HURRY!

Beat the deadline

HURRY!

$13,500
Received at press time

$4,500
- STILL NEEDED —

SMORGASBORD -- DANCE

Saturday, May 22
HASTINGS AUDITORIUM

(828 East Hastings Street)

Qceanr Reader:

Only 11 more days left in the 1954 financial
drive for $18,000, and here's the picture: .

We had received $13,500 by Wednesday
this week, and our records show 200 Press
Vilders who have raised $25 or more, and
21 Honor Press Builders who have raised $100
or more.

All tickets and drive money must be turned
in by May 18. We hope to
have an additional 100
Press Builders and 10 Honor
Press Builders by that date.

Our big Smorgasbord-
Dance ito celebrate another
drive victory will be held
Saturday, May 22, at 6.30
p.m. in Hastings Auditori-
um, Honor Press Builders
will sit at the head table
and receive awards. Special
$vest will be nine-year-old Georgie Hewison
of Campbell River, who has raised $41 to date.

Results of the PT contest ($1,000 in prizes,
With a TV set or $500 cash as first prize) will

announced at the dinner. Hundreds of
letters have been received naming féatures
"readers liked and containing suggestions for
Proving the paper.

Greater Vancouver press clubs already over

the top in the drive include Dry Dock, Georgia,

randview, Kitsilano, Point Grey and South
Urnaby.

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Provincial press clubs which have surpassed

their targets include Copper Mountain, Cum-
berland, Grassy Plains, Lake Cowichan, Lang
Bay, North Vancouver, Port. Kells, Powell
River, Princeton, Salmon Arm, Sointula and
Steveston.

Success or failure in the drive now rests in
the hands of those press clubs which are lag-
ging, but which could still make their objec-
tives in the next 11 days. A heavy political
responsibility rests on these clubs to ensure
that our paper is able to continue publication
in the coming year.

Greater Vancouver clubs still far \short of
their targets are Building Trades, East End,
Electrical, Forest Products, Hastings East,
Strathcona, Ship and Steel.

Provincial press clubs which need to step
on the gas to make their quotas are Nanaimo,
New Westminster, Fernie, Michel-Natal, Nel-
son, South Langley and Trail. (Nelson reports
2 social raised $40 last week, putting the club
over the half-way mark.)

Three new names appear on the Honor
Press Builder roll this week: Tom McEwen
(Kitsilano), Dorothy Lynas (North Vancouver)
and John Kowalik (Victory Square).

One big final push is needed in every press
club to ensure victory. In some clubs all
members who are working are pledging a day’s
pay. And this week three readers walked into
the office and donated their BCHIS rebate
cheques. With that spirit, we‘re sure to win!

Rita Whyte

Kenya’s Jonathan Lenemuria, British Empire Games contender

for the high jump fitle, is seen clearing six feet—bare-footed.

Gert Whgte's

SPORTLIGHT

COVEY of two-bit politicians

are complaining because their
names weren’t included in the
BEG official souvenir book, and
the error is being corrected in
future editions.

While they‘re at it, how about
rewriting the entire book to give
the public a break? At $1 a
throw, the buyer is surely entitled
to a reasonable amount of factual
information about the Games; a
complete history of the big event
and pictures and biographies of
outstanding stars.

Instead, sports fans are treated
to several pages of pictures of
bigwigs, sponsored pages showing
the parliament buildings at Vic-
toria, a lumber community, the
heart of Montreal (it has a heart?),
a pulp mill, Vancouver water-
front, the Kitimat project, an
Alberta oil well, downtown Ed-
monton, a BCE generating sta-
tion, air view of Calgary, a
Yankee railroad, Saskatchewan
wheat fields, Niagara Falls, the
Sun Life Assurance Company,
building in Montreal; and one of
Molson’s brew kettles.

Along with this smorgasbord,
there is included a dime’s worth
of information on the British
Empire Games: the program
(which can be picked up for free

at the Hudson’s Bay); the general

rules; some scattered items of in-
terest about pdst performances;
and a map of the city showing
how to get to Exhibition Park,
KerriSdale Arena, the UBC, ete.

This column has been boosting
the BEG for the past two years—

‘and knocking the bungling poli-

ticians who mucked up the orig-
inal plans for the stadium, screw-
geed the location of the pool,
handed over the concession rights
to a Yankee firm, antagonized
public-spirited organizations try-
ing to help the Games, and gener-
ally behaving like a bunch of pub-
licity-seeking nincompoops.

We'd hoped, however, that the
publicity committee would come
up with a first-class BEG souvenir
book. Now that has been bungled,
too, for the sake of a few extra
shekels.

If the big business outfits
“sponsoring” pages in the. book
had really wanted to support the
Games, they’d have paid for the
space and turned it over to a few
qualified sports writers on any of
the local papers, who could have
used these pages to give the read-
ers a buck’s worth of sports facts.

* x x

When I was a lad of 16 I

hitch-hiked down through Ken-.

tucky and was impressed by the
fact that newsboys in Lexington
seemed to sell more scratch sheets

than legitimate. newspapers. us
was too young to sample the mint
juleps, but I heard plenty of
horse talk and saw some of the
beautiful racing stables in the
blue-grass country.

Southerners, despite their slow
drawls, are pretty fast guys when
it comes to garnering in the
sheaves of crisp, paper green-
backs, and at no-time do they
work faster than during - Derby
week,

Everybody knows by now that
Determine, a California horse,
won the Kentucky Derby at Lou-
iseville last Saturday. He Paid
$10.60 to win, a nice price.
The real winners, however, were
the Kentucky citizens who clipped
their visitors without mercy.
Hotel rooms rented at $30 to $75
a day; rooming houses charged
$15 to $25 for a bed. Mint juleps
sold at $1.50, contained perhaps
half an otnce of alcohol. Meals
cost. $5 and up,

“Why, everybody robs every-
body else Derby week,” one
Louiseville landlady complacently
told a visiting reporter.

x Kk

However, the 1954 brand of
Southern hospitality hasn’t. a
patch on that of 1823, the year the
South took the North for a cool
million bucks ‘on a $10,000 match
race. Here’s how they did it:

A Northern horse, American
Eclipse, was the fastest horse in
the country, and everybody knew
it. Consequently, Northerners
were amazed and delighted when
a group of “Southern gentlemen”
offered to race an. unnamed
“champion of the South” against
American Eclipse for a side bet
of $10,000. ane

The race took place at the
Union Course on Long Island, and
thousands of well-heeled South-
erners came north for the event.

As was the custom in those
days, the race was at 4-mile heats,
best two of three. Betting was on
each individual heat, and on the

' race itself. The confident North-

erners carelessly gave big odds
and bet on anything. The wily
Southerners bet big money on the
first heat, bet almost nothing on
the race.

The Southern horse, a thing
called Sir Henry, was sent all out
to win the first heat. He did, but
was then through for the day.
Southerners wouldn’t bet the sec-
ond and third heat, which Henry
lost in dismal fashion,

Northerners were jubilant about
winning the race until they look-
ed in their pocketbooks and then
at the departing Southerners, car-
rying away a million bucks won
in their first heat coup.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 7, 1954 — PAGE 11°