The Seaforth News, 1953-03-12, Page 7I,M
HIECatVert SPORTS COLUMN
Eeofeit ?e, yoadoe
• Thele: al'e those sports .followers who
believe That, in matters of sport, the Cana-
dian colleges have withdrawn too latch
within themselves, by limiting, plainly,
their athletic competition to inter -college
play. Some critics even go so far as to in-
timate that there should be, in Canadian
college football, a "bowl" game between east and west, played
annually,
This writer is not in agreement with such theories. We •
believe Canadian colleges have struck a very sound perspective
in their survey of sports, by making study the paramount thing.
We think it will be a sorry day indeed when the only standard
we have for collegiate superiority is the ability to win at foot-
ball; hockey, or other games, Sports can be justified as sport
in our eclueational system only when played primarily for the
student body and by the boys who are enrolled through normal
channels. These boys should desire to play as a normal phase
of their collegiate life.
We don't believe the day will ever come in Canada when,
!even in ratio, collegiate sport will reach the highly com-
mer('btlized status achieved by the American football teams
In the myriad "bowl" games played on New Year's Day. There
were at least 12 of these in the United States, ranging from the
J'eltnut Bowl in Georgia to the gigantic Bose Bowl show in
I"asailena, Over two million dollars was netted, and turned
over to the competing schools and Conferences and associated
rpstitutlons that shared in the cuts.
7'hut's all very nice. 13ut if you happen to reflect on the
situation, and get beneath the money, the roses, and the
glamour, and the printer's ink so profusely spilled, It may
suddenly dawn on you that these things have no educational
value, that it may be an insult to the educational process to
turn college boys into a trained act to be trotted out before the
clamoring throng, 1314 the golden ladle is there and the appeal
is apparently hard to resist.
So credit is due to those American schools which rejected
this last act of mass entertainment and told their players to go
back to their studies. This year's bowl extravanganzas were
bigger and louder than ever, but each year the available cast
grows more limited, as one smaller school after another, and
some of the larger schools, too, abandon an enterprise which
places the emphasis on physical power,
So we should be a little proud of the fact that Canadian
colleges permit no such commercialization of the students.
Studies are the paramount thing, sport a pleasant side -line,
relegated to its proper place.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto,
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P,ORT A SLXBITC
In the course of a long career
xa) a sideline onlooker — both
baud and paying—.at athletic pas-
times, we have seen various cit-
ies, towns and communities go
what you might call fairly goofy
ever a variety of sports. In fact
when we consider some of the
doings -oh we have witnessed
when, for instance, a bunch of
erofessional athletes gathered
from all over the continent wear-
:tltg Winnipeg uniforms engage
:in a game of football with a
Wailer bunch wearing Argonaut
Jai:dorms, we have sometimes
'ken inclined to think that the
Lrlttmate height of goofiness had
Seen reached.
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But, apparently, such a con -
elusion would have been consid-
eably astray. Compared to the
rosy American basketball fans
)Melte their favorite sport, we Ca-
nadians who bust a gusset over
hockey or football are cold, aloof
end without enthusiasm. As wit-
nees the following quotes from
lG
a New York Times article writ-
ten by Kenneth S. Davis, who
lives in Manhattan, Kansas, deep
in the heart of the United States
basketball belt. Take it away,
Mr. Davis!
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A student of that peculiarly
American phenomenon "sports
fever" could not do better, right
now, than visit this Kansas col-
lege town where everybody is•
"nuts about basketball." The
scene here is typical of hundreds
of other communities over the
country, though there are few
perhaps where the mania is more
highly concentrated upon a sin-
gle sport. The symptoms of lun-
acy may be slightly more ob-
trusive this year- than usual as
Kansas State has been consist-
ently rated among the "top ten"
college teams in weekly national
polls.
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At 8 o'clock on a basketball
night the huge $2,500,000 field -
house, completed two years ago
fiYfo Nicks Please—Well aware that a deep 'scratch would scrape
off a lot of .valuable metal, gold -bar counters and weighers
at1ieck government-owned gold carefully. The 24 -carat bricks are
balanced delicately as the gold Is assayed. A truckload of bars
already assayed can be seen at lower right.
Where's The Ball?—Looking like people playing a game of blind
man's buff, these three basketball players seek and reach In
every direction for the ball which seems to be floating off at
far right.
(one of the five largest college
structures in America), is packed
by 11,500 to 12,000 people, though
Manhattan's population, includ-
ing 5,000 K -State students, is
barely 17,000, The main lights
go down. Only the court remains
brilliantly focused, and two spots
beam upon a huge American
flag hanging above the court's
center.
Out of loudspeakers above the
hushed throng used to come a
mellifluous voice saying ° (until
recently, when the administra-
tion called for a slight change of
script): "Welcome to big -tine
basketball as played in Kansas
State's new fieldhouse." The
starting players are introduced
individually, each of them drib-
bling a basketball out onto the
court and passing back to the
next in line as the crowd roars
its applause. Then officials and
coaches are introduced, the K -
State coach, Jack Gardner, in-
variably receiving a standing
ovation.
By this time the crowd is
welded by a single excitement
which maintains itself through
tremendous peaks and slight
valleys until the game ends. I've
personally seen and felt nothing
like this save, perhaps, during
two or three minutes of a bull-
fight, once in Mexico City.
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To partake of this intoxication
people 300 miles away buy sea-
son tickets, often driving to Man-
hattan for a Saturday -night
game, returning home that same
night, then driving over and
back again for a Monday -night
game, A Colorado Alumnus of
K -State last year arranged his
return from a South American
vacation so that he'd be in the
fieldhouse for a game which he'd
heard might decide Big Seven
standings.
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Pregnant women in these parts
have been known to insist upon
a radio in the delivery room on
game nights—a request the doc-
tor, being as delirious as his pa-
tients, does not deny. Few civic
clubs, or church organizations, or
women's clubs are so foolish as
to schedule meetings on basket-
ball nights. Rare is the .hostess
who dares to give a dinner party
on a night when the team is
playing out of town. without an-
nouncing that "our radio will
be on."
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Even the fine arts here reflect
basketball fever. The public li-
brary has been exhibiting paint-
ings by Hobart Hays, instructor
in fine arts at K -State, and his
show has been the most popular
the library has had in a long
time. It features oil paintings of
Jesse Prisock and Bob Roussy,
key membersof this years five,
in action on the court.
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There was a lot of faculty com-
ment when fans gave a 32,000
silver service and a 'Chevrolet.
sedan to coach Gardner two
years ago. "Jack doubtless de-
serves the adulation of the fans,'
President James A. McClain de-
clared. "But it's regrettable that
comparable recognition isn't giv-
en such other members of our
:daft, as the scientists who de-
veloped now wheat varieties
which; last summer, brought.
our farmers well over $100 mil-
lion of extra income."y
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To which we can only add—
with a bow of thanks in the di-
rection of Mr. Davis and the
N.Y. Times --• that, so far as
sports goofiness is concerned, we
in Canada "ain't seen nothin'
yet" and have a long way to go,
Still, we're a comparatively o
young nation yet, so, as the late
Dr, Munyon used to say, "There
1s still hope!"
Modern
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Q. Should the mother of it
bride -elect or the mother of her
fiance give a shower for Iter?
A. Neither one of these per-
sons should give a shower, as this
would be in the nature of in-
viting gift donations. Properly,
only close friends of the bride
should give showers for her.
Q. is it necessary to mail out
engraved invitations to an open
house one is holding in one's new
home?
A. No; this is an informal type
of entertainment, and invitations
may be extended either personal-
ly or over the telephone.
Q. Is it all right to pick up a
chop bone with the fingers, when
eating at the table?
A. Never. If you are not able
to extract all the meat with the
knife and fork, then you should
sacrifice it.
Q. Shouldn't a man remove his
topcoat before starting down the
aisle of a church or theater?
A. Yes. He should never go
down the aisle disrobing. He
should remove the coat and place
it across his aria before starting
down the aisle. Should he forget
to do so, then he should wait until
he reaches his row of seats.
Q. Is it all right to mail out
handwritten wedding invitations?
A. Yes, if the guests are just a
select few. However, if the guest
Iist is sizable, I should think it
would be easier and better to mail
out the engraved type of invita-
tion.
Q. What is the proper thing to
say when you have f. ailed to
understand or Hear what some-
one else has said?
A. Either "Please?" or, "I beg
your pardon?" is accepted form.
Q. If someone asks you a ques-
tion at the dinner table just at
the moment you have put food
into your • mouth, what should
you do?
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have swallowed the food before
you at t e m p t an answer. You
know only too well what it sounds
and looks like when one tries to
talk with food in the mouth.
Q. when an engagement has
been broken, Is the girl entitled
to Consider the gifts and engage-
ment ring the man has given to
her as belonging to her?
A. No; she should return all
these.
• Q. When the folded napkin is
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edge be toward the plate or away
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