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reali aided tht ie oe vateaasenatee ate cqaaeliame ae

MEET AT THE SUMMIT!

The small Steveston press club hit its quota first
this drive, with $52 turned in on a target of $50. Then
came Powell River, $203 on $150. And at press time
Advance went over the top, $336, on $300, while Broad-
way is nearing the summit, $473 turned in and just
$27 to go. 3

Let’s all meet at the summit! Those press clubs
which are still lagging should step on the gas and
catch’ up with the leaders. It cam be done—and it must_
be done if our paper is to continue publishing for the
next 12 months. Every club, every PT reader and
supporter should lend a helping hand.

Two of cur best drive workers in Grandview, John
deWever (left) and Frank Politano, are in hospital at
the moment. We wish them an early” recovery, and
appeal to other Grandview members to “take up the
slack” by doing a bit extra. (Meanwhile John deWever,
irom his hospital bed, mails in another $25 to raise
his personal total to $85).

We are now entering the final month of the fin-
ancial drive. Time to start highballing!

DRIVE TARGET: $15,000
CASH RECEIVED: 4,718 —
WE STILL NEED: 10,282
: + ee

eDrive standings March 30

GOWICHAN, @23. 3 es 350 84
GREATER VANCOUVER Sn ee ey a8
RO WANGE estes: cert $ 300 216 ° PARKSVILLE --_---- anges “100 oS
BROADWAY ------------ 500 478 VICTORIA S222 oo 25D 75
DRY“ DOCK = ci = 400 69 g
FAST SENDA) ooo 250 50
PECEOTRICAL 22-022: 350 =: 102 PROVINCE
BEEORGIA (222 3 be 89 ALDERGROVE --=*------ 50 7
GRANDVIEW -_____-.----- 500 297 FORT LANGLEY __------ 125 35
HASTINGS EAST _.-__-_ 500 53 HANEY eee ae 175 13
KENSINGTON _.___--___ 400 54 KAMLOOPS -_.---------- 125 e733
MOUNT PLEASANT ____- 225 31 DADNER 22 ase eee eS 100
NIILO MAKELA ___-:--_ 150 39 MAPLE RIDGE __-------- 150° 1
NORQUAY. 2.2 S22 275. 57 MICHEL-FERNIE ~.------ 125° 17
MOEEGIN 3) 200 102 MISSION ______-- greets 100 50
POINT SGREY. 2... 350 265 NELSONS. 8 50 pce
STRATHCONA  ____-_- 200 50 NEW WESTMINSTER ___ 475 138
VICTORY SQUARE _____- 1000 207 NOTCH HILL ~.. -_---_-- 125 40
WATERFRONT __-_-__--- 350 121 POWELL RIVER _______- 150 -203
SeWEST END® 22.20 225.2.—.. 250 105 STEVESTON -......_--__ 50 52
NORTH BURNABY ______ 400 257 NORTH SURREY _______- 200 38
SOUTH BURNABY _____- 300 270 SOUTH SURREY -___._— 100 ears
NORTH VANCOUVER _._ 450 ~- 260 TRAIL . ROSSLAND ____ 300 1
NORTH VAN. DISTRICT 450 31 VERNON © 2225 Soca 175 6
CITY MISCELLANEOUS 1250 434 CORRESPONDENCE * ss %5 he
VANCOUVER ISLAND PROVINCE MISCELLANEOUS
ALBERNIS) 2220 22-250 62 PRINCE RUPERT, _._____. 100 6
CAMPBELL RIVER’ _.___ 250 47 SALMON ARM ________._ 75 :
COURTENAY ____..__ 100 10:2 SSSOIN REGAL 50 29
- CUMBERLAND ________._ 150 40 TOM McEWEN COLUMN 100 31

| RUSH IN YOUR DONATION TODAY!

Sanaa nae.

A

HO WERE the = greatest
W athletes of this century
to date? A few years ago a
press poll was taken with the
following result:

Male athlete: Jim Thorpe
Female: Mildred D. Zaharias
Baseball: Babe Ruth
Football: Jim Thorpe
Fighter: Jack Dempsey
Basketball: George Mikan
Track: Jesse Owens
Golfer: Bobby Jones
Tennis: Bill Tilden -
Swimmer: Johnny Weismul-
ler
Race horse: Man o’ War

BABE ZAHARIAS

Few people would quarrel
with these selections, although
some might wonder how Man
o’ War got in among the hu-
.mans, and British fans would
insist that cricket and soccer

be Tecognized. The poll, need-

less to say, was an American
one,

Along about the end of
the century, if another such
poll is taken, few of the
names listed above may sur-
vive. .

But it is quite possible that
in the year 2000 the names of
Babe Didrikson Zaharias,
Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth
will still, be. bandied around
wherever sportsmen gather.

Most, if not all, of Babe's
records on the distaff side
have been broken. Yet there

> Ne SORE DA: >
JACK DEMPSEY

SPORTLIGHT.

was never another all-round
female athlete of her calibre,
and may never be.

As for Jack Dempsey, well,
the record books fail to tell
the story. You had to see the
young Dempsey
Jean, bronzed body and tiger-
ish vitality, the urgeto-win an
almost visible quality oozing

‘from every pore, to under-

stand why boxing buffs say,
“There'll never be another
Dempsey.”

And no heavyweight fight
in future is likely to surpass,
in sheer thrills, the Dempsey-
Firpo brawl in 1923 when the
Bull of the Pampas, who had
knocked Dempsey down with
his first punch and had then
been decked six — or was it
seven? — times in quick suc-
cession, climbed off the can-
vas and knocked the Manassa
Mauler clean through ‘ the
ropes and onto the heads of
two sports scribes. The champ
came back, as you all know,
lasted through the round and
in the second stanza slaught-
ered his opponent.

As for Babe Ruth, Yankee
Stadium will _ forever be
known as “The House that
Ruth Built.”

BABE RUTH

In Ruth’s case the statistics
do tell the story or part of
it: in 22 years in the major
leagues he hit .714 home runs
(659° with the New York
Yankees) and had a lifetime
batting average of .342. He
played in 10 World Series, hit
60 home runs in one year, etc.
etc. = Os

Still when you think of
Ruth, you think of the Big
Bambino in one: World Series,
after missing two strikes, re-
plying to the jeers of the
crowd by touching his cap
and pointing to the farthest
fence then swatting he ball
over the fence at the spot in-
dicated and jogging around
the bases in his funny little
trot.

Memories, memories. . .

April 3, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7

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