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Edmonton’s grind, grind,

grind down the field produces win-

ning, if not spectacular football, as Lions discovered at Empire
Stadium last Saturday night. Quarterback Jackie Parker of the
Eskimos completed only five of a dozen attempted passes, but
one of them to Rollie Miles (above) in the end zone was good

for 2 touchdown.

Gert Whyte's

SPORTLIGHT

[008s like we have a foot-

ball team. Not the glorious
victories over Winnipeg and
Regina, but the sparkling dis-
play against league-leading Ed-
monton Eskimos demonstrated
beyond all doubt that the 1955
version of B.C. Lions are cap-
able of going places this year.

Maybe the Lions won’t win
the WIFU playoffs—but they
should be in them.

Jackie Parker and his Eski-
mos are strictly the class of
the league, and Regina Rough-
riders should capture second
place. Lions have a fine chance
to squeeze out Calgary for third
place and a playoff chance.

Winnipeg Blue Bombers are.

the most under-rated team in
the league. . Lacking a good
quarterback at the start of the
season, they tasted nothing but
the dregs of defeat in their
first clashes with the other four
teams. Now that they are be-
ginning to perk, they may well
surprise the opposition in the
next few weeks.

Lions tried in vain to pen
Parker (oh, no!) last Saturday.
The 29,503 fans who crammed
Empire Stadium here to set a
new Canadian record watched
with fascinated horror as Par-
ker, whose passing -has been
something less than brilliant to
date, put on*a superlative ex-
hibition of fake passing that
had the Lions constantly chas-
ing the wrong man, while the
real ball carrier was sprinting
blithely down the field in un-
occupied territory.

But the main thrill, for local

grid addicts, was the way in

which our team, instead of col-
lapsing as in 1954, fought back
in the air and on the ground,
and chalked up 13 points against
the Esks’ 18. With a few breaks,
the score could have been re-
versed. gies :

“Don’t worry too much about
our passing,” Jackie Parker
said after the game, in which
Esks completed only five Passes
on 12 tries for a gain of 75 yards,
as compared to 15 out of 24
and 199 yards by Lions. “We're
doing all right, aren’t we?”

Indeed they are. Yards rush-
ing, 279—while the Lions could
only ring up 89. With a ground
attack like that, Esks don’t have
to take the air very often,
at cca Same « oe

“How much are you going to
lose on that Marciano-Moore
fight?” the fellow asked me,
grinning. “You know you're
all wet predicting a kayo win
for Rocky. Remember I told
ar ee

ie Moore could

Marciano, but Pll be very sur-
prised if he does. Rocky should
flatten him in 10 rounds or less.
; oe & eer ee
_ Millionaire Harry Sonshine
figured Toronto football fil-
berts would be singing, “You
are my Sonshine, my little Son-
shine,” as his rebuilt Argonauts
cleaned up the Big Four. ,