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Russians Don’t Win Lacrosse?OTTAWA (CP) — Lacrosse and hockey supporters engaged in some verbal stick-swinging in the Commons Friday without, as usual, settling their perennial argument over which game rates as Canada’s national sport.A private member's bill sponsored by Robert Prittic (NDP— Burnaby-Richmond) i nfavor of lacrosse suffered the fate of all such measures and was talked out during the hour allotted for debate on It.It fell to the bottom of the order paper behind 103 other measures. Including one sponsored by Jack Roxburgh (L— Norfolk) designating hockey as the national sport.Mr. Prittie, Jn introducing his bill, said he wanted to rectify an apparent oversight by the Fathers of Confederation. Many history books indicated they had designated lacrosse as the national game. But a search of the statute books disclosed no such legislation.Two PointsThe NDP member based his bill on two main points, the chance to offer some recognition to Canadian Indians who originated the game and to recognize the historic significance of lacrosse which dates back well before Confederation.As a clinching argument, he quoted with approval from an Indian spokesman who noted that ‘'the Russians have never beaten a Canadian lacrosse team.Gerald Laniel lt;L—Bcauhar-nols - Saloberry) backed the bill, noting, among other tilings, that the world's lone manufacturing plant for lacrosse equipment is situated on St. Regis Island near Cornwall, Ont.Hockey fan Jean-Louis Frc-nctte (SC—Portncuf) countered with the familiar argument that hockey is the only sport with enough participation and national interest to deserve official recognition.Probably the most novel argument of the debate came from Jean - Luc Pepin lt;L— Drummond - Athabaska) who wondered whether the Fathers of Confederation really had overlooked the issue. A more likely conclusion was that they had considered It without being able to agree on the relevantsection of the UNA Act.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Mon, Jun 14, 1965
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