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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-12-01, Page 7eeleeteeters THE C !Vert SPORTS COEUMR SeNt 'Ji ` ,t'Jp,, {, pu • There are presently only fourteen 10 -year players In the National Hockey League, And, considering the high speed and heavy bodily contacts of hockey, it's a wonder that so many have sur- vived 10 or more years of lee warfare. And it's even mere surprising that in the present season, the most amazing player campaigning today is getting closer to the day when he can say Ile broke into major hockey 20 years ago. Fiifrl n lesiBoluolnItnConrad first appeared in aoatn cb'sie-up. was late in 1936 or early,1937 that he was called up to relieve some Bruin situation, and played enough games to bag a couple of goals. ' Schmidt weighs around 180 today, but he was a skinny 18 -year-old when he first played for Bruins. Ile grew fast and he learned fast. Three seasons of absence from the major league hockey front, Nubile he wore an air 'force uniform, didn't halt Schmidt's hockey career. The huh of the Kraut Line came back in 1945-46. And in '46-47 he enjoyed his biggest scoring season - 27 goals. Among players currently active in the Big Top, only six had scored 200 goals or more when the present campaign started. Schmidt is, of course, one of these, with 225 to his credit when the season opened. In points -making, he ex. celled all but one of the current top figures, Rocket Richard started the season with 651 points, 384 goals and 267 assists. Schmidt had the greatest number of assists of any active player, 338 -. a points total of 563, Schmidt, Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer, all natives of Kitchener, Ont., became hockey partners early in -their careers at Boston. They lived together, played together, and as the Kraut Line, became one of the great threesomes of all time, a clean -going line with tremendous. scoring punch. In one season (1939-40) they led the scorers in 1-2-3 older. The Krauts were broken up when Bauer retired to a business career in Kitchener after the 1946-47 season. Schmidt and Dumart carried on. Dumart was still with the Bruins last season, and, like Schmidt, one of 26 players to score .300 goals in heir careers in NHL history. For durability they rate high In the tough winter .game.' Your comments and suggestions far fhiscolumn will be wekomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yenge Sl., Toronto, VertDISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO His Downfall Shocked The Worldfew weeks ago a ceremony was performed in Chelsea, Lon- don, that recalls a fai»ous au- thor whose dazzling career was brought to an untimely end in 1895 by a scandal that°shocked the whole country,. " - On the wall of No; 24, Tite Street • will be unveiled one of those .blue, porcelain plaques that the Ilondon County Coun- cil fixes to the houses in which great men once lived. The name on the plaque will be Oscar Wilde's. A disgraced and .ruined man at the age of forty-six, Wilde died in a third-rate hotel in Paris in 1900. Since then no less than a hundred books have been .written about him. Which raises the'question: has here- mained the centre of such in- terest for more than half a century, because his plays are performed everywhere and his Woks sell in their thousands? This can scarcely be so, for Wilde's literary output was com- paratively `small. ler fact, it is probably true to say that now- adays his literary reputation rests on nothing more substan- tial then .a single play end a poem. His play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," is certainly a masterpiece, and has been film- ed. His poem, "The Ballad of Reading Goal," is still frequent- ly quoted, Other works he wrote, however - among them a oncecelebrated essay entitled "The Soul of Man Under Social- ism" -- are . for the most part forgotten. To what, then, can we attri- bute Wilde's increasing fame? How is it that his nam e is known to - millions of people who have never read a.book he wrote, or seen one of his plays acted? P,erhaps the answer is' to be found in what the man himself once confided to a friend: "Shall I tell you the great secret of my life?" he s a i d, smoking one of the perfumed, gold -tipped cigarettes he never liked to be without. "It is that I put my genius into my life, but only my talent into my work. Writing bores me soy" Bored, or otherwise, he was forced to write in order to live. But there can be no doubt that life, as he chose to live it extravagantly, and with unbe- lievable recklessness - turned out to be far more dramatic than any plot he ever invented. Born a hundredyears ago last month, Oscar Wilde achieved considerable notoriety shortly after leaving Oxford University where a great future had been predicted for him. As the leader of a poetic cult in London, he was frequently caricatured in the pages of Punch" wearing long hair a n d satin knee - breeches. But this poetic phase did not last. In a remarkably shprt time Wilde had become the idol of smart society. This position he achieved through his charm and his ex- ceptional wit As an entertaining conversationalist he was con- sidered second to none, and on more than one occasion Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) en- joyed his scintillating company. Examples of his witty remarks he was always throwingoff in the course of conversation are the following: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes." "Genius is born, not paid." "Her capacity for family .af- fection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief." CHUGGIN' ALONG—Two persons ran supposedly ride•in:comfort In thistiny three -wheel utile, .It was designed by electrician Andre Siames, of Boulogne Sur Seine, France. Powered by a one - horsepower motor and capable of reaching speeds up to 50 mph, the homemade car was the hit of a Paris gadget exhibit. And Away We Go - Four persons seem to fit, comportobly inside the "Minicar,"'a three -wheeled automobile, "on display in Lon- don, England. Designed along modern lines, the car can supposedly get 90 miles to a gallon of gas. "I c a n resist everything - except temptation," How strangely prophetic was that last utterance of the ugly shape of things to come. For if Wilde had not been tempted to bring' an action for criminal libelagainst LIle Marquis quis o f Queensberry (the creator, inci- dentally, of the famous boxing rules)., his life might not have ended as disastrously as it did. What happened was this: Wilde's morals had b 'en fre- quently criticized, the climax coming when Queensberry open- ly accused him of indulging in unnatural,,. practices. Recklessly-- since bis private life at this time did not bear investigation - Wilde -took the marquis to court. And he lost his case. Not only that, but he was himself put in the dock and charged with a number of seri- ous offences. After two lengthy trials (at the first the jury disagreed), Wilde was found guilty and sentenced to two years' hard labour. The wit he indulged in when under cross-examination by the prosecuting counsel (an Irish barrister who was later to be- come Lord Carson) availed him nothing, His brilliant career ended with the suddenness of a light switched off. Wilde made plain in a pathe- tic letter he wrote in Reading Prison just how completely changed his life was: "On November 13th, 1895, 7 was brought down here from London. From two o'clock til] half -past two on that day I had to stand on the centre platform of Clapham Junction in convict dress, and handcuffed, for the world to look at . When people saw me they laughed, That was, of course, before they know who 1 was.' .As soon as they had been informed, they laughed still more." There .epuld be no greater contrast than that between the gay farce "The Importance of Bt1ng Earnest," which was pro- duced three months before he was ,rent to prison, and the sombre "Ballad of Reading r: ,Goal," written after his. release. - Particularly interesting a r e t h e circumstances surrounding the latter composition. Exercis- ing in the prison yard `one morning, Wilde noticed in front of him a new young prisoner. This was Charles Thomas Wool- dridge, a trooper in the Royal" Horse Guards, He was to be hanged for the murder of his flighty wife, who had been passing herself off as a single woman. Stung .by jeal- ousy when he met her on' the road between Windsor and the village of Clower, the husband had cut her throat. Deeply moved by the pitiful story, Wilde wrote his great ballad, which has long since become world-famous. But is one classic farce, and a single ballad (even a ballad which ranks with the best in the language) a sufficient achievement to keep an author's name as much alive as Oscar Wilde's, is today? Opinion -on this question is divided; a popu- lar theory being that Wilde has established himself in •the per- manent melnory of mankind by reason of his personas tragedy. Certainly his trial brought in- to the open a subject which up to that time had been unmen- tiolaable. Since then, Wilde, its central figure, has looked iFitis upon as the vfeti it law relating to sexual that at this very moment .tbRlGrs and others are :waking to have changed. Because it is felt that a hos- pital, rather than a prison, is the place where those who com- mit unnatural. offences should be sent for treatment. Wilde has come to be looked pias something. of a martyr. Only in the years to come will the change, or otherwise, in public opinion with regard to these matters, decide whether it is as a distinguished author, or notorious convict, that Oscar Wilde's name lives on. He Stoops To Conquer Ewart Pofgieter, above, the George „Mikan of the boxing world, wears those shorts for two reasons while he's training 'at Johannesburg, South Africa. They're comfortable, and less expensive than tailor-made trousers, The boxer is threaten- ed with a knockout every time he passes through•a door—Ewart is 7 feet, 2 inches tall. Below, his outsize glove is compared to the regulation boxing glove. Seal a plastic bag fall of baked goods, or other food for the freezer, with a spring clip. To make an air -tight seal squeeze mu eh air as possible out of beg,,fold in cornersofend, then roll Ind. Shap on clip, Doctors Put Color To Work ew It nd ells pi- nd in af- in en ord- he ad to de rn On In e- 1.0- xt is to ny g who 0- of its en 5- 58. n ne e- n r. Hospital patients have a n ally in their fight for health, la color, carefully .eliosen a tastefully applied to the w and furnishings of their hos tel rooms. For centuries philosophers a soientists have known that some subtle way man was fected by color. But only .scent years have doctors be putting color to work, ,Ace ing to one medical historian, t first hospitals in existence h thick red carpets —• not cheer up the patients but to hi the blood stains! The development of mode medicine with its emphasis sanitation changed 'all that the late 1800's sterile white b came the,hospitalcolor. It mained standard for the ne three generations. Early in th century, medical men began in realize that a rosof sill white is not the most relaxin environment :for a person is ill and they began, to intr duce a fairly standard range pastel colors, greys and bu (or browns, usually for dodos Lately, hospitals have be accepting color as an active par nor in their war against illne They find that it can create a atmosphere of well-being, o in which a patient can feel r laxed and confident. It can eve stimulate hit• will to recove Physicians and color consult- ants have discovered that men- tal attitudes — extremely lin- portant to physical yell -being — can be modified by use of color in surroundings. Light colors, according to the experts, have .a cheering influ- ence on most people. Red stimu. lates the brain and is well suit- ed to offset depressive moods. Blue, on the other hand, is soothing to neurotics. Orange alone is too stimulating for use in room decorating. White - the old hospital stand-by - is cheery enough, but it's too cold when used alone. Green has a cooling effect and is subconsciously associated with nature and health, Brown ,is restful and warming, but may be depressing unless combined with orange, yellow, or gold. Purple and mauve are sedative, soothing colors, Yellow, on the other hand, seems to be a potent stimulant. Used in surroundings where patients are confined for long period of time, it stimulates but does not tire, creating the at- mosphere•of 3vell-being so neces- sary in recovering from any ill- ness. But no matter what color is used, hospital color consultants say that dramatic decoration schemes are not for sick -rooms. Instead, they try to achieve an atmosphere of quiet cheerful- ness and naturalness. The nat- uralness is important. Friendly, home -like colors make the con- trast between home and hos- pital less obvious. Medical men have found that patients react to treatment much more favor- ably it the hospital looks less like a place dedicated to dis- ease and,,,more like a home, a place dedicated to health, Skating Seasons petting Longer Boys who want to be hockey players and gills whose ambi- tion is' to follow in Barbara Anne's footsteps will soon be able to skate as early as Oc- tober and as late as May. The skating season no longer de- pends on the ups and downs of the mercury thanks to a new type of outdoor artificial ice rink, Many communities from _ Montreal to Vancouver are lay- ing flexible polythene pipes over softball diamonds or parks and making ice by pumping freezing liquid through thein with a portable refrigeration unit. The pipes stay in the ice all winter and in the spring they are lifted to return the ground to softball or other sum- mer sports. Portable artificial ice rinks are but the latest wrinkle in an ancient sport. 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