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AWEST Van Troliers’ player (dark strip} headmans the ball upfield past Delta defenders during
the Time Drake Memorial Tournament. West Van won the game 2-1 en route to.a 2-nil decision
over Langley United i in the final. Seen Federley and Steve Lake scored for West Van for the win.

THE YEAR’S best sports ‘
bargain starts this evening at
:Queen’s Park Arena in New.
Westminster: the Mann Cup
lacrosse Gnal between New
- Westminster Salmonbellies
and the Ontario champion

“: Six Nations team. |.

; "Often called the fastest garne on
two feet (as opposed to Skates),

lacrosse has everything action- mind-"

* ed spectators could hope for: speed,
bodily contact, 100 m.p.h. shots and

‘slick passing and playmaking. At its”

cerebral best it is basketball with
bodychecks.”*-
"> One reason the boxed-in game

has never enjoyed national success is,

., that it is a summer sport played
indoors when most Canadians want

 .to’be outdoors enjoying the good old |

_ — but rather short — Canadian

_":- summertime. The football Lions
also know the truth in this fact of
Canadian life.

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Another reason is the lack of

sound effects — except at Queen's
‘Park. Everywhere else the game is

played on concrete or terrazzo
“floors. The sound of running feet'is
barely audible.

Ever since the old field gare
became the box game in 1933, the
arena at New Westininster has fea-”

“tured a Wooden floor. The sound of
. pounding feet and bodies occasion-

ally hitting the deck echo throughout

~ the building. An exciting game also...
has an exciting sound. ‘The best-of-

seven national championship is also
ain anniversary series of sorts. While
not entirely made up of native Indian
players, the Six Nations side essen-
tially is a First Nations team; the
first to reach the Canadian ‘final in
Six decades. :

In the fall of 1936, the North

‘Shore Indians tepresented the west ~

in a Mann Cup final played in
Ontario. They were an all-Indian

“group, made up mostly from mem-
bers of the Squamish band, along

-with a few Six Nations imports.

They may have been the first and»
only team to lose the national cham-. :’

pionship because of malnutrition. .
They barely had any money when
they went east in the depth of the

_ .Great Depression: certainly not

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