/ . The world-famous Hungarian football team is here seen in action. Life in Glasgow amuses Hungarian footballers Some amusing impressions of life \in Glasgow and praise of its hospitality appear in the Hungarian sports newspaper Nepsport in an article written by Janos Palfai.“a journalist who accompanied the Hungarian footballers for the match against Scotland last month. ‘‘We spent pleasant days in Glasgow,’ he.wrote. ‘The constant blue-grey fog could Not take away the healthy good Spirits of our boys. Neither could the photographers and autograph Unters who dogged our footsteps. _ The Scottish Football Associa- tion played the host cordially and im a friendly way. They did every- ing to make us happy in Glasgow. ‘Our players kept looking for the characteristic for which Scots are famous. (In Hungarian the word ‘Skot’ is more often used to Signify ‘mean’ than ‘Scottish’). But ey looked in vain. Finally, at a reception in our hotel, they openly asked two local Teporters, ‘Tell us, are Scots really Mean or is it just something people Say?’ The reporters replied that Seots really are ‘Scots’economise ad infinitum. They look twice at every penny. But guests will never ave experience of it. They would Spend their last penny on their Suests, “The Lord Provost’s reception Las Vegas wants to Sponsor title bout A group of sportsmen have an- nounced in Las’ Vegas that they are jubling to put up $300,000 for a favyweight title fight in the Sambling city between Don Cock-|, ell, the British Rocky Marciano, World title. Shades of Shelby, Montana! € last time a group of western- tit tried to corral a heavyweight e © bout they broke every bank a town. That was in 1923, when eee of Shelby/staged the * e ee ; font mpsey pacers Gibbons age emPsey was guaranteed $300,- and Gibbons was supposed to a $200,000. The final $100,000 for an champ was handed over to his b eects Jack Kearns, just an hour Store the battle began. Everyone ae, that Gibbons was fighting for hi ing, and the crowd cheered M on. champion, and holder of the joe omsey won a 15-round decis- N, and sneaked out of town with farns on a freight engine. An © next day the banks in Shelby z Sed, everybody who had put up oney for the fight went bankrupt, ie Oxing moguls announced that hp vceforth title fights would be eld in big cities. a Las Vegas has the itch. think Greenspun, local publisher, Woul a a Marciano-Cockell bout pj &T0ss a million bucks. ' +Ime will tell, was as good as.a training session. The guests were seated in the hall first of all. When the Lord Pro- vost came in everyone had to get up. He had a thick gold chain around his neck. “Then we all sat down again. Then we all stood up for the Lord Provost to say grace. _Then we sat down again. We stood,up for a toast to the Queen. We sat down. We stood up for a toast to Scot- tish-Hungarian friendship. We sat down. ; “We stood up and sat down many times. It was a fine training session. Lots of movement. “We went to the cinema three times. The most successful at- tempt was when we went to see Demetrius, a gigantic film in color. Meanwhile we inhaled concentrat- ed cigarette and cigar smoke—you Jane Kirby and Marshall Gar- rett (above) are starred in the Ice Cycles, now being presented may smoke in British cinemas— and every so often jumped at the flash of the camera flashbulbs be- cause those intrepid photograph- ers even followed us to the cinema. “In Glasgow all the trams and buses are two-deckers. The boys shook their heads disapprovingly. ‘Surely they’ll turn over.’ It must be because of such possibilities that passengers are not allowed to stand in these buses. “We were amazed as they rolled past the bus stop practically empty, so to speak, not taking on any pas- sengers. The seats were full but no one was standing at all. In Budapest the single-deckers are usually jampacked with standing passengers. “We were interested to notice that at tram and bus stops, peo- ple form themselves up into queues and patiently wait their turn. Here there is no one who wants to get in front of other people when he comes late, no one points to her child, and nobody thinks of various tricks to get themselves further on in the queue. . “Who would believe that this same disciplined, seemingly soci- ally-conscious public was the one which roared in the football stadi- um as loud as the Viennese specta- tors in the Prater Stadium at the Austro-Hungarian match! “We were rather surprised by the mounted policemen in Glasgow too. In the streets we often saw policemen mounted on huge horses. We couldn’t imagine. what these old-style police were for. “Possibly Puskas has the answer. He explained to us that the mount- ed police are necessary because they are able to see on to the top of the two-decker buses and find out if everything is all right up there.” The article told of one amusing incident at London Airport which happened to Sandor Koesis, top goal-scorer of the Hungarian team. : The official examining his pass- port said, with an absolutely straight face, “We can’t let you into England.” When Kocsis ask- ed why, he answered, “You are a very dangerous footballer.” He hesitated for a while and then handed Kocsis back his passport with: “I’ll let you in on one con- dition. You must promise me that you'll only kick one goal against Scotland.” Kocsis quickly answered: “I'll promise you, I'll only kick one,” then, winking slyly, “the other at the Forum. two I’ll head.” Best Whyte's SPORTLIGHT Wuu less than two years before the next Olympics will be held in Melbourne, Australia, it isn’t too surprising that the “hate Rus- sia” sports writers in the U.S: are working overtime. It is disap- pointing to find that they have their poisonpen counterparts in Canada. One of these poisonalities, Bud Elsie by name, ran a snide piece in the Vancouver Province B.C. Magazine last weekend. Sample quote: : “Russia. has turned to sports with the same militant methods employed by Hitler for the 1936 Olympic Games.” Sounds like sour grapes. Because the Soviet government, since it first came to power, has encouraged mass participation in athletics, and because this mass participation has paid off in the development of “hundreds of ath- letes of Olympic calibre, there’s weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth among the sports hire- lings of the capitalist press. The obvious solution, if our government desires Canadian ath- letes to make a better showing, is to spend more. government funds on the development of mass amateur athletics in this country. Where will the money come from? Easy. Just spend a little less on war preparations. * * os On February 12 the Penticton V’s depart these shores to repre- sent Canada in the world hockey championships. Meanwhile the V’s are hard at work practising the European style of play — fast skating, good stickhandling and less bodycheck- ing. Il think the V’s have ‘an excel- lent. chance of winning the championship. They are un- Goubtedly Canada’s top amateur team, and if they lose (to the Russians or anyone else) it will simply mean that the European brand of amateur hockey has de- velopeci to a point where it is equal to or better than ours. Somehow, | don’t believe that is the case yet, though its bound to come. Dick Irwin of Montreal Cana- dians suggested last week that the three top teams in the Na- tional Hockev League should each contribute two playérs to the V’s. He proposed Harry Lumley and Sid Smith of Toronto Leafs; Jean Beliveau and Doug Harvey of Can- adiens; Red Kelly and Gordie Howe of Detroit Red Wings. » The suggestion has been turn- ed down, but not for the right reason. Amateur officials said the offer “came too late.’ And Doug Grimston of New Westmin- ster, immediate past-president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, added this unsavory comment: “There is no reason why we can’t use professional players in the world champion- “ships.” It’s the world AMATEUR cham- pionships, Doug. I know the word amateur doesn’t mean much in this country anymore, because all our “shamateurs” demand “under the table” wages. In other coun- tries, though, amateurs are stil] amateurs. Some European coun- tries, more honest about such matters than we are, openly pay wages of amateur players who take time off from their jobs to compete in athletic tournaments; but none of them pay their ama- teurs wages for playing the game, as is the custom here. x * * Looks like Sugar Ray Robinsen is finished, but evidently he in- tends to keep on fighting as long as promoters are willing to shell out the long green. Sugar Ray looked very bad against Ralph (Tiger) Jones in his second comeback battle last week, dropping the duke to an unrated boy who had lost his previous five starts. ; ; * * * Vancouver Lions open the 1955 football season at home, playing Calgary Stampeders at Empire Stadium August 22. Teo early to make any predic- tions yet, but unless the Lions’ management signs up some real players before long, I predict that pro football fever here will rapid- ly abate. oes a * * That modest Kansas miler, Wes Santee, who doesn’t think much of Landy and Bannister, made an indoor attempt to run his adver- tised 3:55 mile at Philadelphia the other nicht. His time was 4:10.5._ And he finished second. A. brand new routine was used by Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden, world champion pairs skaters, who retained their Canadian senior pairs title Saturday at Toronto. At applause when her before she hit the ice. Norris threw his partner into the air, one point they drew great spun and caught PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 28, 1955 — PAGE 11