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as North America's 1964 horse of the year, The Yanks still have to be shown

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Dancer No ‘Shoo-In For ‘64 Race Honors .

By JACK SULLIVAN "Nope." shot back a knowl- Canadian Press Sports Editor edgeable American authority. Northern Dancer is a sweet- "But I'll tell you one thing. heart of a horse to Canadians. certainly will go against him it He‘s done more for Canada in he loses."

the last few months at the in- That was a giveaway to. ternational level than the suave American thinking about E. P. diplomats of the external afo Taylor's colt.

fairs department. TWO MORE RACES

But someone will have to em- He‘d won the Kentucky Derby bark on a adison Avenue and the Preaknesa. A win in hard-sell to convince turf writ- the tough I“: - mile Belmont era in the United States that this Stakes would have virtually as- Canadlan-bred three -. year - o sured him of the title should be considered seriously took a heating from Quadrangle and Roman Brother. .

Still, two-thirds of the triple crown give a orse some rat-. ing. Throw in the Plate. a $50.-‘l coo-added affair for Canadian. bred three-year-olds. which the{ Dancer won in a romp, and Ca-* nadians correctly figure he be- longs. with the best American, thoroughbreds.

But

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Th was pointed up at the Woodbine track in Toronto when American and Canadian turf writers got together to ex- change lies before the 1 running of the ’Queen’s Plate. “Will a win today for the

Dancer help him in the ballot- the fellows who do thei

one of there wouldn't be the gentlemanly way to get their at« tention. the Dancer will have to s ow them on an American track He'll have a couple of more chances this year.

On Aug. 22 Northern Dancer will run in the Travers Stakes. a cosy IVs-mile race. at Sara- toga. And the distance should be right for him. He seems to go best between a mile and a mile and a half.

He whipped the field over We miles in the Kentucky Derby, followed this with a convincing tit-length victory in the 1 3- mile Preakness. and after fail-

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hear-y that "Museum of Mines, Item. can stay better on a grass‘ panied by Capt. M. M. Miran. course than on the dirt. l'l'ononto, as adjutant. and arm- A example is Mongo.lorer S.Sgt. C. W. B. McKnight last year's International winner.l of Winnipeg. 0n the dirt tracks he was muchf Members of the team:‘ Flt like Northern Dancer. at hisngt. M. P. Susick. Summer best at distances between at side. P.E.I.; Capt. A.A. Parks. mile and 1% miles. But on the Saint John. N.B.; S. Sgt F grass he ran head and head Jermey. Montreal; Lieut. G. R with the mighty Kelso for prac-‘ Ouellette. Sqdn. Ldr. n. Rev- tically the whole l‘r‘z miles. pull- mug, and u. . Col, w, .1 ms away in the last furlons to; Strachan, all of Ottawa' Capt beat a horse that had been a‘T. p, 1, Vampjew Tin-0mm winner many times at two 53!, R. Came, 33n- ' miles- 10st,; r0 J. Butterfield. North Perhaps Northern Dancer wIII‘Bay. on M, B p- Bate”; take to the grass the same way. A and 'p“, ‘D F . Sewefi bod, m

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ing to make it over the mile and a half at Belmont he was an easy W‘s-length victory overt 1% miles in the Queen's Plate: even though jockey Bill Hartack never did let him go full out. ‘

RETURN BOUT Quadrangle is entered In the? Travers and the Dancer has aJ little score to settle with thlsl merican-bred horse, He gavel

the Dancer a good licking ini

the Belmont after losing to the Canadian colt in the Derby and . Preakness. It's likely the odds! will favor Northern Dancer to! make it three of four. i . The other big one this year; is the Washington lnternationalf

1m September. This is 11/: miles,

but with a difference. It's overt

{Winnipegz F0 . A. Pitcairn [Moose Jaw; Tpr. D. G. Daines- 'W0 H. E. McDonald and 'I‘pr.

Bisley Team

me 'I‘. Sorensen. all of Cal- ls Selected gary: Lac J. A. Hennok. Cold Lake. Alta: 'I‘pr. K. W. Richey ' LFd onion W , O’I'I‘AWA lCI’i The tin-‘1

. m . d Sgt. .l. .ightburn. Peachland. B.C. Kings County .30” Action

Georgetown is leading the 1g

minion of Canada Rifle Asso- ciation team which will com- pete at Bisley, England. July was honored at a banquet Thursday prior to departure by air for England.

The Ill-man Canadian team will compete against marks- men llrom Australia. Britain Kings County Baseball League. and Rhodesia in the annual with five games won a no two-week competition beginning losses. Souris trails the seven , July 4. Canada last won the [team circuit with three losses;

ing for horse-oI-the-year honors balloting the turf writers evi-: a grass course hot dirt vent in 1953 A and M w-

. ,. . ' '. ' _ - . ins. . n rts of Soutllr in North America? a Canadian dently_need further convincingl‘ Taylor and trainer Horatio, Leading the Canadian comm Top five ham." to (we were. = Agar? 1:39 1mg: on mm,“ , ‘ asked innocently. And smce taking a nip out of. Luro probably subscribe to Lhetgem win he “mm, D. C ,w. Medic“ puke“. 524. A l‘convemom. ,

THE FALL OF A CHAMPION Stolls of Australia in Wimble 'I y f an ntonio, don tennis championships at

Tex.. falls on his back during ‘ Wimbledon. Eng. and today. his semifinal match with Fred Stolls. background. who drop-

ped his racket momentarily. won 4-6, 10-8. 9-7, 6.4. (APWire photo via cable from London.

Defending champion Chuck McKnle o S

Physical Fitness Expert Learned By Experience

[bel-devised arrangement of Mil)? who has little or no intro-est ' he

By BOB TRIMBEE exercises to keep in shape. n sports who has to be pcd.

Sobel stepped innocently into a

EDMONTON (CP) — Morris;

wrestling rl g 22 years ago in Toronto and almost got his head tor

thing. i had gone into the gy‘ll

with a friend and this instruc-g ' me to work out in.

tor

II 0 . "I knew nothing. about wres-i

the ring. "I thought he was going to.minutcs to complete. My set is

show me a few things. I guess.1 got mel around the head. gave a couplei Ithen smashed me to‘l

in I way. he did. He

of twists. the floo ' Sobel law and it was three weeks be- fore he could eat solid food. He brooded decid back In instructor.

It took months and in thcl course of his effort be hecamc‘

l

. school. In 20 years he was plant

a "bug" on physical fitness and wrestling. He worked at vari-

ous exercises and gradually de-f e could use as; manager and then entered e

j hotel business.

veloped a . . a permanent personal keep-fit program.

growing group

binder in a

known as the Sobel Set in which ? sonal fitness program. he took ,L

Sobel. a compact dynamo of

the acknowledged adonis. RUNS HOTELS

Sobel. one of seven children of a poor Polish tailor. is the driving general manager arli part owner of a pair of thriv- ing motor hotels. in man who has been known to put off a business meeting to make time for his exercises.

Three times a week he and the group of friends who form bel work out in a

I'. got up with a hrokenl

4 about the incident. then;

ed he was going to get: the ring and beat thej

designed to give people a deft- nite program. . . . You have to be positive to encourage people and show them that they can enjoy staying fit.‘

His exercises. like the I RCAF's sex and IOBX pro- grams. “are gear to the

needs and abilities of the aver- age person seeking muscle con- ditioning.” TOOK UP WRESTLING

Sobel. 50. went to work as a youngster in Toronto as a fac-

The exercises range from toe- He's the guy who's goinglto get 'touc-hin-g and pushups to trunk sha ." }hends and twists. swings and istretclies and running.

"None of the exercises are new." Sobel says. "They've been for years. All I have done is to put them into a sequence that takes about 45

out of

The RCAF asked him to help rehabilitate men recuperating from surgery. He led the pa- tients in exercises~-"sotnetimes they were so weak we had to move their arms or legs"—-—and. after a program lasting as days on average the patients left in better shape than when they joined the force ‘ SAVED CHILD '

Sobel found the first converts to his fitness program among Toronto newspaper men who in- terviewed him after he had res- cued an infant from the ledge

e a. no

mo. He had raced up three flights of stairs and smashed several doors to reach the child. He told the newspaper men he never could have reached the child in

tory messenger and got his sec~ ondary ed 11 c a t 1' on at night

Following his jaw - breaking

Now these exercises are thelencounter in the wrestling ringu Calgary Herald aha Edmonton s

and development of per-

;up amateur wrestling as Iwetght and wont his division in

.h the Toronto and Ontario .championships each year trom 1‘ 1942 to 1948.

He coached the University of Toronto wrestling team for ‘three years in the mid‘l94lls and his team won two Cana- ‘dian intercollegiate titles.

; 'e his successes. Sobel 1‘ secs championship contests only 1as "an attraction to get other It‘s the

jpeople interested, . . .

. . . ' 5 pam h five-foot-lo and 190 pounds. is llght - heavyweight or heavy-1M]

the So , gym or a field, using the So- guy who doesn't make a team

. time had he not been in shape. : then proceeded to enlarge upon this favorite theme. exercising. 1 e Toronto Star soon after- !ward published the all-exercise lSobel program and later the

Journal did likewise.

Inquiries by mail brought a p let on the exercises. So- . distributed 11.000 copies. I most of them printed at. his own Iexpense -—~ "I have never ac- Icepted a cent for conducting classu or for the printed pam- phlets." A Toronto publisher is tinterested and “maybe they‘ll : fill the gap now that I'm out of I copies."

i sumo wnouo aying: "Lightning

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by Vernon River was awarded

Action was taken because of the use of ineligible players. it

4 Maurine B r o w n Neuberger ' Globe said Monday. It would he 4

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