TfoeWtpm VOL. XXIX VANCOUVER, B.C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1946 No. 10 FALL BALL CHORUS DVA Discloses Tim Buck Invited Policy Change j Speak Tuesday DVA asks all veterans on the I *7 Beauties Create Furor; U of T Enters Contest UBC Preliminary Judging Held Tuesday In Armory —Ubyssey Photo by Pat Worthington CURVES AND COSTUMES—Chorus of the B.C. School of Dancing, which will provide the floor show at the annual Fall Ball this evening in the Commodore. Entire proceeds from this function will he donated to the War Memorial Drive by Mr. Nick Kogos, manager of the Commodore Cabaret. Proceeds from the sale of corsages will also be donated by Mrs. ns have followed with interest the pros and cons put forth regarding its acceptance. GRIDDER& WILLING Members of the team itself have expressed willingness to play the exhibition match provided the gate receipts from the affair are turned over to the UBC War Memorial Gym fund. Valuable study time will be cut into considerably should the cam- pusmen play the game, and the "Birdmen would be hesitant to take the extra time out, unless the tilt were to promote a good cause. Playtng such a game would involve the changing of 'Bird grid tactics tothe Canadian code, and the addition of one man, one blocking back. The Thunderbird coach Greg Kabat will have only six hetic days to make the transformation. TODAY'S INTRAMURALS (All Games at 12:40 p.m.) VOLLEYBALL Union College vs. Pre-Med. Forest Club A vs. Phi Gama Delta Aggies vs. VCF East TOUCH FOOTBALL Phi Kappa Sigma vs. Jokers C South 1 Jokers A vs. Beta Theta Phi stadium GRID WIN OVER LINFIELD POSSIBLE, SAY PROPHETS CHICK TURNER Continuing a tradition inaugurated by Al Bain last year, a freshman star from the portals of Lord Byng High School pounded h is way to the laurels in the Annual Intramural Cross Country race. Before a crowd estimated at 2500 perfectionist Bob Piercy, flaxen- topped strider who slashed the interhigh rem rd for the mile last year, sailed across the tape in the sensational time of 13:44:8, outdistancing a fellow Joker, Pat Minchin by 25 yards • Sparked by the polished perfor mance of their two favorites, Piercy and Minchin, a Jeker entry edged out a determined Aggie aggregation to sweep to the lMt edition of the championship. Tony Dare, Art Porter, and Al Beezely completed the grand slam for the Joker deck, while the roadracers for the Department of Agriculture were paced by Doug Knott and Gill Blair, placing fifth and sixth respectively. Capping a three week training session that changed a group of mediocre endurance men Into a third place squad, five Beta Theta Phi runners edged into the standings behind 'the Jokers and Aggies. Seventy-odd points behind the triumvirate were the Commercemen and Phi Gamma Delta's who crossed the wire collectively as fourth and fifth entries. BY HAL TENANT Cranes have been known to nest on chimney tops. The wise old owl—so the song tells us—spends most of his domestic life in the old oak tree. In fact the ornithologists tell us that practically every species of 'bird has a solution for his own particular housing problem. Thus it is not so strange that """—~~~~-™"———————— this season the Thunderbirds have taken refuge in the cellar of the Pacific Northwest Inter-Collegiate football conference setup. Playing American grid, they ere out of their natural Canadian environment, and have feathered their nest in the only spot possible. But it speaks well for the 'Birds that they have yet to leave a goose egg in their sanctuary. However if the Thunderbirds intend to vacate said cellar before the coming of winter, they will have to start moving soon, for they have only two more Conference games on their's season's card. Senior Punters In Trial Game LAST HOME GAME Next Saturday will be the last opportunity for local grid fans to see the 'Birdmen in action. They are scheduled to tangle with a delegation of Wildcats from Linfleld College this coming weekend, and then wind up their seven game program by facing Pacific University in a night affair at Forest Grove, Oregon. ' The league records indicate that Linfield could quite possibly be the first to succumb to the efforts of the Blue and Gold eleven, since the Wildcats have only two wins— and one a very close decision—on the Conference books. Aquatic Artists Swim At Victoria Nine swimmers will represent UBC at Victoria on Saturday, November 9, in the Intercity swimming meet. Representing the feminine pop ulation of the campus will be Kay Worsfold and Peggy Winter who will swim in the SO yard backstroke contest, Kef Eastwood swimming in the 200 yard freestyle, and Rosemarle Bell-Irving performing in th e50 yard breasi stroke. In addition to their single swims, the girls will be swimming! in the free style relay. Upholding the males at UBC, will be Bob Marshall, and Don Morrison, who will be u-tatlng in the 200 yards freestyle. Hal Brodie and Fred Oxenberry swim mlng in the 50 yards freestyle event. Oxenberry will also perform in the 50 yard breast stroke, and in addition they will all swim in the freestyle relay. In order to bring rugby up tc date with England and the Mari- times, and to renew failing interest in the oval ball game, tht Vancouver Rugby Union is sponsoring a new type of rugby featuring a thirteen man team with seven spares that may be substituted at any time in the game. A representative team from Vancouver will oppose a picked team ot campus players, and if the results . are successful and do liven up th* game, the fifteen man team may trial game will be the feature of the weekend bill and will be presented at Brockton Oval, Monday afternoon. UBC TACKLES MERALOMAS ■ Saturday afternoon at 2, the second place Meralomas will face the third place UBC squad at Brockton Bowl, and after two successive losses last week the students will be trying hard for a win. The undefeated Varsity crew will meet the North Shore All- Blacks on the green of Douglas Park at 2:30 p.m. The All Blades who have been no match for the campus teams this year have lately been showing good form and should give the college boys > good fight. Other rugby teams that will be playing include the UBC Engineers who will be playing at Connaught Park Saturday afternoon and the Frosh team who will meet Ex-Brittania at Douglas Park after the senior game. Put Mt Seymour On Road Priority "Mount Seymour Park has number one priority as regards to development," Hon. E. T. Kenney told a mass meeting of all interested skiers in the Hotel Vancouver, last Tuesday nilght. The new road has the support of the Government but financial backing is holding up the pro-, ceedings. However, the present alloted "$70,000 will be used and the road will be continued until thi.c amount is used up, replied Mr Kenney to several questions put to him. BAIN RUNS THIRD Al Bain who rounded the two mile, sixth-tenths route ahead of the pack in 1945, placed third this year under the strain of a terrific pace set by the two Jokers. Bain, who garnered a freshmen awaru for cross country kst year, and who headed the delegation which successfully defended their Spokane Roundtable title for the third year running, still emerges as a very strong contender for tht team invading the University of Washington on November IB. Dogging Bain's foetstspu throughout the race was another ex-Lambda contender, now p«i- forming on the cinders for the Phi G's, Pete de Vootfit, who turned in a repeat perlermsnce this year again placing fourth. Doug Knott and Gil Blair followed de Vooght for the Aggies, and a pair of panting trejans representing the men of Commerce, Sindberg and Hinniger, tied for seventh place. Nixon running for Varsity Christian Fellowship placed ninth, and Tony Dare completed thf first ten as a Joker candidate for the laurel wreatit. BOB LANE COLLAPSBS A note of pathos was struck at the finish line, when husky Bob Lane, a Spokane man last year, collapsed with a bare twenty yards to go. Just pure guts prom- ted the curly-headed Lambda tc crawl to his hands and knees, ana attempt to finish. But he couldn't make it! Lane was running seventh, and was a clear forty yards ahead of Sindberg when his stomach revolted. The time set by Piercy in hi* 2,6 mile jaunt was seven seconds off the unofficial reeord set by Ken McPherson in 1MI, when the lanky Big Block racked up a 13:38 mark. However, many observer* and runners, are of the opinion that the speedy freshman has set official record for the course which has undergone some alteration within the past three years THE PICK OF PIPE TOBACCOS Coca-Cola Ltd. Vancouver