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14 THE OSHAWA TIMES Fridey, April 10, 1964 ONLY THE MEMORIES-- Bob Granger, 68 and living on his pension in a single room over an Alberni, B.C., barber shop, has no pictures, clip- pings or mementoes, just the memories of when he coach- ed Percy Williams to two gold medals at the 1928 Olym- pic Games in Amsterdam. The old-time coach, living alone with his dog Old Yeller, last saw Williams several years ago, although Williams lives in Vancouver, just a few hours from Alberni. --(CP Photo) CANADA OUTDOORS Skiing Is Increasing In Manitoba Region WINNIPEG (CP)--Manitoba, though not the most natural place for skiing, has sene an upsurge inthe sport during the last couple of winters. Despite notoriously cold win- ter weather, Manitoba's prairie dwellers are seeking out hills and knolls that will serve as ski slopes as they haven't done in years. Gordon Konantz, president of the Manitoba division of the Ca- nadian Amateur Ski Association, 4 figures the number of active skiers in the province has in- creased by 700 or 800 in the last two years to around 3,000. The Winnipeg Ski Club, formed in the 1930s as the first in Manitoba, maintained a membership of about 200 for several years until last fall when it began increasing to about 650 now. The provincial government says use of its ski facilities at Falcon Lake, about 90 miles east of here in Whiteshell Pro- vincial Park, has increased by. more than 100 per cent over 1963. Attendance until March 7 this year totalled 9,227 compared Fernhill, Rundle Share Dart Lead The following are the results of games Played April 2 In the Neighborhood Dart Association. Fernhill 4, Woodview No. 1, Ts Rundle) 2 No. 1, 3, Southmead 2; Woodview No. 3, Rundie No. 2, 2. Doubles--N. Pullen, G. Waite, T. Emm) 2, J. Carlson, 1, Goulding, Pope, .. Crawford, Midge Wilson, P. Rogers 2, A. Muir 2, V. Graves, B. Shortt, L. Cole 2 C. Cole 3, T. Twine, Baseball 1 Inning -- F. Parsons 7, 6. J. Goulding 6, 5. A. Cole 5. T. Twine 5 'a Ma Py hea 5. F. Parsons 2, J. Crawford, T. Twine 3 and B. Ross. and L. Shobbrook 100. die No. 1, 22; Rundle No. 2, 19; view No. 2, 9 Vesters 2, 0. South-| mead 17; Woodview No. 1; 16 and Wood- with the previous year's total of 4,121. ENCOURAGE FAMILIES One elope at Falcon Lake is designated a family-run hill and a government spokesman at- tributes part of the new boom to that slope's popularity. "{t's not too rough for the ave erage skier--but then again it's not too tame either." For skiers after a bigger chal- lenge, there is Mount Agassiz Riding Mountain National Park, about 150 miles north- west of Winnipeg. A T-bar lift was put to work there this win- r. Mount Agassiz, the province's biggest ski slope, has a 505-foot vertical drop in a run of about 3,000 feet. W. E. Organ, Manitoba's di- rector of tourist development, says it is "fas good as anything" between the Laurentians and the Rockies. Konantz refers to the prov- 'ince's club activity as evidence of skiing's growth. The ski as- sociation's Manitoba division has seven affliated clubs, two in Winnipeg besides the Winni- peg Ski Club and others at Fiin Flon, Pine Falls, Kenora, Ont., and McCreary -- the Riding Mountain club: Clubs are being set up, Konantz says, at Rivers, members. TV BROUGHT SLUMP lier popularity. Growth has been "'amazing," |Konantz says, despite discour- igh 3 Darts -- R. Pope 100. 8. Craw-lagi 7 f ford 111, 100. V. Graves 125. B. Shortt 100/28 factors such cig Mani \toba's extreme cold, 'dwellers. Dauphin, Thompson and. Rus- sell. And not all skiers are club Konantz says skiing fluorished| 'lin Manitoba after the Second World War, then slumped in the 'J. Goulding 2, 0. Clark 3, R,|1950s. about the time television lappeared. Now it appears to be coming back to surpass its ear- ' frequent Standing 3rd section: Fernhill 22; Run-|dearth of ample snow and the distance to the hills for city (Winnipeg's biggest "hills" are river banks and in a few places even these have been developed as ski slopes.) Mr. Organ, whose department is promoting winter sport, does not agree that features of. skiing in Manitoba are unusually dis- couraging, He says 150 miles is not con- sidered far to travel for skiing. The newly developed Riding Mountain run will be good at holding adequate snow because it faces the northeast and is shaded, he adds. The tourism director grants that Manitoba's winters are cold, but says this is countered by the fact that Manitobans are "a hardy bunch." : In any case, he adds, the ski- ing pastime gets a boost in Man- itoba from a quirk of human Bob Granger Still Has Fond Memories Of Days Training Olympic Star After Williams was through Granger went to another Olym- pics. with another athlete but there were no medals, dictably, he moved from job to job, out of track and out of sight. Today, the people of Alberni know Bob Granger as a white- haired old bachelor wielding a broom in the parking lot and talking to Old Yeller, his half- Pekinese, half-spanie] dog. ° ALBERNI, B.C. (CP) -- The road back from Olympus leads to a drafty flight of stairs and a single room above a bacber shop. The door has no nameplate. The room has no pictures, no clippings, no_ scr: $-- no mementos to link Bob Granger with his past. This poet-souled man, now 68, lost them all from a lifelong habit of carelessness. But Bob Granger remembers. He remembers running to the attic every night as a boy to watch the sunset over Vancou- ver Island. He can still see him- gelf as a travelling 33-year-old track coach, captivated by 2 fleeting glimpse of the Empire State Building framed in rain- wet leaves. And he remembers fashioning the talents of Perey Williams-- as possibly no other man could have--into a sensational double victory at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Canada rejoiced when _ its great sprinter returned from Amsterdam with the 100-metre and 200-metre gold medals. The people of Vancouver still re- member "the day Percy came home." LIVES ON PENSION But Williams has always laid the credit at the doorstep of Granger, an impractical fanatic of sport who tied his life to Williams' fortunes, lived with each victory and died a little with each défeat. It is a humble doorstep today. Granger lives on his pension, heeds a doctor's warning to take are of a weak heart and occa- sionally escapes the bother of cooking for himself by sweeping out a hote} parking lot in return for a coffee-shop meal. He last saw Williams several years ago, and then by chance, although this pulp and paper ATLANTA GETS TEAM ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) -- An unidentified major league base- ball team has agreed to trans- fer to Atlanta next season un- der a long-term lease at the city's proposed new stadium, an official said Wednesday. Arthur Montgomery, chairman of the Atlanta-Fulton County Recrea- tion Authority, said the lease would cover at least 15 years. Montgomery said the team can- not be identified «ntil the 1064 seasof ends, nature which seems to make the hard-to-get attractive. People who live with slopes at their back door often couldn't care less about skiing while plains people seek out a spot to practise the sport. "That's human nature," he town on Vancouver Island is just a few hours from Williams' home in Vancouver. It's a far cry from 1926, when like a bloodhound he trailed his "child of nature," coaxing the reluctant 18-year-old high schoo! student to apply his talents. Granger at that time coached dozens of young Vancouver swimmers, rugby players and track men, and he cared no more for a dollar then than he does now. He applied advanced techniques of instruction and conditioning gleaned from a li- brary of books and his own ex- perience. RAN BEST ON HATE Williams, carefree by nature, was impatient with Granger's discipline and clearly despised the work involved in sport. Granger used a bag of tricks-- and on one occasion a poison pen--to keep him under control. Because Williams "ran best on hate," Granger once forged a bitter letter that said the run- ner couldn't possibly win his race the next day. He signed it with the name of a perser Wil- liams thoroughly disliked. Granger recalls that the next morning, "after stewing all night on his adrenalin," Wii- liams licked the field. Such tactics paid off two years later when Williams tied the world 100-metre record of 10.6 seconds to win a trip te the Canadian Olympic trials in Hamilton, There, he ran another 10.6 that launched him on his way to Amsterdam. , : Granger was strictly on his own as far as Canada's Olympic officials were concerned He went East as a pantry boy on a CPR train and across the At- lantic on a third-class freighter with money raised at the last 'Iminute in Vancouver by Wil- liams' mother. SLEPT OUTSIDE DOOR At Amsterdam, Granger made elaborate ,preparations. He applied cocoa -butter rub- downs and unique massages, he dressed Williams in three track Siskins Triumph, Trail Series 3-2 LONDON (CP) Waterloo Siskins rallied for four goals in five. minutes and 19 seconds, overcoming a 4-3 deficit, to de- 'teat London Nationals 7-5 Thurs- day night and force a sixth game in ther best-of-seven On- tario Junior B semi-final. Former London high school stars Jerry Harrigan and Art Bacon' both scored three goals to pace Waterloo. Rosaire Paie- mont scored the seventh. For London, Mike Corrigan and '|Gord Shuttleworth scored two each and Dave Bel Papa added says. the other. GOLF EQUIPMENT suits, four sweaters and blan- kets before race time, and every night he slept outside the sprinter's door to fend off re- porters and make sure the room had enough air. When Williams beat the day's great names -- Jack London, George Lammers, Frank Wyk- off, Wilfred Legg and Bob Mc- Allister -- to win the 100, Granger wept. When Williams passed Jacob Schuller, Jackson Scholz, Walter Rangeley and Helmut Koernig in the 200 for his second medal, Granger clenched a barbed-wire fence in excitement and greeted his pro- tege with blood-covered hands. Williams toured United States indoor tracks in 1929, winning 14 times, losing only twice and tying or breaking four world records despite atrocious run- ning conditions. Yet, as Granger says now: | "It was as if the hand of fate| had written after the Olympics: | 'Thus far and no farther.'" TORE MUSCLE At Hamilton in 1930, as he} was 65 yards down the track in the 100 at the first British Em-| pire Games, Williams tore his left thigh muscle. He hit the tape first, then crumpled, Neyer the same again, he quit in 1932 after a dismal showing at -the Los Angeles Olympics, Granger says Williams was "never tied to a good timer and good conditions' during his| 1929-30 prime, or he would have set records standing to this day. "Lots of people knew the or- dinary good Williams, but only) I knew the extraordinary good) Williams." No sprinter since has matched) that "half-driving, half-skim- ming artistry of style." There have been no lasting records but Granger has been granted lasting memories. He remembers Williams in Madison Square Garden, run- ning a curve awkwardly and drawing catcalls for it, then shooting to the front in the straightaway, 'throwing the switch and electrocuting the| jeers." | 'CHASED BY INDIAN' He remembers how 49 people paid their way into that first) Olympic trial to see the only) other competitor, a young In-| dian, quit after 35 yards when he realized Williams was al-| ready 15 yards ahead. | Says Granger: "He was chased by an Indian out of the green timber to the twin peaks of Olympus." And he remembers Aug. 9, 1930, in Toronto, when Williams set a 100-metre mark of 10.3 seconds against a stiff wind. "It was fascination in the flesh. I wanted 'to feast my eyes on the sight. 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