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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-10-7, Page 3SNE Calvert SPORTS COLONS e There'll be a million ls and a half dollers in the pot Whentbo World Series baseball series 'l completed. But, believe it or not, there was a time when organized baseball Crowned. On Am,.l'l'orlil,Serles and didn't went any part' of it: It's difficult to believe, in view of the tremendous' box office takings, 'not to to, the great im- lietus it gives to baseball, that the World Series WAS once opposed by the baseball moguls themselves. The modern' World Series, as distinguished from prilnitive and casual playoffs dating from 1884 and involving American Association miners, was fo u ded in 1903 quite by accident. ittsburgli had: ;wQ#rtthe'll'atieria)<.I;eegue_pennant and Boston the American that year. The playoff was drummed up Private- ly as something that might attract enough paying fendom to provide winter food and ;shelter, for the, comparatively under- paid talent of that,era, Pittsburg and Boston flung challenges at each other, and finally met on the field of battle, J3utlit was an informal series, It didn't have league supervision, much less league approval. In 1904, Boston, µon, the. AI• LgSini and challenged the New York Giants, Manager' Meer w of the New York, club snootily replied: "I do not wish to endanger the standing Of illy team, by sending It against a minor league club." Result: there was no 'World Series'In 1904. Yoe should know the •background. It's interesting: The National was the' old established league, the one and only major, and McGraw's Giants were itsproudest exponent. The American was a fresh upstart at the time. McGraw's sharp and caustic aspersions on the AL lvdinded the young league deeply. Ban Johnson, its president, inn a great baseball pioneer, was up in arms Rather than precipitate a' costly baseball war, the NL magnates reluctantly agreed to an annual playoff against the .AL, just to keep Johnson quiet. Neither league, especially the National, had any idea that the World Series would catch on with the public, to the tre- mendous extent that has developed in recent years, when thou - Sands actually see the games, and millions more view it on television, or hear it on radio. .All of which makes one believe that some events earn prosperity .and others have success literally thrust upon them. Your comments and suggestions for Chir column will be welcome) by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. Catvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTIURG, ONTARIO (..Plain Horse Sense.. by BOB E[LIS Antigonish N. S. This is IT. This is the land of hope where the people have found a way to free ;themselves from "economic feudalism" ""by gradually establishing a system of mutual self-help organizations in the form of Credit unions and Co-operatives. The center from which this great experiment of social re- construction has been started is right here in Antigonish, in St, Francis Xavier University. The "Maritimes" (Nova Sco- tia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) are about 50,000 Square miles in area, about equal the size of England or the State of New -York, Their , population approximates about a million and a quarter people. ' 53 per cent • of the population is still rural, a much higher percentage than for, the whole of Canada.• The Problem At the ,time of Canadian Con- federation it was expected that the Maritimes, chiefly because of their geographic location, rich stands of 'timber and coal de- posit; would grow into a great industrial region supporting a large urban population and a prosperous rural people. Chiefly because of the ten- dency to centralize wealth and economist power in Central. Canada, this dream did not be- come reality. The result was that many of the young, and ambi- tious were looking for better op- portunities in other parts of the world. Census figures show that be- tween 1881 and 1931 more than 560,000 left the Eastern prov- inces to try their luck in the New England States, in Ontario or in the new lands opening up in the West. Certain farming areas were the heaviest losers; in Antigonish County, for exam- ple, the rural population in 1931 was less than half what. it was in 1881. Adult Education St. Francis Xavier University in the little town of Antigonish, N. S., is a Catholic institution, founded in 1853. It was here that in the years after World War I a group of priests and Laymen, under the leadership of Father T. J. "Tommy" Tompkins and Dr. Hugh MacPherson, another mem- ber of the University staff, be- gan to turn their attention to the problem of rural deeopula- lion and the general backward condition of Eastern Nova Sco- tia. They decided that any im- provement could come only from the people themselves and set out to show them the way through adult education: In 1929 the Extension Depart- ment of the University was es- tablished, with Dr. M. M. Coady as its first director, to initiate a program of social and economic betterment for the area, The Extension Department of St. Francis Xavier summarizes its ultimate objectives in a gen- eral pay as: 1) To lift the largest possible number of the people to a higher level of life, eco- nomically and socially; 2) To build a comprehensive co-opera- tive•structure through which the people will be able to control democratically a significant por- tion of the total economy, espe- cially in' the things that are "erose to the .necessities of life; 3) Through adult education, to lay the . eoonolhic and s o c i a l foundation that -will perm* all the people to grow in ,poliical ,litrdetstdndai'ing, culture d si3'irit- pat hie . t :, + + il'lylihti Tiiosi Vstrik-ine Mature of tltol 401(flilW1!'ftlVdrljibfft Is the cgrflplete ,lF}k,tk' 9tivg ref all re- gions �l raetq ,barriers, ' 'Minch"' lefiftfe"rthenfr .Scottish fishermen, Irish farpheits, Cath- olic priests, PPesbyterian min- isters, ,,chef min rs, steetworlters, they ,:all got together in their Meetings to discuss their prob- lems'and their one common aim: to help themselves and their neighbours, This column .welcomes sug- gestions, wise or 'foolish, and all criticism, 'whether constructive or destructive and Will try to answer any question. Address your letters to Bob tills, l3ox 1, 123 18th Street, New Toronto, Ont. ,I t Home Sweet Home • This home. less peasant of Vallavo, Greece, constructs a primitive dwelling to protect his family from the coming winter. His original home was destroyed during the recent earthquakes wiilch hearty demolished )he Ionian Islands, Pranksters Pepper t' .iling-Teen-agers have forgotten the gold- fish -swallowing fad wFiich swept the country a few years back, but they've started -another one which is giving restaurant' owners a headache. The new fad requires some drinking straws, chocolate syrup and a bit of wind power. Tom Taylor, left, and John Wasson show how easily a restaurant ceiling can be "re- decorated" by dipping the straw's tissue casing into syrup and shooting it like a blowgun up into the air. PORT • AstiXgiTc In a recent column we stat that our personal angling, ov the years, had been reduced almost the vanishing point, Whe have a desire for Gish, we a just as well satisfied to have served all cooked and ready f scoffing. This, of course, reduc us to the pariah -ranks in th eyes of all ardent fishermen. Stil honest confession is good fo what ails one, and that's the wa it is, so make what you. like of i 1-C ed vents them. • After a bird has er caught several fish the cornier - to ant master reins him in and en forces the bird to give them up. re it All of which, as we said be- or fore, sounds like the ideal lneth- es od of catching 'fish. What the e cormorants think about • it, we 1, haven't heard. But that's their ✓ lookout, not ours, and serves y them jolly well right for being t. such saps. * b 4, . Just recently, however, we ran across a description of a sort of fishing which we think might suit us—the kind where the bulk of the work is done by birds, not men. A writer in The Christian Science Monitor tells about it, and the next time we get around Japan -way, we think we must give it a whirl. * s * For less than one dollar tour- ists can hire a boat to, •watch a traditional and unusual sport in Japan — cormorant fishing. The use of these tame sea birds to catch "ay—t" a highly prized fresh -water trout, occurs during October on the Wagers Rivet at Gifu, about 250 miles west of Tokyo, Northwest Orient Air- lines reports. ° e a' •. According to the airline, the procedure has not varied in the smallest details for 10 centuries. The fishing is done at night by the light of bonfires carried in iron baskets hung from the side of the fishing boats. 4' * ,r Usually about 8 o'clock each evening in season ,a flotilla of fishing boats drifts downstream Victory Massage - Jubilant Yankees' Vice President Del Webb while spectators line up aboard gives Manager Casey Stengel a joyous "shampoo" and President pleasure boats illuminated with Dan Topping adds a heartwarming slap on the back, as the pshattersthedarkness ane rocket Yankees clinch their fifth straight American league pennant. • Insects Threaten An Entire islaind 1Jeadly poisons` are being issued in a novel but ruthless war On blind, ant -like insects so de- etructrive that they "eat" fruit trees, on the three -mile -square island of Barra Colorado in the Pe'aria Crenal Zone, Forty-two species of termites "'Ire/Shish on the island, To 'Wipe theen'out, Bows of upright wood- en posts impregnated with vari- ous poisons have been planted in aitd' near •148 or'dhards, 'The' men• -who are fighting the Insects -era amazed • at their de.. st4 tetiyeneas„and by the insects' "engineering skill”, in attacking the trees, Scientists once thought termites attack only dead or sty-, 'ing"wood. Now they know differ-, eptly. . .. Sone of the insects actually car- ry fungi round with them to "murder" trees before an army • of termites comes along • to de- vour them. Other spicies of. ter- mites have been busy' so long on the island that they seem im- mune to arsenic, "They appear to thrive on it," said one official. "Termites normally feed- on the cellulose in wood, digesting it by means of bacteria which thrive .in the insects' digestive tract: We are trying to wipe out these bacteria by poisoning them. If this can be done, countless termites will die of starvation. "When we started this war, most of the bacteria died off and so the termites perished. But it's a different story now. They are building up such amazing resist- ance td poisons 'that in a couple of generations a new race of ter- mites may develop eornplete re- sistance." So -tough is one species 71 ter- mite that he can gnaw through'a five -inch thick concrete floor. He goes after the digestible wend be- neath it! Termites often attack other things -besides wood. Alarmed by their ragaes among Italy's an- cient books and manuscripts, the authorities founded a "clinic for 'sick books" in Rome just before the war. Termites were believed 'to have entered the country in tobacco leaves from the Near East. WHO broke your window, Mrs. Higgs?" "My husband, dearie — he ducked!" nouncing that the cormorant boats are coming. 0 e e, The fishing fleet pulls up and takes- a position so as to allow the spectators a good view. Each boat usually has four fishermen. The cormorant master is called a "ushe." He wears traditional ancient costume—a kind of high hat and grass skirt. With him are an assistant, the steersman, and an attendant for the decoy fire. e , A ' The black cormorants, train- ed for their fishing task, are large quick birds, with long necks, stiff, wedge-shaped tails, and slender hooked beaks. They •are particularly fond of the "ayu" which is several inches long and a fish which the .Jap enese regard as the most deli - does of their fresh water species. Standing at the bow the cor- morant master operates 12 of his birds by strings. He holds the strings in his left and, manipu•• later them dexterously with his right, This requires skill and precision inasmuch as the birds dash madly as they Chase the fish that gather in the light of the deoxy fire. w r When tIhe cormorants catch a hell they try to swallow it, of course, except that a ring on the lower part of their necks pre - They Even Put Rivets 011 A "Diet" In a large -size modern air- craft there are nearly 2,000,000 rivets weighing about a ton. Cut the length of each rivet by a fraction of an inch, and yoti save some 200 lb. on the 'ni'ne's total weight, ' That's the way an aircraft de signer's mind works these days. Experts are now studying weight -reducing methods and scheming sleek contours as totes ishly as a film star dieting to, keep her curves in check. Even odd ounces here and there are Carefully discarded — for this fashionable "slinuning" is a factor which Mar decide whether a commercial airliner becomes a paying proposition. Each 1 Da, saved no '1 "plane'. basic weight,it is' reckoned, '. means an;' exfra $80 a year rev- enue. This is because an addi- tional payload of 1 lb. can then be carried: Ii' a fleet of ten 'planes are weight,ireduced by 100 lb, apiece, the annual takings thus jump by $80,000. As for jet fighters, experts estimate that a difference of 10 per cent. In weight can alter the 'plane's top speed by 2 per cent., its range by 11 per cent and its landing distance by nearly 30 per cent. A sleek, shiny outer skin com- pletes t h e slim -and -streamline treatment for fighters. These.) days a final finish of cellulose is the secret. 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