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Canucks compete at Mexico City

Helen Stewart (above) is one of the 1} young B.C. swimmers who will take, part in the ,
Pan-American Games in Mexico City March 12-26. Others are Allan Brew, Crescent Beach; Lenore
Fisher, Ocean Falls and Gerry: McNamee, Bob Gair, Ted Simpson, Linda Shier, Susan Sangster,

Marg Peebles, Karna Kemp and Dick Jack, all of Vancouver.

Last Saturday at Crystal Pool the

B.C. swim team broke three Canadian records, with Helen Stewart setting a new 220-yard junior
women’s breast stroke record and also breaking the senior record.

Pan-Am Games preview
of next year’s Olympics

The second Pan-American Games, opning this Saturday in Mexico City, are actu-
ally a preview of the 16th Olympiad which will be held in Melbourne, Australia next year.
The European equivalent of the Pan-Am, Games, the Second International Youth Games,

take place in Warsaw August 1-13.

Top athletes from North and South America will compete in Mexico City, and

stars from almost every country in
the world will be in action at War-
saw. A study of the form display-
ed at these twd great meets will
give everyone a clue to future
Olympic winners. |

Realizing the importance of the
hemisphere games, the United
States is sending a powerful team
to Mexico City, and hopes to wipe
out the memory of the first Pan-
Am meet in Buenos Aires, where
the U.S. team was soundly trounc- |
ed by their Argentine host. |

A strong 33-man track and field |
team headed by Olympic - gold’
medal winner Mal Whitfield and!
Bob Richards expects to capture.
a good share of the medals at.
Mexico City. Included in the U.S. |
Squad are runners like Wes San-!
tee, Fred Dwyer, Gordon McKen-'!
zie, Horace and Bill Ashenfelter, |
and ace field men such as shot-put |
recordholder Parry O’Brien, discus |
titleholder Fortune Gordien, and
‘hammer throw titlist- Bob Backus. |

Canada’s team is smail — far
too small — but our athletes
will benefit from the interna-
tional competition. Unlike the
U.S. State Department, our gov-
ernment has shown little inter-
est in the Pan-American Games,
and Canadian athletes have had
to beg cap-in-hand to raise fin-
ances for the trip.

it would be a wonderful thing
if Ottawa would wake up to the
fact that such athletic meets
have a bearing on our relations
with other nations, and decide
to send a strong Canadian team
to Warsaw.

The International Youth Games
are being held simultaneously
with the holding of the Fifth
World Youth Festival in the Polish o
eapital. Approximately 100,000" Hyents are planned . for’ both
young men and women will come|™en and women in the following
to Warsaw for the Festival, some|sports divisions: track and field,
30,000 from abroad. swimming, diving, rowing, canoe-

More than 3,000 foreign ath-|- :
letes will compete in Warsaw, |. )® PER EIDES tapeesennelits, vorley-

and Poland, now beginning to | Pall, handball, tennis, table-tennis,
make good its war losses in the} fencing and archery.

field of sports, will enter 700 men| - Events for men only will include
and women in the 23 branches of| boxing, soccer, dirt-track motor-
sport for which competitions are | cycle races, speedboat races,
planned. Most of the contests are | weightlifting, wrestling in both
to take place in a new 70,000-seat| classical and free ‘style, cycling,
stadium now being completed. {water polo and field hockey.

|

MIKE AGOSTINI —

Mike Agostini of Trinidad,
winner of the 100 yards dash at
the British Empire Games here
last August, will face strong com-
petition at Mexico City, includ-
ing an improved Harry Nelson,
who hopes to score a win for
Canada.

Return bout
for London ?

LONDON

London may yet see Don Cockell
fight Rocky Marciano for the world
heavyweight title.

John Simpson, manager of the
British heavyweight champion, re-
turned from New York last week
and stated that if. Cockell beats
Rocky, he has an option of where
the return fight will be.

“Naturally,” said ‘Simpson, “I
would demand that the second
bout be held in London.”

When Simpson and the London
promoter, Jack Solomons, went to
New York to negotiate the title
bout, there was still a good chance
of the first fight coming to London.
Solomons had a bright idga of col-
lecting a shilling a head from Brit-
ish television viewers, the BBC
to do the collecting. The Ameri-
cans were intrigued, but BBC of-
ficials weren’t interested.

“T fancy Don to beat this fellow
Marciano,’ Simpson told report-
ers. “I have a very strong feeling
about it.” :

The fight is scheduled to take
place in San Francisco in May.
Cockell will go to California early
in April and will train there for
about four weeks.

U.S. ring experts who saw Cock-
ell perform against Kid Matthews
don’t rate the bulky Briton very
highly, and think that Marciano
will flatten him in six or eight
rounds.

Chataway hopes to

crack four-minute mile

Chris Chataway, England’s great
two-miler, is planning to run one
mile in four minutes sometime
this summer. He thus hopes to
fill the spot vacated by Bannister,
who retired recently.

When Chataway conquered the
Russian sailor Vladimir Kuts in
London the Soviet Union made the
lion-hearted Englishman a Master
of Sports, First Class in honor of
his achievements. ~

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Gert Whyte'e

— SPORTLIGHT

OCKEY-HAPPY PENTICTON will stage a mammoth
homecoming celebration for the fabulous V’s next week,
when Canada’s ice heroes return with the world cup they
won last Sunday by treuncing Moscow Dynamos 5-0. The
spontaneous 11-mile car cavalcade staged in the little Okana-
gan city when the final score came over the wire will be
dwarfed by the huge party planned for March 15 er 17, when
the victorious V’s arrive home. It will surpass the shindig
which followed winning of the Allen Cup last year. A civic
holiday has been declared and there will be parades, band
concerts, parties, dances and a monster barbecue.

Well the V’s deserve it. At
Krefeld the V’s not only out-
played, outskated and outshot
the Russian team to win the
world hockey cup; they also de-
monstrated to the world that this
country, the cradle, of hockey,
has no intention of giving up its
leading position in this sport.

Next year at the world tourna-
ment in Italy, and in 1957 when
the tourney will be held in Mos-
cow, the Russians and the Czechs
will probably come up with im-
proved teams. But  Sunday’s
final: showed that the Russians
(who won seven straight games
before tangling with the V’s) and
the Czechs (who finished third in
the tourney) still have a lot to
learn about Canada’s national
game.

Why shouldn’t Canada _ invite
the Soviet Union and Czechoslov-
akia to send teams to this coun-
try next season? They could
meet our top amateur teams from
coast to coast — and you can
bet your boots every rink would
be jammed for every game. I
can’t think of* anything that
would give amateur hockey a bet-
ter shot in the arm.

KEVIN CONWAY

Everything that can be written
‘about the V’s game with Dyna-
mos has already been written.
But there’s nothing like seeing
a game. That’s why hundreds
of thousands of Canadians will be
huddled around TV sets at 4:30
p.m. Sunday, when the Canada-
vs. Russia tilt will be carried by
_CBUT, Channel 2.
' Other. telecasts include Can-
ada vs. Finland, March 12 at 11
p.m.; Canada vs. Switzerland
(condensed version) .March 13
at 12:30 p.m.; Canada vs. Sweden,
March 14 at 11 p.m. and Canada © slovakia, Bill Warwick of Canada
_ Vs. Germany, March 15 at 11 and Vsevolod Bobrov, Russia.
p.m. Canadians named to the. alter-

Two Penticton players, Kevin nate team were goalie Ivan Mc
Conway and Bill ‘Warwick, were
named to the starting line-up of
, world| hockey’s all-star team,
,selected by the coaches of ‘the
,clubs that took part in the nine-
team tournament.

Here’s the all-star team:

Goal: Rigazio, United States;

defense; Kevin Conway, Canada

BILL WARWICK

and Nikolai Solegubov, Russia;
forwards. Zabrodsky, Czecho-

Avoy and forwards Grant Wat
wick and Jack McIntyre. :
Individual scoring honors 1
the world tournament were won
by Vlastimil Bubnik of Czech0-
slovakia (14 goals and 8 assists).
Bill Warwick of Canada was sec
ond (6 goals and 11 assists).

Penticton V’s in action against the Czechs.
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 11, 1955 — PAGE 10

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