The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 24

24 THE Wednesday, No. 14, 1956 Sou CoDDiuKsk vktmy SDdbDoirlXsd I I rlOO 1 Seven in row for Vancouver Vancouver 4, Winnipeg 1 Edmonton SeatUe 4 Vancouver Canucks had all the answers to their first prairie test in the Western Hockey League but strained a vital cell giving them. Canucks meet Brandon Regals tonight, flush from Tuesday's 4-1 romp over Winnipeg Warriors. Notably v' ALF COTTRELL, Sports Editor I ess IvLWs A missing on this second lap of the four-game tour, though, Is brilliant right winger Jackie McLeod. besft iim westi TORONTO Jackie PaTker, Edmonton's great quarterback, has been named the outstanding player in the Western Conference for 1956.

This vote was taken on the second ballot by the official nominators of the Canadian Schenley Awards who are senior sportswriters and sportscasters in West- is mj AY Smo team, vA'o'AVwn big dreams port. That's Delhi, wheeler Pat Murphy, left, Toronto's Fred Marcus, team manager Doug Peron, of Montreal, and Vancouver's own Jim Davies, FULL complement of Canadian cycling team to Melbourne Olympic Games 1 shown here checking equipment prior to takeoff Tuesday at International Air i i McLeod stuck around to score the first goal of the game last night, on one of three impeccable Phil Maloney passes. IN THE SAME first period he aggravated a recurring knee injury that suddenly jumped from merely annoying to downright serious. How serious is a moot point. Coach Art Chapman opined later that the scoring dervish may well be lost for the remainder of tbe prairie excursion.

THE COAST Division leaders, Seattle Americans, blew a chance for a one-night sweep at Edmon ton. Keith Allen's Amerks com pletely out-played the advancing Flyers but lost 6-4. Vancouver's their sev enth straight, remained the only one secured by a Coast club this season on prairie premises and moved them into second place ahead of New Westminster Roy als. MALONEY was the vital factor of yore. He scored once and assisted on all three other goals.

Two of them were by berolc Wiggle Wylie. Only Fred Shero beat Vancou ver goalie Ray Mikulan. who put on a fine show for his former hometown fans Seattle earned, respect of 2,737 fans at Edmonton -who openly jeered Flyers in the third period. Americans were missing Fred Creighton and Max Szturm for almost two minutes but easily warded off Edmonton assaults. SEATTLE SNIPERS were Alex Kuxma with two, rookie Brace Lea and Bart Bradley.

Edmonton rookie Art Hart, vital cog In Vernon Canadians' Allan Cup senior hockey march last year, scored twice. Bill McFsr-land. Murray Costetlo, Bill Mc-Creary and Don Beaver) Poile got the others. (See summaries. Page 21).

em Canada. Other outstanding players for the Western League named were Normie Kwong, who last year won the national award as the Canadian player of the year and Bud ASlston of the Winnipeg Bluebombers as lineman of the year. WINNERS WERE also announced for the Big Four: Hal Patterson of the Alouettes as the outstanding football player, Bob Simpson of the Ottawa Rough-riders as the Canadian player of the year, and Kaye Vaughn of the Ottawa Roughriders as the lineman of the year. It is from these six players that the final choice will be made to determine the outstanding football player in Canada, the Canadian player of the year and the lineman of the year. JACKIE PARKER, and Hal Patterson will compete for the top honors, Normie Kwong and Bob Simpson will compete for the honor of being Canadian player of the year, and Kaye Vaughn end Bud Alliston will be running for the national award as lineman of the year.

National winners will be announced early in Grey Cup week. The players will be presented to the official nominators and to football executives at a dinner to be held In Toronto on Wednesday of Grey Cup week and will be formally presented on the Friday preceding the Grey Cup game at a reception in the Toronto Granite Club. with the JACKIE PARKER Canada boycotts world hockey show in Moscow MIDLAND, CP) -Canada will not send an entry to tbe World Hockey Championships in Moscow next year, the executive committee of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association announced today. "Many of the executive members Indicated they felt the great change which has taken place In world affairs during recent days had made the situation such that Canada should not consider competing In Rus- I si," said George Dudley, CAHA secretary-manager. AW him LAST-MINUTE bon voyage measairea are received at airport by Montreal pad-dlcr Lcs Melia, left, and Montreal sport swriter-yachtman Bruce Kirby.

Final jrroup ef 66 athletes left Tuesday for Australia's Olympic Games spectacle which starts Nqy. 22. Six-man German gymnastic team also embarked with Canadians. Iostiolliitiy oi among the QMetez NOW better tailored a finer cigarette I'jy jinn Eslis' Ivy unnorricd EDMONTON Coach Pop Ivy of Edmonton Eskimos admits its a jinx. He likes it.

The Jinx is one that has held through four of the Western In tel-provincial Football Union finals since 1950. TO WIT: No team winning the first game of the final has won the series. Eskimos host Saskatchewan Roughriders Saturday In the third and. final game of the best-of-three final. Edmonton won Monday's aecond game 20-11 after Saskatchewan took the home-opener Saturday 13-22.

NOT UNTIL 1954. when Eskimos broke the jinx by winning the first and third games over Winnipeg, were the first-game blues ban ished. Ivy predicts nothing for Satur dayexcept that neither he nor his Eskimos are depending on the jinx. Thry worked out yesterday. Among the missing were back-fielders Con Kelly and Don Simon and all-star halfback Earl Undley.

LIND LET'S shoulder separation la tbe first game may prove mortal to Edmonton's chances. Others absent were halfback Ossie Kruger. tackle Roger Nel son and end Joe Mobra. All have Charley horses. Guard Frank Anderson was still bothered by his sore back.

REGINA Coach Frank Filchock surveyed his Roughriders here Tuesday and decided they were healthy. Halfback Bobby Marlow was se verely shaken at Edmonton Monday. X-rays are to be made today. MARLOW aaid he merely felt bounced around." HAMILTON-Coach Jim Trimble of Hamilton Tlger-CaU returned Tuesday from viewing Monday's wiru game in Edmonton. He made no comment on the western situation.

Trimble's Tl-Cata are presently embroiled in the eastern Big Four (inaL MONTREAL Aloueltes bold a nine point lead (90-21 entering Saturdays final game of the total-point final at Montreal. says no, Birds wca'l chisss WINNIPEG Students at the University of Manitoba Tuesdav voted against a referendum which called for an increase In fees ef $3 a student to cover the cost of fielding a club In a proposed western intercollegiate football league. Their derUlon mus lhr fitlle chance now that a western Intercfilleglata setup win operate. It means also that UBC Thunder-birds will continue to tilav Ameri. can football In the Evergreen conference.

Diyj Trcflisr tzzi IIAUFAX-(CP) Dave Trot- tier, aa outstanding left winger who played on Stanley Cup, Allan Cup. world and Olympic chant-p Ion ship hockey teams, died Tuesday night after a short illness. He was M. S3 ft) (t to a S3 a 300" i (ft DIRKS DIAMOND RINGS ere last valva I Centtte BIRKS TERMS 1Q DOWN felnftre 13 Mnnthlf Psrnwftt. pint small tsrryieg ensre.

CO eft CD CJ ta eft tft ta tft ta eft ft td tft ra 3) Of eft I cianviuj eneau MA Of It tft 1 DISTINCTIVE Final batch of.alhbtcs to air fist fighters (unidenll- 1 la the confusion of It all) Viged to delay proceedings newhat. but even to Canada nal consignment of Olympic (lame athletei were finally air-hprna Australia Tuesday Iternoon. The 56 member party, due to ke off at p.m., was held up lk minutes when it was discovered that they were three short on tbe boxing team. The missing pugilists finally made with some fine, but unrehearsed, foot wort and order was restored. BOXING MANAGES Ken Coff.

of Regina, could ill-afford to be short-handed when the leather starts to fly In Melbourne later this month. His team Is a mere six-strong now. -Which points up the fact that Canada'a team of competitors (the first contingent, mainly track and field types and basket-bailers, look oil Saturday! Is smaller hy 96 than the team that placed Hth at Helsinki In 1952. Officials, nevertheless, are confident Canada will Improve on Its Finland showing. ACCOMPANYING the Canadians yesterday were Dr.

Frits Dommell of Munich and six members of Germany's gymnas tie team. They arrived here earlier In the day from Amsterdam. Included en the team were Adrllwrt Swkut and Helmut fuinU of Cologne, respective European champions In the horse vault and parallel bars. Dr. Uommcll.

commenting on the withdrawal of some European countries from the Games In protest ever Russian suppression of rials In Hungary, said that the Germane art "shocked" by the Red action. -VT, RK Insisted. "Germany Is participating In the Games because we do not mis sports and pnlilka." His sis man squad Is part of a 17ernember combined team from Fast and West Germany. Tueday's Canadian paly included swimmers, boxers. cyclists, some members of the track and field team, and two yachtsmen.

T1IK TACtTTMir.N were F.u-grne PennetL who has been sail-in- this past week tt of San Dwgo where he operates an auto court, and George rarsons. Bou are Vancouver mm. LOST ANCCI.CS 'AP BoW ptwrrllng Kid CaviSn. l9. Cuba, bowsed and jnlted his way la vnanlmmia oV Ulofl Tuesday night mrr Chtcw Vejar.

1ST. Wamford. Conn in a torrid is rounder at the Olympic Auditorium. fWh boys set a fast pace but was GavtUa's smpreMively trwig fin that spelled the dil-frf-jve. He frertfriitly threw bli renowned bnto and the kfl bonk that brmishf him to within an eye-ah of 114 rniddleweKM title.

Sbs cl feRtC1U Reuters ftwitwf-bM will be unahle to send a learn la 3e Olympic Games because fa lo rhatier a suitable plane tfm, Jean Wetmann, chief of IV Sl Olympic dVHtalwA, 8ft-sjrw-d My JUIm OfympW cwnmitle fancrlUrl ris arrargetovnt thct a SwiMtr r-Une after de-rvw en Net. 1 1 withdtaw from 'jht rmes. cnmuMtee meted Ihe tt withdraw Noe, IS. but the lane a was available. 't1 You see what I'm up i gainst." Alice Whltty wasn't as pessimistic, but she rsn through names of rivals Mildred Mc-Danicls of the U.S.

who set a Dcwj. though as yet unaccepted mark of five feet, nine and one-half inches recently, Britain's Thelms Hopkins and Dorothy Tyler, the tatter now 36 years old, Yolande Balas of Romania, and a Russian gal whose name she didn't know. "I RAVE ONLY Jumped five four as said Alice. "There must be eight here who have Jumped five Still you never know." a Alex Oakley. Ihe Oshawa walker, chimed In lo note that he had worked out with a Russian.

Alex said he didn't seem too good. In fact his style wss awful. Wonder If he wss Just walking like that to cheer me tip. Now wouldn't that be a dirty trick." Cumberland's Terry Tobacco averred that the Canadian I.S00-metre relay team should at least make the final. Who did they have to beat? Well, mostly the VS.

team, of course." Three of their four are fliers." be said. or COl'RSC, you never can trfl la a relay. One of them might get the baton passed lo him on a bad bop, but when Um U.S. runners decided to make you look silly they don't fool around. His teammates en the Canuck relay squad, Dmtg Clement, Laird Sloan and Murray Cock-burn, grlnnlngly nodded agreement.

At a huge and handsome' downtown Melbourne church, there's, a sign advertising that ihe sermon w(0 be given by the Rev. tobert Richards, tSA. World's greatest pole vaulter, It adds, Alan downtown yon finally quit bumping art people when ytw tears that est sidewatka as wvfl as on the roadway the rule la keep to the. lift. Tr.LtVtMON is only just starting here and from the debates yon bear in Ihe tea shops you realise that they're at that staee wbeit they aren't at all certain that It's here to say.

And tbea there's Ihe tale told en Slsa Levensnn, Toronto sprinter, wne went Ma a chemist's shop here and earnestly es onired regarding the whereabouts at the aeareet tint store. Swedes, turbaned Indians. Britishers, red-jersey ed Canadians and Fijians mingling In a merry melange with Ro-maniuns. French Aussies and the like. TltC CANADIANS were ordered to loaf all day Wednesday but when they started getting fidgety coach Fred Foote said: guess I forgot you aren't as old as I am.

Run. do what you like, but take it easy between exercises." Toronto shot puller Jackie MacDonald surveyed her opposition. "Winning here would be harder than try! I a hot stove." said Ihe photogenic Jackie. "Three of the Russian girls can practically throw the thing out of sight. One of the Ctech girls Is a real good losser.

By ALT COTTRF.LL Province Snorts Editor MELBOURNE You read of hackle raising hostility and then you go out to the Olympic ilia ge arid what you see is something very different. You see group of Russians posing for pictures being taken by teammates. Several American athletes join the group being photngrsphed and then, as fast as the amateur Russ photographer lakes a shot he' changes places with someone who has already been pictured. HARD BY a Russian roach and an American coach share the flare from a clgaret lighter on IN downtown bus. Hungarians chat merrily.

Ihe edges of their hair still wet from recent Immersion In Ihe Olympic swimming pool. At the training track there art TIGHT a Winchester and you'll know immediately that you've got something quite distinctive In a cigarette. You've got mJUr ami j-es'fl" aie HI It's mild and completely satisfying. wtNdtESTtR looks snd what's most Import! TASTES RIGHT! sit? Kyle receives tips from Czech ace IIv ALF rOTTRELL MF.LROURNE Galloping; around the training; track at the Olympic village here today, Vancouver's Doiif Kyle strorle In famous company. Who should pull alongside but Kmil Zatopek.

the decadent Ctech. puffing strenuously. Zatoprl started the Introduction when Ihe Ctech revealed that be bad heard about Kyle setting a new Canadian l(w metre record recently. "UK SPORE fl' English and quite good." Kyle said after wards. "He gave me some real tips.

I had read It all In his book but ra better someHow when yon get it first hand." Zatnprk. who usually walkie talkies himself to victory In the big ones, stressed sg iln his theory that a runner should alternate between sprinting and slow stuff during training. "They laughed at him when be first preached In I9U," said Kyle, "but now almost every great distance runner In the world dees It sure appreciated htm running with me and telling me aheut today." AT NOT SO nearby Batlarat. site of the Olympic rowing, the I'BC-VRC crews got their shell Into the water for the first lime today. They found pretty Lake Wendouret tricky but Interesting.

They practiced on the Olympic ccorso snd on the training emirse thnt follows the lakeshore. Drew for thv rowing elaehet win be made Monday night with Vancouver's Netles faery snd Toronto's Fred Carter representing Canada. The draw is made by the International Rowing Federation. TftK CANADIAN oettmea were, far from lonely oa the lake. Intermittently Japanese.

German. British, Russian. Swedish, t'nild Stales, French, German and fetish crews Came out for precifc spins. The Inns of Batlsrat Is a miniature of Melbourne In that K. InO, gaily decorated and wears a eernrva! atmosphere.

As for the lake, Ha background la flat but ana side there's a park that's a pretty as any tea ra cewwry which. If Mel-hunrne is any criterion, atreiuea lett eulrty and fuantlty Such things. THY A FEW PACKl eV.D tzi rca tourzuf.