BC AMATEUR BOXING NEWS, April 1984

ANOTHER ROUND OF OLD NEWS

BC AMATEUR BOXING News, April 1984, editor brian zelley

NOTE"  This was not the
original cover phot which was
a photo of coach ELIO IUS 
working the corner with the
water bottle and the boxer may
have been LES HAMILTON.

This replacement picture
includes Fredy Fuller 
and Elio posing with one
of the awards in boxing.
(courtesy of Freddy Fuller)

Also on the front cover
were the names of some
of the Board of Directors
in April 1984:
George Armson, presiden
Brian Zelley, editor
Marg O'Reilly, secretary
Shirley Knopp, registrar
Larry Carney, treasurer

The News and The Stories of April '84

The "At The Bell" editor's opening story paid tribute to 

former English middleweight boxer Bill Zelley for 

providing a good body of records that were used to

help with various flashback topics and included records

from the 1967 Diamond Belt tournament up to the

1977 BC Golden Gloves tournaments.

Special thanks expressed

for his contribution of

records between 1967 and 1977

Others mentioned in the editorial
were: 
jack Hargraves, Hugh Kelly, 
Frank Lucas, Earl Thompson,
John Wylie, Dave Allerdice,
Chester Douglas, Brian Gray, Ken Henderson, Clint Page,
Sid Greenwood, George Sargent, George Armson, Bert Lowes, 
Scotty McQueen, Billy Pinkus, Doug Powell, Dave Thompson,
Barry Krangle, Ken Marjoram, Dr. Herb Dumont, Dr. Don
Shorting, Jim Hills, Dan Wright, Art Smith, Brian Sacho,
Joe Preston and Alan Brown.

Between The Pagess

Some of the recent competition covered was the

1984 Diamond  Belt tournament hosted by the

Shamrock Boxing Club and held in Burnaby,

Those winning bouts include:

Jim Cumberland, Willy Curry, Wayne Welsh, Trevor Holmes,

Deep Butter, Roger LaFlamme, Peter Beltrame and Alan Brown.

FLASHBACKS:

The key flashback was the 1969 Emerald Gloves, and some

background with a tribute to Bro. O'Grady and some of the

early Emerald Boys including:

Mel Jacobs, Jimmy Walters, Jimmy Hibbert, Don Walker,

Ian McCue, Rickey DesLauriers, and  Roger Touchet. etc.

Also the names of the 1969 boxers were displayed.

For a more detailed look af the Emeral, Silver and
Bronze Gloves tournaments go to the link:
http://bzgoldengloves.blogspot.ca

*One of the boxers in the 1969 Emerald Gloves 
was Leo Randolph and one other was John Gamble.