The Seaforth News, 1955-03-03, Page 3tNECalvert SPORTS COLUMN
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• Between thirty and fifty years ago,
give or take a few years, the most prom-
inent name in Canadian professional
sport was that of Edouard "Newsy" Lar
donde, a quiet, shrewd French Canadian
who came out of Cornwall.
Every autumn, there was a war of
dollar's to decide who would get Lalonde for hockey. In the
spring .-the battle was renewed, with east bidding against
west, to hire his great skill and color.
We mention Lalonde now because he, and not Rocket
Richard of the present Canadiens, is the greatest goal -getter
in the history of professional hockey. Richard recently. passed
the 400 -goals mark, a tremendous performance. But Lalonde
scored 413 goals in major league play, in 20 seasons from
1908 to 1927.
Lalonde at various times led the scorers in four different
major professional hockey leagues; the National Association,
which preceded the National League, in both of which he was
top goal -getter at one 'time or another, the Pacific Coast
League in its hey -day, when it rated superior to the National
Association and had drafting rights on the eastern body, and
the Western League, when it was a major organization func-
tioning on the prairies.
Some of the seasons in which Lalonde starred saw, only
14, 15 or 16 games. The -longest season in Lalodne's history
was 26, games, He played 314 League games in all. In one
season, with New York Americans, he played only one game
and with Saskatoon the year before that, be played only three.
Some of Lalonde's individual feats are truly incredible.
Ile is one of only two players in all the history, of major
professional League hockey who scored nine goals in a single
game. On March 17, 1910 Lalonde was playing for Renfrew
Millionaires, one of the most fabulous teams of an time, and
the victim of his dead -shot eye was the Cobalt. club.
The other player who scored nine goals in a game ended
his hockey career with Canadiens. He was Tommy Smith, one
of Ottawa's famous Smith family that included Alf and
Harry Smith. Tommy was playing for Quebec Bulldogs in
the National Association when he performed the 9 -goal feat.
Montreal Wanderers were the victims.
Some veterans think Lalonde's feat greater than 'that of
Richard, but Lalonde is not among these. "Richard is the
greatest who ever lived" Lalonde told the writer of this
column "It is true we didn't have the advantage of forward
passing In the earlier years, ,but never were we forced to
contend with the tremendous amount of interference that
besets Richard and other modern star's"
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By W. A. IN/LATHER,
President, Canadian Pacific
Railway Company
A year in which competitive
factors, already evident in 1953,
have become increasingly mani-
fest, necessitating the most care-
ful scrutiny of labor and other
production costs in all segments
of the national economy, emerg-
es as the most significant feature
of the Canadian business and
industrial scene in 1954.
Sustained inflow of invest-
ment capital from the United
States and abroad has served to
offset in part the difficulties
that would otherwise have been
more evident by reason of Can-
ada's worsened trade position.
Continued expansion of the de-
velopment of resources has also
t
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been a sustaining factor in the
economy.
The substantial decline in Ca-
nadian exports and the less
prosperouscondition of agricul-
ture in Western Canada have
undoubtedly contributed to the
difficulties of the railway in-
dustry. A significant factor in
the decline in rail earnings,
however, is the growth of com-
petition from highway transport
which has emphasized the need
of providing for the railways an
equality of opportunity in meet-
ing such competition by reliev-
ing them from outmoded re-
strictive regulation.
So faras regulatory restric-
tions allow, substantial efforts
have been made to meet the
competition of highway truck-
ing and other forms of trans-
port, Reduced freight rates on
REAL COOL SEAT, MAN—Don't complain about the cold -think
of engineer Tom Tomlinson, who works in a .65 -degree -below -
zero "cold box." He's testing a new, simplified pilot's ejection
seat at Republic Aviation's laboratory. The frosted dummy -repre-
sents the average pilot's weight and the seat is checked under.
various temperature and climatic conditions to make sure it
will operate at all altitudes, in every part of the world. The new
seat hugs the pilot, if necessary shoots him from the plane and
opens chute for any parachute drop.
"LOOK OUT—IT'S LOADED"—Or so you'd think, from the horrified
looks on these cagers' faces. Actually, Bill Simonovich, center, let
the ball get away from him and Jim Bragiel, left, and Harold
Grant hadn't yet reversed gear.
certaincommodities in certain
specified classes of traffic were
put into effect during the au-
tumn in various parts of Canada
and more particularly between
Montreal and Toronto.
The railways and other inter-
ested parties have appeared
during the last three months of
1954 before a special Royal
Commission appointed to con-
sider the effect of the railways'
use of "Agreed Charges" in
meeting competition. In the
course of these proceedings the
railways have advocated a re-
laxation of the provisions of the
Transport Act which governs
this form of rate making.
Such efforts, however, do not
provide a solution to the prob-
lem inherent in the statutory
rates applicable to grain and
grain products in Western Can-
ada. The adverse impact and
serious consequences of these
abnormally depressed rates, set
at a level no higher than in
1899, and wbich affect a sub-
stantial percentage of .the total
volume of rail ' freight traffic,
has been commented upon dur-
ing the year by the Board of
Transport Commissioners and
by Chief Justice Sloan of Brit-
ish Columbia in his capacity as
Federal Arbitrator in the re-
cent rail labor negotiations.
If the balanced economic
growth so essential to sound na-
tional development is to be
maintained and Canada's rail-
ways are to meet adequately
the nation's transportation
needs, public policy should at
an early date, taken account of
the views thus expressed.
Inauguration of an extensive
programme of modernization
and improvement of transcon-
tinental and other passenger
services was marked, by the
delivery in 1954, of the first of
a number of units of stream-
lined stainless steel equipment
manufactured for the Company
by the Budd Company of Phil-
adelphia.
New equipment for service on
transcontinental lines will in-
clude, when deliveries are com-
pleted, 71 sleeping cars, 18
scenic dome sleepers with bev-
erage room and observation
lounge, 18 day coaches equip-
ped with scenic dome and cof-
fee shop, 30 conventional day
coaches, 18 diners and 18 bag-
gage cars with dormitory ac-
commodation for dining car
crews.
The stainless steel day coaches
are equipped with adjustable
reclining chairs fitted with head
and fb'ot rests, making them
most comfortable for long dis-
tance travel. For the first time
in Canada all coach seats may
be reserved. The coffee shop in
the day dome coach, as well as
the seats in the dome, will be
available to all passengers on
the train,
The new dining cars are of
the most advanced design, with
harmonious interiors and kit-
chen equipment of modern
stainless steel.
Ail new transcontinental pas-
senger equipment now being
delivered is expected to be in
service by the Summer of 1955.
The new scenic dome cars
now in service between Mon-
treal and Vancouver, operate
over a distance of 2,881 miles,
the world's longest scenic dome
operation.
Notwithstanding the difficul-
ties experienced, the achieve-
ments of Canadian Pacific in
1954 mark a substantial advance
in the quality and scope of
transportation services both at
home and abroad. All concern-
ed have confidence that the
growing public awareness of the
need for equality of competitive
opportunity in all fields of
transportation, now apparent,
will find recognition in the
realm of national policy.
Odd Facts About
Maytlng-cards
There is a rase on record of
a loan who determined to turn
up the pack in a certain order,
starting with the seven of clubs.
He tried millions of times be-
fore he succeeded. It took him
twenty years, though it might
have taken him a great deal
longer. He was an inmate of a
lunatic asylum in Germany and
the pastime kept him happy.
The fact is that, mathematic-
ally speaking, the odds against
holding any particular hand are
so enormous that even regular
card -players probably never
hold exactly the same hand twice
in their lives. This offers a con-
solation. If you get a really bad
hand at bridge, you will prob-
ably never get exactly that hand
again in your life. So you can
always look forward to a change
of luck,
Even the odds against holding
a hand with no card higher than
a nine are big. Such a hand
at whist or bridge is called a
Yarborough, because the Earl of
Yarborough when he set down
to play whist would offer 1.000
sovereigns to one against any
player receiving such a hand.
The Earl was on quite a good
thing, On an average the well -
shuffled pack turns up such a
hand only about once in 2,000
deals,
Every now and then we read
of lour players at bridge or
whist being dealt "perfect"
hands, each player getting thir-
teen cards of one suit.
According to an expert, with
good shuffling of the cards this
should only happen once in
2,235,197,406,366,368.301,599,999
handsl The odds against just one
of the players getting all thir-
teen cards of a suit are small-
er — he ought to do it once in
635,013,559,599 deals.
The point bridge and whist
players often forget is that the
odds are exactly the same against
holding any specified hand. The
thirteen cards of one suit hand
is talked about because it is
useful and easy to remember,
but it is no more "extraordin-
ary" or "unusual" than any other
hand. If you doubt it and you are
a regular player, write down
100 imaginary hands and then
notice how many of them you
hold during the next year — or
ten years. It would not be sur-
prising if you never held one of
the hands in a lifetime.
If course, these are mathem-
atical odds, not certainties. You
alight deal yourself one of the
hands next time you played. Ac-
cording to newspaper reports
the "perfect . hand," with each
player holding a complete suit,
turns up much oftener than the
mathematical odds suggest it
should. In 1926 one player alone
claimed he saw four such hands,
whereas the mathematical odds
suggest that it should turn up
only at intervals of millions of
years.
Perhaps it is something to do
with the shuffling. Mathemati-
cians work on "perfect" shuffl-
ing and in real card -playing
there can be no such thing.
PLAYER) FOR SUCKER
Pieter Kriel, aged twenty-
four, of Durban, South Africa,
was swimming on the Natal south
coast in mixed company, includ-
ing several pretty young wom-
en, who played at diving and
grabbing each other's ankles. to
pull one another under.
Pieter felt a soft, tender hand
grip his ankle and tumble him
over. Playfully he grabbed for
the pretty girl — and came up
with a good-sized Octupus. The
games stopped abruptly.
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