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‘ SPORTLIGHT

pee ET MON DROIT (God and my right) is the motto in Britain’s

: royal arms. Joe Walcott, newly-crowned king of the heavyweights,
has changed it to “God and my. left.” After knocking out “ten” &
Charles with a left hook, Jersey Joe confided to reporters that He
knew he'd win because God is his co-pilot.

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This confidence on Walcott’s part reminds us of another fighter
of a different era. Back in the Golden Twenties one Tiger Flowers,
a bible-quoting Baptist, reached the top in the middleweight ‘division.
Before every fight the Tiger would kneel in his corner and ask for
a little assistance from above. It worked fine, too, until one night he
ran afoul ef an unredeemed character named Harry Greb, a denizen
of the Great White, Way but a complete stranger to the Milky Way.
Greb,- known to-ring followers as the Pittsburgh Windmill swarmed
all over the hapless Tiger, who finally began to recite, “Now I lay me
down to sleep... .” .

Getting back to the Walcott-Charles' upset, much is being made
of the fact that Jersey Joe, at an admitted 37 years of age (and a
possible 40) is the oldest heavyweight to ever capture fistiana’s highest
honor. When Ruby Bob Fitzsim- .... , i
mons knocked out Gentleman Jim ;
Corbett with a solar plexus punch
in the fourteenth round at Carson
City, Nevada, on March 17, 1897,
Fitz had reached the ripe old age
of 35. Two years later he lost
the title to Jim Jeffries—the first
time he defended it. History may
well record a parallel when Wal-
cott meets Joe Louis or Charles
in. September this year.

Even if Walcott is knocked off
his throne in a few months, we’re
glad he made it to the top. It
, was his fifth try. In four previous

title matches he was whipped

twice by Louis and_ twice by

Charles. On several occasions he

had hung up his gloves and vowed

he was through. But each time -
‘economic necessity forced him back
into the squared circle, and finally
at an ‘age where~he was eligible °
for Boxing’s Happier Old Age
Club, he went into the ring with
a left hook and a prayer, and

‘, . . Pictured’ at left.is Victor Knyazev, Soviet high school pole-vaulting star, doing a vault of 13
2 inches, At right is Galina Turova, a leading woman hurdler. é

_ Student Olympics in Berlin
| greatest sports meet In world

Stu-

feet

BERLIN
_ YOU WON'T READ about it
‘0 the commercial press, but an
international sports festival sec-
°nd only to the Olympic Games
oe take place in Berlin August

“Sports for Peace” will be one
of the slogans of the 11th World
Niversity Summer Games, to be
‘ld concurrently with the Third

national sports federation.
dent athletes from Brazil have
announced. they are coming.
China has already selected “her
basketball and volleyball teams.
The Oxford university basketball
team from England has indicated
its desire to compete. Soviet stu-
dents are expected to compete in
virtually every event. The Czech
team will number over 100. This
year, for the first time, there will

also a winner at Budapest. Her
winning leap in the broadjump
(or long jump as it is called in
Europe) was better than her
Olympic championship leap at
London in 1948.

At London she spanned 5.695
metres (18 feet 8% inches), At
Budapest she spanned 5.95 metres,

_and recent reports say she has

reached 5.99 metres. This is still,

however, short of the world re-~

flattened Charles in the seventh

* * *

On September 12 Randy Tur-
pin of England and Sugar Ray
Robinson go 15 rounds in the Polo
Grounds, New York, with the
world’s middleweight title at stake.
Vancouver citizens who saw the

stanza. :

fight pictures flown from London
last week, showing Turpin lift the

JOE LOUIS

Can he take aleadl>

°rld Festival of Youth and Stu- championship from Sugar, won't

jaember of her country’s student’
tam,

v ion’

» Water

Champions

€nts for Peace as a contribution
of the International Union of
tudents to the festival program.
‘ational, European and world
or. record holders will
© among the competitors.
Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakia's
lympic' 10,000 metre champion,
© is recognized even on the
_ucrican continent as the
mepla’s finest 5,000 and 10,000
biti e runner, will run an exhi-
on. race at. the games. |
Sie Gyarmati of Hungary,
ch ™Mpic' women’s broadjump
®mpion, will be a prominent

Nina Dumbadze, the Soviet Un-
‘ae World record holder in the
— €n’s discus throw, will also
~~ Mong the competitors.
x x
natin PETES from at least 20
i Ss will compete, and among
ig Will be many who hope to
Cae nore in the 1952 Olympic
Sat Helsinki, Finland. /

be * Men and women there will

Wrest Men only there will be

°Velin 18, weight lifting, boxing,
8, football (soccer) and

Polo.

"Mes headquarters in Alex-

ae report a constant

fh of entries and inquiries’

Students and athletes all
© world.
stedor’s student ‘sports fed-
S planning on sending @
" team. From Italy will
fams from a large number

Uniy, ah
; ra etnies, including those of
and i
Come i Florence. They will

the agreement of their

be teams from India, Indonesia,,

Mexico and Martinique.

Although a number of top Am-
erican college track and field
stars will be touring in Europe
at the time of the games under
official sponsorship of the Amer-
ican Amateur | Athletic Union,
they have not been entered, in
the Berlin Games, which are re-
garded with disapproval by ‘the
U.S, State Department because of
the link with the world youth
and student peace movements.

Berlin's ‘Walter. Ulbricht Sta-
dium is behind what the United
States choose to call the “iron
curtain.” :
* * -

WORLD UNIVERSITY Sum-
mer Games are virtually unknown
in Canada and the United States,
but in Europe they are an event
of considerable tradition and
standing. :

At the last games held in
Budapest during the Second
World Festival of Youth and Stu-
dents, close to 1000 athletes from
16 different countries competed.

At that time Miss Dumbadze
threw the discus 51.20 metres
(168 feet), as compared with the
41.92 metres (137 feet) that won
the 1948 Olympic for Madame O.
M. Ostermeyer of France. At
the time of the Budapest meet
the accepted women’s world re-
cord for the discus was 158 feet
6 inches. Now, however, an even
better throw by Miss Dumbadze,
174 feet 814 inches, made in Mos-
cow August 8, 1948, has been ac-
cepted as the official world dis-
cus mark. (The women’s discus
weighs 2 Ibs., 344 02., as compared
with the 4 Ib. 64 0z, mens dis-

cus.)
Miss Gyarmati of Hungary was

cord of 20 feet 6 inches, held by

Fanny Blanker-Koen of Holland.

Miss Gyarmati is also a hurd-
ler, and placed in that event at
Budapest.

Vladimir® Pushkarev, Soviet.
weight-lifter, who won a world.
university championship at Buda--
pest, is reported to have set a.
new world mark of 157 kilograms:
in the middleweight division.

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WHEN THE games were held. —

in Paris in 1947, Zatopek, then.
eligible to compete as a student,

“won the 5,000 metres in 14:20.8.

This was almost as fast as the
14:17.8 he ran in taking’ second
in the London Olympics. At Lon-.
don Zatopek also set an Olympic
record of 29:59.6 for the 10,000
metre run. Zatopek’s world re-
cord for this grueling race, est-
ablished August 4, 1950, at Turku,
Czechoslovakia, is even more

_ amazing. “ It’s 29:02.6, almost a

minute faster than his Olympic
time,

A. comparison of Zatopek’s time
with the American
14:30 for the 5000 metres and
31:05.7 in the 10,000 metres indi-
cates the extent of the Czech’s
ability and why tens of thousands
are expected to see him run in

Berlin.

For months German students
have been preparing for the
games. Many new sports facili-
ties -have been constructed.

Tamas Lorincz, author of a re-
cent article on the games, sum-
med up the hope and the aim em-
bodied in them when he wrote:

“In these times the games will
make a substantial contribution
to the cause to which the festival
is dedicated—international under-

standing and peace.”

record of

be as ‘cock. sure as the Yankee gamblers,

‘Robinson.

who are betting 4-1 on

There are several factors working against Randy in his first fight

this side ‘of the Atlantic.

Accustomed to the clean style of fighting

enforced in England, he'll be somewhat upset to find New York réfer-

eeing allows mauling: and hitting in the clinches.

Hitting on the

breakaway may catch him unawares, too.

The biggest obstacle he’ll have to face will be Robinson himself.
Sugar was clearly beaten in ‘London, but after a number of bouts

in Europe and a good deal of celebrating,

peak condition.

A Telepress dispatch from Bucharest
of the development of sports in People’s
new sport collectives, attached to

farms, schools and

two years.

he obviously wasn’t at his

Randy fought a beautiful fight to win the title; he-
‘crowded Ray all the way,
hook and a powerful right chop.
equipment, and perhaps more, to win next time out.

displayed a nice straight left, ai good left
But we think hel need all that

*

* Wee

gives a heartening picture
Rumania. More than 7,400
industrial enterprises, cooperative
institutes have been organized during the past

Because of the great interest shown by the government,

the Rumanian Workers Party and the trade unions, large numbers of

workers and peasants have been drawn into sports activities.
participating in organized athletics rose from 3,000 to
figure, 29 percent are women; before the war their

almost nil.

Numbers
126,000. Of this
ports activity was

The Rumanian government has allocated large sums of money

for construction of new stadiums and gymnasiums, which are going

up all over the country. The winter sports stadium at Poliana Stalin,
where the last World Winter University Games were held, the Dynamo:

stadium in Bucharest, the stadiums at Timishoaro, Arad and Jassi,

rank

with the most modern stadiums in Europe.

*

* *

Breaking six records in one race is going some. Canada’s ace
miler, Bill Parnell, accomplished this feat at UBC stadium last
Saturday, when he scored a surprise victory in the half-mile during
the fmal day of the national track and field championships. :

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Parnell, running under the

colors of Victoria Y, upseg the

. favored Jack Hutchins of Vancouver in a blazing stretch drive, His

time of 1:52.7 set a Ganadian.

records.

native and B.C. open and native

c € was also timed for 800 metres in 1.52, breaking the
existing Canadian native and B.C. open and n
tying the Canadian open record. :

ative records, and

Despite Parnell’s. hot-streak—he retgined his Canadian mile
title Friday—the Vancouver Olympic Club won team honors with
66 points, 13 more than Victoria Y.

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