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THE PEOPLE’S EARLY STORY, Hal Griffin Oo

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_Mail to — "Pacific Tribune, Room 6,
426 Main Street, Vancouver 4

PT drive
kicks off

The Pacific Tribune’s an-
nual fall drive for 1,000 new
subscriptions and renewals
begins next Tuesday, Septem-
ber 15 and continues for two
months until November 15.

In that period we hope not
only to gain a large number of
new readers, but also to pick
up all renewals that have been
allowed to lapse during the
summer months.

Circulation is the life-blood
of any newspaper, and it is
even more important to us than
to the dailies, which have a
large advertising income.

Our paper is in a _ better
financial position today than
it has been at any time in the
past 10.years, but only a suc-
cessful sub drive will. enable
us to continue to .better our
‘| condition.

While our finances are in
good shape, our circulation
picture isn’t the rosiest. Dur-
ing the summer months we
have managed to ‘hold gur
own” but that doesn’t satisfy
us. In this period of sharp la-
bor struggles, and with the
fight for world peace entering
a crucial stage, we must do ev-
: -erything possible to extend our

circulation in the . months
|| ahead.
Press clubs have received

proposed. drive quotas, and
lists. of expired subs. The job
now is to organize mass can-
vasses and see that every sub
is picked up, and new readers

obtained.

next week —

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SPOR

Canada’s Ernestine Russell earned a Pan-Am gold medal at Chicago

TLIGHT

OPE all you racing fans

took my tip in last week’s
column and bet Totem Hawk
to win the Ascot Derby. He
sprinted to the top at the
break and was never headed,
apparently loving the muddy
track. Payoff was a modest

$5.90 to win, $4.30 to place’

and $3.40 to show.
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Andy O’Brien, sports writ-
er for Weekend Magazine, has
been campaigning for some
time to have boxing banned
as a brutal and dangerous
sport.

His latest diatribe, in which
he advances that theory that
Ingemar Johansson should be
barred from the fight game
because his devastating wight
hand “could kill.a man’’. is
likely to have the opposite ef-
fect from what O’Brien inten-
ded.

Nothing draws boxing buffs °

through the ticket stiles more
than the promise that they
will see a ‘‘killer” in action.

The term “killer’’ is a mis-
nomer. The greatest ring “kil-
ler” of this century was Jack
Dempsey, who never seriously
injured an oppOnent during
his entire career.

Deaths have occurred in
boxing — particularly amat-
eur boxing. Often they have
been due to lack of ring pad-
ding and similar causes. On
other occasions — both in am-
ateur and professional boxing
—fighters have met death be-

cause they were allowed ‘to

some

don gloves while sick or in
poor physical condition.
Every lover of the ring game
will give solid backing to a
tightening up of safety rules
as practised, for example,
in the Soviet Union, where a
boxer has to take at least a
month’s rest following a
knockout. — but few people
will go along with O’Brien‘s
contention that Johansson
should be banned because of
his lightning right hand punch.
The big Swede, I might add,

has a long string of knockouts

to his credit in Europe, against
glass - jawed heavy-
weights. None of them -suffer-
ed any lasting ill-effects.

If you’re going to ban box-
ing, why not baseball? A ball.
striking a batter on the temple
would likely be fatal. And it
has happened ‘accidentally.
But no one ‘suggests closing-all
the ball parks. ;

Or take motor car racing. It
not only kills more drivers in
a year than die from boxing
accidents in a decade, but of-
ten kills numerous innocent

‘spectators as well. There is,

perhaps, some valid reasons
why banning of this sport-
should be considered. But
again the answer seems logic-
ally to lie in adopting more
stringent ‘safety rules.
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The little farm girl walked
angrily away from the two
small boys. One of the lads
muttered: “She broke our en-
gagement, she ‘just returned
my frog.” Lig -

Sept. 11, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7