__ Shakaspeare,
himself;

_ Nobel Kizer,

Bert Whyte ‘6

SPORTLIGHT

wie L. (for LaVerne)
Robinson is the new coach

Dieses. Cn Tiong, Can anyone
named LaVerne lead a team to

_ success?

“What’s in a name?” asked
and answered
“That which we call
a rose, by any other name
would smell as sweet.”

,Weird names are not uncom-

mon in the wonderful, rte!
world of sport.

In baseball I can think of
Adrian Anson, Roscoe Barnes,

_ Zachary Wheat, Debs Garms,

Garland Buckeye, Honus Wag-
ner.

Friend Gavland’s chief claim
to fame is that he gave up two

home runs to Babe Ruth in.

1927, the year the Sultan of

Ses set his all time mark of
60.

Honus was. base stealing
champ for Pittsburgh in 1907
and 1908—smog from the steel
plants made it easy. ,

Among baseball’s mounds-
men with peculiar monikers
are listed Hanna Dean (Dizzy,
remember?), Urban Faber,
Burleigh Grimes, Denton
Young, Tusten Ackerman,
Emauel Gold-
blatt, Forest Sale, Jewell
Young, Ignatius Volpi, Urgel

Wintermute ana Audley Brind-
ley.

Turning to bicycle racing
there were fellows baptized as
Oscar Egg, Karel Kaers, Falck
Hansen and Furman Kugler.

Billiard players included
Alfred De Oro, Gus Copulos,
Augie Kieckhafer, Ora Mor-
ingstar and Welker Cochran.

Bowling stars of recent years
labored under the handicap of
names like Gil Zunker, Basil
Fagio and Carmel Dragotta.
Among the women keglers, La-
Verne Haverly and Anita Rump.

‘F.C. Puffer;

Boxing boasts its quota of
odd -handles. Duggan Fearns
(British bare-knuckle champ
in 1780). Ezzard Charles, a
more recent heavyweight. Beau
Charles, former lightweight
titleholder. Baltasar Sang-
chili, briefly featherweight
king in 1935. A couple of fly-
weights named Fidel LaBarba
and Dado Marino. And a ton-
gue-twister of a lightheavy,
Anton Christoforidis.

Football players seem mostly
to be labelled Dick, Joe, Bob,
Ray, Don, John, Hentry, Jim,
Frank and so on. Gaelic foot-
ball produced some Cloud Nine
names, but of course they don’t
count.

In golf, there were former
U.S. Open champs Francis
Ouimet and Olin Dutra, and
on the distaff side, Betsy
Rawls (sounds like a chocolate
bar) and Patty Berg (also
sounds edible).

At the race track, horses
have toted humans. named
Roscoe Troxler, Carol Shilling,
Mark Fator, Wayne Wright
and Job Jessop.

Hockey had Aurel Joliat,
Cooney Weiland and sBiyen
Hextall.

Among the male swimmers
the most aptly named was
Clarence Crabbe. Women
splashers included Ethelda
Bleibtrey, Olga Dorfner and
Delia Mulenkamp. ’

Finally track and field tops

them all. A _ steeplechaser
named Forest Efaw; a low
hurdle champ, Heye lLam-

bertus; a high hurdle champ,
a marathoner,
Victor Dyrgall and distance
runners Ilmer Prim, Charles
Pores and Fred Wilt.

Okay, Wayne, LaVerne Rob-
inson, get cracking with those
Lions.

Gity ends discrimatory
policy against women

“Vancouver City Council decided this week to end a

discriminatory policy of long standing against women workers.
The policy stipulated that a woman had to work 15 consecutive

The new policy adopted by
council makes promotion de-
pendent upon: merit and
ability, with length of serv-
ice secondary.

Test case which forced the
change in policy concerned a
‘woman worker who had ap-
plied for a special job, was ap-

- years for the city before she could qualify for a senior city job.

proved as fully qualified by
departmental officials, but was
opposed by certain key civic
officials because she hadn’t
“worked 15 years for the city.”

Council’s ruling on this is-
sue is regarded as another vic-
tory of women workers against
discrimination because of sex.

COLOR BAR IN CLUBS

Racial discrimination bared
by three cases in capital

By FRANCES SEDGWICK

VICTORIA, B.C.—On the sur-
face racial discrimination in
Victoria seems almost non-ex-
istent but a peek underneath
the surface reveals a different
picture.

<

Three serious cases of ra-
cial discrimination have come
to public attention in the past
two months.

Ajeet Bawa, a young Sikh
and his wife were forced to
move from their home on Wes-
tall Avenue because the neigh-

bors objected to an East In- .

dian in their neighborhood.

Richard Wood, 24, was re-
fused admission to a health
club here ‘because he is a
Negro. He had attended Vic-
toria High School and -was ac-
tive in sports all through
school. After a public protest

the club finally admitted him,

A Victoria-born and edu-
cated Chinese Canadian was
refused entry to two private
city clubs recently because of
his “color.”

‘Grant King, 27, of 1666 Mc-
Rae Street, said that each
time he visited the clubs he
was with a regular member
—on Christmas Eve the Eagles
Club and on December 30 the
Tillicum Club.

Fearon Woodburn, doorman
at the Tillicum Club, was
quoted as saying:

“All the clubs in town are
the same...
the Pacific ... the Elks. You
have to give the members a
little protection. They want to
be able to sit down and have
a drink without a Hindu or
someone sitting next to them.”
~ “Tsn’t it against the law to
bar people in such a way?”
King wanted to know. “Doesn’t
it violate one of our basic free-
doms? Most people don’t know
just how much prejudice ex-

‘ ists in this town. I never fully
realized it myself until lately

. and I don’t like it.”

King, one of the Pacific
Northwest’s better-known rac-
ing car builders,- is a mem-

ber of the local: branch of

Buffalo Lodge, the U.S. Auto
Club, Vancouver Island Track
Racing Association and B.C.
Automotive Sports Associa-
tion. He said that none of these
clubs practises any racial dis-
crimination,

King, a garage Rechneice is
married to a white girl but
says he has never encountered
any open prejudice because of
this.

The manager of the Tillicum

the Union ...~

Club said “members must be
white and over 21.” New mem-
bers are always asked to read
the color clause on member-
ship over again “and they get
the idea.”

Peter Wong, chairman of
Victoria’s Chinese Benevolent
Association, commented: “It’s a
matter of education to get rid

of these prejudices. People
should be accepted on the
grounds of what they are, not
what color they happen to be.”

In protest against the color
bar in city clubs, East In-
dians in Cowichan sent a tele-
gram to their society here
asking that action be taken
to combat racial prejudice.

(City meet to press
Victoria for jobs

A public meeting to urge ac.
tion by Victoria on a jobs
program will be held in Van-~
couver’s Pender Auditorium,
this Sunday, January 18, 2 p.m.
The meeting is sponsored by
tthe Labor-Progressive Party.
Feature speakers will be well-
known labor figure Harold
Pritchett and Mona Morgan,
prominent civic worker.

The meeting is part of a
province-wide campaign laun_
ched by the LPP to press the
coming session of the legisla-
ture to take action on the
serious unemployment problem.

LPP demands include immedi-
ate launching of a crash jobs
program by provincial-federal
governments to provide 75,000
new jobs in B.C.

The LPP is also calling for -
trade with People’s China, un-
employment insurance bene-
fits for all jobless for the full
period of unemployment and
provincial action to declare
a moratorium on debts of un-
employed to prevent eviction
and seizures.

Jack Phillips, well-known
trade union leader, will be
chairman.

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