Sert Whyte's

SPORTLIGHT

For a scintillating story of
Miss Gibson, first Negro to
win a Wimbledon title, read
Lester Rodney on the op-
posite page.

U.S. national compe-
tition in the three-metre class

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last weekend.

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And on the distaff side, game
: Marie Depree of
outh Burnaby is trying hard
to reach the Olympic discus
ndard of 140 feet in order
that magic trip to

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make

Melbourne next fall.
Just” before the Interior
Track and Field champion-

Kelowna last Satur-
rie smashed the mid-
or of her right hand.
Oo compete any-
he discus more
32% feet to break a
record—then learn-
hat Jackie McDonald
to had bettered her

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Jackie’s distance,

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135 feet 10%

*But Marie Depree isn’t
giving up yet. She figures
she can better the new Can-
adian mark at the Caledon-
ian Games fh Vancouver
August 4.

We're rooting for her.
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HORSES TO WATCH: Cow-
enbeath knocking hard; Eddie
Who just needs to last; Lord
Rosconnor nearly ready to
big; Charm Peddler about
ue; Scottie D. at a distance is
Emery better than indi-
cates; High Court in shape
now; Spec So is a threat; Exis-
tentialist close to brackets

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FIGHTS

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they faced each

a contrast

at the bell. The champ,
1, determined, brown as a
erry from the sun, and sport-
a three-day beard. . The
rench_ challenger, slim,
white-bodied, graceful as a cat

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They felt each other out in
the first stanza, and as the
second sned Carpentier rose

and shot across his
e punch that had flat-
; and Joe
Dempsey _ blinked,
pped dead-in his tracks for
1oment, then came on againg
Carpentier, nursing a broken
was finished.

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he game challenger took
a count in the third, and was
cleanly knocked out in the
fourth.

Carpentier returned to Eu-
knocked out Kid Lewis
round, then lost his
world’s lightheavyweight title
to Battling Siki. He tried a
comeback a couple of years
later, kayoed Beckett in Eng-
land in 15 seconds, but lost to
Tommy Gibbons and Gene
Tunney in the United States,
and decided to hang up his
gloves.

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* Getting ready for her attempt to swim Lake Ontario this month is Shirley Campbell,, sh
>» above taking a hard workout at Niagara-on-the-Lake in 62-degree water. Watching

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from the forward end of the accompanying boat *s her coach, Bert Crockett, formerly of Victo
Next to Marilyn Bell, who conquered Lake Ontario two years ago and is now planning to! g

the treacherous Strait of Juan de Fuca, Shirley Campbell is Canada’s best long distance

swimmer.

Botvinnik-Smyslov due
has chess fans excitet

For eight years now the coveted title of
by Soviet Grandmaster Mikhail Botvinnik, D.Tech,Sc. As is well known, the I
national Chess Federation has adapted a special statute covering the’ contests fot
- world title. In keeping with these rules, the
in a match every three years. Two such matches have already taken place: in

and 1954. Botvinnik’s oppon-
ents in these encounters were
Soviet grandmasters David
Bronstein and Vasili Smyslov.
Both of the duels ended in a
tie and the world champion
retained his crown.

Ir. the early part of 1957,
Botvinik will again have ‘to

take up the chess cudgels in
defence of his title. Who is
to oppose him this time? That
had to be decided in the tour-
nament of the ten strongest
gvandmasters of the world
held under the auspices of the
International Chess Federa-
tion in Holland.

Vasili Smyslov emerged
victorious from this keen bat-
tle, which scintillated with
dramatic surprises. He pro-
duced here a number of bril-
liant games and captured top
place, with a margin of one-
end-a-half points over his
nearest rival.

A point and a half! In the
conditions of a very tenacious
battle in each encounter, and
with the players bunched
closely together (half of the
contenders tied for third place)
—this is an outstanding
achievement.

Smyslov’s splendid  sport-
ing qualities are well illus-
trated by the following fact.

By MIKHAIL YUDOVICH 3
MOSCYS

world chess champion has been

world champion has to defend his

the Amsterdam tourne
with great energy and

his recent victor in poth
counters. Thus Smyslov
the most of the object lee"
he had received at the
of Geller. “an

Thus we have ahead of ae
new Botvinnik-Smyslov # Ff -
It will take place in MS
in March-April of 195%
rules of the match rem#
same, while the results
let's not do any guessing *
that. We will merely po™
that both of the rivals |
completely mastered th
tegy and tactics of ches _
are close to each other 10”
but Botvinnik plays
what more _ trenchently:
world champion: is teB
the senior of his OPP
Botvinnik was born 1”
and Smyslov in 1921. In
match this may prove
of no little importance

Botvinnik or Smysl0
the time for this splene
counter gets nearer an!
er, the arguments and
ment among chess fans
increase accordingly.
matter who emerges

Russian sports fans con-
sider chess as both a par-
ticipant and a spectator sport.
Photo shows both young and

old followers of the game
watching an _ international
match, won by Botvinnik.

Last year he suffered defeat
in the small play-off match
for the national title. He lost

then to Grandmaster Yefim ious there need be n0 }
Geller. Smyslov played his that the chess crown ¥

two games against Geller in worn by one worthy ¢

July 13, 1956 —PACIFIC TRIBUNE — F.