. - ~ 195 ball Edmonton’s Jackie Parker tries to el West will beat East in Grey Cup Classic {nother decade. Western teams — not just Edmonton, but other WIFU “ams as well — are just too 800d for the East. And it all Sls down to a style of play. Let’s take a look at the pic- Ure, Put in its simplest form, the stern teams play a_ basic round game while the East- a aggregations depend on an “rial attack. Figures show 4t while the HBastern attack Score against the West, hey can't hold onto the ball ~*hg enough to win. The series of Grey Cup ames between Eskimos and SUettes prove the point. In . 4 the Als’ air attack was Sally Working and they would Wve won if Jackie Parker 8dn’t scooped up that loose and made his sensational for a last-minute touch- Wn, tae? Als were a grim but con- iny nt aggregation when they met Vancouver in 1955 to s their revenge, Yet they © outplayed and finished ee Short end of a 34-19 ©, after leading 19-18 at ‘lftime. °W examine the figures. Mos made 440 yards rush- » Alouettes only 72. Mont- Made 508 yards passing, aN, a dmonton 128. It was ic this year, next year and the year after. : ‘tudies the type of football played west of Ontari ae SS = ude Montreal Alouette clearly a ground attack against an air attack, and the ground attack won. Did the Als learn anything? No'*so you'd notice. In 1956 the two: teams clashed a third time, and again the Als took to the air while the Esks rolled forward like a tank battalion on the ground. The Esks won, of course. Then came the. all - star Shrine game here, and the West demolished the East 35-0. It’s as plain as the nose on Jimmy Durante’s face. Today the West plays better football than the East; a faster, tougher, more versatile. game. One reason, of course, is that the West plays 12-man foot- ball, while the Tast plays a 11- man game. Oh, the twelfth guy is out there, all right, but the American coaches east of Winnipég haven’t learned how to use him. Accustomed to 11- man squads with four back- fielders, they “solve” the “problem” of- that “extra” man by flanking him to the sidelines — where he may get a pass once in a dozen plays. In the West- the American coaches havé learned how to use that “extra” man — they adopt a number of plays in which any one of five back- fielders may tote the ball. The tacklers in 1955 Grey Cup game. Etcheverry Sa this year, next year, year after The West (and that means Edmonton Eskimos) will beat the East in the Grey Cup In fact, unless the East smartens up and o, they are likely to keep on losing for Kast just can’t cope with this ground offensive when they run up against it. Not only -that. Western quarterbacks learn how to run with the ball — something Eastern quarterbacks seldom do, except in desperation-when they can’t find a pass receiver. So in the quarterback depart- ment the West is also superior. no better passer in football than Sam of Montreal. He showed against Edmonton that he could complete many passes and score. But other passes were intercepted, and once the Esks had the ball it became a difficult job to get it back again. \ There’s Canadian Take last year’s Grey Cup game in Toronto. Edmonton controlled the ball for 113 plays; the Als had it for only 67 plays. So when West meets East at the end of this month, the West will win for the fourth year in a row. And they’ll keep on winning, year after year after ‘year, unless the East adopts the WIFU style of football, learns how to roll along the ground as well as travel by air, utilizes all 12 players. on the field, and develops) running quarter- backs, ‘ Gert Whyte's --SPORTLIGHT T AGUA Caliente last Fri- day two longshots romped home to pay a daily double of $2,111.20. On Monday at Golden Gate the double paid a nice $884.80. Such figures set tongues wagging in the horsey set. What were the biggest double payoffs of all time? Argu- ments develop, tempers reach the boiling point. To cool everyone are the facts. off, here Record $2 daily double pay- off in North America was $10,- 772.40 (Joy Bet to Merry Caro- line) at Washington Park in 1939. World’s longshot record was 3,400 to 1, in a hurdle race at Haydack Park, England, in 1929. The Canadian record was $8,498.35 for $5 tickets at Thorneliffe Park, Toronto, September 17, 1932. The Canadian quinella rec- ord was $3,100.75 for a $2 ticket, also at Thorncliffe Park, September 12, 1932. That must have been a vintage year. And the shortest price on a winner? Why, 1 to 100, on Man o’ War (natch) three times in 1920. Professor John Farina of University of Toronto comes right out and says that sports are of no use in building character ‘and only “breed cheating, larceny, fighting and downright sadism.”’ Hockey, he Canadian snooker champion adds, is “the most degenerate sport in the world.” The professor (it says here) is wrong, but he makes a point. .There’s been too much slush and guff about the character- building aspect of sport, par- ticularly professional — sport, and I suppose the good pro- fessor reached the point where he felt like throwing up—and did. To attract attention, he went too far. Despite the evils of professional sport, about which much has been written over the years, sports in gen- eral teach youngsters a lot about fair play, and help to develop sound minds in healthy bodies. * ae Mounties general manager Cedric Tallis is confident that we'll have triple-A ball in Van- couver next year — so confi- dent that the club is selling season tickets. Hopes are for a hookup of the Coast League with the American Association, with the big leagues handing over “about $100,000 to each PCL club, It would be nice to see Minneapolis, Salt Lake City and Denver join the Coast set- up, but it’s still only a longshot possibility. The Mounties caught on with the fans last year, and an- other fighting aggregation next season would see a big upsurge in attendance, putting the club on a sound financial basis. - George Chenier (above) de- feated New Zealand champ Clark McConachy 25-19 in their exhibition series here, and is looking forward to meeting title holder Fred Davies at Exhibition Gardens world championship match, interes'ing sports events. nex. February in a one of the centennial’ year’s most November 15, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 11 .