Os 6 G what better gift than a _sub to the Pacific Tribune ? ; 7 ‘ Circulation Manager, Pacific Tribune, Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Please send the PACIFIC TRIBUNE for: WA RAI Six months $1.60 CL] é * One year ‘ $3.00 C1 ‘ NIANAE os eh ce : To | : : ADDRESS: .. e. ADDRESS: a x A notice announcing your gift will be sent to the person for whom you subscribe. SL EE GE SS EG RA GE BG OTT AT OR BS A 4 4 4 4 x x 4 x 4 & x x 4 B 4 4 x x 4 x i 4 x 4 : 4 4 x x 4 4 4 4 i 4 x x Ki x 4 4 Ring names Bobo Olson Bobo Olson, middleweight cham- pion of the world, was named 1953’s Boxer of the Year by the authori- tative Ring magazine, to the sur- prise of most fans. e Rockey Marciano and Kid Gavi- lan, both active champions through- out the year, were favored to cop the coveted award. Olson, a hustling scrapper but a powderpuff hitter, settled the controversy over the ownership of the middleweight title by out- pointing England’s Randy Turpin before 18,869 fans at Madison Square Garden on October 21. Olson floored Turpin twice dur- ing the affray, but couldn’t keep him on the canvas. Randy, over- weight in training, finally sweated down to 157 pounds and was great- ly weakened by the effort. Olson, nearing the end of his career, is also bothered by the 160-pound middleweight limit, and may have to step up into the light- heavyweight division during 1954. Bobo is of Swedish-American- Portuguese-Hawaiian ancestry, and is often dubbed the United Nations fighter. Bert Whyte's SPORTLIGHT Recs? single sports upset of 1953 was Hungafy’s soccer victory over England. And most quotable quote of the year was the remark made by Stanley Mai- thews, the greatest footballer’ in England, who said last week: “I would like to visit Hungary—not as a football teacher but as a pupil willing to learn all that I could.” At 38, Matthews figures he still has another three years of foot- ball in him. Interviewed on a BBC broadeast, Stanley said he was tremendously ifmpressed by ° the play of the Hungarians at Wembley and “would like to see English soccer raised to the same pitch of. perfection.” * * * It may well be that fhe sports sensation of 1954 will take place in hockey, with the Soviet Union playing a starring role. The world amateur championship will be decided in a Stockholm tourna- ment February 27 to March 7. ° Last Saturday the Swedish AIK team was snowed under 13-1 in Moscow by a Soviet Army team. Considering the calibre of Swed- en’s top teams (remember that Sweden finished third, behind Canada and the United States, in the last Olympics) this fantastic score should make Canadians sit up and take notice. Said Putte Kock, president of the AIK Sports Association, to Stockholm newspapers in a tele- phone interview from Moscow after the game: “The Russians have shown themselves capable of playing great hockey. Personally I be- | lieve the Canadians, not to speak for Peace Now, when the big bombs are being made ready, but there is a chance to ban them — : : Now, when we must keep faith with the war dead and make sure that German militarism never again, threatens Canada —° Now, when the guns have been silenced in Korea and we : “I hey never speak again — oa ahanen eee onde in the world thinks China should take her rightful place in the United Nations — and the armaments race threatens our living standards — ; Now, when we Canadians are called upon as a nation to reject McCarthyism and assert our right to freely discuss the * way to peace —_ ‘ Now, when the movements of the peoples for peace has brought the five great powers to the brink of negotiations which can end the cold war — Now, when dangerous efforts are made to confuse and lull public opinion so as to revive a warlike atmosphere — peace will go forward or war will triumph and there is no standing still — pis Now, your voice, every voice, is needed to speak for peace. = * * ae The Canadian Peace Congress has called a national Con- gress of Support for Negotiated Peace, to meet in Toronto January 30-31. Peace trains from west, east, north and south willl bring thousands of delegates to speak their minds. All Canadians, all Canadian organizations are invited to take part. In addition to those who come to speak in person, there are many thousands of peace-minded people who would dearly , Now, when the cold war is ruining our overseas markets ~ Now, when the balance’ must be rurtner turned, when . / Your Voice 7 Needed | --Dn. 1S ireard love to come, but who cannot leave their homes or work. If you are one of these people, let me invite you to join in this congress as a corresponding delegate. .Send your name and.-address, with $1.00 registration fee, to me at 25 Cumberland St., Toronto 5. Use the coupon in this advertisement. I will see that you are enrolled as a cor- responding delegate, and that you get a full report on the congress as soon as it is over. You are welcome, if you wish, to write our. your views and send them in along with your registration fee. They will be considered by the congress just as if you had come to speak to the delegates personally. Thousands of corresponding delegates will help to make this congress heard by the whole world. governments and peoples of the Will you send in your coupon today? —JAMES G. ENDICOTT DR. JAMES G. ENDICOTT, 25 CUMBERLAND ST., TORONTO 5. tiated Peace. | enclose $1.00 for which please enrol me as a cor- responding delegate to the Congress of Support for Nego- All newspapers in Canada have been asked to donate this advertis ement to allow their readers to enrol as corresponding delegates. The Provisional:Committee for the Congress warmly appreciates this contribution to the cause of peace. of ourselves, have to pick the best possible team to hold their own against the Russians. There is no doubt that the world cham- pionship fight will be a contest between Canada, Russia, Czecho- slovakia and Sweden.” x Les * Hungary’s ace football team, Honved of Budapest, which sup- plied seven of the players in the side that recently beat England 6-3, has been invited by Celtic to play in Scotland next year. The Soviet Union will send a team of ice speedsters to Japan this month to compete against Scandinavian and American stars in the 1954 world speed skating championships. ; Several Soviet football teams will tour Europe and England in coming months. Looks like the “cold war” is breaking down on the sports front; let’s hope that this signals the beginning of the end of the “cold war” on the political front. / May. 1954 be a year of peace, pro- gress and friendship among: all nations! * * *« Over in Brighton, England, a handful of hardy swimmers went in for a.dip on Christmas morn- ing. 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