% Is Canadian hockey too r
Fans took to the clean style of play under international rules,

of Moscow Selects.

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ough? This question is being discussed again following the ‘our

and old-timers compared it to the prewar, type of hockey displayed by the New York Rangers.

Photo shows the Rangers of today tangling with Toron’o Maple Leafs — fists and sticks
SWinging in a melee around the Toronto goalie.
tators demand this sort of thing. What do you think?

Ski championships at Kimberley

National Hockey League officials claim spec-

one of top Centennial features

900 feet, the highest city in
Altogether, the Snow Fiesta

will feature the Canadian
championships, international
» inter-collegiate (Western) ski
¥ Championships sand the B.C.
adies Curling Association
championships. There will be
Parades, dances, banquets,
{ Queen-crowning and other gala
» Fiesta events,

- Top calibre European and

On November 17 this year a
_ Chinese girl broke the world’s
x high jump record for women.
Her name is Cheng Feng-

yUng. She is a student from

Shantung province, and she

Cleared 5 feet 934 inches at a

Meet in Peking.

-A Chinese weightlifter and a
f Chinese swimmer broke two
» Other world’s records this
Year,

It has only been eight years,
Temember, since the Chinese
Chased Chiang Kai - shek out
of the country and started re-
Modelling their society.

The first five years were
Sbent training an army of

0aches and instructors and
Providing at least some facili-
ties for a nationwide sports

Canada.

American skiers — including
at least three of Norway’s best

— will be brought to the meet
with tunds provided by the

B.C. Centennial Committee. A
noted radio commentator and
a skiing movie actress may be
among the entertainment stars.

Some 80 competitors from

hina may he a threat
at future Olympics

program.

Now the results are begin-
ning to show in international
competition.

At the Paris World Univer-
sity Games last summer a
Chinese basketball team upset
such established: teams. as
those of France and Poland.

Chinese soccer teams have
been a notable success in Asian
competition.

Chinese gymnasts, as well as
weightlifters and swimmers,
appear to be of international
calibre.

Just think what is likely to
happen when China’s | great
athletic program really gets
going,

Agar

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: One of B.C.’s brightest centennial winter sports events will be the Canadian Ski Cham-
Pionships at Kimberley, which boasts ‘probably the world’s only permanent ski jump with a
Supermarket at the bottom. The championships take the starring role in the Kimberley 3 Snow
“Fiesta,” Feb. 17 to 23, in the south-eastern B.C. centre of 7,000 people at an elevation of

Canadian and American uni-
versities in the west, including
some European exchange stu-
dents, will compete in the four-
way international inter-collegi-
ate ski meet February 15 and
16. This will be the third such
meet for Kimberley.

Thirty-two women will vie
for top honors-in the Bc.
Ladies Curling Association
ships, will be held February
20, 21, 22 and 23.

The main attraction, the sen-
ior Canadian Ski Champion-
ships, wil be held February 20,
21, 22 and 23.

About 130 senior Canadian
and visiting men and women
will compete in a 19-mile cross-
country race the first day,
downhill events the second,
slalom the third and juniping
the last day.

The main highway into the

city passes half a block from
the out-run, and ski jumpers
practically leap into a business
section.
, “I think we must have the
only permanent ski jump in
the world with a supermarket
at the bottom,” says Worming-
ton.

Competitors will all be fed
and billeted by the Kimberley
ski club. Plans are being laid
also to provide facilities for
the many spectators who will
be attracted.

Bert Whyte's

SPORTLIGHT

At CHRISTMAS play and
make good cheer; for
Christmas comes but once a
year,
Okay, toots, wanna wassail?
Come landlord, fill the flow-
bowl ... Now what am I say-
ing? Fill the flowing bowl, in-
deed, when a_ beer. parlor
glass filled mostly with foam
costs a dime. A bowl of the
stuff would cost a fortune.
Anyway, I don’t like land-
lords. One just raised my rent
and caused me to move this
month. So we’ll leave the land-
lord out of our Christmas
cheer.

I’m afraid 1957 will be re-
membered as the year in
which the Grey Cup left its
Litle Grey Home in the West.
May it make the return jour-
ney in 1958.

And what’s ahead in other
sports?

For the Lions, another bleak
season, I’m afraid.

For the Mounties, un-
certainty.

- For the Canucks, a cham-
pionship.

For international sports (if
nobody triggers a war) the
best year in history, with a
developing exchange of ath-
letes between countries

ae * *

Note the article on this page

which describes how China, an

athletic giant, is beginning to
stir.

Just a few years ago we said
the same Soviet
Union, while thousands jeered.
Before Helsinki in 1952 we
predicted that the USSR
would provide the stiffest kind
of Olympic competition. What
happened at Helsinki, and four
years later at
now history.

about the

Melbourne, is

The only thing that held
China back (athletically speak-~
ing) was opportunity. Now
the youth of China have that
opportunity, and as sure as the
sun rises (outside of Vancou-
ver, of course) Chinese ~ath-
letes will begin to make their
mark. internationally.

Someday the athletes of
India will be in there, too.

* * x

Two fishermen (says THE

FISHERMAN) were making
their first trip by air, and at
the first stop they noticed a
little red truck roll up toe the
plane and service it.

This occurred again at the
second and third stops.

Late in the afternoon, when

well across the continent, one -

of them said to the other,
“This plane is making good
time.”

“Yep,” said the other, “and
that little red truck isn’t doing
bad, either.”

% Come on in, the water’s cold. At 81, Englishman William
Hamlyn takes his daily dip in the sea off Plymouth Hoe.
He’s been doing it for 63 years, recommends it as a Health

measure,

But who wants to be that healthy?

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