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et When these titles were written,
there very fortunately had not been in
recent National Hockey League battling
tiny such disturbing injuries as the skull
fractures suffered in the past by Ace
B ailey and Elmer Latch,and it is de-
voutly to be hoped thano such Itear-
1 :1 annals of the game.
But if such an accident does befall, it will be in part the
fault of the victim, because he, like all other hockey players,
refused to wear a helmet. In baseball there is nothing like
the contacts or the physical dangers that are constantly pre-
sent in hockey. But during the past summer, Frank Lane of
the Chicago White Sox revived the idea of compelling all
batters to wear protective headgear at the plate. And, of
course, he was 100 per cent correct,
Serious consequences have followed "beaning" of batters,
whether purely accidental or the result of trying to "dust off"
the hitter, just as falls on the ice, or headlong .crashes into the
boards, whether frons checks or trips, lay hockey players open
• to similar injury,
Ballplayers are like: hockey players, and said to oppose
this safety device, however. "False pride" is the explana-
tion offered. "Pride goeth before destruction" is a proverb
recommended to the attention of potential beanbail victims of
baseball, or head injuries in hockey.
In other sports, where head injuries are always a possibility,
protection is accepted and in some cases mandatory. Jockeys
football players, auto race drivers and fighters in training all
use protective headgear. Some football players even wear
fase masks, not only in scrimmage practice but in games.
After the Ace Bailey crash, there was an edict that all
hockey players must wear helmets. The teams provided
these, but after a few weeks they were tossed into the discard.
Players said they were too hot, But the truth is, the players
were too proud of their physical toughness to wear them.
They considered helmets effeminate.
But if those exposed to danger in other sports wear helmets
for safety, why should hockey players be too proud to do like-
wise?
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c; o Calvert House, 431 Yonge 51,, Toronto.
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RSE SENSE
By BOB FLUS
Listening the other da} to C.
H. Millard, National Diractor of
United Steelworkers, address-
ing the Semi -Annual Meeting
of the Ontario Farmers Union
we could not help being greatly
impressed with the speaker's
sincerety and his concern over
the welfare, not only of his own
steelworkers, but of all working
people.
?teferring back to the times
filen women and children used
to work twelve hour days in the
mines and factories of Britain,
Mr. Millard said that such con-
ditions would be unthinkable
today; the change had been
brought about by the people
themselves when they organized
Into unions.
Same Interest
Mr. Millard said that an or-
ganization was as strong as the
loyalty of its members to it. "It
Is not enough to organize for an
immediate material profit Far-
mers must have faith in far-
mers, workers in workers, and
both in each other."
The interests of farmnr4 and
It's No Yolk - Mrs. Frank Miller
is mightly proud of the huge
half -pound egg that was laid re-
cently on her fctrm. Above, Mrs,
Miller smiles after cracking the
giant egg into a bowl. Below is
a close-up of the contents of the
big shell --a normal egg and two
yolks.
workers, the two largest groups
of producers and consumers,
were interdependent. if one
group was down and out, the
other would soon follow. As an
example Mr. Millard cited the
farm implement industry which,
due to the reduced purchasing
power of the farmer, had laid
off over half of its employees.
Those unemployed, of course,
could not buy the farmer's prod-
ucts and eventually all would
"end up in the same soup."
Farmers, Organize!
He was therefore not speak-
ing unselfishly, said Mr. Millard,
when he urged farmers to build
a strong organization of their
own.
The 500 farmers who had
come to Arthur from as far
as 100 miles away to listen to
Canada's great leader of work-
ing people, heard his ol?ex that
"anything that labour has learn-
ed by way of research and or-
ganization is at your disposal."
Proud of Unior
Earlier in the day the sleet-
ing was given a report by Chris.
Hansen, Junior President of the
Saskatchewan Farmers Union
on union activities in the West,
mainly concerning Wheal and
livestock marketing.
There were 1050 union locals
with close to 70,000 inembers in
Saskatchewan, Mr, Hansen stated.
He also related how Mr. Gar-
diner, Minister of Agriculture
was once asked at a political
meeting what he thought et' the
Farmers Union.
For an answer Jimmy Gar-
diner pulled out his member-
ship card and said that rat had
been: a member for , twenty
years, that he was proud et the
union and that every Tarnier
should belong to. it.
Resolutions
The meeting discussri end
adopted a number of resolutions
demanding legislation provid-
ing .for national marketing agen-
cies; an enquiry into the prob-
lems created by edible oil imi-
tations of dairy preclude and an
enquiry into the causes of high
prices of farm machinery, fer-
tilizer, binder twine and 'gibber
goods.
The union farmers fiNe Went
on record as favouring union
security for farmers and wal'ker's
by • the voluntary revocable
checkoff or other euitablu
means, and urged the govern-
ment to bring in the n"Prssary
legislation.
This column welcomes sag•
gestions, [vise or foolish, and all
criticism, whether constructive
or destructive and will try to
answer any question, Address
your letters to Bob Ellis, Box I.
123. 181.11 Street, Now Toronto.
Ont, •
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17v A jLXBITC'l `LC.
We lr , t under the impression
that we were familiar with
about all the horse -racing stories
and anecdotes that had ever
been published. Indeed, at vari-
ous times we have been guilty
of inflicting a few on the read-
ing public.
However, in the latest issue of
"The Police Gazette" which
isn't a bit like the old sheet we
used to buy surreptitiously and
read behind closed doors --
Charles Morey has a batch of
them, some of which were new
to us, and all well worth pass-
ing on. So here are a few of
them:
Bookmakers, in the days when
they held sway, were like every-
body else. Some were good. some
were bad; some were on the
level, some were cheaters, and
some were just plain lucky.
Back in 1919, a bookmaker
operating at Saratoga refused to
subscribe to the morning line. It
was the custom of the other
bookmakers to chip in and pur-
chase a line of prices from an
expert. The ]one hold-out used
to wait for the other books to
post their prices. Then he would
"steal" the line. -
The other bookies brooded
about it for months and decided
to fix the cheater. One day,
when Man 0' War was entered,
they posted an opening price of
3 to 1 on Big Red, The cheating
bookmaker followed suit, Then
the others quickly changed their
odds to3to5,
Meanwhile, the cheater was
being rushed from all sides by
bettors, eager to get 3 to 1. He
soon found himself with thou-
sands of dollars on Big Red and
no bets on anything else.
The date was August 13, 1919.
The race was the Sanford Stakes,
It was the only race Man 0' War
ever lost. And the winner's name
was Upset!
Don' Give up the Ship too Soon
Department:
At Aqueduct last summer a
filly named Grecian Maid ran
away before the start of a race,
jumped the fence, and disap-
peared into the stable area, She
was returned tothe post, while
her backers moaned. Their
moans turned into cheers 1a•hen
she romped hone the winner by
three lengths.
A couple of decades ago, at
Belmont Park, a filly named
Watch Her was an even -money
favorite in a race down the
Widener Chute She too, ran
away, but she did it in spades.
Watch Her raced through the.
Chute, jumped the rail, and gal-
loped through the paddock out
onto a highway which parallels
Belmont. It took the efforts of
several mounted policemen to
corral her.
She was taken back 10 the
post., Bookmakers were offering
any price against her, with no
takers. Watch Her zipped to the
front at the break and galloped
on the lead all the way to win
easily- : ea
A Iran who had just been fired
from his job drifted into Rock -
Ingham Park in Salem, New
Hampshire, one afternoon in 1945.
Figuring that things coulcin't get
worse, he decided to try his luck
with the horses, He noticed that
a horse entered in the first race
was named Mighty Tough, and
that another in the second race
was called Detach, He coupled
the two horses in the daily
double.
Bingo) The pay-off was $8,014. -
Pretty Kitty -- Veteran show cat
"Cy -Soh" relaxes in his basket
during the recent opening of the
International Show of the Cat
Club in Paris, France. Some 300
felines were exhibited at the
show.
40 for $2.00!
•
A once-in-a-lifetime happen-
ing? Perhaps. At a Midwest
track, two soldiers rattled up to
the gate in a well-worn convert-
ible. They had $2,19 between
them, Their uniforms got them
in at the pass gate. A dime pur-
chased a program. They placed
the program on the ground and
rolled a pebble over it twice,
noting where the pebble stopped
- but neither of the selected
- horses. appealed to them. They
rolled the pebble twice more and
this time shot their $2.00 bank-
roll on a daily -double ticket,
Again bingo! The pap -off was
$2,400 for $2.00!
At Monmouth Park in New
Jersey, several lucky people
cashed in a double of $2,831.40
on the combination of 8 and 1.
One exultant winner explained
that 11e was caught in a traf-
fic jam 00 his way to the track
and was anchored behind one
car for most of the trip. The
license number was 81, An old
lady, cramming big bank notes
into a tiny purse, gave the cred-
it to her parents. "I played my
age -- 81," she explained, "But
suppose I were a year older or
younger!" 4'
An axiom of the turf insists
there are .1,000 ways to lose a
race. The 1,00111 way came rip at
Rockingham Paris a few years
ago, Jockey Warren Yarberry
turned into the stretch aboard
the front -running Sinking Slave.
As the jocks say, he was just
"lookin' an' coolcin.' "
Singing Slave's backers Were
racing to the pay-off windows BS
the filly flew past the sixteenth
pole five lengths in front. Just at
that moment, a hurricane roared •
into Rockingham. It lifted Far -
berry neatly out of the saddle and
deposited him, startled but un-
injured, in the infield.
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•
A good jockey doesn't need in-
s,'tructions, and a pour one can't
follow then, Some year's ago the
clever veteran, 'Py Meloche, was
riding for an inexperienced ow-
ner, in the paddock, before the
race, the novice horseman told
the rider he had prepared 10.
strttctlons for him.
He showed the pop -eyed lVle.
lochs a map of the Thistle Downs
racing. strip on which he had
indicated the various furlong
poles with exact instructions on
what 10 de at each post "13e on
your toes at the start," read the
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