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UST CANADIAN GOACH LEAVES PRO FOOTBALL W HTAS MKKOVICn Annls Stukus, onc oi Caz;ada's nitost oJorful-"Jooiba 1 penonalitle», fisya fcat hs is tlirougii with footbaU. Thls ame a*t€r he was glven the axe by he Bi^t;shColy.-nbia Lions, Jf he is, nansl , ^ 0 " s^re convinced that the . . ^'ajne and tht cour.try have lost ;oroe^hing, V 0 Stukus was playing football even »eforie he stir-cj K : C2n*,ral Tech in ; Toronto away b.cs. V/hen he wasn't ^ )Iayiiig,(}je v-a? v-itl ;e about it in - he Toronto Strir, Perhaps he gives ; Jis own best pJctura t r his carly life. . VI Jcnew a younö fcilov/ \/ho grew fj}. in a tough jicishbiurnood In the f niddle of the dcpretsloa; He ran ; iround with a. gang thai thought it : va» smart to tfice thJii^s that didn't K^ong to them, unul one day he was alked into tryl;ig football and a few ;ames like that. . ' '/He was kept SO busy practicing and jlaying the.different sports he dldn't lave; tlme to get into trouble.; The •est of the gang — the ones who lidn't tag along — laughed and told iiem- they were suckers to risk their leoks 'for notliing*. i 'fTbla-same fellow — hls name was ^ .—wa8 covering one of iheijolice courts for'the Star several /eaifs ago and saw seven of the scoff-jHg fonner playmates sent down to Sin^ton penitentiary. He could just , JS efislly have been one of them ex- , pept -for the fact he became sports 30Ö9CiOUS." ' Thts-.-nvas Annis Stukus wrlting kbout'tiie lack of adult interest in : mjnoi" sports and the lack of finances and the growth of juvenile dellnquen-py around 1944. : :1[n;the early days Mr. Stukus Sr., recently; arrived from Llthuanla, de-plo^ football, and Annis was forced :Wpractlce in secret. One day, in a :blg game, he glanced into the stands, : an^ who should he sec but his irate : -^pop. I Later, -viralklng tiirougfh. the stree^ and wondering what to do, he caufeht slght of ä newspaper headline, i"siuius Stars For Central". ; ii|e'took that home,showed It to his fath^, and dashed into his bedroom. ; ;Half < an hour later,_ his father vas : atill staring at the paper, a look of ^pridö shlnlng through his eyes. iPor :the next 12 years', Mama Stukus was , r fe^^lpg hordes of hungry young foot-fball players. > iW]tjen Stukus tried out for the Ar- •|go8^ icoach Lew Hayman asked hlm wha5 position he played. The irre-f^ presable Stukus answered, "Any posi-w; tipn,!' and he dld too. He excelled w?-as a^uarterback, specflallzed in place- : xnei^ kicklne and he was the higftest scoring player in hi» Jeague, Witb extreme reJuctance, fitukus retired/rom football in I84«. In 1949, he was offexed the job of bringlng football back to Edmonton after an absence of ten years. In the first year, hi» team finished third; the next two years, the team, waÄ in the final. Then, virtually the same team, with Frank Filchok now coaching, represented the Westem Interprovlnv clal Football Union in the Grey Cup game, "VVho Isto say that if Stukus were coaching, the team •would not have won the Cup? As Jim VIi>ond of the Globe wrote in 1951, "Stuke has that intangible ability to get younger and less: experienced players to give that extra something that of ten häs them playing above their heads.' In 1953, after another hJtch as a sports writer, Stukus was offered a three year contract to bulld a team from the ground up in Vancouver, Thafs real recent history. In the first season, playing on a mudrsoaked fleld, the B . C, Lions lost every game. This year, they v o n f ive. From here, it's hard to say vhat the pros and cons are for Stuke being fired. One thing sure, the fans are up in arms over it. /When one mlnor-ity faction in Edmonton trled to get rid of Stukus after iiis first year as a coach there, they accused him of ig-noring American Imports. It's prob-ably true that Stukus wanted to dev-elop sports among Canadian youth, just as he fou^t for more sports interest and financing in 1944. In 1953, wishing him ali the luck in his Jaunt to Vancouver, *rim Vipond wrote: "And don't forget that Canadian football v i l l g a i n in international stature the more Stuke suc-ceeds. He has to succeed and will succeed." Many a fan will agree that those are words to remember after the last Canadian coach in Professional football has beengiven the axe. TAKE YOUR TIME One evening at the bar the village ' strong man"^ got into a hot argument with a friend and wound up by cal-llng him a llar. The other man naturally resented the remark. "Lookhere," he sald, drawlng him- «elf up to his full five feet, "I'll give you just five minutes to take that bitk." "Hoi" sald the big man. *'And suppose I don't." : "Then," sald the other, after a sllght pause, '^'11 extend the time l^nlt." Canadian Afhletes Named to AAU Hall of Fame Accomplishments Old and new in running, chootlng, lifting and Kwim-ming have 'camed six athletes into the Amatsur Athlc-tic Union of Can-ada's Hall of Fame. Swelllng the number of Häll-of- Fame members to 39 are marathon runner.$ Harold Webster of Hamilton and Gerard Cote of St. Hyacinthe;; rjfle shot Gilmour Boa of Toronto, the late Walter H. Ewlng of Montreal,, a trapshooter; weightlifter Gerald Gratton, of Montreal and:swimmer Bev Whittal of Montreal. They were.Tiamed to the Hall at the 62nd annual meeting of the AAU. 'Webster performed from 1924 untll 1Ö43, competmg in the 1934 BntLsh Empire Games and starring at the age 42. He was named to two British Empire Games teams and appeared in the Olympics three times. During international competition pe amassed 52 firsts. Cote is a four-time Winner of the Boston marathon and won the U.S. championship three times; In 1948 he won the Boston, Canadian and western hemisphere marathons. pe won 123 races dunng his career. Boa has been shooting since the age of 14 and has ruled as Canadian small-bore champion five times. He captured the World toumament at Venezuela in 1954. The "late Ewing was Olympic clay-bird champion when the event was held in London in 1908.: He staj-red in many Canadian and international shoots. Gratton twice took part in Olympic. games and won the middleweight crown during British Empire Games at New Zealand in 1950 and then took light-heavyweight honors in the games at Vancouver in 1954. He holds several North American records. •Miss Whittal -»as the outstanding swimmer during the recent rPan- American, games, where she won three Silver medals for relay • competitions plus two other events. She set four Canadian records in 1954 and 1955 and was a Star on the Canadian team during the 1954 British Empire Games. What Are the Reasons for The Rapid Rise in Soviet Sports ? WHAT'S DOING? Xhange the Contents or the Caption! ; By GULLIVER ii Vancouver. Greetings to ali you kidsiback there in the banana-belt ;>; whoi£ald that the only reason Gul- ' llver! took of J was because he couldn't stand the severe winters. Weil, here - I ani in sunny British Columbia, the , playground of Canada. A brief syn- • opsis of the preceding 10 days' wcath-er report would read as follows: tor- /; rential ralns tollowed by gusling < winds up to 71 M.E.H. folIowed by : snow followed by the severe cold spell ;'mw:upon us. Last nighfs low was : ten above and today's high w i l l be twerity above. An incident which took place when I was coming out here last February puzzled me at the time. I met a fellow in the depot at Jasper who extoUed the virtues of B. C. and • at the same time said he was a mem-ber of the Vancouver Chamber of Commerce. However, I noticed the sticker on his sultcase read "Miami — one way only!" This article wlll be what a ballad Singer would call a "lament." If there are any songwriters in the audience • the following paragraphs could be adapted and set to the tune of "Old Black Joe", keeping in mind especial- .ly Uje first line of that tune. The Club News Section whlch appeared in the "November 3rd issue of Vapaus was scanned with the usual keen interest in my household. Not • bad at ali! A full page printed in English SO that ali our Pinnish-Can-adian youth had an equal chance to fuUy understand it. But that head- Ing at the top of the page bothered me. It just didn't seem to fit in the general picture with the contents below. A headline like ''English Language Section" or 'Quotes from Cur-rent. Publicatlons" would look much more appropriate. Wby. you ask? Just suppose that particular issue of the Vapaus had been. accidentally destroyed before reaching the subscribers. Would any >f our various clubs or their indlvldual members have missed an announce-ment of any important coming event concering their activitles? Would thej-have missed a news item rcgarding soma club event wtiich had just oc-curred? WouId they have missed a iiumörous cscapade of some of their cronies in another club? The answer is no. I must admit the ohief reason I subscribe to Vapaus is to follow the various club actlvities in eastern Canada because I am unable to par-tlcipate in them. The thought has entered my mlnd as -to whether I am getting by money's worth. Now nobody has ever told me why or how the Club News Section first came into belng. I can vaguely recall seeing it for the first time about six of -sevcn years ago. Over the years, yours . truly has formed his own theories on the reasons for its ex-istcnce. First, it -Nvas intended to be Just what the caption read: namely a section which containcd news of the activities of the various youth clubs and particularly the athletic clubs of the P.C.A.SJ?. Second. it was meant to be a continuation ground for the kids who had been wrlting to 'Perheen Nuoremmille" or "Lasten osasto: as it is commonly called, and who felt they w'ere no longer children. With-out club news they would have no outlet to bridge the gap b€tween being children and old folks, and thus would go their merry way out of the fold. Last of ali it was meant to contain timely topics and quo-tations from English language pub- Ucations, space permitting. The edltors may wish to clarify or repudiate my views. but you dear readers must remember thafs ali they are; just my views. It would be very heartening to hear other views on this subject. My only purpose in coming out like this is the fear that one day a hotshot editor at Vapaus wlll be looking for additional space to print some of his material. He will feast his eyes upon the Club News Section and say, "just what useful purpose is that page serving? Tve got something here really worthwhile publishing!" So where are ali my acquaintances who used acid for ink and thoUght the pen wa5 mightier than the sword because they could dehver deeper jabs with it. To my way of thinking an article doesn't necessarily have to deal with the results of an athletic meet or announce a forthcoming dance or clambake. It can be news or vicws on any toplc as long as it is written by one of our club members or regular following."' Might not be a bad idea to pass a resolution at tae next meeting. in favour of your club sending m at least one or two articles a month to thLs section; just hkc the "Sisu" P.G.YiC. of Vancouver has resolved. Tlicre are undoubtedly many mem-. bers m every club who nevcr read or even see Club New3. Post each issue on your bu!leti:r board. If you don't have 2 bulletin board, now you have a good reason for getting one. , Make C:'ib Nevvs reac' and make yourselvcr hearci m it! - THE PRICE . The bnde of a. strugglmg youiig v/riter was the big success oi: ihe evening, and .ali the r^en ii-, tlie party elbowed each. ot^ier to ör.v.a with her. "She's cnarming, old boy", ;h3 host caid cnthusiastically to the huäband, "and her dress IS a poem." 'Not one poem", aTswereil the young writer, gloomily, "sVv.tee-.i poems, five short stories, and nme articles." By GABRIEL KOROBKOV Chief Coach of the USSR . How have we Russians attained athletic su.penority in such a short time? Have Ave any special training methods? Are our track and field Stars "full-time" athletes? Many people blame us for wanting to -vvin too much. Weil, what sports-man goes on to the track wanting to lose? I think ali the foreign athletes we met wanted to win. We have no secrets and we are not confirmed sports fanatics, as some folks; seem to believe. Our athletes are ordinary people. They are very keen on sport but have many other interests. They do not in the least resemble the fanatics some people have tried to pamt them. November, 1917, which transformed our whole country, had a decisive i n - Huence on the development of physi-cal culture and sport. •: Those historical days .were the chief foundation of our present pro-gress. . ^ =• From 1918 to 1922, atrtiletics pene-trated the most remote localities, was. brought to Wide sections of the popula tion and was included i n the big-gest sports meets. By 1928, ali pre-revolutionary re-. cords had been broken and seven Russian athletes had been numbered among the 10 best of Europe in their events. • . These were the first Russian athletes of international dass. Each year there were more and more. The standard of living was rising; more and more stadiums and sports grounds were being built; The level of sports achievement in a country is directly related to the standard bf living. Besides, the care of our physical education that the Soviet stale has always-shown has been of invaluable help. The "GTO" set or. tests (practical examinations of a^l-round physical development), the planned building of sports facilities, the network of State committees for physical culture and sport, and the millions of people who take part in the activities are factors that help oiu: sport, and athletes especially. Improvement of the health of the people—that, and nothing else. is the main aim Of Russian physical culture and sport. Our success in sport is merely a natural result of this movement. Only these fundamental facts can explain cur progress. Anyone who does not understand this, or who does not want to understand it, tries to explain our rise by "professionalism," "f anaticism," and other.fantasies. Athletics developed particularly rapidly m the thirties. The rapid rise of our athletics was checked by the war, Immediately after the war, in the summer of 1945, our athletics begah to develop again, and the events of recent years are well known. And, finally, the greatest of our achievements: nearly four million Russian people are taking part in athletics. Such is our progress. , I have already mentioned the main, fundamental source of this progress. Let me now speak about other reasons — those which concern om- System of training and coacHlng. Let me say first, however, that our athletes' general methods of training are much the same as those fol-lowed by the rest of the world's out-standing sportsmen. : • We believe the main aims of training to be physical education of the people and the improvement of their health. We believe it must be carrled out under a coach, Training is not a spontaneous process. but a directed, educational one. We believe sports training should not,. in any circumstarices, interfere with an athlete's work or Studies, We do not believe that, our athletes should become professionals — people with narrow sporting Interests. We helieve athletics training should be carrled out, systematically and without interruption, over a lengthy period of time — often over several years — during which there is con-tinuous development of the physical and moral qualities. Furst-class results are obtained through a person'sall-roimd development, vhich may take many years. Besides, it is impossTble to' acquire hlgh-level technique in a short time. Therefore we believe that- training should be not only of several years' duration, but continuous and all-the-year- round. This training should be planned. This means that an athlete should know how his trahiing • will be made up for several years ahead, and in more detail hQW it wiU be made up In the current year. ^ . He should know exactly what his daily training periods'will be for the next month and what he wiirdo during them. One of the biggest reasons for the improvement of Ilussia'6 athletes is the continuous character of their training. Periods of passlve rest during their tralnhig year haye been gradu-ally ellminated. Our tralnhig has become continuous during the Week as Weil. Athletes must train almost every day* giving themselves only the ne-cessary rest before competition. It is usual to train on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Priday, resthig on Saturday, competing on Sunday and resting on Monday if the competition was strenuous. Bingo and Turkey Shoof at Whitefish We are having a lull now* betroeen summer and wlnters sports. Of course naany of you hunters are out in the bush trying .to b&g that buck to take home and the more fortimate ones have already come home with the ba«on. But here's a chance to really come home with the "bacon" Cor turkey) at the turkey shoot to be held at the S. S. No. 3 School in Louise Township on the Penage Road on Sunday November 20th at 12.30 P J * . And bcys, don't forget :to bring the lady f riend to play bingo while you are target shooting/ There are wonderfui bingo prizes, good refresh-ments and of course, Jots of f un for ali. So make it a date right now. • — VM. Romeo and Ju Jo the Soviet producUon of Bomeo and Juliet. 6ba}ce5peare'8 story of the '£tar«cro5sed Jovers" has been beauti-fuJly told agaln, this time vorcUessly. in ballet form. A few necessaxy ex» planations are given by a narrator but the tragic events of this love stoiy are made crystal-clear 1)7 the poignant acting and dancing of the wonderful Galina manova and ber co-star Yuri Zbdanov helped along by the immense supporting east. Even to one who. like myself, has a limited knovledge of ballet, Ulanova is ali she is said to be. "The great ballerina, a mlddle-aged wo-man, through her dancing' e:q>resses ali the varying emotions of a - yotmg teen^age girl in love. She is alter-nately shy and bold, eager and f ear-ful. And in the latterpart of the stoiy she is like a wounded bird which flutters In despair and then dies. Her movements are absolutely effortless and Avhen her dancing part-ner holds her alof t it seems as though he is holding nothing heavier that a feather, so light and graceful is she. As one Canadian joumaJist, who re-. cently toured the Soviet Union, said Of her, "She is a great actress and transmits real feeling even when at rest but when she moves it is an af f air of miisic and poetry and sun-llght, a thing to see but not to write about." Zhdanov is excellent too,- as the yotmg lover who wants only to live in peace but who, vith Juliet, is caught up i n the old feud between their families, a feud which. drags them both to destruction. The dancing love scenes between Ulanova and Zhdanov are beautiful in then: ten-derness and heartbreaking in theUr ultimate hopelessness. The acthig of these two is as fine as their dancing, with always the right amount of re-stralnt and no overacting. Romeo and Juliet is not lacking in lavish crowd scenes and for my taste there are tqo many of them and they last too long and are a little too fran-tic. There is among some of- the supporting east and in the crowd scenes a tendency to i estaggerated manner, the -stage than to the Bpene, near the beg mvTies. a mass dueilj ^ place wbose parUclpan little ridiculous to me, are eome very enterta including lively carnit iThough Ulanovai dancing and acting is •her face in close-up, when it is in repose, •woman much older Zhdanov too, has a f ac mature looking. To m have the same youth Lawrence Harvey and tali in the recent B Romeo and Juliet. Foi did not feel the impact so much as I did wh{ movie. The photcgraphy ir Juhet is beautiful and dued and never glari with a great story and ing and dancing, it add •which should not be n IT'S THE TR He had hard luck fi his y/ay home he ent market and said to the "Just stand over the me five of the biggest oj *Throw 'em? What the dealer in amazemen "So I can teli my frii em*. I may be a po< but I'm no liar." CLINCHEE The Pudgy Weighing :Miachine Corp., whose s( the date, your weight a for a penny, advertisec txecutive. One applica hlB letter:.' I am cleve aiplomatic, tactful, loyal persevering, resourceful, and ambitious." : He dinched the job 10 Pudgy cards attesti •virtues as his evidence. DEBUNKING SUPBRSTTTIONS Diseases That "Run In the Fami Rcinstoted in Job With $4.296 Back Poy Lodce 776 »V •^^^..ecded in gef ; back auer an absence fo>lo^^ InK h.s ryi' ase oy ^,^,.^0^ out »of senioriiy 1 HEYMOM/THET Ut;^lON GiOT POP REINSTÄTED'J WE HAO TO MAK£ H l MV P R F . C , > O E N T / V V E UNJUSTUY FiRtO 20 V£ARS AG,0/ WHO» COUUO AFFORO TO CÄ\Vfc 2^ •THAT MUCH bACK PÄY? •mAT IREASURY AGENf , \ N O N T L £ T J O t OUTOF ,WAS FlRED UNJOSTLY/ , An astonishing niunber of people seem to go about imder an Imaginaiy shadow — a fear ' that t h ^ vrtll probably develop some serious di-sease becafuse "it runs in the family." Some people believe they .wiil probably end up with cancer,'tuberculosIs mental illness or even vdrink themselves to death" because members of the previous generation in their fa-mily had these misfortunes. Of .course, children inherit .various physical attributes f rom itheir parents, including advantageous and dlsad-vantageous ones, and they may also inherit certain diseases and abnor-maUties, but they are not diseases of this sort. One of the most striking inherited diseases is haemdphilia — the con-dltion öf tre blood vhich prevents it from clottii^ — ^hich decmiated the much-intermarried royal families of Europe i n the last century. There are a few other quite rare diseases of the brain, the muscles and tlu! skin which clearly run in families and can be called hereditary. besides a number of quite minor ailments or abnormalities. lAnd there are one or two diseases which t um up in homogeneous groups such as Mediterranean anaemia, from which quite a number of people in Cyprus, Greece and Italy suffer and nobody else. •We donit know enough about this yet to say whether, when groups from these countries emigrate and settie elsewhere,*this disease will spread or disappear. Then there is a small possibility that two perfectly normal parents may between them produce some abnormality in -their children, such as the rhesus factor in the blood, which .up to , about ten years ago caused the death of some babies. Now that this abilormality is under-stood we can prevent this from happenhig. In addition to these undoubtedly hereditary diseases,. there is another group of ills which recur in families, such as asthma, migraine and epi-lepsy. In these cases what seems to be inherited is .the tendency to react in a certain unusual way to various ex-ternal conditions, but it will not necessarily appear except _under the stress of circumstances. For example, some people react to prolonged ovenvork, anxiety or over-excitement (even pleasant ex-citement) with. a migraine — an acute headache' accompanied by partial blindness,. conf used speech and pins and needles. To these perhaps should be added some rare oongential heart and d i - gestlye diseases, which show up In chlldhood, and whlch are thought to be probably hereditary. • But not one of these truly hereditary diseases or conditions arouses the anxiety that seems to exist about inherlting.>a number of other com-plalnts which: are not hereditary at ali. In particular, there is a widespread belief that mental deficlency is i n herited, though ali the evidence show8 that this is nonsense. . Many mentaUy defective children are suffering either from^brain disease or brain injui<y,<but there Is no more likelihood of a defective child being bom to defective parents than to normal parents. The child of a defective parent may well grow up in much worse enviroimient than a child of normal parents, but in general it has been shown Ihat exceptionally dull .people tend to have children brighter than themselves, while exceptionally. bril^ liant ones tend to have children less bright than themselves. , .The theory that mental defect is inherited is a .tragic one, because It has led so many people who haive produced a backward or mentally der ficient child to feel desperately asha-raed, as if th^r had exposed some famlly skeleton. »The sUence and secrecy of many such parents in the past has serious-ly delayed general recognlUon of how much soclety can do and ought to do for such children, In the same way, there is no evidence whatever that .TB Is inherited. The children of a famlly in which someone has TB are likely to develop it, if certain precautions are not taken, simply becaiise It Is a highly infeotious disease, -thlngs decide vhether one wlll develop TB or not: the conditions in which he Ilves, which either bulld up or undermine his body's resistance to the .tubercle baclllus, and the con-centratlon of germs whlch assall hlm. Again, In the case of cancer there is absolutely. no slgnificant evidence that hereditjy plays a part, beyond the fact that one or two very rare physical conditions, which are hereditary, seem to tend toward its development. It is true that strains of experi-mental anlmals have been developed which are more susceptibleto cancer than other strains, but we can't apply this to human beings because there are no "pm* strains" among humans, who Aviselty mix themselves up again with each generation.'. Squally fantastic, but polsonous In Its effects, like ali reactlonaiy ideas, are ali those theories of the posslble inheritance of "crimlnal tendencles", drunkenness and so forth. The crimlnal is made, not bom; and he may well be taught the trlcks of the trade by his parents. Just as a youth may grow up with the habit of drinklng too much, Simply from copying what he sees in a probably unhappy home. Those who taik about "bad blood" in some; "problem famlly" of their acquanitance are holding up " progress in the solution of s Trery real problems by individual for bad herec of Society for bad condr T I L A T K A A VAPAUS! "Co-Op" Kulttuuriryhmän SMNNÖlLtSH HARJQITUKSI KAHTENA ILTANA VIIKOSSA Tiistai-iltgna klo 7 ja lauantai-aamuUa klo 9.; 316 Bay s t . 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Title | Vapaus, November 17, 1955 |
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Subject | Finnish--Canadians--Newspapers |
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Date | 1955-11-17 |
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UST CANADIAN GOACH
LEAVES PRO FOOTBALL
W HTAS MKKOVICn
Annls Stukus, onc oi Caz;ada's nitost
oJorful-"Jooiba 1 penonalitle», fisya
fcat hs is tlirougii with footbaU. Thls
ame a*t€r he was glven the axe by
he Bi^t;shColy.-nbia Lions, Jf he is,
nansl , ^ 0 " s^re convinced that the
. . ^'ajne and tht cour.try have lost
;oroe^hing,
V 0 Stukus was playing football even
»eforie he stir-cj K : C2n*,ral Tech in
; Toronto away b.cs. V/hen he wasn't
^ )Iayiiig,(}je v-a? v-itl ;e about it in
- he Toronto Strir, Perhaps he gives
; Jis own best pJctura t r his carly life.
. VI Jcnew a younö fcilov/ \/ho grew
fj}. in a tough jicishbiurnood In the
f niddle of the dcpretsloa; He ran
; iround with a. gang thai thought it
: va» smart to tfice thJii^s that didn't
K^ong to them, unul one day he was
alked into tryl;ig football and a few
;ames like that. .
' '/He was kept SO busy practicing and
jlaying the.different sports he dldn't
lave; tlme to get into trouble.; The
•est of the gang — the ones who
lidn't tag along — laughed and told
iiem- they were suckers to risk their
leoks 'for notliing*.
i 'fTbla-same fellow — hls name was
^ .—wa8 covering one of
iheijolice courts for'the Star several
/eaifs ago and saw seven of the scoff-jHg
fonner playmates sent down to
Sin^ton penitentiary. He could just
, JS efislly have been one of them ex-
, pept -for the fact he became sports
30Ö9CiOUS."
' Thts-.-nvas Annis Stukus wrlting
kbout'tiie lack of adult interest in
: mjnoi" sports and the lack of finances
and the growth of juvenile dellnquen-py
around 1944.
: :1[n;the early days Mr. Stukus Sr.,
recently; arrived from Llthuanla, de-plo^
football, and Annis was forced
:Wpractlce in secret. One day, in a
:blg game, he glanced into the stands,
: an^ who should he sec but his irate
: -^pop. I Later, -viralklng tiirougfh. the
stree^ and wondering what to do, he
caufeht slght of ä newspaper headline,
i"siuius Stars For Central".
; ii|e'took that home,showed It to his
fath^, and dashed into his bedroom.
; ;Half < an hour later,_ his father vas
: atill staring at the paper, a look of
^pridö shlnlng through his eyes. iPor
:the next 12 years', Mama Stukus was
, r fe^^lpg hordes of hungry young foot-fball
players.
> iW]tjen Stukus tried out for the Ar-
•|go8^ icoach Lew Hayman asked hlm
wha5 position he played. The irre-f^
presable Stukus answered, "Any posi-w;
tipn,!' and he dld too. He excelled
w?-as a^uarterback, specflallzed in place-
: xnei^ kicklne and he was the higftest
scoring player in hi» Jeague,
Witb extreme reJuctance, fitukus
retired/rom football in I84«. In 1949,
he was offexed the job of bringlng
football back to Edmonton after an
absence of ten years. In the first
year, hi» team finished third; the
next two years, the team, waÄ in the
final. Then, virtually the same team,
with Frank Filchok now coaching,
represented the Westem Interprovlnv
clal Football Union in the Grey Cup
game, "VVho Isto say that if Stukus
were coaching, the team •would not
have won the Cup? As Jim VIi>ond
of the Globe wrote in 1951, "Stuke
has that intangible ability to get
younger and less: experienced players
to give that extra something that
of ten häs them playing above their
heads.'
In 1953, after another hJtch as a
sports writer, Stukus was offered a
three year contract to bulld a team
from the ground up in Vancouver,
Thafs real recent history. In the
first season, playing on a mudrsoaked
fleld, the B . C, Lions lost every game.
This year, they v o n f ive.
From here, it's hard to say vhat
the pros and cons are for Stuke being
fired. One thing sure, the fans are
up in arms over it. /When one mlnor-ity
faction in Edmonton trled to get
rid of Stukus after iiis first year as a
coach there, they accused him of ig-noring
American Imports. It's prob-ably
true that Stukus wanted to dev-elop
sports among Canadian youth,
just as he fou^t for more sports
interest and financing in 1944. In
1953, wishing him ali the luck in his
Jaunt to Vancouver, *rim Vipond
wrote: "And don't forget that Canadian
football v i l l g a i n in international
stature the more Stuke suc-ceeds.
He has to succeed and will
succeed."
Many a fan will agree that those
are words to remember after the last
Canadian coach in Professional football
has beengiven the axe.
TAKE YOUR TIME
One evening at the bar the village
' strong man"^ got into a hot argument
with a friend and wound up by cal-llng
him a llar.
The other man naturally resented
the remark.
"Lookhere," he sald, drawlng him-
«elf up to his full five feet, "I'll give
you just five minutes to take that
bitk."
"Hoi" sald the big man. *'And
suppose I don't." :
"Then," sald the other, after a
sllght pause, '^'11 extend the time
l^nlt."
Canadian Afhletes
Named to AAU
Hall of Fame
Accomplishments Old and new in
running, chootlng, lifting and Kwim-ming
have 'camed six athletes into
the Amatsur Athlc-tic Union of Can-ada's
Hall of Fame.
Swelllng the number of Häll-of-
Fame members to 39 are marathon
runner.$ Harold Webster of Hamilton
and Gerard Cote of St. Hyacinthe;;
rjfle shot Gilmour Boa of Toronto,
the late Walter H. Ewlng of Montreal,,
a trapshooter; weightlifter Gerald
Gratton, of Montreal and:swimmer
Bev Whittal of Montreal.
They were.Tiamed to the Hall at
the 62nd annual meeting of the AAU.
'Webster performed from 1924 untll
1Ö43, competmg in the 1934 BntLsh
Empire Games and starring at the
age 42. He was named to two British
Empire Games teams and appeared in
the Olympics three times. During international
competition pe amassed
52 firsts.
Cote is a four-time Winner of the
Boston marathon and won the U.S.
championship three times; In 1948
he won the Boston, Canadian and
western hemisphere marathons. pe
won 123 races dunng his career.
Boa has been shooting since the
age of 14 and has ruled as Canadian
small-bore champion five times.
He captured the World toumament at
Venezuela in 1954.
The "late Ewing was Olympic clay-bird
champion when the event was
held in London in 1908.: He staj-red
in many Canadian and international
shoots.
Gratton twice took part in Olympic.
games and won the middleweight
crown during British Empire Games
at New Zealand in 1950 and then took
light-heavyweight honors in the
games at Vancouver in 1954. He holds
several North American records.
•Miss Whittal -»as the outstanding
swimmer during the recent rPan-
American, games, where she won three
Silver medals for relay • competitions
plus two other events. She set four
Canadian records in 1954 and 1955
and was a Star on the Canadian team
during the 1954 British Empire
Games.
What Are the Reasons for The
Rapid Rise in Soviet Sports ?
WHAT'S DOING?
Xhange the Contents or the Caption!
; By GULLIVER
ii Vancouver. Greetings to ali you
kidsiback there in the banana-belt
;>; whoi£ald that the only reason Gul-
' llver! took of J was because he couldn't
stand the severe winters. Weil, here
- I ani in sunny British Columbia, the
, playground of Canada. A brief syn-
• opsis of the preceding 10 days' wcath-er
report would read as follows: tor-
/; rential ralns tollowed by gusling
< winds up to 71 M.E.H. folIowed by
: snow followed by the severe cold spell
;'mw:upon us. Last nighfs low was
: ten above and today's high w i l l be
twerity above. An incident which took
place when I was coming out here
last February puzzled me at the time.
I met a fellow in the depot at Jasper
who extoUed the virtues of B. C. and
• at the same time said he was a mem-ber
of the Vancouver Chamber of
Commerce. However, I noticed the
sticker on his sultcase read "Miami
— one way only!"
This article wlll be what a ballad
Singer would call a "lament." If there
are any songwriters in the audience
• the following paragraphs could be
adapted and set to the tune of "Old
Black Joe", keeping in mind especial-
.ly Uje first line of that tune.
The Club News Section whlch appeared
in the "November 3rd issue of
Vapaus was scanned with the usual
keen interest in my household. Not
• bad at ali! A full page printed in
English SO that ali our Pinnish-Can-adian
youth had an equal chance to
fuUy understand it. But that head-
Ing at the top of the page bothered
me. It just didn't seem to fit in the
general picture with the contents
below. A headline like ''English Language
Section" or 'Quotes from Cur-rent.
Publicatlons" would look much
more appropriate.
Wby. you ask? Just suppose that
particular issue of the Vapaus had
been. accidentally destroyed before
reaching the subscribers. Would any
>f our various clubs or their indlvldual
members have missed an announce-ment
of any important coming event
concering their activitles? Would thej-have
missed a news item rcgarding
soma club event wtiich had just oc-curred?
WouId they have missed a
iiumörous cscapade of some of their
cronies in another club? The answer
is no. I must admit the ohief reason
I subscribe to Vapaus is to follow
the various club actlvities in eastern
Canada because I am unable to par-tlcipate
in them. The thought has
entered my mlnd as -to whether I am
getting by money's worth.
Now nobody has ever told me why
or how the Club News Section first
came into belng. I can vaguely recall
seeing it for the first time about six
of -sevcn years ago. Over the years,
yours . truly has formed his own
theories on the reasons for its ex-istcnce.
First, it -Nvas intended to be
Just what the caption read: namely
a section which containcd news of the
activities of the various youth clubs
and particularly the athletic clubs
of the P.C.A.SJ?. Second. it was meant
to be a continuation ground for the
kids who had been wrlting to 'Perheen
Nuoremmille" or "Lasten osasto:
as it is commonly called, and who felt
they w'ere no longer children. With-out
club news they would have no
outlet to bridge the gap b€tween
being children and old folks, and
thus would go their merry way out
of the fold. Last of ali it was meant
to contain timely topics and quo-tations
from English language pub-
Ucations, space permitting.
The edltors may wish to clarify or
repudiate my views. but you dear
readers must remember thafs ali
they are; just my views. It would be
very heartening to hear other views
on this subject. My only purpose in
coming out like this is the fear that
one day a hotshot editor at Vapaus
wlll be looking for additional space to
print some of his material. He will
feast his eyes upon the Club News
Section and say, "just what useful
purpose is that page serving? Tve got
something here really worthwhile
publishing!"
So where are ali my acquaintances
who used acid for ink and thoUght
the pen wa5 mightier than the sword
because they could dehver deeper jabs
with it. To my way of thinking an
article doesn't necessarily have to
deal with the results of an athletic
meet or announce a forthcoming
dance or clambake. It can be news or
vicws on any toplc as long as it is
written by one of our club members
or regular following."'
Might not be a bad idea to pass a
resolution at tae next meeting. in
favour of your club sending m at
least one or two articles a month to
thLs section; just hkc the "Sisu"
P.G.YiC. of Vancouver has resolved.
Tlicre are undoubtedly many mem-.
bers m every club who nevcr read or
even see Club New3. Post each issue
on your bu!leti:r board. If you don't
have 2 bulletin board, now you have
a good reason for getting one. ,
Make C:'ib Nevvs reac' and make
yourselvcr hearci m it! -
THE PRICE
. The bnde of a. strugglmg youiig
v/riter was the big success oi: ihe
evening, and .ali the r^en ii-, tlie
party elbowed each. ot^ier to ör.v.a
with her.
"She's cnarming, old boy", ;h3 host
caid cnthusiastically to the huäband,
"and her dress IS a poem."
'Not one poem", aTswereil the
young writer, gloomily, "sVv.tee-.i
poems, five short stories, and nme
articles."
By GABRIEL KOROBKOV
Chief Coach of the USSR
. How have we Russians attained
athletic su.penority in such a short
time? Have Ave any special training
methods? Are our track and field
Stars "full-time" athletes?
Many people blame us for wanting
to -vvin too much. Weil, what sports-man
goes on to the track wanting
to lose? I think ali the foreign athletes
we met wanted to win.
We have no secrets and we are not
confirmed sports fanatics, as some
folks; seem to believe.
Our athletes are ordinary people.
They are very keen on sport but
have many other interests.
They do not in the least resemble
the fanatics some people have tried
to pamt them.
November, 1917, which transformed
our whole country, had a decisive i n -
Huence on the development of physi-cal
culture and sport. •:
Those historical days .were the
chief foundation of our present pro-gress.
. ^ =•
From 1918 to 1922, atrtiletics pene-trated
the most remote localities, was.
brought to Wide sections of the popula
tion and was included i n the big-gest
sports meets.
By 1928, ali pre-revolutionary re-.
cords had been broken and seven
Russian athletes had been numbered
among the 10 best of Europe in their
events. • .
These were the first Russian athletes
of international dass.
Each year there were more and
more.
The standard of living was rising;
more and more stadiums and sports
grounds were being built;
The level of sports achievement in
a country is directly related to the
standard bf living.
Besides, the care of our physical
education that the Soviet stale has
always-shown has been of invaluable
help.
The "GTO" set or. tests (practical
examinations of a^l-round physical
development), the planned building
of sports facilities, the network of
State committees for physical culture
and sport, and the millions of people
who take part in the activities are
factors that help oiu: sport, and athletes
especially.
Improvement of the health of the
people—that, and nothing else. is
the main aim Of Russian physical
culture and sport.
Our success in sport is merely a
natural result of this movement.
Only these fundamental facts can
explain cur progress.
Anyone who does not understand
this, or who does not want to understand
it, tries to explain our rise
by "professionalism," "f anaticism,"
and other.fantasies.
Athletics developed particularly
rapidly m the thirties.
The rapid rise of our athletics was
checked by the war,
Immediately after the war, in the
summer of 1945, our athletics begah
to develop again, and the events of
recent years are well known.
And, finally, the greatest of our
achievements: nearly four million
Russian people are taking part in
athletics.
Such is our progress. ,
I have already mentioned the main,
fundamental source of this progress.
Let me now speak about other reasons
— those which concern om- System
of training and coacHlng.
Let me say first, however, that our
athletes' general methods of training
are much the same as those fol-lowed
by the rest of the world's out-standing
sportsmen. :
• We believe the main aims of training
to be physical education of the
people and the improvement of their
health.
We believe it must be carrled out
under a coach, Training is not a
spontaneous process. but a directed,
educational one.
We believe sports training should
not,. in any circumstarices, interfere
with an athlete's work or Studies,
We do not believe that, our athletes
should become professionals —
people with narrow sporting Interests.
We helieve athletics training should
be carrled out, systematically and
without interruption, over a lengthy
period of time — often over several
years — during which there is con-tinuous
development of the physical
and moral qualities.
Furst-class results are obtained
through a person'sall-roimd development,
vhich may take many
years.
Besides, it is impossTble to' acquire
hlgh-level technique in a short time.
Therefore we believe that- training
should be not only of several years'
duration, but continuous and all-the-year-
round.
This training should be planned.
This means that an athlete should
know how his trahiing • will be made
up for several years ahead, and in
more detail hQW it wiU be made up
In the current year. ^
. He should know exactly what his
daily training periods'will be for the
next month and what he wiirdo
during them.
One of the biggest reasons for the
improvement of Ilussia'6 athletes is
the continuous character of their
training.
Periods of passlve rest during
their tralnhig year haye been gradu-ally
ellminated.
Our tralnhig has become continuous
during the Week as Weil.
Athletes must train almost every
day* giving themselves only the ne-cessary
rest before competition.
It is usual to train on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Priday,
resthig on Saturday, competing on
Sunday and resting on Monday if the
competition was strenuous.
Bingo and Turkey
Shoof at Whitefish
We are having a lull now* betroeen
summer and wlnters sports. Of
course naany of you hunters are
out in the bush trying .to b&g that
buck to take home and the more
fortimate ones have already come
home with the ba«on. But here's
a chance to really come home with
the "bacon" Cor turkey) at the turkey
shoot to be held at the S. S. No.
3 School in Louise Township on the
Penage Road on Sunday November
20th at 12.30 P J * .
And bcys, don't forget :to bring
the lady f riend to play bingo while
you are target shooting/ There are
wonderfui bingo prizes, good refresh-ments
and of course, Jots of f un for
ali. So make it a date right now.
• — VM.
Romeo and Ju
Jo the Soviet producUon of Bomeo
and Juliet. 6ba}ce5peare'8 story of the
'£tar«cro5sed Jovers" has been beauti-fuJly
told agaln, this time vorcUessly.
in ballet form. A few necessaxy ex»
planations are given by a narrator
but the tragic events of this love
stoiy are made crystal-clear 1)7 the
poignant acting and dancing of the
wonderful Galina manova and ber
co-star Yuri Zbdanov helped along
by the immense supporting east.
Even to one who. like myself, has
a limited knovledge of ballet, Ulanova
is ali she is said to be. "The
great ballerina, a mlddle-aged wo-man,
through her dancing' e:q>resses
ali the varying emotions of a - yotmg
teen^age girl in love. She is alter-nately
shy and bold, eager and f ear-ful.
And in the latterpart of the
stoiy she is like a wounded bird
which flutters In despair and then
dies. Her movements are absolutely
effortless and Avhen her dancing part-ner
holds her alof t it seems as though
he is holding nothing heavier that a
feather, so light and graceful is she.
As one Canadian joumaJist, who re-.
cently toured the Soviet Union, said
Of her, "She is a great actress and
transmits real feeling even when at
rest but when she moves it is an
af f air of miisic and poetry and sun-llght,
a thing to see but not to write
about."
Zhdanov is excellent too,- as the
yotmg lover who wants only to live
in peace but who, vith Juliet, is
caught up i n the old feud between
their families, a feud which. drags
them both to destruction. The dancing
love scenes between Ulanova and
Zhdanov are beautiful in then: ten-derness
and heartbreaking in theUr
ultimate hopelessness. The acthig of
these two is as fine as their dancing,
with always the right amount of re-stralnt
and no overacting.
Romeo and Juliet is not lacking in
lavish crowd scenes and for my taste
there are tqo many of them and they
last too long and are a little too fran-tic.
There is among some of- the
supporting east and in the crowd
scenes a tendency to i
estaggerated manner,
the -stage than to the
Bpene, near the beg
mvTies. a mass dueilj
^ place wbose parUclpan
little ridiculous to me,
are eome very enterta
including lively carnit
iThough Ulanovai
dancing and acting is
•her face in close-up,
when it is in repose,
•woman much older
Zhdanov too, has a f ac
mature looking. To m
have the same youth
Lawrence Harvey and
tali in the recent B
Romeo and Juliet. Foi
did not feel the impact
so much as I did wh{
movie.
The photcgraphy ir
Juhet is beautiful and
dued and never glari
with a great story and
ing and dancing, it add
•which should not be n
IT'S THE TR
He had hard luck fi
his y/ay home he ent
market and said to the
"Just stand over the
me five of the biggest oj
*Throw 'em? What
the dealer in amazemen
"So I can teli my frii
em*. I may be a po<
but I'm no liar."
CLINCHEE
The Pudgy Weighing
:Miachine Corp., whose s(
the date, your weight a
for a penny, advertisec
txecutive. One applica
hlB letter:.' I am cleve
aiplomatic, tactful, loyal
persevering, resourceful,
and ambitious." :
He dinched the job
10 Pudgy cards attesti
•virtues as his evidence.
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,WAS FlRED UNJOSTLY/
, An astonishing niunber of people
seem to go about imder an Imaginaiy
shadow — a fear ' that t h ^ vrtll
probably develop some serious di-sease
becafuse "it runs in the family."
Some people believe they .wiil probably
end up with cancer,'tuberculosIs
mental illness or even vdrink themselves
to death" because members of
the previous generation in their fa-mily
had these misfortunes.
Of .course, children inherit .various
physical attributes f rom itheir parents,
including advantageous and dlsad-vantageous
ones, and they may also
inherit certain diseases and abnor-maUties,
but they are not diseases
of this sort.
One of the most striking inherited
diseases is haemdphilia — the con-dltion
öf tre blood vhich prevents
it from clottii^ — ^hich decmiated
the much-intermarried royal families
of Europe i n the last century.
There are a few other quite rare
diseases of the brain, the muscles
and tlu! skin which clearly run in
families and can be called hereditary.
besides a number of quite minor
ailments or abnormalities.
lAnd there are one or two diseases
which t um up in homogeneous groups
such as Mediterranean anaemia, from
which quite a number of people in
Cyprus, Greece and Italy suffer and
nobody else.
•We donit know enough about this
yet to say whether, when groups from
these countries emigrate and settie
elsewhere,*this disease will spread or
disappear.
Then there is a small possibility
that two perfectly normal parents
may between them produce some
abnormality in -their children, such
as the rhesus factor in the blood,
which .up to , about ten years ago
caused the death of some babies.
Now that this abilormality is under-stood
we can prevent this from
happenhig.
In addition to these undoubtedly
hereditary diseases,. there is another
group of ills which recur in families,
such as asthma, migraine and epi-lepsy.
In these cases what seems to be
inherited is .the tendency to react in
a certain unusual way to various ex-ternal
conditions, but it will not
necessarily appear except _under the
stress of circumstances.
For example, some people react
to prolonged ovenvork, anxiety or
over-excitement (even pleasant ex-citement)
with. a migraine — an
acute headache' accompanied by
partial blindness,. conf used speech
and pins and needles.
To these perhaps should be added
some rare oongential heart and d i -
gestlye diseases, which show up In
chlldhood, and whlch are thought
to be probably hereditary.
• But not one of these truly hereditary
diseases or conditions arouses
the anxiety that seems to exist about
inherlting.>a number of other com-plalnts
which: are not hereditary at
ali.
In particular, there is a widespread
belief that mental deficlency is i n herited,
though ali the evidence show8
that this is nonsense.
. Many mentaUy defective children
are suffering either from^brain disease
or brain injui |
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