THE WESTERN CANADIAN PROCESS to select at least
ten boxers and builders for nomination into a
Canadian Amateur Boxing Wall of Fame begins with
each provincial committee such as British Columbia and Alberta
who will each send names to the Western Canadian Amateur
boxing committee by November 2012, and a committee of
volunteers will try and select ten from a potential list of 40.
BRITISH COLUMBIA:
After a few weeks, it is likely the selection will be made by
the BC Committee from about 14 or 15 likely candidates.
Some of the possible ones include Roger Adolph,
Harold Mann, Eddie Haddad, Jimmy Walters,
Dale Walters, Dick Findlay, Frank Scott, Freddy Fuller,
Bert Lowes, George Shiels, George Armson,
Lindy Lindmoser, Pat O'Reilly and Allan Bayne.
*It is difficult to predict who will get dropped and which
ten names or so will be sent to the Western Canadian
amateur boxing committee.
*the WCABC will receive all of the names from BC,
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and decide on
the ones to nominate for the CABWOF.
*At best, each of the four provinces may have three or
four selected out of their list of ten. Looking ahead of
the BC Committee, there is no predicting how many
of the ten will get picked for nomination. In some early
support polls two standouts were Freddy Fuller and
Harold Mann, but in another Bert Lowes appeared to be
in the running.
ALBERTA
*There is no shortage of qualified candidates from Alberta
be in 1954 British Empire Games gold medal winner
WILF GREAVES or fan favorite SCOTTY OLSON and
Olympic medal winner WILLIE DEWIT.
good cross section of builders as coaches and or officials:
Billy McGrandle, Brad Hortie, Carmen Rinke, Dale Brown,
Dennis Belair jr., Jack Dunbar, Kai Yip, Kelly Perlette,
Randy Jackson, Rick Duff, Robbie Carrington,
Doug Bolianatz and Tedd Bilingsley
SASKATCHEWAN
Be it a top loved coach like the late HANK HARTENBERGER
of a boxer like WESLEY SUNSHINE, Saskatchewan will be
have a few names to be considered such as MORGAN WILLIAMS
and many more such as IAN WEIR who boxed for Hank and then
moved to BC and was involved with the coaching team during
Donnie Orr's road to the 2000 Olympics.
from the Seventies.
Second photo in 1974 shows
Ian Weir of Saskatchewan
now in Victoria, BC to help
with the revival and growth
of amateur boxing in the
capital city on Vancouver Island.
MANITOBA
*Over the years, Manitoba has played it's part in amateur boxing
with names like Billy Pinkus, Eddie Haddad, Ken Johnson and
Kent Brown. But, there are others that will be considered and
recognized along the way.
