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i Rang Through Arena Rafters We were one of 294 adults who paid 65 cents for an evening- entertainment at the Aurora Memorial arena on Monday night September Besides the adults students paid their cents admission fee The students were we understand of public school age Besides these and a large number of children were preent The entertainment was de- money they were paid They scribed as matches were a game pair under the auspices of the Aurora arena board The onlookers Were composed of many pretty teenage girls in summer frocks young mothers with children at their side youths and men in various agegroups ranging up to septuagenarians and perhaps an here and there We wondered if the girls were hardboiled students of physical prowess and the subtler com- of the science of wrest ling or were attracted to the scene by what psychologists de scribe as inhibited impulses As for the old men they were un doubtedly in search of the en chantment known as the restor ation of lost youth For ourselves we were on va cation and in search of confirma tion or otherwise of the con demnation which members of the Recreation Commission had expressed of the goingson at the arena Wo had a stomachfull before we left Hie Bell It must be put to the credit of the organizers that before the Veal thing started a few mo ments were given over to the sinking of the National Anthem After this was over the lights put out leaving only the ring illuminated Into the ring Him Joe The bell rang again the audi torium lights were dimmed and the spotlight played on the ring A massive figure in red shorts came from the dressing room and climbed through the iopes to be followed by one whose name was hailed as Joe With an impressive gesture which sug gested contempt he discarded a brilliant blue robe and entered into conference with his oppon ent and the ref Joe appeared to be protesting something or other Then the battle raged There was a clutching of heads and all of a sudden Joe was down and looked as though his body was being squeezed to size sixteen by the powerful strangulating limbs of the man in red shorts Come on Joe shouted the onlookers in unison With what looked like a terrific jab on the face of his opponent Joe freed himself from the limbs that had locked him to the floor was on top of his man bending up his legs The chant of the crowd rose louder and louder In calls of Kill him Joe Tie him up Joe But the protagonist on the floor was not to be tied up for came two young men variously long Ho was free again and named as darky and red head both With them in the ring was the ref The ref came in for a lot of ribbing Cant you count Wake up Shut up The two young fellows were at each other One would be down on the floor of the ring whllo his opponent jabbed at his head and nose whenever he struggled to get free He would get and then he leapt at his tormen tor and in a moment was giving him the same medicine As fury of struggle increased shouts of the spectators ga thered tempo Yelling whist ling wake up resounded through the rafters There were some physical contortions taking place One or the other of tho would ring after a jab or a kick in the abdomen Thuds on the floor attested to a body having been thrown over the shoulders of an opponent and sometimes a head of hair would be seized and crack bang a few more thuds on floor from a tumbling body As body went down and stayed there for a few sec onds there were loud calls of wake up Cant you count Shut Up ref These twining jab on the face and nose thuds on floor pulling of hair and heads with what look ed sometimes tike a real nock to Jaw from a clenched fist continued for half an hour with out rest or letup contest ants looked weary before end were groping for each others heads and bodies sleepwalkers finding their way Joe was obviously having a bad time of it Then the crowd ap peared to lose sympathy with Joe and there were loud calls of dirty dirty The ref received chants of censure calls of wake up ref Count him out ref The tempo of the onlookers had ft lot of mercury in it Two bouts had been ended and the third was in progress It oc curred to us that group of cannibals or less carnivorous na tives from the jungle would have fled in terror from this tremendous scene of swinging and clutching limbs Then the bout came to an end and Joe wasnt winner Tile victor offered a handshake which was accepted But in an Instant Joe flicked the victor on the jaw and this started off a brief bout with naked fists Suddenly Joe was given what looked like a knock out and he lay prone by tho In a few moments he got to his feet picked up his robe and dived into it The crowd booed him in return he stamped his feet and shook his fist at his tormentors Then lie climbed back through the ropca and strode majestically in direct lion of the dressing- room Hauls Par Excellence Wo were advised that tho last bouts would be the best Might be a bit gory but still It would ho good In any ease the cele brated Big Jim who In his official life is Constable Jim and a fine fellow would be in the ring With him would be Black Panther There would also be a real Wo baron ami black man They Then bell sounded Tim bout was declared a draw We think the decision was cor- reel were fine lads walked from ring to lhe the plaudits of the crowd But by all the saints of St Nicholas had earned Shop At JOHN MORNINGS Aurora MUSIC J Greeting Cards etc or Era Clnwlflod Ads Aurora V Make It A Friend At The o a HESS IDA Drag fit Aurora pa Hig Jim looked a picture of physical perfection ho tub bed his hands along the ropes Tim baron was clothed in a bril liant near let robe looking like a imrdtnuh The Panther part and the hlock mans white tooth the spotlight There was sudden flurry arms and Big Jim was bounc ing Black Panther on floor like a happy gardener fondling a Hubbard Then somothlng and the magnificent speci men foil flop on tho floor Black Panther had sprung leak In filg JimV defence In t moment Big Jim up then on a tremendous buttle raged 10 tackling everybody Sudden ly baron hopped around holding log which it waft claimed had boon bitten by the black mini hell sounded and the first round Was over with more rounds to follow this time It was 1030 and took our leaving young and tho old men the young mothers ami their child ran not forgetting dents to show through to end We had had our fill i Off ICE HALL AURORA TELEPHONE PAGE NINE m THURSDAY THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER NINETEEN AND FIFTYTHREE EDITORIALS THANK YOU It gives us pleasure to express sincere thanks to Councillors William Davidson Dale King and J Murray for their support of this newspaper at the last meeting of council It takes moral courage to reverse a stand taken on a former motion and both Mr David son and Mr King have exhibited the possession of that all too rare quality in public life Councillor J Murray defended the right of the Era and Express to equality with its opposition from the start While it would have redounded to the credit of the mayor reeve and deputyreeve to have made a similar reversal we were not surprised at their obdur acy A surgical operation would not rid some mentali ties of crass prejudice DESERVING OF CENSURE Apparently there is no supervision over the attend ance at what are described as wrestling matches at Aurora Memorial arena If there were it seems unlikely that young children would be admitted to such orgies as we witnessed at the arena on Monday night Sept when a series of stomachsickening encounters took place under the spotlight It was because of the criticisms of these shows that were voiced at a recreation commission meeting that we went to the arena to see for ourselves what went on When the chairman of the commission Mr J Buchanan said he shuddered to think of the affect of these socalled wrestling matches on the minds of young children his language was not an exaggeration Yet there were many young children present in the company of their young mothers It is ironical to think that the recreation commission prides itself on the good behavior of the children who use playgrounds at tho same time a kindred or ganization permits youngsters to witness gory exhibitions remindful of the lusty stories of the cave man One elderly spectator remarked to us that what ever it was It wasnt wrestling It is claimed that the more colorful encounters are put on just for show manship to draw the crowds Whoever is responsible for admission of chil dren of lender age to those shows is deserving of censure There should be more regard shown for the future of children than to allow them to such scenes What took was more convincing argument that all sport should be placed within the control of recreation commission SUPPORTS CLEAN WRESTLING on our editorial entitled Clean Sport in last weeks issue Mr Bob Mcleod coach of the King City wrestling club says I desire to commend you about your editorial I do not want to be concerned about matter in another municipality but being neigh bors in the same district and reading the local we have to keep our houses in order for our mutual interest I fl that some people have at had the courage to have their thoughts of socalled shows printed am an amateur wrestling coach and that wrestling as taught In most places In the world is of Iho cleanest arid moat beneficial of sports We have proven it in our annual field- days in King City It is difficult to enroll students lh on wrestling class they and their form their opinions of wrestling from pro exhibitions of wrestling in local situation will only be cleaned up when Lite public demands It or they quit patronizing wrestling farces We surtf our venders will find Mr comments on the topical subject of wrestling of groat interest WONT DEFEND BYLAWS Councillor Will lam Davidson ft man with of his convictions introduced a motion which mount that all town bylaws should bo strictly observed lie said what a many people In Aurora have said namely that die town bylaws have not boon observed fa all cases On more than one occasion ho has asked council what use was served by bringing In bylaws unless they were carried out It does seem farcical to spend money and time on the preparation of bylaws and the further and spent on passing them through If they rtrri to bo broken soon as some crops up It seems to us that Davidsons motion was intended to give stability to and respoct for town bylaws his motion did not oven win a seconder chair man of bylaws Councillor Moffat ignored It and finally It was withdrawn Presumably therefore council will go on passing bylaws to apply in some cases and not in others if precedents followed No wonder a of council recently remarked that In Aurorabylaws are a town Joke COUNCIL SIDELIGHTS Animosity Charges has been talking again When the mayor talks he often says things Sometimes lie con demns others But at the last meeting of council he condemned himself If the mayor has ever been taught to be cautious he forgets his lessons The mayor should remember that nothing is opened more frequently by mistake than the mouth We did not attend tho last council meeting held on Septem ber Our coUeague J Slruthers managing editor of the Era and Express very kindly offered to fill our place and it was a very interesting report that ho gave on the front page It was extremely interesting to us to read a report by another hand of the proceedings of a council which wo have attended for nearly four years In the course of the discussion on a motion to rescind the adver tising ban on the Era and Ex press the mayor directed his at tention to Mr Sir said the mayor there is no ani mosity against the Era and Ex press but there is very much ani mosity indeed on this council AURORA Social News Mr Frank Harrison left last week for Port Arthur where he will forestry His brother David is entering the Institute of Technology in To ronto Frank and David are sons of Mr and Mrs Ben Harri son A large number of friend and relatives called on Saturday at the home of Mrs Geo Baldwin to congratulate her on her birthday Alter the usual weekly choir practise at the United church on Thursday evening a social time was spent and a presentation made to Miss Edna Brown who left on Sunday for London and to Mr Ben Harrison who will be moving shortly to Newmarket The Mile of Pennies spon sored by the Womens Institute on Saturday Sept was a very successful event The Trinity Womens Associa tion held a business and devo tional meeting in the pariah hall on Tuesday afternoon The Aurora branch of the Wo mens Institute enjoyed a pleas afternoon on Thursday fta an bring DOOM OPEN DAILY SAT Ml AIR fob norm PARKING Ml I rv MIS rt IMS ID 0 Page Three members of council fiU Councillors Davidson King Murray strongly defended our newspaper and voted in opposi tion to the mayor We glad to add to their number the views of Councillors Jones and Moffat who have emphatically repudiat ed any suggestion of animosity towards either the editor of Au rora News Page or Aurora News Page itself Councillor Vic Jones said it was ridiculous to suggest that was any personal animos ity in his mind when he voted against removing the March mo tion While I have often dis agreed editorial opinions in Aurora News Page said Mr Jones I have always been the Aurora News Page reported and have I ways received the fairest treat- For a year and three months In Its pages My only mayor had no animosity to Aurora News Page Often wo were thanked from his home tor we wrote about him Once we received a letter written by the mayor thanking us for our support of him and expressing the wish that he us mayor would always merit our confi dence Then in March of this year we felt it our public duty to criti cize the calling of a closed meet ing of council which was our privilege The mayor answered our criticisms in a minutes blast which was libellous vulgar and illbred In the course of his tirade which is on record lie made damaging untruthful statements concerning ourselves and the part we nave taken In lhe public affairs of this town We suggest that in the case of a man of breeding especially the mayor of the town he would token the curliest son for voting against the re scinding of the former motion was because I felt money could be saved in not publishing small announcements in both papers I think however that major no tices should be published in both papers and I mode clear at council Councillor Moffat assured the editor of Aurora News Page that she hud no animosity cither to- wards himself or the paper 1 have received very kind treat ment from Aurora News Pago said Mrs Moffat and voted against motion on the that town advertise- Moffat for her courtesy kind menu of a major words and wu are sure our many would be advertised in the Era IhoUBUiids of readers will fin and Express Mrs Moffat gave interest what she had to say on a contentious subject The first call we made on the new system was to our homo at Miss Hilda entertained the ladies of the Friendship Mission Circle of the United church on Monday evening The Evening Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church enjoyed a- supper meeting at the home of J Mrs Marshall Hank on Monday evening Congratulations are extended to John scon of Mr and Mrs who has been successful in winning tho DominionProvincial scholar ship of 400 John will begin his studies at University of To ronto premed school shortly The class held its September meeting at the home of Mrs Barnard on Tuesday evening Mrs Niagara Falls New York has been on a visit to Mr and Mrs J Hudson Mr J Willis who with Mrs Willis has been on a three weeks vacation Luke re ports that while he caught only small quantities of fish they had a thoroughly enjoyable holiday A Park Mrs Park have been on visit to Wy oming Out Mrs O and son have returned from a two weeks vacation j MONDAY TUESDAY i ROM MUNI ft fe rt A further reason for her no vote stating that she thought the matter should not have been brought up at that time but should have been left over to the council of expressing regret for Oilier View words spoken hi what Councillor Five members of council thus Davidson charitably described as disclaim the mayors animosity tho hoot of the moment Far charges Hut what of the sixth from taking such a course member Councillor Davis He mayor has now gone on record remained frozen saying that he is animated by nnljer Von nor If all members mosity against the editor of of council acted thus municipal Aurora News Page business would bo deadlocked He has thus aggravated had reasons for in which he placed lag that Mr Davis knew his himself at meeting of mind on the subject council held on March 111 for Cook wo no and endorsed libellous utter- place tiny value on his for which ho was opinions which are so subject to From his own mouth has change that wo dont think they come an admission of ani mosity which prompted Coun cillor King to whether opposition to rescinding mo Hon was a matter of animosity against the editor of the Aurora News Page or a matter of saving money The mayor in time may appro chile the situation In which his own have placed him there reserving further com moot wo presently matter of took lit the March iWJ meeting of council No Animosity matter The same evaluation applies DeputyHoove Murray We wore Interested however In hiss ingestion hat Aurora News Page is In need of a now J Iter Wo have no doubt that in and around neighborhood of his midnight Saturday Immediate ly we dialled the symbols wo heard phono ring and when we hud conveyed felicitations our test was over In Hospital We very much regret to learn that Gordon Hoffman has gone lo hospital for leg treatment hi it typical bulletin to ids follow Gordon ends his message thus Goodbye good luck and Clod bless you all Wo wish Mr Hoffman lhe beat of luck and a good cure Is hefty who loves a battle of words but leaves no animosity behind We hope to Bee him around soon Holiday We left the office around five oclock on Friday Sept ana were back to it around am en Thursday Soph lug Sunday wo hud clays from typewriter an LONELY HUSBAND FRIENDLY BLONDE A t I in Kennedy St Woat I which a way In years Our his lor new from powrltor n V Plort petition editor If he will lei have tin- listi wo will gladly publish names What wo do lwllove Is this There Is a much greater for now for Au rora than there for now Against this background of tor for Aurora News Pago An the mayors acknowledged Councillor J Murray put it is repudiation his lie council dont- think nearly statement that there Is people in Aurora would buy much animosity indeed on Km and press If they against Aurora agreed with everything It rf WHAT THEY ARE SAYIN Night Of History In Aurora First Call To Fire Brigade A fow midniKlil ffli Saturday Kept 12 wan made in Aurora with of old Iho now dial telephone system IliHlory a I ho madij by Aurora when clearance wiih cull wan miulo by Councillor I J of Hut In beautiful weather had Homo wonderful by and around the country Aide For those who are fool and should bo In iho of Oil ford we advise lliein lo go In for a owned by Mr former chef Parliament lie ttorved for and all manner people- Our frloudii and fl happy and jMirii at Mr cntliiuhiiuius Willi our Mfi wo worn priMotit at thb occasion Mr Murray called fire at their and contacted Mr Hour Knowloa to Inform him that there a flro the hotel A moment flro alarm and in little more than a with truck had to call worked with like proclHlun Into una an apparatus which in tho flrt of kind In Canada for The chair man flald had gone over splendidly Councillor and Mm Murray of hrlgndt to a of under Council thrown with and wo pay our meed of tribute to an bout On occasion hard to boat an of And lam call wo made on old wan to Councillor Moffat and thin at 1030 on Saturday Mm Moffat and her were In city when we put through a rail to her earlier tho day Mr Fred a Into call Wo Moffnt to know what putting Into In hr mime and thai you may read ill DONT ENDURE MORNING 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