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DRYING OUT? -- Canadian Football League Commissioner Sydney Halter is seen here ex- amining the field at Empire Stadium in Vancouver, site of the Grey Cup game on Satur- day. The field, a mire only four days ago, is drying out with the help of large propane gas heaters, Thursday it look- ed as if the field was respond- ing to treatment and will be in good condition for tomorrow's game. Field - Fans - Players Are All Warming Up VANCOUVER (CP)--Empire Stadium Manager Bus Evans stood in the $12 seats Thursday and surveyed the beehive of ac- tivity before him. "On Saturday this field is go- ing to be as good as any in the country at this time of year,' he said. Below him, in unaccustomed sunshine, the field looked like a market garden in springtime. A section from midfield to one 25-yard line was covered with tarpaulins and plywood sup- ported by benches. Beneath the cover hot y ose were orking full : . the other 25-yard-to-mid- field section, men were raking hil Did he think it would be in good condition Saturday? 'They assure me s0." There are 36,465 seats in Em- pire Stadium for Saturday's game--down from the record 39,417 occupied here in 1955 when the West first played host to the Grey Cup classic. In an effort at greater crowd control the Canadian Football League has removed 2,228 end- zone and trac seats and, in the interests of fan accord, have eliminated more than 100 seats behind posts and other obstruc- tions. STAY TOGETHER Quarterback Joe Kapp and 32 dried mud from the turf while heat lamps suspended between benches were baking the grass. On one end zone was paint Grey Cup and a maple leaf bordered by a British Columbia Lion and a Hamilton Tiger-Cat. The two teams meet at Em- pire Stadium at 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EST) Saturday for the Grey Cup football championship to be televised nationally by CBC and CTV. ARE CONCERNED Officials of the Canadian Foot- ball League have been con- cerned about the field since it was turned into a quagmire by continuous rain before the West- ern Conference playoff between the Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders. Syd Halter, CFL commis- sioner, visited the field Thurs- day. Asked what he thought, he "It's coming along. It's com- ing along." Nine Named To Canadian Grid 'Hall Of Fame' VANCOUVER (CP) Nine new members were named Thursday to the Canadian Foot- ball Hall of Fame. The newcomers, announced at a Canadian Football League luncheon, bring the Hall of Fame's total membership to 31. Their active careers cover a pe- riod from the turn of the cen- tury to 1953. The new members: Ben Simpson, kicking half- back with Queen's University and Hamilton Tigers from 1899 to 1910. Frank Shaughnessy, football coach for 20 years at McGill University, The late Harry Griffith, coach of the University of Toronto in 1908-10 and longtime official of the Canadian Rugby Union. N. J. (Piffles) Taylor, quar- terback and later president of Regina Roughriders. The late Capt. Percival Mol- gon, backfielder with McGill and Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, whose bequest af- ter he was killed in action in the First World War made pos- sible the erection of McGill Sta- dium. Eddie Emerson, flying wing for 25 years with Ottawa Rough Riders and later president of the club. The late Hughie Gall, kicking half with University of Toronto from 1908 to 1912. Russ Rebholz, backfielder with Wi Blue Bombers til 9 a.m. Saturday, then load djinto a bus for Empire Stadium to prepare for the kickoff, The big star from California has had more burdens this week than usual, even for a Grey Cup quarterback because of the uncertain condition of the Em- pire Stadium field and two in- juries in the offensive forma- tion. Offensive coach Frank, John- ston said flanker Sonny Homer has a loose cartilage 'floating around his leg." "If we were to play the game this afternoon he'd be out--but we have 48 hours." End Pat Claridge, working out all week with a knitting shoul- der separation, will play split end if Homer is out, and Homer will be replaced at flanker by Mac Burton. MUST BEAT TICATS Johnston said Lions must beat the bigger Ticats physically. But the attack, he said, i mostly in the hands of Kapp, a quarterback who '"'has~ served as apprentice and journeyman and is getting to the point now where he could be an _ estab- lished professional." Talk to a Hamilton Tiger-Cat and he'll talk about Willie Flem- ing. "Unbelievable," dent Jack Gaudaur. "Dangerous," says Coach Ralph Sazio. "You've always got to be con- cerned about Willie Fleming," Says quarterback Bernie Fal- oney. Fleming is Lions' explosive halfback who is capable of scor- ing anytime he gets the ball. DEFENCE IS NEEDED The defence work against Fleming is one of the more im- portant things on Hamilton play- ers' minds as they practise daily behind the fences of Brockton Oval in downtown Stanley Park. Practice sessions, plus black- board talk at their hotel, started Wednesday afternoon after a light-hearted meeting with the press in the morning. And Sazio isn't giving the game away. He has some ex- plosive backs also. But Hamiltonians mention Fleming without prompting. Sazio says: "I think we can offset the running of Fleming and Beamer with our three run- Says presi- mpected, in others will sleep, eat and meetiof one authority, 'to bubble. at a downtown motor hotel un- ning backs--Art Baker, Jim Pace and Willie Bethea." He' says the running attack of the club has developed tre- mendously with these three men behind Faloney. "With Willie on B.C.'s side and Bethea, Baker and Pace-- they're all 10-second people--on our side it has to be a wide- open game," says Gaudaur. FIRST VISITORS COME The first of what could be up to 10,000 out-of-town Grey Cup fans started trickling into Vancouver Thursday. As more fans come in by spe- cial planes and trains today the town is e: , in the words But some persons, including Jack Bain, chairman of the Grey Cup Festival committee, feel reaction to the assassina- tion of President Kennedy has sapped fans of some of their traditional boisterousness. "It's taken the snap right out of things," said Bain. "There won't be the rambunctious spirit of other years--you can feel the subdued nature of things." But not every one is in agree- ment with the predictions of comparative quiet. Harold Merilees, manager of the Vancouver Visitors Bureau who used the bubbling reference said Thursday that as many as 10,000 persons could be coming to the city--more than half of them from outside the province. He said an accurate estimate is difficult. END ZONE READY! Be- sides getting practical treat- ment to remedy the wet and soggy. playing area, the "end zones" are getting a real fan- cy touch, as seen above. A giant Grey Cup, embellished with the emblems of the B.C. Lions and Hamilton Tiger- Cats, maple leaf and ribbon, is marked out to add to the decoration ad "color" of the classic. --(CP Wirephotos) Name Officials Grey Cup Game VANCOUVER (CP) -- Sydney Halter, commissioner of the Ca- nadian Football League, an- nounced Thursday that the fol- lowing officials will work Satur- day's Grey. Cup final between British Columbia Lions and Hamilton Tiger-Cats (sweater numbers in parentheses): Do you needa UNTIL PAYDAY ? $50 FOR 2 WEEKS COSTS ONLY 47¢ $50 to $5000 without endorsers or bankable security SUPERIOR FINANCE LIMITED the fastest growing All-Canadian loan company 725-6541 17 Simcoe St. N. 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