Quality Quest killed at Tanforan ning a sprint at Lansdowne in June. Quality. Quest, the four-year-old grey gelding who loved to run in front from wire to Wire, had to be destroyed last Saturday at Tanforan when he suffered a triple leg fracture. At the time of the accident he-was leading the field by three lengths. “Snoppy’” was a great favor- ite of Vancouver racing fans, and in one of his trips south of the border he captured the $20,000 Longacres Mile, setting a new track record. “This horse can win consistently for $15,000,” his Jockey Willie Hartack said after the race. “He won this one so easily there is no telling how £00d he is.’ During his career Quality Quest won 15 of 29 starts and $38,132. Only a fortnight 480 he ran off with the $5,000 opening day handicap at Tanforan. Last Saturday he was leading Some of the best horses in California when he stumbled. Picture shows Quality Quest win- ay '“Where are tomorrow’s stars to come from?” 'What gives?’ ask young city basketball players By RAE MURPHY “What gives?” is the question being asked by at least 45 young basketball en- thusiasts in Vancouver. The. case in point is the refusal of the Mayor’s Youth Service Ammittee to grant use of a gymnasium to the International Sports League. The ISL is an established sports league operating for some time here. Through it, many young- sters have learned the funda- mentals of some of the fine points of basketball during the past five years. : This year the ISL sponsored a basketball college, under the direction of Bruce Yorke, former star player with UBC Thunder- birds. Then the news came that no gym would be available. However, the ISL isn’t the only league to be squeezed out this year. The Sunday School League is also not operating, nor are any other non-commercial leagues. Vancouver may have some of the country’s finest senior teams now, but what about the future ? Where are the players for tomor- row’s Cloverleafs and Eilers to come from? Not from the street corners, for sure. xt be xt In the beginning basketball was developed as a means of supply- ing competitive reereation for the average young person. Before 1891 the average gym- nasium was not a very attractive spot, for activities were limited, in the main, to barbell lifting, Indian club twirling, calisthenics and suchlike. What was lacking was a competitive type of activity. This was the challenge that Canadian-born Dr. James Nai- smith, a physical instructor at the YMCA at Springfield Mass., met when he came up with his own inovation, a game called basketball. Basketball, as we know it to- day, is quite a bit different from the game of half a century or more ago. Even the type of player has changed. Short and stocky barbell fans first flipped the ball through the peach bas- kets used by Naismith. Later a new species developed, the long and thin type. Today anyone under six feet 10 inches is con- sidered a midget; to catch a place on a professional team you have to be able to reach up and drop the ball through the basket. Basketball has become one 61 the most popular games in the world—it’s even catching up on “Spin-the-bottle.” Gert Whyte'e _ SPORTLIGHT VISITOR to our office this week was Dale Schnee, one of the young Canadians who went to Warsaw last summer to attend the World Youth Fes- tival and later visited Bulgaria, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and other European countries. The trip was an eye-opener for Dale, and he was bubbling over with stories about the ath- letic opportunities open to youth in the People’s Democracies. “They produce good athletes because everyone is encouraged to compete,” he told me. “Even old men over 40 made:a bid for a Festival Sports Badge at War- saw. To win this badge an athlete competes against a stan- dard in various events, and has to reach the standard in at least three.” Schnee won ‘his. badge by beating the standard in the 800 metres dash, shotput and high jump. One of his interesting experi- ences was meeting Australia’s great woman sprinter, Shirley Strickland, on a Warsaw bus. ‘It happened that Shirley had lost that day to a Soviet run- ner. Schnee saw the race from a distant part of the stadium, and didn’t recognize the flying blonde when he began talking to her on the bus. “Too bad about Shirley Strick- land losing today,” said Dale, opening the conversation. “I thought if the distance had been a few yards more she’d have won.” “Maybe, but that Russian girl is some runner,” answered the Aussia flash. Then something clicked