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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT
December 05, 1955
GREY CUP GAIETIES
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December 05, 1955

The Wonderful World Of Sport

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GREY CUP GAIETIES

Football fans jammed Vancouver to see Edmonton Eskimos beat Montreal Alouettes 34-19 for the Grey Cup. Game was good, but the parties were topping

Miss Grey Cup, Barbara Beddome of Edmonton, originally crowned Miss Eskimo, is congratulated by-Swimmer Marilyn Bell. Miss Beddome also won a car.

Visiting yank, Abe Schiller, publicity man for a Las Vegas hotel, passes out phony $1,000 bills. Some takers first thought that the bills were the real thing.

Cadillac convoys Grey Cup and fur-bearing coed in parade as all Canada takes time out from its economic boom to focus on its biggest sporting event.

Hairy chaps and fancy sweater sported by fan in front of hotel typify colorful garb of the merrymakers, who appeared in everything from kilts to Mackinaws.

Banjo strummer entertains crowd at railway station. He got competition when 17 girls, all members of a bagpipe band, debarked from the Toronto Special.

ALL OUT FOR MELBOURNE

In Tiflis, the old Georgian town where young Joe Stalin once heisted banks, top Soviet athletes hiked records in the USSR Championships as they flexed their muscles for the '56 Olympics

Olympic threat, 23-year-old Galina Zybina of Russia, puts shot 54 feet 8� inches to break own world mark fourth time this year.

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