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SPORTS ,COLUMN
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• In a recent Calvert Sports Column we
remarked that the Grey Cup final prob-
ably never would' see againsucltlgripping
drama as attended Winnipeg Blue Bom-
bers thrilling last -second bid for a tie Jn
1953.,
We're glad we said "probably," Under the 'sullen grey
Toronto skies of Grey Cup D y 1854 there developed a tre-
mendous drama Which, unlike hat of '53, roared to a positive
climax, such a climax as perhaps we'll never again see equal-
led in what has become Canada's greatest one -day sports
event. It contained the most vital element of all sports dramas:
victory for an under -dog who came up snarling and fighting,
bloody but unbowed, to snatch victory from the favourite.
Here was indeed tremendous drama, magnificent courage,
unyielding will to win, doubly climaxed in the closing min-
utes when, with victory seemingly safely in the hands of the
east once more, these dauntless white -clad, gold -helmeted
warriors from the west, Edmonton's gallant Eskimos, arose
suddenly in their might, crashed from end to end of the field
in a series of battering smashes that swept them across the
- Alouette line and cut a 25-14 margin against to 25-20, after
the ball had soared over the cross bar.
But this, with all its drama, was merely a lesser climax.
The great climax was .yet to come, as the minutes fled swiftly
around the great cloak at the end of Varsity Stadium..Thhe
powerful Alouettes drove back to the Eskimo 10 -yard line.
Hunsiftger, leader last season in touchdowns for the Ais went
racing through. Big ,Rollie Prather dived 'at him, and 'Hun -
singer threw the ball, as if seeking to make a lateral pass.
The pass, if that's what was intended, flipped out into empty
air. There was no Alouette near, The loose ball rolled in
among the westerners.
Jackie Parker, a speed -ball from the deep south, swooped
it upwhile on the run. He had broken for the Alouette line,
110 yards away, before any of the eastern champions fully
- realized what had happened. Then a group of Alouettes set
off after him, sprinting desperately. But Parker is fleet of
foot, He had a running start, He was not seriously threatened
as he sped over the line with the touchdown that alniost
unbelievably tied the count, and the convert kick gave the
western gamesters their 1 -point margin of victory.
And so, in this final burst of drama, the Grey Cup went
has fallen into e worne th hsince
ands, the948, a hands onada's f a stout-hearted
team that couldn't be beaten. because it wouldn't be beaten.
four comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o. Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
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AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO
Carried Away Jail To Rescue' Prisoner
A Portuguese politician who
visited Angola, Portuguese
West Africa, said on his return
to Lisbon: "Half the people in the
colony are in, prison and the
other half ought to be there."
Until shortly before the last
war Portugal, which loathes the
death penalty, transported
murderers to Angola and often
drafted convicts into the army.
They guarded the Loanda fort
of San Miguel in army - uni-
form, and if a man committed
another -murder • in Angelo he
still could not be sentenced to
death. "He„w,as ordered to re-
ceive a flogging — and the au-
thorities`inade sure that -be did
not recover from it,” an in-
formant told . Lawrence G.
Green, who. gives a graphic ac-
count of his West African trav-
els from Cape Verde to Angola
in "White Man's Grave."
The convicts •enjoyed plenty
of liberty. . Every morning a
horde of. them—blue-uniform-
ed, straw-hatted—descended on
Loanda to work in homes,
shops, offices,- even run a busi-
ness or grog -shop, as long as
they returned to the castle in
the evening. Many housewives
had murderers as cooks. Other
convicts made baskets, carved
necklaces andivory curios, and
sold them in the streets. '
A visitor) told Mr. Green that
during four days spent in Lo-
anda he heard a drum -and -
bugle band playing the same
tune incessantly, and learned
that it was the prison band,
composed of ill-behaved con
victs who had been condemned
to play one tune day after day
as punishment!.
At Banana, in the Belgian
Congo, he found everyone talk-
ing of the disappearance of the
local prison a corrugated iron
shanty. A native thief had been
chained inside. Members of his
tribe crept up in the night and,
unable to 'break the chains, car-
ried both prisoner and prison
away into the bush! The police
guard, who ,slept through the
proceedings, was flogged next
day.
Green knows an elephant
hunter. who was canoeing in the
loneliest part of the French
Congo when a native inquired:
"Master, are you not going to
see the white man?" and led
him to a hut in a clearing. He
never imagined there could be
a white man within a hundred
miles, but inside was one, sit-
ting on the mud floor in rags—
an elderlyFrenchman. enchman. Duro said
he had been there for ten years.
He never moved outside the
low grass hut. His face was as
white as paper, but his manner
polished. He had given the na-
Thanks, Daddy — Robert Bechtold, shows the President's Medal of
the National Safety .Council, awarded to him for saving the
life of Roberta, his five-year-old daughie'r: Last'sumrlter, Bech-
told pulled the drowning girl from a pond and brought her back
to consciousness by applying artificial respiration.
consciousness,
..;tie, t •reset...
tives his rifle and ammunition,
and they brought ' him, t fo3c
buffalo meat, chickens,`egggs•
Back in+Brazzaville, the. hun-
ter learned thatthehermit had
once moved in the: highest I'ar s1
isian circles. r.,(rlecandal •ene4
been hushed up; the young
nobleman went to French
Equatorial Africa with, an al-
lowance which he spent on
champagne. When the remit-
tances stopped, he drifted up
the river without aim or desire
to work and lived in the hut a
life of hardship and incredible
lonehne's. v. ,
Approaching ( fonr'dvie,et=apf
tal of 'the Black- ="R'epu'blic of
Liberia, aboard the Asie, Green
heard the captain shout ang-
rily from the bridge and point
to the bare foremast. A sea-
man raced down the ladder,
and soon a flag with one star
and eleven red and white
stripes jerked up to the mast-
head.
"Just in time," remarked the
purser. "Here they make their
money by fining the foreigner,
It would have been an insult
to the Republic if we had en-
tered the harbour without..fly-
ing the Lone Star , flag—and it
would have cost` us a hundred
dollars. . . .
"When you go on shore," he •
added, "be very careful not to
bump into anyone in the
street. That amounts to as-
sault—fifty dollars. And don't
take off your jacket anywhere
if you feel hot. They call it
'lack of respect'—only ten doll-
ars for that. If you hit anyone
we'll never see you again."
Elections are a farce, the vote
being restricted to owners of
property worth $2,500 — that is
almost entirelyto the Americo-
Liberians—the . ruling aristoc-
racy, descendants of the freed
slaves who settled in Monrovia
early lastt centUry. Voting pap-
ers are marked in advance for
government supporters; each
man votes many times, stimu-
lated by free roast pork and
rum; the ballot is rigged in a
P v
Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christlnall Tree -- Paper cutouts, s tibilc of night life adorn a 'small 'real
Spruce Christmas tree, left, which is sprayed with white putt. The three-foot spruces come with
metal bases filled with a liquid preservative. A big department store looking around for Christ-
mas decor came up with a tree Worth about $100;000. The tree, right, is fashioned of 200 skins
of natural Russian Crown sable. -
ay ' .eiat• t'ntakes it impossible
ti,;g'LitMire"governineht' out, and
le the :True •Wiiig Party has ruled
• foe:more 'than half a century.
Ydli+"Villi east find many for-
t' eignersr a: good wordfor
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my house, and he made things
so awkward for me that the
rcompany flew# me out as, soon
Sas passible
Whi e• s' areree'constantly threat-
ened with actions for defama-
rtlonn, Tip wife of a U.S. rubber
,„....,:ple0atien manager scolded
some Liberian children for
throwing stones. One .child
yelled !:fit me! I want some
of those erepllars too!" You can
fire yeue.."ook, but are warned
noli to say''more than "not satis-
fied" If you tell him he can't
cook, that's. defamation and he
Will get his' dollars.
Would You Want
To Turn Back
The Clock?
Particularly in these days of
complexity and speed — of both
things and events — the past in
retrospect can glow as a Gold-
en Age of simple and' genuine
virtues. And we can easily
understand the pleasure that
came to an Ohio grandmother
when her family staged a truly
old-fashioned Thanksgiving din-
ner for her.
She was taken to her son's
in an old "spring wagon," its
bed filled with straw, a turkey
iav a coop on the tail gate Her
family, dressed in costumes of
the "gay 90's" sat down with
her at a dinner table lit with
kerosene lamps. The whole little
et
amust
Pa g have brought
ht
back warm recollections of her
girlhood. But would, she have
wanted the clock turned back
altogether to the world of 60
years ago?
Not as to the physical ameni-
ties, certainly. She, no doubt,
once accepted the bone -shaking
conveyances, t h e unsheltered
rides in chill winds, the dine and
flickering lamps, the fry -and -
freeze coal stoves of that day
because that was what life in
rural America was like. Would
she --or any of us—choose that
life today when enclosed cars,
electric light s, and evenly
warmed homes are all around
us?
Perhaps she would, we would,
if such sacrifice of creature com-
forts would bring back some of
the virtues of yesteryear—some
of the courtesy, the repose, the
neighborliness, the family soli-
darity that now seems gone„pr
faded.
But would It? Are our troubles
due to our increase in gadgets—
from electric toasters to atomic
reactors—or to our lack of pro-
portionate increase in wisdom
and love? And would we bring
back, along with its virtues,
some of the narrowness, the un-
conscious cruelty, the social in-
justices of the past?
Spring wagons and coal oil
lamps will not save modern men
front themselves. Nor need jet
planes and television break
down civilized society: The way
onward and upward lies, as of
old, in :tearing and grasping,
and doing the word of God,. The
:guide to that --the Bible—is
available today as never before
in history.—rrom the Christian
Iletenoe Monitor.
'note.* a ■nae es IvIu..
Five-year-old Bobby Ryan
was missed from his home in
New Jersey. , For twenty-four
hours police and volunteers
searched the area without awe
cess. Police brought a four -leg-
ged searcher, Smarty, a blood-
hound from New York State
police barracks,
Smarty sat calmly in the front
room of Bobby's home, while
the tearful mother went for a
Pair of her son's shoes, recently
worn. Smarty stiffened, grew ex-
cited.
"Find him, Smarty!" coin -
Mended the policeman,
Smarty set out, his great nose
' close to the ground. Centuries
of selected breeding have evolv-
ed a dog whose sense of smell
is more acute than any other
dog's, which can, on occasion,
smell a quarry up to half a mile
away, and which on pick up a
"scent" up to two weeks old.
What's more, they can follow it
in ''crowded city streets, where
there is to confusion of many
smells, including strong ones
like gasoline.
This New Jersey trail, twenty
hours -old, led through crowded
streets, but Smarty took it at a
smart pace, sniffing continually,
his heavy lips and nose barely
scraping the ground. He unerr-.
mgly picked up Bobby's tracks
amongst thousands of other
people, and went over streets
where hundreds of vehicles had
passed. He led the searchers
finally out of the built-up area
into fields, and thence to a build-
ing site, where he lifted his nose
from the ground and grew
highly excited.
"The boy is near here," said
the dog's trainer.
Smarty went over to a steam
shovel and mildly began licking
the face of the sleeping boy. He
was curled up in a recess above
the caterpillar wheels, where he
had been effectively hidden from
sight.
The secret of the skill shown
in these stories is thought to lie
"Tamed" — The white rat atop
the graduate wouldn't get 'sick
even if it were tie drink all the
iodine in the flask at left. The
"tamed" iodine has been found
effective against
polio, '
g p Inflt)en-
za and tuberculosis, according
to the manufacturer. Children
will be happy to learn it doesn't
sting when applied to a cut.
en the great number of nerve
ends in the dog's big, spongy
nose, and in the many folds of
skin on his head. One expert
believes some of the skin• is due,
to the heavy lips which hang
open and moisten and freshen
the scent it is following.
Bloodhounds played a leading
role in one of the biggest ever
manhunts in England. At dawn
one May morning just before
the war, two police constables
of, Worthing in Sussex, England,
were investigating a burglary
and came up with a young man
on the outskirts of the town.
They got no chance to question
him, for twenty -eight-year-old
Leonard Bill pulled out a revol-
ver and tired, wounding one of
the policemen. Then he fled.
Hundreds of armed police be-
gan scouring the downs. Two
bloodhounds were brought in
early on the second day when a
house was burgled by Hill. The
dogs picked up the scent out-
side a window which had been
entered, and led the police into
dense undergrowth and stopped
under a tree. There was Hill,
asleep. He started up. Police
dashed forward. A shot rang
out. Hill had died by his own
hand.
Its recent years the more rug-
ged Alsations and Labrador's
have largely replaced blood-
hounds for police work, But
United• Kingdom police from
time to time avail themselves of
the services of bloodhounds
through the Association of
Bloodhound Breeders, which
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During the winter before last,
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pick up such an old trail, but
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is reported from Iowa. The dog's
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