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ECallen SPORTS COLUMN
e 'there'll be a million and a lutil dollars
in the pot when the World Series baseball
'series is completed. But, believe it or not,
there was a time when organized baseball
frowned on the World Series and didn't
want any part of it.
It's difficult to believe, in view of the
tremendous box office takings, not to mention the great im-
petus it gives to baseball, that the World Series was once
opposed by the baseball moguls themselves. •
The modern World Series, as distinguished .from primitive
and casual playoffs dating from 1884 and involving American
Association minors, was founded in 1903 quite by accident.
Pittsburgh had won the National League pennant and Boston
the American that year. The Playoff was dream:led up private -
1y as something that might attract enough paying fandom to
provide winter food and shelter for the comparatively under-
paid talent of that era,
Pittsburg and Boston Bung challenges at each other, and
finally met on the field of battle. But it was an informal series.
It didn't have league supervision, much less league approval.
In 1904, Boston won the AL again, and challenged the
New York Giants; Manger John McGraw of the New York
club snootily replied: "I do not wish to endanger the standing
of my team by sending it against a minor league club," Result:
there was no World Series in 1904.
You should know the background, It's interesting. The
National was the old established league, the one and' only
major, and McGraw's Giants were its proudest exponent The
American was a fresh upstart at the time,
McGraw's sharp and caustic aspersions on. the AL wounded
the young league deeply. Ban Johnson, its president, and a
great baseball pioneer, was up in arms, Rather than precipitate
a costly baseball war, the NL magnats reluctantly agreed to
an annual playoff against the AL, just to keep Johnson quiet.
Neither league, especially, the National, had any idea that
the World Series would catch on with the public, to the tre-
mendous extent that has developed in recent years, when thou-
sands actually see the games, and millions more view it on
television, or hear it on radio.
All of which makes one believe that some events earn
prosperity and others have success literally thrust upon them.
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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.Plain Horse Sense..
y BOR ELLIS
Antigonish N. S.
This is IT. This is the land of
hope where the people have
found a way to free themselves
from "economic feudalism" by
gradually establishing a syste'm
of mutual self-help organizations
in the form of Credit unions and
co-operatives.
The center from which this
great experiment of social re-
construction has been started is
right here in Antigonish, in St.
Francis Xavier University.
The "Maritimes" (Nova Sco-
tia, New Brunswick and Prince
Edward Island) are about 50,000
square miles in area, about equal
the size of England or the State
of New -York. Their population
approximates about a million
and a quarter people. 53 per
cent of the population is still
rural, a much higher percentage
than for the whole of Canada.
The Problem
At the time of Canadian Con-
federation it was expected that
the Maritimes, chiefly because of
their geographic location, rich
stands of timber and et al de-
posits, would grow into a great
industrial region supporting a
large urban population and a
prosperous rural people.
Chiefly because of the ten-
dency to centralize wealth and
economic power 'in Central
Canada, this dream did not be-
come reality. The result was that
many of the young and ambi-
tious were looking for better op-
portunities in other parts of the
world.
Census figures show that be-
tween 1801 and 1931 more than
Home Sweet Home — This home-
less peasant of Vallavo, Greece,
constructs a primitive dwelling
to protect his family from the
coming winter. His original
home was destroyed during the
recent earthquakes which nearly
demolished the Ionian Islands.
560,000 left the .Eastern prov-
inces to try their luck in the
New England States, in Ontario
or in the new lands opening
up in the West. Certain farming
areas were the heaviest losers;
in Antigonish County, for exam-
ple, the rural population m 1931
was less than half what it was
in 1881.
Ad It Education
St. Francis Xavier University
in the little town of Antigonish,
N. S. is a Catholic institution,
founded in 1853. It was here that
in the years after World War I
a group of priests and laymen,
under the leadership of Father
J. J. "Tommy" Tompkins and Dr.
Hugh MacPherson, another mem-
ber of the University stair, be-
gan to turn their attention to
the problem of rural depopula-
tion and the general backward
condition of Eastern Nova Sco-
tia.
They decided that any im-
provement could come only from
the people themselves Itrd set
out to show them the way
through adult education.
In 1929 the Extension L)epart-'
nlent of the University was es-
tablished, with Dr, M. M. Coady
as its first director, to Imt.iate a
program of social and economic
betterment for the area.
The Extension Department of
St. Francis Xavier summarizes
its ultimate objectives in a gen-
eral way as: 1) To lift the Largest
possible number of the people
to a higher level of tife eco-
nomically and socially; 2) To
build a comprehensive co-opera-
tive structure through which the
people will be able to control
democratically a significant por-
tion of the total economy, espee
daily in the things that are
close to the necessities of life;
3) Through adult education, to
lay theeconomic and social
foundation that will permit all
the people to grow in political
understanding, culture and spirit-
ual life,
No Intolerance
The most striking feuture of
the Antigonish Movement is the
complete break down of all re-
ligious and racial barriers.
French lumbermen, Scottish
lisherinen, Irish farmers, Cath-
olic priests, Presbyterian min-
isters, coal mini's, steelworkers,
they LI get together In their
meetings to discuss their probe
lelns and their one common aim:
to help themselves and their
neighbours.
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 Ellis, Boat 1,
123 - 18t1) Street, New Teronto,
Ont,
Pranksters Pepper Ceiling—Teen-agers have forgotten the gold-
fish -swallowing fad which swept the country a few years back,
but they've started another one which is giving restaurant
owners a headache; The new fad requires some drinking straws,
chocolate syrup and a bit of wind power, Tom Taylor, left, and
John Wasson show how easily a restaurant ceiling can be "re-
decorated" by dipping the straw's tissue casing into syrup and
shooting it like a blowgun up into the air,
I0 a recent column we stated
that our personal angling, over
the years, had been reduced to
almost the vanishing point. When
we have a desire for fish, we are
just as well satisfied to have it
served all cooked and ready for
scoffing. This, of course, reduces
us to the pariah -ranks In the
eyes of all ardent fishermen. Still,
leanest confession is good for
what ails one, and that's the way
it Is, so make what you like of it.
4
* *
just recently, however, we ran
across a description of a sort of
fishing which we think might
suit us—the kind where the bulk
of the work is done by birds, not
men. A writer in The Christian
Science Monitor tells about it,
and the next time we get around
Japan -way, we think we must
give it a whirl.
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For less than one dollar tour-
ists can hire a boat to watch a
traditional and unusual sport in
Japan —' cormorant fishing. The
use of these tante sea birds to
c a t c h "ayu," a highly prized
fresh -water trout, occurs during
October on the Nagara River at
Gifu, about 250 miles west of
Tokyo, Northwest Orient Air-
lines reports.
n fi e
uo
According to the airline, the
procedure has not varied in the
smallest details for 10 centuries.
The fishing is done at night by
the light of bonfires carried in
iron baskets hung from the side
of the fishing boats.
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Usually about 8 o'clock each
evening in season a flotilla of
fishing boats drifts downstream
while spectators line up aboard
pleasure boats illuminated with
paper lanterns. Suddenly, a
rocket shattm the darkness an-
nouncing that the cormorant
boats are corning.
The fishing fleet pulls up and
lakes a position so as to allow
the spectators a good view, Each
boat usually has four fishermen.
The cormorant master is called
a "usho." He wears traditional
ancient costume—a kind of high
hat and grass skirt. With him
are an assistant, the steersman,
and an attendant for the decoy
fire.
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The black cormorants, train-
ed for their fishing task, are
large quick birds, with 1 o n g
necks, stiff, wedge-shaped tails,
and slender hooked beaks. They
are particularly fond of the
t'ayu" which is several inches
long and a fish which the Jap-
anese regard as the most deli-
cious of their fresh water
.species. °k
Standing at the bow the cor-
morant master operates 12 of his
birds by strings. He holds the
strings in his left and manipu-
lates them dexterously with his
right. This requires skill and
precision inasmuch as the birds
dash madly as 'they chase the
fish that gather in the light of
the decoy fire.
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When the cerinerants catch e
fish they try to swallow it, of
course, except that a ring on the
lower part of their necks pre-
vents thele. After a bird has
caught several fish the cormor-
ant master reins him in and
forces the bird to give them up.
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All of which, as we said be-
fore, sounds like the ideal meth-
od of catching fish. What the
cormorants think about it, we
haven't heard. But that's their
lookout, not ours, and serves
them jolly well right for being
such saps.
They Even "°ut
Rivets On A "Diet"
111 a large -size modern air-
craft there are nearly 2,000,000
rivets weighing about a ton.
Cut the length of each rivet by
a fraction of an inch, and you
save some 200 lb. on the 'plane's
total weight.
That's the way an aircraft de-
signer's mind works these days.
Experts are now studying
weight -reducing methods and
scheming sleek contours as fever-
ishly as a film star dieting to
keep her curves in check
Even odd ounces here and
there are carefully discarded —
for this fashionable "slimming"
is a factor which may decide
whether a commercial airliner
becomes a paying proposition.
Each 1 ib. saved on a 'plane
basic weight, it is reckoned,
means an extra $80 a year rev-
enue. This is because an addi-
tional payload of 1 Ib. can then
be carried. if a fleet of ten 'planes
are weight -reduced by 100 lb.
apiece, the annual takings thus
jump by $80,000.
As for jet fighters, experts
estimate that a difference of 10
per cent. in weight can alter the
plane's top speed by 2 der cent.,
its range by 11 per cent, and its
landing distance by nearly 30
per cent.
A sleek, shiny outer skin com-
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treatment for fighters. These
days a final finish of cell'Llose is
the secret. The earliest fabric
aircraft just got a surfacing of
sago; after hours of patient sim-
mering to make the mixture
smooth, a shower of rain might
turn the 'plane coat back into
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