* Swimming sisters,are Virginia “Ginny” Grant (right)

and 16-year-old Susan.

The crack splashers, who will

both represent Canada at Melbourne, recently won medals “in

the English championships at Blackpool.

is Teronto.

Gert Whyte's

Their home town

SPORTLIGHT

AST weekend I had a doozer
of a cold and the doc told
me to drink orange juice after

“a hot bath but after drinking
the hot bath I couldn’t get the
orange juice down.

* * *

If you gagged on that joke
try this one, stolen from News
of the North, a Yellowknife
paper I’m sure few of you read:

The football match between
the ants and the elephants was
in full swing when one of the
ants got the ball and made a
dash for the goal. Galloping
across to stop him, an elephant
put his foot on the ant and
killed him.

The crowd booed, hissed and
threw beer bottles, and the
referee came running up and
reprimanded the elephant for
rough play.

“Why did you want to kill
the poor ant?” he demanded.

“Aw, shucks,” said the ele-

phant hanging his head, “I
only tried to trip him.”
x * *

A donation of $200 has been
made to the Canadian Olympic
Committee by the United
Electrical Workers Union, with
the hope that similar donations
will make it possible to send
additional Canadians to Mel-
bourne this fall.

Bouquets to UE, and to all
organizations and citizens who
have donated to the Olympic
fund.

But the plain fact is that

such donations should not be

necessary. The government
should finance Canada’s team.
The amount needed to send a
large contingent of athletes is
only a drop in the bucket com-
pared to the huge sums spent
on armaments,
* = ae

After every horse race the
winning animal is walked to
the barns under police guid-
ance for saliva and urine tests.
Once in a while it is found
that a horse has been doped,
and the owner’s purse is held
up and punishment meted out
(although the two-buck pun-
ter doesn’t get his money
back).

Now a Florida trainer has
discovered a new gimmick
that seems foolproof. He’s
found that a horse runs faster
when pepped up on oxygen
for a couple of weeks.

A gadget like a feed bag:is
used. In one case a plug
which had never won a race
in its life breezed to the wire
several lengths in front of
the second horse.

After the race a shot of
oxygen makes the horse feel
better and reduces the “hot
walk” time to a few minutes.
In fact, horses get to expect
it, and don’t even need a treat-
ment before the race in order
to run better — they’re in a
hurry to get back to the barn
and don an oxygen mask.

Heaven help us poor pun-
ters!

~sport fans

Pacific Tribune editor on tour
watches soccer classic in Mosco

It was Dynamos versus Spartaks night at the big Lenin Stadium.
trains were jampacked and the wide boule vards were one huge mass of auto
cars, trucks, all loaded to capacity and all heading for the big game. Tens of <
ands of Moscow workers, enthusiastic soc cer fans, skipped going home for OM
and went direct from the factory to the

Not being an expert on soc-
cer I can’t give a kick-by-kick
account of this terrific game
between two crack Soviet
teams, but the infectious en-
thusiasm of a vast stadium
seating 105,000 and filled to
overflowing left no doubts in
my mind or any foreigner
present as to just where the
game of soccer rates in the
Soviet Union. It tops the list
in a nation which has come to
regard sports as an open road
to good health, good fellow-
ship, and good relationship be-
tween all mankind.

From the thunderous roar of
105,000 soccer fans it soon be-
came evident in this game that
the Spartaks were the favor-
ites to win as both teams
marched into the bright red
and green playing field, the
Dynamos in white sweaters
and blue trunks, the Spartaks

in red sweaters and. white
trunks.
Having seen and enjoyed

the great game in Vancouver
between our B.C. All-Stars
and the Moscow Lokomotivs,
it just seemed in this game
with its marvellous teamwork
and goalie efficieney, thai it
would be impossible for either
side to get a ball into the net.

However it is always the
impossible that happens on
such occasions and the
Spartaks drove home a
miraculous goal in the first
period. Half the vast audience
was on its feet, cheering,
flinging hats and coats into the
air, slapping their immediate
neighbors on the back and
yelling, “Hurrah Spartaks !”

Often during this tense
game the entire audience
showed its disapproval of the
referee’s whistle with a pro-
longed whistling of it’s own.
~(In the Soviet Union whis-
tling is the accepted form of
expressing disapproval or der-
ision, and when 105,000 fans
let go with great vigor, the
result is startling to say the
least.)

During the second half the
Dynamos got a chance at a
penalty kick right in front
of the Spartak goal, and
scored, tieing up the game at
1-1. That goal brought forth
a terrific uproar, expressing
approval and vice versa. If
one was not aware that such
a demonstration was nothing
but Soviet enthusiasm for the
sporting qualities of a great
game, he might be justified
in thinking that a new
revolution had broken loose.

*

A word or two on this
magnificant Lenin Stadium.
Tens of thousands of young
volunteer Moscow workers and
built this huge
edifice and its auxiliary build-
ings inside the space of one

By TOM McEWEN

stadium.

year. A huge oval,,its arch-
itecture is such that its seating
capacity of 105,000 can be filled
or emptied inside of 15-minutes
flat without any “crowding”
or discomfort.

Auxiliary buildings to the
Lenin Stadium consist of a

volleyball stadium, a 15,000
seating capacity swimming
pool building, a big Stadia

Hotel, together with numerous
restaurants, cafes, buffets, etc,
The Lenin Stadium even has
a huge Sports bookstore, where
literature of every sort and

The sleek Lions jumped quit)
over the lazy Edmonton Esks

Making his first appearance
at quarterback, Primo Villa-
nueva led B.C. Lions to a 11-1
win over Edmonton Eskimos
at Empire Stadium on
Monday night this week —
the first league victory over

the Esks in three seasons of
play.
First string quarterback

Jerry Gustafson was sidelin-
ed with a sore back, and Tony
Teresa was also out with in-
juries. That left it up to
Primo and he came through
like a champion.

A touchdown by Ed Vereb,
a field goal by Ron Baker who
also converted the TD, and a
single on Vic _Chapman’s

MOS

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in numerous language’
bearing on the world of §
past “and present, Cam
bought. es

Talking to numerous ©
sians during and after the
I found a very high
and warm sentiment for i
adian sportsmen, an
ularly high praise for 0%
star Canadiah soccer
which played the Mos
Lokomotivs in Toront® |
adians good sports
a universal opinion 9%
Soviet soccer teams 4?

fourth-quarter kick, ace
ed for the Lions’ score: on
got their sole point:

Jackie ‘Parker punt co?
by Glen Christian.

It was a wet night and rs
lanueva_ stuck mainly |)
ground game, although
came via air attack.

The unexpected wid
the Grey Cup champions gd
Lions a tie with we
Blue Bombers for thé
and last playoff §
four wins each, Oe fy
have a game in Hal
of the Lions will be detF ait
this weekend in games ("qi
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nipeg (Monday).

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* At a recent international track meet at wor
Stadium in London, Czech sprinter Vic Ma
220-yard event from Britain’s
compete ‘in the Olympic Games this November-

SEPTEMBER 28, 1956 —

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Mike Ruddy. Ma

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