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FIRST 1952 PRESS BUILDERS

* Frank Politano (Grandview)
'* Hilda Scott (Grandview)

* B.P. (Grandview)

* Peggy Kennedy (Kitsilano)
* Rita Whyte (Kitsilano)

* Bert Whyte (Kitsilano)

P. Henry (Kitsilano)

Harry Seland (Victory Square)
Ed Dotzler (Electrical)

Lena Lipsey (West End)

C.B; (North Vancouver)

J.W. (North Vancouver)

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‘LEDGED HONOR PRESS BUILDERS
($100 OR MORE) _ |

Tom McEwen (Kitsilano); Rita Whyte
(Kitsilano); Kay Rankin (West End);
Florence Dorland (Electrical) ; Alex Dor-

land (Electrical); Ed Dotzler (Electrical) ;

Harry Seland. (Victory Square); Lena Lip-

sey (West End);

PLEDGED PRESS BUILDERS.
($25 OR MORE).

_P. Brenko (Advance);. 3.G. (Building
_Trades); George Kassian (Building Trades) ;
HV; Kronquist (Building Trades); I. P.
Schwartz (Building Trades); C.N. (Electri-

cal); W. J. Robson (Electrical); C. Rush’

(Electrical); E. Simpson (Electrical); Dora

‘Bjarnason (Fairview); Vi Dewhurst (Fair-
View); Viva Flood (Fairview); Jimmy Hut-
ton (Fairview); Walter Sileniek (Fairview) ;
Maurice Rush (Forest Products); George
Cole (Kitsilano); Betty Gadd (Kitsilano);
S.K. (Kitsilano); LS. (Kitsilano); Kay
Smith (Kitsilano); S.K. , (Kitsilano) ;

' Lottie. Foster (Moberley); Michael Eagle
(Moberley); Agnes Jackson (Moberley);
_ Agnes Roderique (Moberley); Edna Sheard
Lowe (Niilo Makela); M.E. (Olgin); B.K
(Olgin); J.K. (Olgin); LL. (Olgin); Mrs. R.
(Olgin); SS. (Olgin); A.S: (Olgin); B.S.
(Olgin); Carl Lehan (Point Grey); R. Ross
(Point Grey); Columba Smith (Point Grey) ;
Doreen Arsenault (Victory Square); D. B.
Maclean (Victory Square); Mona Morgan
(Victory Square); Axel Oling (Victory
/ Square); Jim Omerod (Victory Square);
Herman Rush (Victory Square); .C.K.S
(Victory Square) ;

Jean Bird (Waterfront); N.E. (Waterfront) ;
D.M.B. (Waterfront); C.P. (Waterfront) ;
E.W. (Waterfront); Sid Zlotnik (Water-
front); Alex Huculak (West End); May
Leniczek (West End); L.N. (West End);
Lillian Robson (West End);

Margaret Apps (Vancouver Heights); Anne
Boylan (Vancouver Heights); Robert Smith
(Vancouver Heights) ;

John Hargreaves, Roland Leblanc, M.

Hutter. -

John Senkiw (Port Alberni); Eddy Creel-
man (Alberni); Tim Seibert (Alberni);
Mark Mosher (Port Alberni); John Prokop-
chuk (Port Alberni); Dave Danielson (Lang-

- ley Prairie); Pete Cordoni (Langley Prairie) ;

Roy Burnell (Langley Prairie); E. Burnell
(Langley Prairie) ; :

Ole Beline (Lake Cowichan); H. Bergren
(Lake Cowichan); Myrtle Bergren (Lake
Cowichan); Olaf Carlson (Lake Cowichan) ;
John Anderson (New Westminster); Joe
Ivens (Okanagan Mission); S.W. (Powell

River);. G.W. (Rossland); C. F. Coleman
(Salmon Arm); T.B. (Trail); J.W. (Trail) ;

L.B. (Trail).

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SPORTLIGHT ©

By BERT WHYie———

HOT STOVE LEAGUE: Major league ball clubs have started
their spring training and the debate is on: can the Giants repeat
or will the Dodgers grab the National League pennant this year?
This department calls the Brooklyn Bums to win, mainly because
the Giants will be missing Willie Mays, the young Negro star

. who has been hustled into a uniform by the American govern-

ment. Rookie outfielder Mays was the hottest. ball-player to turn
“ up in years. Writing in the New
York Worker, Lester Rodney re-
calls a play Mays made in a
Dodgers-Giants stretch game:
~ “Phe Dodgers had Billy Cox
on third with one cut and the
score tied in the eighth, and a
well hit drive flew out to right
centre. Cox tagged up, the run
looked automatic. Mays snared
the ball at full speed and instead
of trying to stop-and-turn into
throwing position whirled com-
3 pletely around with the momen-
; tum of his run, and threw. The
ball was waiting for the amazed
Cox. in Westrum’s glove, knee
high right at the plate. The
: Giants won the game and went
on to sweep the series. They
were on their way.
a . ; “The Dodgers looked in utter
MPS disbelief from their dugout.
Oe Eee pas . They had never seen a play like
that before. They may not again, till there is an end to this un-
necessary war and Willie Mays is back where he belongs, in
centrefield for the New York Giants.”

Most people, of course, remember as the highlight of the
1951 baseball season that tremendous clout Bobby Thompson
scored off Ralph Branca’s second pitch, ‘which won the NL play-
off series for the Giants. Even though the Yankees won the
World Series, ball fans are still talking about eg way: feat.

It strikes me that Britain's austerity diet had more than a little
to do with that country’s poor showing in the Winter Olympics. You
can’t expect to build athletes on « meat ration of a few ounces a week.
Letters from friends in England inform me that the fo¥es over there

are getting less to eat now than they were even in the war years.

Summer Olympics open at Helsinki on July 19. If Britain wants
to make any kind of a showing, the government had better feed lots
of beefsteaks and plenty of milk and vegetables to Olympic team

members.
* =f oS *

The British Norton motorcycle is too good for the Americans,
it seems. They have banned the new “featherbed” frame model
from the 1952 Daytona SHRESS OD. the ground that it is a “purely
racing motorcycle.”

This is plain nonsense. The British sell the “featherbed”
model as a standard product, and hitherto the Yankees have made
no complaints. But Norton machines have won the Dayton 200-
mile professional race for the past three years and the 100-mile
amateur race for two years. This is the real reason behind the

US. ban.
Ses * *

Vancouver racing fans will watch' with keen interest the
showing made by the British Columbia bred Eddie’s Boy in the
$50,000 San Juan Capistrano handicap at Santa Anita on Saturday
this week.

Speed Kermode decided to enter Eddie’s Boy in the big race
after the three-year-old champ at local tracks in 1951 won a
$5,000 purse on Saturday last week, running the six furlongs in
1.10 4/5 over a muddy track, to pay $9 for a deuce on the nose.

In his last six races at Santa Anita Eddie’s Boy won two, ©
ran second once and finished third three times.

* *

Skiing is a popular sport in Canada; it’s even more popular in the
Soviet’ Union. A news dispatch reached my desk this week telling
how ‘hundreds of thousands” of young Soviet people recently took
part in a cross-country skting race organized by the Komsomol and
trade union organizations. In the Omsk region alone some 40,000
young farmens participated.

* * * *

The high- -flying Detroit Red Wings have the National Hockey
League pennant chase just about sewed up. Much of the credit
must go to Gordie Howe, the red-hot right winger who has been
compared. to the great Howie Morenz. (Detroit manager Jack
‘Adams says flatly that Howe is “as good as Morenz .. . the
greatest player hockey has seen in the last 25 years.”)

Howe won't reach his 24th birthday until the last day of
this month, but he’s been in the NHL for five years, coming up
Like many a hockey star, he
hails from Saskatchewan. His home town is a dot on pie
called Floral, just a few miles from Saskatoon.

Gordie played goalie’ when he was a kid, and arsed’ hhdear to
shoot with either hand in order to clear the puck. Part of his
present-day scoring power derives from that early training, for
instead of having to shoot back-handed he can shift his hands
and fire from the left side when the occasion arises.

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