1969 A New Beginning

, the BC boxers to old titles would be 1967 Canadian National Champions: by Brian Zelley


It was the start of the post golden age from 1939      to 1967, but some old faces would
 return such as 1968 Canadian Olympic boxer  Walter Henry. One of the new faces
 on the scene was BC boxer Neil Austin,  Others names appeared such as Hick, Groleau,
 O'Reilly, Bozic and Summerhayes.

Neil Austin, Joe Cook and Frankie Scott

The Family Connections in British Columbia

*For  1968, the two BC boxers to be given the 

opportunity to compete were Neil Austin and Pat O'Reilly jr.  Both were from boxing clubs where their fathers were the head coaches.  Austin was from the Langley Boxing club and his father was coach Walter Austin and O'Reilly

was from the long running Hastings Community Centre boxing club coached by Pat O'Reilly.