, 

Victoria Athletic Association - Boxing photo

Mike Vukelic, Ed Wainright, Gary and Rick Walker, 

Dale and Dave Walters, Bill Watson, Ian Weir,

 Rick Wentland,' Ed Williams, Ron williams,  Lyle Wold,  

 Gary Wood, Dan Wright,  Brian Wise, Dave Wylie, 

Dean Yourng and Brian Zelley

Ian Weir, Mike Caird, Brian Zelley - 1974 Victoria, BC

Start of a Revival  of Amateur Boxing in Victoria

(photo  courtesy of the Greater Victoria  Sports Hall of Fame)

DIRECTORS, OFFICIALS and COACHES

The Seventies BC Amateur Boxing

Jim and Maureen Airey, Leif Albrechtsen, Alex & George Angelomatis

Uto Arnold, Walter Austin, Len Barker, Gordon Bens,

Rudy Bianco, Walter Boyce, Wayne Boyce, Bill Brenner

Bernie Brisch, Rick Brough, Lou Bujdoso, Gerald Burton,

Mike Caird, Ian Carmichael, Darcy Clayton, Joe Cooke,

Terry Cooke, Dave Coventry, Howard Curling.

Joe Deslaurier, Ian Douglas, Robert Edge, Bob Eedy,

Earl Elgie, Darrel Elmore, Tommy Fagan, Dick Findlay,

Fred Fuller, Freddy Fuller, Lawrence Fuller, Jim Gallagher,

Ernie George, Ian Gibson, Ed Gilmore, Bob Ginetti,

Gord Griffin, Ed Higginbottom, Wally Hill, Andy Hinds,

Jim Howie, Elio, Leo and Mel Ius, Sid and Shirley Knopp

John Kovak, Thorky Larsen, Paul LeMay, Lindy Lindmoser,

Sandy Lorenzen, Fred & Walt Louie, Bert Lowes, Arnold McEwan, 

Mickey McMillan, Cliff McNabb, Harold and Irving Mann, 

Ken Marjoram, Nick Martin, Peter Mazurak, Bram Melis,

Jack Mellor, Bob and Joe Mercer, Mike Moore, Vic Murdoch, 

Peter Murray-Driver, Marg and Pat O'Reilly,  John O'Shea,

(Courtesy of Gordie Lawson - Firefighters)

Coaches:  Lindy Lindmoser, Bert Lowes,  Sandy Lorenzen

Gary Oakden, Buddy Palmer, Bob Perry, Jack Pidgeon, Joe Preston

Denny Ross, Art and George Shiels, Ray Silver, Stan Smith, Joe Swift,

Dave Thompson, Alan Tummon, Bill Walker, Lennie Walters, Bill Watson,

Ron Whalley, Dave Wylie, Jeff and Tommy Yule, Brian Zelley.

RON WHALLEY, RING OFFICIAL  

(Courtesy of Boxing BC Memorial Photo of Ron Whalley)

Random Faces

  

  

BC BOXING NEWS April 1985

BC AMATEUR BOXING NEWS, April 1985.  Brian Zelley, editor 


(Note - the two key areas to be covered were:  1985 Senior Nationals and
Flashbacks 1975 to 1979, club shows and other issues)


THE FRONT PAGE
On the front page were two photos:
Main photo:  Tim Hunter, Rick Brough and Mike Murray
(selected as the best bout in a Victoria Jaycees boxing card)
The other photo was boxer Dave Walter of Vancouver vs
Hamid Ismail of Ladner from the 1981 BC Golden Gloves.


CLUB SHOWS - March 1985


For Vancouver Island , it was three club shows:
March  9th.  Host Club, CROFTON
Heavyweight bout featured RON YOUNG  in a split decision
over JOHN HUNTER.

March 16th. Host Club, CAMPBELL RIVER
an interesting bout featured GARY WOOD  vs JACK SNAITH


March 24th. Host Club, VICTORIA JAYCEES
In the Jaycees card, Tim Hunter of Campbell River was picked as the
best boxer. Mike Murray vs Tim Hunter was the best bout.
The main event had KIT MUNRO over PAUL DELUCA.


TEAM BC - 1985 SENIOR NATIONALS
Boxers:  Augusto Dos Reos. John Henry Wilson, Tim Cessford,
Joe Pendry, Joe Martin, Andrew Riley, Terry Dermott, 
Alex Bankier, Gary Serko, Wayne Welsh and Brian Lansing.
Coaches: Ken Marjoram and Mike Sartori, Manager:  Dave Thompson.


OLD and NEW CLUBS


Some clubs highlighted were:
North West Eagles, East Vancouver Optimists
 and Astoria Boxing Clubs.


The EVO began in 1958 and operated until the early Seventies.
Two of the early persons involved were LARRY KRANGLE and JOHN WYLIE
The net two to operate the club were JOHN BALLAM and JIM WILSON.
There were other coaches and managers of the club such as Don Cowan, 
Fred Fuller, Stan smith and Earl Thompson.


A lot of young boers passed through the club from one club to another 
such as Dave Wylie,  Freddy Fuller and Colin Coleridge.  Two of the last
 boxers to represent the club were Joe and Lou Cooke.  And, of interest
for the 1967/1968 season Dick Findlay left the Vancouver Firefighters
and Les Vegas  left the London Boxing Club of Victoria to be part of the 
EVO experience. 

THE EMERALD GLOVES

 EMERALD GLOVES:  By Brian Zelley

HISTORY
The first Emerald Gloves boxing tournament took place at the
VANCOUVER COLLEGE gym in 1951 and was founded by
BROTHER A C O'GRADY.  The first Emerald Boy was MEL JACOBS.
The first double Emerald Boy was JIMMY WALTERS in 1952 and 1953.

                   Jimmy Walters - Two Time Emerald Boy - 1952 and 1953

1961 Tournament at the Vancouver College was an extended affair.
Emerald Boy FREDDY FULLER defeated two opponents on the first 
night of action then in the finals he earned a hard fought victory over 
Hastings PAT O'REILLY.

                                  (photo courtesy of Freddy Fuller)

From 1965 to 1969, the annual tournament was hosted by the
EAST VANCOUVER OPTIMISTS BOXING CLUB.

In 1980, the tournament was held in Aldergrove and one of the top juniors
was Victoria boxer CLIFF BALLENDINE a three time Junior Golden Boy.

1984 Emerald Gloves was held at the Boxing Training Centre in Burnaby
and hosted by the British Columbia Amateur Boxing Association on
November 17th.  The bouts consisted of open junior boxers and novice 
intermediate (Youth) boxers.

1984 Emerald Boy was TROY TAYLOR of Queensborough club.
The runner-up Emerald Boy was TONY DUFFY of the Sunshine club
following his victory over Victoria boxer PAUL DELUCA.

2011 BC EMERALD GLOVES

The Friday activity will be followed-up by action on the Saturday.