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Huddersfield pressed to win

Superior fitness of pros
decisive against All-Stars

When an Old Country soccer eleven accepts an invitation to tour Canada it is

natural th

Bie. ;
Hwy 3s usually directed to teams who have prev
atch cut for Vancouver.’

Teach
With ¢
first g
ne the locals

&f reputation as Canada’s tough-
est team.
Vancouver's recent

Lea tsfiela Town of the English

the Coast, and trot onto
he exception of last year's

jee First Division were no ex-|
€Ption,

They asked the usual

Uest :
a €stions, received the usual ans-

Wers,

the ati Were still surprised at!

sitength of Vancouver's Sat- |
Al-;
both |

urd: ens
Ata, afternoon footballers.

Sh the Town swept
fet by 42 and 4-1 scores, that
re eh Saying, “the score did
trun, ieate the play,” was never
ame. €specially in the second

first game

day, May played Wednes-

5 saw Huddersfield draw
at the five minute mark,
back e have the All-Stars surge

it two well earned, and
Clift Soals by outside right
in hal ord. Being down 2-1 at
Manages was enough to overcome
to suiby Ban oy. Beattie’s aversion
ate tae Barons and it was fortun-
Md ae Town eleven that they
Which ay to Canadian rules,

mOW three substitutes. '

_ To
intr Start the second half Beattie

On
Mogg taitor th, and right half Bill
dsfensiver® bolster the Town, both
change.
and the Made a marked difference
tro) cee english team gained con-

The the game. ; .
breaker 2308 S0al was a

Oss
Recteg com Winger Simpson de-
Into the centre half Pat Philley
Never ce t. Although the locals
ly tiring ve up they were obvious
When ey and it was not surprising
“arg bla bire forward Jimmy Glaz-
low i Sted a cross from Metcalfe
€ het for the winning
os minute mark, Five
abaph: full time Glazzard
Past goalies Pass and hit it high
Clincher le Keni Pears for the

@ A};
UStan; Played well to a
mn €y did not possess the
a SSO essential to a soc-

heart-

The wer egations,
Saturday alter played last
- t au on saw Hudders-

ed

LStars

With the team that
hesday’s game, and
Made several need-
& a From the opening

the dealer play eee
en,

the pros,
the best of
s eStats were award-
ac ‘ Penalty - against
Bri Gibson oe palithe
When the winger
- Gordon Ion whose
tis re the locals. vic-
Ay Tish In 1953, prov-
\, fluke by placing the
Out of goalie Wheel-
he All-Stars con-
the play for the

Ss on the other

angerous shot,
Tad Over ¢ by Simpson which

tea Te Wa he cross bar.

ie changes in either

as ek of the second
Sane a first game the

» and Crossed to Glaz-

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have lived up to |

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visitors, |

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or the locals, a simple low.

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rs and so often lacking in

at they should enquire as to the calibre of the opposition they will meet. The en-
iously toured Canada, and their reply is,

This sage advice is generally borne out when the tourists

Callister Park to do battle with the B.C. Mainland All-Stars.

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< RON STANIFORTH

and who headed high into the net
for the tying goal.
| The partisan crowd rose to its
feet six minutes I’ter when Clif-
ford put the ball behind Wheeler,
but the linesman shad signalled off-
,side'on the play. A free kick
jagainst Pat Philley taken from
the edge of the penalty area was
headed home by Glazzard to make
}the score read 2-1 in the Town's
‘favor after 20 minutes.
Superior condition was begin-
/ning to tell at this stage, and al-
though the Stars pressed hard, the
ball just would not roll from them
around the visitors goalmouth. It
was during a sustained. attack by
the locals, with Cowan well up the
field, that right winger Simpson
broke away and crossed to Glaz-

zard who nodded it past Pears to
compiete his hat-trick. This goal
came at the 40 minute mark and
the Stars suddenly looked as tired
as they must have felt. A header
by Cavanagh completed the scor-
ing two minutes from ‘the final
whistle.

It is intere.ting to note that
Huddersfield’s four goals in the
second game were all scored on
headers, and correctly reflects the
fact that their shooting leaves much
to be desired.

With the exception of Jimmy
Glazzard who has a fair shot and a
good head, the rest of the forwards
need radar to find the goal. Hud-
dersfield are not a colorful team,
and are not in the same class as
Newcastle United of 1949, or Tot-
tenham Hotspurs of 1952. Their
defense was at times uncertain.
and lacking complete understand-
ing with one another. The wing
half; were efficient workmen, but
they did not receive too much sup-
port trom their inside forwards.
Glazzard and Metcalfe were the
stars of the forward line, with
Simpson, a substitute winger also
impres_ing.

The All-Stars were beaten in the

final minutes of both games by!

that old bogy condition, and it was
only when they tired that Hud-
dersfield held a definite edge.

Outstanding defensively in both
games for the locals were goalie
Ken Pear:, who outshone his op-
posite number, Pat Philley as
fierce tackler, and Jackie Cowan,
the local ‘boy who played five years
with Dundee.

Alan Sawyer in the second game
and Doug Greig in the first game
were adequate halfs, but up front
only John Clifford played well con-
sistently.

Gogie Stewart who is probably
Canada’s ‘best inside forward was
played out of ‘position at right half
the first game, and waisted at out-
side left in the second game.

On the whole the brand of soc-
cer displayed by both teams was
well worth the price of admission,
but Huddersfield will not be long
remembered by local fans either
individually or collectively.

Where race champ met death

classic in 1953 and 1954, meet

A crowd of more than 150,000 attending the 39th Memorial
Day auto race at Indianapolis saw Bill Vukovitch, winner of the

his death in a flaming five-car

smashup. Vukovich had led 44 of the first 50 laps in a close duel
with Jack McGrath, who was forced out of the race by magneto

trouble just before the fatal crash. ¢
We, oigeiratien, and in 1947 a contestant was killed when he

crashed against the southwest wall.
his burning car when it overturned.

In 1953 one driver died of

Vukovich was trapped in

Chataway congratulates Tabori

White City Stadium, London.

wes SANTEE, where are you
hi..ii.dd..ing? You were sup-

posed to run that four-minute
long time ago, remember? And
now three (count ’em, three)
fellows have done it in one race,
while you are still talking away
to yourself. You alsO ran a
mile on Saturday: time, 4:05.4.

The trio who shattered the
four-minute mile barrier were
Lasio Tabori of Hungary, who
won the international classic in
London‘s White City Stadium in
3:59; and Britons Chris Chata-
way and Brian Hewson, both
clocked in 3:59.8.

Tabori, hitherto an unknown
in international competition, was.
running because Hungary's No.
1 miler, Sandor Tharos, took sick
just before the race. Chataway,
a cigarmoking, beer-drinking,
short-legged chap, is really a two-
miler. Hewson has always -been
regarded as a half-miler. ‘

So there you have it. Five
men have now run the mile un-
der the magic four-minute mark
(Bannister and: Landy were the

Ge | first two, of course).

And you, Wes Santee, the elf
styled greatest miler in: the
world, are still dawdling along,:
talking a great race every time
but failing to deliver.

Come Olympic. Games time,
Wes, and you’re going to find the °
competition awfully tough! :

* *

In winning the Preakness,
Nahua, according to the-papers,
“let loose his tremendous speed
in the stretch to get rid of the
stubborn Saratoga and set 3 Pim-
lico track record.”

That was what Nashua was
tupposed to do in the Kentucky
Derby, but didn’t. Of course he
had no Swaps against him in the
Preakness. a

Poking fun at all the “leading
tint writers” who picked Nashua
to cop the Derby, -a reader of

Sports Illustrated ‘repeated all

Chris Chataway ran second again last Saturday, even though he
cracked the four-minute barrier in the international mile race at
Picture shows Chataway congratulat-

ing winner Laslo “Tabori of Hungary, whose time was a flat 3:59.
Third man to finish, Bryan Hewson, also beat the four-minute mark.
Hungary’s famous miler Sandros Iharos,
because of illness,
at two miles.

Bert Whyte's

who did not compete

came back Monday to set a new world record

SPORTLIGHT

the pre-race predictions naming
Nashua, Nashua, Nashua, Nashua,
Nashua, and continued:

“They’re off!.. Swaps on the in-
side, Swaps takes the lead, Swaps,
Swaps, Swaps, Swaps, Swaps.
There in the stretch Nashua is
making his move (Swaps is mak-
ing his move too) and there goes
my two bucks.”

* * *

Gunning for his third consecu-
tive victory in the 500-mile Mem-
orial Day race at Indianapolis,
Bill Vukovich of Fresno, Califor-
nia, met flaming death in a five-
car pileup after he had complet-
ed 56 lap on the brick speedway.

Winner Bill Sweikert, in a
John Zink special, completed the
grind in 3 hours, 53 minutes
59.53 seconds, and had only one
pint*of fuel left at the finish.

Rea te: *

Although the auto is a modern
inyention, it isn’t quite as mod-
ern as some. people think.

It is hard to determine who
Duilt the pioneer vehicle, but a ©
letter in an old copy of The New
York Times records this:

“EO owas in the year of 1864
tha a friend of my mother, who
wa; living with her family at
Auburndale, a suburb of Boston,
drove: a horseless carriage from
Boston, a matter of 14 miles as I .
recall the distance, to our home
in the former place. I was then
@ lad of nine year!., yet I distinct-
ly remember his arrival, his com-
ing up the road, seeing little
puffs of steam vapor jetting out
Tom ths back of a regular ear-
riage, called a box buggy. ;

“When he came to a stop | was
simply astonished to see no horse.
The shafts had been removed
and there did not -seem to be
much mechanism. No doubt there
was a tank for water, with the

‘addition of what was needed in

automotive mechanism. 1, how-
ever, recall the whip socket —
no whip, but in its place a bunch
of flowers!”

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