The Seaforth News, 1955-01-20, Page 7THE Calvert SPORTS COLUMN
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• The most remarkable player in the
National Hocicey League, in many re-
spects, is tall Elwin Ira (Al) Rollins,
born in Vanguard, Sask., netminder for
the lowly Chicago Black Hawks who
finished last in 1953-54 and were flirting
with last place in the current race when
these lines were written.
Rollins is remarkable because, with a tail -end team,
he was last Spring voted winner of the Hart Trophy, most
coveted award in the major league, designating as it does
the player most useful to his club. In the 31 -year history of
the trophy, this happened only once before. As the Hawks
finished last in the race, the voters possibly assumed that
without Rollins, they might have fallen right out of the
Leag1 e. It's possible.
When Rollins won the trophy, one cynical observer re-
marked that he deserved some sort of award for escaping
with his life. Rollins played in 86 of his club's 70 games last
season. He was scored on 213 times, or at the average of
3,1 goals per game. But two others called in to replace Rol-
lins when he was ill had 29 goals rolled up against them in
four games, over 7 per game, indicating by comparison
what a superb job Rollins was doing.
The remark about escaping with his life is not entirely
in jest. The 213 goals scored on Rollins is a tot of goals,
but what of the shots he stopped?" It would be most con-
servative to say that, in the course of the season, he was
bombarded by not less than 2,000 shots from the sticks of
hockey's greatest snipers.
Besides being a great gooier, Rollins is something of a
philosopher. After winning the trophy, he told a sports
writer: "When you're with a team like Chicago, every game --
is a tough one. But maybe it's a good thing.. When you've
got all that work, you keep warm and loose. Some goalies
get beat on the easy shots because they're cold and all
tightened up. Maybe a fellow can look better with a weak
club than with a strong one. If he's any good at all, he
stands out,"
So Rollins stood out, like a lighthouse, He became the
first goalie to win since New York's Chuck Rayner in 1950,
and the first winner from a last -place club since defense -
man Tommy (Cowboy) Anderson, a forward, of the 1942
New York Americans.
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Ten COMIttalititilieiitS
For Faros Safety
The farm section of the Na-
tional Safety Council says that
if you really want to be serious
about safety here are ten "Saf-
ety Commandments" to follow:
I. Keep machines in good re-
pair. Keep all guards and
safety devices in place, Stop
motors before malting ad-
justments,
2. Operate tractors safely.
Avoid ditch banks and soft
ground. Always hitch to
drawbar and do not over-
load.
3. Know and obey all traffic
laws. Have trucks checked
periodically.
4. Be 'Firesighted.' Don't smoke
.,round the barn or eambus-
tible material.
S. Speak to animals when ap-
proaching them. Never trust
bulls.
/. Be a good housekeeper.
This does not necessarily
mean the housekeeper. Keep
everything around the farm
systematically.
t Watch youngsters. Kids like
the thrill of riding and driv-
ing tractors. Too many kids
die from accidents on the
farm.
®. Poisons are dangerous. Mod-
ern science develops pesti-
cides to kill. This means hu-
mans too.
f!. Look for reptiles. There are
still many diamond back rat-
lers.
AO. Respect your gun. Hunting
Is a dangerous sport. Follow
• safety rules!
Looks At Cloud—
Cloud Dissolves
Dr. Ralph Alexander, a New
Zealand physician and author,
has scores of district residents
puzzled because of demonstra-
tions of what he calls "construc-
tive realism."
This consists of concentrating
hard on a cloud in the sky. The
cloud dissolves, while others
around it retain their shapes.
More than 100 eye -witnesses
swear Dr. Alexander has per-
formed this feat several times.
Ile selects a fairly small
cloud and, after a few minutes
of intense conecentration, the
cloud is said to appear.
On one occasion a cloud was
selected by a newspaperman,
and Dr. Alexander began to
eonecentrate. Two minutes later
the cloud showed unmistakable
signs, thinning and breaking up.
Six minutes after that Dr.
Alexander shook his head and
relaxed, Of the cloud nothing
remained except a couple of
tiny dots of, vapour.
Dr.,Alexander says the human
brain "has power over inani-
mate matter," and he has staged
the demonstrations in the hope
of forcing scientists to recog-
nize and study the "strange
force" he claims to possess.
"I have spent many years of
study in developing this force,
which in its essence is a form
of the same power being investi-
gated at Duke University, U.S.A.
under the name "extra -sensory
perception," he says. This pow-
er, he maintains, lies latent in
every human mind.
IPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR—Roger Bannister,first man to run
e mile in less than four minutes, holds the trophy which was;
presented to him in London at ceremonies in which he was
named 'Sportsman of. the Year."
THIS IS A TOY?—If you've got about 600 bucks to spore, you
can buy your youngster this miniature model of a popular sports
car. Complete with headlights an a battery -driven motor, it has
a top speed of six miles per hour, Here Joan Voorhees tries it on
for size in a department store, while Pat Landregan looks on.
On Pay -Day They Got Kicked
Off A Dock ....
One morning in 1905 a French
comedian named Max Linder
received a terse note from one
of the pioneer filen producers:
"Sir,—I have observed you. In
your eyes lies a fortune. Come
and act in front of my cameras,
and I will help youto make it.
—Charles Pathe,"
The thousands of comedies the
film industry has produced since
then all owe something to that
letter. According to the author
of a new book ("Comedy Finis,"
by John Montgomery), it was
Linder who established the fun-
ny man of films as an artiste,
who dragged comedies out of
the class of films like "What
Little Willie Did," and "Oh,
That Terrible Odour!"
At that time, of course, the
film was silent, so that the com-
ic had to rely on his antics in-.
stead of his script. Before Lin-
der, the success of a comedian
was gauged by the number of
custard pies he had thrown in
his face, or the length of time
he was chased by a horde of
overfed policemen,
It was with the most famous
slapstick company of all time,
the Keystone Cops, that the
great Charlie Chaplin received
his training. Mack Sennett, the
founder, used to advertise:
"Wanted. Players of India Rub-
ber! Apply to the Keystone
Company." And his private po-
lice force certainly had to earn
its wages. One of them recalls:
"Five days in the week we
had to ride in the patrol wagon.
On the sixth day, which was pay
day, we all fell into the lake,
Or sometimes, just for a
change, we fell in the ocean—
just off the pier. It was better
to fall in than to be kicked in.
Charlie Chaplin has kicked me
into every lake in Los Angeles,
Those were the good old days.
No actor was too great to kick
another actor .."
Good old days they were. The
days of Ben Turpin, whose cross
eyes proved so valuable to him
that he insured them for $40,-
000
40;000 'against going straight. The
days of Mabel Normand, who
made enough to spend $80,000
a year on clothes alone; and a
Fatty Arbuckle, one - time
plumber's mate, whose sixteen -
stone frame was known all over
the world.
But Chaplin had no heart for
the slapstick of the Keystone
company. Inspired by Max Lin-
der, he wanted to try a more
delicate brand of humour. He
borrowed a pair of Fatty Ar -
buckle's trousers, a cane, and
an oversized pair of shoes, and
adopted the role of a seedy dan-
dy. It was an immediate suc-
cess.
He explained: "The bowler,
too small, is striving for dig-
nity. The moustache is, vanity.
The tightly buttoned coat and
the stick and his whole manner
are a gesture towards gallantry
and dash and 'front.' He is try-
ing to meet the world bravely,
to put up a bluff, and he knows
that, too. He knows it so well
that he can laugh at himself,
and pity himself a little."
Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton,
and Larry Semon were the only
comedians who came near to
rivalling Chaplin. Between
them, in films like "Grandma's
Boy,': "The Photographer," and
"The Perfect Clown," they made
pictures that still rank with
Hollywood's best.
But it was becoming more and
more difficult to make the aud-
ience laugh. They were grow -
ing
rowing up. The gimmicks that Mack
Sennett had used couldn't be
employed any more.
Then, • almost overnight, came
the talkies, and silent films be-
came as out-of-date as yester-
day's news.
The old guard of comedians
hated the idea. Said Chaplin:
"They come to ruin the world's
most ancient art, the art - of
pantomime. They annihilate the
great beauty of silence."
But like it or not, they had
come to stay, and with them a
new generation of comedians—
the men with a fast line in pat-
ter, the cross -talkers. Laurel
and Hardy, the Marx Brothers,
Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante—
these were the great names of
the talking screen.
Since they demanded a com-
pletely new style, talking come-
dians had to begin from scratch.
Twenty years of developing si-
lent films counted for nothing.
W. C. Fields realized how much
had been lost, and fought hard
to restore it, despite the per-
sonal fortune he was making
through talkies. "My ambition
is to bring back the old burles-
que. It is as eternal as laugh-
ter," he said.
Fields lived to see his own
generation of comedians super-
seded by another—Danny Kaye,
Bob Hope, Abbott and Costello.
With them, the gag -book came
to count for more and more, the
visual comedy for less.
But the latest humorists --
Martin and Lewis, and Norman
Wisdom, are leaning back to the
silent style of comedy.
This book leaves us with
rather a disturbing thought.
Perhaps, after all, we don't
laugh any more at the fast -
talking funny men on their
wide screens in super colour
than our fathers did at the Key-
stone Cops.
STYLE IN "SHORTS" — Spring
fashions for men, recently
shown at Palm Springs, show a
trend to trousers and jacket
sleeves that are cut shorter. Par-
ticular style pictured above,
"Ville d'Este," features a short
jacket of black cotton with em-
bossed stitching on cardigan col-
lar, sleeve cuff and trouser out -
seams. Jacket has hidden pock-
ets, and slacks have only side
pockets.
2 WIVES, 6 MEALS DAILY
Glenn Cole recently received
a prison sentence for bigamy.
The suspicions of Cole's wife
were aroused when, despite long
hours away from home con-
nected with his employment, he
Only toyed with, the food she
set before him on his return.
Previously he had set to with
gusto.
Her investigations led her to
the second wife. Cole's poor
appetite was explained. He .had
three good meals a day from
his bigamous wife, and then
tried to eat another three from
his legitimate wife. The scheme
failed.
First White Child
It was from his New York
correspondent the schoolmaster
(Chevalier) had learned how it
was not chiefly and solely the
Dutch who had reared New Am-
sterdam. Indeed the Walloons
were French, native-born in the
province of that name on
France's northern border, when,
to outflank the horrible dra-
goons, they had fled into the
Estate of Holland, whereto later
French Protestants also repair-
ed in the century following the
Massacre of St. Bartholomew.
And eventually a certain Jesse
de Forest proposed to the Dutch
West India Company, then in
process of formation, that he
was prepared to transport a
French colony to America. And
this offer being accepted, it was
French Protestants, and not
merely Hollanders, who made up
a great portion of the thirty
families sailing in March, 1823,
in the "New Netherland", and
thereafter aiding the formation
and maintenance of that Dutch
colony at the mouth of the Hud-
son River. .
"What then did the new colon-
ists find? No more than a few
huts near the southern end of
the island; a trading post main-
tained by Amsterdam merchants
and with the remainder of the
country one vast wilderness.
—CLASSIFIED
The residents of this group ell
huts, however, were by no
means all from the Estates of
the Netherlands;
"There, as early as 1814, a
child named Jean Vigne was
born of • Hugeunot parents,"
cried Chevalier. "So with
scholars, if not with the i11 -
educated, patriotic English, this
baby disputes with Virginia
Dare of the Province of Vir-
ginia, the title of being the first
white child to enter the world
on the continent of North
America." — From "The
Hugeunot", by Donald Douglas.
CHARLEY HORSE
Many times we have wondered
about the origination of the ex-
pression "charley horse." Here
'tis:
During the 1890's, baseball
diamonds weren't given the spe-
cial care that is given them to-
day. However, club owners did
try to keep their fields playable.
In Chicago, the White Sox em-
ployed a heavy roller to smooth
out the playing surface. It was
drawn by a lame horse called
Charley. It was natural for the
fans to apply the term "charley
horse" to any player who ex-
hibited a muscular injury result-
ing in stillness or lameness of an
arm or leg,
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