GREAVES, RICHARDSON, EMERY and SPARKS

  CANADIAN BOXERS:

 GREAVES, RICHARDSON, EMERY and SPARKS

- by Brian Zelley

There are many ways to tell the story of   Canadian

boxing, but when the final bell stops ringing, it all boils 

down to the hundreds of individual stories of all the boxers.

Looking back,  four of the many that provide some interesting

highlights  of the sport in Canada are Al Sparks, Blair

Richardson, Burke Emery and Wilfie Greaves.  But we cannot 
forget  ARMAND SAVOIE and ARTURO GATTI, GORDON
WALLACE, FRANKIE GENOVESE and JOHNNY GRECO.

                                                  AL SPARKS


                                                  WILFIE GREAVES

                                     BLAIR RICHARDSON


NAMES ON A PAGE OF BOXING HISTORY
Al Ford, Al Sparks, Art  Hafey, Billy Townsend,  Blair Richardson, 
Bob Cleroux, Chris Clarke,  Clyde Gray,   Dale Walters,
Dave Downey,  Earl Walls, Fernand Marcotte,  George Dixon,  
George Chuvalo,  Harold Mann, Jimmy McLarnin,  Ian Clyde,  

                                                    IAN CLYDE
Jimmy Walters, Jo jo Jackson, Kenny Lindsay,  Lennie Walters,                                                        Les  Gillis, Leslie Borden, 


  

THE CLOUTING CANUCKS

FIGHTING CANADIANS:  by brian zelley

                              An Olympic Team from past decades


Some of the best Canadian boxers were born in Nova Scotia.  
Two of the best were GEORGE DIXON  and SAM LANGFORD.
Some of the Canadians have won world titles such as 
JIMMY MCLARNIN and LOU BROUILLARD, and others
have won Olympic medals such as LENNOX LEWIS, 
DALE WALTERS.  SHAWN O'SULLIVAN et al. 

Some of the current elite senior amateurs are hoping to
make the cut for the 2012 Canadian Olympic team such 
as KENNY LALLY, ALEX RYNN and JOEY LAVIOLETTE.

                                 National Elite Champions - 2011


Some of the professional boxers, never won world titles, but they
are still considered legends in Canada or parts of Canada.  Some
names of interest include George Chuvalo, Clyde Gray, Sammy
Luftspring, Al Sparks, Billy Townsend, Harold Mann  and many more.


Take any given decade for any specific province and there were many
boxers that made the headlines or the front page of the sports section 
of the daily newspaper.  Some were local heroes and others National 
stars.  

                                      Victoria, BC, Canada
               Caird, Orr, O'Sullivan, Robinson, Orr, Zelley, Wright
                              (photo by Dorothy Zelley,  November 2010)

                 THE BEST OF  BRITISH COLUMBIA 1948 to 1984
                         Freddy Fuller - Eddie Haddad - Frank Scott 
                        Dale Walters - Dick Findlay - Fred Desrosiers