BC GOLDEN BOYS of the Sixties

BC GOLDEN BOYS - BC GOLDEN GLOVES - 1960 to 1969:  By Brian Zelley
Allen Curtin, Bill Adams, Buddy Palmer, Kalman Santosi,  Brian Bremner,
Freddy Fuller, Dick Findlay (2), Ray Lampkin, and Neil Knight.

                             RAY LAMPKIN     and     NEIL KNIGHT

Prince George Free Press - Petrovicky takes on boxing

NANAIMO BOXER OF THE SEVENTIES BOB PEGUES:  by brian zelley
From boxing in the Seventies for the Nanaimo Boxing Club, Bob Pegue
continues to make the news as a boxing coach in Prince George.
Aside form coaching his regular boxers, or participating has a team coach
Bob takes the time to coach other athletes in the fine art and science of
boxing.  The linked Prince George Pree Press story is just one example.
Prince George Free Press - Petrovicky takes on boxing

Nanaimo Boxer Bob Pegues
in action in the mid-Seventies
fighting in a Nanaimo Boxing
Club card about 1975.

Later, Bob would become a
regular boxing coach in
Prince George and train
various boxers including
Canadian champion
Ken Lally and National
B-team member Jag Seehra

Photeo 2010 by DorothyZelley
 of Jag and Bob at the
2010 BC Golden Gloves.
Hosted by the Capital City
Boxing Club of Victoria.

1967 BC CENTENNIAL GOLDEN GLOVES

1967 CENTENNIAL GOLDEN GLOVES

- The Semi-Finals and Final:  By Brian Zelley

Following some exciting preliminary bouts on the

Friday night, much of the semi-finals action took

place on the Saturday afternoon before the evening

finals.

                                  Fred Desrosiers - 1964 Olympic Boxer
                                       (1965 BC Golden Boy runner-up)

The boxers that engaged in the prelims in order of 

there appearance:

Belcourt, Flajole, Kacer, Henderson, Zelley, Fouth,  Deugau, Boyce, 
Tommy, Hewitt, Eastman, McGee, Fleck, Kolar, Ostapovich,
 Alexander, Tohill, Saigot, Dickson, O'Reilly, Erdmann, Crook,
Desrosiers,  Perez, Coleridge, Rorick, Eagan, Adams, Sinclair,

Manson, Gourd, Wilson, Smith, Van Nockey,  Smith, Meda, 
Taylor, Ralph, Chabot, Wylie, Fuller, Gontas, and  White.

                                                 Wesley Craven

                                                 Jack Meda

SEMI-FINALS - Results:

Randy Jones over Ervin Combs,  Ray Lampkin over Murray Renshaw 
Frank Scott over Orland Ralph, Brian Zelley over Steven Flajole
Wayne Boyce over Bob Kacer, Dick Coulson over Alec Stevens
Dick Findlay over Clarence Hammick, Freddy Fuller over Les Vegas
Steve Tohill over Pat O'Reilly, Len Erdmann over Fred Desrosiers
Colin Coleridge over Jack White, Gord Sinclair over Dennis Rorick
Ron Manson over Clint Page, Ron Wilson over Richard Barbee
Marion Kolar over Glenn McGee, Ken Tommy over Ken Alexander
Wes Craven over George Van Nockay, Jack Meda over Andy Nacosti. 

                  Fred Fuller                Dick Findlay               Dave Wylie


THE 1967 FINALS
Derek Austin - Randy Jones, Ray Lampkin - Frank Scott
Wayne Boyce - Brian Zelley, Dick Coulson - Philip King
Dick Findlay - Freddy Fuller, Lennie Erdmann - Steve Tohill
Gordon Sinclair - Colin Coleridge, Ron Manson - Ron Wilson
Ken Tommy - Marion Kolar, Wes Craven - Jack Meda.

                                         Brian Zelley   -   Ray Lampkin
                                         Wayne Boyce  -  Frank Scott


1967 GOLDEN BOY:  DICK FINDLAY
G B RUNNER-UP:  RAY LAMPKIN
(note:  in 1968 the results would be reversed with Lampkin 
the Golden Boy and Findlay the runner=-up)


THE MOST SPORTSMANLIKE BOXER:  BOB KACER
BEST CLUB:  Firefighters and Portland
BEST FIGHT:  Dick Findlay vs Freddy Fuller

1975 Boxers In Western Canadian Games

WESTERN SUMMER GAMES:  by Brian Zelley

It was the mid-Seventies and in August 1975, BC 
amateur boxing would field a winning team to 
compete in the Western Summer Games held 
in the city of Regina.


Team members expected to compete were:


Mickey Griffin, Ed and Joe McCaffrey, David Ius,
Jim Stevenson, Mike Wilson, Jamie Ollenberger,
Steve White, Buddy Hutchinson and Brian Jones.


At the completion of the tournament, BC boxers
won a number of Gold medals including:
 Nanaimo boxer Mickey Griffin, it was one of his best
showings in the featherweight division.

Also earning gold were  Ed McCaffrey, Joe McCaffrey,
David Ius, Jim Stevenson and Brian Jones.

Six months later in February 1976, the amateur
boxing journey of Nanaimo's Griffin would come to
and end with the announcement in the Feb. 26, '76
"Nanaimo Daily FreePress":
"BOXER GRIFFIN IS QUITTING SPORT"
Griffin cited unfair judging by BC boxing
officials as the reason for his decision.

 A Nanaimo coach spoke about a
bout  between Griffin and Chris Ius as an
example of unfair judging by BC officials.
The local news stated:

1976 Some Golden Moments in 
Vancouver and Victoria 
despite the shadow cast over boxing
in Nanaimo boxing continued to improve
with the June 1976 staging of the 
two tournament affair between the Select
junior boxers of BC and a team of English
schoolboys.


The Victoria tournament was hosted by 
the London Boxing Club on June 6 th,
The Vancouver tournament took place
June 4th. at the PNE Exhibition Gardens.
In the various programs there was a 
"Welcome" message by WALTER BOYCE,
prsident of the BCABA.  Also, there was a
message from JOE WEBB, boxing co-ordinator
and a message by BERT LOWES, the director
of regerees and judges for C. A. B. A.


Some of those assisting in the affair in Vancouver 
Jim and Sylvia  Gallagher, Pat O'Reilly, John Connolly,
Kurt Wold, G. Cote, J. McCaffrey, Peter Froloff,
Key Victoria help came from Howard Curling,
Mike Caird and Brian Zelley and various 
members and executive of the London Boxing Club.


THE BC BOXERS:
Dale Walters, Billy Hardie, Barry and Wayne Blatter
from the Burnaby Boxing Club,
Steve Gallagher and Mike Cote - Cloverdale Boxing,
Derrick Hoyt, Peter Blair, Leonard Halm,
Jim Blair from the Cranbrook Boxing Club,
Mike Bonneau, Alan Price, David Hodgkinson 
from the "Duhamel Boxing Club, 
Edie McCaffrey and John Herman, Richmond,
Kurt Lang, and Hamid Ismail of Ladner Boxing,
Danny Neal , Alex Bernard and Thomas Bernard
of the Ringside Boxing Club.

1968: THE TWISTS AND TURNS FOR BC BOXERS

 REVISITING 1968 WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED

THE END GAME FOR BC BOXERS:  by brian zelley

When all was said and done, only one BC boxer  made it

into the 1968 Olympic Games and that was DICK FINDLAY

who joined MARVIN ARNESON,  WALTER HENRY
 and DONATO PADUANO.

But, there were other BC boxers that started the journey

beginning in September 1967 including some that made

the 1967 Pan Am games Canadian boxing team such

as FREDDY FULLER, FRANKIE SCOTT and 

                   Zelley (Firefighters) vs Boyce (Astoria)

                 . compete in the 1968 BC Olympic trials in May 1968
                 (but by a twist of fate neither one of the two active boxers
                         would make it into the finals of the Olympic trials.
                           That distinction would fall on the shoulders of 
                               Ron McEachern who would drop a decision
                                       to boxer Ted Billinsley. 



The other Canadian champions were:
Frank Scott, Ted Billinsley, Marvin Arneson,
Jim Titley, Gordon sinclair, Rick fleck and Earl McLeay.


RON MCEACHERN.  Ron lost to Billinsley in the 
finals in the featherweight division.




Some of the BC boxers eliminated in the 
preliminary action were:
Ken Henderson, Dave Allerdice, and Les Vegas.  

                                Donato  Paduano  and Dick Findlay
                                                   Walter Henry