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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-03-17, Page 3r'NECa.tveXt SPORTS COLUMN ao When the Irish and their descendants celebrate, this week, the birthday of their patron saint, they can include football in the list of sports events for which a na- tive of the Emerald Isle is responsible. For it was an Irishman who invented Rugby, still played as such in all parts of the Empire. It is also the game from which our own Canadian football descended by a series of stages. The legend that Rugby was transformed from soccer to a more volatile game in which carrying the ball was invented quite by accident, is perfectly true. And it was an Irishman who, perhaps involuntarily, made the transformation. There is a monument on the caml5us of Rugby, a famed English school, that bears the inscription; This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who, with a fine disregard for the rules of football as' played in • his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game. A.D. 1823, Now, it seems, the young man who performed in such unorthodox fashion, was an Irishman who had gone to an- cient Rugby school for further education. And possibly, it was no accident that Master Ellis picleed up the ball and ran with it. He had, no doubt, played or was acquainted with Gaelic football in his homeland. The Gaelic game from time imme- morial allowed handling of the ball, unlike soccer. So it was intuitive on Ellis' part to grab the ball and "dribble" it a few steps before kicking on the run. The trouble was, he ran all the way across the goal, It was typical of sports -minded Britons, who know a good thing and a dramatic thing when they see it on the field of play that, instead of heaping reproaches on the young Irish- man for a breach of ethics, they turned his error into a garne, and built him a monument. And, as always, they phrased it well. The wording, With a fine disregard for the rules" could be developed only in a country that appreciates freedom of thought and action so much that it forced the Magna Carta at Runnymede. Master Ellis meant no harm, no offence to the shorts code. His innocent idea of soccer was to latch onto a loose ball and run it. And so a game was born. At the time, 132 years ago, Rugby was a school; not the label of a football game. The sports identification came later, all thanks to a young Irishman. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Tonga S,., Toronto, Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMNERSTSURG, ONTARIO COMPLIMENT? A minister was leaving his church after the evening service when a member of his congrega- tion stopped him and said. "I like to come to church when• you are preaching." "I'm glad to hear that," re- plied the minister. "It's nice to know that somebody appre ciates my sermons," "Oh, it isn't that," replied the woman, "I mean, it's 5o easy to get a seat even when I arrive late." CHAMPION FIGURE—Tenley M - bright, 19, is seen here dis- playing the fine form which has made her the world's . figure - skating champion for the sec- ond time, during a practice session at Vienna, Austria. She first won the coveted crown of skatedom in 1953. Saved By a Cat Does a cat possess some strange instinct which enables it to sense impending disaster? They are asking this question in Dusseldorf, Germany, follow- ing an amazing incident when a storm, accompanied by an eighty -mile -an -hour gale, raged over the city a short time ago. A man named Paul Kleun, liv- ing with his wife in three rooms, always feeds his cat at the same hour every evening. As usual that night he put down her plate of minced meat, expecting her to eat it quickly, for he knew she must be hundry. To his surprise the cat refused to touch .it; and then, as the . storm raged, began to run ex- citedly up and down between her owner and the door of his bedroom. The puzzled man went to the door and opened it. At that moment came a great crash as ceilings and walls col- lapsed. Great pieces of stone and brick hurtled down on t0 the spot where the man had been stand- ing a few moments earlier. He was uninjured—saved by the door frame in which he was . standing when the storm wreck- ed the house. His wife, who was in the bedroom, also escaped death, although she was pinned under wreckage. The man and his wife are con- vinced that that cat's "sixth sense" enabled her to foresee the disaster. For days before a great vol- canic explosion on the island of Krakatoa, between Java and Sumatra, hundreds of living creatures were seen plunging into the water and making their escape. Was it significant that not a single animal was known to have perished in the disaster? Speak well of your enemies— remember you made them. CATCHING THE SPIRIT —,M Two trainees practice hand-to-hand combat, using protective equipment and pugil sticks. It is claimed that such bouts stimulate interest, enthusiasm, com- petitive spirit and aggressiveness. London Skulks r lie Air •Conditioned The authorities of the London Zoo faced a problem when they decided they had too little space to display all the animals they wished — and too snarly iron bars to show off even the ani- mals they had. Now they are to spend £1 million in gradually rebuilding the Zoo, restoring its old pres- tige as the finest and most mod- ern in the world. In the new Zoo onlythe sportive monkeys and some of the wild birds will live in cages. Ingenious tricks of lighting and ventilation will en- sure that few of the other crea- tures will wish to leave their own quarters --on the. farside of a moat. Even snakes can be openly displayed on warm islands of sand circled by frozen tempera- ture zones which they will have no desire to cross. Tropical birds can be Contained in sun- lit compartments walled by darkness. Clever lighting will enable visitors — nearly three milion a year on average -- to view the birds without them- selves being seen. The allotted area of the Zoo in Regents Park, restricted to thirty-six acres, allows no space for expansion. So Zoo develop- ment is to be upwards. The new animal houses are to be several 'stories high, 'with covered ramps leading to centrally heated apartments for 'pumas and perhaps an attractive roof garden for giraffes. This means a new deal for 3,500 animals, but many un- usual questions had to be an- swered before young architect Frank Stenglehofen could com- plete his plans. "What is the farthest a tiger has ever been known to leap?" he asked one day, and found that the defence ditch in the tiger house would have to be at least twenty-five feet wide. Visitors to the Zoo are some- times worried by the pungency of skunks and wild cats. Sten- glehofen experimented with de- odorants, but this robbed the cats of their enjoyment of their own aroma. Thermostats controlling the precise degree of temperature will give beasts 'accustomed to warm climes greater comfort than ever before. Some smaller mammals will be kept instinc- tively in check and prevented from escaping, not by bars, but by broad bands of color which they regard as dangerous. --e DEATE1 MEETS TRAINS HERE—Robert Cordeau, Police Chief George Knight, and Stephen Fu ler place seven crosses and a sign at -a railroad crossing in Crown Point, w h e r e seven people were killed within a five-year period. The sign and crosses were erected by the Crown Point Chamber of Commerce to warn motorists of the hazard. Fast Growing Banes i,ritish scientists have been slithering around on polar ice weighing babies that grow fast' enough to please the proudest nether—the babies of "Antarctic elephants." A full-grown elephant seal can be the length of a bus. Whereas the human mother is happy enough if her baby puts on a few ounces a week, the mother of a ton (400 lbs.) at 3 weeks! sates in terms of 100 lb. per week. An elephant seal cub weighs 100 ib. at birth and a fifth of n ton (448 lb.) at three weeks! The British scientists who've been weighing thorn soon got a healthy respect not only for the swishing tail of these lusty babies but for their lumbering dads, whose tails could flatten the toughest scientist. Why are these scientists weighing Antarctic elephants? Because they want to know if the elephant seal herds of the Far South can be increased sufficiently to permit commercial sealing. And at least part of the answer is to, discover how fast the elephant seal grows. Weighing drill is as follows: erect makeshift scales near a herd of seals, select your baby, separate it from Mum, keep Dad .at bay while you drive, haul or shove it toward the scales, roll it into position. record its weight, return . it to Mum, take a breather—and start on the next young customer! And every time there's a row with Mum and Dad elephant --sometimes with Dad breaking up the weighing party. Here's a Warning To An Goal Tenders It happened a little while ago at the end of a football match in Germany which ended with the score at 8-0. It was a re- sounding victory for the visiting team. As the referee's final whistle blew, a blonde and comely Ger- man girl ran on to the field, her pretty face distorted with anger, and scampered up to her fiance, the defeated team's goal- keeper. Flinging her engagement ring at his fee, she cried loudly: "You played disgracefully, dishonour- ing your team and nue. I refuse to marry a man who reveals his inefficiency by letting so many goals through. It make me real- ize that you would never make a success of marriage." It was probably the first time a man has been jilted by his sweetheart because he played poor football. And the incident proved once more that the most unexpected and trivial circum- stances can lead to broken en- gagements. 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