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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-09-22, Page 7atve t SPORTS COLUMN i EIGmeor 9ePt G aces ® the Olympic Games of 1956 are already giving cause for worry through- out the world democracies, raised by the threat of Russia's governmental mass development and subsidization of ath- letes. ' And we urge this is the time, in Canada as else here, for action, The British Umpire, the United States, among the free countries of the world in which sport flourishes as a natural, and not a forced growth, and all others in the same happy category, should be deeply concerned. Surely the democra• cies, Canada included, must send every oualified athlete to have a chance to match Russia. We will never, of course, beat Russian propaganda in the Pravda. There is no official team in the Olympic Games, and Russia can score as she pleases. Last time she was kind enough to give. the United States a tie with computation known only to Russia, a system widely at variance from that unofficially and informally accepted in other nations. Next time, the system will be improved to denote a Russian triumph, unless the victory of the democracies is over- whelming. We, in Canada, need money to send athletes, but first we need athletes tsend Time is short. Men not already in training will need to start an intelligent workout program and campaign iminediately to have any chance of being worth anything in Olympic competition, 11 we don't get a program going, we'll have few, it any, athletes ready in 1956. And those won't be prepared to compete in November which is normally out of season in. our land. This is something the Amateur Athletic Union should take up immediately, in a practical way, with practical men at the head of the organization, men not interested in petty sports politics, but men interested in development of our athletes through the medium of competition. This is the only way — competition based on efficient modern scientific training methods, We have at least one great 1500 metre prospect, Rich Ferguson. We have some fine boxers and wrestlers, excellent swimmers, both boys and girls. Just what we have to Canada we'll never know until a better degree of competition is developed. Our hockey supremacy is no longer a matter to be taken for granted. There is ample material, but a high degree of selectivity must be exercised here. For other events, track - field, swimming, gymnastics and the like, we believe that a series of Olympic preparatory tests and meets, with govern- ment financing in part, could develop a few athletes worthy to carry Canada's colours, and compete with the best. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St, Toronto. CaLvttt DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO It Isn't Soccer Just Plain Murder Sydney Brewer is a famous English football referee, just back home from a couple of seasons In South America. Now in "The People", Ise takes the Rd off the game as it is played out there. a How much longer is the Foot- ball Association going to en- courage English referees to go out to South America to take charge of football snatches? If I were Sir Stanley Rous I should firmly turn down every request that comes in future from that part of the world. I say that from experience, for I have been one of the mugs. And they caught me twice. I have spent two seasons out IMP SEPTEMBER SAFETY—This draw- ing won first prize as the Sep- tember safety poster in the American Automobile Associ- ation's nationwide contest for 1955-56 school safety posters. It was drawn by Marian Burch, of the Abraham Lincoln Junior High School. there, one in Colombia and an- other Uruguay, and I have to report that in these countries— as in the whole of South Amer- ica—football isn't a sport. It's a cross between bull- fighting and a local war. With the poor old referee a sort of Aunt Sally in the middle of it. The job is so downright dan- gerous that I would recommend any British referee who is thinking of taking a season's engagement out there either to forget about it or to buy him- self a bullet-proof waistcoat and a cosh. You will, I know, find the stories I am going to tell about matches out there almost in- credible. But ,I shan't be telling Sir Stanley Rous anything he doesn't know. He has had reports on condi- tions out there from me and from other English referees that must have made his hair sizzle. Let's start with football as it is played in Colombia. Well, it isn't played at all. It's fought, It is meant to be. For the game was organized by the Government to take the public's mind off politics and revolutions. All it has done is to transfer the bloodshed from the market -place to the football pitch. So the poor old English re- feree is right in the firing -line. One indiscreet blow of his whistle and he can start off a war. Although I am now back home in my little shop at Salis- bury, I shudder every time I re- call a match I refereed last January in Uruguay. It was the needle match of the season between clubs who are deadly rivals, Nacional and Penarol. There was an enormous crowd, and I sensed the atmos - HANDY MANEUVER—Joe Astroth of the Kansas City Athletics slides into second base in a futile attempt to break up double play, which came in the third inning of Yankee -Athletics game in New York. Getting the ball away to complete the twin killing is Phil Rizzuto. phere was getting more electric every moment. With only two minutes to go the score was even, and I began to feel 1 might get out of the arena alive. Then, in the last two min- utes, a Nacional player com- mitted a particularly dirty foul. I could not overlook it. While the crowd held its breath I awarded Penarol—the visiting side—a free kick just outside the penalty area. The kick was taken; the ball hit a post, rebounded, and quick as a flash it was slammed into the net by a Penarol forward. Naturally I gave a goal—and then the balloon went up! Screams rose all around me, but then I realized I wasn't— for once—the victim of the crowd's hatred. It seemed that a linesman had started to wave his flag for an infringement on his side of the ground, then, as the ball went into the net, had dropped his flag again and agreed with my goal decision. Over the line poured a gang of hotheads. They made straight for the linesman, and if the po- lice hadn't formed a cordon around him he might have end- ed in hospital. To settle the dispute, I man- aged to get to him to ask whether he had flagged for an infringement, He said he hadn't —so the hullabaloo went from bad to worse. I sat down to wait for peace to be restored, then I spotted an angry group making towards me. They were led by one of the officials of the Nacional Club, Once again the police pounced and the gallant official and his friends were dragged off the field by force. After seven minutes I man- aged to get play started again, and this time it was ended — with a victory for the visitors. More yelling . and then Cabello, centre - half of then Nocinal team, made straight for me, grabbed by face in his hands and hissed "Hijo de puta" at me. That is one of the deadliest insults in the Spanish language, but, to save another scene, I had to take it. My only redress was to write to the Uruguay Football Asso- ciation urging that drastic ac- tion should be taken against the Nacional Club. Of course, nothing happened. Uruguay likes a little spice with its football, and if an English referee is knocked out — well, it's all in the game! And things are even worse, if anything, in Colombia, where I spent the season before last. R -A -A -A -D DOGGIE—A playful cocker spaniel really got Billy the Kid's goat. Billy is a mem- ber of a rodeo troupe and the pooch gave him a had time until Billy cooled him off with a bit of headwork. This is the country that has such clubs as Bogota, Sante Fe and the Millionarios, teams that have tempted several of our players to join them, with un- happy results. It was at a place called Cuenta in Colombia where I had a re- fereeing experience that nearly ended my days as a man with a whistle. The match was between the home team and Medellin, both top -class clubs. The score was 4-4 a few minutes before the end. Then Medellin attacked and a forward whipped the ball into goal. One of the home backs pushed out a leg and hooked the ball away --but it was quite obvious to me that it had cross- ed the line first. I gave Medellin a goal—and then all hell was let loose. The Cuenta players rushed at me, shouting with rage. They pushed, punched and then kick- ed me as I lay flat on my back. And, in the background, I saw the Medellin players who had got the goal. I hoped they might come to my rescue. Not a bit of it. They just stood around grinning at me, The next thing I know I was being dragged to my feet and carted towards a linesman. "Ask him!" yelled the Cuenta players. I did. "Goal," said the linesman —and then he sprinted as hard as he could for the dressing - room! As 1 was cut and bruised I refused to let the game con- tinue. So then the Cuenta boys all spat at me—and I was left to crawl off the ground. I was too badly injured to walk. yet nobody stirred a fin- ger to help me. When I got a doctor, he ordered me to bed. Yes, they're a nice friendly lot of football players out there. But, mind you, some of them are, brilliant footballers. I rate Nestor Rossi of the Argentine the greatest centre - half I have even seen. FIe is also quite the dirtiest player I've struck. Motor salesman: "This car is absolutely the last word." Customer: "Sust suit my wife. If there's anything she loves it's the last word." 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