CHATELAINE, SEPTEMBER, 1936

by
HAROLD F. CRUICKSHANK

Edmonton’s Percy Page has writ-
ten basketball history with those
three words in the last quarter cen-

tury. What’s his success formula?

is the departure for Europe of the Edmonton

Commercial Grads. Thousands of fans throng the

station as the dainty, diminutive world’s champion
basketballers make ready to board the train.

Cheers pour from throats not yet comfortable after
similar prolonged outbursts a short time ago when, battling
with every ounce of skill they possessed, the Grads smashed
through to their 417th win in 431 official games played in
defense of their many championship titles.

A flash back to the Edmonton Arena: May 30. A hot
night—atmospherically and dynamically hot! The Grads
are facing what threatens to be a second straight defeat in
their series against the stellar Eldorado Lion-Oilers for the
International title and the Underwood trophy, which the
Grads have won and held for thirteen years.

Fans are reaching for the smelling salts. There is but a
scant mament af _nlaxtine tima loft and tha Crnda nen Anum

vis the 8s ALBERTA, in en“féte! The occasion

 

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