Gert Whyte's

HOLIDAY ean be spent
A in thousand octillion.
ui.ferent we but to the
horse player and the fisher-

there

way.. The f

track, the lat I

I like the horses
S I

r
as
ng. We com-

wife likes fishi
promised and spent the’ first
week of our holid fishing,

the second week playing the
ponies at Hastings.

Our country. abode was a
spacious log cabin beside a
babbling brook and pleas-
ant little lake some 30-odd

miles up the PGE from Squa-
mish. Loaded down with car-
tons of plenty of mos-
quito repellent and’a few
ottles of snakebite remedy
(you never know), we step-
ped off the train, climbed in-
to a rowboat, and proceeded

food,

across the placid waters to
cur holiday home. ;
Before . we reached the,

place, a mosquito the size of
a Spitfire zoomed down at
me and gouged a pound of
lesh out of my left arm. I
cen stand the loss of a pound
or two, but my nerves were
shaken, so out came the
snakebite and I poured a tall

: Before the sun had dis-
appeared behind the mount-
ains my arm was slightly stiff
and so was I.

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Not the least interesting
part of a holiday in the coun-
try is the reading material
one discovers in these ancient
cabins. Even our best dentists
cannot compete with the pro-
prietors of summer resorts in
this respect.

One of the newer books
piled atop the late medel
phonograph (it doesn’t need

electricity, you just wind it)
was a copy of Diprose’s An-
nual, 1877. In the preface to
this anthology friend Diprose
vrote: “Among the chances
of ‘this mortal life may Old
Father Time use us tenderly
for the year to come; and this
day twelvemonth I trust we
all may meet again.”

In faded ink on the fly
leaf some tormented soul of
a bygone day had made this
personal notation: “Slept,

SPORTLIGHT

n., bowels moved,
raze in
rinxs were the thing in Merry
! 1 one
writers
skating bug
is country-

Hark to

sports

nia 1s a word ap-
i for, by my
world has

All the

rinking mad! Prophets

say it, like all -other

nlas, is ephemeral, and
will soon be numbered with

1¢.rages of the
have

in,

past. In our
seen many man-
and ‘like .shad-
art. The tulip,
and dahlia manias;
the Cochin-China and Brahma
hicken mania; more recent-
y -potichomania, and other
sefety vaives for bottled up
lunacy — such as collecting
obliterated postage ‘stamps
and monograms cut from tops
of letters.

“Will rinking last? We take
Time boldly by the forelook
and answer ‘Yes.’ .Rinking
has all the essentials to allow
it to take its place among our
permanent English pastimes.
It will live to rank with
cricket and rowing; and un-
like both, lovely woman can
take her part in it!

“There is an outcry against
the rink; that it is a medium
fer flirtation, and for making
acquaintances which other-
wise would not obtrude upon
society. It tends to draw
young men into expense, late
hours, latch keys and a gen-
eral disregard of business.

time we
come

OWS, ._SO

las

peansey,

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]
Bs

“There is nothing so perfect
in this world to which ‘ex-
ception cannot be taken.

“The rink is superior to all
the low-toned, so-called
amusements of the day. That
it should ever degenerate in-
tc a school of vice and drunk-
en orgies will be by the abuse,
not the use, of a healthy, in-
vigorating, social English ex-
ercise.”

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Well spoken, old sport. Too
bad youw’re not still around to
give us your opinions on El-
vis Presley.

e SOCCER -«

RUSSIA LOKOMOTIV F. C.

vs B.C. ALL-STARS

EMPIRE STADIUM

SATURDAY, August 11th

(ine.

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oy a tenes

Canada’s swim sweetheart, Marilyn Bell, faces the biggest effort of?
soon when she tackles the 18.2 miles of cold, treacherous water betweél
and Port Angeles. If she succeeds in conquering the Strait of Juan dé
earning the $30,000 she is shooting for (win or loose, she gets a guara
000) the young Toronto girl who gained fame when she swam Lake
years ago and then went on to beat the English Channel last summer, !

from long distance swimming.

She intends to start taking
a physiotherapy course at Mc-
Gill University in September
and believes that she may not
be able to find time to keep up
her swim training.

Coach Gus Ryder is super-
vising Marilyn’s training, and
another friend, Cliff Lumsden
of Toronto, will arrive soon to
train with her. Lumsden de-
cided to take a crack at Juan
de Fuca after winning the
26-mile Atlantic City swim
recently.

Today the wold’s best long
distance swimmers are Cana-
dians. In addition to Marilyn
Bell and Lumsden, there is
35-year-old John Jaremey, a
chunky steamfitter who re-
cently conquered Lake Ontario
in 21 hours 13 minutes, just 17
minutes slower than Marilyn.

Member of Local 46 of the
Plumbers Union, Jaremey
hails from Port Arthur, Ont.
Over 7,000 greeted him when
he landed, including many
unionists.

Jaremey plans to enter the
$20,000 Lake Ontario swim this
month and then try Juan de
Fuca.

Lake Ontario is tough, but
the Strait of Juan de Fuca,
with its rip tides, is probably
tougher.

More than 50 attempts have
failed, and only Bert Thomas
of Tacoma has succeeded to
date. Thomas swam from Port
Angeles to Victoria a year ago.

SN Se

_ CLIFF LUMSDEN

He made it on his fifth try in
11 hours 17 minutes,

Marilyn Bell, swimming
daily in 50-degree water, will
make her bid in a few weeks.
She and Ryder are studying
wind and tides and the peculi-
arities of the stretch of water
which has defeated so many
marathoners to date.

Recently a Vancouver news-
paper denounced the “mara-
thon madness” and urged Ma-
rilyn to give up the attempt. It
pointed to the fate of a 17-
year-old girl who was taken
from the water temporarily
blinded after swimming four
miles in three hours.

The fact is that far too many

August 3, 1956 —PACIFIC TRIBUNE

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ing swims peyond
ties. Without ad
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Ontario or the §
de Fuca for the
their pictures ine
and in the longsh®
they will be lucky
how miraculously
making a crossills
Of course, succ®
attained that way-
of training went
lyn’s victories ove!
tario and the Eng*
It may enable he.
again. But if the
begin to exhaust i
be the duty of beg
order her out of th
fore her health 15
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On the local swt
young B.C, swim,
ready for the Can@
pic trials in Toro?
ing difficulty see
pool time. UBC © ‘I
$30 per hour for ext
at Empire Pool. 4
Top local swim™™
against star
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Pool this Saturday
and proceeds va
travel costs of BY
to the Toronto tt@
In action will
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Slater, Dave
Brew, Marg pee
Fisher and others

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