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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-07-02, Page 3M M n ' N a 1111 Al.,f',tr SPORTS COLON 1Me ' 9/49440430 e It was seventeen years ago this week - the exact date was June le, 1336 --that loo Louis became champion heavyweight boxer of .the world, by knocking out James J. Braddock In eight rounds at Chicago, The laser thus holder who fell before the the amitehexplodingvin the etlists of the Brown Bomber. Before that, Primo Camera, Max Mr and Jack Sharkey all had been toppled by the dead- pan Negro. It's silly, in (he writing game, to deal in superlatives, hteimp onsthatl may ringaeverbhas knowgreatest . Anybodyay that says he was rims himself right into a lot of argument from the mons andsof Co'bett n Or Dempsey, eeway back to tosJeffries, of think the ring never has seen the equal of John L,"Sullivan, But there was this much about Joe Louis, The ring never knew a champion who had more enthusiasm for his job, Maybe it wasn't in his face, because he was strictly a dead- pan fighter, But it was in his work, in his quick knockout victories. He had the Dempsey flair, and the. Dempsey con- trolled savagery for. that Louis took only a round to dispose of opponents like Max Sehmeling and John Henry Lewis, and after that any- body might think that Joe would ease up a little when he came up with a soft touch. But there were no soft touches in Joe's book. They were all fighters trying to knock his brains out if they could. So he walked into them and knocked them all out. This observer saw Louis when he was, possibly, at his peak, a night in 1935 when he made Max Baer quit in four rounds, Louis was that night a fighter to strike fear to the heart of any opponent, even before he raised a glove. Be- cause he was so coldly, so utterly indifferent to his opponent. Louis was first in the ring that night. He dropped into his chair, and looked up at a plane that was circling above the stadium. Baer entered the ring, glanced toward his opponent, But Louis didn't take his eyes from the plane. Without ex- pression, eold's champion, he watched wasn'te l accustomedl toe beeiaer, a for- ing treated like this. He was plainly disturbed and nervous. For he was confronting a sphinx, an unknown quantity that seemed to exude a cold, lethal threat- He was being ignored. And from that momentbefore a blow was struck, before the impassive and sombre Louis had moved from his earner, Baer was a Neaten man, The fight itself was merely a matter of effi- ciently conducted routine. I saw Louis again. Louis at the end of the trail, Louis in his thirties, fighting a young, 'clever Ezzard Charles, a Louis whose reflexes had faded, whose fists no longer carried lightning, In his prime, Louts would have knocked out Charles in a few rounds. But this was a Louis stumbling against the barrier of athletic age, whose fists weren't fast enough to do what his brain commanded, a Louis at trail's end. ...4444.4444.444.414404.414 Your comrnents.ond suggestions tor this column win :bewelcomed by Eimer Ferguson, r'c Calvert House, 431 Yonge Sf,; Toronto, advert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSThuRG, ONTARIO pin Horse by BUB ELLIS Ever since the beginning of the last war Canada's farm im- plement industry has had boun- tiful years. During the war it was armament that kept the fac- tories busy on such a scale that farm machinery had to take sec- ond place. With the end of hostilities the industry was ready to swing into full production of agricultural implements and took all possible �+. advantage of the situation. Pro- ductivity increased to such an extent that 12 per cent more em- ployees produced 16.0 per cent more goods in the six years from 3945 to I950. Profits Up The industry, however, did not follow the sound old principle that with reduced cost per unit the selling price should be re- duced accordingly. Quite to the contrary prices were jacked up with the result that by 1950 the share of wages and salaries in the farm machinery dollar (at the plant) was down to 28.9 per cent from 42.4 per cent in 1945, while gross operating profits had increased from 9.9 per cent in 1945 to 16,8 per cent in 1950, ac- cording t0 the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Caught in Squeeze ,To replace wornoat machinery and to make up for the shortage of help farmers have been buy- ing heavily in the post-war years. They have paid cash and signed notes for the machines and implements they simply had to have to get their work done and are deep in debt to the com- panies. In the past 18 months they were caught between the high prices they had to pay for every little bit they were buying and the falling prices of their own products. Buying and selling„ they were dealing with large cor- porations who carried on their businesses after the principle "I will get all the market will jus- tify me getting," Put On Pressure The effects of this price and profit policy are now becoming evident. The chickens are com- ing home to roost. The compan- ies have priced themselves out of the market and sales have fallen off to so low a point that already 4000 workers had to be dismiss- ed. This is bound to draw wider circles and will affect basic steel, rubber and others, causing unem- ployment and in turn decreased consumption of farm products which means more surpluses and lower prices. Farmers might do well to put more pressure behind .the de- mand of the Interprovincial Farm Union Council, submitted on March 16, 1953, to the federal government for "either a parlia- mentary commission of enquiry on farm implement costs, distri- bution prices, etc.; or that an in- vestigation be ordered by the combine investigation committee of these farm implement compan- ies' operations." This column welcomes sug- gestions, wise or foolish, and all criticism, whether constructive or destructive and will try to answer any question. Address your letters to Bob Bilis, Box 1, 123 - 18th Street. New Toronto. 01st. Voarmdn-Policeman Leonard Micharisen is quite happy to de- monstrate the "open door policy" when the person involved le bomeene as attractive as Betty Weisinger, The lady caught her head in o subway turnstile, CIS seen above, and Patrolman Micharlsen of the police emergency squad, heed her, eteee Brown Out Dims Yankees -This is a family scene of the St, Louis Browns' happiness boys who took a 3-1 victory over the New York Yankees in New York and (a) halted the Yankee 18 -game winning streak as it tottered on the edge of a record; and (b) ended the Browns' 14 -game losing streak. Left to right are: Vic Wertz, who hit a 2 -run homer; Johnny Groth who got three hits; Duane Pipette, the winning pitcher; and Marty Marion, the playing manager. Nowadays most folks take sports pages •- and sports coI- umns - pretty much for granted, and many of the younger fans might find it hard to believe that there was a time, not too long ago, when sports news -- such es it was - would be scattered throughout a paper instead of be- ing all bunched In one section. Here in Canada we give the late H. J. P. Good - father of the lamented former sports wri- ter Charlie Good - credit for being the first to put all the sports items together. Over in the States the pioneer was Ri- chard Kyle Fox, who emigrated from Ireland to New York back in the 1870's, practically penni- less, and took a job selling ad- vertising for the Wall Street Journal and then for the National Police Gazette, The latter - printed on pink paper as some oldsters will recall - was on the verge of bankruptcy and Fox, by taking shares of stock instead of cash, by 1876 was boss of the affair. Ensconced as publisher. Fox revolutionized the Police Gazette with a series of daring ideas, at least two of which became em- blazoned in history. First, he hired several outstanding artists, who adorned his stories with 1 some of the most magnificent woodcuts ever to appear in a periodical. These were the fore- runner of the fabulously success - f u 1 modern tabloid (picture newspaper). • . • N N Next, Fox had a hunch people really were interested in sports, despite the highly disorganized state of athletic activity. He esta- blished a regular sports section in the Gazette, a feature which was . then totally unknown in the daily newspapers and magazines t n r Prize fighting was illegal in .3880. Yet when a match was made between Joe' Goss and heavyweight champion Paddy Ryan that y e a r, Fox assigned several artists and reporters to give the fight full co.verage. Fox's hunch paid off han.dsomc ly. After the big bout, the Police Gazette had the only full account, replete with vivid ringside pic- tures which attracted more at- tention than the Garfield - Han- cock presidential campaign! For weeks, the Gazette presses kept rolling to fill the demand. Circu- lation doubled , and Fox prov- ed in dollars and sense that the people were hungry for sports news. To compete f o r circulation, other journals began assigning reporters 10 sports events. From the ranks of these men came the sports experts and the columnists, But it was Fox and the Police Gazette .who fathered the mo- dern sports page. t t This is one of the little-known milestones of sports which is brought to light in the 278 nos- talgic pages of "The Pictorial His- tory is- tory of American Sports," by John Durant and Otto Bettman, which has a just been *published. * "The Pictorial History of American Sports" covers each period in sports history, even through phases of bizarre pas- time like gander -pulling, skittles, animal -baiting, turkey racing, roque and stoole ball. The book, whose basic appeal is much like that of the vividly illustrated Police Gazette, has a host of sports collectors' items. Fos instance, did you know that in 1929 the New York Stn pub- lished its All-American football t e a m, listing only ten men? Bronko Nagurski of Minnesota made it both as tackle and full- back. Also, in case you wince In re- collection of the 104 degree heat that felled Sugar' Ray Robinson in his title bout against Joey Maxim last •year, just hearken back to the 120 degree conditions at the heavyweight championship fight July 8, 1889 at Richburg, Miss., between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain, That blistering fight -to -a -finish went 75 rounds, lasting 2 hours and 16 minutes before Sullivan kayoed his foe to win the $10,000 National Police Gazette championship belt plus the $20,000 stakes. This bout is pictured in the Durant-Bettman volume, and listed as the only existing photograph of a bare - knuckle prize fight. Baseball and America are as closely associated es ham and eggs, or apple pie and coffee. Yet the "Pictorial History" points out that there is only one purely American sport - that's basket - hall. This game, which has sup- planted soccer as the most popu- lar sport in the world today, was the brain -child of one man, the Canadian Dr. Tames A. Naismith, Canadian Pageant AItrlazed Champlain Some clay, I regret to predict, the circuit of St. John will be one of the world-famous drives on our picturesque planet The small segment which conducted me along cliffs of gray Archaean Pock that raised one high above the lake was an avenue of sere- nity. To the sunsetward ver- milion lights i'ronm late afternoon poured between the birches; on the lake -hand was stillness, as the earth , . . assembled for the vesper ceremonial. I coasted and came. with here and there a dun cottage in some• trees, to the beach at Pointe Bleue, where, all unanticipated, another world awaited, the world of the woods Indian from the North. The beach was dotted with encamp- ments. No one had told me of this. 1 have seen Indians on reser- vations, an basket -selling er- rands, in paid -for -in -advance dance, in circuses, and have stared at them -possibly beyond my money's worth, On this even- ing beach, I could no more have done that than I could have stalked tip to Paderewaki and asked to look at his hgir. For these people were real, entitled to as much freedom from intru- sion 0s, say, a .novelist in his work -room, So I walked fur- ther along and sat down beneath a birch to get a permissible fill of the scene, It was the sunset hour, From each group of tents blue smoke rose in a pearly column to a lazy heaven. Corpulent squaws, almost as dark as the kettles they were tending, bended and stirred and threaded their steps .0,;i+1:n1 a -s emit emestatram TCC;tresom trate ream r' uranwearcwoma'soMo Kxa staarw^r- - e-etto CUMINS AGENTS 11ANT011 .ACatalogue. oloa'r5 INANtEn 1 rrte wheiesat, Watches,Conte ts. Etc nnµor,A( 54, Soero,, 490 N. ,6,'0f. raon Bl rest. 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Write for do*011e, Ferguson Thresher company. haat:Ile im„ Phone 13W, among the children. Here and there a huge black mongrel pat- rolled the strand. . . . The men, not yet called to supper, were gathered in a circle. , , , It was a sight belonging to any century these three past, For since the founding of the Hud- son's Bay Co. in 1670, the an- nual custom of the Indians has been to congregate about the post during the months of early summer.. , , I had now grown accustomed to looking out on Lake St. John for beauty. Even during the im- perceptable progress of these summer days, which were dry- ing out the forest mosses in their ardor, I had caught unseen hands arranging unfamiliar colors on the monotony of waters. But that evening the dark was being wel- comed with special prepara- tions, ... Out of the hyacinth west came two canoes, marching beneath that close, curt stroke like liv- ing things. It was another fam- ily arriving. The front canoe car- ried a young man, two children, a squaw and papoose in lap, one dog, and the father. The other was propelled by two young men, and had a load of duffle, a bundle of probably furs, and two dogs. Also two guns. Here be- fore me floated the same pageant that intrigued Champlain. Now T saw the possible descendants of men whom Hudson might have met on that last wild venture. I was looking at the sum of the ages in these eastern woodlands, Barring the rifles and the com- pany blankets, these dark wan- derers might have been cousins to those who heard reports of 1 the Norsemen's landing in the days before William the Con- queror, -From "The Laurontians --The Hilts of the Habitant," by T. Morris Loslg,ctreth ILEAL COURTESY "My little boy is very polite," said Brown. "Only the other day in a bus he pointed out an empty seat to a dear old lady and then raced her for it." 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Hen,brufi, 06„ rr.f:, ,r. Ttnx lav, ftnnito,v, nine, 01.10/10 '. CANADA:S HNEST�� 1C ! G"A R.E T ttE ISSUE 27 - 1963.