Bobby Beaton
{{short description|Canadian boxer}}
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|nationality = Canadian
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1912|06|19}}
|birth_place = Port Hood, Cape Breton Island
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|06|11|1912|06|19}}
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Robert Beaton (June 19, 1912 – June 11, 2007) was an Atlantic Canadian hockey player, boxer and boxing referee.
Hockey
Beaton was born in Port Hood, Cape Breton Island and played hockey in Atlantic Canada in the early 1930s. He moved to England in 1938 to play for the Stratham Lions and Brighton Tigers, winning the European Championship in Berlin. The next year he played for the Falkirk Lions of Scotland. Returning home to Nova Scotia, Canada, he played and coached teams in Pictou, Truro, Stellarton and New Glasgow, winning seven A.P.C. (Antigonish, Pictou, Colchester league) titles, three Nova Scotia Championships and three Maritime titles in the 1940s and 1950s.
Boxing
Beaton boxed professionally as a welterweight and his record was 12–0 with nine TKOs. In 1941 he began refereeing. Until his retirement in 1983, he officiated at over 500 boxing bouts, including 41 Canadian, five British Commonwealth and one World Championship. Beaton is credited with conceiving the three-judge system in boxing, now standard practice in the sport. He was Referee-in-Chief and Adviser to the Nova Scotia Boxing Authority from 1978 until 1994.
Hall-of-Fame inductions
Beaton was inducted into the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/bzcbhof Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame],{{Cite web |last=White |first=John |title=SPORTS SCRAPBOOK: Meet the godfather of basketball in Pictou County, New Glasgow sports legend Anslem (Anse) MacDonald {{!}} SaltWire |url=https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/lifestyles/sports-scrapbook-meet-the-godfather-of-basketball-in-pictou-county-new-glasgow-sports-legend-anslem-anse-macdonald-260059/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=www.saltwire.com |language=en}} the Nova Scotia Sports Heritage Hall of Fame,{{cite web |url=http://www.sportnovascotia.ca/hof/Inductees/Search/InducteeDetails/tabid/571/Default.aspx?m=284 |title=Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame > Inductees > Search > Inductee Details |work=sportnovascotia.ca |year=2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309153104/http://www.sportnovascotia.ca/hof/Inductees/Search/InducteeDetails/tabid/571/Default.aspx?m=284 |archivedate=March 9, 2012 |accessdate=March 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }} the Pictou County Sports Heritage Hall of Fame{{cite web |url=http://www.ngnews.ca/Indoor-activities/2007-06-13/article-316961/Boxing-great-Bobby-Beaton-dies-at-94/1 |title=Boxing great Bobby Beaton dies at 94 |first=Kevin |last=Adhsade |work=The News |location=New Glasgow, Canada |date=June 13, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706190842/http://www.ngnews.ca/Indoor-activities/2007-06-13/article-316961/Boxing-great-Bobby-Beaton-dies-at-94/1 |archivedate=July 6, 2011 |accessdate=March 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }} and the Cape Breton Sports Heritage Hall of Fame.
Other facts
- Beaton's great-grandson Evan Chambers, at age 17, represented Nova Scotia in boxing at the 2007 Canada Winter Games.{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20070202005 |title=Boxing Team Named for Canada Games |publisher=Government of Nova Scotia |date=February 2, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608022413/http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20070202005 |archivedate=June 8, 2011 |accessdate=March 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}
- Beaton was a mentor to Hubert Earle, Director of Combat Sports & Referee-In-Chief of the Nova Scotia Combat Sports Authority.
- Beaton lost the sight in one eye in a sledding accident at the age of three.
References
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External links
- [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070828.OBBEATON28/TPStory/ Nova Scotia Boxing Referee Revolutionized Judging in the Ring] The Globe and Mail; Aug 28, 2007.{{subscription required}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070819225225/http://www.sportsnut.com.au/category.php?intid=7 Bobby Beaton Passes] Sportsnut.com.au; June 14, 2007.
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Category:People from Inverness County, Nova Scotia
Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen