| j ‘ Too good for the Arsenal This was a game of two phases. -_ How Dynamo outpaced and outshot Gunners MOSCOW The first saw Arsenal looking every bit as good as their rivals, but in the second, from the 43rd minute, Dynamo took over to ‘outspeed, outmanoeuvre and outplay the Londoners for a final 5-0 score. From that decisive minute, when insideright Vladimir Ilyin scored the first goal, the younger Dynamo side, moving the ball with lightning speed, took complete control of the game. Arsenal just had no answer. Overrun at times in the second half, they. finished a weary, well battered side. Yet early on it looked as if the Gunners would better that 4-3 defeat suffered at White Hart Lane during the Dyna- Mo tour of Britain in -1945. But even during this period Many of the Arsenal attacks were held up — centre-half Konstantin Krizhevsky was beating Arsenal leader Tommy Lawton for the ball Much too often. Dynamo had no stars, or per- haps it would be more truth- ful to say they had 11 sfars. Certainly all played their part Well and the five goals, Ilyin two, and one each for Rhzkin, Mamedov and SHabrov, were all joint efforts. ; In the first half, there was little Sign of-the goal rush which was to follow. Dynamos’s quick, short edge in the first quarter of an hour, but Arsenal, with Forbes ever ready to get his attack mov- ing, often probed deep into Dyna- mo territory later. As the game neared the half- way mark, the home side swung into a more powerful, attacking game. j left wing by Rhzkin, a pass to lyin and Dynamo were one up. Two minutes after the interval, Arsenal were caught napping by one of. the tricks which may have come originally out of the ~High- bury basket. A free-kick just outside the Arsenal penalty area was quickly touched on by Shabrov to Ilyin, and there was the ball at the back of Arsenal’s net. In ‘the 56th minute, Sandunin missed a penalty. He shot the ball Liles after Barnes had palmed it | out from under the bar. passing gave them a territorial: A great burst down the} Then calamity! A rare Arsen- al attack in the 73rd minute brought about Dynamo’‘s third . goal. The ball ran loose, Rhzkin fastened on to it 30 yards out, lifted his left foot, and that Ar- senal net was bulging again. Then,. with !3 minutes left for play, international inside forward Salnikov, with the ball seemingly glued to his foot, ran through the Arsenal defense, pushed the ball to the betier-placed Mamedov to | give him the easiest of chances. Literally swarming round the Arsenal goal, Dynamo added to their score when Shabrov forced the ball home in the 89th minute. ~ DYNAMO: Yashin; Radionov, Kuznetsov; Baikov, Krizhevski, Sandunin; Shabrov, liyin, Mame- dov, Salnikov, Rhzkin. . ARSENAL: Kelsey; Barnes, Wade; Goring, Dickson, Forbes; Tapscott, Logie, Lawton, Lish- man, Roper. ‘ Here’s why Willie Mays deserves MVP award — IGHT Negroes shated in the richest Series pot. That's interesting, not because E of the. money, but because for the first time in history, both contenders for the “world’s’’ "professional baseball championship had Negroes in their line-up. © Things have sure changed from the days when ‘big league baseball was .an all- white affair, and the New York .Daily Worker was carrying on its single-handed Campaign for the signing of Negro Stars—a campaign that ended in Victory when the Dodgers brought Jackie Robinson up from Montreal. Standout player of the Series Was the Giants’ Willie Mays, fabu- lous centrefielder whose flashy, impossible catches .and throws Sparked the Giants to victory. Mays was a ball of dire all seas- On, and Ric Roberts of the Pitts- burgh: Courier, touting Willie for the Most Valuable Player award, ives this rundown of May’s con- tribution in 1954: April 13, opened season by Slamming 425-foot homer off Carl ' Erskine, in sixth, to top cham- Pion Dodgers, 4-3! April 18, blasted two more hom- €rs off Erskine to lead Giants’ win- Qing attack; April 30, homer in fourteenth defeated Chicubs (Hack- €r), 4-2; two-run single won after- Piece, 9-7, from St. Louis; May 8, homer tied Pittsburgh, 1-1, in sec- ond, and Giants eventually won, 2-1; May 16, hit two-run homer in fifth, batted in two more runs, as - Milwaukee fell, 9-2. Led Giants out of tailspin on May 3, by slamming triple and two-run Single, in fifth, to down Philadelph- _ la (Simmons), 6-4; next day, drove Out homer and single to score four -Tuns and beat Dickson, 5-4; May 26, Scored five runs, got four hits as Pittsburgh fell, 21-4; May 28, led assault on Dodgers with homer, three singles, three runs drives in,| for 17-6 rout; hit homers on May 29 and 30, although Giants lost th games. May 31, for fourth time in sea Son, his second-inning homer to top Pirates, 4-3; July 3, hit two omers and drove home five runs to sink St. Louis, 13-8. In same Same, Hank Thompson hit three mers, drove home eight runs. € duo drove home all Giants’ Tuns! Giants took first place on June 9. . In intense 0-0 extra-inning game at’ 1‘ | Milwaukee, next day, Mays took fly in centre then three: “strike” to erase Hank Aaron. at the plate. Giants won in tenth off pinch blow by Rookie Bill Taylor, Milwaukee’s John Logan was banished for dis- puting the call. a June 12, Mays’ seventeenth hom- er, -iny seventh, downed Chicago; June 13, doubled Don Mueller home, to top Chicago, 9-3; June 21, two homers and single led to 8-5 margin over St. Louis; June 22, homer tied Milwaukee, 2-2, in sec- ond, and set stage for Monte Irvin's pinch blow to win in the ninth, 3-2. June 24, two-run homer, in sec- ond inning, gave Giants 2-1 victory over Milwaukee; June 25, blasts homer in game finally won by Wes Westrum and Irvin; June 27, raps two-bagger, scores winning run on Bob Hoffman’s pinch hit, 3-2, in ninth. Giants lost to Pirates on July 3, 6-4, but Mays hit home run. July 6, blasts twenty-seventh homer off Preacher Roe to sink Dodgers, 5-2; July 7, blasts homer as Brooklyn topples again, 10-2; Mays tags Erskine for twenty- Here’s Willie Mavs nabbing ninth, Russ Meyer for thirtieth homer, to flail Dodgers, 11-2. July 18, joins in home blasting with Irvin to down Cincinnati, 3-1; July 20, ties Redlegs, 1-1, in eighth, as Giants won in tenth, 2-1. Left Giants to attend funeral of aunt in Birmingham. . . . Giants lost seven of eight games. Mays hits thirty- sixth homer as St. Louis bowed, 10-0. Aug, 7, led Giants to 8-3 victory over Philadelphia; Aug. 24, double and ‘triple led to 5-1 scuttling of Chicago; next day, two-run, eighth- inning homer gave Giants lead later lost, 4-3; Aug. 31, triple, sin- gle and sacrifice led to 5-3 victory over St. Louis. aed to set stage of Hank Thomp- | Son’s ninth-inning hunt to edge | Chicago 7-6, on Sept. 9. Sept. 13, in concert with Dusty Rhodes, defeats the Cardinals be- hind Antonelli, 1-0. Solves Brook- lyn pitchers for three hits in 7-1 rout, Sept. 20. Sept.. 21, single scores important run on Hoffman‘s , blow, 5-2; took National League \batting lead from Dodgers’ Snider. Vic Wertz’s long Series’ belt. Diane Leather, England’s great woman miler, won the 800 metres at Budapest last week to help her country defeat Hungary 5S to 54 in the first ever contest between women athletes of the two. countries. ea Homered, as did! Gert Whyte's —SPORTLIGHT Nee the British Empire Games local sports fans have shown a growing interest in track and field, perhaps because we have ‘now seen some of the world’s outstanding performers in action. Last week in Budapest the first ever contest between the women athletes of Britain and Hungary took place, with the overall vic- tory in team points: going to Britain, 59 to 54. Jean Desforges (whom we all remember from the BEG) won the _broad jump, to overcome a two point lead Hungary had snatched in the javelin. Most thrilling event, perhaps, was the three by 800 ‘metres re- lay, which the British girls were expected to win. Anchor for the British team was Diane Leather, winner of the 800 metres earlier, despite a bad cold. Nora Smalley and Valerie Winn gave Diane the lead for the final 800 metres against Aranka Kazi, who set a world record for 880 yards on the same track last May. dispatch from Budapest, ‘““Aranka ran in Diane’s footsteps and then went ahead. At the 20 metres mark from the tape, Diane going strongly passed Kazi, and it seem- ed all over, but with the crowd cheering her like mad, the Hun- garian girl made a great effort in the straight that gave her the lead at the tape in a photo finish.” : * Ke MERE ‘ “Tgrayet Arsenal” (Arsenal to play) ran the headlines in Mos- cow papers the day before the big Dynamo-Arsenal soccer match. Nearly 200,000 fans queued for tickets, but many were disap- PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER'I5, 1954 — PAGE 1} “Over the first lap,” says a pointed: Four hours after the 32 booths opened 70,000 tickets had been sold. The satirical paper Krokedil featured a cartoon showing a large office with every desk va- cant except one. On the desks are notices like “Gone to Party meeting,” “Away today.” “Ab- sent, ill.” At the one occupied desk sits an old man who says to a mem- ber of the public, “What a good thing everybody else has gone to the football match. It seems I can attend to you quickly.” * x * The Soviet Union whipped the runner-up United States by six points Friday last week to retain its team title in the world weight- lifting championships at Vienna. The Russians totalled 29 points in the seven events, while the U.S. totalled 23. A’ year ago the USSR beat the U.S. by two points. r * * * With the World Series just over, and football finals stil] to come, we’ve already entered ‘the hockey season. This department will consult its crystal ball and come up with some ice chip pre- dictions next week, * x * Champion, Canada’s best youth Paper, has an interesting article in its current issue on Ned Han- lon, this country’s greatest oars- man in the 19th century and our first world champion, PT readers with teen-aged youngsters should introduce their kids to Champion. Each issue contains eight pages of interest- ing reading, including a children’s page and a fine sports page. bled