Edmonton end Earl Lindley scored 1954 Grey Cup’s first touchdown. Esks went on to win 26.-5.

Jaunty Alouettes should

beat Esks if they tangle

The Grey Cup may leave its little Grey home in the West if Montreal Alouettes
Clash again with Edmonton Eskimos — as they seem likely to do. Crazy Shins Parker
Won't manage to scoop up a loose ball on the bounce (miracles don’t happen twice) in
the dying minutes to save the game. The angry Als, out for revenge; should win by

at least two touchdowns.

Note the reserved prediction.
ast year they were saying
Alouettes by three touchdowns.
d halfway through the third
Peatter it seemed like a good

Jt just could happen that Re-
wa or Winnipeg will win the
IFU playoffs; and Hamilton

might upset the Als. But Ed-
monton vs. -Montreal looks as
sure as anything in sports and
that’s how it will probably be.

It is ironical that imports from
south of the border play such a
determining part in who wins
the Grey Cup. The Canadian
team which has the best imports

—free from injuries at playoff
time—is the team to bet. on.
This import business isn’t new.
In fact, Edmonton had a bunch
of Yankee ball tossers back in
the early twenties. But the real
invasion began in 1931 when
Warren Stevens appeared in Mon-
treal. The depression was on

and U.S. players could be bought
for a dime a dozen. They were
soon coming north in bunches,
like bananas.

After the imported players
came the imported coaches.. who
did even more than the players
to change the Canadian game.
Not all the changes have been
for the better. Used to smaller
fields, the U.S. players and
coaches seem to know little
about end runs and optional plays,
aided by quick starts. However,
the forward pass has speeded up
the game, made it a better spec-
tator sport than the old two
bucks and a kick routine.

Western teams were growing
in strength during the | early
thirties, and in 1935 Winnipeg
took the Grey Cup in a thrill-
packed 18-12 win over Hamilton
Tigers.

The Bombers won again in
1939, in a close 8-7 tussle against
Ottawa. The field was frozen
and few Ottawa citizens braved
the cold to watch the game, so
at the next CRU meeting the
Western teams voted that future
Grey Cup games should be play-
ed in Toronto instead of on the
home grounds of the Eastern
champs. It stayed that way un-

‘til this year, when Vancouver

was awarded the Cup final.

Bombers won against Ottawa
again in 1941, but the next West-
ern winner didn’t come along
until 1948, when Calgary whip-
ped Ottawa 12-7.

One thing is certain. Which-
ever teams clash this year at
Empire Stadium, all Grey Cup
attendance figures will topple.

Only thing that could stop
35,000 fans from flocking to the
game would be a good, thick
fog. Cross your fingers.

Gert Whyte's

SPORTLIGHT

JN Ontario 42 cities and towns
have Sunday afternoon paid-

admission sports . activities.

Amateur and professional base-
ball, professional soccer, ORFU
football games and power boat
racing are all staged between
the hours of 1:30 p.m. and 6
p.m.

There is no evidence to in-
dicate that more Ontario citi-
zens are hell-bound now than
before March, 1950, when the
Ontario Legislature passed the
Lord’s Day Ontario Act ent-
powering municipalities to pass
bylaws legalizing Sunday sports.

Toronto the Good, the “city
of churches,” held a plebiscite
on election day, January 1,
1950 and its godly citizens
favored Sunday sports by 88,000
to 82,000.

I hear that everything’s up
to date in Kansas City, too, but
in Vancouver we still have a
horse-and-buggy administration
that tries to block all progres-
sive measures, including the
introduction of sensible Sun-
days.

Toronto has made no: effort
to stage horse races on Sunday.
Argonauts play no football and
Maple Leafs stay off the ice.
But junior hockey teams per-
form, as do amateur and pro
baseball teams, pro soccer teams
and ORFU footballers.

Pro baseball in Vancouver
needs Sunday afternoon games
to stay. alive. Almost all
amateur sports would benefit.

Most important, the working
people of Vancouver demand the
right to enjoy sports on the
Sabbath. Even when presented
with the phoney “wide open
Sunday” plebiscites in 1950
and 1951, a majority of the
voters in the working class East
End voted “yes,” :

It was the votes of Mr. and
Mrs. Bigshot and Miss Round-
heels in Shaughnessy, Kerris-
dale and Point Grey which de-
feated Sunday sports.

The rich pay high annual dues
to belong to exclusive tennis
and golf clubs, and indulge in
these sports on the Sabbath,
but object to Mr. Working Stiff
debauching himself by attend-
ing a ball game.

It’s time to end this class
discrimination and introduce a
sensible Sunday for all.

53 bos xt

And now for some predic-
tions (predictions that have
proved 80 percent correct):

Prediction Number One:
After next Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday will eome
Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day.

Prediction Number Two:
Margaret either will or won't.

Prediction Number Three: Als
will take Esks by 10 points or
more in the Grey Cup final —
providing that Als and Esks
win their league playoffs, of
course.

5s xt a

Many. Canadians remember
Flo Chadwick as the U.S. girl
who had to be pulled out of
Lake Ontario when our own
Marilyn Bell scored her great
triumph. They recall, too, that
the highly-touted California
swimmer failed in her. attempt
to conquer the Strait of Juan
de Fuca.

Those who imagine that Flo
Chadwick had been in the swim
too long and was all washed
up (yuk, yuk) now realize they
were all wet - (you're — killing
me, bub) after Flo’s record cres-
sing of the English Channel

recently. It wasn’t her first
trip — she had ‘previously made
made the crossing both ways,
the only woman to ever do so
—but it was the fastest ever
accomplished by a woman.

Flo beat Marilyn’s channel
time, and she also holds another
mark gver a Canadian. In 1952,
after one failure, she swam
the Catalina Channel in 13

FLO CHADWICK

hours 47 minutes, breaking the

previous record of 15 hours 48
minutes set by Canada’s George
Young in 1927.

Next year Miss Chadwick
plans to try Lake Ontario again,
while Marilyn Bell may chal-
lenge the Strait of Juan de
Fuca.

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The amazing post-war up-
surge of Soviet athletes has
startled the sports world and
ignited controversy. What goes
on in: Russian sport ? How have
the men and women athletes
of the USSR attained superior-
ity in such a short time ?

You will find the answers to
these questions in a feature
article on this page next week
by the chief sports coach of the
Soviet Union, Gabriel Korob-
kov.

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Bob Ward of UE News writes
that the days are gone when a
person leaving home would
shout, “So long dear, off for a
beer,” or, “Bye hon, off on a
bun,” or some equally frothy
remark.

Now their parting shot is
“Tm off to swim Lake Ontario.”
Of course, says Ward, this is
easier said than swum.

One of Bob’s friends thinks
the reason they fail to swim
the Lake is due to the diet
they get. “Who could swim
over 30 miles on pablum an@g
baby foods?” j

His solution is that a good
grog is what the swimmers need.
“Swim Lake Ontario with Ol
Niagara Sherry-o” is the way
he sees it.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 28, 1955 — PAGE 12

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