B2 - Sanday, December 4, 1983 - North Shore News

JUMPER

might be able to scratch.

Lloyd Guss is a 400
metre hurdler, 24 years old,
and he wants to run in the
Olympic Games next summer
at Los Angeles. If he does
make it to L.A. it will be a
long time coming — 72 years
and three generations of
frustrations to be exact.

Lloyd is the namesake of
his grandfather, Lloyd Shan-
non, who died last
December. Shannon was
quite a runner too. His dream
was to run in the last Olympic
Games before the Great War.
They were at Stockholm,
Sweden and Shannon made it
all the way to the National
trials before an uncle of
Canadian track and field
hero Harry Jerome beat him
out. This was in 1912, 72
years ago as of next July.

Shannon didn’t know i
then but Stockholm would be
his last chance to run in the
greatest of all games. In 1914
the War came and took his
speed away, Shannon’s leg
was shot up, and when he
returned home he was no
good for the running sports.

OLYMPIC HOPEFUL
Lioyd Guss is practising
hard to realize a 72 year
old family dream. The
400-metre North Shore
hurdler missed his chance
to represent Canada in
the Moscow Olympics
when this country
boycotted the games. His
mother, Priscilla, a Van-
couver nurse, was not
allowed to continue her
training for the 1956
Melbourne Olympics by
her father Lioyd Shan-
non, himself a runner.
Shannon's Olympic
hopes were shattered in
1912 when he lost to the
uncle of Canadian track
and field hero, Harry
Jerome.

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By DAVID STAPLES

So he settled in Saskat-
chewan, found work as a
merchant, and raised a
family.

One of Shannon’s
children, Priscilla, seemed to
have the speed of his youth.
Priscilla became a sprinter of
note, one of the finest in
Saskatchewan. She _ received
an invitation to train in
Toronto for the 1956 Olym-
pic Games in Melbourne,
Austraha. But her father
wasn’t keen on that plan.
Lloyd Shannon felt it was
ttme his daughter con-
centrated on a career in nurs-
ing rather than running.

Today, Priscitha is a
surgical nurse in Vancouver.
**In those days you did what
your parents told you, not
what you wanted to do,”’ she
says. ‘‘Looking back it was a
mistake because a couple of
girls | trained with went to
the Olympics. | would have

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