SPORTLIGHT | By BERT WHYTE— ‘ST before stepping into the ring with Lee Savold in the Battle of the Ancients, it’s rumoured that Joe Louis was caught reading a eopy of Elizabeth Allen’s poem, Rock. Me to Sleep. His eyes were glued on these lines in stanza one: “Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for, tonight!” The gods of gladiators past and rresent must have bent an atten- tive ear to Joe’s plea for he looked something like the dynamic Brown, Bomber of 10 years ago as he bat- tered Savold around the ring for six furious rounds, then dropped him for the eount It was just like old times when the champ used to call his shots. “I’ll get Savold in six,” he predicted and verily, it came to pass. Now Joe is gunning for another shot at Ezzard Charles and is su- premely confident that he can re- gain the heavyweight crown before aa : the year is out. At 37, Joe? Par- JOE LOUIS don us if we're slightly skeptical, but winning back a title at your advanced age is akin to grandmother running up Grouse Mountain pushing a wheelbarrow of bricks. Still the heavy situation being what it is (strictly from hunger) it is just possible that Louis migh perform a miracle; at any rate, his fine showing against Savold earned him another crack at Charles. And when they meet, thousands will be rooting for Joe. * With everybody talking horses, horses, horses these days (even the butchers are selling horse meat since the cow jumped over the moon) it seems fitting to introduce a few remarks about that element which makes it possible for the horses to obtain their daily ration of hay and oats and blackstrap molasses. I refer, of course, to the horse- players. : A few years ago a national turf daily conducted a “Gallop Poll” concerning the lives, loves, likes and. dislikes of the denizens of the track. As a horseologist of long standing, I wrote a little essay on the results of the poll which was ‘reprinted in Canadian Sports Digest and from which I now quote some pertinent facts and figures. ‘To begin with, 62.5 percent of racing fans assured the pollsters that they are not members of any club or fraternal society. Considering the number of social, bridge, country, golf, political, university and luncheon clubs which abound in our society, this is a rather astonishing figure. Apparently the track follower is an exclusive fellow, happy with his horses and his tip sheet, needing no brotherly love, secret handshake, frat sign, Shriner back-slapping or other antidote to lonli- -qess.. In short he has no desire for the companionship of two-footed | friends now that he has discovered the fascination of the company of four-footed ones. A Kinsey reporter must have got mixed up with the Gallop poll, for one question asked the horse players how they relaxed after a hard day at the track. You'd think the lucky punter would celebrate in a gay cabaret or nightclub. Ho!. ho! my good fellow, another bucket of suds! Ha! ha! my pretty wench, sit thee down upon my knee! More champagne, garcon! Bottioms up! Glass and lady, bottoms up! . ’ : Ah, no, my children, you misjudge the devotee of the horse. For. figures prove that 24.6 percent of turf patrons” have NEVER been inside a night club or restaurant ‘where there’s entertainment or danc- ing. : i His evenings are spent studying the Green Sheet: Fie upon you and for shame, to dream of him wasting his time gambolling when he’s really only gambling.” : : : » Do you enjoy alcoholic beverages?” quoth the pollsters. A rousing 80.6 percent confessed to liking the stuff, and perhaps the rest were liars. Favorite drink, Scotch. (No favoriteedrink,” said 5.8 percent. hey’ll drink anything, anytime.) Bt. eee ' “Occupation?” A good many ducked a straight answer to this “Retired.” “Student.” And so one. But a bold 4.1 percent faced the issue squarely, and put down: “Horse player.” ‘So it boils down to this. Four out of every hundred guys you meet at the track are there in the line of duty—hard at work in $ their chosen profession. They study charts, past performances, plood-lines, trainers, owners, jockeys, track officials, ip sheets, weather conditions, and what-not, then place their bets.. At night they, buy a bottle, cuddle up in. a stall with the Green Sheet, light a candle and continue their studies. No time for nightclubs. No time for fillies—pardon, I mean girls. No theatres. Just work, work, work. Then up at the crack of dawn, hustle out to the track to lock the gee-gees in their morning workouts. Back to their studies “till racing time. Ree Mi Pais ; - You think the life easy, fellow? Try picking horses yourself for a living, and you'll soon get to know that proverbial wolf like a] x vbrother. : x ~ x Chess is generally listed under the heading of “entertainment” |% ‘in Canada, but over in the Soviet Union it rates as a sport, A ‘countrywide tournament which opened recently had 600,000 contes- ‘tants, and there were always crowds round the big notice boards -awhich announced the progress of the match in public places all World’s a champ, ,by the “way, is a Russian named Botvinnik. DISA AND DATA: The new Capilano Stadium was packed to capacity on opening night, but there'll soon be lots of ty. ‘seats if the management doesn’t wise up and open a tick office downtown ... . In the Women’s Major softball league the slow starting Nut House nine upset Mutuals 41 to shove the 1950 champs into second spot for the first time this season. The no-hit wonders, Crowhurst, stepped into the lead temporarily, but - last Monday night Mutuals regained a one-point lead by walloping -Crowhursts 7-2... . Sour note from*Toronto. After the Fulham- Celtics tie, the titled Briton who manages Fulham was asked on the radio about that loss at Victoria. “Just one of those things,” he hemmed and hawed, “an accident, you know,” .... PT Clippers meet Western Bridge on Jurie 2 and Boilermakers on June 30 at * . Conclusion: there’s many a sober, studious oaf playing the ponies. : . Powell Grounds. Turn out and give the lads some vocal support. Joint safety committee set up at union-city parley following _ Civic Employees’ work stoppage City engineer John, Oliver, meeting with officers of Local 28, Civic Employees Union, at city hall on Wednesday this week, agreed to establish joint safety cofmmittees in eve department and one overall committee to deal with general safety questions affecting oute side workers. All representatives of the men on these: joirit committees will be appointed by Local 28. Action of Oliver not,only demon- strates the justness of the union’s long-standing demand for safety zommittees which received public attention following the death of a vorker on the job recently, but also shows complete recognition on the vart of the city of Local 28 as the legitimate union of outside work- ers. & Earlier in the week the full story of the “down tools” action of sewer workers who turned out 100 per- zent to the funeral of Paul Nelson, victim of the cave-in, was told in an issue of Union Newsbulletin; offi- cial organ of Local 28. ia “The mass turnout for Nelson’s funeral was initiated by Nelson’s workmates, who had word sent to all sewer workers,” the paper ex- plains. “It was meant to be both an effective tribute to a fallen bro- ther and a striking demonstration for safety precautions on all city jobs. : “On Tuesday, June 12, the daily papers carried “ sensational _head- lines about ‘Mass Tie-Up’ and ‘Sewer Walk-Out.’ ‘The next day city en- zineer John Oliver denied that there was any such thing. He said that Donald Guise, union . business agent, had been given his (Oliver’s) ‘whole-hearted permision’ for the mee to lay off and attend the fun- eral. \ 3 ee, very simple. After the business agent knew that the men were go- ing to the funeral, he so informed the city engineer, as a matter of. courtesy. Then, when the news- papers were given the bare facts, they dressed them up with flashy headlines. But for once, since last October (when the TLC suspended the union) they felt compelled to give us a fairly sympathetic play. “The question of whether it was a ‘walk-out,strike or mass attend- ance at a workmate’s funeral is in- consequential. - It doesn’t matter what press terms have been used. The fact remains that what hap- pened is that the men, as free work- men, put their tools away in an orderly fashion and went to the funeral for the purposes already mentioned. In doing so, they won the respect, sympathy and admira- tion of the labor movement and the general pubile. No sincere trade unionist can be opposed to such a course of action. ; “But it is very noticeable that John Oliver did not tell the press why there is no joint safety com- ‘4. mittee and why Vancouver has no safety officer. : “We suggest to Mr. Oliver that this is the important question, and ‘not the finding of a suitable defini- tion to write off the orderly protest of the sewer department against the insufficiency of safety precautions for jobs under his jurisdiction.” “The facts of the matter are © Are you on © Are you alenant? Scandinavians — hold Mid-Summer Festival Sunday ‘This Sunday, June 24, thousand of Canadians of Scandinavian Of igin and descent will come from @! parts of the Lower Mainland to rut tollgate men ragged at the Secon® Narrows Bridge as they convers® on Swedish Park, North Vancouvel for sixteenth celebration of theil annual Mid-Summer Fesival. Festivities start at 11 a.m., with Arne Jonsson, youthful president © the Scandinavian Central Commit tee, acting as master of ceremonies for the entertainment and Sp0 program which commences at p.m. The program features a nu ber of wellknown entertainers, and ig addition there will be games and races. Roe . The five charging candidates for ‘the title o d 3 Summer Oueen are: Ellen Christiansel. Denmark; Emily-Anne, Icelel Agenes Granholm, Finland; Shei- la Jenson, Norway; Ginvor Carl- son, Sweden. gs Transportation from Cassiar and Hastings to Swedish Park will available from 11 a.m. the Civic Voters’ List? * Did you gef this Card? _ IMPORTANT - A representative of no one in, Name in full Address Dated | ‘ VOTERS LIST TO THE TENANT OF THESE PREMISES: Pata d Jn order that your name shall appear upon the VOTER’S LIST of the City as a tenant, - you should fill in the following particulars on this Notice and mail or leave it at the ASSESSMENT OFFICH, (City Hall, forthwith. 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