This Soviet team beat us last year

» Last year Moscow Dynamos (shown above) astounded the hockey world by beating a Canadian
team 7-1 to win the world hockey cup. This year the Canadian entry, Penticton V's, hope to bring the
championship back to Canada, but they face strong opposition from Czech, Swedish and Russian teams.

hile the V’s tied the Czech team 3-3 in an exhibition match Sunday, the Soviet team was whipping

Germany 17-3 in another exhibition game.

BEG rowing champions
Seek aid for Henley trip

A province-wide appeal for funds to send Vancouver's British Empire Games’
champion crew to the Henley Regatta in England was kicked off Tuesday this week.

inal arrangements for the cam

Committee in the Alcazar Hotel. Hee
Early estimates show a minimum $20,000 will be required to fly the crew to Britain

Including cost of shipping the
shell in which the University of
British Columbia crew rowed to
“etory in the BEG last August.

Appeals will be made to schools
ah Citizens throughout the prov-
Nee and University of B.C. stud-
“nts will be asked for ‘voluntary
°ontributions. A grant of $3,000
Bie -he taken from the students*
OUunci) Surplus at the end of the
versity at willbe asked of uni-
‘ Students in a general meet-

on the campus in March.

oe ‘but one member of the
is ege Vining crew, and that one
slang wit Ray Sierpina of Lulu
wil] who has left the university
Regat make the trip to the Henley
ed e ta. Sierpina has been replac-
Aint Slight Carl Ogaway of Salmon

paign were agreed upon at a meeting of the fund-raising

Other crew members are Glen

Smith, stroke, Grand Forks; Mike

Harris, Abbotsford; Tom Toynbee,
Ganges, Salt Spring Island; Doug.
McDonald, Ganges, Salt Spring Is-
land; Lawrence West; Vancouver;
Hermon Zloklikovits, Prince
George; Ken Drummond, Burton;
Bob Wilson, Kamloops; and spares
Phil Kueber of Edmonton and Bill
Hughes, Powell River.

Coach Frank Read and crew
manager Don Laishley, Nelson,
will also make the trip.

The crew meets daily in the
Memorial Gym for calisthenics and
for a one-mile row from Stanley
Park to’the Second Narrows Bridge
every Friday and Saturday. Daily
five-mile workouts will begin next
week, weather permitting.

Officials of UBC and the Van-
couver Rowing Club are backing

}the campaign for funds.

Dean
A. W. Matthews, president of the
Men’s Athletic Committee and
head of the Faculty of Pharmacy,
has been named chairman. Nelles
Stacy of the Vancouver Rowing
Club is vice-chairman and Bus
Phillips, athletic director at the
university is secretary-treasurer.

Committee chairmen are Frank
Frederickson, special events; Luke
Moyls, publicity; Grant Donegani,
alumni; Ron Bray, students, and
Walter Owen, special names.

Committee members include John
Warren, Dr. Keith Lindsay, Dick
Penn, Don Jabour, Colin Hempsill,
John Spring, Jack Carver, Jim Fer-
ris, Sanford Crowe, Art Sager,
Dick Underhill, Bob Hutchison,
Bob Brady, Geoff. Conway, Col.
Doug. Forin, and Col. Victor
Spencer.

Gert Whyte's

SPORTLIGHT

arent hey V’s were mighty

lucky to salvage a 3-3 tie with
Czechoslovakia’s first-string team
Sunday (they had no trouble beat-
ing a Czech “B” team 6-0 Mon-
day) and Canadians are waking
up to the fact that. several Euro-
pean countries are rapidly over-
taking this country in hockey,
our national game.

Only, the, other day a chap
dropped into the office and of-
fered to bet me five bucks that
the Russians would whip Can-
ada in the world cup final.

“It’s a bet,” I said, “but what
makes you so sure these two
teams will meet in the big play-
off? It could be the Swedes or
Czechs, you know.’”

'’'m pulling for the V’s to win
the tournament—not because 1!
want to win $5, but because I’d
like to see Canada win back the
world cup—yet I confess that,
as a Canadian, I’m a bit ashamed
of the way some of our boys are
behaving.

The other day in Berlin, where
the V’s walloped a_ pickup
team 16-1, the manager of the
Soviet team approached Bill War-
wick with photographers in tow
and suggested they have their
picture taken together.

“Warwick brusquely pushed the
Russian away and told him he
wasn’t having any part of a pic-
ture which would be used for

This is how the UBC eight-oared crew whipped Ensland (farthest from camera) in the BEG last year.

Soviet propaganda,” reported
Vancouver Sun sports editor Er-
win Swangard, who is accompany-
ing the Canadian team. “A some-
what shocked manager and photo-
graphers took a hurried leave.”

The blame for such rude and
unsportsmanlike conduct does
not rest entirely upon Warwick.

Fact is, the Penticton lads have
been undergoing a sort of “brain-
washing” at the hands of anti-
Soviet hockey officials and sports-
writers of the Swangard breed
ever since they departed these
shores.

This “hate Russia” campaign,
patterned after the hysterical
U.S. drive to “beat Russia” in
the next Olympics, is a product
of maggot-minded “sportsmen”
who attempt to inject their venom

"into our young athletes compet-

ing abroad.

Readers. will remember Swan-
gard’s nauseating drivel in the
Sun during the 1952 Olympie
Games. Now he is returning to
his old anti-Soviet vomit.

For example, a wrist watch
was lost by a spectator at the
Berlin Sports Palast. A member
of the Soviet team happened to
find it, and returned it to its
owner. This caused, writes Swan-
gard, an hilarious uproar. He
explains:

“The joke of course, was bas-
ed on the Russian occupation of
the former German capital when
Soviet soldiers cleaned out every
building and stripped persons of
their watches.”

Now “looting” was not an un-
common thing during the war. I
can't speak for the Russians, but
I've seen Canadian soldiers load-
ed down with scores of German
watches. At this moment I'm
wearing a watch that I took
from a Nazi officer in Germany.

But what is the purpose of
Swangard writing such stories at
this time? Why, the reason is
simple. He’s playing his little
part in the so-called “cold war”
by trying to develop a “hate Rus-
sia” attitude on the part of our
hockey team.

One can only hope that the
members of the Penticton V’s
will not fall for such cheap propa-
ganda, but will act throughout
the tournament like true sports-
men and decent Canadians.

As a gesture in the interest
of world friendship, perhaps the
publisher of the Vancouver Sun
should call Swangard home.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 25, 1955 — PAGE 11