2 plus 2 We Still Ne «| XR? OYE AVF ea 8 ls egg cues $283.91 Peioniore te Soe tote 282.95 Re orilirie ibes oc Sh ae 257.00 Wictory Square 214.25 Bhi and: Steel’ 2 - 161.40 Bence esi Petts Gi 136.00 Georgia - eee 95.00 Electrical Workers equals SIMPLE ARITHMETIC ON THE PACIFIC TRIBUNE DRIVE Drive Objective: $17,500 Cash Received: 1 $2,284 ed: $15,316 ok ee : FOP 15 PRESS CLUBS 90.00 ; training camps. _ ing, and ends the season with a .306 batting average. WEStcPnd: ate See 54.00 Olgin =. 50.00 Albernis _. 45.00. Capitol Hill oe 35.00 Victoria _ 33.00 Campbell River 22 32.00 Point Grey _ “: apy AC, 6) —.. FINANCIAL (RANDVIEW and Kitsilano press clubs staged a neck-and-neck drive this week, with the former just 96 cents in the lead when tabulations | Were made. Maritime club, last week’s front run- ner, slipped ‘pack into third place, with Victory Square in fourth spot. Ship and Steel came from far behind to get into fifth position, followed by Advance and Georgia clubs. Next week we ‘hope to see a reshuffle among the leaders, with a few new names on the board. “hd is YOUR club doing? > * xe x Ten supporters ‘have now pledged to become % Honor Press Builders by raising $100 or more ate for the drive. First 1952 Honor Press Builder - {48 William Hreherchuk (Advance) who topped |e century mark this week and is still going ‘| Strong. Pledged Honor Press Builders are Tom cEwen (Kitsilano); Rita Whyte (Kitsilano); Kay nkin (West End); Florence Dorland (Elec- trical); Harry Seland (Victory Square); A.K. (Central Burnaby); Lena, Lipsey (West~ End) and Nick Stoochnov (Grandview). How about ag “ok * * _. In addition to HPB’s, 147 supporters have Dledged to become Press Builders ‘$25 or more). €re’s the’ list by press clubs to date: Advance, 2; Building - Trades, 4; Civic Workers, 3; Elec- ‘ical, 4; Fairview, 5; Forest Products, 7; Georgia, Hastings fast, 1; Kitsilano, 8; Maritime, 3; st foberley, 6; Niilo Makela, 1; Norquay, 7; Olgin, |& Point Grey, 3; Ship and Steel, 13; Victory luare, 8; Waterfront, 6; West End, 6; Central Burnaby, 6; Vancouver Heights, 3; DRIVE NEWS ‘Albernis, 5; (oveniale 1; Kamloops, 1; Lake Cowichan, 4; Langley Prairie, 4; Michel, 1; Nanaimo area, 10; New Westminster, 1; Powell River, 1; Salmon Arm, 1; South Surrey, 4; Trail, 4. We know that some of these figures are incorrect, but as drive manager Elgin Ruddell says: “All I can (go ‘by are the names on the filled-in pledge slips.” So press club secretaries or drive directors should look into the matter, and make sure that reports are turned in to this office at once. * * * An old friend of the Pacific Tribune, Joe Ivens of Okanagan Mission, sent in his pledge to become a ‘Press Builder and adds: “It may be! into April before I get the full amount, but I shall not fail the Tribune.” That’s the spirit. * * * Is your press club planning a social, a bridge, a tea, a bazaar or some such affair to help raise money for the PT drive? If so, elet this column know about it well ahead of ‘time and we'll be glad to give you a free plug. x. * * haircut recently? Tf you ‘need one, visit a union shop at 611 Smith Street, just around the corner from the Orpheum theatre; and tell ‘the barber you read this item in the Pacific’ Tribune. He'll take your dollar—and turn it over to the drive. For this barber is out to become an Honor Press Builder. Go get your hair trimmed and help us out at the same time. An val pledge to raise $25 Address : 1952 PRESS BUILDER PLEDGE Name _. co : Press Club (if any) SEND TO PACIFIC TRIBUNE—ROOM 6, 426 MAIN STREET, VANCOUVER, B,C. ’ “This item is for men only. Have you had a. aay, dropped dead at the eighth pole. retire | : ; SPORTLIGHT By BERT WHYTE ARE, right at the beginning of the hockey -piayofi and up crops news about baseball from the spring The glamorous Yankees are making headlines in Florida and manager Casey Stengel appears on the sports pages surrounded by baill-crazy youngsters. Every year at this time somebody writes, “The Yanks have had it; ithey’ll wind up in the second division.” And somebody always replies, “Never sell the Yankees short.” Comes October and the Yanks win another pennant and the World Series. Last year the Yankees were supposed to be falling to pieces, when up popped a rookie named Gil McDougald with an awkward batting stance that had the wiseacres splitting their sides laugh- Nobody could laugh that off. Gil had poled 14 homers, 23 doubles and four triples among 123 safeties in 131 games. And in the Series against the Giants he hit a grand-slam homer. Another Yankee rookie who turned into a gdld-plated asset was kid star Mickey Mantle, who made a big jump from Class C ‘ball to the majors at the age of 19. In February, 1951, Mickey had decided to quit ball and was working for $40 a week in a town called Commerce (population 2,000) somewhere in Okla- homa. A couple of months Jater he was wearing a Yankee uniform and cavorting around the ball field with a bunch of fellows named HERE WE season, Dickey, Henrich, Rizzuto, DiMaggio and Berra. The Yankees have a habit of digging up rookies like Gil and Mickey when ‘they’re needed most, but a lot of the work still falls on the shoulders of a few steady old-timers. One of these is fastball hurler Vic Raschi, who was 28 before he landed a regular berth with the Bombers in 1947, and has averaged 20 victories each year since. The hard- -working right-hander has a ‘habit of coming through in the pinches, and he throws every ball as ‘if the game depended on that one piltch—which, in a way, it does. So when the teams come north in the spring and a couple of ‘other American League outfits hit a hot streak and begin burn- ing up the circuit, causing some desperate sports writer short on ideas to begin the annual dirge about Stengel’s crew, just re-— member this warning: “Don’t EVER sell the Yankees short.” HTS te * | A Telepress dispatch reports that the competition for the _ - USSR ice hockey title (Canadian style) has ended in victory for the RAF team. RAF stands for Red Air sb ings just in case anys a might get wrong ideas. ; “Preliminary contests were hefa in Chelyabinsk (Siberia) ‘saa Sverdlovsk (the Urals) to determine the best six teams,” the report says. “After the preliminaries the leading teams then competed for the title in Mcscow. Some of the matches were witnessed by 70,000 and 80,000 hockey sapere neon: who packed 5 the Dynamo Stadium. _ “To decide the championship an additional ae | had to be played between the team of the Central House of the Soviet Army and the Air Force team, both of which had scored 18 points. After an exciting game Air Force defeated Army by 3-2, winning the test ice hockey title for the second straight year.” \. * + rs ee, Last year at Lansdowne I bet $2 on a horse named Test Flight, — Punters in London did betier — last week, when a 12-year-old steeplechaser named September Air won -@ two and a half mile race at Sandown Park and dropped dead ai few yards beyond the winning post. of seven to one from the bookies. I’ve written before in this column about the piel practice epi racing old nags which should be retired to the farm. Test Flight was. 10, September Air was 12. No horse over nine years of age should be allowed to go to the races, except as a spectator. Can't the SPCA do something about it? PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 21, 1952 — PAGE 11 Backers of the dead horse drew odds