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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-02-16, Page 3.CatVert SPORTS COLUMN 4 36,04. 7.eiv e0000 Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson; c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto: Ccivet DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO (This is the first Of two parts on Canada's popular sport of curling.) Part 1: 110W CURLING CAME. TO CANADA • If you asked the average sports fan: "What is Canada's most popular winter sport?", lie undoubtedly would reply; slIockey," On the basis of participant activity,, he would be completely wrong, Probably 50,900 boys in Canada play hockey in some form or another, But 200,000 men, women and children are curling addicts. It is questionably, indeed, whether any other participant sport in North America attracts so many ardent followers. It is well over a century ago that the Royal. Montreal Curling Club began to issue franchises to members trans- ferred to different parts of Canada. The ancient club was then acting as headquarters of the Royal Caledonia in Canada. Since then other provinces have set up their own curling headquarters although. Montreal, the eastern part of Ontario and Quebec generally are still part and parcel of the Scottish organization, which took the "Royal" title in 1842 when Queen Victoria visited Scotland, and attended a curling contest.. Many clubs in Canada can boast of having achieved the ripe old age of 100 years, or more. A popular tradition is that members of a Scottish regiment stationed at Quebec introduced the game to Canada, using cannon balls cut in half to spin along the ice surfaces, Factually, it is known that the Montreal Curling Club was founded in 1807, and, records indicate that the first inter- city curling match was played in 1835, between -learns repre- senting Montreal and Quebec City. In proverbially Scottish eastern Nova Scotia, particu- larly in Pictou county, curling came into being more than a century ago. Scots who settled at Albion Mines soon after 1827 were first to play the game in 'that country, and minutes Of the Bluenose Club in New Glasgow date back to 1853. The. Hamilton. Thistle Club is 101 years old. Before this club was founded, there was some scattered curling in the district. As far,,back as 1838, Hamilton curlers were at a loss how to get stones. A woodworker in nearby Fergus made a set of "stones" from curly maple, and these were used for years. Next week: Part II-- Curling's Modern Growth • r:~ ee‘s ag as* 's 4.1Ms„.. 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The number of those who have dreamed about breaking four minutes for the mile would run into the thousands—and the same for the two-miles, weight-lifting and so forth..Hut .literally millions' of indoor athletes have visioned' themselves scoring a "possible" in snooker pool—a break of 147. Ands yet, until just recentlY, not a single one of them had made It. The man who accomplished it was Joe Davis. And Mr. Davis has this satisfaction. Some day, somewhere, somebody will un- doubtedly break Roger Bannister's one-mile record. The same goes `for,all the others. But—unless they change the rules of the game —nobody, nowhere, can, ever hope to do better than tie Joe Davis' proud mark. Fancy that, Armand; And now, for the low-down on what, it is all about, we turn you over to Sydney Skilton. HALL OP _FAME to tightt tott.14i.ohor,bot.iy-Vaot.ii,i4e 011.00§10:i.,,itiiiti '6466' by Hartnett ridge' been eletfeci. to. totroboll'i, Ran of dame. Jackie Robinson Looks Things Over In spite of the appeal:don still voiced by a minority group on the appearance of the Negro in professional. baseball, Jackie Robinson is convinced that-play, ers of his race are in the game to stay. "The fans have made it so," declared Robinson, in Boston as part of a nationwide tour for the National Conference of Christians and Jews, "They have accepted the Negro 9,rid perman- ently established him in base- ball. They want him, so he will stay," Jackie's job of pioneering the arrival of the Negro in the big leagues is One of the greatest stories of all time and is told, at least in part, by himself in three installments of Look Mag- azine, When asked to pick out one or two men most influential in helping establish him as a major leaguer, Robinson replied: 'Pee- wee Reese helped me the most on the field. He was wonderful. I remember the very first day I started at second base, eight Yeas's ago, I think it was right here in Boston, against the old Braves. Players were giving Peewee a pretty rough riding from the bench and he knew what it was all about. He, a southerner, playing beside a Negro. But Peewee stopped it quickly by walking over, put- ting his hand on my shoulder and saying something in my ear. That's just one example. There were many others." Jackie is' a stanch supporter Of the LittleLeague program for, kids. "It's being criticized be- cause of the affect it has an the kids who lose," he said. "But there's nothing wrong with teaching a kid the winning habit, It's the American way. I hope they don't disband the Lit- tle Leagues. If there are prob- lems, there must be solutions, "The Little Leagues are great for the pro game, too," he went . on. "It's a program engaged in by the entire family and that's a fine thing. Eventually, mother, dad, and the kids pay their way in the pro parks." Speaking' Of the pros, how did the Brooklyn Dodger veteran see the 1955 National League race? "Well, we've got a well bal- anced league," he replied, "I think the Dodgers are going to win, naturally, in spite of a few ' question Marks. I don't think the Giants will win the big games as often as they did in '54. Milwaukee will be tough. So • will the Cardinals and Cincin- nati, if they get some pitching to go with their power. Pitts- 'burgh figures to be much im- proved. There just aren't any breathers in our league like there are in the American: "Losing Roy' Campanella last year hurt us, but so did young • Podres, who was seven and two on the mound before forced out by an injury." Jackie continued. "We didn't have that good left- hander that's needed against certain clubs. I think young Spooner is going to help us. He throws a fast ball at lot like Robin Roberts. It's always moving. You think it's going to be a strike, but it's a ball. "I'd like to see Cleveland win again in the American League, but I don't think they •can. I think you may see the Yankees back in there. Chicago could be' trouble if it gets 'pitching. Ralph Kiner may help Cleveland more than people think, however. I. haven't seen it, written any-' where, but he was slowed by injuries all last season." What about, Jackie ,Robinson in '55? "Well," he said, smiling, "I had only about.« two weeks last season when I wasn't slowed by injuries. The rest of the time it waS rough. If I had another year like that,• '55 would be my last., When I quit playing, I'll step out of baseball. I have a• job lined up, but can't talk about it ,now. I have a nice home, wonderful family and a lot of good friends. Baseball hag been very good to me." Why Etkrttot. DOniet .Winter Cold When I looked out of my tent One Morning, my eyes met a. changed world; a soft layer of arieW covered valley and Mont- thin; only the precipice gated me in the face as black as ever. Snow! 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Money back If not completely satisfied, If not available at your drug store, send 21.611 for relines for 1. plate. WILDROOT LTD., FORT ERIE, ONT. Dept. TNY sus, dominating it like Bobby Jones did golf and Paavo Nurmi did athletics. You can gauge his superiority from his collection of 575 century breaks. No other player, professional or amateur, has yet,thade 100 hundreds. His world championship reign, fol- lowed since by an almost non- stop r Un of victories against challengers on a handicap basis, is a further example of his su- premacy. * s Joe's snooker pre-eminence follows a sound grounding at bil- liards, the 3-ball precision game which the 22-ball bright and breezy snooker ousted from the tables. Back in his boyhood Joe was a member of the local church institute at Chesterfield. It boasted a billiards table and every spare minute young Joe had was devoted to the study on it of ball control. He was never satisfied with less than six hours practiee'.a day and when Davis senior was convinced that junior Was really set on billiards a cue was purchased at a second-hand store, That cue became Joe's prized possession and it is what he used the other day for the • 147 break. *' * After becoming English na- tional junior professional cham- pion Joe at the age of 20 years came to London and challenged for the senior title. He received a. severe chastening from 'the reigning champion, Torn New- man, and went home for more practice: Four years later Joe was back again and so marked was the improvement that New- 'man was nearly loppled. The year after that, in 1928, the name of Davis was inscribed as cham- pion. It remained there until displaced by the Australian, Walter Lindrum, in 1933. * * Meantime snooker's pool, a game said "to have been invented by' British 'subalterna in India, suddenly , began to find favor after being scorned by the staid- .like Victorian and Edwardian English' The `cathedral-like at- mosphere prevailing for billiards play was not a bit necessary with snookers and the, younger players fell for it, Professionals, Davis and Lindrurn among them, sensing' the swing; tried' snooker as a filler-in at the end of ses- sions. The variety and entertain- ment the pros were able to in: troduce in contrast to.the exact- ness and, too often, dullness of billiSarda was an instant success. * * Another reason for snooker's popularity is its simplicity, There ,are 22 balls . to play around with and; consequently, many more alternatives than bil- liards. Snooker is largely a mat- ter of potting balls' into' pockets and controlling the ball with which to do it. To the billiards purist sneeker is a sacrilege but to Joe it has become merely an- . other method of displaying his' cue and, ball control: And how superbly he does it! HV1 gr LAST I - ER ostafit`. EIS aiasassass There are few parallels to the 147 -break at snooker. It is the - acme of perfection and necessi- tates going to the table and put- ting into the pockets each ball in correctspequence and without making a, single mistake. Only three other players in the whole world have ever looked like do- ing it in the three-quarters of a century the game has been played. They are England's Rex Williams, Canada's George. Che- flier and New Zealand's Clark McConachy, Who have all ex- ceeded 140. Being several years younger than 53-year-old Joe Davis they all can be expected to bring it off before they back away their cues for the last time. * * * But to Joe forever. stands that' glory of being the first. It is only fitting that' it should be so because no other honor has eluded this brilliant cueist who strode the game like a Coles- Comedian -faced Joe Davis whose cue, artistry has delighted , Britain'S billiards'_ and ,snooker's pools fans for upwards of 30 years,' treated ilite,his throadest- ever- smile 'when- he' became the first man, in the world to make a inaximinit 147 break, That Smile radiated,, pride of accornpliShinent bedause more than 575 tiinea the green baize Maestro from Chesterfield has exceeded the century break and twideS has' he reached 146. The smile alsio radiated all the 'yenning characteristics of a man whose . Charm and modesty' and • ability and aehieVernent have pladect among the na- tion's • greatest sports, entertain-, era of all time. For 20 years he reigned Undefeated as world champion at, snooker: Then he' resigned to "give the yotingsters a chance! but he, still kept On for the joy it gave him. Arid the joy it gave others.