Centennial bowling tournament
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ancouver 9.) All bowlers must hold a card in the
or a special B.C. Centennial card (25 cents) avai

: female tennis players is Ann Barclay of Vancouver.
fently she was given a second place ranking by amateur

tennis

officials, but many local fans think that Ann will

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Prove herself the country’s top star this year.

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man” will land on the grass at RCAF Station Ab-
ave udges will decide his competency in one of the newest
Iskiest sports — sky diving.

other details. Style is judged
on the jumper’s ability to
maintain a stable flat position
while falling. Precision timing
is taken strictly into account.
Figure eights are drawn in
the sky and other manoeuvres.

The sky diver’s only ‘instru-
ment panel is an altimeter
and a stop watch. Time and
space are his problems. A mis-
calculation of one or the other
eculd spell disaster. But sky
divers insist they have a far
better safety record than
many other sports.

The Russians, who have con-
centrated on altitude records,
claim that eight of their sky
divers in 1955 fell more than
six miles before opening their
chutes: The French have gone
in for the spectacular, such as
relays in the air, with one
sky diver passing a stick to
the other on their way earth-
ward, to several individual
and group aerial gymnastics.

Sky diving was pioneered
in the U.S. just two years
ago, and Canadians are just
beginning to take up the sport.

e money when the $25,000 B.C. Centennial
1 26 - May 10. Entry forms are available from
man’s Recreations, 1312 West Broad-
Vancouver Five-Pin Bowling Asso-
lable from the tournament office,

Entry fees are $3.50 per
player for the open events; $3
for the “A” events;.$2.50 for
the “B” events, and $2 for the
“Cc” events. Entry forms will
be accepted at all alleys up to
midnight April 12.

The tournament will be
played at three Vancouver
alleys — the open class and
class “A” teams, doubles and
singles, at Chapman’s Recrea-
tions; the class “B” teams,
doubles and singles, at Com-
modore Recreations, 838 Gran-
ville;’ and the class’ “C”
teams, doubles and singles, at
the Deluxe Bowling Centre,
Homer at Hastings.

In addition to cash prizes,
there are a number of special
awards, including watches,
jewelry and clothing. A maxi-
mum of 20 prizes will be
awarded in each class.

Rules include the fact that
a player must have bowled
at least 18 games in a regular
league during the current sea-
son to establish an average,
and when a player bowls in
more than one regular league,
he or she must use their high-
est average.

All handicaps will be based
on league averages at at
March 15, 1958.

A player may bowl only
once in open singles and one
in singles in his own class.

Bowling has grown in popu-
larity these past few years,
and a record entry list is ex-
pected.

The world snooker cham-
pionship’ matches between
Canada’s George Chenier
(above) and England’s Fred
Davis drew record crowds for
this sport at Exhibition Gar-
dens last week and this week.
Snooker has now become
more popular than billiards
in England.

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> Canadian challenger for Archie Moore’s light heavy-

weight boxing title is Yvon Durelle of New Brunswick,
a commercial fisherman who uses the money he makes in
the ring to buy more boats. Photo shows Durelle, left, beat-
ing Jerry Luedee in a recent fight in Tampa, Florida. This
coming Sunday night Durell will be interviewed on TV,

Channel 2 at 10 p.m.

Gert White ‘e

g@OSTER HEWITT of Toronto

will broadcast the Canada-
Russia game on the final day
of the world hockey cham-
pionships in Oslo. That will be
Sunday, March 9, at 10 a.m.
(PST) on a trans-Canada net-
work.

Let’s hope that Hewitt,
often called ‘the dean of
Canadian sports broadcasters,”
turns in a better job than he
did on one previous occasion,
when he fouled the air with
“back to the salt mines” sneers
at the Soviet players.

It could happen that the
Canada-Russia games won’t de-
cide the world championship.
The Swedes now hold the title
and have a crack team. This
year the U.S. team is also
highly touted.

Whitby Dunlops represent
Canada, and they are famous
as a come-from-behind aggre-
gation. In their first exhibi-
tion game in Canada this
winter a touring Russian team
(half of whose members will
play in Oslo) whipped two
goals past the Dunlops’ goalie
in the first few minutes of
play.. Then the Canadians
tightened up, went on to win
easily.

It wasn’t, however, a fair
test. The Russians were just
getting used to the smaller
rinks, frozen puck, and night
play. They lost another game,
tied one, and then won five
in a row. Canadian fans would
have liked to see a repeat

SPORTLIGHT

engagement with Dunlops be-
fore the visitors took off for
Moscow, but it was not to be.

All we'll say at this time is
that Dunlops will have their
hands full in Oslo. We wish

them luck — and may the
best team. win the world cup.
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Every sports fan is hoping
that Dodger catcher Roy
Campanella will recover from
that car accident and take
his place behind the plate
again this season.

Jackle Kobinson was the
man who broke the color bar
and blazed a trail for Negroes
in big league baseball. Camp-
anella was the one who fol-
olwed him and made the most
friends.

I met Campanella back in
1947, when sports editor Sam
Maltin brought him into the
Daily Clarion office in Tor-
onto, At that time Roy was
catching for Montreal, the
Dodgers farm club. He was a
quiet, bulky man, with an
amiable smile and mild man-
ner.

On the diamond Campy be-
came transformed. He was
the leader of the team, with a
flow of chatter, deceptive
quickness and a whipthrow
to second that nabbed many
an unwary baserunner.

Last year Campanella had a
long batting slump, and
trouble with his fingers. May
he get over his recent acci-
dent and enjoy a good season
in 1958.

February 14, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 11