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Olympic Marathon
May Be Zafopeb
Lasi Big Event
EmU 2Satopek, trlplc Helsinki
Olymplc gold medallst, Js "certaln"
for thcjnarathon in Australia next
year, ijut right after that he expecta
to retire. •
Emil's unexpected defeat by the
•Gordon Plrle — Ken Norris combi-
' nation ovcr 10,000 metres in England
Ihis month indicates that the un-
«lasumlng Czech colonel ia nearing the
end of hls athletic career,.
And speaking of retirlng world
hsavyweight champlon Rocky Mar-ciano
l5. liable to do Just that Mter
hls next tltledefcnse.
* Rocky. has a bumlng desire to re-
ItJre undefeated, llke Gene Tunney
hetote him.
'*When I do declde to quit I wUl
öiO' It, 'just, llke ^hat". Marciano
tolä report^s elter the Moore flght.
will be' i declslon 111 make my-eeXf
and I'm not hanging around
valting untll my body teUs me l 'm
through either," y
His next (andprdbably last) oppo-nent?'
Rocky thinks there should ibe
a round-rofoin Involvlng Hurricane
Jackson, Bob Baker, Nino Valdes and
Archie (Moore.
Sonja Henie Finds Moscow
BaHet ''Out of This Worr
^ By SONJA HENIE
Ithappened one day in Oslo wh(jn
at a dlplomctlc reception I met
Mosccw Mayor Mikhall Yasnov who
£ald "Why äon't you vlsit us some-time?
We'd llke to see your show,"
Yasnov had seen my ice skating
ballet and apparently llked it. Russla
bcing a great ballet and ice skating
ccuntry, I wasn't surprised at his
invitation,
But I was surprised when a Soviet
visa came through within three days.
and off I was for the Red capital.
• I calledon the Minlstry of CJulture
Immedlately on arrival, where I was
assigned an interpreter and a guide,
both for general sightseeing and for
inspection of possible sites for my
Bhov/.
The' sightseeting was instructlve
but the inspection tour was unpro-duotive.
Outside ihe Bolshoi theatre:
there isn't a stage large enough to
accommodate my troupe.
When I asked vhether the Bolshoi
Theatre could be used I was told;
"Are you kldding?" and I understand
that to the Russlans the 150 year
Old Bolshoi is too sacrosanot to allow
anythlng but pute classical ballet.
The Russians aK)eared defmitely
interested in my show, but aslde
from the technical ccntractual ques-tlons
which cannot be regulated be-fore
Geneva, it looks llke we may
not retum here until next year. when
a new gian.t stadlum is completed.
I looked at the construction site
from Lenin Hill below Mcscow .Uni-:
versity where the work has not yet
begun, but the Bussians' assured me
the stadium for lOO/XH) spectators wUl
be built by the end of next year.
We shall continue the negotlatlons.
Meanwhile I -toured the city. and
vlsited the • theatres and ballets, I
found the Moscow ballet out of this
World. Never have I seen such
exquisite danclng, fast movement and
lavish decor.
Galino Ulanova in "Romeo and Juliet"
and Maya Plesetskaya ih "Cin-derella".
are slmply ivonderful.
My impression of Riissian women:
They are sturdy, buxom and hard-working.
They do everything men do»
mcluding street cleanlng. They seem
to be adequately and warmly dressed,
but far from elegantly.,
I'm told they're more fashlon con-scious,
than before but for the mo-ment
they're at least 20 years behind.
Nor have I seen much use of make-up.
The Embarrassins C l a i m s ^ f U S
Wei3ht-liftin3 Coach Hoffman
By LESTER RODNEY
"Jt isn't llkely that we have many
better ambassadors of goodwill abroad
.than our young American athletes
who mset and compete in sports-manship
with the athletes of other
lands. The good Impression they
usually make is hard to break down,
eVen by a charaoter like Bob.Hoffr
n^an, who is the coach of the welgbt-
Jfftmg team.
^ut one could be pardoned for
fervently wlshing that Hoffman stlck
't6 his coaching at which he seems
pre^ty good and stop trying his ut-
*most -to make the United States-of
America- a laughing stock. ^
The man Is posltively embarrasing.
2t appears he slmply can't . stand
Teturning home from a meet and
' eaylng "We put «p a good fight but
we got nosed out. Weil try to get
'em next tlme." In some odd manner
he seems to feel that to admlt
losing anything at any time is iis-
\A3nerican. So between the time our
weightlift team finished a strong 2nd
to the Soviet Union Inthe world
champlonshlp at, Mimich last week,
,and the tlme ,the plane, landed at
IdiewUd, the teeming mind of Hoff-
. man came up with an "angle."
. The United StateSi not the Soviet
Union, really won the world tltle.
the reporters were told. "That was
theclaim of Bob Hoffman coach of
the American team," a newspaper
Story stated, "Hoffman based his
clalm on the f act that Tom Kono
öf the American team won the 'Mr.
Unlverse*. show at Munich. Adding
five points to the American total for
this victory Hoffman explained. the
UiS. beat the Russians 30—29."
The news of this dazzllng stroke
by Hoffman got back.to E;urope in a>
hurry. where It must have sounded
about like Casey Stengel saying in
Chicago, that the Yariks really won
the World Series because Tommy
Byrne has a college degree and
Johnny Podres hasnX
The next day, the Times sports
section ran the Item "UÄ. clalm Is
denled — Bussia Weight-L.lf ting Victor,
Says German Official". An of-fial
of the German Athletic Association,'.
which condticted the welght-^
llfting tourney on behalf of the International
group sald that the "Mr.
Unlverse" thing had nothing to do
wlth weightlifting, buf was merely
hcld at the same tlme and athletes
from sports teams competed in it.
This is bad enough, but the next
day Bruno iNyberg of PinlantL presi-dent
of the International "^eight-lifting
Federation put in a word from
Helsinki, /We .have Mr. Hoffman to
thank for the acute embarrassment
of havlng to read this acid Comment
by Nyberg: "There never waa any
question that . . . the male beauty
contest should be taken Into con-sideration
for the weight-llfting
Btandings. Sports is sports and
somethmg elsg than a male beauty
contest.- The Soviets compiled 29
points and won fourindividual World
championships in the weight)lifting
wKile the United States took home
25 points and three Individual tltles
in weightlifting."
If Mr. Hoffman is bucklng for a
Job in 'the State iDepartment, well
ali right. But for goodness sakes, if
he is going to coach a group digni-fled
by the words "United States" it
is certainly reasonable to expect that
he stlck to coaching his team, which
by ali means can and should include
wanting very much to flnish ahead
of the Soviet Union or any other
country,. but ought not to include
smart aleck attempts to win with hls
mouth what we fall to win In the
fleld of international competltlon.
CHAT WITH STRONGEST
WAN IN TUE WOBLD
A brlef visit in tre dressing room
before the Oljrmpic Camlval at the
Garden con^irmed the fact that
athletes themselves are npt that way,
and fInd no conflict .what5oever be-tween
the desire to win and respect
for the opposition.
Paul Anderson, the fabulous 23
year old 350 pound world heavy-welght
lift Champion from Toccoa,
Ga., tumed out to be a jolly and
affable young man: seemlngly com-
.pletely unaffected by his unprece-dented
feats. "Those Russian folks
deflnitely know weightllftlng'V he
sald with. a . zestfui shake of his
curly tolack hair. "I mean they're
Wide awajke. They had 15,000 crowded
in to see us lift in Moscow and it
seemed llke everyone of those 15,000
really knew ali about llfting."
Reports had the Soviet crowds giv-
Ing him a tremendous ovation as he
smashed the world records, Anderson
siniled a little shyly and said "Weil,
I guess .they sort of liked it . . ."
How did the American and Soviet
lifters themselves get along in Mos-cow,
and the world championships?
"Oh. Just fine!", he said "We got
along fine. Real friendly like. Td
say maybe they seem a little more
sericus while they're waiting to lift,
we llke to sort of horse around and
kid around a bit,"
"Paul, If I could lift Hke you",
put in an admlrlng passlng; team-mate
"I'd kid around and teli 'Jokes
while I was llfting!"
US - Soviet Union
Agree to Excliange
100 Music Students
An "agreement in principle" on
the exchange of 100 Soviet and^Ame-rican
music students has been reach-ed,
it was disclosed in Mcscow re-cently.
The agreement was con-cludedbetween
Soviet ministries of
Education and Culture and 'Carleton
Smith, director of the National Arts
Foundation of New York.
Smith said the Soviet authorities
accepted hisproposal to send 50 con-servatory
students to the UJS. to
study oomposltlon, vlolin, piano»'sing-ing
and dramatic intsrpretation, pro-vided
an equal munber of-American
students come here. Smith,' who
conducted the negotiations ivith the
knowledge of the White House and
State Department of the UJ3. sald
that the Russians are prepared to
begin the exchange next fall with the
only hitch being oompletion of technical
arrangements.
Sports Notes
From tlie Past
In 1938, vhen Winnipeg Blue Bom-bers
vere training at Anne Arbor
Michigan In preparatlon for the Grey
Cup game, Harry Sonshlne, then an
Argonaut player, pulled the ali time
scouting manouever. Poslng as a
University of - Michigan freshman,
Sonshlne became friendly wlth the
Blue Bombers to the extent that
they allowed him to klbitz in scrim-mages
and even explained some of
their prize plays to him. The foliow-
Ing Saturday the Bombers vere most
dlsmayed to see their pai sittlng on
the Argo bench, waving gaily to t^em.
ILast season, an event occured that
has never before been . recorded In
the annals of Professional football.
A game was called with slx m i l t ä s
to go because of densefog.' ' 'A 'C"
Upsetting Nenk
Rugged Rocket Richard met his .equal in dimunitive Dick Duff,
Toronto Maple Leaf rookie, who felled the Montreal Star during
an NHL game in Toronto. Duff, 19-year-old "mighty mite"
from St. Michael's College Majors, also grounded the league-leading
Canadiens scorewise, notching both goals as Leafs edged
Montreal 2 — 1.
3%i5 belng the Sallove'en season
«•©•d JJke erexyoae to "pusb over^
just AHUte and do a spot oi reninifc-ijijg
« I t b as 'bout tbe good. oJd days.
Yup, citizens, i n tiie "eooi. old days'
the Eve of AU'HaUows was n^ucb dif-ietmifrom
today, Or Is your mempry
that long?
In those days, B:IP. (before inside
»pluxnbJngJ, real estaters . dascribed
proper^ as Iiaving "«ve roma and
a path." And If pne bappcned td;
be in the maitet for Teal estat?'In
the post-Hallowe'iBn p ^ o d ihey were
more often than not^ qulte "upset''
once they surveyed <b^ond the five
rooms, - •.; - .
A l i . of the little urchlna In our
oommunity liad great affection for
Hallowe'en. Looking back now, it
seemä to us that we spent ali year
either plannlng the deviltry we'd
indulge in on the Eve, or recountlng
the dainage we'd done. Of course* life
was somevhat slmpler in those days,
as this was the period before B . B .
Bennett .and Herbert Hoover dls-covered
the great depression. Belng
young and-impoliticized we, at that"
time, thought that a depressslon was^
a hole in the backyard.
This wäs the era, too, before the
Word "Juvenile delinquent" was
schemed up. So it -»as, we imagine,
|hat ho one ever thought of sendlng
anyone of our gang up to a psychla-.;
trist for :what we described as "good
clean sport"; but wliich some citizens
pronounced differently. - .
(Not that some people in our com-munlty:
dlcln't want to send some of
us, mind you. Indeed, the adult
population . was quite unanimous
about where some of us should go.
And this was partlcularly so on Nor
vember -
If wishes were capable of con-veying
people to distant -places,- we
wouldn't be writing this column today.
We, »nd most of our i
«rouJdJongslncehave
coaJ: altljough not in
vould psrmit vs to
l»ewj6' tmion.
As ve recalJ, too, /
wasn't commercialjzed
Candy manufacturers
coyered that they couj
as mucb for ttie sarne
on "Special days" Jus
the wrapper.
Nor did f olk go in f
tions, wiiich to use
the advertising gentiy,
edby the public.'v -Vi
oiie soul brave enougl
pathway to hls domic
o-Iantem. For who W(
enough to Ught a flan
make things easier foj
CofFee Time Is A n y t i m e In Finland
By VICLYONS
(Reprinted From Finlandia Pictorial)
The visitor to Finland who is not a
coffee-drinker vUl find himself at
a disadvantage soclally. Prom met-tropolltan
Helsinki to the vilds of
northem Lapland coffee is the inivari-able,
offerlng upon enterlng a home,
be it rich or poor. Although I had be-gun
drinking: coffee the year before,
I never actuaUy became fond of i t
untllreachihg Finland. This vvas
no' doubt due to the superior way
BEN SHEK^S TOUR
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Across Canada
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P011A8 —
Medical Journal
Hits Stimuiants
The American Medical Association
Journal recently condemned the -use
of artificial stimuiants for athletes.
The Journal said these stimuiants
encourage pläyers to. exert themselves
beyond limits leamed from instinct
and experlence."
The Journal specifically dlsap-proved
ali "mass medicine", includ-ing
vltamlns and daily doses of Iron
and oxygen.
Givlng drugs to stimulate-athletes
to greater activity. or to lessen the
pain of an Injuty is 'poor medicine
and worse education', the Journal
sald.
"They likewise represent an un-fortunate
ethical practice", the com-mittee
oh health problems in education
of the National Education Association
and the AMA, reported.
"Valid Scientific evldence in sup-port
cf the value of oxygen lii athletic
competltion is lacklng", It reported.-
.,, ; • ; . ^
This report is Ukely to cause a lot
of discussion among coaches and
athletes and wlll cause many to take
another look at practices which have
galned Wide favor in the past.
Leonardo da VJncl*s worid-famous
painting "The Last Supper" covcrs
384 square feet of canvas.
B.C. GREETS BEN SHEK
Ben Shek, leader of the Canadian
delegation to the Fifth World Youth
Festival, spent a busy seven days tel-ling
British Columbia audiences about
his Festival experiences. At Victoria^
the capital of the provmce, Ben was
inter vie wed on the "Man On The
Street" broadcast and also by the
press. At a dance in the evening, the
report of the Festival was recelved
quite enthusiastically.
A medal from Warsaw to a natlve
Indian girl in Nanaimo was the high
point of a wonderful reception which
packed the Chase Hall there. Edna
John, daughter of Chief Jimmy John,
was presented with a silver medal
given to her for winning second prize
for Canada at the International
Handicrafts Exhiblt at the World
Festival. Her entry was a beautiful
Haida totem pole replica, 18 inches
high. In making the presentation,
Ben Shek said, ' The natlve Indlans
have now recelved international re-cognition
even though they are not
fuUy recognlzed i n Canada."
The Vancouver councU of the National
Federation of Labor Youth
organized four meetings for the re-turning
delegates. First of these was
in the home of Chief Dan George of
the Burrard reserve in North, Vancouver.
The people there were very
interested and nodded their heads
to Ben's remarks about the need for
more delegations and for greater
numbers of exchanges. "Maybe the
chief and his family could go", sug-gested
Ben, to whlch the family
heartily agreed;
At the University of British Columbia,
the leader of the Canadian delegation
spoke at a noon-hour meet-ing
ifeld imder the sponsorship of the
UBC Labor Progressive Party Club.
Questions such as, "Can anyone really
go to the riext Festival?" and
"What are llvlng condltons llke i n the
clties and countryside?" showed that
a number of students had a llvely i n -
terest In Ben's tour of the U.S.SJI.
after the Festival.
Wind-up and high point of Ben's
vislt was the final reception spon-sored
by the Vancouver Clubs of the
NFLY, It was held In the main hali
of the Pender Audltorlum whlch wias
set out like a huge night club with
tables and a large daricirig space. The
walls were decorated with travel pos-ters
and signs welcoming the twd
Vancouver delegates, Alex Kucher
and Dale Schnee, as wen as the leader
of the delegation.
The "floor show"* was presented by
the delegates who briefly related their
experiences. Alex gave his impres-sions
of Europe after the Festival.
Dale's taik was mainly on sport, /and
h^v he saw;itdeveIoping in Eastern
Europe. Main billing, of course, was
Ben Shek, whose report pleased the
audience. Edna John was also present
at the reception and recelved a great
ovation from the crowd. She was asked
to speak, and could only say,
VWinnlng this medal Is the best thing
that ever happened. to me."
WINNIP^G WELCOMES
DELEGATES
"Welcome home, Mat, Nettie, Elsie,"
read the signs carricd by ^ the young
people who walted three hours for
the Wlnnipeg delegates to arrlve
home last nlght.
'Between tears and laughter, the girls
said they were very happy to be back.
They couldn't believe they had seen
so much In the past few'months.
At a small reception the following
evening,^ each girl in lier own way
told about her .personal experiences.
Mat Ornlak spoke of her trip to the*
Soviet Union while Elsie Sawluk .and
Nettiä Kachmar spoke about the Festival.
"I have come eager to partlcl-pate
In the great struggles for peace,"
said Elsie. Ali the delegates sald they
hoped to attend the Festival In Mos-cow
in 1957. •
Ben Shek will be a guest speaker
at a Social Concert meeting onNo-vemiber
5 at the Hebrew Sick Benef it
Hall. 239 Selkirk Ave., 8:15 pjn. While
in - the city, Berl will "meet youth
leaders öf many Manitoba youth or-ganlzatlons.
. r".
TheNovember 5 affalr, sponsored
by the Youth FriendshipL>eague,wlll
also be a celebration of the lOth: an-ntversafy
of the'World Peredation of
Demöcratic Youth, one of the organi-zers
of the Worid Festivals. Enter-tainmeht
win be provided by the
Wiiinipeg Folk Singers sind the Polk-
Dahce-group.- A buffet lunch and
social dancing wlli round -out - the
evening. •
Finnish coffee is made plus the
fresh cream that is invariably served
with it.
There are •two rules to be followed
in drinking coffee in Finland. F a i -
lure to observe them on the part of
neweomers will of course be underr
stood, but the sooner the ''visitor
learns about them the better. The
flrst concerns the number of cups
of coffee it is permissible to accept
during a call. Politeness demands
acceptance of the flrst cup always,
unless there are personal reasons for
not drinking coffee. The average
number per /visit, especially when
calling at the home of a stranger,
is .iwo. Of ten on longer vlslts at
the home of friends, no disgrace
attaches to a third cup. That, how-ever
is the maximum: The fourth
cup will probably be offered, but it
should be refused. -
The second rule ooncems paikkopulla
which means "compulsoiy bread".i
This is the tenn that Finns jokingly
use for the plainlooking coffee bread
— sweet with a few raisins perhaps
— that is usually served with the
coffeet along with an arfay of more
delicious pastries. It is the unwrit-tan
law that the pakkopulla is taken,
with the flrst cup of coffee. After
that the hand may rove freely among
the more luscious selections. -v.
I believe the variety of pastries
offered in Firiland cannot be sur-passed^
in any other country of the
World. There are creamy önes, choco-late-
covered ones, frult-filled ones,
etc. Each of the many bakerles
creates its own original delicacies.
The important holidays each have
their traditional sp>ecialties and even
comparatlvely mlnor holidays have
their unique pastries sold only on
those days. For example, on Shrove
Tuesday it is a large, circular, sweet
bun with a marchpane filllng. On
Runeberg Day CFeb. 5) a crlsp star-shaped
pastry wlth a provocative llne
of frosting is the one to eat. A l i
of this bakers' handlwörk Is created
especially for presentation at coffee
time. Besides this unllmited variety
of original pastries, Finland is one
of the few countries in Westem
Europe where an American favorite,
the sugar doughnut, can be found.
It is caUed "donitsi" (read- dcugh-nutsee).
Often sandwiches. are served at
coffee time either with or without
the pastries. Actually they are not
sandwiches in the strlct sense of
the Word for. only one plece of
bread is used, whlte or brown, hard
or soft thiok or thin. Even in bread
the Plrm seeks tomaintaln his In-dividuality
by creatlng several va-rletles.
Usually there is a selection
oi. sweet and non-sweet Items to
spread on top — jams, honey, salami,
hardbolled eggs cuciunbers, cheese,
etc. Americans accustomed to a
protective covering. of bread some-times
become forgetful — the result
being that a slice oif tomato 6r
strip of heriing occaslonally slides
off a weil-butt€red slice of bread;
into the lap or onto tjie funiiture.
I have no Idea höw many cups of
coffee I drank during my slx month's
stayiri Finland, but 1 do remember
that in one day alone of visltlng
friends • In- Helshiki -1 had fifteen
cups. Oddly enough I had an excel-
This
coffee
— es-lent
nighfs sleep afterward.
tremendous consumption of
does have one mariked effect
pecially noticeable in members of
the femaJe sex: it causes stomachs
to growL Usually, vrhen this happens,
either the owner of the guUty sto-mach
or a gallant person i n -the
room quiokly says something dis-tracting
in a voice slightly louder
than usual. If there happens to"be
too many chivalrous people at one
gathering the moments immedlately
following -an involuntaxy growl can
erupt into a complete babel. I: was
havlng coffee with a young lady one
evening vhen,.during ä lull in .the
conversation, her stomach emitted a
growl that would have done credit
to a young tiger. I could have choked
on my coffee but that vould probably
have only served to make the
matter •worse. The girl knew .very
few English words but desplte this
was cleverly able to pass off her
embarrassment -byiising jtist two
of them. With' a smile she said.
"Finnish music."
GOOD EXCUSE-An
American Air Porce colonel
stationed in England was explalnlng
Tvith satisfaction how he had shot
three pheasants on Oiis airfield.
"Good Heavens!" exclaimed än
English listener. 'You can't do that
— thafs poaching. You'll get fined
or jailed for that in England."
"gcodclean sport".
Indeed, itwasstanc
in our conununity-for {
doused early. The heat
hold then used to lie i
shotgun, or a like "pers
lAnother different as]
Hallow«'en is , that in
don't recall anyone bi
"Shell out". Possibly
to the fact that askini
zen to "Shell out" whei
was on "our little l i
tantamount to holding
while the noose was s l
Perhaps, too, we häd
mories of other Hallow
allergy to shotgun peli
Word "Shell" qulte a d
.Nowadays the youni
-be plvunb frustrated. Tl
poses a real problem
oompared .with the bu
aren't as plentiful as tli
and where ^they do exi
come off 9s. easy. Pec
1^ experlence, are naii:
more things dowii;
But possibly the bui
of Hallowe'en nowada3
most universal introdi
side pliunbing. Grey's
the "paths of glory 1
little or no significance
•This topic i5n't one
be lingered on; but in i
we feel that if we*d beex
years later our whole ib
hajve been pliunb ruined
However, not being or
in the way of plumbolog
ments Tve must recogni;
and accept the fact that
marches on. So "shel
Mayhap ifs cheaper tl
to pay in the post-Halli
for the damage that ott
attend. '
!And cpnceivably, th
"Bhelling out'^ has its
For with the "new look'
— one that would mal
November 1 scowl of: ou
look angelic in comparii
ing out" is sutely a colle
of ali workers that has
hammered home.
Consider a nmited ;
movement with every
Canada expiring on Oc1
suich event — whlch
•through luilty — the
either shell out, or tl
strength of the workers
"his little house of dre
News. •
The America,n hesitat«
of a second. "Weil", hc
guess I shot tfcem for p(
aircraft."
* RUOTSIN AMERIKAN LINJAN
KAKSI ILONTÄYTEIST
JOULUHUVIMATKi
SCANDINAVIAN MAIHIN JA SUOMEl
LINJAN liOXSTOLAIVA
"KUNGSHOLM"
NEW YORKISTA/JOULUKUUN 2 p.
- Kaikki ihytli meren puolella. Koko matkan ajan nauti
lun tunnelmaa luovasta ohjelmasta. Voimassa säasto
'"llpunhlnnat^ '. ' "
TOINEN MYÖHÄISEMPI JOULUHUVIMA
Joka on erittäin sopiva canadalalsUlematkustajU
"STOCKHOLM"
HALIFAXISTA, JOULUKUUN 9 P-Saavutte
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| Title | Vapaus, November 3, 1955 |
| Language | fi |
| Subject | Finnish--Canadians--Newspapers |
| Publisher | Vapaus Publishing Co |
| Date | 1955-11-03 |
| Type | text |
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| Title | 1955-11-03-06 |
| OCR text | Olympic Marathon May Be Zafopeb Lasi Big Event EmU 2Satopek, trlplc Helsinki Olymplc gold medallst, Js "certaln" for thcjnarathon in Australia next year, ijut right after that he expecta to retire. • Emil's unexpected defeat by the •Gordon Plrle — Ken Norris combi- ' nation ovcr 10,000 metres in England Ihis month indicates that the un- «lasumlng Czech colonel ia nearing the end of hls athletic career,. And speaking of retirlng world hsavyweight champlon Rocky Mar-ciano l5. liable to do Just that Mter hls next tltledefcnse. * Rocky. has a bumlng desire to re- ItJre undefeated, llke Gene Tunney hetote him. '*When I do declde to quit I wUl öiO' It, 'just, llke ^hat". Marciano tolä report^s elter the Moore flght. will be' i declslon 111 make my-eeXf and I'm not hanging around valting untll my body teUs me l 'm through either," y His next (andprdbably last) oppo-nent?' Rocky thinks there should ibe a round-rofoin Involvlng Hurricane Jackson, Bob Baker, Nino Valdes and Archie (Moore. Sonja Henie Finds Moscow BaHet ''Out of This Worr ^ By SONJA HENIE Ithappened one day in Oslo wh(jn at a dlplomctlc reception I met Mosccw Mayor Mikhall Yasnov who £ald "Why äon't you vlsit us some-time? We'd llke to see your show," Yasnov had seen my ice skating ballet and apparently llked it. Russla bcing a great ballet and ice skating ccuntry, I wasn't surprised at his invitation, But I was surprised when a Soviet visa came through within three days. and off I was for the Red capital. • I calledon the Minlstry of CJulture Immedlately on arrival, where I was assigned an interpreter and a guide, both for general sightseeing and for inspection of possible sites for my Bhov/. The' sightseeting was instructlve but the inspection tour was unpro-duotive. Outside ihe Bolshoi theatre: there isn't a stage large enough to accommodate my troupe. When I asked vhether the Bolshoi Theatre could be used I was told; "Are you kldding?" and I understand that to the Russlans the 150 year Old Bolshoi is too sacrosanot to allow anythlng but pute classical ballet. The Russians aK)eared defmitely interested in my show, but aslde from the technical ccntractual ques-tlons which cannot be regulated be-fore Geneva, it looks llke we may not retum here until next year. when a new gian.t stadlum is completed. I looked at the construction site from Lenin Hill below Mcscow .Uni-: versity where the work has not yet begun, but the Bussians' assured me the stadium for lOO/XH) spectators wUl be built by the end of next year. We shall continue the negotlatlons. Meanwhile I -toured the city. and vlsited the • theatres and ballets, I found the Moscow ballet out of this World. Never have I seen such exquisite danclng, fast movement and lavish decor. Galino Ulanova in "Romeo and Juliet" and Maya Plesetskaya ih "Cin-derella". are slmply ivonderful. My impression of Riissian women: They are sturdy, buxom and hard-working. They do everything men do» mcluding street cleanlng. They seem to be adequately and warmly dressed, but far from elegantly., I'm told they're more fashlon con-scious, than before but for the mo-ment they're at least 20 years behind. Nor have I seen much use of make-up. The Embarrassins C l a i m s ^ f U S Wei3ht-liftin3 Coach Hoffman By LESTER RODNEY "Jt isn't llkely that we have many better ambassadors of goodwill abroad .than our young American athletes who mset and compete in sports-manship with the athletes of other lands. The good Impression they usually make is hard to break down, eVen by a charaoter like Bob.Hoffr n^an, who is the coach of the welgbt- Jfftmg team. ^ut one could be pardoned for fervently wlshing that Hoffman stlck 't6 his coaching at which he seems pre^ty good and stop trying his ut- *most -to make the United States-of America- a laughing stock. ^ The man Is posltively embarrasing. 2t appears he slmply can't . stand Teturning home from a meet and ' eaylng "We put «p a good fight but we got nosed out. Weil try to get 'em next tlme." In some odd manner he seems to feel that to admlt losing anything at any time is iis- \A3nerican. So between the time our weightlift team finished a strong 2nd to the Soviet Union Inthe world champlonshlp at, Mimich last week, ,and the tlme ,the plane, landed at IdiewUd, the teeming mind of Hoff- . man came up with an "angle." . The United StateSi not the Soviet Union, really won the world tltle. the reporters were told. "That was theclaim of Bob Hoffman coach of the American team," a newspaper Story stated, "Hoffman based his clalm on the f act that Tom Kono öf the American team won the 'Mr. Unlverse*. show at Munich. Adding five points to the American total for this victory Hoffman explained. the UiS. beat the Russians 30—29." The news of this dazzllng stroke by Hoffman got back.to E;urope in a> hurry. where It must have sounded about like Casey Stengel saying in Chicago, that the Yariks really won the World Series because Tommy Byrne has a college degree and Johnny Podres hasnX The next day, the Times sports section ran the Item "UÄ. clalm Is denled — Bussia Weight-L.lf ting Victor, Says German Official". An of-fial of the German Athletic Association,'. which condticted the welght-^ llfting tourney on behalf of the International group sald that the "Mr. Unlverse" thing had nothing to do wlth weightlifting, buf was merely hcld at the same tlme and athletes from sports teams competed in it. This is bad enough, but the next day Bruno iNyberg of PinlantL presi-dent of the International "^eight-lifting Federation put in a word from Helsinki, /We .have Mr. Hoffman to thank for the acute embarrassment of havlng to read this acid Comment by Nyberg: "There never waa any question that . . . the male beauty contest should be taken Into con-sideration for the weight-llfting Btandings. Sports is sports and somethmg elsg than a male beauty contest.- The Soviets compiled 29 points and won fourindividual World championships in the weight)lifting wKile the United States took home 25 points and three Individual tltles in weightlifting." If Mr. Hoffman is bucklng for a Job in 'the State iDepartment, well ali right. But for goodness sakes, if he is going to coach a group digni-fled by the words "United States" it is certainly reasonable to expect that he stlck to coaching his team, which by ali means can and should include wanting very much to flnish ahead of the Soviet Union or any other country,. but ought not to include smart aleck attempts to win with hls mouth what we fall to win In the fleld of international competltlon. CHAT WITH STRONGEST WAN IN TUE WOBLD A brlef visit in tre dressing room before the Oljrmpic Camlval at the Garden con^irmed the fact that athletes themselves are npt that way, and fInd no conflict .what5oever be-tween the desire to win and respect for the opposition. Paul Anderson, the fabulous 23 year old 350 pound world heavy-welght lift Champion from Toccoa, Ga., tumed out to be a jolly and affable young man: seemlngly com- .pletely unaffected by his unprece-dented feats. "Those Russian folks deflnitely know weightllftlng'V he sald with. a . zestfui shake of his curly tolack hair. "I mean they're Wide awajke. They had 15,000 crowded in to see us lift in Moscow and it seemed llke everyone of those 15,000 really knew ali about llfting." Reports had the Soviet crowds giv- Ing him a tremendous ovation as he smashed the world records, Anderson siniled a little shyly and said "Weil, I guess .they sort of liked it . . ." How did the American and Soviet lifters themselves get along in Mos-cow, and the world championships? "Oh. Just fine!", he said "We got along fine. Real friendly like. Td say maybe they seem a little more sericus while they're waiting to lift, we llke to sort of horse around and kid around a bit," "Paul, If I could lift Hke you", put in an admlrlng passlng; team-mate "I'd kid around and teli 'Jokes while I was llfting!" US - Soviet Union Agree to Excliange 100 Music Students An "agreement in principle" on the exchange of 100 Soviet and^Ame-rican music students has been reach-ed, it was disclosed in Mcscow re-cently. The agreement was con-cludedbetween Soviet ministries of Education and Culture and 'Carleton Smith, director of the National Arts Foundation of New York. Smith said the Soviet authorities accepted hisproposal to send 50 con-servatory students to the UJS. to study oomposltlon, vlolin, piano»'sing-ing and dramatic intsrpretation, pro-vided an equal munber of-American students come here. Smith,' who conducted the negotiations ivith the knowledge of the White House and State Department of the UJ3. sald that the Russians are prepared to begin the exchange next fall with the only hitch being oompletion of technical arrangements. Sports Notes From tlie Past In 1938, vhen Winnipeg Blue Bom-bers vere training at Anne Arbor Michigan In preparatlon for the Grey Cup game, Harry Sonshlne, then an Argonaut player, pulled the ali time scouting manouever. Poslng as a University of - Michigan freshman, Sonshlne became friendly wlth the Blue Bombers to the extent that they allowed him to klbitz in scrim-mages and even explained some of their prize plays to him. The foliow- Ing Saturday the Bombers vere most dlsmayed to see their pai sittlng on the Argo bench, waving gaily to t^em. ILast season, an event occured that has never before been . recorded In the annals of Professional football. A game was called with slx m i l t ä s to go because of densefog.' ' 'A 'C" Upsetting Nenk Rugged Rocket Richard met his .equal in dimunitive Dick Duff, Toronto Maple Leaf rookie, who felled the Montreal Star during an NHL game in Toronto. Duff, 19-year-old "mighty mite" from St. Michael's College Majors, also grounded the league-leading Canadiens scorewise, notching both goals as Leafs edged Montreal 2 — 1. 3%i5 belng the Sallove'en season «•©•d JJke erexyoae to "pusb over^ just AHUte and do a spot oi reninifc-ijijg « I t b as 'bout tbe good. oJd days. Yup, citizens, i n tiie "eooi. old days' the Eve of AU'HaUows was n^ucb dif-ietmifrom today, Or Is your mempry that long? In those days, B:IP. (before inside »pluxnbJngJ, real estaters . dascribed proper^ as Iiaving "«ve roma and a path." And If pne bappcned td; be in the maitet for Teal estat?'In the post-Hallowe'iBn p ^ o d ihey were more often than not^ qulte "upset'' once they surveyed eague,wlll also be a celebration of the lOth: an-ntversafy of the'World Peredation of Demöcratic Youth, one of the organi-zers of the Worid Festivals. Enter-tainmeht win be provided by the Wiiinipeg Folk Singers sind the Polk- Dahce-group.- A buffet lunch and social dancing wlli round -out - the evening. • Finnish coffee is made plus the fresh cream that is invariably served with it. There are •two rules to be followed in drinking coffee in Finland. F a i - lure to observe them on the part of neweomers will of course be underr stood, but the sooner the ''visitor learns about them the better. The flrst concerns the number of cups of coffee it is permissible to accept during a call. Politeness demands acceptance of the flrst cup always, unless there are personal reasons for not drinking coffee. The average number per /visit, especially when calling at the home of a stranger, is .iwo. Of ten on longer vlslts at the home of friends, no disgrace attaches to a third cup. That, how-ever is the maximum: The fourth cup will probably be offered, but it should be refused. - The second rule ooncems paikkopulla which means "compulsoiy bread".i This is the tenn that Finns jokingly use for the plainlooking coffee bread — sweet with a few raisins perhaps — that is usually served with the coffeet along with an arfay of more delicious pastries. It is the unwrit-tan law that the pakkopulla is taken, with the flrst cup of coffee. After that the hand may rove freely among the more luscious selections. -v. I believe the variety of pastries offered in Firiland cannot be sur-passed^ in any other country of the World. There are creamy önes, choco-late- covered ones, frult-filled ones, etc. Each of the many bakerles creates its own original delicacies. The important holidays each have their traditional sp>ecialties and even comparatlvely mlnor holidays have their unique pastries sold only on those days. For example, on Shrove Tuesday it is a large, circular, sweet bun with a marchpane filllng. On Runeberg Day CFeb. 5) a crlsp star-shaped pastry wlth a provocative llne of frosting is the one to eat. A l i of this bakers' handlwörk Is created especially for presentation at coffee time. Besides this unllmited variety of original pastries, Finland is one of the few countries in Westem Europe where an American favorite, the sugar doughnut, can be found. It is caUed "donitsi" (read- dcugh-nutsee). Often sandwiches. are served at coffee time either with or without the pastries. Actually they are not sandwiches in the strlct sense of the Word for. only one plece of bread is used, whlte or brown, hard or soft thiok or thin. Even in bread the Plrm seeks tomaintaln his In-dividuality by creatlng several va-rletles. Usually there is a selection oi. sweet and non-sweet Items to spread on top — jams, honey, salami, hardbolled eggs cuciunbers, cheese, etc. Americans accustomed to a protective covering. of bread some-times become forgetful — the result being that a slice oif tomato 6r strip of heriing occaslonally slides off a weil-butt€red slice of bread; into the lap or onto tjie funiiture. I have no Idea höw many cups of coffee I drank during my slx month's stayiri Finland, but 1 do remember that in one day alone of visltlng friends • In- Helshiki -1 had fifteen cups. Oddly enough I had an excel- This coffee — es-lent nighfs sleep afterward. tremendous consumption of does have one mariked effect pecially noticeable in members of the femaJe sex: it causes stomachs to growL Usually, vrhen this happens, either the owner of the guUty sto-mach or a gallant person i n -the room quiokly says something dis-tracting in a voice slightly louder than usual. If there happens to"be too many chivalrous people at one gathering the moments immedlately following -an involuntaxy growl can erupt into a complete babel. I: was havlng coffee with a young lady one evening vhen,.during ä lull in .the conversation, her stomach emitted a growl that would have done credit to a young tiger. I could have choked on my coffee but that vould probably have only served to make the matter •worse. The girl knew .very few English words but desplte this was cleverly able to pass off her embarrassment -byiising jtist two of them. With' a smile she said. "Finnish music." GOOD EXCUSE-An American Air Porce colonel stationed in England was explalnlng Tvith satisfaction how he had shot three pheasants on Oiis airfield. "Good Heavens!" exclaimed än English listener. 'You can't do that — thafs poaching. You'll get fined or jailed for that in England." "gcodclean sport". Indeed, itwasstanc in our conununity-for { doused early. The heat hold then used to lie i shotgun, or a like "pers lAnother different as] Hallow«'en is , that in don't recall anyone bi "Shell out". Possibly to the fact that askini zen to "Shell out" whei was on "our little l i tantamount to holding while the noose was s l Perhaps, too, we häd mories of other Hallow allergy to shotgun peli Word "Shell" qulte a d .Nowadays the youni -be plvunb frustrated. Tl poses a real problem oompared .with the bu aren't as plentiful as tli and where ^they do exi come off 9s. easy. Pec 1^ experlence, are naii: more things dowii; But possibly the bui of Hallowe'en nowada3 most universal introdi side pliunbing. Grey's the "paths of glory 1 little or no significance •This topic i5n't one be lingered on; but in i we feel that if we*d beex years later our whole ib hajve been pliunb ruined However, not being or in the way of plumbolog ments Tve must recogni; and accept the fact that marches on. So "shel Mayhap ifs cheaper tl to pay in the post-Halli for the damage that ott attend. ' !And cpnceivably, th "Bhelling out'^ has its For with the "new look' — one that would mal November 1 scowl of: ou look angelic in comparii ing out" is sutely a colle of ali workers that has hammered home. Consider a nmited ; movement with every Canada expiring on Oc1 suich event — whlch •through luilty — the either shell out, or tl strength of the workers "his little house of dre News. • The America,n hesitat« of a second. "Weil", hc guess I shot tfcem for p( aircraft." * RUOTSIN AMERIKAN LINJAN KAKSI ILONTÄYTEIST JOULUHUVIMATKi SCANDINAVIAN MAIHIN JA SUOMEl LINJAN liOXSTOLAIVA "KUNGSHOLM" NEW YORKISTA/JOULUKUUN 2 p. - Kaikki ihytli meren puolella. Koko matkan ajan nauti lun tunnelmaa luovasta ohjelmasta. Voimassa säasto '"llpunhlnnat^ '. ' " TOINEN MYÖHÄISEMPI JOULUHUVIMA Joka on erittäin sopiva canadalalsUlematkustajU "STOCKHOLM" HALIFAXISTA, JOULUKUUN 9 P-Saavutte perille Suomeen ajoissa ennen joulun pyhiä: 1 tulette nauttimaan kaikesta"Jouluhuvimatkan mukavui Käyttäkää hyväksenne säästökauden hintoja. Tilatkaa Ixyfttipaifckanne nyt! VAPAUS P.O. BOX 69 AGEN( SUDBURY/ONT. |
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