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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-4-9, Page 6TNECa.`VCtt SPORTS COLUMN ‘ey EEaws 7er9ud°k Rhes is the second In a series efethreo columns dealing with lesser-known Incidents in Stanley Cup history, • A popular belief persisting to this day, is that Lord Stanley of Preston, sixteenth Earl of Derby, while Governor-General of Canada, 18884893, became so intrigued with the speed and colour of Canadian hockey, that in a burst of enthu- elasm he offered the cup which now bears his name. Much as we regret to shatter a sports illusion, such was not the case. Lord Stanley wasn't a great hockey, fan. 3 -lis interest in the game was academic and detached, He donated the cup around centurchy at at thehere as been such urging of Lord1orful K'llcourrle, of for his at ell ffer and alf a one of Lord Stanley's A-D.C's, and possibly too, because of the enthusiasm of hie own son, Zion. Arthur Stanley, who not only admired hockey, but played ih And by the late P. D. Ross, Ottawa publisher who had played for McGill. The Stanley Cup was donated in 1892. At a banquet on March 18 of that year, celebrating the success of the Ottawa team of the. era, responding to a toast to the Governor-General, Lord Kil- coursie read a letter from His Excellency which said: "I have for some time been thinking that it would be a good thing if there were a challenge cup which should be held from year to year by the champion hockey team in the Dominion. There does not appear to be any such outward and visible sign of championship at present, and considering the general interest which the matches now elicit, and the importance of having the game played fairly and under rules generally recognized, I am willing to give a cup which shall be held from year to year by the winning team,' Lord Kilcoursie stated that Capt. Colville, who was then in England, had been commissioned by the Governor-General to order the cup, to be held by the trustees until the end of. the next season, and then presented to the champions. The Governor-General appointed Sheriff Sweetland of Ottawa and P. D. Ross trustees of the cup. That there was keen interest in hockey in Lord Stanley's immediate circles is, of course, obvious. Mr. Ross, with some Ottawa men, Lord Cavan, and The Hon• Arthur Stanley, formed what was called the Rebel Hockey Club, whose members played in red shirts and engaged in exhibition matches with other teams. Lord Cavan, who was the tenth Earl of Cavan, commanded the British Forces in Italy during the First World War, and subse- quently was Commander -in -Chief of the British Army in 1921. The Rebels played the best teams of their time, and the pictur- esque organization doutbless aided in spreading the gospel of hockey. And aided, too, in securing the Stanley Cup, now the most prized of all hockey trophies, Next week: Death Wasn't Alone. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yong. St., Toronto. CaLvett DISTILLS LIMITED R AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO SPORT. by A S1X6tTC'l LC Ty Cobb received $25,000— which he needs about us much as Lake Ontario needs more water— for his two -instalment blast at the game of baseball as modernly played. That's a whole Iot of dough; at least it seems that way so most of us; but it was money well spent for the magazine, as few pieces regarding sport have stirred up a greater amount of controversy—a commodity which is of much value to a periodical such as Life. * * * From all points of the compass ball -players, managers and sports writers are heaving blasts at Tyrus Raymond, telling him that he's a has-been, a sore -head and that he doesn't know what he's talking about—the latter being somewhat skin to you, genteel reader, telling i'ensive Mood — Matching the pose of a pensive statue in the tuxembourg Gardens of Paris, •t Nord -thinking Sorbonne stud- ent applies himself to his studies :Pt. sure sign of the coming of spring ore students who take advantage of warmer weather to study outdoors. Willie Hoppe that he doesn't know how to play -cushion billiards. 3 * * * To us the most amusing feature regarding these criticisms of Cobb's articles is that the large majority of them come from Johnny-come-latelies who were wearing triangular underwear in the days when the great ball- players Ty writes about were do- ing their stuff. Ty Cobb had a close-up view of those old-timers; he battled wtih them over a 23 - year stretch; and he topped them all for all-round ability. He has also seen the modern generation— the Williamses, DiMaggios, etc., in action. And if Ty Cobb says that, with few exceptions, today's baseballers don't compare with those of a quarter-century ago, even if we hadn't read his reasons for saying so, we'd be inclined to put in with him. * * * But we did read those articles, and with keenest interest. Cobb's main contention is that the lively horse -hide, and the magnate's be- lief that home -runs are what fills a ball -park, have made baseball a far less thrilling pastime than it used to be. He maintains that to- day's batters, always aiming for that fence, pass up a lot of hits that they should be making; and that your modern manager, bank- ing everything on that "one big inning" are much inferior when it comes to strategy than men like Connie Mack, John McGraw and the like. We, personally, agree with practically everything Cobb wrote. Which, of course, may just be a sign that we can't play juve- nile, or even junior, any more, at that. * * * In one of his articles Ty Cobb speaks of Nick Altrock as one of the most deceiving pitchers who ever toed a mound, and one of the hardest to steal bases on. We can remember sitting at the old To- ronto ball park afternoon upon afternoon, watching that same Nick and trying to discover whether he was going to throw to the batter or over to first in. an effort to pick off a base -runner. Once or twice we thought we had solved it, only to discover that we had done nothing of the kind. For old Nick had a balk motion that was a honey, and you may lay to that. w * * Sq it was extra interesting to WALLPAPER CLEARANCE SALE Wallpapers from tee a roll up. Borders from 29a a yard up. nee of the largest eeleetien of pattern In Toronto at n saving of 05 to 500,, Akio intent patterns 1n merit. Make your doeornting nnvin5, mot ter your trip to Toronto UNITeb WALLPAPER B PAIN1 tete quanta EST. '':AST TORONTO Knocked His Block Off?—No, Harold Drucker didn't decapitate his seemingly headless opponent, Mike Gillo, nor are the boys part of a ballet troupe. Drucker "kept his head" -throughout the six - round middleweight bout and was awarded the decision. - notice, quite recently, that the same Altrock had been sounding off on the pititful plight of the pitcher today. Maybe you'd like to see what the crafty southpaw has to say on the subject. Anyway, we're passing it along herewith. * * * "Why don't they let the poor pitchers alone?". Nick Altrock was asking a friend. "Every time you pick up a paper these clays, they're legislating against the pitcher. What are they trying to do, drive him clear out of baseball? * * * "Everyone of the rule changes in the past two decades has been directed at the man on the mound," continued the veteran coach of the Washington Senators and himself once a real good southpaw hurler in the American League. "The hit- ter gets all the better of it—the lively ball, shorter fences, closer watch on the pitcher. * * * "It looks to me as if the mag- nates aren't getting enough home runs, so they are agaily working on the pitcher," Nick went on. "Nobody has figured that maybe some of the long -ball hitters aren't producing the way they used to —fellows like Joe DiMaggio. Bill Nicholson and Ted Williams. There aren't as many big fellows w s around today as there were five years ago. * * * "The American League is now out to stop pitchers from balking in their moves toward first base," he said. "Some of the boys have formed the habit of not stepping directly toward first before throw- ing over there. They have stepped halfway between first and home plate, and completely fooled the .base runner. The rule, they say, clearly defines this as a balk, and the umpires this year have been instructed to watch pitchers close- ly, particularly left-handers. . * * * "But what would you do if you were a pitcher?" Altrock asked. "Put yourself in their place. As the pressure mounts against them in the rule book, they have to look around for loop holes in the law. * * * "If the rule makers won't give them a break, they have to make a few for themselves. They can't tamper with the ball, but they work in an occasional spilter• Thcy can't deceive base runners with moves to bases, but they manage to cheat a little there, too. I say that if the magnates gave them a fair shake, there wouldn't be any cheating. Under present condi- tions, the boys have to look around for ways of heating the rules. * * * "I have to laugh every time T think of one day Bump Hadley. then pitching for the Washington club, worked against the Yankees at Griffith Stadium," Nick recalled. '"It was one of the clirkest int>, I have ever seen and it was dune in full view of everybody in the ball park, including the Venice(' bench. * * * "Well, Hadley bad about a two run lead by the end of the thirl inning and was looking pretty good," the veteran roach went nn. "His fact hall was really poppmng• But von know the Yanifeee, and everybody was expecting them to blow the genre w1rle npen at env moment. * * * "But Bump was thinking ahead and was determined there would he no big inning," he said. "So in either the fourth or the fifth ---1'*e forgotten tt•ltirb- he at, Il i looked faster than before. Yankees were swinging and missing as if they didn't even see the ball, I got suspicious and began to figure, What was he doing? I watched him for en inning without catch- ing wise. lint the next inning 1 • caught on. Ile had moved up on the mnnnd and was foot and a half or two feet in front of the rub- ber. "Why the' Yankees didn't notice it, I71 never understand," Nick said, grinning. "Earl Combs was ro:rriting on one side and Art hirt.h,•r on the other, two of the sharpest guys in baseball: But there was liadley, throwing that much closer to the hitters and getting away with it. I guess the Yankees were too busy trying to sweat out runs to notice Bump's feet. * * * "Well, everything went along all right," Nick said. "Hadley had his lead and nobody was wise, So as he went out to pitch the ninth, I told him he'd better get, back on the rubber. 'Don't push your luck,' I warned him. So he stepped back to wliere he should be and still got them out, I suppose if you tried to tell some of those old Yankees about that today they wouldn't believe you. But Hadley really did it." Strange Place Names A researcher for the American National Geographic Society, ob- viously entranced by a recent story from Punkeydoodles Corners, Ont., has popped up with all kinds of information about the strange names some places have. For instance, did you know there is a place in Wales called Ilanfair- 'is a place in Wales called Ilan- fairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn d rob- w111iant ho 0 oc . i' h z Y g g Well, W 11 there is. , Punkeydoodles Corners, inciden- tally, is a village with exactly six inhabitants. Two counties in Ont- ario are now fighting for the hon- or of listing the Corners in their territory. The most delightful place names in the U.S. showed up in the gold rush days. For instance, miners named one town in Nevada Lousy Level. It was flagrant plagiarism. There's such a place in Hertford- shire, England. In Pennsylvania, there still exists the quiet Delaware River town of Foul Rift. In California, there are Whiskey Bar, Brandy Gulch, Del- erium Tremens, Chucklehcad Dig- gings, Hell -For -Noon City, Love Letter Camp and Mugfuzzle Fiat. Wyoming boasts a town called Crazy Woman Creek, And in Mis- souri you'll find One Damfino - tOWll. People give places stodgier names now. Can you imagine any- one nowadays clubbing a town Bishops ltchington? Britons dream- ed that one up years ago. Another name that's sure to give anyone pause is "OP" Alley in Lon- don. The story goes that a certain section of London was named for George Villiers, Duke of Bucking- ham. There are streets called George, Villiers, Duke and Buck- ingham. And, faithfully enough, an alley named "Of." Rivers Of Reindeer In Canadian North A rebellious and contrary rail*. way that may have an 43041 t the wilds. of Siberia, the Muskeg Ex- press bas no relatives on this eon., tinent, It stretches northward for fave hundred desolate miles to the shore of Hudson Bay, It thinks teething of running a hundred miles at a tune without curves and with- out bends to relieve the heavy- footed pace it maintains... . The only 'passenger accontmoda- tion on the train was in the ca- boose. So Uncle Frank and I lived there for the three days and two nights that the journey consumed, le climbed up to the high bench of the caboose cupola to have a better look at the new lands which. were appearing, and I was there when the marker for Mile 410 came into view, and simultaneously the rusty whistle of the old engine be- gan to give tongue. It was to con- tinue sounding for a full half-hour, with a eecl.lets disregard for steam - pressure. But at the first blast I looked forward oyer. the humped backs of the freight cars—and noticed the whistle no morel ... A broad, turbulent ribbon of brown ran out of an opening to the southeast and „teaced its sinuous course northwest over the snows of a land t$trt,•''R .s still completely .' gripped by ;the frosts—for this was no river ofeevafer, but a river of life. I had ' mye binoculars to my eyes in the' nsfant, and through the lenses I saw the stream dis- solve into its myriad parts, and each part of that river was the long-legged shape of a deerl "C'est la Ferules" The French- Canadian brakeman stood beside me, and at the sound of his words I understood what it was that 1 was behlding. 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