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SPORTLIGHT

By BERT WHYTE

QUICK, WATSON, the needle — or at least a cup of tea. On
Saturday last I watched a cricket match for two hours at Brockton
Point, and ever since I’ve been trying to understand what happened,
if anything.

What I saw was this. Eleven fellows in white were in the field,
shifting aimlessly about, Two batters were guarding wickets, three
sticks in the ground with little sticks balanced across the top. A

pitcher, or bowler, threw the ball in an -overhand fashion after ~

taking no windup, but several running steps, His object was to hit
the wicket: something like duck on a rock.

The batter hit the ball, and if things looked safe, he and the
idle batter at the other wicket ran back and forth:a few times, If
he hit an easy grounder to the infield, however,he stayed put, with
apparently no marks against him. :

One batter was put out during the entire time I watched the
game. The ball hit his shinpads, an umpire (fellow in a long white
coat, I assume he was an umpire, but perhaps he was qa hospital

orderly) said ‘““Lbw’ and the batter retired, while the staid gallery :

applauded politely. :

“How long does this go on,” I asked a tweedy- pipe-smoking
chappie sitting next me. ‘Break for tea at five,” he said, looking
at me closely, probably wondering if we’d been introduced.

I left and hurried to the library, grabbed a copy of the Uni-
versal Reference Book, hotly turned the pages until I came to
CRICKET, and then realized I’d turned up a dead end street... For
the first thing I ran into read thisaway: “The implements of the
game, and the manner in which runs are scored, are so familiar to
everybody that it is unnecessary to enter into detail with regard to
them.” (P.S.—I did discover that lbw means leg-before-wicket, how-
ever, An intriguing bit of information, I must say.)

* * ae

SPORTS STEW: Frankie Almond has been listed among the

top six featherweights invited to take part in an elimination tourney
sponsored by tle National Boxing Association to find someone to
reign as king of the 126-pounders while champ Sandy Saddler is
doing a stretch in the U.S.army. The NBA listed Gene Smith. Percy
Bassett, Febela Chavez, Glen Flanagan, Tommy Collins and Frank
Almond as the best feathers on this continent. Winner of the
tourney would have to meet either France’s Ray Famechon or Roy
Ankara of the African Gold Coast... ..
‘ Canada Lee, the fine Negro actor who died a fortnight ago, was
also a boxer-back in the Roaring Twenties and Hungry Thirties. He
beat three champions (Broullard, Freedman and Dundee) in non-
title bouts, but never managed to get a championship fight with any
of them. When Lee gave up boxing he scored a dramatic triumph
playing the part of Bigger Thomas in Native Son on Broadway. In
1941 Lester Rodney of the New York Daily Worker interviewed him
and asked if he found any kinship between the art of boxing and the
art of acting. ‘‘Lots of it,’’ Lee answered, ‘‘a good boxer has a sense
of rhythm and timing, the feeling for the moment .,. .”

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ed the Steel raiders| at Trail. -
Then the union. beat the U.S.

son coming to Canada by bring-
ing 25,000 Canadians to the
border to hear Robeson. Final-
ty, the Canadian Olympic. Associ-
ation caved in and added Mine-

berley, Jack Butula, to the list
of Canuck fighters going to Hel-

* * *

BARGAIN BASEMENT:
H. Rush of Vancouver won a
Bargain Basement. buck last
week by correctly answering the
question, “Who knocked out
John L. Sullivan to win the
heavyweight title?’ The answer:
Jim Corbett. Three readers got
at right, but Rush’s letter arrived
first.

This week the question is
tougher and you'll have to work
for your dollar. The question:
What major-league pitcher scor-
ed more than 500 victories dur-
ing his career? Answers must be
mailed io Bert Whyte, Pacific
Tribune, Room 6, 426 Main
Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. The
person who mails in the correct
.answer first will receive a dollar
Dill by return post.

FRANKIE ALMOND

“& FREE CANADA IN A WORLD AT PEACE’

K, French and English-speak-

ing Canadians of every na-?

tional origin, share above all a
desire to live in a free and pros-
perous Canada in a world at
peace,

We are inspired by the thought
of the happy life that will open

up before our country and all

humanity when the danger of
war is banished from the earth.
Yet we are gravely aware that
increasing international tensions
threaten such a future for Can-
ada and the world. These ten-
sions, which we see growing
daily, will, unless relieved, lead
to the destruction of everything
we hold dear in what would be
history’s most monstrous war.

We are also aware of the
grave economic difficulties
which confront Canada and
other countries because of the
enormous. expenditures on arm-
aments and the curtailment of
world trade. af ‘

No lessening of international
tensions and no solution to ec-
onomic problems can be achieved
through policies of force. or by
filling the world with guns. The
soluton must lie in the nego-
tiation of international differ-
ences.

We are convinced: that there

are no differences among nations —

that cannot be settled by peace-
ful means, and that the only
way these differences can be set-
tled —- and war averted — is
through negotiations. }

We are convinced that there
is no reason why the negotiations

in Korea cannot be completed ~

and so bring peace o that coun-
try. 7 :

The Charter of the United
Nations is founded on the prin-
ciple that world peace depends
upon the agreement of the five
great powers—the United States,
Soviet Union, China, Great Brit-
ain and France. We believe that
negotiations between these five

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Resolution of national conference
for peace, arms reduction, trade

powers can lead to the conclu-
sion of a pact of peace which
would repudiate war as a2 means
of settling international differ-
ences. This pact should be open
to all countries,

Our country can play a proud
role by urging the five major
powers to negotiate such a pact
of peace.

We share the view held by
millions of people throughout
the world and voiced by most
of the world’s leaders, includ-

ing Trygve Lie, secretary gen-

eral of the United Nations, that
we must eventually have some
form of world disarmament if
peace is to be secured.

We are ‘convinced that a dis-
armament plan can be evolved
which would guarantee the se-
curity of Canada—and every
other country. Such a disarma-
ment agreement must include
the prohibition of all weapons
of mass destruction—all atomic,
chemical and_ bacteriological

weapons—as well as including

a simultaneous, gradual, control-
led reduction of all other arma-
ments.

Such a disarmament agree-
ment must provide for the most
rigorous system of eontrol, in-
eluding continuing on-the-spot
inspection, in order to safeguard
‘the security of all concerned at
all times.

Canada is one of the world’s
great trading nations; one in
every three Canadian jobs de-

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pends upon maintaining the
freest access to the markets °
the world for Canadian goods.
Yet today the markets for Cal@

dian goods ae more and morte

restricted. Trade to many coum
tries is limited by their inability
to pay for our goods because
of their arms programs or D&
cause of international tension®

To achieve prosperity and
peace, Canada should embark 0?
a vigorous search for new mal
kets everywhere, and trade with
every country willing to trade
with us on qa mutually profita
basis.

Serious charges have pee?

made by the Chinese and Kor

ean governments and by many

individuals and organization®

that the American forces hav?

used bacteriological warfare
Korea and China, :

This accusation has been 9&
nied but the seriousness of the
charge and the weight of evi
dence accumulating makes it &
sential that the charge be inve™
tigated most thoroughly.

In the meantime, Canada cad
protect her honor by obser vin
her obligations under the Ge

neva Protocol of 1925 in which

she pledged never to use bac
teriological warfare.

Also under “the terms of a

agreement Canada is pledged us
use every effort to have none
signatory nations, of whom the
United States is the most prom
inent, sign the protocol.

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