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PAGE FOUR ONTARIO TODAY SATURDAY, JULY 30 a ---- Cover picture: Canada's lovely Ernestine Russell * at Olympics 4 years ago. i ---- ream Rive stic SE CW RAS a RY a poor relation c competition BY LLOYD PERCIVAL ANADIAN athletes stepping up on the award: rostrum at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo is a picture I like to dream about. Most Canadian sports observers would classify this as a "pipe-dream". But is it so fantastic? Is amateur sport in Canada destined to remain the undeveloped and uninspired thing it is now? I don't think so -- providing we take the right ap- proach in the near future to organize and administer an intelligent development program. There is no doubt that prospects are not very bright for Canadian athletes at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. We do have several individual possible medal winners, Harry Jerome the sprint sensation Pog : for Vancouver for example, but generally speaking it: Czechoslovakia's Olga : 4 : is unlikely our athletes will develop charley-horses Fikotova setting new 3 A 3... m. : from stepping up and down from the award platform. discuss wiark in 1936. E fd How come? the story the way I see it. i] In 1928 at the Oiympic Games in Amsterdam, our Canadian girls won the Women's Championships and the men won a number of gold medals. Some of us still get a thrill thinking about Percy Williams: winning both the 100 and 200 meters. In those days training was not nearly as well organized as it is today and athletes "came out of the woods" quite often to amaze the world. This was the case with Percy Williams. In 1932 at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles the Canadian contingents did very well but not nearly as well as in 1928. Just about this time the other countries began to develop national schemes designed to improve the skill, endurance, speed and strength of their athletes. Canada did nothing. Every year since 1932 this development process has been increasing by leaps and bounds in practically every country of the world. In Russia and the Com- munist dominated countries it has become a number one priority which is indi- cated by their tremendous success over the last ten or: twelve years. In the United GET RELIEF TONIGHT! States their tremendous high Cool, soothing OLYMPENE takes the sting ou? of sunburn instantly and safely! it's antiseptic school and college program- heals os it soothes! Keep OLYMPENE 1 'me with its wonderful faci- olwoys on hand for quick relief of insect a bites poisonivy hot, itching fees lities and excellent coaching, ond other summer infections . has been turning out world class athletes. In Canada we | have done nothing. Starting some eight or. nine years ago, Australians A wonderful weekend outdoors. But Poison ivy, 100, can spoil a And painful, itching in- A Product of yy RN decided that they would like: Monday: "O-h-h-h, my sufburn!" happy holiday... sect bites. a Bi 1 to develop athletes of inter- 7 / Q ry . . . . s : national calibre and .in spite The ANTISEPTIC Liniment 4 Zz") iy of their small population and: oothe Se ; y. a= the tremendous distances in- AC K, AR X 'your. DRUGGISY y : volved, they have now deve- ACHING 8 MS, LEGS LL, He'll deliver! - LR loped a group of athletes in : y Yi yi WITH... : , all amateur sports who are, man for man, woman for woman, probably the best in Canada's Jackie Macdonald has better looks than Olga.