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CATCHING THE SPIRIT — Two trainees, practice hand-to-hand
combat, using protective equipment and pugil sticks. It is
claimed that such bouts stimulate interest,, enthusiasm, com-
petitive spirit and aggressiveness.
London• Skunks Are
Air - Conditioned
Saved By a Cat
Does a cat possess some strange
instinct which enables it to sense
impending disaster?
They' are asking this question
in Dusgeldorf, Germany, follow-
ing an amazing incident when a
storm, accompanied by an
eighty-mile-an-hour gale, raged'
over the city a short time ago.
A. man named Paul Kleun, liv-
ing with .his wife in three rooms,
always feeds his cat at the same
hour every evening. As usual
that night he put down her plate
of minced meat, expecting her
to eat it quickly,' for he' knew she
must be huadry.
To his surprise the cat refused
to touch it;, and then, as the
storm raged, began to run ex-
citedly up and down between
her owner and the door of his
bedroom. The puzzled man went
to the door and opened it.
At that moment came a greet
crash as ceilings and walls col-
lapsed: Great pieces of and
brick hurtled down on to the spot
where the man had been stand-
ing a few moments earlier.
He was uninjured ;saved by
the-door frame in which he was
standing when the storm wreck-
ed the house, His wife, who was
in the bedroom, also escaped'
-death, although she was pinned
under wreckage.
The ,man and his wife are con-
vineed that that cat's "sixth
sense" enabled her to foresee the
disaster. ° - •
For days before a great vol-
canic explosion on the island of
Krakatoa, between Java and
Sutnatra, hundreds of living
• creatures were seen plunging
into the water and making their'
escape.
• .Was it significant that not a,
single animal was known to have
'perished in the disaster?
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The authorities of the London
Zoo faced a problem when they
decided they had too little space
to display. all the animals they
wished — and too many iron
bars to show off even the ani-
mals they had.
Now they are to spend £1
million in gradually rebuilding
the Zoo, restoring its old pres-
tige as the finest and most mod-
ern in the world.
In the new Zoo Only * the
sportive monkeys and some of
the wild birds will live in
cages. Ingenious tricks of
lighting and ventilation will en-
sure that few or the other crea-
tures will wish to leave their
own quarters—on the farside.!
of a moat.
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CHAMPION FIGURE—Tenly Al-
bright, 19, is seen here dis-
playing the fine form,,which has
made her the world's figure-
skating champion for the sec-
ond time, during . ,a practice
session at Vienna, Austria. She
firsi won the coveted crown of
slcatedom in 1953.
Speak well of your enemies—
remember you Made them.
Here's a Warning
To All Goal Tenders
It happkied a little while ago
at the end of a football match
in Germany which ended with
the score at 8-0. It was a re- •
sounding victory for the visiting
teams, A
the referee's final whistle
blew, E blonde and comely Ger-
man girl ran on to the field,
her pretty face distorted with
anger, and scampered up to her
fiance, the defeated team's goal-
keeper.
' Flinging her engagement ring
at his fee, she cried loudly: "You
played disgracefully, dishonour-
ing your team and me. I refuse
to marry a man who' reveals his
inefficiency by letting so many.
goilsthrough. It make me real-
ize that you would never make
a success of marriag&
It was probably the first time
a man has been jilted by his
sweetheart because he played .
poor football. And the incident
proved once more that the most
unexpected and trivial circum-
stances can lead to broken en-
gagements,
In a 'cafe in an industrial
town, an engaged girl, having
her first meal with the young-
man of het -choice, created a
scene because he suddenly be-
gan to blow his soup, after coni-
plaining that it was too hot,
She handed hint back the
$1000 ring he had given her and
walked Out on Mira declaring:
"Never 011ie heat me again!"
PhiloSophicallY, he firiisheci
his Meg — and married the
girl's twin sister Within a year.
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She apparently didn't seem to
mind his table manners.
Living the self-imposed life
of a bachelor girl is a pretty
brunette who impetuously broke
her engagement to a young busi-
ness man because he suddenly
developed a distaste for kissing
her and, refused to let her sit
on his lap.
When the puzzled girl asked
him the reason for his sudden
coldness, he replied: "I went to
a medical lecture and heard
that germs are often conveyed
through kissing. As for your
sitting on my lap, it would Spoil
the crease in my new trousers."
In Salem, Massachusetts, a
nervous young lover objected so
strongly to hia fiancée's driving
one rainy day, that they began
to quarrel. At the next traffic
lights he reached from his seat
behind her, pulled her hair,
*boxed her ears and twisted her
wrist.
The incensed girl's reaction
was swift. She took off her en-
gagement ring and hurled it in-
to it into the trailer of a lorry
as it sped past them a few mo-
ments later. It rolled from the
trailer and down a drain.
The couple parted there and
then — and the young man had
to walk home in the rain.
During which month of the
year do you think there are
most broken engageinents and
lovers' quarrels?
The answer is February.
Why? Because, steebrdina„ to
an expert, February is the "most
loveless nainth of the year." It
conies after the long strain of
the worst winter months, 'De-
cember and January, he points
out, so young people in love
tend to be More edgy and to
have, more "serious tiffs as a re-
sult,
Even snakes can be openly
displayed on warm' islands of
sand circled by frozen tempera-
ture zones which they will have
no desire to cross. Tropical
birds can be contained in, sun-
lit compartments walled by
darkness. Clever lighting will
enable visitors — nearly three
milion a year on average — to
view the birds without them-
selves being seen.
The allotted area of the Zoo
in Regents Park, restricted to
thirty-six acres,, allows no space
for expansion. So Zoo develop-
ment is to be upwards. The new
animal houses are to be several
stories high, with covered
ramps leading to centrally-
heated apartments for pumas
and perhaps an attractive roof
garden for giraffes.
This means a new deal for •
3,500 animals, but many un-
usual questions had to be an-
swered before young a?chitect
Frank Stenglehofen could com-
plete his plans. "What is the
farthest a tiger has ever been
known to leap?" he asked one
day, and found that the' defence
ditch in the tiger house would
have to be at least twenty-five
_feet wide.
Visitors to the. Zoo are some-
times worried by the pungency
of skunks and wild cats.• Sten-
glehofen experimented with de-
odorants, but this robbed the
cats of their enjoyment of their
own aroma. In the new Zoo
two-way air-conditioning will
give the cats their own aroma
and ventilation for humans.
Thermostats! controlling the
precise degree of temperature
will give beasts accustomed to
warm climes greater comfort
than ever before. Some smaller
mammals will be kept instinc-
tively in check und prevented
from escaping, not by bars, but
by broad bands Of color which
they regard as dangerous.
COIVIPEIMENT ?
A minister was leavings his
church after the evening service
'when a member of his congrega-
tion stopped him and said. "I
like to come to church when
you are preAhing."
"I'm glad to hear that,";. re-
plied the minister. "It's nice to
know that somebody, appre-
ciates my sermons,"
"Oh, it isn't that," replied the
woman. "I mean, it's so easy to
get a seat even when I arrive
late."
• When the Irish and their descendants
celebrate, this week, the birthday of their
patron saint, they can include Netball in
the list of sports events for which a na-
tiye of the Emerald Isle is responsible.
For It was an Irishman who invented
Rugby, still played as such fat all parts of
the Empire, It is also the game from which our own Canadian
football descended by a series of stages.
The legend, that Rugby was transformed from soccer to a
more volatile game in which carrying the ball was invented'
quite by accident, is perfectly true. And it was an. Irishman
who, perhaps involuntarily, made the transformation. There
is a monument on the campus of/Rugby, a famed English
school, that bears the inscription:
This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb
Ellis, who, with, a line disregard for the rugs of football as
played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran
with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby
game. A.D. 1823.
Now, it seems, the young man who performed in such
unorthodox fashion, was an Irishman who had gone to an-
cient Rugby school for further education. And possibly, it was
no accident that Master Ellis picked up the ball and ran with
it. He had, no doubt, played or was acquainted with-Gaelic
football in his homeland. The Gaelic game from time imme-
morial allowed handling of the ball, unlike soccer.
So it was intuitive on Ellis' part to grab the ball and
"dribble" it a few steps before kicking on the run. The trouble
was, he ran all the way across the goal.
It was typical of sports-minded Britons, who know a go-od
thing and a dramatic thing when they see it on the field of
play that, instead of heaping reproaches on the young Irish-
man for a breach of ethics, they turned his error into a game,
and built him a monument. And, as always, they phrased it
well. The wording, "with a fine disregard for the rules" could
be developed only in a country that appreciates freedom of
thought and action so much that it forced the Magna Carta
et Runnymede.
Master Ellis meant no harm, no offence to the sports
code. His innocent idea of soccer was to latch onto a loose
ball and run it. And so a game was born. At the time, 132
years ago,, Rugby was a school; not the label of a football
game. The ,sports identification came later, all, thanks to a
young Irishman.
FOE CaWert SPORTS COLUMN
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Metriorial$ Raised
Tq, Beetles, Gulls
stopom ..4rriviogi by air at
Kangas. City, Missouri,, can JAW
see a, ;loot statue Of a bull leek,
ing' out over the airport from.
the top of a .-00-foot - pylon.
Weighing' more than four tons,
the statue was, hoisted into posi.
tion,aa a monument to the pros,
per4y which Hereford bulls
have.' brought to that part of the
United States,,
Scattered in many parts of
the world ,are many, statues to
animals, birds and insects which
have benefitted mankind,
Go to Seattle, U.$,A., and you
will see an imposing monument
to "the world's most wonderful
cow" — Segis Pietertje Prospect.
Her achievement? She provided
33,922 quarts of milk. and
,2,865,18 lb. of butter in two years
—the equivalent produce of 10
ordinary cows.
After claiming in 1924 to be
the greatest poultry raising
centre in the world, a Califor-
nian town, erected a gigantic
replica of a white rooster at its
• railway station, mounting it on.
a fifteen-foot-high pedestal,
Northbrook Island in the Rus-
sian Arctic has a monument to
• '4 bee. She was a queen bee which
was carried. by the Worsley-
' Algarrson A.r etic . Expedition.
with 50 nurse bees in 1925. Af-
ter she had died from the cold,
the explorers placed her in a
tiny bottle of alcohol in, a caais-
ter and erected over it a cairn
of stones, On the top was placed
a notice-board naming the cape . •
Point Apis, in memory of the
bee.
Though the boll-weevil is the
cotton grower's woast enemy,
this pest was. honored in 1923
by the erection of a memorial
fountain at Enterprise, .Alabama,
in the heart of the cotton-grow.,
ing district.
The beetles totally ruined the
,cotton output in the area one .
year and almoSt bankrupted the
whole community. The farmers
then turned -to raising corn,
sugar cane, peanuts; sweet note:-
toes anti cattle. By alternating.
these crops with cotton they
became almost unbelievably
prosperous. ,•
So they expressed their grati-
tude to the voracious insect in-
vader that had turned their live-
lihood from a gamble to a' cer- • .
tainty by raising the $2,500
monument.
In Salt Lake City is a monu-
ment erected to seagulls.. In the
1840s, when the early - Utah set-
tlers were struggling for exist-
ence, a plague of crickets settled
on their land and started de-
vouring their crops,
Flocks of seagulls came to the
rescue, swooping down upon the
myriads of insects and making
short work of them, so the set-
tlers were saved from disaster.
The monument was built in the
form of a long granite shaft 15
feet high on which are perched
two gilded seagulls.. At the base
is a pool of fresh running water
providing a sanctuary "for the
'feathered friends of the citY". •
when they wish to bathe or drink
there.
British scientists have been
slithering around on polar ice
weighing babies that grow fast
enough to please the proudest
mother—the babies of "Antarctic
elephants."
A full-grown elephant seal can
be the length of a bus. Whereas
the human mother is happy
enough if her baby puts on a
few ounces a week, the mother
of a ton (400 lbs.) at 3 weeks!
lates in terms of 100 lb. per
week, An elephant seal cub
weighs 100 lb. at birth and a fifth
of a ton (448 lb.) at three weeks!
The British scientists who've
been weighing. them soon got a
healthy respect 'not only for the
swishing tail of these lusty
babies but for their lumbering •
dads, whose tails could flatten
the toughest scientist.
Why are these scientists
weighing Antarctic elephants?
Because they want to know if
the elephant seal herds of the
Far South can be increased
sufficiently to-permit commercial
sealing. And at least part of the
answer is to discover how fast
the elephant seal grows.
Weighing drill is as follows:
erect makeshift scales near 'a
herd of seals, select your baby,
separate it from Mum, keep Dad
at bay while you drive, haul or
shove it toward the scales, roll it
into position, record its weight,'
return it to Mum, take a
breather—and start on the next
young customer! And every time
there's a row with Mum and
Dad elephant—sometimes with
Dad breaking up the weighing
party.
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It's enough to make Writers
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it was tethered in the barn
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