Ploy Bail

The once pure & proud stronghold of the Lord's Day Alliance* was breached. In Toronto's municipal election last week 88,108 people, a majority of 6,315, voted in favor of allowing commercial sports on Sunday.

To chunky, prosperous Allan A. Lamport, 45, it was a personal victory. Up for re-election as a member of the Board of Control, he was the only candidate with enough political courage to campaign openly for the sports referendum. Backed by a group of citizens called the Sunday Sports Committee, he pulled out a surprise victory against the solid opposition of the three leading newspapers and all the churches.

Said Mayor Hiram Emerson McCallum, who had opposed the change: "If the people want Sunday sport . . . I will fight to see that they get it." He could start fighting immediately. The next step is for the City Council to ask the Ontario parliament for legislation excluding Toronto from the blue laws of the Lord's Day Alliance Act.

*A nationwide group of citizens, with headquarters in Toronto, responsible for passage by Parliament in 1906 of "The Lord's Day Act of Canada" which makes illegal any unnecessary toil and business conducted on Sunday.

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