The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 14

By Jack Richards THE NEXT VERSE YOU HEAR justice fro ere 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the town, people looked for the sports scene to quieten down. And the only athletics wc wanted to hear was the desperate dash of old Santa's reindeer. I But this year is different, they've tried a new trick. It seems like the boys are just full of old Nick. Now you take the Lions and quite well you might half the town's population is into the fight.

I Nat Bailey is bidding, the sky is the, roof, 1 football stars will be sold by the pound on the hoof. He'll sell you the Mounties, if you're so in Now he's out of a job and his team's on the rocks but we doubt if he's down to his last pair of socks. So we'll wish just the best pf the season to Fred and suggest that he bid on the Lions instead. Ced Tallis has worried for many a day that the majors would lure Charlie Metro away. Metro has managed the Mounties so in a manner that puts him away above par.

But Charlie is staying and everything's great and we'll finish much higher than in '58. The basketball people are deep in a row, over who will play when and who, why or how. It seems that Pete Mullins would both coach and play but then the commission won't have it that way. So appeals and denials are flying about, and Peter is in no, by golly, he's out. The officials so busy, it does seem a shame, they cannot draw more than a handful a game.

So now it is Christmas, good heavens above! This is the season of brotherly love. There's holly and carols and presents and cheer but the sports world is seething with troubles we fear. But let us forget' it for one single day and trot out the turkey and everything gay. And wrap up the year in a manner that's right Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a good night. Wayne, whq's promised the struggle will not be in vain.

So now all the guys with the money want in if they manage to get it, it will be a sin. But. we have a hunch that the twenty-buck Joe will laugh at the offers and tell them to blow. They can take all their money and travel in pairs and perhaps they, can purchase the Bur-naby Ecars. At this time of year we are moved to exhume the terrible case of an old friend, Fred Hume.

1 While his puck-chasing i Royals plunged deep in red ink, they removed him as mayor, as quick as a wink. clined, or he may go for football and baseball combined. But Bailey, may not get the Lions at all, with another bid in from Coleman E. Hall, His Intention is clear if he should be lucky, he'll hook up a combine of football and hockey. Or maybe since Philip Maloncy has flown, Colcy would manage on football alone.

But what of the poor little innocent men who put up their dough to give Lions a dn? They've struggled along with a rag-taggle team and managed to cheer more often than scream. 1 They've bought season, tickets and 'turned out in scads, jtist doing their best to encourage the lads. They've got a new coach, a good one in RED Trade Winds Hover Leafs ver Listless SMITH This has been the saddest of all years in our mob. In the spring Mike Gaven died, and Whitey Lewis, of Cleveland. There 'were Ben Four Players Benched In Shakeup at Toronto TORONTO Toronto Maple Leafs, floundering at Sports MERV PETERS Sports Editor I Epstein and i Herman Hick- man, Walter the bottom of the National Hockey League standings, 'Stewart, of THE VANCOUVER SUN 14 Dec.

24 have pushed the panic button. I Leafs, suffering one of their SPORT EVENTS BOBBY SHARES CHESS LEAD Memphis, and Henry Sal-singer, Detroit, then-1 Jack Lavelle and, now Bill Corum. most mediocre seasons in recent years, Tuesday began a wholesale shakeup aimed at gaining a playoff berth for the first time since 1956. Probably it must always Bed Smith TONIGHT No sport st'heduled. THURSDAY HOCKEY WHI.

Spokane at Winnipeg. NHI. New York nt Montreal. Toronto at Detroit. Chicago at Boston.

FRIDAY HOCKEY WHL Seattle vs. Vancouver, Exhibition Forum. Now Westminster at Victoria Winnipeg at Calenry. Spokane at Saskatoon, Goaltender Johnny Bowers, bought from Cleveland Barons of the AHL last summer; centres Dave Creighton and Brian Cullen, and defenceman Marc Reaume have been benched. EH MAN CALLED Brought in from Hershey of the AHL to provide needed NEW YORK (AP) Defending champion Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn and form' titleholder Samuel Reshev-sky of Spring Valley, N.Y.

pulled into a deadlock with Larry Evans of New York Tuesday night in the U.S. Chess Championships. With five rounds completed and six more to go, Fischer, the teen-ager; Reshev-sky a world Grand Master, and Evans all have 3-1 records. Fischer fought to a draw with Paul Benko, a Hungarian refugee, in 29 moves white Reshevsky turned back Ray Weinstein, a Brooklyn College student, in 28 moves. spark up front was Gerry Ehman, who previously had a brief NHL fling with Detroit.

General manager Punch Imlach said he had sought Ehman since the fall training program because "I know he SOCCER Imperial Cup (fifth Round 2:00 Army and Navy 20 vs. Wallaces. Ambleside Park. Mainland Leuirue First Division I Royal Oaks vs. North Van.

be this way, each year sadder than the last as the yesterdays stretch cut behind and the tomorrows grow fewer. "There are too many gaps in the ranks I knew," Rice wrote, "when the ranks I knew were young." And, addressing Charon, the Ancient Boatman: "One by one, on a mist-- blown eve "Wearing your ghostly hood, "I've seen you plucking them by the sleeve, "Telling them each it was time to leave, "Just when the show got good." Happily, the show has been good for a long time for Grid Odds Too Low, Celtics, central rai'K. B.C. Rep, Trial Came) 2:00 Vancouver vs. North Shore, Brockton Oval.

Akins Gets Return Bout ST. LOUIS (AP) Virgil Akins, who lost the welterweight boxing crown to Don Jordan in his first title defense, will get a chance to regain the title in a rematch with Jordan, March 6 in the St Louis arena, Akins' co-manager announced Tuesday night. Eddie Yawitz, co-manager of Akins, said the contract for the Dec. 5 Akins-Jordan fight which had a rematch clause, also ruled there should be no intervening fights. Yawitz said this clause has been lifted to allow each fighter one bout before the rematch.

Windsor Martin Corum. "I Says Jim can scored Leafs sent Willie Marshall to Hershey in the transaction and two other players will switch uniforms at the end of the season. AFTER HALL According to reports, no job on the Leaf roster is safe. Besides Bower, who is almost certain to be farmed out, spare goalie Ed Chadwlck and forward Dick Duff are being mentioned as possible bait for Chicago's brilliant goaltender Glenn Hall or super-star Eddie Litzenberger, Chadwick will take over temporary goaltending duties from Bower. Leafs have had it rough all season.

Besides being six points behind fifth-place Chicago at the moment, they have operated without a full-time coach since Billy Reay was fired in mid-November. Imlach, who also took over general manager this season in a front office shakeup. has don't want to be a millionaire," he said, "I just want to live like one." He got his wish, and no millionaire could have been richer in friendship, and when his number came up he went with blessed swiftness. NEW YORK (AP) The Baltimore Colts were made a point favorite to defeat New York for the National Football League championship next Sunday and Giant coach Jim Lee Howell thinks the odds should be higher. "The Colts are the best team in the league," Howell said.

"They certainly are better than Cleveland and I expect a Friday 8:30 The fjS Forum jfo been coaching the club along with veteran forward Bert Olmstead. RussTop Lions LONDON (Reuters! A Moscow select team Tuesday defeated Wembley Lions 6-3 in a hockey game in the Russian capital, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported. much tougher battle from the Colts than we got in any of the games with the Browns." BIG WORRY Howell may have been talking for effect. Big Jim's biggest worry is the fear of a letdown on the part of his squad which battled through five "must" games in succession en route to the Eastern Conference title. "The Colts have a lot of power," Howell said, "and they are backed by a tremendous line.

You can't do the things against them that you Bill Corum was distinguished for many reasons, most of all for friendship. It seemed that he knew, and liked, and was liked by, everybody everywhere in every circle and on every level frorn cotton-plantin' tycoons with plush racing stables to preliminary pugs in the fight clubs, ball players and their employers, educators and industrialists, bell hops and saloon keepers, bus boys and hack drivers. In New York he was a part of the life of the city, especially on the night side and bon ylvant, a tirelessly ebullient and sometimes ebulliently sleepless man-about-town. In Kentucky he was Colonel Bill, President of Churchill Downs, top banana at the Derby. Up in New England he was almost.

a legend among the Irish of the Yankee Division's 101st Infantry which he served as America's youngest major in World War I. MS SEATTLE 2 TOTEMS SATURDAY NIGHT 8:30 QUEEN'S PARK ARENA VICTORIA COUGARS VS. VANCOUVER CANUCKS at can do against the Browns. You can't concentrate on any one player like you can against Cleveland. COLT POWER "We learned that if you can stop Jimmy Brown and Ray Renfro, you can pretty well Tlfkrti 11.50.

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But the Colts have a bunch of great: backs like Lenny Moore, Johnny Unit'as, Alan Ameche and L. G. Dupre. Ameche may not be a Brown but he can get you that first down and he is a good blocker and pass receiver. And how that Moore and Dupre can run.

Unitas, besides being a great passer, Is a good runner." ONE OF EACH, PLEASE, SANTA v. knows To those in his own dodge, he was one of the mob. No matter what else he was doing, running the Derby or talking up Greentree Park, the dream track on Flushing Meadows that he never quite got built, he was a newspaper care to choose. He's set for 'em all with outfit every youngster dreams about this time of year. Bill Dennett, photo.

STARS IN HIS EYES from Christmas tree and sports world make little five-year-old Danny Jukich, 2594 East Third, top prospect in any line of sport you whaf he wante SPORTS IN SHORT: I 9 1 1 FES ad Lou cod Game, Too i a iks I jtirii. 1 A uj guy. When the last World Series opened in Milwaukee, Bill was there, a sick man. He didn't finish that scries, in person. After the Braves and Yankees moved East, he didn't go back to Milwaukee with them; he went to the hospital instead.

Bill lived 63 good years and they were changing years, depression and inflation, excitement and the memory of excitement. About some of he wrote: "There was, of course, no reul golden ago of sports. The memories of our own happiest and most vivid age are what tiaktt golden ages In anything." He was part of the time In which he lived. For him and his friends, that made them golden. coaching job at Nore Dame, said he has had a half-dozen offers" part In business, part In law, but none In coaching," since he was dismissed Irish coach.

IN BASEBALL Chuck Comiskcy, Chicago White Sox vice-president, declared his intention of holding his share of the club despite reports BUI Vceck soon will buy a majority holding Chuck's sister, Dorothy Com-Iskey Rlgney, and Veeck Monday conceded they were negotiating on sale of Dorothy's 3,235 shares of Sox stock, who broke the National Football League's rushing record, was named winner of the November award in the S. Kae Hlckok pro athlete of the year poll Brown received 220 points in voting, well ahead of Baltimore Colls' Johnny Unitas In second place with 101. In the Big Four, Ottawa Rough Riders announced the club is to be incorporated and a full-time general manager hired And In U.S. college ball Terry Brennan continued to make news Brennan, fired from his head a puck during a practice and will bo lost Indefinitely to the league-leading Cana-diens Rookie Gerry Wilson, recently aslgned to Winnipeg Warriors by Toronto, has been sidelined by a re- currlng knee injury and may not play again for the Western League club this season. Billy Hrycluk and Gerry Prince of Kamloops are running one-two In the Okan-agan Senior scoring race with 57 and 50 points respectively.

IN FOOTBALL Cleveland Browns' Jimmy Brown, This also happened Tuesday in the wonderful world of sport: IN HOCKEY: Here's one penalty New York's lcapln' Lou J'ontlnato, the NIIL's badman, talked his way out of the former Vancouver Canuck defenceman had been convicted of assaulting a Boston fan last March 13, but the case was dropped In a Boston court after he appealed an $83 fine. Montreal's all-star do- frnceman Doug Harvey suffered a hemorrhage of the vocal cords when struck by CABIMT CIGARS StiflOi ueeiiiii MICI roa CMHISTMA vffSk OIVI HIM WHAT HI WANT LOU I ONTINATO i case dropped.