Tugsday, August 2. 1955 The Guardian has 1

By PETER MURRAY Canadian Press staff writer QALGARY (CP) - Lyle Craw-

ford of Vancouver. one of the Canadian amateur golf champion- vships this week. was extended to the 18th hole M.nndaY by ROY BB"!- M-ldgg of Edmonton before win-

iIVins French Bicycle Race Third Straight

PARIS (AP)-Louison Bobet of France. dubbed BY MS admlren me "Napoleon of cyclism." Satur- dnv became the first man to win three straight Tour de France races. the world's major nv rrathon

ll vent. Chicheng 320-year-old bicyci -ider pedalled into Parc de Pi ueea

stadium here to the cheers of wou- eands of spectators watch" the cnd of the 2.704 - mile race which cmtered 22 laps through Bel- gium. Lu embourg. Switzerland. Germany. Monaco and France after leaving Le Havre July 7. But his margin over second-place lean Brankart of Belgium was one of the smallest in the history of the rate. first run in 1903. lie covered the distance. nhout unc-

rsecond-place Alberta team in the

Favorites Run True To . I Form At Golf Tourney ,Dt

niug his first round match. .2 up.

Bainbridge lost a chance to score the first major upset of the tour- nament when he missed I four- foot putt on the 17th green which would have tied the match. Craw- ford took the ltlth with a par four.

Most of the other favorites were running true to form in first round matches on the exacting Calgary Country Club course.

The only casualty was Bob Gard- ner of Calgary. low scorer for the

Willlngdon Cup matches S" - day.

Gardner was ousted by Dave Moon of l-ialixax. 3 and 2.

LATE ARRIVAL

Moon almost lost out by default when he arrived four minutes late at the first tee but was allowed to play.

Crawford was m'arked as one of the favorites when he scored! a pair of blazing 67: in the inter-. provincial matches for a low indi-1 vidual record.

other Willingdon Cup players who rolled to quick wins included Dov" Lewis of Moncton. gN.B.. I and over Quebec iunlo. cham- pion G rdon Linn of Mont -I.

Six interprovincial team mem- ber: iirew byes intrv the econd round today.

Th: were Peter Dot; Vlifax M. J. uowllng, Moncton. ” . Joe Leblanc. Montreal. Gort 1eat-

rhird of it through the mountains. in a total elapsed time of 130 hours. 29 minutcs. 26 seconds. four min- utes and ill seconds faster than lirankart.

Although his overall time was the fastest. Bobet did not win the last lap, 142 miles on flat road from Tours to Paris. Miguel Pol)- let of Spain won it in six hours, Jlii minutes. 25 seconds.

One other" cyclist. Belgium's Philippe Thys. had previously won three tours but only two of theml were consecutive. l

Bobet took the over-all lead fromi Antonin Rolland, also of France. after the first of three important legs through the high Pyrencesl mountains and held it during the final dash. I

Of the 130 riders who started; from be l-lavre. only 89 finished.

B-ll ill on 'G00'lllli fills!

tie. Regina. Nick Weslock, Wind-

ysor, Ont.. and Doug Bahis, Van-

C0llV9l".

The others dropped out becaus of fatigue or illness and at one true Bobet was bothered by boils but was able to continue. Seventy foreign riders mid 38 reached Paris. including two Britons. four Swiss. five Dutchmen. five Spaniards. seven Belgians. nine Italians. one Aus tralian. one West German. one Austrian and two Luxembourgera. Two Paris newspapers,

started

L'Equipc. a sports daily. and 1.4: Rouleau took up cycling at 73 and sponsored the today, at 90. he has not lost his

Parisien Libere,

Marilyn Bell Enioys Quick

V, fly ARCH MacKENZlE Canadian Pres Dtaff Wrter

FOLKESTONE. Ingland (CF)- You would think that anyone who hall lust spent more than 14 hours swimming the English channd would want a holiday from the water.

But not Marilyn Bell. The 17- year-old Toronto swimmer who Sunday became the youngest per- son ever to conquer the channel took a busman's holiday while resting up from her feat and went for a dip Monday. less than 14 hours nftes ...ramblin,.f ashore.

Unlike her channel crossing. Manda” swim was without fan- fare 4,6110 slipped quietly away from u Foikestone hotel and

went Dover to bathe in the sea and g. N . talk with her channell pilo. (Pop) Burwell. I

The; was a reason for the 10-. minute . however. Marilyn's. mother lained: "It is the best

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3 .temember When

By THE CANADIAN PRESS Charlie Grimm was appoint manager of the Chicago Cubs B years ago today. First baseman with the National Baseball League team seven years. Grimm suc-

ceeded Rogers liornsby.

VETERAN CYCLIST MANSEAU. Que. (CP) - Louis

race which cost an estimated 170,- interest in the sport. Recently. he

000,000 francs

6485.715) against pedalled the 60 miles from this

advertising and other income of central Quebec town to Disraeli in

i60.000,000 francs.

eight hours.

way to prevent sickness and cramp after a long swim."

The young swimmer, who last you became the first person to swim Lake Ontario. was the toast of the south coast. Bank holiday seaside visitors talked of little else. marveiling at how fresh she looked Sunday night after swim- ming 14 hours and an minutes from Cape Gsis No: to Abbots- cliff, between Dover and Polite- stone.

Congratulatory messages by the hundreds flooded into Marilyn's hotel - including cables from Prime Minister St. Laurent. the mayors of Toronto and Montreal and British swimmer Brend Fisher who holds the '5 record of 12 hours. 42 minutes for the swim. Miss Fisher is now in Canada. i

Marilyn appeared in high spirits as she'apIashed in the harbor at Dover.

"I had a wonderful sleep." she said.

The schoolgirl told reporters the people accompanying her in a fish- ing boat had "a far worse time than I did."

WATER WAS ROUGH

night's

”The water was so rough." she said "It was also boring for them just to have to go on watching me all the time. I had something to do, and that made all the differ- encef' I

Marilyn said she kept running Into shoals of jellyfish during her.

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OLD TIME FlI)DLlNG. STEP-DANCING and SINGING CONTEST At CHTOWN FORUM, AUGUST 9th

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inger whom you have read I Admission 606.

p At Dover To Relax I

swim. "They got me twice iust before the end."

New-paper men as ked her whother she was disappointed at not breaking the record. i

Coach Gus Ryder, who dccom-. panied her alosg with her parents on the crossing. answered for her. I

"No," he said. "Of course, all athletes like to beat a record but” conditions have to be perfect . , . l although she started with the seal

like a mill pond it got very choppy later on."

Marilyn said her futures swim- ming plans are uncertain. I

After completing high schooll next spring. she plans to go on to the University of Toronto.

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