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.tl. a> Ie. es. Bt- 0- Ja ja tn i le A !-I The Ady'(Hungarian-Canadian) Dance<3i:oup shown above wm be one of the feature Pf M ^if-^^f* o* mu*^ Annual Champion Concert in Toronto, Sunday, April 8th, 8.30 p.m. at 83 Chnstie St. The youth of many other cultural groups wiU also participate inakmg the concert one of the most colourful of the season, ° MapleLeafs* prize'bonus baby* Tod Sloan proudly hoidä t the puckr which he triggered home to equal the all-time Leaf club record of 37 goals set by Gaye Stewart.' Sloan has collected $4,000 inl>onus mone;^^ince his 20th goaL But "despite the Leaf s efforts they^äil Detroit 3—-r in the sei series: PAGES FROM THE FAST HIghlights of Yritys' History Over 50 Ye^rs Toronto., — In the year 1902 therie wefe some forty-five Hnns living in Toronto.: i n September. of that^ycM these.'people^were called together to discuss' fhe necessity of forming a Jlnnish Society. This proposal was vholeheartedly, accepted, and a com-mittee was formed to draft the Bjr^ Laws for such a Society. These rules, tbough- somewhat. altered exist today. Immediately the Society ^^)ecame ac-tive in^assisting new.'X;anadians to bei' co^le:^oriented.-^ Night: CJasses in Engr lisb were arranged with the assistance f of tb^ Board of Education; A: social commitee:was formed;' and short prov grammes >'hefore busin^ ; meeting^ were quite. popular..; In 1303 it vais decidedrto start-;a' Children's Sunda School,- where:'the-.childrenwöuldbe taughtsinging, games and to read anid 'vrlte; Finnish;;- D the: summer of I lOQl, the -possibihty:. of. forming. ia sports club ,wasadiscussed, a commit-- tee> wäs appointed^ to look into it', and the repor,t:i was;, that ^there ,were al-ready 'a '.greatmany activitles for sticti a' smklL group. Fo^ time being theridea,was postponed. Also, Toronto I was just • a stopover place for theFinns travelling to points.West and to* tiie. United StateSiWhichcauSf: ed Society membership to continually! fluctuate,' > -However. when later the^ Finnish: - Societybecame affiliated with the -Temperance Society ^Taimi'*. to tonnl.the! Toronto Finnish vSoclety Federation, a five man committee was' apijplnted to draft the :By-Laws for Ä sports dub. There had been a gzieat' many athletes. and gynuiasts amofagf* the' people coming over from Finland. Thus in March 19Ö6 "Yritys" was bom. Karl LOhto, a gym-r nast- iwas ' among the founderä, and ontil 'recently has judged gymnastic compietitions sponsored by. the Fin-' nish-Canadian Amateur Sports Federation; at "Littojuhlas'* (Aimual Sports RäUy)'. The' twelvo taembers of this •newly ibnried clubjbegan wrestling and other sporte In the back yard of the build-dlng rented by the Society Federation. iTie back yard, at 246 Richmond St, West was completely covered i with ]unk' änd-ashes, the men set to work cle^ning: up; and: sanded it for ttti&i-' Ing,j^,Tlie back alley was nsed for : tr^nining sprlnters. The apparatus wa5 .rather primitive, a 121 pound" welght:l»eing used for weight,throw-iAg. pidy the veli known vresUer. Kivimäki couldthröw the weight. One.,hand shot put weighed 50 Ibs. One dayit flew accidently througl? sompoflies garage door, .From, then on U< was arranged by the City. to let.thp>si>orts dub have the use of the grounds at -Hyde Park so • as; not to Stife Department B^K Yisit of Soviet % g M t e r s Some veight^lift fans are probably ^ondering what happoied to the Sor viet team which was invited by the AAU -:to>coippete agalnst -American lifterssin the US in March. When they asked for the necessaiy US^vlsas. th^r -veretold by the Ame-ncan Emttassy they^ could have fhem only if they submitted to f Ingerprfatr. Ing ofrbotli hands and the signing of a questionnaire saylng they cntercd at ihefr oiwn risk and took ali respon-sibiUfy for losses if their departure . from ihe^US wereJdelayed or ,denied! ^Since no sdf-respecöng Bussian athletes would submit to such non- «euse ?ny more than would «df-res-pectlng< Amerfiäins,i"tbe Embassy vas as^e^ to waive the Insolting xestrlc-tione^ ln thelnterests offrlendly In- ^erfimpeeot atMetes. It chedced liack wim jOiB State Department and —^ioap. So th&meetsazeofL' American wdgbt-Iifte^^ Softe^^ Union last year, had to aign nothing, ivere not insulted «iUi fln-setprint demands. and- were recctved triendddp an^ Hospitality: 'What was tbat about an Iron cor-disturb the^peace. iHusbands would: meet thdr families after - WOTk at Hyde Park, ,mother._ bringing v lunoh, and the chiidren played while father .trained. Thatyery summer Jthe Society Federation was approached to donate a Trophy for the first "Yritys'' sports meet planned for Dominion Day. Ali Finns, members- and- non-member » competed in tibe f ive-event; At i individual had to win this trophy for three years in order to keep it, Besults of -events were considerably held up as ali distances -virere in centi-metres and cnly tapes-graduated in mches were available. -Thus'it'Would take several days to know. the final resuits of competitors. The, club was InacUvr the fo)lö\i?ing Winter as -there • was- novaccommoda-' tion: for. gymnastics.- ;In,i:l&07;äEnok even -more popularHy^ under-itia-t^oi-- dance. - In -1920- he-represfinted- Cana4 da as Dominion ^restlln^ Cha|nplon at the Olympics in.Antwerp. = At-tbia time: the .club Jhad. grovnvtOj a: xnem* bership of 40. Ffix the fir5t'two years a^ sports> and gymnaatlQs^ljad been for male ?membersi. <I«ater ;the weaker: sex.zallid together aind iormr ed a Women's'Gymniafitlc:Groi^. ^The role of - the Viromen^s Group': hi^ be-come very.strong ovjer the yj^|S';and now : they v are - actUally • the > 001*6' of activitles of the club. ^ , - ; . vQutdoor JsppfUtevents": vartr 'often held in the Don VaUey by the Old Mill. In the late ld20's inunigrants flocked to Canada and.-with the mass unemployment. devot^: a great deal of time.andiinterest to Finnish Sports Clubs across Ontario. At this thne the 'fYritys" memberäiip-is recorded to have been as high. as:.,426ymembers in 1933. : These young people «rould partidpate in District Sports .-Meets arranged rby other clubs: in, Western and Northern Ontario. ; Sending re-pmentativeB. was^^^^^ fix^ndai,: prob-leto;;: äs/^th Puliman"' (rode the rods). In additlon; to maintaing ttieir pwn orgänization as- well -as >a Finnish- Canadiah netvspaper,- . they took an a«tiye: interes^ iii, happenings in the '^^jiM:,^^ seödiijg^ .•iveUV-.^s;;-; ; Vasäto^c^^^^^^ whaiever' possible; ^ Also 4he hand of ,f rlendship LöpFdnen,a wrestler,arriTedfrcim.the Ws stretched acro^ the. bo^ OldCountry,:and.-the'spOrt'^adned ^ihe,y\Pumish^Ap3§T^^ "Työmies" and "Eteenpäin". . And in XJanada ^ the Youth .l«ague__ Against wär andrF^cism'«'w6ÄwaäJ^ heärteaiysiipported,- •r. Th^'- Finnish Oganlzation^d the-Sporis^F^era- ^ott Jointly; sponsored' the; seäding of •two-'delegates-''to. thenmeeting .in Paris^in< lte4. • ^e:-Finnish-Canadian: young -'people ^gave -tf tgreät; deal; of •ässistance to thefolmlng öf the "Canadian-' youth paper rYourig. -Yorker''. Jfeny -of-omr-Troung-men :Who went to Spain in^' 1936 rto llght in tjie War agahist" fascism^^^eyer retiÄed/ •^'•Yrttys" Täiis/e^T^xpl'~n%£ei6a^ tiack and. field ^^eiits- in: the' past 50 years inc!uding,"^ttoJuhlas!f8inc<e; the FCASF was formed in 1925. A good share of Federation records have been attained by such athletes asi Ake Hunnakko 100 m. dash 60 m. dash 7,1; 200 m, dash 235; and many events in the under 21 class. Taisto Salo shot put (16 Ib.) 13.17, «12 Ib. 14.41. He wa5 also Dominion dis* cuss Champion at one time Desiring to bring together the gym-; nasts and sportsmen of ali national origlonä in Canada; the Workers Sports Association of Canada was formed in the early 1930's Sepetary of the association wa8 Terho Tuori, (Jim Turner) who when the Pinniah Branch was :disbanded became; the. National Secretary of the ^SAC. Recently past and; present members of 'Yritys" were 'called togettier for a 50th 'Anniversary": photo. Evefyone was there- from Karl liChto, founding member,: to V young • mothers ofthe women's gym groupwith babes in arms. A truly representatlye body-of the:vpeople-. :who- have devöted • thelr efforts to sports and gymnastics amongst the Finnish-Canadians.- ? < Both young and Old vereinoluded in the preparationsifor-the 50th'Anniversary celebrations. Yritys has made a hbst of frlends over the years, i partlciilarly through sports activitles. Evidence of this was the large-partlclpation of >people. Itop^ varlous^ mass organi^atlons in our weekend celebrations. BMtRIEItS SET ASmE Old and Young Woii(ed Hand in Hand Tb Celebrale 50 Years of Activities SANDOR IHABOS SCIENCE AND SYSTEM IN TRAINING^^ Sandor Iliaros,-Bmigarian miA-die distance nmner. vrlio beat irorld records slz tbnes dnting .1955,: has ttie foUoiring:; to say abont his lavomrite sport: To beat the stop-watdi or the fel-low, which is moreimportant? I say neither. The big thinfe is to. win over yourself.: .When :you reach the ;po!nt where legs and lubgs are cr^ng out for a rest thafs wben you have to; make the extra effort and do so.even better. So the golden rule ' i f you want to go anywhere in spori' is to mastfr yourself. : Believe it or not I never ran in a race or took an active part"in any sport tintu 1948. At: that time; I was 18 and our; coimtry's programme of sports ojjportiuoities for everyone was well under way I Jolned the B. A. C. Club ättachedr to Budapest University, : Tbat was no world ^^aklng event. -No sports editors aimounced. that a new numer had "arrlyed-^and my lisual placing in a race .was L"also ran". However through hard'train-ing and' listening. to advice. my-Xorm began to imi»ove, - The past:year has seen a phenome-nal number of world -records brokcn New figurcs.were set up 38;tinies-^^ cluding.the 800 m Rudolf Harbig'& time over thte distance. hädstoodto^ test of 20 years. Does this mean that tod%y's athletes are.better;than the past? No, of coursB noti but it does underline the importance of-^Scientific training and the fact that modem athletes study - and apply method. Witholit doing so yon Just can't reach top grade. . . COAC9ING COUNTS ^.Tben there is the ,questIon.j>f good coachtng, TOhat is a good^coach? LeVs .take a look' at mine.:. Like ;all Hungarian coaches-A S^.'^^Sloi--was himself an athlete and qui^ a fämous one too, During a viJsit to-Finlahä, the land:oi great long distance runners, herwas tremendously Imprefised./by the enormous distance; covered - in training. He studied. Jlieir. tte^hods, deveioped -tbem and applled^t&em :to Hungary. It wa8 a tougher more systematic; method than usuä}. bUt the proof lies' in resuits;. Igloi trains Tabod. and Rozsavolgyi .and^;myself^ ali «rorld. record breakens, aadi under his guidahce we have won 16, fntema-tlonal competitions.. He drawa-iip the training schedule and is ^ with us ali the :time;as we cany it out Above ali he sets an example in hard. Wffii:k,:per-sistence and getting the JriiÄt spUit of comradeship ali the time. ^ • - TBAINING FOB BECOBDS ^. Of course.sdence.and System does-n't mean every runner.iias to txaln. In the: same way.- But one must atrain, at least 1 to 2 .Jiours > every day.>m^^ Ihterval ^ t e m . • Y ^ distances over and lover, again, say 400 nL it you are training for 5XXK) m.; with intervals öl easy; going ;Jn bet-ween.: TOeek by. week^we'st^}upgthe distance and speed and cut downnthe intervals. I train twice.a jlay in this way, moming and evening. before and after work. Some eri ties say. that record break-ing and the Scientific :.approach is spoiling sport but ;i think tbat is Just -'7 Vi 'mm J '^'--^ Mm "Vie always paycashfor eyerthing we buy* nonsense. I' always run to: win eadi race buti also want' to break reeordB, During our national champlonships when I broke the 5,000 m. record for the secondtime Iglol, Tabor and' I discussed the chance of doing SO before the race^and worked out tactlcs. This is ali to the good. It increases interest and gives more impetus'to ambitiona. Uke anything else in life — the higber you set the goal and the more you strive to achieve it, the better the resuits. - Interest in record breaking is bere to stay. The limits are a long way off. Over 5,000 m. Chattaway;: Kuto, Chromik,^^^^^ 1^ and others ali have yet to reach.their best times. I ,»ilnk I can bring. mine down be!ow *13.40,6 and eveö to 13.30 OLYMPIC bPINIONS Now a last Word on this years big question mark;;the Melbotime .Olympics I hoj>e to be one ofour team there and tbat depends: on my form thJs year; It Is too early tovsaywhat races n i : compete in^ but almost cer-tainly the 5,000 and perhaps the 1,500. Then too there is always tbe'pos8ibl-lity of the 10,000 m, I feel that Tm now at the stage to b(%ln tackllng; this distance. In fact, by. the time ^ydti read tiiis article I may have had my lizst. race over .tiie distance Zatopek has made so jmpular, 'The' tbing I'm'looking;forward'^ to is the chance to meet so man'y old and new frlends in Melbourne. I; was at Helsinki and even tben when: we had nothing like:the: rdaxing:of tension we know today no.one bothered about ivbether you were Chiiieso; Kore^ Hungarian or -American. I sometimes tbink tbat the politlclans could leam a lot from sport. Amongst us com-petition isoften fierce;:butfriend8hlp is tremendously strong. It ougbt.^to be the same in everything. BUSH A clothing stoze recdved thfs let-ter from a.ciistomer whO had ofdered a matemity dress. "Dear Sir: "Flease cancel that order for nty dress size 44; vblcb you were going to dellver to me. My ddirezy %a8 fasta* tiian yours., Reqtectlidfy;-'R, S." AEASäUBBnrc ISan in 6wIXDniing:^fAr/ you quUe sure itaere are' no oocodUes about bere?" « Boy on shore: rSTes sir. The sbatks seazed '«m aw^." Toronto. — in recent yeats there has been a strong feeling developlng amfibgst our parents tliat they had falTed in our upbringlbg the leeUng tliat the youth had developed toto somethlng foreign to their dreams and aspirations. . 1^ people themselves were to Incxperlenced to: make themselves understood. It was' difficult to eX" plain the batttes^tbey were lighting witbin themselves. Being bom Ca-nadians and having been ralsed imder Ooin|detetly diffeireni eonditlons than their-pärents had beeh; they couldn't posslbly be as militant in their ap-; proach to hali activitles. .As a' result oi;, the many battles waged and lost^ many young people liecamedislllu-sioned. Row to inake themselves tm-derstood, their plans, for thOi future: weremot the same lis-tbose of their parents, nonetheless they were every bit as much concemed about the f u-tyre of the Finnish sports and cultu- ^ral organizations. If tbts polnt could bevclarlfied then vays and means of compromise could be foundi Yritys" alpng with most.«f our sports clubs hasrsuffered a great deal from this conixtsion. A vproof of what could; be.accomp-ll^ h?d if - thfse barriers' were done away with was,Rrqven by the SOth Anniversary cpncert. beld: last week ^d.':When tbe.hall was packed with p^ple many ; 0 | .'W1JO»' durtog -the course of 50 yeans have-contributed m^ch time and talent to the 4evdop-mpnt of "Yritys'^—people, who atUl have! the intprest ot the club at heart, and would gladly tal[;e hold of the relns If only ways couljl be found of including them in tbie actlvit^ Tl^e op^ mai^b; wlth 50 stym-nast^' from »ttle childnin to grand-inot^ ers was most speotacuU^r. Three dlffjei^fnt age grou^ of ^ vomen had conie'togethen a represeniatlön of the women'Syractlvlties över, the past 25 yeftrs^*»'-*»'' - f Fihtly,> öiie women who bäd beeii active ' i n , gymnastics some 25 yealfa ago, vqmen who have wob much i(ame for "Yiritys" in the LIItto'S gymnastic competitions. and • the present gym group, Jhat häs. promoted, so much good 'wlll / amongst cultural groups of the fratemal organlzations; They were followed by the, Uttle boys and giris who' had been • rehcarsing for months with tbeli- displays,: Many of them behind the: /oot' llghts for the first llibe, standlng so proudly In their gym uniforms, ^ liCtters and telegraras of congratu-latlons poured in from affiliated sports Clubs and fraternal bodles - - further proof of tbe frlends we have made during the years.' f-.:.. In the past SO years the work otnu-merous people has gone into building the foundation on which will rest the work and accompllsbments of: people yet to come. People tbough perhaps not equipped with the same Ideas as of those hl the past, but who in the course of thdr expericnces will de-velop and carry on the aimsthat were originally set fourth when "Yritys*^ came Into being. — A' US interest In Soviet Desjgned New Equipment American oil: engineers. have. pald tribute to Soviet science by request- Ing permission to manufactnre 8o-viet- deslgned turbodrills for oli; and gas drlUUig in the United States. While : the princlples of . turblno-powercd drilling have been known for some time, tbe Soviet experts are the first to produce machlnery to make it posslbic, enabllng bigb-speed drilUng to be carrled: out Irrespectivo of the nature of the soil or rock penetraied. : In the first deal of its kind the Soviet Machinery :Export; Organlzatlon has glven permission to • the Dressec Industries Corporation: in the US to manufacture the drllls. A gitoup of Soviet designerä willbe sent to the US to take part in experl-mental drilling and to acquaint US engineers with the latest techniques of oil drilling now In use, Dresser Industries wlll pay: for the cost of t^e Soviet license by paylng th^ Sovtet Machine Export Organlzatlon a certain percentagO of the: cost of the drllls and spare pärts manu» factured and sold by the' company.: The agreement has been signcd tor a period of ten ycarsv and: may well be the first of a- scries^of agreements between Sbvtet' inacbihery" ori;aniza^ tinos and prlvate: companics abroad under whlch excbangcs of tcchnlcal knowbow will take place. It remains to bc scen whcthcr the US State Department wiil attempt to wrcck the agrepm^nt by rcfusing per mission for the SoViet engineers to go to the US to dcmohstrate the turbodrills. WET ATMOSPHERE Senior: How did you Uke Venice? Junior: Oh, I only stayed a few days. The place :Was flooded. Clerk: Did you killany moths with tbose moth balls rsold you the other day? Custemer: No, I tricd for five hours, but I couldn't hlt one. Song of Seasons Jim Tksist of Sudbury *as inspJrcd to wrJte the follow-ing Iines after hearing the notcd American singcr Paul Roböson at'a recant concert in Sudbury.. Robeson wiil be a^pearing in conccrts in many Canadian ci ties in April and 'May> don't mbs the opporiunity to hcar this famous sInger. In the clouding days Of Autumn, J heard wfld geese a honking. Caliing back and forth to one amthcr, - As they spcd Southivard ' ' Before the Arctic blast. , ^ f n the coU, dark days ^Of Winter, l htard the sparroivs chirping A teassurittg notc in the surrounding quict Of life subducd And lying dormanl. In the budding days Of Spring, 1 heard the robin sihging V To his inate and me; Cheering up^ Exclainting of tlie morrom. In the gladsome days Of Summer, I heard the meadovt-lark singing " Of loondrous life exultant And reneueä. ' But none sing Uke my cltampion,' Who saaring 'vfay above, Defies the tempest and the seasons. His, the song of humanity FiiU-throated and deep; Singing of suffenng; auiakeningf struggjiel ' And of brotherhood. ^ - Canadian senior skating champions for the second straight yeär, Carol Jane Pachl and Charles SnelUng pose with their trophies at the Galt Arena after Winning their respective events. ' ^ i \ ^ < " m THE CULTURAL PURSUIt OF THE STOUT FELL<IWS By BOB WABD We sce byöie papcrs t h a t « battle royal is stillraglng over tbe proposed 0'Keefe cultural centrc. 0'Kecfe's, in fcase you missed'it, ai^e etout felIows on tbe question of culture and they Intend to bulld a Pub*^ lie Audltorium In foronto for cul« tUral pursults. And this proposal has many citl-zens at lagers-hcads. The latest query ralsed by a Toronto Aldermanwaswhet<herO'lC«cfc8 would allow, say, M6Ison'8^to sponsor a Symphony orohestra in tlie proposcd CKeefePub-llc Audltorium. And anyone can sco rlght off tbe bung that this is a pretty Trotby sort of conundrum, IWeli, rlght away. quicker than you could say 'Hoy Mabel', an 0'<Keefe'a Pub-Dc Relatlons fellow gave a sort of balffand-balf reply to *tbo Aldcr-man. - ^ And Xrom wbat we'vc been ablo to make out of the situatlon itr^ould be quite OK. by 0'Xcefe's as long as Mol6on's would see to it tbat tbe Symphony Orchestra was counducted by tbat fJne musical fellow, Cold Porter, • * « Now mind you there migbt be other rcstictions, sudt a ban on the orchestra playing the iheme f romM^st Weekend", or "Pace on the Barroom Ploor." But we kind of adduced from tbe ei tua tion tha t i t would be: permlsslble to play Old classlcs like i f Ale, Ale, the Garig-s AU Here." "Bccr, Bcer, For a Notorious Dame"; "You Pcr-m'ent For Me"; and the 'Ffozcn lAger.' And tbat seems to be Ute way that tbe case Is resting. rln^-tailed öopse irom>n; onUi^M^ Ooose If It wasn't for tAie «dsl ^ Somvet, we'8ort bit liaVe'Uu» ftel»' ittg that tbe beer barotis^are m^e ; lntercated\ln keepintf^t^e pubUo'*!!» form' rather tban fnformed.; But rcgordless ot the ftOent' IV» » fact that no^onejever wo>il<S baye^ {uiown what tbe.greatest brewlbg d ^ . covery wa8, and thins!» Ukt ti^t'!! it viMn't for alhot J3»k.se»5^i>l'iirt8- dom' displaycd |by brenving f irms. , (J<er öt.jrtet ^xM^^:^> Pub-Hc' Opinion; |«bir'«ouia ^moft likely pop-up tvith the Wp]m»t%i ; tbat lye have one of thl^ bBSClofonn-ed biee drinking population»' in tb» woild., And tbafa a ittich^ dMlt sbouldn't be sfiu^Icbed, ipr.BVUtr) l ] OMfUspedTct ibe mtmti i i » ^ - . casts ibat we've ponder«4''ui.wiiU t&fejr. have singing. commereials.'/Ani} ^If they do 3iave them, ivlll thjsjf, Siave;a male quartet. , / •• ' / ' FlowJng from tbiai, question,, pl course, is wlll it be OIL i o r ' ^* Keere^s to call them 'fTbe^Cuts^" Whcn wc get beer, ^ adverUB&i|r#- culture and football ali mixed^'we can be tbat almost a»ytbiiag<ii» bound to totMUi « bea^^— V^r^ News. ' ' / ' m 1 ^ m i i i The wife of a'^nioimtalne^ ^'.Pl^^, back' woöds area had Just b«»DB*Va motber for the I8tb timel Tbe ever-growlng fdmlly scemed to be irf^ cern to ah Itiqulsitiyc elghtryearHDOd ' In tbe group.' ' ^ - One day, the blg-eyed" lad »poltid the first atrplaiie he'd ever seeo.'//As. be ^tebed, several men'|>äracha^d out.' Excltedly he ran tiome. -< ^ ^ ^ , ^ » , v Orabbtogr bis father be^seream^:' -1.1— ^ - J * ? » ^"w" -'h^^g ^yjo^re ^ g^u^n^ a^n^d^ cpme a-ruimln', Ä . droppjn*;;:^»';^^ beer keg as any Citizen can sce; But, of course, every citlzen will subecribe to the idea that companles Wiio make beer are ali for culture. For culture — the rlght kind: of cul-: ture -> is what makes it posslble to make oiie-year old beer quicker. • « • Beer also timcA over into tbe sporting news recently; wbenlt was announced tbat P. P. Taylor would lay a miUion or so on tbe lioe for tbe rigbts to televise football games this FalL And from Queen'6 Patic aus «ome tbe odd belcOi iwbich would > indlcato tbat Uierewas more body than Iroth to the «fcatement that Ontarlo's «quor Iaws will be amended so that~adver'> tising wlll be permlsslble. Evcty dttecn will agrce taiat we have beer and Uquor advertlsing now. But, ali of tbose ads tbat v/e see in busses, streetcars, newKpapets, etc, ete., aren't really advertislng at ali; at ali. Tiiey are pub-llc servlces, Like Information on tvbatruns faster tban what; wbat is the «reatest brewlng discovety since brew-wbo, and vbat Is the f^n's Pavorite. Tbese ads, wbicb aren't legal ads becaUse it^s 111^1 to advertlse you-know- wbat in Ontario, :are to^keep the public informed." And ^s one citlzen wbo keejuin-formed on aD of t b ^ faiteresting tbings ibat tbe beör firma keep' us Informed on; we-faave to admit' tliat we wouIdn't know a Bliie-necked, A TICKLI8H BITUATION , Parson Fletcher came bojne one af• temoon to find the town iosslp, i&ea. Blethersole^ comfortably^en8concetf<Ui his Uving-room, ebattlng^!with'liis wlfe.' Tbe parson managftd to sneak ujMttairs, wbere he remalned tae aqaut time. Finally be Yisked «alUngr dovn to bis wlfe; ' ' ' "Is tbat borrible bore gottc yet?««" Tbe wife did some quick/thinldng and repUed: "Ob yes, deatvsbe WieBt long ago. Mirs. Bletbersole i s here now." > ' ' -* m m »ARfyMiriOfcS 'TME-MQNm \ m ONtWHO " COKSULTS HtS Me SMOt/lO im m mm
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Title | Vapaus, March 29, 1956 |
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Date | 1956-03-29 |
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The Ady'(Hungarian-Canadian) Dance<3i:oup shown above wm be one of the feature
Pf M ^if-^^f* o* mu*^ Annual Champion Concert in Toronto, Sunday, April 8th, 8.30 p.m.
at 83 Chnstie St. The youth of many other cultural groups wiU also participate inakmg
the concert one of the most colourful of the season, °
MapleLeafs* prize'bonus baby*
Tod Sloan proudly hoidä t the
puckr which he triggered home
to equal the all-time Leaf club
record of 37 goals set by Gaye
Stewart.' Sloan has collected
$4,000 inl>onus mone;^^ince his
20th goaL But "despite the
Leaf s efforts they^äil Detroit
3—-r in the sei series:
PAGES FROM THE FAST
HIghlights of Yritys' History Over 50 Ye^rs
Toronto., — In the year 1902 therie
wefe some forty-five Hnns living in
Toronto.: i n September. of that^ycM
these.'people^were called together to
discuss' fhe necessity of forming a
Jlnnish Society. This proposal was
vholeheartedly, accepted, and a com-mittee
was formed to draft the Bjr^
Laws for such a Society. These rules,
tbough- somewhat. altered exist today.
Immediately the Society ^^)ecame ac-tive
in^assisting new.'X;anadians to bei'
co^le:^oriented.-^ Night: CJasses in Engr
lisb were arranged with the assistance
f of tb^ Board of Education; A: social
commitee:was formed;' and short prov
grammes >'hefore busin^ ; meeting^
were quite. popular..; In 1303 it vais
decidedrto start-;a' Children's Sunda
School,- where:'the-.childrenwöuldbe
taughtsinging, games and to read anid
'vrlte; Finnish;;- D the: summer
of I lOQl, the -possibihty:. of. forming. ia
sports club ,wasadiscussed, a commit--
tee> wäs appointed^ to look into it', and
the repor,t:i was;, that ^there ,were al-ready
'a '.greatmany activitles for
sticti a' smklL group. Fo^ time
being theridea,was postponed. Also,
Toronto I was just • a stopover place
for theFinns travelling to points.West
and to* tiie. United StateSiWhichcauSf:
ed Society membership to continually!
fluctuate,' > -However. when later the^
Finnish: - Societybecame affiliated
with the -Temperance Society ^Taimi'*.
to tonnl.the! Toronto Finnish vSoclety
Federation, a five man committee
was' apijplnted to draft the :By-Laws
for Ä sports dub. There had been
a gzieat' many athletes. and gynuiasts
amofagf* the' people coming over from
Finland. Thus in March 19Ö6 "Yritys"
was bom. Karl LOhto, a gym-r
nast- iwas ' among the founderä, and
ontil 'recently has judged gymnastic
compietitions sponsored by. the Fin-'
nish-Canadian Amateur Sports Federation;
at "Littojuhlas'* (Aimual Sports
RäUy)'.
The' twelvo taembers of this •newly
ibnried clubjbegan wrestling and other
sporte In the back yard of the build-dlng
rented by the Society Federation.
iTie back yard, at 246 Richmond St,
West was completely covered i with
]unk' änd-ashes, the men set to work
cle^ning: up; and: sanded it for ttti&i-'
Ing,j^,Tlie back alley was nsed for
: tr^nining sprlnters. The apparatus
wa5 .rather primitive, a 121 pound"
welght:l»eing used for weight,throw-iAg.
pidy the veli known vresUer.
Kivimäki couldthröw the weight.
One.,hand shot put weighed 50 Ibs.
One dayit flew accidently througl?
sompoflies garage door, .From, then
on U< was arranged by the City. to
let.thp>si>orts dub have the use of the
grounds at -Hyde Park so • as; not to
Stife Department
B^K Yisit of Soviet
% g M t e r s
Some veight^lift fans are probably
^ondering what happoied to the Sor
viet team which was invited by the
AAU -:to>coippete agalnst -American
lifterssin the US in March.
When they asked for the necessaiy
US^vlsas. th^r -veretold by the Ame-ncan
Emttassy they^ could have fhem
only if they submitted to f Ingerprfatr.
Ing ofrbotli hands and the signing of
a questionnaire saylng they cntercd
at ihefr oiwn risk and took ali respon-sibiUfy
for losses if their departure
. from ihe^US wereJdelayed or ,denied!
^Since no sdf-respecöng Bussian
athletes would submit to such non-
«euse ?ny more than would «df-res-pectlng<
Amerfiäins,i"tbe Embassy vas
as^e^ to waive the Insolting xestrlc-tione^
ln thelnterests offrlendly In-
^erfimpeeot atMetes. It chedced
liack wim jOiB State Department and
—^ioap. So th&meetsazeofL'
American wdgbt-Iifte^^
Softe^^ Union last year, had to aign
nothing, ivere not insulted «iUi fln-setprint
demands. and- were recctved
triendddp an^ Hospitality:
'What was tbat about an Iron cor-disturb
the^peace. iHusbands would:
meet thdr families after - WOTk at
Hyde Park, ,mother._ bringing v lunoh,
and the chiidren played while father
.trained. Thatyery summer Jthe Society
Federation was approached to
donate a Trophy for the first "Yritys''
sports meet planned for Dominion
Day. Ali Finns, members- and- non-member
» competed in tibe f ive-event;
At i individual had to win this trophy
for three years in order to keep it,
Besults of -events were considerably
held up as ali distances -virere in centi-metres
and cnly tapes-graduated in
mches were available. -Thus'it'Would
take several days to know. the final
resuits of competitors.
The, club was InacUvr the fo)lö\i?ing
Winter as -there • was- novaccommoda-'
tion: for. gymnastics.- ;In,i:l&07;äEnok
even -more popularHy^ under-itia-t^oi--
dance. - In -1920- he-represfinted- Cana4
da as Dominion ^restlln^ Cha|nplon
at the Olympics in.Antwerp. = At-tbia
time: the .club Jhad. grovnvtOj a: xnem*
bership of 40. Ffix the fir5t'two
years a^ sports> and gymnaatlQs^ljad
been for male ?membersi. 001*6' of
activitles of the club. ^ , - ;
. vQutdoor JsppfUtevents": vartr 'often
held in the Don VaUey by the Old
Mill. In the late ld20's inunigrants
flocked to Canada and.-with the mass
unemployment. devot^: a great deal
of time.andiinterest to Finnish Sports
Clubs across Ontario. At this thne
the 'fYritys" memberäiip-is recorded
to have been as high. as:.,426ymembers
in 1933. : These young people «rould
partidpate in District Sports .-Meets
arranged rby other clubs: in, Western
and Northern Ontario. ; Sending re-pmentativeB.
was^^^^^ fix^ndai,: prob-leto;;:
äs/^th
Puliman"' (rode the rods).
In additlon; to maintaing ttieir pwn
orgänization as- well -as >a Finnish-
Canadiah netvspaper,- . they took an
a«tiye: interes^ iii, happenings in the
'^^jiM:,^^ seödiijg^
.•iveUV-.^s;;-; ; Vasäto^c^^^^^^ whaiever'
possible; ^ Also 4he hand of ,f rlendship
LöpFdnen,a wrestler,arriTedfrcim.the Ws stretched acro^ the. bo^
OldCountry,:and.-the'spOrt'^adned ^ihe,y\Pumish^Ap3§T^^
"Työmies" and "Eteenpäin". . And in
XJanada ^ the Youth .l«ague__ Against
wär andrF^cism'«'w6ÄwaäJ^
heärteaiysiipported,- •r. Th^'- Finnish
Oganlzation^d the-Sporis^F^era-
^ott Jointly; sponsored' the; seäding
of •two-'delegates-''to. thenmeeting .in
Paris^in< lte4. • ^e:-Finnish-Canadian:
young -'people ^gave -tf tgreät; deal; of
•ässistance to thefolmlng öf the "Canadian-'
youth paper rYourig. -Yorker''.
Jfeny -of-omr-Troung-men :Who went
to Spain in^' 1936 rto llght in tjie War
agahist" fascism^^^eyer retiÄed/
•^'•Yrttys" Täiis/e^T^xpl'~n%£ei6a^
tiack and. field ^^eiits- in: the' past
50 years inc!uding,"^ttoJuhlas!f8inc |
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