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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-3-11, Page 2TOE Caved SPORTS COLUMN 4 €Cmai eitguoao • There are those sports followers who believe that, in mutters of sport, the Cana- dian elleges have withdrawn too much T,vitbbi'Themselves, by limiting, mainly their athletic competition to inter -college play. Some critics even go so far as to in- timate that there should be, In Canadian college football, a ''bowl" game between east and west, played ;annually. This writer is not in agreement with such theories, We believe Canadian colleges have struck -a very sound perspective in their survey of sports, by making study the paramount thing. We think it will be a sorry day indeed when the only standard we have for collegiate superiority Is the ability to win at foot- ball, hockey, or other games. Sports can be justified as sport in our educational system Only when played primarily for the student body and by the boys who are enrolled through normal channels. These boya should desire to play as a normal phase of their collegiate life. We don't believe the day will ever come in Canada when, even in ratio, collegiate sport will reachthe highly com- mercialized status achieved by the American football teams in the myriad "bowl" games played on New Year's Day. There were at least 12 of these in the United States, ranging from the Peanut Bowl in Georgia to the gigantic Rose Bowl show' in Pasadena. Over two million dollars was netted, and turned ever to the competing schools and Conferences and associated institutions that shared In the cuts. That's all very nice. But if you happen to reflect on the situation, and get beneath the money, the roses, and the glamour, and the printer's ink so profusely spilled, it may suddenly dawn on you that these things have no educational value, that it may be an insult to the educational process to turn college boys into a trained act to be trotted out before the clamoring throng, But the golden ladle is there and the appeal is apparently hard to resist. So credit is due to those American schools which rejected this last act of mass entertainment and told their players to go back to their studies. This year's bowl extravanganzas were bigger and louder than ever, but each year the available cast grows more limited, as one smaller school after another, and conte of the larger schools, too, abandon an enterprise which places the emphasis on physical power. So we should be a little proud of the fact that Canadian colleges permit no such commercialization of the students. Studies are the paramount thing, sport a pleasant side -line, relegated to Its proper place. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Eimer Ferguson, c/e Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG., ONTARIO SFORT /�Y /a SlXBITC In the course of a long career ail a sideline onlooker — both aid and paying—at athletic pas - es, we have seen various cit - des, towns and communities go what you might call fairly goofy ;ever a variety, of sports. In fact when we consider some of the .goings-on we have witnessed when, for instance, a bunch of professional .athletes gathered from all over the continent wear- ing Winnipeg uniforms engage la a gariie •; of footballwith`, a eamilar built). 'wearing: Argonaut 7aniforms, we have sometimes been inclined to think that the -ultimate height ,of :goofiness had been reaeiieri, •* 0 But, apparently,' such a con - elusion would have been consid- erably astray. Compared to the way American basketball fans lake their favorite sport, we Ca- nadians .who bust a gusset over ;hockey or football ere cold, aloof and wittlodt etiihuaiasitt. As wit- ness the following quotes from a New York Times article writ- ten by Kenneth S. Davis, who lives in Manhattan, Kansas, deep in the heart of the United States basketball belt. Take it away, Mr, Davis! e • e A student of that peculiarly American phenomenon "sports fever" could not do better, right now, than visit this Kansas col- lege town where everybody is "nuts about basketball." The scene here is typical of hundreds of other communities over the country, though there are few perhaps where the mania is more highly concentrated upon a sin- igle sport. The symptoms of lun- acy may be slightly more ob- trusive this year than usual as Kansas State has been consist- ently rated ranting the "top 'ten" c011ege. teams in weekly national polls. * a • . At 5 o'cionic on a basketball night the huge $2,500,000 field - house, completed two years ago No Nicks Please—Well aware that a deep scratch would serape Off a lot of valudble Metal, gold -bar counters and weighers .,heck government-owned gold carefully The 24•corat brickt.are lbalanced delicately as the gold is assayed, A truckload of bars already assoyed can be seen at lower right. Where's The Ball?—Looking like people playinga game of blind man's' buff, these three basketball players seek and reach in every direction for the ball which seems to be floating off at far right. (one of the five largest college structures in America), is packed by 11,500 to 12,000 people, though Manhattan's population, includ- ing 5,000 K -State students, is barely 17,000. The main lights go down. Only the court remains brilliantly focused, and two spots beam upon a huge American flag hanging above the court's center. a c Outof loudspeakers above the hushed throng used to come a mellifluous voice saying (until recently, when the administra- tion called for a slight change of script): "Welcometo big-time basketball as played in Kansas State's new fieldhouse" The starting players are introduced individually, each of them drib- bling a basketball out onto' -the court .and passing back to the next in line as the crowd roars its applause. Then officials and coaches are introduced, the IC - State coach, Jack Gardner, in- variably receiving a standing ovation, • • By this time the crowd is welded by a single excitement which maintains itself through tremendous peaks and slight valleys until the game ends. I've personally seen and felt nothing like this save, perhaps, during two or three minutes of a bull- fight, once in Mexico City. • a s To partake of this intoxication people 200 miles away buy sea- son tickets, often driving to Man- hattan for a Saturday` -night' game, returning home that same night, then driving over and back again for a Monday -night game. A Colorado alumnus of K -State last year arranged his return from a South American vacation so that he'd be in the fieldhouse for a game which he'd heard might decide Big Seven standings. * t Y Pregnant women in these parts have been knowrf to insist upon a radio in the delivery room on game nights—a request the doc- tor, being as delirious as his pa- tients, does not deny. Few civic clubs, or church organizations, or women's clubs are so foolish as to schedule meetings on basket- ball nights. Rare is the hostess who dares to give a dinner party on a night when the team is playing out of town without an- nouncing that "our radio will be on." * z * Even the fine arts here reflect basketball fever. The public -li- brary has been exhibiting paint- ings by Hobart Hays, instructor in fine arts at K -State, and his show has been the most popular the library has had in a long time. It features oil paintings of Jesse Prisock and Bob Rousey, key members of this year's five, in, action on the court. e• b b There was a lot of faculty com- ment when fans gave a $2,000 silver service and a Chevrolet sedan to coach Gardner two years ago. "Jack doubtless de- served` the adulation of tlie' fans," President James A. McClain de- clared, "But it's regrettable that comparable recognition isn't giv- en such other members of our staff, as the scientists who de- Veloped new Wheat varieties which, last summer, brought our farmers well over $100 mil- lion of extra income." d N ¢ To which we can only add— with a bow of thanks in the di- rection of .Mr.' Davis and the l,Y. Times that, so far as sports goofiness is concerned, we in Canada "ain't seen nothin' yet" and have a long way to go. Still, we're a comparatively young nation yet, so, as the late Dr. Munyon used to say, "There is still hopes" Wind Trouble—Mrs. Jean Cook, out on a shopping tour, has trouble manoeuvring in the.stiff breeze. Winds of 50 to 60 miles an hour wrought havoc with" wide, sweeping skirts. Sound Waves A Work The laundering of clothes with sound pitched, far higher than the human ear can hear is fore- told by Dr. Ernest M. Yeager. He also says that high -frequen- cy sound may homogenize milk, . age whisky or destroy bacteria in water supplies, All this is part of what he calls "sonochemistry,' the science that deals with chemical effects of sound waves. Sound waves too high in 'fre- quency to be heard can be, used to. produce both physical and chemical changes in various ma- terials. Hydrogen peroxide (the chemical used for bleaching) can be made from water in which oxygen is dissolved; chlorine gas can be made from water in which oxygen is dissolved; chlorine gas can be made from carbon tetra- chloride (the dry cleaning chemi- cal); the chemical properties of plastics can be modified. It must .be pointed out that at present such chemical reactions on a factory scale are expensive because the amount of sound energy required is very large. Possible exceptions, however, are the artificial aging of alcoholic beverages and increasing the efficiency of dyeing processes. High-intensity ultrasonic waves can be used to break tip par- ticles in liquids into fragments so small that they remain sus- pended despite the force of gravi- ty, Thus; it is possible to homo- genize milk, prepare 'paints, and even suspend mercury, one of the heaviest metals, in water or oft, Success, and the idea of success, can sometimes be depressing. It usually comes in a chain and you rarely win the last link. In 1840 to be an average person you had to have a minimum of $12 In the bank. To an average person today your miniman must be $218. RELIEVED iN A JIFFY ormoney cock Very find use, of soothing, cooling, liquid D.D.D, Proscription positively relieves row rel iter-raysed by eMernn, ruches, sealp irritation, mhnfing--other Itch trouble*, Crease- moneytnbnrk' Ask your (imagist fornD,Zi.D, PRESCRIPTION. Modern Etiquette Q. Should the mother of a bride -elect or the mother of her fiance give a shower for her? A. Neither one of these per - Sens should give a shower, as this would be in the nature of in- viting gift dOilatione. Properly, only close friends of the bride should: give showers for her, Q. Is it nceessary to mall out engraved Invitations to .an open house one is holding to one"s'new home? A. ilio; ibis is an informal type of entertainment, and invitations may be extended either personal- ly ersonally or over the telephone. Q. Is it all right to pielcup a ehop hone nitli the fingers, when Bating at the table? A, Never. If you are not able to extract all the meat with the knife and fork, then you should sacrifice it. Q. Shouldn't a man remove his topcoat before starting down the aisle of a church or theater? A. Yes, He should never go" down the aisle disrobing. He should remove the coat and place it across his arm before starting down the aisle. Should he forget to do so, then he should wait until he reaches his row of seats. Q. Is it all right to mail out handwritten -'wedding invitations? A. Yes, if the guests are just a select few. However, if the guest list is sizable, .I should think it would be easier and better to mail out the engraved type of invita- tion. Q. What is the proper thing to say when you have failed to understand or hear what some- one else has said? A. Either "Please?" or, "I beg your pardon?" is accepted form. Q. If someone asks you a ques- tion at the dinner table just at the moment you have 'put food into your mouth, what should you do? A. Be sure to wait until you have swallowed the food before you attempt an answer. You know only too well what it sounds and looks like when one tries to talk with food in the mouth. Q. When an. engagement has been broken, is the girl entitled to consider the gifts and engage- ment ring the man .has given to her as belonging to her? A. No; she should return all these. Q. When the folded napkin is placed on the left side of the dinner plate, should the open edge be toward the plate or away from it? A. The open edge should be toward the plate, Q. Who stands the expense of all the flowers used at wedding? A. The bride's parents assume the expense of flowers used for church decoration, for the bride's attendants and for the bride's mother, The bridegroom furnishes his bride's flowers, and the boutonnieres for himself, his best man and ushers, Flying By . Ear Laboratory experiments have already shown that "bats do not collide with anything they can- not see because their inaudible, high-pitched squeaks are sent back as echoes. Bats, therefore, fly safely by ear. Prof. Donald. R. Griffin has recorded the wave forms of these inaudible sounds with a cathode-ray oscilloscope and found that when the bat turns toward an insect the sounds come much oftener,, Sometimes' there are as many as 200 pulses a second. So he concludes that the bats find insects with this system rather than by seeing them or listening for the sound. of their flight. He remains that the bats cannot see the insects against the ground when it is dark because they dive at them from above. I'f. the insects were located by listening, the bats would stop making noises them- selves instead of adding to the din, A Birmingham man who let his beard grow merely because shav- ing was too much trouble de- veloped such a luxuriant one that he throby began earning an ex- cellent living as an artist's model. For overnightrelief of KIDDIES' 'CREST 18 THERR SWEAR 11! rise AIM WISE LDS It 14 it snow-white highly-mcdlcnted nib that vanishes— to bring almost instant casing of sittfhd•np nose, tight chest and cough -irritated throat. Ask your druggist for BIUCKLEY'S Slain- ; ess WHITE RUB. 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