HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-12-9, Page 3THE Calvert SPORTS COLUMN
u
a "There must be a better way to
make a living" complained Santa Claus
as he serviced his jet -plane preparatory
to his last roundup of clients for the
1953 Xmas season, "Between the high
cost of living, shortages and strikes I
can't get the boys and girls what they're
looking for, Why, some of the National, Hockey, League clubs
have been writing in, asking me to provide them with a win-
ner. One can't do that" he added regretfully.
"What," we wanted to know, "is the most important short-
age?"
"I'd say common sense," retorted Santa, tugging at his lace'
curtains, rather irritably, "The things they ask for! For
instance, I have a ear -stained request from Chicago, asking
me to provide that city with another Stanley Cup team, I
can't do that. Those Black Hawks will have to look after
themselves."
Santa fished through the mail, and came up with a letter
that seemed to amuse him.
"Here's one from Frank King Clancy, coach of the Toronto
Maple Leafs" chuckled Santa. He's asking for a spare throat,
for he figures the one he has won't last him through the
season. A great fellow, that Clancy. What you call a real
holler -guy, to use a sports term. Wish I could help him.
"From a promoter of amateur boxing evel"tts, there's a
letter asking me to deliver him a real amateur. He might
as well ask for a baby plesiosaurus. And Frank Boucher,
coach of the New York Rangers, wants a rabbit's foot. I'll
'coup eee aof tough dets efense 'plt he ayers? Or anothed be better raLes erised tPatrick
td help take the load off Boncher's shoulders.
'Some' letters show signs of Intelligence. I have one from
a boxing/fan, asking that every manager' of boxers should be
sent a .picture^'of Ananias, so that he could see himself as
•others see him. One hockey, fan wants me to send a noiseless
whistle to all referees and. linesmen, And a pair of major:
sized trousers to all football leaders, because the game.
is suffering from growing pains and is in fact growing out
of its pants.
"I'm sending a gallon of black ink each to Conny Smythe of
the Leafs, Frank Selke of the Montreal Forum and Jack
Adams of the Detroit Red Wings. Those fellows never seem
to require any red ink. And a cash -register to Jean Beliveau,
the Canadianrookie, so he can count his money without wear-
ing himself out , .."
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By BOB ELLIS
A few days ago the daily press
reported Senator W. Ross Mac-
Donald, government leader in the
Senate, as saying that "it 'is im-
portant that, people correct the
wrong impression that farmers
are hard -up this year,"
To support this amazing state-
ment the senator argued that
farm farm income this year
would be considerably above the
average of the last eight years.
Farm Income Down
If farm income is above the av-
erage of the last eight years, so
are the incomes of all Other
groups. The income of wage and
salary earners has increased and
so has the income of industry.
The important point is that jhe
income of Canadian farmers has
not kept up with the increase of
the cost of living and the ,cost of
production. •
Further, that during the last
two years, while cost of living
and cost -of production have con-
tinued to rise, farm income has
declined. From its peak of
$2,200,000,000 in 1951 it is expect-
ed to fall to $1,672,000,000 in 1953.
Higher Costs
Not only has the farmers' In-
come receded by 528 million dol-
lars or 24 per cent in two years,
their coax of production has gone
up in the same period by about
five per cent.
Senator MacDonald ought to
know better, as a platter of fact
he must know better. Up to the
Fair Pair —.A, pair of 'queens,
back-to-back, lend their blonde
beauty to Waikiki Beach in
Honolulu, Hawaii.
end of the last session, the sen-
ator sat in the House of Coin -
mons as the Liberal member for
Brantford, centre of Canada's
farm implement industry.
Surely the senator has heard of
the layoffs of workers in his
own home town, where the farm
implement factories have dismiss-
ed more than half the number
Of their employees.
A Nickel Per Pound
Why did the companies have to
lay off these men? Because farm-
ers cannot afford to buy their
.goods any -more.
With cows selling for 10 cents
a pound, canners and cutters a
nickel per pound, milk as low as
$2.30 per hundredweight, mixed
grain $35 per ton; farmers simply
do not have the money to pay
the exorbitantly high prices of
farm machinery,
Farmers are hard up. They are
not in distress, at least not yet,
but cracks are showing, and
without a more positive and
constructive approach than the
one of the government leader in
the Senate, these' cracks may
threaten the structure of our
whole economy.
Labour -Farmer Alliance
It is for these reasons that for
the first time in their history or-
ganized labour and organized ag-
riculture have joined forces to
bring their common problems to
the federal government.
"It is significant," writes The
Grower, official organ of The On-
tario Fruit and Vegetable Grow-
ers' Association, "as the pressure
mounts, that organized Labour, to
help itself, now takes up the case
for agriculture as witness the
brief of United Automobile Wor-
kers. Organized labour and far-
mers never got along together."
"Many efforts have been made
to keep the two groups apart.
New, as one labour group exam-
ines it trouble spot it is found
that the welfare of another group
cannot be overlooked and the
two groups, find, themselves in
'common approach to the prob-
lem."
"For those who read signs,"
The Grower concludes, "there is
one here that will at least prove
Interesting. It may make some
people think; for an alliance of
organized labour and organized
agriculture could be fraught with
real significance," '
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 Hills, Box 1,
123 18th St., New Toronto, Ont,
Ambitious New
Theatre Project
For the first time In nearly 20
years Toronto will have a per-
manent repertory camper* do-
ing ,first rate plays on a profes-
sional lSvel. Organizers aI this
ambitious venture are two young
men frons' Newmarket, Ontario,
Murray and Donald Davis, who
have had considerable profes-
sional experience in Great Bri-
tain but who want to act it Their
own country,
To achieve this they have
leased for two years, with op-
tion to buy, the Crest Theatre
on Mount Pleasant Roao, which
was originally built to h .J u se
both movies and vaudeville and
requires very little alteration to
accommodate plays. They have
brought over from England five
outstanding key. technical people,
since, because of the absence' of
such activity there has been no
training ground for them; and
they have already chosen their
first play, "Richard of Bor-
deaux," which will open Janu-
ary 5. ,
The play is a gripping n.stori-
cal drama which calls for beau-
ful costuming and sets and will
give their set designer real scope, ,
He is Hutchinson Scott, who has
four plays currently, running in
London's West End featuring his
sets, including the new T. B.
Eliot comedy, "The Confidential
Clerk." Their business manager.
is Brian Mailer, who comes from
the Arts Theatre in London.
Their two directors, John Blateh-
ley and Pierre Lefevre both have
been on staff at London's Old
Vic and their stage director will
"Ho,cpy" In Shorts—Screen cowboy'`niila'tw Bdyil (140)a'long' Cas-
sidy) gets out of costume to swing of a 'golf ball during his Vaca-
tion at Tucker's Town, Bermuda. Looking on is his attractive wife,
former film star Grace Bradley.
be Michael Ashford who comes
from Bristol's Old Vic.
While spending their winters
in Great Britain, the Davis bro-
thers, have since 1948 returned
to manage and act with the
Straw Hat Players in Graven-
hurst and Port Carling, a non-
profit company which they
founded in 1948, and one of the
most successful of the summer
stock companies,
Around Grey Cup time, or in
the Spring when the Stanley Cup
Marathon rolls around, a lot of
'Mika think that Canadians take
their sport far too' seriously.' But
even the most rabid supporter'
of the Hamilton Ticats or the
Toronto Maple Leafs would look
like a sissy when compared to
the sort of fans they breed down .'
South America way,
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Take what happened three
years ago, for instance, in Rio,•
where the soccer World Series
was played. In a game against
Uruguay the home team—Brazil
—was a top-heavy favourite. But,
to the surprise of most eyery-
body, Uruguay finished inront.
n *
Did we say "Surprise"? Much
too mild a world! Rio became a
dead city for the time being. Doc-
tors were kept busy treating
cases of fits and hysteria. Uru-
guayans were knifed. And one-
man, who had been listening to
the broadcast of the game, shot
his fiancee dead On the sofa, then
ran outside and shot two police-
men before a bullet put an end
to his mad career. You think
Foster Hewitt or Wes McKnight
are exciting? Let them try and
match that one!
e e e
Firing the manager or the
coach is about as far as we go
to show our disapproval of a
losing club. There was a time —
and a place — where the action
was a bit more direct. While the
winners were being regaled with
fruits, flowers and wine, the cap-
tain of the losing side was taken
out and soundly flogged. Might
be an idea for Jack Kent Cooke
and his Toronto Baseball Club,
here!
s e e
This last-mentioned treatment,
however, occurred in China some
two thousand years ago, and the
game was Soccer—or what may
have been Soccer's most remote
ancestor, Claims have been made
for both the Greeks and the
Romans as originators of the
game, but an °eminent professor I.
has dug up evidence which alines
that the Chinese beat them lo
• * a
Tt nlusi be admitted that the
Chinese game bore only a faint
resemblance to the brand that
packs the stands at Wembley to-
day, The leather ball was stuff-
ed with feathers, or some such;
the goal was only about a feat
wide; and the contestants took
turns in having a shot at it. But
the Chinks had all alternative
code in Which dribbling and ball
control played„ a part.
* a *
All this, and a whole heap
more, we learn from "Soccer—
The "World Game," by Geoffrey
Green, 0 new book that will ap-
peal to everyone who is a soccer
enthusiast, as well as plenty who
are mere 'onlookers. Mr. Green,
who writes Soccer for The Lon-
don Times, 'traces the history of
the sport from its earliest roots
down'through all its exciting de-
velopments, and also has lots to
say • about' current affairs and the
future of the game. He doesn't
like, for instance, the much -criti-
cised transfer system, and thinks
that club and player should be
free to negotiate their own terms;
which isn't likely to make Green
a very popular color with the
top brass of soccer in the Old
Country, we would say.
e 0 q,
The modern game, as a spec-
tacle drawing vast multitudes,
may be said to have started with
professionalism, and appropriate-
ly it was two Scotsmen playing
for Darwen who provided the
first link between the famous
amateur clubs and big business.
The team of unknown artisans
challenged the mighty Old Eton-
ian in the Cup 'Competition of
1879 and it was only after two
drawn games in London that they
were defeated. Their gallant ef-
forts "kindled a tiny flame in the
North," writes Geoffrey Green,
Janes Love and Fergus Suter
were the two Scots, but what
were they doing in Lancashire?
Answer is that they saw brighter
prospects over the border and
the fact that they were excellent
footballers was a big help in get-
ting good jobs, Professionalism
was not legalized in England un-
til 1885, but long before that the
Scottish invasion had been in
full swing; their goal was golden
sovereigns and regular employ-
ment.
S. Or e
After that, football moved
apace and spread across Europe,
but not 'without perilous incident,
In 1900 some young Turks be-
came interested and held a meet-
ing to translate the rules from
English into their own language,
They were promptly arrested by
a detachment of soldiers because
a Palace spy had reported the
shirts as uniforms and the ball
as ammunition. These bold pio-
neers — or conspirators as they
were termed — suffered banish-
ment.
Crippled Submarine
Towed 1,000 Miles
One of the difficulties con-
fronting Lt. -Cdr. I(erens, of the
Amethyst, when he was contem-
plating his historic break-
. through down the Yangtse Riv-
er, was the fact that the ship's
code books had previously been
destroyed4to prevent their fall-
ing into enemy hands. He want-
ed to inform his C. -in -C. of his
intentions, but as messages had
to be sent in "clear" it meant
that the Chinese, too, could
read them quite easily.
After some deliberation he
dispatched a message asking
what he should do in the event
of a typhoon. This struck the
C. -in -C, as being so unusual
that he assumed the Amethyst
was thinking of making a dash
for it. His reply read: "The gol-
den rule of making of an offing
and plenty of searoonl apples."
Puzzle for Chinese
Later a typhoon did hit cen-
tral China, and Admiral Brind
repeated his message, but add-
ed: "I shall, of course, support
your judgment." The Chinese
couldn't fathom the signals, but
Cdr. Kerens knew that the C.-
" in -C. had given his consent.
Another signalling incident
that had happy results occured
in the Far East, when the Bri-
tish submarine "Shakespeare,"
after a desperate- action, found
herself crippled, holed, and un-
able to dive. The sub. had been
fighting for sixteen hours con-
tinuously, and respite came
only when darkness fell. She
was well over 1,000 miles from
base, and for two days and
nights limped slowly home on
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