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I ft E CAW ett SPORTS COLUMN
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0 No glittering performance dotted
the milestones of Canada's sport trail
in the year now coming to an end. There
was provided no great heart-throb to
rate with Marilyn Bell's heroic conquest
of Lake Ontario, no Double Miracle
Mile, nothing, in brief, that will ' blaze
In lasting brilliance over the years.
But there was plenty of good, sound, and even dramatic
performance, and for a second year in succession, honours
fell to the distaff side.
In the Pan-American Games at Mexico City, Montreal's
Beth Whittall, 18, won the 100 -metre butterfly, the 400 -
metre free -style and e /am the third leg in the 400 -metre
relay nee, all within half an hour, to win three gold medals
for Canada against the pick of the swimmers of two con-
tinents. Another Canadian gold medalist in the Pan.
American Games was Helen Stewart of Vancouver. She
set three new records in the Canadian swimming champ.
ionships.
In the senior women's 100 -yard backstroke Canada was
victorious over the famous Washington, D.C., Walter Reed
Swimming Club, Lenore Fisher, Canadian champion of
this event at the last Pan-American Games, downed the
U.S. swimming ace, Shelley Mann, and racked up a new
mark of 1:7:2.
Canada's beloved Marilyn Bell swam the English Channel.
This could hardly be said to duplicate her conquest of Lake
Ontario. But for shear heroism and durability, it was a
feat of high merit. •
Fromthe bowing alleys of Kitchener came an almost
unknown kid named Moe Norman, to compete for the
Kitchener Rockaway Club in the Canadian amateur golf
title meet at Calgary. He wasn't highly rated, but on a
sizzling August day over the prairie city's links, he battled
Lyle Crawford of Vancouver a gruelling, testing, 39 -hole
playoff to win the championship
Norman sets pins in a Kitchener bowling alley all
winter, plays golf all summer with a rare and complete de-
votion — 36 holes every day — and hits at least 500 golf
balls daily. The stuff of which champions are made.
We said the performances were not glittering. Perhaps
we were wrong. They sound wonderful in the re -telling.
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STRANGE TALES
F
THE "SECOND SIGHT"
One day in June, 1938, a cer-
tain lady was lunching in a par-
ty at Lord's cricket ground. She
was not at all surprised when
alke saw her friend Mr. E. V.
Lutes going out of the dining -
room door, for that distinguish-
ed writer was a very keen fol-
lOwer of cricket,
"Look, there's E. V. going
Out," he said, pointing to the
door: The ether members of
dee party looked — but none of
Sem saw anyone going out
Ift the lady diner insisted that
ane saw him, and as he moved
away he seemed to get smaller
end smaller.
Later the news came that Mr.
Lucas had died that day.
This power of "seeing" things
not physically visible, of look-
ing into the past or the future,
le more than an old wives' tale.
For many years it has been an
object of serious scientific study,
with careful checks to preclude
the possibility of cheating.
One of the pioneers in the ex-
amination of E.S.P. (extrasen-
oory perception, the technical
name of this strange power) is
Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke Univer-
silty, North Carolina.
For his experiments he de-
vised packs of 25 cards. Each
card had one of five symbols on
a circle, a plus sign, a rec-
tangle, a star, wavy lines.
A pack would be shuffled, and
in the presence of witnesses and
*operated by a screen, or some-
times even in different rooms,
one person would, at a given
eignal, turn up a card and an-
other would write down or draw
the symbol that he believed was
on it The process would go till
the whole pack was turned up,
and would be repeated after
shuffling.
Pure chance would enable the
guesser to get the right symbol
once in every five attempts; but
Dr. Rhine found many subjects
whose success was greatly above
the average. A notable example
w a s Mrs. Eileen Garrett, a
medium who was correct 888
times in 3,525 trials over a per-
iod of three clays.
The odds against this happen-
ing by chance are more than a
billion to one. Mrs. Garrett
could not call up her power at
will; in later experiments she
scored no more than the chance
expectation of right answers.
It is as well that E.S.P. is not
controllable; one can easily im-
agine the evil uses to which it
DOA 1 be put by •unscrupulous
persons. But here is an instance
of a strange vision which proved
true and beneficial.
• It is recorded in "Phantasms
of the Living," compiled in 1886
by Edmund Gurney, F. W. H.
Myers and Frank Podmore, three
distinguished scholars who were
among the earliest physical re-
searchers in England.
A girl of about ten years of
age was walking along a
country lane when her sur-
roundings seemed to fade away.
She saw her mother lying ap-
parently dead on the floor of a
little -used room at home, and
near her on the floor was a lace
handkerchief.
So real was this vision that
the child rushed to a doctor's
house and persuaded him to go
home with her. There they
found the mother in the room
seen in the vision with a lace
handkerchief beside her, suffer -
SHEAR PLEASURE — Nick Luhmon, 19, left, is the new National
4-11 Club sheep -shearing champion. His sheep was shorn In 4
minutes, 46 seconds during competition at the recent Internation-
al Livestock Exposition. At right, Darrell Stoops, clipped off top
honors in the professional division in 1 minute, 48 seconds.
ing from a severe heart attack.
The doctor was in time to save
her life.
Had the little girl made up
the story of the vision? Why
should she have done so? It
could only have caused delay
in getting help.
L was verified later that the
girl had in fact visited the doc-
tor before going home. This is
a case where a "supernatural"
explanation is more convincing
than a rational one.
An example of a vision of the
past, hitherto unpublished,
comes from Burma. In 1898, a
Mr. Frank Sausman took up an
appointment at Moulmein.
Another official, Mr. Wilcox
(from whose son I learned the
story) engaged a house for Mr.
Sausman and his family. The
family included his mother.
The day after the Sausmans
arrived, the Wilcoxes called on
them to see if they needed help
with settling in. At once old
Mrs. Sausman came out of her
bedroom and told of the hap-
penings of the previous night.
She had been awakened by a
babble of voices in a foreign
tongue. She got out of bed and
went into the dining -room and
saw an elderly grey-haired man
sitting at the table with a Ro-
man Catholic priest.
Suddenly, several men carry-
ing long knives rushed into the
room and hacked the old man
to death. The priest ran to a
back .entrance. There he was
met by another gang of armed
men and he, too, was killed.
Mrs. Sausman insisted that
this was not a dream, but that
the house was haunted. "I am
the seventh child of a seventh
child," she said "and I possess
second sight"
Had anything really happen-
ed in the house? The Wilcoxes
had been stationed at Moulmein
for several years but had not
heard any report of such a mur-
der.
But they called on a Mrs.
Wilkie, widow of a doctor and
oldest European inhabitant of
Molmein. After hearing the
story she recalled the case.
This double murder had hap-
pened, indeed, about forty years
earlier; her husband had been
called in to certify the cause of
death.
The grey-haired man was a
French contractor named Ramos,
a harsh employer of native la-
bour. One evening he had had a
stormy dispute with his Chinese
carpenters, and in a rage they
had returned at night and mur-
dered him and a priest, who was
his guest. The murderers had
been caught, tried and hanged.
Drs NOT CRICKET—To have a nose like bowler in th‘ background, that is. But the picture IS
strictly cricket. Good luck and a fast shutter caught ball whipped by bowler, background, dun
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Ing Savannah 'Cricket Club match with the British Consulate team.
Some Classic
"Wise Cracks"
The very essence of repartee
is, of course, that is should be
instantaneous, '1 n d e e d the
French have an expression, 'Es-
prit de rescalier' — meaning the
witty crack which one would
have enjoyed making but only
thought of afterwards when go-
ing downstairs.
The following examples of
repartee may not be new to
you. But they seem so good as
to be worth resuscitation.
Although they were sometimee
at loggerheads, there is no doubt
that Oscar Wilde and James
McNeil Whistler often enjoyed
one another's company. Whist-
ler's banter was inclined to get
a bit acid, but they seem to have
delighted in their verbal fenc-
ing, and there were many bat-
tles of wit and wits in which
Wilde, who was a good sort in
many respects, frequently
laughed with his opponent. Af-
ter one particular brilliant sal-
ly of Whistler's, he remarked,
'James, how I wish I had said
that!"
'You will, Oscar. You will!' an-
swered Whistler.
*
Charles II, who was as great a •
diplomatist as Talleyrand but
a far kinder man, and an even
greater wit, scarcely ever took
umbrage at the things his inti-
mates said about him. But he
knew how to answer.
John Wilmot, Earl of Roches-
ter, had the sauce to write an
anticipatory epitaph on Charles:
'Here lies a great and
mighty King
Whose promise none relies
on;
He never said a foolish
thing„
Nor ever did a wise one.
Charles' riposte was annihilat-
ing:
'That is very true: for my
words are nay own, and my ac-
tions are my ininisters'.'
We also like Charles' answer
to his capable but unpleasant
brother, —James, Duke of York,
who later ascended the throne
as James IL He was remonstrat-
ing with Charles, of whose
popularity he was beastly jeal-
ous, about mingling so freely
with his subjects — strolling in
Pall Mall with his buddies and
his girl friends.
'But my dear James', replied
Charles, 'Surely you don't think
anyone is going to kill me to
make you King?'
*
- Noav a couple of not so hi-
storical one.s
The late Barnett Cohen, who
died in 1927, played a great part
in the development of our Com-
pany.' He was as generous as
he was shrewd, and a contact -
man — if that is the right ex-
pression — of genius, with hosts
of friends in many different in-
dustries. Indeed, stories about
him still filter round to us
sometimes, from South Wales in
particular.
Although be did not take rac-
ing very seriously, he owned a
few horses at various times —
notably 'Jarvie', 'Taunting Car',
'Urgent', ' Golden Brick' and
'Hope'. To his utter surprise,
larvie' one day won quite a
valuable race, the Victorian
Cup, for which B.C. didn't think
the horse had an earthly. Next
day he was greeted by one of his
acquaintances with the words:
'Nice pal you arel When I
have a horse that's going to win,
I tell my friends!'
'Uner answered Barney, 'thet
wouldn't take you long!'
*
On the next occasion when
larvie` was tuning the same
Unpleasant type, who happened
te be very well-to-do, with
large interests In the refrigera-
tion and whelesale butchery
trade, backed the horse heavily.
But Uarvie', far from winning,
was miles down the course.
When next he saw B.C. he
growled: 'If I were yOu, Barney,
I'd make catsmeat of that rot-
ten animal of yours'.
'And why' asked Barney,
'aneuld I want to compete in
your business?'
* *
When Disraeli was Prime
Minister, a certain Tory back-
bencher who was notoriously
verbose, could Dever get any-
body to listen to him inside the
House or out of it When he
wished to speak he never
caught the Speaker's eye. When
he approached ministers they
always seemed to have urgent
appointments. And when he was
all keyed up to deliver an im-
passioned oration in Commit-
tee, the Chairman always used
to side-track him somehow.
This eventually got on the
poor man's nerves; so, unable to
contain himself any longer, and
determined to make a complaint
to his Leader, he began to dog
Dizz'ys footsteps. One day he
succoded in cornering the P.
M.
`I'm at my wits' end,' he cried.
'Nobody will listen to me. What
shall I do, Mr. Disraeli? There
is a conspiracy of silence against
me. What shall I do?'
'join it!said Disraeli.
W. S. Gilbert, a man of violent
temper and acid wit, was sen-
sitive about the title of 'Rud-
digore' — one of the many corn,
ic operas in which he was asso-
ciated with Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Meeting a friend in the street
one day the conversation took
a personal turn;
'How's "bloodygOre" going
asked his friend.
'You mean "Ituddigore",' cor-
rected Gilbert.
'Same thieg', said the other.
'Indeed?' returned Gilbert
acidly. 'Then if 3 say I admire
your ruddy countenance (which
I do), it means I like your
bloody cheek (which I don't)?
The same gentleman was
taken to task by a friend for
using the word 'coyful' in one of
his operas.
'How can anyone be full of
coy?' Gilbert was asked.
'I don't know,' he replied, 'but
for that matter how can anyone
be full of bash?'
Here is, possibly, the most
cutting one of all:
When Kaiser Wilhelm II went
to Rome for an audience with
the Pope, he took with him a
huge Staff (it 'glittered', of
course) containing Herbert Bis-
marck, son of that famous Chan -
cellar who is generally &nod-
ded with Iron, but who often
behaved — and, indeed, looked
— like a frustrated bloOdhound.
In the ante -chamber to His
lir:Illness' apartments in the Va.-
tican were assembled Cardinals,
Bishops, members of the Papal
Court, Noble Guards on duty,
and so on. The Kaiser entered
followed by his suite. The great
double doors to the Hall Of
Audience were opened from
within. The Kaiser stalked
through, But when Bismarck at-
tempted to follow, the doors
were silently closed by invisible
hands. Perhaps the timing was
a bit unfortunate. Its effect was
to halt Bismarck' suddenly and
confront him with firmly shut
mahogany, at a distance of about
three inches.
Characteristically, he com-
pletely lost his temper. He rat-
tled on the doors with his sword
hilt and kicked them with his
spurred jack -boots.
At this a little old cardinal
advauced and placed a restrain-
ing hand on Bismarck's arm.
'But you don't understand!'
exploded the rate Sunken 'My
name is Von 13ismarckl
'That', retorted the Prince of
the Church, 'explains, but does
not excuse, your conduct.'
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