Bobby Beaton
Robert Beaton (June 19, 1912 – June 11, 2007) was an Atlantic Canada, Atlantic Canadian ice hockey, hockey player, boxing, boxer and boxing referee. Hockey Beaton was born in Port Hood, Nova Scotia, 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, Nova Scotia, Pictou, Truro, Nova Scotia, Truro, Stellarton, Nova Scotia, Stellarton and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, 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 knockout, TKOs. In 1941 he began refereeing. Until his retirement in 1 ...
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