Bobby Beaton

Bobby Beaton
Bobby Beaton
Born	June 19, 1912 ; Port Hood , Cape Breton Island
Died	June 11, 2007 (aged 94)
Nationality	Canadian
	Statistics
Weight(s)	Welterweight
	Boxing record
Total fights	12
Wins	12
Wins by KO	9
Losses	0
Draws	0
No contests	0

Robert Beaton (June 19, 1912 ? June 11, 2007) ^[1] was an Atlantic Canadian hockey player , boxer and boxing referee. ^[1]^[2]

Hockey [ edit ]

Beaton was born in Port Hood , Cape Breton Island and played hockey in Atlantic Canada in the early 1930s. ^[1] He moved to England in 1938 to play for the Stratham Lions and Brighton Tigers , winning the European Championship in Berlin . ^[1] 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 [ edit ]

Beaton boxed professionally as a welterweight and his record was 12?0 with nine TKOs . ^[1] 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. ^[2] Beaton is credited with conceiving the three-judge system in boxing, now standard practice in the sport. ^[1] He was Referee-in-Chief and Adviser to the Nova Scotia Boxing Authority from 1978 until 1994. ^[1]

Hall-of-Fame inductions [ edit ]

Beaton was inducted into the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame , ^[3]^[1] the Nova Scotia Sports Heritage Hall of Fame, ^[1]^[2] the Pictou County Sports Heritage Hall of Fame ^[1] and the Cape Breton Sports Heritage Hall of Fame. ^[1]

Other facts [ edit ]

Beaton's great-grandson Evan Chambers, at age 17, represented Nova Scotia in boxing at the 2007 Canada Winter Games . ^[4]
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. ^[1]

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Adhsade, Kevin (June 13, 2007). "Boxing great Bobby Beaton dies at 94" . The News . New Glasgow, Canada. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011 . Retrieved March 29, 2011 .
^ ^a ^b ^c "Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame > Inductees > Search > Inductee Details" . sportnovascotia.ca . 2011. Archived from the original on March 9, 2012 . Retrieved March 29, 2011 .
^ White, John. "SPORTS SCRAPBOOK: Meet the godfather of basketball in Pictou County, New Glasgow sports legend Anslem (Anse) MacDonald | SaltWire" . www.saltwire.com . Retrieved January 6, 2023 .
^ "Boxing Team Named for Canada Games" . Government of Nova Scotia. February 2, 2007. Archived from the original on June 8, 2011 . Retrieved March 29, 2011 .

External links [ edit ]

Nova Scotia Boxing Referee Revolutionized Judging in the Ring The Globe and Mail ; Aug 28, 2007. (subscription required)
Bobby Beaton Passes Sportsnut.com.au; June 14, 2007.

[ngn-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Adhsade, Kevin (June 13, 2007). "Boxing great Bobby Beaton dies at 94" . The News . New Glasgow, Canada. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011 . Retrieved March 29, 2011 .

[nshof-2] "Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame > Inductees > Search > Inductee Details" . sportnovascotia.ca . 2011. Archived from the original on March 9, 2012 . Retrieved March 29, 2011 .

[3] White, John. "SPORTS SCRAPBOOK: Meet the godfather of basketball in Pictou County, New Glasgow sports legend Anslem (Anse) MacDonald | SaltWire" . www.saltwire.com . Retrieved January 6, 2023 .

[4] "Boxing Team Named for Canada Games" . Government of Nova Scotia. February 2, 2007. Archived from the original on June 8, 2011 . Retrieved March 29, 2011 .

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