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OOD NEWS this week for

stogie smokers like Frankie
Politano, John deWever, Carl
and Herman Rush, Don Cox
and yours truly.

The American Cancer Society
“says death rates among cigar
and pipe smokers isn’t any
greater than among non-smok.
ers. What’s more, men who give
up cigars die sooner than those

who don’t.
Light up, men.
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Canada is proud of Whitby
Dunlops, but we all had plenty
of chills in the first 50 min-.
utes of the game, until the
Dunnies broke loose with their
famous closing splurge.

One thing is clear: the Rus-
Sians who only began playing
hockey 10 years ago, now rank

_ with ‘our best amateurs. Dun-
lops were outstanding in their
league, yet they found the So-
viet team the toughest aggre-
gation they had met all sea-
son. : ;

There’s still quite a gap be-
tween the’ amateurs and ‘the
professionals of course.’ Any
NHL team could probably spot
the Russians half a dozen goals
at the present time. Yet at the

rate the -Russians are pro-
gressing, this may not be true
a few years hence.

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Silky Sullivan, the, “heart at-

tack” horse, won the $130,500
= 4 Atte Trorhw last Satur-

* Lightheavyweight champion of the world Archie Moore

varies his punching bag exercises with regular ring ap-
pearances against ambitious young pugilists. On Monday
meht here he made a punching bag of Bob Albright for
seven rounds before putting him away.

behind to finish more than
three lengths in front.

Silky does most of his run-
ning in the stretch, making up
his own mind when to begin.
His jockey is just a passenger.

I’ve alway favored front run-
ners, but there is no more
thrilling sight at the race track
than a lagger suddenly coming ,
alive and passing all opposition
in the run down heartbreak
lane. :

I remember a nag named
Termite that used to perform
at Hastings a few years back.
He was no Silky Sullivan —
in fact he rarely won a race
—but I never could resist put-
ting a couple of bucks on his
nose, and always got my
money’s worth in kicks, if not
in cash.

Sie cee x

The influx of Hungarian

“freedom fighters’ who form-
-eq a good part of the soccer
supporters at Hungarian Turel
games earned a one-year sus~
pension for their favorite team
by staging three disgraceful
riots at games this season. The
Mainland League executive
cracked down on the Turels
after a riot among fans and
players at Templeton Park re-
cently.

Although Turels will be out
of the league for the 1958-59
season, the players will be al-
lowed to form a club under
another name. Let’s hope the
Hungarian fans will act in a
more sportsmanlike fashion in

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seventh round.

Just a few moments later,
after handlers had dragged
Albright to his stool, urbane
and portly Archie Moore,
carrying 25 pounds excess
baggage around the middle
and wearing a goatee which
blended nicely with B.C.’s
Centennial year theme, leaned
against the ropes and grace-
fuly signed autographs for
his fans. : :

Archie was sweating slight-
ly, but his face and body
were unmarked and he didn’t
look at all like a man who
had traded punches with a
225-pound opponent for seven
rounds. Perhaps because
“traded” isn’t exactly the
word. Archie gave punches
generously, and accepted few
in return.

From the opening bell it
was evident that Albright
wasn’t bright enough to both-
er Moore. The champion sized
up his opponent in the first
stanza, threw a left which
started the claret flowing from
Bob’s nose in the second, be-
gan a shuffling forward march
in the third round which re-
minded one of an amiable,
confident hunter stalking his
doomed quarry. :

Ex-footballer Albright won
the sympathy of the crowd in
the fourth frame when he
tried a counter-attack, but a
series of lefts to his bleeding
proboscis reminded , him) that
discretion was preferable to
valor, and he resumed his
backward trek from corner to
corner.

Archie made up his mind
in the fifth that he had done
almost enough work for the
night. He began snapping his
punches harder, and Albright’s
face turned into a gory mess.
In the sixth lefts, lefts and
more lefts found their mark,
and Bob sagged against the
ropes wearily as he tried to
avoid Archie’s message. Bloody
but unbowed, he staggered to

his stool at the bell.

Came the. fatal seventh, and
no nonsense about Moore’s at-
tack. A series of lefts, plus a
few right hooks and upper-
cuts, and Albright was ready
for the kill. Four lefts, a right
to the jaw, two more lefts to
the face and two left upper-
cuts. Albright’s knees hit the
canvas as he plunged forward
on his face, and at the same
moment Bob’s manager, Al
Joslow, tossed in the towel.

The serni-final bout between
alters of Vancouver ang

Len W;
priek Aas ON sale ondon, Eng-

land demonstrated that Walt-
ers is still a better-than-aver-
age mittman, despite a layoff
of 22 months.

Tiger started ferociously,
landing a few overhand rights
and making fierce faces as
he chased a dancing Lennie.
“Hold that tiger!” yelled a
fan, A moment later, when
the Tiger’s looping right miss-
ed by:a city block, a voice
from the crowd advised him

that “the telegraph office is
downtown.”

_Sharpshooter Walters began
finding the range in the sec-
ond round, and Tiger’s demise

became as certain as death

and taxes. “C’mon, Tiger, give
us a growl,’ appealed one
spectator, but the English lad
had had it.

; In the fourth, with a fad-
ing Tiger getting battered

‘all over the ring, voices be-

gan calling “Stop it!” and ref-
eree Gordie Woodhouse stepp-
ed between the men and
raised Walters’ hand at 2:07.

A weird affair between vet-
eran Bill Pinkus of Winnipeg
and Buford Ransom of Seattle

* Whitby Dunlops brought t

championship cup back
defeatea the Soviet Union 4-2 at Oslo, Norway.
a tense scramble around the Russian net.

and the fight was over; time,

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Ancient Archie looks nonchalant
against 225-pound punching bd

A left hook to the jaw, followed by a left uppercut, and big Bob Albright best
trip to the canvas. Ancient Archie Moore tipped another left uppercut to th ty
neatly aside to give his victime room to fall. At the same instant the white towe
came sailing into the ring from Albright’s corner,

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