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THECahled SPORTS COLUMN
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o When, recently, the famous forme).
heavyweight boxer, Sam Langford, who
was born in Weymouth, NS., became the
first Canadian -born ringster to be (sited in
the greatest of all sports Halls of Fame
the Helms Foundation of Los Angeles, it
unleashed a flood of reminiscences about
this mighty slugger. -
One concerns a match which ended With Langford scoring
a knockout in the seventh round, a story told us by the veteran
Joe Woodman, who discovered Langford in Boston as a young
fellow who was earning his living washing windows.
We'll have to build a little background for this, primar-
ily that Langford is credited with possessing the most lethal
left hook in heavyweight ring history, possibly excelling, in
sheer power, that of Jack Dempsey, Also, there existed in
Langford's day a considerable amount of racial prejudice,
which fortunately has disappeared. Few white fighters, or
Negro fighters either, wanted much to do with Langford and
his lethal punch, unless there was a "gentleman's agreement,:
which Sam always kept, religiously, ,lest he should fight him-
self out of opponents, He was a man of amazing courage and
stamina, this Langford, as well as fistic skill Not over five
feet seven inches tall, and despite short arms, he could, when
he out loose, flatten foes with one sweep of that abbreviated
left, even though he had to stand on tip -toe to land it.
Langford was, probably is, one of the best -natured boxers
of all time, who chuckled his way serenely along in and out
of the ring. But once he was angered, arid that is the episode of
which we spoke.
As Joe told it, Sam was fighting a heavyweight named
Thompson, It was supposed, by agreement, to go to 10 good
fast rounds, with neither fighter injured much, Thompson had
Other ideas. In the sixth round, he let go aright cross with
everything he had, hit Sam on the chin, dazed him, and almost
knocked him Out.
When they came up for the seventh round,, Langford thrust
out his gloved right hand, and said "Shake hands." Replied
Thompson, surprised: "This ain't the last round, Sam,"
"It is for you," answered Sam grimly. And so it was,
Langford was boxing in St, Louis, one night, and his
opponent's handlers thought to make him nervous by delaying
the entry of their boxer into the ring, Sam sat on his ring
chair for nearly half an hour, before his opponent arrived.
When the usual preliminaries had been settled and the tinter
was about to ring the bell, Sam stepped to the side of the
ring, held up his gloved fist. The surprised crowd fell silent.
Announced Langford: "You'll pardon me,.gentlesnen, if I make
this fight short, 1 have to catch a train."
Then, with one punch, he laid his opponent low.
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orse Sense..
bar BOB ECUS
Judging by the editorials and
after-dinner speeches reported in
the daily press, the offensive
against 'orderly marketing" of
agricultural products is gather-
ing momentum.
"Hands off free enterprise:' is
the battle cry, raised by the
Prime -Minister himself at the un-
veiling of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's
statue in Montreal, and immedi-
ately picked up by the Globe and
Mail in Toronto.
The Globe, however; does not
like the "talk, from time to time,
among his ministers of keeping
up state interference with the
conditions of marketing the great
surpluses of agricultural commo-
dities in store in Canada,"
In the opinion of the Globe and
Mail "the right solutions involve
governments withdrawing as
soon as they can from subsidies,
guaranteed prices and most inter-
ferences with the functions of
free markets. The way is then
opened for the development of
the whole continent in its trade
and productive possibilities."
A CHALLENGE
Farmers have no objection,
provided, however, that the pro-
tecting hands of government be
taken not only off agriculture
but also off industry, and that
the grip of the hands of trusts,
cartels and combines on "free en-
terprise" be loosened.
Farmers have said so again and
again. It was repeated by H. H.
Ilannam, president of the Can-
adian Federation of Agriculture,
at the Annual Convention last
January 2th in Victoria, B.C.,
when he said: "Once again the
farmers of Canada challenge
Other industries to wipe off all
tariff protection including all re-
striction on the immigration of
industrial workers, and agricul-
ture will be happy to do like-
wise, Time and again Canadian
farmers, have thrown out this
challenge —. yet no one takes it
UP." FARMERS TOO
Once in a while we even hear
farmers object to government
intereference with marketing,
who overlook the necessity of
having monopoly interference
eliminated at the same time.
In a letter, alsp published in
the Globe and Mail, E. D. Brooke
calls for "the ;fight to choose the
course to follow based on indi-
vidual judgment in the light of
conditions which are not subject-
ed to tampering by governmental
Or other controls."
Mr. Brooke, a hog producer in
Orillia, says that "until cost of
production is in line with hog
production in other parts of the
world, Canadian farmers cannot
compete in a world market"
He does not say how the farmer
is expected to reduce his produc-
tion costs which to a large extent
depend on the materials he has
to buy like commercial feed,
fertilizer, implements, rubber
goods, spare parts, gasoline etc,
All of these things the farmer
has to pay for at exorbitantly
high prices set by industry, all
too often fixed by combines.
BOON? TO WHOM?
Mr. Brooke also wants to put
Live Stock Sales Limited, which
is the central marketing agency
of Ontario hog producers, out of
business,
Mr. Brooke's ideas are bacon
on the scrambled views which
the Globe and Mail serves us for
breakfast with these words: "It
would be a great boon to Can-
adian agriculture and the future
welfare of the country if men
of like views 'could lead a farm
movement back to sanity."
It would certainly be a boon
for the meat packing industry.
This column welcomes sug-
gestions. wise or foolish, and al]
criticism, whether constructive
or destructive and will try to
answer any question. Address
your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1.
123 • 18th Street. New Toronto,
Ont.
When flatterers meet, the Devil
goes to dinner.
—John Ray
How High The Kilt? — R's too chilly in most places for Bermuda
shorts these days, so some, of the boys are considering kilts as
an antifreeze measure. But what's the proper length? One
authority says a kilt should be three inches from the floor when
the wearer is kneeling. So here's kilted and comely Janet Burrell
checking the length of Trig Carter's kilt. Looking on is Lois
Gifford, executive of a men's underwear firm who naturally is
vitally concerned with what a Scotsman wears under the kilt.
"Well,' said father to little
Tommy, "how did you like the
Circus?"
"It was good," Tommy replied,
"but I didn't think much of the
man who threw knives at the
woman."
"Why?"
"He missed her every time!"
Up To Par Again — When Singer
Jane Froman was horribly
smashed up in a Lisbon plane
crash in 1943, she thought she'd
never walk again, much less
play golf. But here she is, driv-
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right arm and metal -braced
right leg apparently unable to
stymie her skill and spirit.
Mapping The
Bottom Of The
Atlantic
It became a matter of immense
importance to know, not only the
depth of the sea over the whole
line .along which the (trans-At-
lantic) cable was to be laid, but
the exact nature of the nottom,
so as to guard against chances of
cutting or fraying the strands of
that costly rope, The Admiralty
consequently ordered Captain
Dayman, an old friend and ship-
mate of mine, to ascertain the
depth over the whole line of the
cable, and to bring back speci-
mens of the bottom....
In the months of June and
July, 1857, my friend performed
the task...
The result of all these opera-
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tours and nature of the sur-
face -soil covered by the North
Atlantic for a distance of 1,700
miles from east to west, as well
as we know that of any part of
the dry land, It is a prodigious
plain — one of the widest and
most even plains in the world.
If the sea were drained off, you
might drive a wagon all the way
f r o in Valentina, on the west
coast of Ireland, to Trinity Bay
in Newfoundland. And except
upon one sharp incline about 22
miles from Valentina, I am not
sure that it would even be ne-
cessary to put the skid on, so
gentle are the ascents ane des-
cents upon that long route From
Valentina the road would lie
down hill for about 200 miles
to the point at which the bottom
is now covered by 1,700 fathoms
of sea -water. Then would come
the central plain, more than a
thousand miles wide, the ine-
qualities of the surface of which
would be hardly perceptible,
though the depths of the water
upon it now varies from 10,000
to 15,000 feet; and there are
places where Mont Blanc might
be sunk without showing its
peak above water. Beyond this,
the ascent an the American side
commences, and gradually leads,
for about 300 miles, to the New-
foundland shore. — From "On a
Piece of Chalk," by Thomas
Huxley, 1870.
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