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SPORTLIGHT

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few reliable pros to hold the
team together.

I said it and I'll say it again.
Put Ronnie Knox in the quart-
erback s and Lions could
wipe the with Regina
or Winnipeg, and play on fair-
ly even terms with Edmonton.

Just a few go Knox
was wandering around
to be had for the asking.
money was needed, but money
is the stuff Lions have too
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beautiful maids on
a mission, the Sofia girls from
Sweden, v ed a number of
B.C. cities last week and scor-
ed a hit wherever they ap-
peared.

The

Sixteen

(to awaken

mission

Canadian interest in gymnas-

may have succeded, if

of the crowds is an
dication of success: A friend
that

girls

Victoria writes me

aw the Swedish

rm. th (his account of
show arrived too late to
ye published in last week’s
paper) and more than 3,000
watched the Sofia girls in
Vancouver at UBC gym.

This is really something,
when you consider that less
han a baker’s dozen usually
turn out to local- gym-
nastic displays.

What Canada needs to make
gymnastics popular is a dra-
matic victory at Melbourne by
Ernestine Russeil of Windsor.
Should this 17-year-old, who
is already the best female
gymnast in North America,
capture an Olympic gold
medal, she would replace
Marilyn Bell as “Canada’s
sweetheart.” And- within ¢
month the gymnasiums across
the land would be crowded
with young women seeking
grace and beauty via the
parallel bars, the horse, spring-
board and tumbling mat.

* * *

And speaking of travelling
girls, did you hear about the
two American tourists in
France: One girl says, “Grac-
ious, here it is the fourth day
Ive been in Paris, and I
haven’t been to the Louvre.”
To which her girl friend re-
plies, “Neither have I. Do
you suppose it’s the change in
he water?”

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| FAMOUS FIGHTS |

11 SS a aK
ii rememper

French

Fight fans
Marcel

middleweight who died in a

Ceraan,

plane crash
one tough
ring
appearance Har-
old Green at Madison Square
Garden on March 28, 1947.
The record book says he flat-
tened Green in two stanzas.
But that’s not the story.
the fight
° hand
in a scuffle fith a sparring
partner. His manager wa
ed to call the fight off but
Cerdan would have none Oi
that. “Stick a needle in it
kill the pain,” he said.
took two men to help
get his coat off in the
room before the
stuck his

Cerdan’s second

was against

ran out
2en, drop-
14-5 on

out swinging
ked away, COv-
never used his
during the first
the

second frame

Frenchman decided he must
score a knockout to win. Grit-

g his teeth, he backed Green
into a corner, swung the right,
and
But Green got up.

Cerdan came in again, know-
ing that he his
useless right, and sent a sizzl-
left hook under Green’s
heart. .<-it vas a knockout
wallop.

After the Green fight Cer-

: ~—
dan went on to whip Tony
Zale for the middleweight
title. He lost the crown -to
Jake LaMotta after injuring
his left arm in the first round.

A return bout with LaMotta
was in order, and then a meet-
ing with Sugar Ray Robinson,
which would have drawn a
million-dollar gate. Cerdan,
training in Europe for the
LaMotta bout, was sure his
future looked bright.

On October 28, 1949, he
stepped aboard a plane for
America. The next morning
black headlines announced that
the plane and all aboard had
gone down somewhere in the
Atlantic. There were no sur-
vivors.

put his man on the floor.

couldn’t use

ing”

Terry Tobacco first caught the public eye during the British Empire Games.

Be:

Canada’s Melbourne Olympic team
stronger than Helsinki squad

Canada’s 1956 Olympic team, made up of 16 girls and 79 men, is smaller
stronger than the team which represented us at Helsinki four years ago, and
to lift Canada from its lowly 24th spot among the nations in the unofficial stan
A gold medal in rowing and points in women’s gymnastics could turn the trick.
At Helsinki our team scored only 30 points — 10 by gold medalist

Genereux, 17-year-old trap
shooter.

This year Canada’s Olympic
team has been cut by 35 mem-
bers, but the quality is higher.

Here are the members of
the team which will travel to
Melbourne:

TRACK AND FIELD

MEN—Ken Money, Ferris,
Ont.; C. Terry Tobacco, Cum-
berland, B.C.; Doug B. Clem-
ent, Vancouver; Stan A. Lev-
enson, Toronto; Doug Kyle,
Vancouver; Murray Cockburn,
Toronto; Laird Sloan, Mont-
real; Joe F. Foreman, Mimico,
Ont.; Dick Harding; Toronto,
Alex Oakley, St. John’s Nfld.;
Bob Osborne, Vancouver, man-
ager; and Fred Foot, Toronto,
trainer. ;

WOMEN—Jackie MacDon-
ald, Toronto; Diane E. Mathe-
son, Montreal; Maureen Rever,
Regina; I. Margaret George,
Mervin, Sask.; Eleanor G.
Haslam, Saskatoon, Sask.; Dor-
othy E. Kozak, Calgary, Alta.;
and Alice Whitty, Vancouver.

WEIGHTLIFTING

Gerald Gratton, Verdun,
Que.; A. Gilbert, Bagotville,
Que.; Jules Sylvain,» Quebec
City; Dave Baillie, Noranda,
Que.; and Charles Walker,
Montreal, manager.

CYCLING

Jim Davies, Vancouver; Pat
Murphy, Delhi, Ont.; Fred
Markus, Toronto; and Doug
Person, Montreal, manager.

GYMNASTICS

Ernestine Russel, Windsor,
Ont.; Edward Gagnier, River-
side, Ont.; and Bernard New-
man, manager.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

MEN—Bill Patrick, Calgary,
Alta.; George Parks, Hamil-

, ton, Ont.; and Bill Slater Van-
couver.

WOMEN — Irene McDonald,
Hamilton, Ont.; Gladys Priest-
ley, Verdun, Que., Sara Bar-
ber, Brantford, Ont.; Virgin-
ia Grant, Toronto; Beth Whit-
tall, Montreal; Helen Stewart,
Vancouver; Lenora Fisher, Oc-
ean Falls, B.C.; Dr. Paul
Hauch, London, Ont.; manag-
er and Tommy Walker, Tor-
onto, coach.

PADDLING

George Bossy,
Tom Hodgson, Toronto;
Oldershaw, ‘Toronto;. Bob
Smith, Lachine, Que.; Don
Stringer, Sudbury, Ont.; Bill
Collins, Toronto; Les Melia,

Montreal;
Bert

‘Lachine, Que.; Lloyd Rice Tor-

onto; Bill Stevenson, Toronto;
Ken Strougler, Ottawa, man-
ager; and E. B. (Doc) Whittall
Montreal, coach.
FENCING
Roland Asselin, Montreal.
SHOOTING
Frank E. Opsal, Vancouver;
Gerald R. Oullette, Windsor,
Ont.: Earl Caldwell, Vancou-
ver; Jim R.° Zavitz, Ottawa;
and Gil Boa, captain, Toronto.
YACHTING
Clifford Howard, Toronto;
Eugene Pennell, Vancouver;
Dr. A. F. Cameron, Montreal;
Bruce Kirby, Montreal; Don-
ald Tytler, Burlington, Ont.;
George Parsons, Vancouver;
W. G. Thomas, Montreal; and
David E. Howard, Toronto,
captain.
BASKETBALL
Ron Stuart, Mel Brown, Ed
Wild, John McLeod, Bob Burt-

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well and Bob Pickel, bee

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Vancouver;. Doug Brin

WRESTLING
Bruce Ochman,
Marie, Ont.; and BoP
Kitchener, Ont.; a0!
funov, Winnipeg,
ager.
BOXING
Jim Montgomery, oy. Wey
Gerald Collins, Mont?” site
ter Kozak, Edmontom it
Edward Beattie, fd ae
Ont.; Ralph Hosack, ;
ton, Alta.; Leslie aso
larton, N.S.; and
Regina, manager.
ROWING
Carlton S. Ogawa
Arm, B.C.; Douglas J:
old, Ganges, B.C.
Wilson, Kamloops; ~°
T, Kueber, Duna
Archibald A. McKinnh Gr
brook, B.C.; ae
Forks,
West, Vancouver;
M. McKerlich,
David L. Helliwell,
ver; Richard ‘
Courtenay, B.C.
Arnold, Winfield,
Kenneth Loomer,
Thomas L. Grays 4
John S. Guest, Toronliaias
ager; and Frank
couver, coach.

OCTOBER 26, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — ©