lake Ontario swim coming up Why not give the women equal chance at Duthie, Summer Just Mother wthie is in the middle of weren', Jackpot. Seems like we about atte Only ones to complain Next we, 2ntiwomen aspect of engeek’s Lake Ontario swim. Holdes Fisher feels the same way. the «oO! the women’s record for thagre annel crossing, she thinks lik | Meing Men against women is take Se a pee-wee — ballteam Wel, the New York Yankees. ae Put, Miss Fisher, although Cago Whee We'd choose the Chi- Breng te Sox. Be that as it may, hag “ isn’t the only entrant who Ondrate = feelings about the sec- Position he female Marathonene ; of the mare Of the nine women swim- tion, 7 happy about the situa- and one of them have expenses hay will end up in the hole, Dtizg g,. HEY win the $1,500 first Women or nat. Montne Holland-born Lies Put from 0 finicy’ “2° Was the first woman | hes em, will use most ‘af her Money to train for the race. sie doesn’t expect to win the |* & 5 15,009 either, Duth;e**> Most everyone, except Ponty pend Hal Walker of the To- 10 mar e9ram, thinks it is wrong atch, any woman swimmer op aust the likes of Lumsden, Park ts Thomas, : teat cxamDIe, in last week’s in- Chan nal race across the English keen «°h Park’s rowboat couldn’t had 4, With him and his coach “2 Tansfer to a motor launch. thing Cte Duthie can't see any- Ot the wait about the distribution, S the oan Money. And Walker Ten og Sall ta write that the wo- Then “s Win more money than the Wa: Wright 80 along with Ward Simcoe’ Coach of Gerda Alsson, of Wereg’ Ontario, who recently con- Men go“k Erie. Says Wright, Nthe qtt Swim against women 1 in last month’s Atlantic ji By GEORGE BARR - Most Bee le have. their off moments every now and then. ae . of the Canadian National Exhibition, seems to suffer ae 5 net and early fall. Last year, you'll remember ,he got himself ‘up a tree when ae oe Ball showed that Canadians could swim too. Poor George, when he realized his mistake, he No tbaged to land on the bandwagon in time. i x gold medals.” ; geass the odds against them, all the gals will be raring to ga on September 5. They range in sa from 19-year-old Gerda and aie Lazarevic to 55-year-old aed Evans Tremblay from Campbe L- ford, Ontario. erigeanees st coast wil c - a see accutane Annabelle Mundigal Meraw who couldn’t resist the call of the marathon. Florence Chadwick, who likes to swim by herself will not enter this year, so the U.S. hopes will lie on the slim shoulders of Baltimore’s Madeline Werner. From Sault Ste Marie we have 42-year-old Rosita Tanner who is ee sponsored by her‘fellow northerners. ee enough, there are only two entries from Toronto. Besides Anka, there is Hildegard Bertram, CNE? TORONTO For instance, George ~All B.C. will be cheering for Vancouver’s Ann Meraw : a 29-year-old Jass who learned her craft in Europe’.and has impressed the rail-birds with her stamina. Oh yes, there are a few men in this swim, too. In fact, 22 of them from several countries. Some af the world’s top marathoners’ will be trying their skill against Mari- lyn’s Lake, together with many hopefuls who have been attracted iby the magic of the long distance swim, Although there are many factors that can upset the best swimmer, we'll take a chance and give Cliff Lumsden the nod with Tom Park and Bert Thomas not too far be- hind. But no matter who wins. Duthie will probably take all the credit . After all, it was his idea in the first place, even though it]. didn’t quite work out the way he wanted. ec v et both are elig- a LOGGERS 148 East Broadway “WE PAY LABOR DAY GREETNGS MINERS —: FISHERMEN! ANY REPAIRS TO YOUR SHOES COMPLETED AND RETURNED BY MAIL SAME DAY H. PRICE SHOE SERVICE Vancouver 10, B.C. RETURN POSTAGE ON ALL MAIL ORDERS” "Fraternal Greetings . . . To All Canadian Labor — FORWARD To PEACE . N. THIBAULT President K. A. SMITH Executive Board Member District 1 LABOR UNITY TRADE UNION AUTONOMY TRADE H. MURPHY Vice-President W. LONGRIDGE Secretary-Treasurer CANADIAN JOBS WM, KENNEDY Vice-President R. STEVENSON Executive Board Member District 2 wy & SMELTER WORKERS |) TERNATIONAL UNION OF MINE, MILL WORKERS J (CANADA) > Gert Whyte's SPORTLIGHT Qu? Leos needed someone to twist their tails when they got to the enemy’s five-yard line. All the roaring came from the fans, instead of the Lions. This column tried to tamper down the enthusiasm of some fans, who were already drinking . from the Grey Cup because our team beat the flabby Argos in a preseason exhibition, and edged the weak Calgary Stampeders in ‘the WIFU opener here. What I failed to do, the Esks and Riders ‘have accomplished. Now the local football filberts are aware that Lions face a tough schedule and will have to fight hard to ensure themselves a play- ofi berth. : The. team is potentially power- ful, and with some tightening up can win quite a few gamés in the next few weeks. All is not yet losi. Right now attendance is high ° at every game, but unless the Pig- skin moguls cut Prices, the ord- inary workers will be forced to listen to most of the games on radio. How about some rush seats for a buck? * * * The Swaps-Nashua duel in Chi- cago brings to mind another match race, billed in its time as the Race of the Century. It took place at Belmont Park on October 20, 1923, between the American horse Zev and the Eng- lish Derby champion, Papyrus. The race aroused the same kind of international interest as the Dempsey-Carpentier bout a couple of years earlier. = Excitement began to mount when “Come on Steve” Donog- hue, the famous trish jockey who was to ride Papyrus, stepped off a ship from Great Britain at- tended by his valet. That touch just about threw the boys along Shedrow into hysterics. A couple of days before the race Zev suffered an attack of hives, and there was talk of scratching him (some pun — so sorry). More than 70,000 track addicts turned up at Belmont, with Zev (Earle Sande up) favored in the betting. The horses were run- ning for $100,000, with, $80,000 going to the winner and $20,000 to the loser. It wasn’t much of a race. Papy- rus got away fast when the bar- rier went up (no starting gate in those days) but Sande flicked Zev and the American colt caught the English horse before a half fur- long had been covered. Zev ran a length in front until they reach- ed the stretch, and when asked for speed drew out to win by six lengths, and passed the wire run- ning under restraint. It was fhe first time Papyrus had ever run on a dirt track, and that may have accounted for his poor showing. In any case, “a hero today, a bum’ tomorrow.” When the fallen champion was led up the gangplank of the steamship taking him home the following week, only the tiny voice of a bosun’s pea whistle piped him aboard. On his ar- arrival in America he had been met with brass bands. Commented one sports writer: “Papyrus is one of the few visitors from Great Britain who on returning home will not write a book on his American impres- sions. He can’t write, but that is a minor difficulty which has been overcome in the case of many eminent travellers before him.” He went on to observe that - Papyrus’ impressions must have consisted mainly of a rear view of Zev. one length ahead on the rail, When that Victoria couple walked away with two of the $1256.75 double payoffs at Exhi- bition Park Monday, all but one of the racing writers in the dailies got confused trying to describe the “Chinese system” used iby the lueky. winners. This “system” consists of run- ning your finger down the line of horses on the card, ealling of A, B, C,.D, ete. until you hit a horse whose name begins with the Jet- ter you. called. The “system” would have’ giv- en Colonel Gene in the first and Cabbet in the second. That would- n't have paid anything, as Col- onel Gene finishéd. out of the money. i What the Victoria couple did was to play ‘the jockeys instead of the horses. In the first race the jockeys were Sivewright, Hal ler, Lynn, R. Williams, Stone, E. Williams and Guarasci. First let- ter to fit was G—so it had to be Guarasci, aboard Easy Riding. In the second race it was the No. 3 jockey, Coppernoll, on the No. 3 horse, Cabbet, ‘ Easy Riding. paid $24.00 and Cabbet paid $62.50, and the double — there were only four ticket holders — Was a whopping $1256.75. TOs ie * The record double in America Paid $10,772.46, Joy Bet to Merry Caroline, in 1939 at Washington Park. There there was $8,614.40, Mighty Touch to Detach, in 1945 . at Rockingham Park: and $7,- 711.20, Hollbon to Last Waltz, in 1947 at Dade Park, Kentucky. Monday’s double at Hastings was the largest of the season here, but $400 short of the $1,- 660.05 figure returned by Royal Glory to Furious Poo at Randall’s Roulette Wheel last Years 4ii* x x * The United States was so cer- tain of retaining the Davis Cup this year that Sports Hlustrated devoted the greater Part of its last week’s issue to explaining why the Yanks were invincible. “We have no worries with (Tony) Trabert,” wrote the U.S. team captain. “The winner of 16 of 18 tournaments, including his clean sweep at Wimbledon, Tony is our prime hope, the world’s best amateur who is su- premely confident and Teady. He stands to win both hig singles and should give us a better than even chance in the doubles.” Tony Trabert himself was No less modest. “I think we/ll. re- tain the Davis Cup this weekend. Furthermore, | think well do | what we did last year: clinch if. in the first two days.” What happened was that the fighting Australians blasted the talkative Americans Tight off the courts. The Aussie terrors — Lewis Hoad, Ken Rosewell and Rex Hartwig — made it a real “lost weekend” for the Yanks. Hoad and Rosewell gave their team a 2-0 lead Friday, when Hoad beat Trabert and Rosewall whipped Seixas in the opening” singles matches. Saturday Hoad teamed. with Hartwig to beat Tra- bert and Seixas in’ the doubles {thus clinching the Cup) and Sunday finished a clean sweep when Hoad toppled Seixas and Rosewall walloped Ham Richard- son * * *. Two big fights coming up: Rocky Marciano against. Archie Moore, for the heavyweight cham- Pionship of the world; and Don Cockell against Nine Valdes in England, winner to get a crack at the heavyweigh? crown. The winners? Marciano and Cockell, it says here. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 2, 1955 — PAGE 1]