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Helen Stewart (above) is one of the 1} young B.C. swimmers who will take, part in the , Pan-American Games in Mexico City March 12-26. Others are Allan Brew, Crescent Beach; Lenore Fisher, Ocean Falls and Gerry: McNamee, Bob Gair, Ted Simpson, Linda Shier, Susan Sangster,

Marg Peebles, Karna Kemp and Dick Jack, all of Vancouver.

Last Saturday at Crystal Pool the

B.C. swim team broke three Canadian records, with Helen Stewart setting a new 220-yard junior women’s breast stroke record and also breaking the senior record.

Pan-Am Games preview of next year’s Olympics

The second Pan-American Games, opning this Saturday in Mexico City, are actu- ally a preview of the 16th Olympiad which will be held in Melbourne, Australia next year. The European equivalent of the Pan-Am, Games, the Second International Youth Games,

take place in Warsaw August 1-13.

Top athletes from North and South America will compete in Mexico City, and

stars from almost every country in the world will be in action at War- saw. A study of the form display- ed at these twd great meets will give everyone a clue to future Olympic winners. |

Realizing the importance of the hemisphere games, the United States is sending a powerful team to Mexico City, and hopes to wipe out the memory of the first Pan- Am meet in Buenos Aires, where the U.S. team was soundly trounc- | ed by their Argentine host. |

A strong 33-man track and field | team headed by Olympic - gold’ medal winner Mal Whitfield and! Bob Richards expects to capture. a good share of the medals at. Mexico City. Included in the U.S. | Squad are runners like Wes San-! tee, Fred Dwyer, Gordon McKen-'! zie, Horace and Bill Ashenfelter, | and ace field men such as shot-put | recordholder Parry O’Brien, discus | titleholder Fortune Gordien, and ‘hammer throw titlist- Bob Backus. |

Canada’s team is smail — far too small — but our athletes will benefit from the interna- tional competition. Unlike the U.S. State Department, our gov- ernment has shown little inter- est in the Pan-American Games, and Canadian athletes have had to beg cap-in-hand to raise fin- ances for the trip.

it would be a wonderful thing if Ottawa would wake up to the fact that such athletic meets have a bearing on our relations with other nations, and decide to send a strong Canadian team to Warsaw.

The International Youth Games are being held simultaneously with the holding of the Fifth World Youth Festival in the Polish o eapital. Approximately 100,000" Hyents are planned . for’ both young men and women will come|™en and women in the following to Warsaw for the Festival, some|sports divisions: track and field, 30,000 from abroad. swimming, diving, rowing, canoe-

More than 3,000 foreign ath-|- : letes will compete in Warsaw, |. )® PER EIDES tapeesennelits, vorley-

and Poland, now beginning to | Pall, handball, tennis, table-tennis, make good its war losses in the} fencing and archery.

field of sports, will enter 700 men| - Events for men only will include and women in the 23 branches of| boxing, soccer, dirt-track motor- sport for which competitions are | cycle races, speedboat races, planned. Most of the contests are | weightlifting, wrestling in both to take place in a new 70,000-seat| classical and free ‘style, cycling, stadium now being completed. {water polo and field hockey.

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MIKE AGOSTINI —

Mike Agostini of Trinidad, winner of the 100 yards dash at the British Empire Games here last August, will face strong com- petition at Mexico City, includ- ing an improved Harry Nelson, who hopes to score a win for Canada.

Return bout for London ?

LONDON

London may yet see Don Cockell fight Rocky Marciano for the world heavyweight title.

John Simpson, manager of the British heavyweight champion, re- turned from New York last week and stated that if. Cockell beats Rocky, he has an option of where the return fight will be.

“Naturally,” said ‘Simpson, “I would demand that the second bout be held in London.”

When Simpson and the London promoter, Jack Solomons, went to New York to negotiate the title bout, there was still a good chance of the first fight coming to London. Solomons had a bright idga of col- lecting a shilling a head from Brit- ish television viewers, the BBC to do the collecting. The Ameri- cans were intrigued, but BBC of- ficials weren’t interested.

“T fancy Don to beat this fellow Marciano,’ Simpson told report- ers. “I have a very strong feeling about it.” :

The fight is scheduled to take place in San Francisco in May. Cockell will go to California early in April and will train there for about four weeks.

U.S. ring experts who saw Cock- ell perform against Kid Matthews don’t rate the bulky Briton very highly, and think that Marciano will flatten him in six or eight rounds.

Chataway hopes to

crack four-minute mile

Chris Chataway, England’s great two-miler, is planning to run one mile in four minutes sometime this summer. He thus hopes to fill the spot vacated by Bannister, who retired recently.

When Chataway conquered the Russian sailor Vladimir Kuts in London the Soviet Union made the lion-hearted Englishman a Master of Sports, First Class in honor of his achievements. ~

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— SPORTLIGHT

OCKEY-HAPPY PENTICTON will stage a mammoth homecoming celebration for the fabulous V’s next week, when Canada’s ice heroes return with the world cup they won last Sunday by treuncing Moscow Dynamos 5-0. The spontaneous 11-mile car cavalcade staged in the little Okana- gan city when the final score came over the wire will be dwarfed by the huge party planned for March 15 er 17, when the victorious V’s arrive home. It will surpass the shindig which followed winning of the Allen Cup last year. A civic holiday has been declared and there will be parades, band concerts, parties, dances and a monster barbecue.

Well the V’s deserve it. At Krefeld the V’s not only out- played, outskated and outshot the Russian team to win the world hockey cup; they also de- monstrated to the world that this country, the cradle, of hockey, has no intention of giving up its leading position in this sport.

Next year at the world tourna- ment in Italy, and in 1957 when the tourney will be held in Mos- cow, the Russians and the Czechs will probably come up with im- proved teams. But Sunday’s final: showed that the Russians (who won seven straight games before tangling with the V’s) and the Czechs (who finished third in the tourney) still have a lot to learn about Canada’s national game.

Why shouldn’t Canada _ invite the Soviet Union and Czechoslov- akia to send teams to this coun- try next season? They could meet our top amateur teams from coast to coast — and you can bet your boots every rink would be jammed for every game. I can’t think of* anything that would give amateur hockey a bet- ter shot in the arm.

KEVIN CONWAY

Everything that can be written ‘about the V’s game with Dyna- mos has already been written. But there’s nothing like seeing a game. That’s why hundreds of thousands of Canadians will be huddled around TV sets at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, when the Canada- vs. Russia tilt will be carried by _CBUT, Channel 2. ' Other. telecasts include Can- ada vs. Finland, March 12 at 11 p.m.; Canada vs. Switzerland (condensed version) .March 13 at 12:30 p.m.; Canada vs. Sweden, March 14 at 11 p.m. and Canada © slovakia, Bill Warwick of Canada _ Vs. Germany, March 15 at 11 and Vsevolod Bobrov, Russia. p.m. Canadians named to the. alter-

Two Penticton players, Kevin nate team were goalie Ivan Mc Conway and Bill ‘Warwick, were named to the starting line-up of , world| hockey’s all-star team, ,selected by the coaches of ‘the ,clubs that took part in the nine- team tournament.

Here’s the all-star team:

Goal: Rigazio, United States;

defense; Kevin Conway, Canada

BILL WARWICK

and Nikolai Solegubov, Russia; forwards. Zabrodsky, Czecho-

Avoy and forwards Grant Wat wick and Jack McIntyre. : Individual scoring honors 1 the world tournament were won by Vlastimil Bubnik of Czech0- slovakia (14 goals and 8 assists). Bill Warwick of Canada was sec ond (6 goals and 11 assists).

Penticton V’s in action against the Czechs. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 11, 1955 — PAGE 10

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