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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-3-18, Page 3flEC:aIVeiCt SPORTS COLUMN S' 9e4rieuta • This is a great week for the Irish, in- deed and it is now. The sons of the Ould Sod may have lost their leadership In boxing, In long -jump - 'Ing and some other sports in which they once excelled, but there's one sport no one can take away from the Irish. That's handball, They invented it. Not a major sport, to be sure, but a great conditioning game of speed and skill, used by fighters, wrestlers, firemen, policemen to reach top physical shape, by business men, editors, lawyers, to keep that waist- line down to normal proportions. The hardy Irish played hand -ball in the tenth century. They called it "fives", because the five fingers of each hand were used to send the ball crashing into the board walls. Meham Biggs of Tipperary was the hand -ball wizard the Bob Feller, the Joe Black of his day, He could make a hand -ball spin and curve like a baseball pitcher controls a ball. England borrowed hand -ball from Ireland two centuries ago, "Fives" is still a big game at. Eton, has been for years. From hand -ball, so it is believed, came tennis, racquets and other such sports. They owe it all to the Irish. And this is a fine week, so it is, to emphasize that point, ' It goes without saying that hand -ball came to America with emigration from Ireland. In 1882, one Phil Casey migrated to Brooklyn and was distressed to learn there were no hand- ball courts In the States. Casey and fellow imigrants batted the hard ball brought from the ould country against the brick wall of New York buildings, but the rough surface nullified the spin, hence the finer art declined. Casey was enterprising enough to build a slick wooden court with side walls and he charged a fee. Alumni of the Casey academy soon penetrated to Midwestern and Pacific Coast communities, especially Detroit and. San Francisco. The Irish of that day had an ambition to join the "farce", f.e., the force, and wear a uniform. Accordingly there was hardly a police station or a fire house in the stripof Northern States frons the Atlantic to the Pacific that didn't serve as a back wall for hand -ball playing. And in public and private gymnasiums, the game came Into great vogue, because it was much more convenient to play hand -ball, than, for instance, golf, which took time to travel to the links. So today, thanks to the Trish of 2000 years ago, and thanks later to the Caseys, the Egans, the Cavanaughs and the McQuades, hand -ball, the game of the Irish, still flourishes, sharpens the reflexes between hands and feet, sharpens the eye, develops durability, stamina and good physical condition. Four -wall hand -ball was the original game and still is played. But in Brooklyn alone, there arc said to be some 1,200 one -wall courts against which descendants of the Irish Im- alittiesnts of a who help createthemelting-pot of this and descendants of 1ll continent,her ition- play Ireland's game. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St„ Toronto. CaLvtit DISTILLERS LIMITED AMBERSTBURG, ONTARIO SPORTJ by ,A STC If, ever a man deserved to be 1at world boxing champion, ` it is ,Archie Moore. His victory this Winter over Joey Maxim, at St. Louis, Missouri, will surely go *down in fistic history as the fitting culmination to the 36 -year-old coloured man's incredible deter- mination and patience. And that statement stands even if he loses the title next time he puts i'4 on the line. • * • Archie Moore has been a pro- fessional boxer for something like sixteen years. For nearly half that time he has been the leading 4eentender for the world light - 'heavyweight title. Yet, until he met Maxim. in December, he had never had, a crack at the. title. Why not? To quote Charley Johnston, the boxer's manager: "Moore is too good," * * a He calls him Big Poison, poison t0 other boxers because he usu- ally beats them, such strong poi- son that no reigning champion would meet him --even though he ranked Number Two in his class. Poison because ho had knocked out 56 of nearly 130 opponents. Way back in 1931) Moore began to hit the headline Then came the war and the light -heavy- weight title went into cold stor- age. Hostilities over, Moore found himself, on paper and in the eyes of boxing experts and ipublic, the leading contender for Ous Lesnevich's crown, • * 5 But every time a title fight oc- curred, Moore was never in one LC of the corners, as everyone ag- reed he should have been. Auth- ority, like 1 elson, turned a blind eye. 51 • • Moore, however, was never de- terred. He just smiled, donned his gloves and fought somebody else. From St. Louis to Balti- more, front Cleveland to Holly- wood, he boxed on. 5 5 5 At one time he was promised the next crack at the then reign- ing champion, Gus Lesnevich. But almost at the last minute plans were changed. Lesnevich went to Europe to meet Freddie Mills. Moore laughed at the Fates again, packed his bags and re- sumed his trans -American wan- derings. a * 0 Even some of the decisions in his fights seemed to mark him as one of boxing's "Forgotten Men," Once in Cleveland he was foulecl His opponent hit him while he was on one knee after being knocked down. But the offender wasn't disqualified Instead Moore was given ten minutes in which to recover and reslune fighting. Itwas one of the most ridiculous decisions ever given. He had been fouled so badly that he couldn't continue, and the offieiai verdict was that he lost by a knock -out! 0 5 5 So the years ticked by, and as Moore added more candles to his birthday cakes he must have quietly wondered if there was any Everything Big About "Big Ben" Nearly thirty years ago the chimes of London's Big Ben echoed round the world for the first time. Since then its voice has ,been heard daily in miilions of homes all over Britain. Experts admit that Big lien is the most wonderful of public clocks, No other can compare with its or accuracy. On a normal day it is right to within a frac- tion of a second, While the days In a year when it is more than a second out can be numbered an the fingers. Early last , century the old Houses of Parliament were burnt out and new buildings construc- ted to take their place, It was re- solved that the clock and houre bell to be fitted in the clock tower should be the finest in the world, The result was . our prey- ent Big Ben. The bells were cast, but the first developed a crack and had to be discarded. The second bell was cast at Whitechapel in 1858, and weighed more than thir- teen tons. Its weight can be judged from the fact that when it was dragged in triumph through the streets of London. a team of sixteen horses was needed to pull the ii carriage on which it rested. With great ceremony the bell was hoisted two hundred feet up the tower and struck for the first time. It was thoroughly tested for weeks, and then, to everybody's consternation, it, too, developed a crack. The case was brought up in Parliament and the makers were sued. but after a while it was -de- cided to let Big Ben hang. The measurements of the clock faces are startling. Each of the four dials is more than 22 feet in diameter. The hour figures are two feet high and six feet Signs Of Spring r apart, so that the minute hands jump forwards more than seven inches every minute , The cast-iron framework of each dial weighs four tons; the minute hands are fourteen feet fond and the hour hands nine feet. The massive pendulum is fifteen feet long and weighs more than a quarter of a ton. A 'microphone has been per- manently installed in the clock tower, and a line connects this with Broadcasting House. Big Ben, among its- other distinc- tions, is surely the most regular broadcaster in the world. justice in the world. Ot one thing he was very certain, however. If ever he got the chance he'd make darn sure of that title. Lesne- vich, Mills, Maxim, whoever was the champ, would know all about it when they met Archie Moore Ma.,cim was the man he met and hammered, and with the rais- ing of the new -title-holder's arm, years of injustice were vindica- ted. e e 0 Nevertheless, it was an injus- tice that can never be excused, even though it can probably be explained by one thing—promo- ters always like the gate -pulling contest best. They want Crowd Appeal. * a 5 As just one example, earlier last year "Sugar" Ray Robinson was considered to be a better financial draw against Maxim than Moore Robinson was fight- ing out of his weight and lost very decisively. But it was a bout that attracted the dough. That's what mattered ,. Filling Station—Taking on fuel before flying to Cairo,. Egypt, is three -month-old Mike Ash- worth. Assisting Is flight hostess Sylvia Velez, who takes aver the necessary operation bile Mike's mother buys tickets. ICN1t Phafoel BEEF F CN MOVE: The lifting of the UDittld Slat's embargo on Canadian meat exports to that ceently has tapped up activities inatoekyards and meat pnrkiug.ptaats throughout the country. These rows and steers being unloaded at the CNR's stockyard in Monism], loft, will end u]) 'on the book", right, and shipped as dressed beef. Duriu • 1951, Canada exports() 272,860 head of cattle and other livestock to the united States and 107,735,416 pounds of dressed meati A large volume of meat traffic was also enrried by the C",NR front Chicago to New England through the Niagara "gateway' in southern Onla•to.'The U.B. embargo tens imposed a yens ago because of a serious outbreak of hoof and mouth disease in western Canada. It was lifted lilnvr!1 2. New And Useful Tao... A new prodpct on the market claims to vanquish the foe of dull scissors. This novel sharpen- er stands upright on a rubber tip. Looking rather like a nine- pin,•it has a hole through it hold- ing a self-adjusting carborun- dun' hone. The scissors blades straddle the hone,. you squeeze the handles gently and push the blades over the hone. Repeat ___ until they are as sharp as you A. national survey by Britain's want. hatters has revealed that today o v a The leaf -shaped silver cleaner fifty -sit men out of one hundred now on the market, with the Good housekeeping seal of ap- proval makes silver cleaning as simple as washing dishes. In fact, it's much thesame process. Use any good detergent in warm water, slip in the "leaf," pile in the silver on top of it. See that the pieces touch the leaf and tarnish will vanish. Rinse with clear water and dry as usual. Silver will be gleaming once more. * • • A low cost electric broiler is something that housewives, get- ting the mid-day meal for one. working girls in single rooms or bachelors across the street will appreciate. There is on the mar- ket now a small broiler which looks like a deep saucepan lid and can be fitted over almost any kitchen utensil from a 12 - inch skillet to a cookie sheet. These act a drip pans. A rust- proof rack clr and an electric steak setcomes with the broiler. Hi .Boa! Storing down a 1 2 -foot boa constrictor is the job of Warren Prince. He is seen above in the Reptliarium of the Nation- al Sportsmen's Show. The boa's body is draped around Prince's shoulders. What's The Reason For "No -Hat" Habit? it, * 5 A new wax product has come into the kitchen. It is a creamy white emulsion which removes greasy cooking film, food stains, smudges and fingermarks from woodwork, walls, cabinets, ap- pliances ,and other kitchen sur- faces. evoid of harsh abraisives or strong chemicals, it is not hard on the hands, and has a pleasant aroma. A blend of waxes, solvent and other cleaning ingredients, the new kitchen wax is particularly effective and safe on enamel or porcelain. It leaves a hard, dry, protective wax film which guards against soil and water. Free of oil, i1 will not trap durst or finger- prints; nor will it yellow enam- eled surfaces. A pint bottle will clean and polish 1,000 square feet of surface. s Push -Button Hymns It had to come. Seemingly the quality or the power of 'the. hymn -singing hasn't come up to the expectation of the church dignitaries of a Lutheran church in New Jersey, and they've in- stalled a mechanical record- . player—a "juke box" to most people! ' Names of hymns are indexed on a tablet by the side of the mechanical choir, and visitors select whichever hymn they want to hear, press a button set by the side of that particular hymn — and nstosie sills the elsurch. 110 charge 1s made. wear hats. This still leaves a lot of bare heads, but ,it is claimed that the thirty-year trend toward male hatlessness has at least been halted. Hatters in America, Germany. Italy, Holland, Scandinavia and France are in on this, for all have been striving to put hats back on men's heads. The no -hat habit has spread through the Western world—what's the reason? Blame the times, says psycho- logists. Hatlessness, they argue, goes with insecurity and instabil- ity, while hat -wearing reflects a man's self-esteem and confidence in the future. A hat fashion sometimes seen in London's West -end is the Ed- wardian -type bowler. Plainly-- according lainly=according to psychologists — this is evidence of longing for a return to the "good old days" of solid prosperity and value for money. Here's another intriguing psy- chologist's -eye view. When men wear low hats, and especially when they wear no hats, it's a sign that women are gaining ground on the sex, equality front. This is an opinion endorsed by the costume historian, Mr. James Laver, of the Victoria and Albert Museum. "Male domination was at its peak when men wore the highest hats," he says. 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