of this month:
24 subs.

Prizes are being mailed out.

from week to week.

Subs: 256

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RF bouger the con morning for Powell River, where 23 subs were obtained over

weekend, including nine new readers.

b i i days, it is obvious that. the
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tempo will have to be stepped up even more if we are to hit the 1,500 target by the end

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th for September in Greater Vancouver was 1 ; ;
re Porte cies of the Month honors went to Lake Cowichan, with 22 subs.

i i i f September.
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HIS is the hurry-schmurry
season in sports, with foot-

ball overlapping baseball and
hockey overlapping football.

Fellow writes me and wants
to know what team Edmonton
will be meeting in the Grey Cup
final. What makes him so sure
the Esks are going to represent
the West? Playoffs are still
ahead, and Winnipeg Bombers
could ,just upset the dope if
they keep on improving.

Football as played today is
largely an American - style
game, although indirectly
Canadians are responsible for
introducing the game to the
Yankees, since rugby was
played here years before it
became popular south of the
border. McGill first taught the
game to an American team back
in 1874. :

Canadians’ generally den’t
know enough about their own
history, and that includes most
sports history. Yet this nation
which has shown a preference
to participant games since its
birth, has much to be proud
of in the world of sports, for
Canadians have invented games
which have spread to many
parts of the globe (notably
lacrosse, hockey and _ basket-
ball).
bes

The first recbrded Canadian
track and field meet was staged
in 1839 on the Caer Howell
Grounds, about four miles

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jnorth of Toronto. It lasted four

days and 600 athletes competed.
Among the winners were farm-
ers and industrial workers,
mostly tailors. —

Three years later the Toronto
Athletic Club held a big track
meet, and musty records show
that the winner of the 200-
yard hurdle race ‘(a forgotten
event today) was won by John
B. Robinson, later Lieutenant
Governor of Ontario.

The Montreal Olympic Club
was formed in 1842, and in
1844 staged a meet at which
Tarisonkwon, an Indian, won’
the mile in 4 minutes 52

seconds. '

ea areas Ob

Lacrosse was an Indian game,
of course, and was later picked
up by the French. The English
brought cricket with them to
this country and for many
decades lacrosse and cricket

were two of the most popular
| sports,

Canada has produced the world’s best hockey players

* Mexico,

since
the game was invented at Kingston, Ontario, exactly 100 years

Photo shows Penticton V’s beating a Czechoslovak team

ILIGHT

“Canada, partly French and
partly English, was a land of
sports before people south of
the border were doing much
more than pitching horseshoes,”
notes Menke’s_ authoritative
Encyclopedia of Sports.

Winter sports developed by
Canadians include snowshoeing,
ice skating, dog-sled racing and

tobogganing.
Scottish soldiers who came to'
this country for garrison .

duty in the early days brought
with them the sport of curling, —
still a major sport to this day.

Canadians pioneered cycling
on this continent. The Cana-
dian Wheelmen, organized in
1883, is the first cycling club
on record.

Se ee See.

Canadians have always sup-
ported spectator sports. too.
Horses inhabited this continent
45,000,000 years ago; vanished
for some unknown reason about
20 million years later; re-
appeared a million years ago
in a larger form, then disappear-
ed again. It wasn’t until the
16th ‘century, when Cortez
brought horses from Spain to
that the horse was
here to stay.

Horse racing has been a well-
patronized sport in North Am-
erica for almost 300 years, but:
Canada has the distinction of '
staging the oldest established |
race of continuous existence, —
the King’s Plate,

50s a a

Kingston, Ontario, was the’
birthplace of ice hockey, where
it was first played near the
Tete du Pont barracks in 1855
(though a form of ice shinny
was in vogue 20 years earlier).

The first league was’ made
up of teams from the Royal
Military College, Queen’s Uni-
versity, Kingston Athletics and
Hockey Club. That was back
in 1885, and Queen's won the
championship. _ f

The Stanley Cup came into
existence in 1893, and was first |
presented to the top Canadian |
amateur team; later to the best
professional team. Pro hockey
began in the early 1900's. :

es ee

This brief column doesn’t |
adequately pay tribute to the
great role
played in the world of sports.
For that a book would be re-
quired. Some’ day it may. be
written. ros : ie

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