fadium.

Lokomotivs are one of the
Pviet Union’s: top eams
mcy finished seventh in the
st round of the USSR soc-
championships this year)
ud should show us some ex-
Hent football.

Mesia, while this year they
yed a draw with Belgium

jin an international match in
Moscow.

The Lokomotivs, soccer
team of the Railway Sports
Club in Moscow, open their
Canadian tour in Montreal
next Monday, August 6. They
play in Winnipeg August 8,
in Vancouver on August 11,

“and in Calgary on August

15. Last game, on Canadian

okomotiv tilt excites
ll B.C. soccer fans

As the magic date, August 11, draws near, soccer fans in the Lower Main-
4 d, Vancouver Island and throughout the province are getting more and more
Ecited about the big match between B.C. All-Stars and Moscow Lokomotivs.

Gckets are selling at a brisk pace and a record crowd is anticipated at Empire -

soil will be played at Varsity
Stadium, Toronto, on August
1@ against. a. national side.
Several of the B.C. All-Stars
will take part in that game.

A Canadian soccer team
will tour the Soviet Union
some time next year, and in
future. exchange visits are
expected to become more fre-
quent.

rance has little chance
f medals at Melbourne

( With- six gold medals to her credit from the last Olympics, France has little

Ope of repeating the performance in Melbourne. Placed eighth at the Helsinki

lympics four years ago> the records of French athletes have slowly but. surely

Fen outstripped in the world of sport.

However, they are send-
Bg a team of 140, financed
"Ya government grant of
75,000 to Melbourne with
t6pes of making a number of
Mympic finals,

f

Boney will challenge the
faditionally popular sports
Swimming, fencing, rowing,
lasketball, equestrian events,

tthletics, weight lifti
restling. ight lifting and

| Gilbert Bozon, the back-
Hoke swimming champion
0m the slums of Troyes
Ppears as their brightest
Sospect for a gold medal.
Sel Won a silver medal at
e€isinki and was then the

Orld’s. best- backstroke
Wimmer,

| Although Bozon still ‘holds
pS records, 18-year-old
Mueenslander David - Thiele
S swum the 100 meétres
eckstroke in 1 min. 4 secs
- Thiele was defeated at
PUdapest last November by
me Hungarian Magyar.

Bote two swimmers have
~€ than an equal chance

* °wering Bozon’s tricolors
> Melbourne,

France’s

3 :
oth ther swimmers,

male and female, are
peugeling — not to break
‘ % vane records but to catch
: © the standard that is

sing lik
the orld yeast , throughout

Brack and field prospects
4 Melbourne come re or
ee pues the same category,
| 1ere are exceptions.
a ao inoun was _ their
7 ete on the track at
a penn Games in 1948.
a Sinki hé ran second to
:: Sreat Zapotek in the 5000
Tes and did not give way

tO the c 5

from ho we until four laps
» Alt

3 as now 35 years of

oun has relentless de-

terminat;
Mination and seems to im-

»

prove with the years. He is
going through a rugged pre-
paration for the Games and

‘jn November last year set a

new French record in a one-
hour run.

He won the French cross
country championship for the
fifth time and went on to
win the international cham-
picnship at Belfast in March
by nearly half a minute.

Many experts believe that
he would be hard to beat in

* Jackie McDonald, Toron-

to school teacher and a
member of Canada’s British
Empire Games team two years
ago, is almost certain to make
the Olympic track and field
squad. She holds the shotput
record and is a serious con-
tender at discus and javelin
throwing.

the marathon. -If Zapotek
runs inthis event Minoun
could realize his ambition to
defeat the flying Czech.

France must be considered
as a danger in the 4x100 me-
tres relay; she won this-event
in the European champion-
ships in 1954. The same team
has been naméd as probables
for Melbourne.

The French Fencing Fed-
eration will send a team of
18, including three women.
Christian d’Oriola will prob-
ably lead the. team.

France’s hopes for Olym-
pic medals can unfortunately
be pinned on only a few.

Her athletes today, the
sons and daughters of great
champions .of the past, re-
flect the fighting tenacity of
the French to overcome all dif-
ficulties,

Warwick trick
shames Canada

Penticton V’s Grant War-
wick won the Cheap Stakes
by a thick: head last week
when a newspaper revealed
the original world champion-
ship hockey trophy was still
on display in his restaurant,
because the V’s sent a dupli-
cate to the Soviet Union last
winter when the Russians
beat Canada’s Kitchener-
Waterloo Dutchmen.

All across Canada _ sports-
men feel a deep sense of
shame because of Warwick’s
stupidity, and are unanimous
in demanding that the right
trophy be sent to Moscow.

On advice of a lawyer, War-
wick refuses to confirm or de-
ny the story, but commented
that hundreds of people are
coming to his restaurant “just
io see if the trophy we have
here is the real one,”

* One of Italy’s possible medal winners at

ympic

_ Games at Melbourne this fall is Paela Paternoster,
shown (top) making a high jump at a track and field meet
in Rome recently. The lower photo demonstrates her shot-

put technique.

FAMOUS FIGHTS

Everyone remembers the
Dempsey- Firpo battle in Sep-
tember 1923, when the champ
was knocked clean out of the
ring-by the Wild Bull of the
Pampas... , i

Not many fans remember
the fight which gave Firpo a
shot at the heavyweight
crown.. It was against big Jess
Willard, who had retired, after
losing to Dempsey “in four'
bloody rounds at Toledo on
July 4, 1919.

Willard, a close man with
a buck (but not as saving as
Firpo, who returned to South
America with every nickel he
ever earned in the U.S. sewed
inside his jeans) couldn’t re-
sist the easy money to be made
by meeting Firpo, so he “un-
retired” and earned $125,000
for being whacked into a
swoon on July 12, 1923, at
Boyle’s Thirty Acrés in Jersey
City. Some 80,000 saw the
Fiasco.

Luis Angel Firpo had a
right hand like a club, and not
much else. He had beaten
down Bill Brennan in twelve
rounds, and became a top
challenger for the title when
he kayoed a fellow named
McAuliffe on a Milk Fund
card in May, 1923. On the same
card Willard knocked out one
Floyd Johnson, and a Willard-
Firpo scrap was a natural

Had Willard done any seri-
ous training he might have
beaten the burly Argentinian.
For three of four rounds he
kept away from Firpo’s club-
bing right hand and had all

the best of things. Luis was
getting mad but couldn’t find
his target.

Then Willard slowed down
to a walk as the hot sun began
to tire him, and Firpo began
landing his clumsy but power-
ful blows.

By the sixth round it was

obvious that Willard wasn’t

going to stick around much

longer. Never a very game fel-.

low, he solved his problem in
the eighth round by sitting
down and refusing: to get up.
“My legs gave way,” he ex-
plained later.

The Dempsey-Firpo brawl
lasted only two rounds but
made ring history. After floor-
ing Firpo seven times in the
opening stanza the Manassa
Mauler ran into one of those
roundhouse rights and was
lifted clean over the top rope
and into the press row. He was
out of the ring a good 15 to 19
seconds and a clever manager
could have won the title for
Firpo. But the Angel’s handl-
ers were too excited to think
clearly and their golden op-
portunity slipped by. In the
second round a snarling Demp-
sey knocked Firpo out,

Firpo went back to Argen-
tine a hero, bought himself a
big ranch, and became a mil-
lionaire. Dempsey sunk some
of his money into a flashy
Broadway Restaurant, and
probably served steaks rais-
ed on Firpo’s ranch. He didn’t
make a million, but today he’s
still as popular as ever, and a
long way from being broke.

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