* Swimming sisters,are Virginia “Ginny” Grant (right)

and 16-year-old Susan.

The crack splashers, who will

both represent Canada at Melbourne, recently won medals “in

the English championships at Blackpool.

is Teronto.

Gert Whyte's

Their home town

SPORTLIGHT

AST weekend I had a doozer of a cold and the doc told me to drink orange juice after

“a hot bath but after drinking the hot bath I couldn’t get the orange juice down.

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If you gagged on that joke try this one, stolen from News of the North, a Yellowknife paper I’m sure few of you read:

The football match between the ants and the elephants was in full swing when one of the ants got the ball and made a dash for the goal. Galloping across to stop him, an elephant put his foot on the ant and killed him.

The crowd booed, hissed and threw beer bottles, and the referee came running up and reprimanded the elephant for rough play.

“Why did you want to kill the poor ant?” he demanded.

“Aw, shucks,” said the ele-

phant hanging his head, “I only tried to trip him.” x * *

A donation of $200 has been made to the Canadian Olympic Committee by the United Electrical Workers Union, with the hope that similar donations will make it possible to send additional Canadians to Mel- bourne this fall.

Bouquets to UE, and to all organizations and citizens who have donated to the Olympic fund.

But the plain fact is that

such donations should not be

necessary. The government should finance Canada’s team. The amount needed to send a large contingent of athletes is only a drop in the bucket com- pared to the huge sums spent on armaments, * = ae

After every horse race the winning animal is walked to the barns under police guid- ance for saliva and urine tests. Once in a while it is found that a horse has been doped, and the owner’s purse is held up and punishment meted out (although the two-buck pun- ter doesn’t get his money back).

Now a Florida trainer has discovered a new gimmick that seems foolproof. He’s found that a horse runs faster when pepped up on oxygen for a couple of weeks.

A gadget like a feed bag:is used. In one case a plug which had never won a race in its life breezed to the wire several lengths in front of the second horse.

After the race a shot of oxygen makes the horse feel better and reduces the “hot walk” time to a few minutes. In fact, horses get to expect it, and don’t even need a treat- ment before the race in order to run better — they’re in a hurry to get back to the barn and don an oxygen mask.

Heaven help us poor pun- ters!

~sport fans

Pacific Tribune editor on tour watches soccer classic in Mosco

It was Dynamos versus Spartaks night at the big Lenin Stadium. trains were jampacked and the wide boule vards were one huge mass of auto cars, trucks, all loaded to capacity and all heading for the big game. Tens of < ands of Moscow workers, enthusiastic soc cer fans, skipped going home for OM and went direct from the factory to the

Not being an expert on soc- cer I can’t give a kick-by-kick account of this terrific game between two crack Soviet teams, but the infectious en- thusiasm of a vast stadium seating 105,000 and filled to overflowing left no doubts in my mind or any foreigner present as to just where the game of soccer rates in the Soviet Union. It tops the list in a nation which has come to regard sports as an open road to good health, good fellow- ship, and good relationship be- tween all mankind.

From the thunderous roar of 105,000 soccer fans it soon be- came evident in this game that the Spartaks were the favor- ites to win as both teams marched into the bright red and green playing field, the Dynamos in white sweaters and blue trunks, the Spartaks

in red sweaters and. white trunks. Having seen and enjoyed

the great game in Vancouver between our B.C. All-Stars and the Moscow Lokomotivs, it just seemed in this game with its marvellous teamwork and goalie efficieney, thai it would be impossible for either side to get a ball into the net.

However it is always the impossible that happens on such occasions and the Spartaks drove home a miraculous goal in the first period. Half the vast audience was on its feet, cheering, flinging hats and coats into the air, slapping their immediate neighbors on the back and yelling, “Hurrah Spartaks !”

Often during this tense game the entire audience showed its disapproval of the referee’s whistle with a pro- longed whistling of it’s own. ~(In the Soviet Union whis- tling is the accepted form of expressing disapproval or der- ision, and when 105,000 fans let go with great vigor, the result is startling to say the least.)

During the second half the Dynamos got a chance at a penalty kick right in front of the Spartak goal, and scored, tieing up the game at 1-1. That goal brought forth a terrific uproar, expressing approval and vice versa. If one was not aware that such a demonstration was nothing but Soviet enthusiasm for the sporting qualities of a great game, he might be justified in thinking that a new revolution had broken loose.

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A word or two on this magnificant Lenin Stadium. Tens of thousands of young volunteer Moscow workers and built this huge edifice and its auxiliary build- ings inside the space of one

By TOM McEWEN

stadium.

year. A huge oval,,its arch- itecture is such that its seating capacity of 105,000 can be filled or emptied inside of 15-minutes flat without any “crowding” or discomfort.

Auxiliary buildings to the Lenin Stadium consist of a

volleyball stadium, a 15,000 seating capacity swimming pool building, a big Stadia

Hotel, together with numerous restaurants, cafes, buffets, etc, The Lenin Stadium even has a huge Sports bookstore, where literature of every sort and

The sleek Lions jumped quit) over the lazy Edmonton Esks

Making his first appearance at quarterback, Primo Villa- nueva led B.C. Lions to a 11-1 win over Edmonton Eskimos at Empire Stadium on Monday night this week — the first league victory over

the Esks in three seasons of play. First string quarterback

Jerry Gustafson was sidelin- ed with a sore back, and Tony Teresa was also out with in- juries. That left it up to Primo and he came through like a champion.

A touchdown by Ed Vereb, a field goal by Ron Baker who also converted the TD, and a single on Vic _Chapman’s

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fourth-quarter kick, ace ed for the Lions’ score: on got their sole point:

Jackie ‘Parker punt co? by Glen Christian.

It was a wet night and rs lanueva_ stuck mainly |) ground game, although came via air attack.

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* At a recent international track meet at wor Stadium in London, Czech sprinter Vic Ma 220-yard event from Britain’s compete ‘in the Olympic Games this November-

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