* Ornamental Swimming Champions of Toronto are well named, for the girls, all from Oakwood Collegiate, are decorative as well as topnotch swimmers. Last month they defeated a favored St. Catharines squad to capture the Ontario title. Gert Whyte's SPORTLIGHT | opm grim approach to sport uken by too many Ameri- has its counterpart in the >monstrated by some ntries, notably ivancing along the clailsm. Armour Milne in the Daily Worker reports that in East Berlin two German cyclists were decorated with the Pat- riotic Order of Merit for win- ning the 1957 Prague-Berlin- Warsaw Peace race, while in Prague_ two_ Czech_ cyclists were “suspended pending an inquiry” for having lost the same race, “The humorless feature of the falling from’ grace of sportsmen this side of Eur- ope is that they are expected to publicly admit their faults, self-criticizing their faults like high political personalities who have come a cropper,” says Milne. A recent example was the Czech boxer, Franta Majd- loch, who broke training and drank six or eight beers while preparing for the European championships. As a result of his mild spree, he was _knock- ed off the team. That would have been enough in most countries, but. Franta also had to tell the public how terribly he had behaved. “His .condemnation of his own actions was forthright,” says “Milne. “But somehow they did not ring true. It was not couched in the words of a boxer but, as I say, ‘of a political offender. “Tt caused a deal of amuse- ment among sports, fans. In fact it raised-a bigger laugh than the story of Franta’s night on the spree. And I have a notion that that was not intended. “There’s a lesson here some- where, I’m thinking. _ “My grandfather used to caution me, ‘Don’t take your sport too seriously. If you do you may lose your sense of proportion and your sense of fun.’ “E had a lot of respect for my grandfather.” tt xr bes I’m with Armour ‘Milne all the way. International sport is a fine thing, but it must re- main sport. America tried to take the “cold war” into the Olympics, and failed. Social- ist countries have fine sports records in international com- petition — but there are signs that some politicak bigwigs fail to grasp that the import- ant thing is to compete, not to win. Evidently the fans in Prague understand this better than the government brass. The will to win is a fine thing in sports. But socialist countries will do. themselves great harm if they adopt the American “win at all costs” attitude taken prior to the lastsOlympics. In sports it’s always pleas- ant to win, and disappointing to lose. But winning is not a political virtue, and losing is not a political crime. Big-time marathon bicycle riders By RAY DICKOW Six-day bicycle riders could well be the Amal friends. They ously, to nowhere for six days or 149 gamated Meat Cutters’ best are those mad-whirling cyclists who pedal round and round, continu- hours, ‘covering a distance, on an average of 2,300 miles. Their road is 4 10dap pine board, oval banked track with 50 degree turns ’ that look like the round end of a bathtub. What association do these bike riders have with meat workers? They. consume meat — and plenty of it. If every one ate as much meat as do bike riders, the meat industry would find it necessary to ask the government to conscript workers into the industry to meet the demand. Exaggerat- ed? Maybe, but when the bike racing commissary stocks up with 400 to 500 chickens, 2,500 lamb and veal chops, and about 1,000 steaks to meet the demand, you. begin to wonder. And it’s all» consumed by not more than 24 to 30 riders, depending on the number of teams, two men to a team, en- tered in’a race. Six-day bicycle racing’s rookie of the year, Ted Ernst, a 24 year old pedaler from Chicago, who with his partner finished second behind a strong team of Hollanders in Chicago last March, eats three steaks during one ‘meal. For a chaser, he then drinks 10 raw eggs. Each rider eats at least two chickens a day. The dietary schedule of biker Gus Lang during a 1926 race would make the diet of a circus fat lady appear’ like a mere appetizer. At 2::30 a.m., Lang ate’ a small chick- en; 3:45 am., bouillon, four eggs, toast and seven egg- noggs; 7 a.m., roast beef, spin- ach, and tea; 11 a.m., soup, jelly and tea; 2:10 p.m. roast beef, spinach, and tea; 6:20 p.m. steak, spinach, cocoa, jel- ly, and at 8:30 p.m., chicken toast and asparagus. “No other rider ate more than‘Torchy Peden,” said six- day trainer Joe DeMaeyer. “During a two hour period, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m, the husky Canadian ate four lamb chops, two steaks, and three chickens.” The amount of energy burn- ed up by six-day bike riders is tremendous. An official bike race physician made the fol- lowing calculations The muscular energy spent by a six-day bike rider in one race is equal to the muscular energy spent in— BOXING—By a Jack Demp- sey in his entire boxing career. - BASEBALL — By a Bob Lemon in 40 completely pitch- ed games. FOOTBALL — By a play- er in an entire college car- eer plus a half a career of another. BASKETBALL — By a player in 75 percent of his season. HOCKEY—By a player dur- ing half a season. Six-day bicycle racing is a contest of ‘endurance and speed. Endurance is not only measured by the ability to finish a race but by the num- * ber of laps a team can gain over those gained by other teams. A team gaining or stealing the most laps during the race wins. A lap is gained when one member of a team unexpect- edly breaks away from the field of riders. Before the field riders realize what has hap- pened, the rider has gained a quarter of a lap lead: The chase begins. locally. The British Empire Games raised interest in bike rasing; Torchy Peden, who prob- ably won more six-day bicycle races than any other single rider, usually ate a basket. of grapes and about a dozen or- anges a day between his regu- lar meal periods. In addition. to their eliminative advan-° tages, both fruits supplied him with the quick-energy sugar he. needed. © Reprinted from The Butcher Workman Chalk players happy as horses run true to form — It’s been strictly horses for courses at Exhibition Park to date — mudders winning in the slop and on slow tracks, and. the speedsters coming into their own on a fast strip. Chalk players have been doing fine but seekers of longshots have had slim pickings. Class horses made their first days. appearance last Saturday when the likes of Princes Street, Malcolm G,° Dos Domingo, Magic Note and Duece Ad- miral hooked up in a six-fur- long dash. Most of the money went on Princes Street but it was Malcolm G who picked up the marbles in, the stretch, after Duece Admiral and Princes Street had run each other into the ground. Some horses to watch: Duece Admiral: On a slow track this sprinter will stay in front. Beat Princes Street to the clubhouse turn. Magic Note: Mare will come into her own over a mile dis- tance. © Dos Domingo: Surprised in sprint, always under-rated and could pay well one of these MAY 31, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 14 Alder Kid: Will win one of the cheap ones soon. Adwayne: Has a lick. of speed, needs a couple of races to get in brackets. : Delare: This baby looked better than highly touted stablemate Jay M Jay in debut. Soaparelli: Jumps up now and then, usually pays a good price. . e. Witged Zephyr: Will come from behind with a rush at boxcar figures. Bullaway: Impressive win- ner Saturday, should have 4 big year. Cotton Sampler: In fine shape, due to win any day. No Home: This one usually a good place bet. : are Meat Cutters’ best friends — | Pekstream: Sometimes closes « _ with a rush.