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w1 en110-ye athlete
Marilyn Bell, Wad
d whole
solve slip of a High-school student, a girl
who sings in her Outsell choir, seized
the edge of a boat at the Toronto harder
front and was pulled from the water,
after swimming the cold, treacherous
breadth of Lake Ontario from the United States to Canada..
This Canadian girl, with an immense heart in her 116 -
pound body, gave a performance beside which almost every
other athletic feat you can recall pales into insignifieanee
Facing competition from the great, -established star, Florence
Chadwick, who had three times swum the English Channel,
as well as breasting the Catalina Channel, the Bosporous
and the Dardenelles, little Marilyn's chances for success in
this cruel test of heart and body were rated sub -zero in
advance of the race.
So, here was drama, here was stark courage, here was
unbelievable
y to pietua redandianalyze thsgitretmendous feat
The kid started from the New ,York side of the lake be-
fore midnight,
All through the black night she swam, with icy waters
lashing into her face) blinding her, driving into her ears.
Slimy eels were clinging to her legs, fastening their
mouths upon her, a sickening chapter of the swim. Thos,
all through the night.
Came dawn, she \vas still swilnnling, battling her
way along. All day she swam, with the sun in the
heavens, then with dusk coning on. And still she swam
—40 .miles of it, they say, as lake currents carried her
here and there, before she r ea c h e d the shore, after 21
hours in icy water.
This rates the greatest athletic feat of the year in
Canada, and we're not forgetting the double 4 -minute mile
in the Empire Games at Vancouver, as Bannister and
Landy, great Empire athletes, both raced within the un-
believable circle. That was a mighty feat, indeed. But,
after all, Bannister and Landy each had run the mile in
under 4 minutes once' before. They were athletes who
came up to the Games fully prepared, trained to the min-
ute. From either Of them, perhaps not from both, but
from either, a 4 -minute mile was generally . expected.
They were already famous.
But this high-school kid, this Marilyn Bell, had never
before been heard of. Her entry into the race was
training. What Whatromptu, f rainiwe ng can a kine id of 16 no concentrated
earsdo, besides a
daily swim?
Her equipment, physically, as she entered into a gruel-
ling battle with the watery elements of the broad, cold lake, .
were just her natural God-given courage, stamina and
strength. That's what, in part, makes her perfprmance so
wonderful Canada's' sports event of 1954.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, r/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto,
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Cobbler's Tacks
Hanged A Man
Mr. Mold, a bootmaker of
Edgware Road, London, looked
at the boots lie had just finished.
They were beautiful boots lined
with lambswool, for a very
beautiful woman. Miss Camille
Cecile Holland was a favourite
customer of his and he always
put his best work into her
orders. It was the year 1897.
He took a handful of brass
tacks and tapped his initial "M"
into the waist of each bopt. It
was his stamp of approval for
his own work—though he would
hardly have dreamed it was also
to • be the "signature" to a
death warrant!
But that lay in the future.
Only "Chief Inspector Luck,"
'who so often stands for justice
when the efforts of human de-
tectives falter, could have known
0 its significance.
Florence, the servant at Moat
Farm, Clavering, in Essex) was
afraid of her master. She had
good reason to be, for he had
forcibly kissed her, and had at-
tempted to break into her room.
When, One evening in May,
1899, Mr. Samuel Herbert
Dougal drove hotlme in the pony
and tragi without the mistress,
Florence was terrified. She bar-
ricaded herself in her room and
was prepared to jump out of the
Window should Dougal break
eOwn the door.
The mistress never came back
liar did Dougal attempt to
molest Florence that night. He
had something, else to do; and
Florence left next morning.
It was the year 1903, Mr.
Dougal, the wealthy owner of
Moat Farm, bad acquired a
reputation as a ladies' man, and
there was tap -room gossip about.
his lights -o' -love, but he was
hearty and generous and much
was forgiven him at first. His
wife — the real wife, not the
lady who had accompanied him
to Moat Farm in 1899—had run
away with an engine driver.
But Mr. Dougal had so many
affairs with village girls that at
last a note of spite crept into the
gossip. It was discovered that
his first consort at Moat Farm
had been a beautiful Miss Cam-
ille Holland, and rumours be-
gan to circulate that although
she had left him, she had not
taken any of her possessions
with her. Gossip grew to scan-
dal, scandal to a suggestion that
Miss Holland had never left
Moat Farm.
The local constable, P. C.
Drew, wrote a report to his
Chief Constable, who not only
sent down Superintendent
Pryke, but communicated with
Scotland Yard.
Quite a lot was discovered
about Miss Holland and Mr.
Dougal. He was an ex -soldier
who had forfeited his pension
after a conviction for forgery;
the lady was a wealthy spinster
who, most surprisingly; had
been persuaded to throw in her
let with a vulgar and un-
scrupulous adventurer. Moat
Fa ;m good in her game,
t this time the police be-
lieved Miss Holland was a
prisoner in her own house,
their belief . being strengthened
by the factthat cheques and
ROCKY LEAVES — Heavyweight champion *Pocky Marciano, on
his way to Los Angeles, is kissed at ldiewild Airport by his wife,
Barbara. She avoids both the bandaged nose and toped eye-
brow of her husband,
HARVEST 'QUEEN — All these vegetables and Loretta Kaiser, 19,
go to make up a luscious dish, served up for the County Fair.
Loretta reigned as the "Vegetable Princess" of the annual'
event, held this year at Pomono.
other documents bearing her
signature had been presented
and cashed regularly by Dougal.
By now nephews of Miss Hol-
land, already uneasy at the four
years, absence of news of their
aunt, had been shown sped -
mens of cheques bearing her
signature. Some of these they
definitely declared to be for-
geries.
Superintendent Pryke visited
Moat Farm to investigate, but
failed to find any trace of the
missing Miss Holland.
Although the Superintendent'.
appeared satisfied, Dougal lost
his nerve. The next day he
withdrew ail his balance at
banks in Saffron Walden, some
$3,000, and left Moat Farm. Ap-
parently he intended to move
very far from Essex, for he de-
posited his luggage at Liverpool
Street Station and went to the
Bank of England to change some
ten pound notes.
These had been obtained on
a cheque which the police be-
lieved was a forgery of Miss
Hollarid's signature, and their
numbers had been circulated,
Dougal was arrested at the bank
and charged with forgery.
The next day be appeared be-
fore the magistrates at Saffron
Walden and was remandedin
custody.
By now the police had aban-
doned all hope of finding Miss
Holland alive, but for the sake
of justice they still hoped to
find her body. For five weeks
they searched the large house,
dug the garden, drained the
nioat which gave the farm its
name. They found only fish.
At last two local laboerers
recalled that four years ago
there had been an open ditch
across the farm, and that this
had been filled in. Digging start-
ed in a new direction. After
several hours the effort was
crowned with grim success. A
fork, wielded by .a police con-
stable, struck something hard.
It was a boot, and it contained
'the bones of a human foot, Fur-
ther digging revealed a skele-
ton with portions of rotting
clothes round it
The remains were those of a
woman, the medical experts de-
clared. She - had been shot
, through the head, _ and the posi-
tion of the bullet holes ruled out
suicide.
There was no doubt in the
minds of the police whose body
it was, but at first it seemed as
though proof might 'be impos-
sible.
Dougal stood his trial at
Chelmsford in June, 1903, on a
charge, not of forgery, but mur-
der. There was one amusing
incident to relieve the grim
story. Miss Florence Pollock of
Bayswater, at whose house Miss
Holland stayed in 1893 while
Dougal was "courting" her, was
called to identify the accused.
She gazed round the court and
her eye fell on a figure sitting
beside the judge. "That's him,"
she said, pointing.
"Look around the court," she
R as told by counsel.
Miss Pollock looked round,
then pointed again to the figure
on the Bench. "'Yes, that's him," a
she repeated. "He is much
changed since I saw him last,"
Then she caught sight of the
man in the clock. "Oh, that is
him! That is him!" she exclaim-
ed.
xclaimed.
To convict Dougal it was
necessary to prove that the
body was' that of Miss Holland.
It was past recognition, but the
boots were not—boots lined with
lambswool, skilfully made for
small feet, and each bore the
Stetter "el" wgrked in brass
tacks en its Waist.
Ones again, when the efforts
Of the police to establish eOn-
elusive proof seemed 60 have
reached a dead-end, "Inspeeter
Luck" had stepped in. If Mr.
Mold, the bootmeker, had not
mode a habit of "signing" his
'best work, the skeleton's iden-
tity would probably never have
been proved.
As it was, Mold was able to
establish beyond all doubt that
he had made the boots six years
before for Miss Camille Holland.
And, largely as a result of bis
evidence, Samuel Herbert
Dougal was hanged at Chelms-
ford on July 14th, 1903.
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Rhinoceros Horn
A sharp increase in the price
paid for rhinoceros horn has
spotlighted a strange Eastern
superstition and mystified Lon-
don exporters.
The horn is sent to. China,
ground and blended with other
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London exporters are still puz-
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Mr. Charles King, a director of
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"We know it is used by the
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bravery."
For 200 years native and Euro-
pean hunters have sent rhinoc-
eros horns to London from East
and, West Africa. Each African
rhino has two horns of about six
pounds each.
The horn is auctioned by a
City firm. About 170 rhinos die
every year to supply the market.
Their value is nearly £10,000.
Mr. Alfred Yates, more than
30 years ivory examiner to the
Port of London, and one of the
greatest experts on the subject,
says: 'I've handled thousands of
pounds of rhino porn. It all goes
to Hong Kong fbr medical pur-
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strange stories about its uses
and effects, and as far as I know
they are true."
Mr. Yates keeps a little snuff-
box of powdered rhino horn in
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Four out of ten children are
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permanent injury to their feet
b e f or e. vacation time rolls
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These grim statistics are bas-
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Ration, which warns that both
parents and schools are neglect-
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Children's feet and their shoes,
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Here are a few rules prepar-
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squeezing a young foot into a
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by another child is a dangerous
procedure. The shoe will not
give—but the foot will with un-
fortunate results.
(3) Shock the construction of
the shoes you buy. Foot doc-
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resilent soles. Leather has a
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also Allows air to circulate free-
ly inside the shoe thorough its
tiny invisible pores,
Churchill Didnft
Shine At School
Winston passed into Harrow
the lowest bpy in the lowest
form, and he never moved out
of the Lower School the whale
five years he was there. Roll call
was taken on the steps outside
the Old School and the boys used
to file past according to their
scholastic record.
The masters struggled with
Churchill in bewilderment and
indignation, He was self-confi-
dent and assertive; he could tans
the hind leg off a donkey; why
could he not learn the rudiments
of Latin and Mathematics?
Churchill insists that where "my
reason, imagination or interest!
was not engaged, I could not or
would not learn." There is no
doubt that stubbornness played
a considerable part for when his
twelve years of school came to
an end he declared with some
pride that no one had ever suc-
ceeded 3n making him write a
Latin verse or learn any Greek
except the alphabet.
As a result he remained per-
petually at the bottom of the
class: and as a further result he
was thoroughly grounded in
English. If he was too stupist.
to learn Latin he could at least
learn English. He was drilled
over and over again in parsing
and syntax. "Thies," he writes e..
eI got into my bones the essen-
tial structure or the ordinary
British sentence"— which is a
noble thing. And when in after
years my schoolfellows who had
won prizes and distinction for
writing such beautiful Latin po-
etry and pithy Greep epigrams
had to come dawn again to come
mon English to earn their living
or make their way, I did not feel
myself at any disadvantage."
Churchill loved to experiment
with the use of words and was
passionately fond of declaiming.
He astonished. the Headmaster,
De. Welldon, by reciting twelve
hundred lines of Macaulay's
Lays of Ancient Rome without
snaking a single mistake, for
which he won a school prize, "I
do not believe I have ever seen
in a boy of fourteen such a ven-
eration of the English language,"
Welldon once declared.
Churchill was no better at
sport 'than he was at Latin or
Greek.—From "Winston Church-
ill, The Era and the Man." by
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