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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-10-28, Page 3THE Cahtert SPORTS COLUMN 51ve 70:4440fe • When, recently, the famous. former heavyweight boXer, Sant 'Langford, Who Was bern in Weymouth, N.0, became the first Canadian -born ringster to be cited in the greatest of all averts Halls of raDISs the Hobbs Foundation of Los Angeles, it unleashed a flood of reminiscences about this mighty slugger. One concerns a match which ended with Langford scoring a knealcout in the seventh round, a story told us by the veteran Joe Woodman, wh� discOvered Langford in Heston as a young fellow Who was earning his living washing windows. We'll have te build a little background for this, primar- ily that Langford is credited with possessing the most lethal left hook in heavyweight ring history, possibly excelling, in Sheer power, that of jack Dempsey, Also, there existed in Langferd's day a considerable amount of racial prejudiee, which Rerttinately has disappeared. Few white lighters, or • Negro fighters either, wanted much to do with,Langford and • his lethal punch, unless there was a "gentleman's agreement,", which Sam always kept, religiously, lest he should fight him- self out of opponents. He was aman of omitting courage and stamina, this Langford, as well as fistio skill, Not over five feet seven inches tall, and despite short arms, he could, when he cut Idose, flatten foes with one sweep of that abbreviated left; even though he had to stand on tip -toe to land it. Langford was, probably 154, one of the best -natured boxers of all time, who chuckled his way serenely along in and out of the ring. But once lie wile angered, and that is the episode of which we spoke, ° •s Joe told it, Sam was fighting a Veavyweight named, Thompson. It was supposed, by agreement, to go to 10 geed fast rounds, with neither fighter injured much. Thompson had Other ideas. In the sixth round, he let go a right cross with everything he had, bit pain or the chin, dazed him, and alniest knocked him out. When they came up for the seventlrround, Langford thrtist out his gloved right .hand, and said. "Shake hands." Replied Thompson, surprised: ''This ain't the last round; Sam." "It is for you," answered Sam grimly. And so it was. Langford was boxing In St, Louis, one night, and his opponent's handlers thought to make idra nervous by delaying the entry of their boxer into the ring. Sam sat on his ring chair for nearly half an hour, before his opponent arrived. When the usual preliminaries had been settled and the timer was about to ring the bell, Sant stepped to the side of the ring, held up his gloved fist. The surprised crowd fell silent. Announced Langford: "You'll pardon me, gentlemen, if I make this fight short. 1 have to catch a train." Then, with one punch, he laid his opponent low. , Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. 1$4,111.4A444. %.4111.1,VV.11. DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTOURO, ONTARIO ..Plain Horse Sense.. by BOB ELLIS Judging by the editorials and after-dinner speeches reported in the daily press, the offensive against "orderly marketing" of agricultural products is gather- ing momentum. "Hands off free enterprise" is the battle cry, raised by the Frixne-Minister himself at the un- veiling of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's statue in Montreal, and immedi- ately picked up by the Globe and Mail in Toronto. The Globe, however, does not like the "talk, from time to time, among his ministers of keeping up state interference with the conditions of marketing the great surpluses of agricultural commo- dities in store in Canada." In.the opinion of the Globe and Mail "the right solutions involve governments withdrawing as soon as they can from subsidies, guaranteed prices and most inter- ferences with the functions of free markets. The way is then opened for the development of the whole continent in its trade and productive possibilities." A CHALLENGE Farmers have no objection, provided, however, that the pro - Steps Toward Safety - • mod starlet Rita Moreno has no fear of the ladder slipping thanks to a new gadget -design- ed ta prevent lust that. The dts'• consists of shoes and stabilizers vice consists of shoes and stab- Ilizers attached to the feet of the ladder, tecting hands of government be taken not only off agriculture but also off industry, and that the grip. „of the hands of trusts, cartels and combines on "free en- terprise" be loosened. Farmers have said so again and again. It was repeated by H. H, Hannam, president of the Can- adian Federation of Agriculture, at the Annual Convention last January 1th in Victoria, B.C., when he said: "Once again the farmers of Canada challenge other industries to wipe off all tariff protection including all re- striction on the immigration of industrial workers, and agricul- ture will be happy to do like. - wise, Time and again Canadian farmers have thrown out this challenge — yet no one takes it up." FARMERS TOO Once in a while we even hear farmers object &I' government intereference with marketing, who overlook the necessity of having monopoly interference eliminated at the same time. In a letter, also published in the Globe and Mail, E. D. Brooke calls for "the right to choose the course to fellow based on indi- vidual judgment in the light of conditions which are not subject- ed to tampering by governmental or other controls." Mr. Brooke, a hog producer in Oriilia, says that "until cost of production is in line with hog production in other parts of the world, Canadian farmers cannot compete in a world market." He does not say how the farmer is expected to reduce his produc- tion costs which to a large extent depend on the materials he has to buy like commercial' feed, fertilizer, implements, •rubber goods, spare parts, gasoline etc. All of these things the farmer has- to pay for at exorbitantly high prices set by industry, all too often fixed by combines, BOON?, TO WHOM? Mr, iltrooke also wants to put Live Stock Sales Linlited, which is the central marketing' agency of Ontario hot producers, out of business. - Mr. Brooke's ideas are bacon on the scrambled views which the Glebe and Mail serves us for breakfast with these Words: "11 would be a great been to Can- adian agriculture and the Punic* welfare of the i country if men of like 'Views could lead a Win movement back to sanity." • It would certainly be a boon for the meat packing indttstry,,, This column welcomes; mug- gestiOns, Wine or foolish, and ell criticism, whether constructive or destruttiVe and will try to answer any question. Adame your letters to Bob Ellis. Box 1, 123 . lath Street, New Toronto. Ont. The First Talkies Returning to New York 1r Vier reluctantly agreed to g back to Hollywood to write on picture for Will Rogers . . Just as I arrived Hollywoo was struck by lightning. Th "talking picture" had just com in and from the very first it be came clear that the day of th silent Picture was over, This wa a dreadful blow to all of the hi cempanies, especially /f2 Fox - who had contracts with a TROD ber of popular stars that they had valued in the millions TAO' these great box office narnee, should fail them had never see/1n- ed possible, . but unfortunately you can't very well make a gdod talking picture With an actor • who can't talk , . They tried - everything, even importing a famous engineer from the !Gene- ral Electric laboratory in Sefle,, neetady, who attempted to' paint with a comers hairbrush, on the sound Oack„ something that would resemble the human voice, • but that did not sound so good, Next they tried sending th4ii stars to school, but goinpIto school 18 something that gives its best results when started. at an early age, and they hadn't started soon enough„ Holly- wood lost many of its stars be- • -farelhe talking picture` was any - - where at near to being an art as the °best of the silent pictures had grOwn , to be. Will Rogers was, a little upset over all this fuss. He was really a modest fellow and the shyness that go endeared him to his audiences in the days when he was twirling his rope in his vaudeville act was a perfectly natural expression of his char- acter. Mrs. Davis and I had met him in New York and in Lon- don, but it wasn't until I worked with him in Hollywood that' I really began to know him. I would say that above every- thing else, Will was a wise man, if wisdom means what I have always thought it does. To me wisdom isn't something to be learned from books, it comes from contacts with life, con- tacts made by one who has the gift of observation and the good sense of being able to separate the wheat from the chaff. I think, for example, that a wise man never sits down but once on a hot stove; while the fool keeps on trying it. have heard Will described as shrewd, but that is another word that often needs defining—shrewd is often used in the place of mean, and Will Rogers was never that. We decided that the first Will Ro- gers talking picture was to be "They Had to See Paris," based on a very amusing novel by Homer Croy, The fate of this picture was very important to all of us and I asked the Fox people to call in Sonia Lavine to assure' us of a perfect "shooting script." Sonia Lavine knew more about what a camera could do than I ever had fdund out, and with her help I wrote what turned out to be much the best of all the Will Rogers pictures, The Homer Croy novel was real- ly good; and Will's part was ab- solutely .right. He was a very simple and honest actor and gave a really fine performance. Frank BOrzage's direction was splen- did and "They Had to See Paris" was much the best picture I have ever written.—From "My First Fifty Years in the Theatre," by Owen Davis. 0 0' 0 e To serve a large number of people pancakes for breakfast, pbur the batter on a cookie sheet which has a barrow rim all around. Bake in a 375° oven 15 minutes. Cut in squares and serve with butter and syrup. 5* le& '' • J. • s • • Hoy, PigW The Kilt? - It's too chilly in most plaCes fOr. Bermuda shoPts these dCiys, so some, of the boys are considering kilts es an- antifreeze measure. But what's the proper length? One authoCity says a kilt should be three inchel-frOrn the floor when the wearer is kneeling. So here's kilted and comely Janet Burrell checking the length of Trig Carter's kilt. Looking on is Lois Gifford, executive of a men's underwear firm who naturally Is vitally concerned with what a Scotsman wears under the kilt. "Well,' said father to little Tommy, "how- did you like the circus?" "It was good," Tommy replied, "but I didn't think much of the man who threw knives at the woman," "He Missed her every time!" Up To Par Again - When Singer Jane Froman was horribly smashed up in a Lisbon plane crash in 1943, she thought she'd never walk again, much less play golf. But here she is, driv- ing off with her badly scarred right arm and metal -braced right leg apparently unable to stymie her skill and spirit. Mapriing, The Bottom Of The Atlantic It became a matter of immense importance to know, not only the depth of the sea over the whole line along which the (trans-At- lantic) cable was to be laid, but the exact nature of the bottom, so as to guard against chances of cutting or fraying the strands of that costly rope, The Admiralty consequently ordered Captain Dayman, an old friend and ship- mate of mine, to ascertain the depth over the whole line of the cable, and to bring back speci- mens of the bottom. . . . In the months of Tune and July, 1857, my friend performed the task. . . The result of all these opera- tions is, that we know the con- tours and nature of the sur- face -soil covered by the North Atlantic for a distance of 1,700 miles from east to west, as well as we know that of any part of the dry land. It is a prodigious plain — 'one of the widest and most even plains in the world. If the sea were drained off, you might drive a wagon all the way Ir om Valentina, on the west coast of Ireland, to Trinity Bay in Newfoundland, And except upon one sharp incline about 22 runes from Valentina, I am not sure that it would even be ne- cessary to put the skid on, so gentle are the ascents ano des- cents upon that long route From Valentina the road would lie down hill for about 200 miles to the point at which the bottom is now covered by 1,700 fathoms of sea -water. Then would come the central plain, more than a thousand miles wide, the ine- qualities of the surface of which would be hardly perceptible, though the depths of the water upon it now varies from 10,000 to 15,000 feet; and there are places where Mont Blanc might be sunk without showing its peak above water. 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