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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-5-5, Page 5rxe('abietf SPORTS COLUMN 6 &stet ?ft • Every Kentucky Derby - like every other great horse race -has its episodes of glory, but eyery renewal of this great race has Its bitter disappointments, and its upsets, too. For instance, there was the 1940. Kentucky Derby, and there never has been a satisfactory answer to the ques- tion of just what happened to the great Bimelech in the Run for the Ptoses that year, Colonel E. R. Bradley had an amazing number of thorough- breds, including four winners of previous Derbies and also the mighty Black Servant, Baggenbaggage, Blue Larkspur, and so many others and he had furnished the sire which produced the immortal Back Gold. Going up to the 1940 Derby, Colonel Bradley said: "I think Bimelech is the greatest horse I ever had."' Blmelech won 8 races straight -as a 2 -year old, Making Itis dobktas a 3 -year old, he won both races in which he had been entered, and came up to the Kentucky Derby of 1940 with the record of being unbeaten in 8 starts, apparently at the peak of his form, and with the turf authorities insisting he had the Derby at his mercy. The punters made him a favorite at 40 cents to the dollar. The field he was pitted against was regarded as one of the most mediocre of many years, It represented the best of the crop, but the crop, at its best, was not presumed to be in a class with Bimelech, "Bimelech should win by a quarter of a mile," the ex- perts insisted. "No ether horse in the race can run the mile and a quarter faster than 2.05." Yet Gallahadion, who never knew greateness before, nor showed any greatness afterward, was too fast for Bimelech that'afternoon, Gallahadion won by a length and a half. Gal- lahadion's time: 2.05. Not until the defeat of the grey ghost, Native Dancer, last year, at 7 to 10, has there been a similar catastrophe of form, and even so, the odds on Bimelech were much shorter, so that the great mystery of all the Kentucky Derbies is: "What was wrong with Bimelech on Derby Day of 1940?" "Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o William W. Rees, Calvert Ontario Sales Manager, 431 Tonga Street, Toronto." CaLvett DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTOURG, ONTARIO Ice Packs For Frail Flowers There is many a t '0 -aspirin headache for florists behind those bouquets of roses and carne- , tions which arrive looking so dewy -fresh On such occasions as Easter and Mother's Day. .. PLAIN HORSE SENSE .. By BOB What is happening to the idea of producer controlled orderly marketing which since the days of The Farmer's Sun used to be the 'foremost ° topic of all agri- cultural discussions? Whether it were hog pro- ducers or eatle breeders, dairy farmers or wheat growers, when- ever they met in groups pro- ducer controlled marketing took the most prominent spot on the agenda. Complete Surrender A number of marketing schemes have been set up in the lairt few years,but they are giving producers rather less than more control over their product. Oddly enough this trend has been vigorously promoted by the leaders of Ontario farm Or- ganizations who previously just as vigorously advocated more producer control. The crassest and most abject example of complete surrender of individual and collective rights to the all-powerful state is the new Ontario Milk Indus- try Act which was put on the books during the recent session of the Legislature. In meeting after meeting last /all resolutions were presented and carried unanimously calling for Consolidated dairy Iegisla- Creative - Donald Wendell Is probably the first totally blind person ever fa study mechanical drawing at college level, He is gist developing' the first work- able Braille Instruments for blind draftsmen. ELLIS tion. Always the implication was that this should give farmers more control over their product and protect them against exploi- tation. What did we get? An agglo- meration of five acts into one by which the last little bit of con- trol was taken away from the producers and all powers were concentrated in the hands of the government Individual farmers and loofa' branches of farm organizations were not informed of the con- tent of the new legislation, but were asked to lobby their res- pective MLA's for support. There was no time or opportuni- ty for discussion and explana- tion at the °grassr00t level.' Before the Agricultural Com- mittee of the Legislature repre- sentatives of the farm organiza- tions said that this was what Ontario farmers wanted. Meat Marketing A similar situation is deve- loping in the field of beef pro- ducing and meat marketing. While large groups of cattle raisers, particularly in th e prairie prgvinces, are going on record in favour of orderly marketing, a Canadian Meat Council is being proposed by others and presented to farmers as a panacea for dwindling mar- kets. The Meat Council will be com- posed of producers and proces- sors. It will be financed by a 5 cent levy on every head of cattle marketed by farmers while the processors will not contri- bute to the fund, The object of the Council is the propagation and promotion of meat consump-, tion, As laudable as any such plan may be, it will not replace a marketing scheme; of which it could be a part, Hog Marketing Looking over the report on the annual meeting of the On- tario Hog Producers Associa- tion the question arises whether the marketing scheme is being run by the Producers Associa- tion ar by the sales agency. Or is it just drifting along in- stead of being run at all? Wateh Out. Milk, beef and hogs are the three most important precincts on Ontario farms. Marketing schemes for these products could be of great benefit to the pro- ducers, They Ahotlld see to it that they are, When you Send n letter to a convalescent child, write your message in large letters Oh carcl- board; then cut it up, jig -saw plizslefashion, The invalid will. enjoy putting the letter together to read. Although rose,, and carnations are constantly expressed from one point td another. in this country, they have never be- come seasoned travellers. One of the most difficult roses to transport is the variety known as Happy Day. Its habit of open- ing up its petals at the faintest breath of warm air has given florists an unhappy day - and night. Then, there are some car- nations that close up and go to sleep and refuse to wake up, Florists are still trying to diag- nose this ailment. Unlike the hardier s p r in g flowers,. roses and carnations are always packed with ice for ship- ping. hipping. This is to prevent them from opening up while en route, The melting ice can turn the package into a slushy, leaking mess at the other end of the rail- way line. And that's where the florists' headaches begin. One of Canada's largest whole- sale florists recently developed a speeial refrigeration unit for ship- ments of roses and carnations. They obtained a quantity of tubular polythene film exactly like the tough, 'translucent plas- tic which grocery stores use to make bags for fruits and veget- ables. They tied one end with strong cord, filled the bag with water and tied the other end. The result looked very much like a huge sausage, Then, they put the "sausage" into a deep freeze unit and froze it to 25 degrees below zero. The water ekpanded as it froze, but so did the Poly- thene container which can with- stand temperatures as low as 70 degrees below zero. What emerged -from the deep freeze was a special ice pack for delicate flowers. When this is lashed to the sides of the carton, it 'immediately lowers the air in- side to around zero or below. It chills the heads of the flowers instead of just the steins as did the loose chunks Of ice. When the ice starts to melt, the water is trapped inside the polythene bag, where it hasn't a chance M soaking the petals. While only florists may be in- terested in how t0 make an iia pack for cut flowers, others may like to know how to make the blooms last longer. Florists say flowers cannot Obtain an ade- quate supply of water when the under portion of their steins has darkened. This should be cut oft each day. Choose a sharp knife rather than a pair of scissors since scissors tend to pinch the stems and hinder the flow of water. Cut diagonally across the stem. Also strip a few leaves at the same: time as they rob the heads of considerable moisture. And, of course, change the water every day. OTTO REFEREED HIS OWN FIGHT Back in the days of the first World War, Young Otte, who had been a famous fighter some years beforethat, became a re- feree. On one occasion, he was assigned to referee an entire card of 'fights. After handling ell the preliminaries with neat- ness and despatch, Otte was told that the main event could not go on because one of th' fighters had' failed to show up. The *crowd, bitterly disappointed, be- gan to grow ugly. Young Otto stepped into the centre of the ring and lifted his arms for silence. "Just a minute, folks," he said when the uproar sub- sided, "I'll get a substitute for the missing man, Just take it easy for a minute," He left the ring, only to re- appear a couple of minutes 'later dressed in tights and With gloves laced on. Clambering back through the ropes, he 'walked towards the' empty corner _and waved to the crowd. "I'm taking the place 'of the missing Ivan myself!" he shouted, , His opponent, a dangerous lightweight, sprang from his corner. "Hey," he said, Zyou can't do that. You're an old men, and besides you're the referee. We can't fight without a refe- ree." "I don't need a referee," re- plied Young Otto with a smile. "Go on back to your corner and come out fighting at the bell. What's more, I'll count you Out in self!" The appropriate sequel is that Young Otto did 'flatten out his oppenont In four rounds; cerent- the young Man Out himself and gluing hint a double count just to make sure he was be- ing absolutely fair and honest about the whole thing, "Bums" Come Home - "Preacher" Roe, dean of the Brooklyn Dodgertpitching staff, eases the road home for outfielder Carl Furlllo, seated. The seam had lust arrived in New York prior to the opening at the baseball season. Anyway, The Ref. Did His Best Fight referees have their odd moments. For fans who complain of partiality when their favo- rite drops a decision, this first little anecdote ought to show them -what real bias is. It hap- pened in a fight between'Kid McCoy and some unknown paloo ka whom the Kid agreed to take on for aeome easy money. In the very first round, the unknown closed his eyes and connected resoundingly with the Kid's jaw. Down went the ' great Mc- Coy with a bang like a thunder- clap. The referee, who was Mc- Coy's man, just couldn't believe his eyes. He stood, mouth agape, staring at the fallen Mc- Coy for a full minute before he began to count. Then he got down on his knees, put his lips against McCoy's ear, and began to bellow the count as loud as he could roar, trying to rouse the Kid from his slumber. By the time the count reached five, the referee was out Of breath and the Kid was still comatose. The referee stopped yelling and, leaning still closer to McCoy, took the fallen fighter's ea, be- tween his teeth and bit as hard gas he could. He continued to chew and chew on the ear until It .looked like raw hamburger, but still McCoy continued to count sheep. The fans, as you can well imagine, were in an uproar at the goings on in the ring, Final- ly, despairing of ever getting McCoy to his feet, the referee got up, brushed off his trousers, shrugged helplessly, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Ten - and outl" Offers Reward - Maj.Gen. Ar- thur R. Wilson (ret.) offered $100 to the first "tough noncom" who gives Pvt. David Schine, former investigator on Senator McCarthy's committee, a punch in the nose. Now in Europe on business, General Wilson posted the reward with the command- ing officer at Ft. Dix, N.J. 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At the top of Mont Blanc, for instance, water boils at 185' Fahrenheit, or 85° centi- grade. Some substances boil at,a very much higher temperature than water. Gold, for instance, which melts, or becomes liquid, at 1063° centigrade, boils at 2600°. Copper melts at 1083° centigrade and boils at 2300°. Silicon, which forms about a quarter of the earth's crust, .melts at 1420° cen- tigrade and boils at 2800°. Tin melts at 231° centigrade and boils at 2260°. These are all substances that are solid in the ordinary temperatures at which we live. Mercury, or quicksilver, which is normally a liquid, boils at 357° centigrade. When we come to substances that are gases at ordinary tem- peratures, we find that their boiling point is very low. Hydro- gen boils, or changes` from the liquid into the gaseous state, at minus 253° centigrade. Fluorine boils at minus 1870 centigrade; nitrogen at minus 19(0'; and oxy- gen at minus 183°. SQUARE DANCING AT WINTER FAIR When the curtain rings up on the 1954 edition of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair on No- vember 12th next, the Coliseum will echo with the shouts of square-dance callers, the laugh- ter of dancing couples and the lively strains of old fashioned hoe-down music. During the eight days of the Royal, regarded throughout the world as being Canada's shout window of agriculture, square dancers from all parts Of Can- ada and the United States will "swing their partners" and "al- lemande left" as they irie for honors in an unique square dancing competition. Sponsored by Canada Pack- ers Limited, this competition is designed to stimulate interest in square dancing, long associated with social life in rural areas across Canada. It is expected that approxi- mately 100 sets will participate in the contest, which will have both a senior and junior divi- sion. 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