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emee again, tatea1_r (net .l (Jap foot-
oall classic has been written into the
:,OIOrtUI saga Of one of Canada's most
picturesque sports events, an epic strug-
gle that annually attracts more far•flung
attention and wider interest .in these
')ominions than perhaps any other sports
(11 ai.,, l Ung the Stanley Cup fillais,
And once again, this column raises a plaintive voice to en
quire wily and on what grounds the entire football populace
of Canada's west, and a large proportion of the same hardy
breed in the east, are excluded by mandate from viewing any
part of this gridiron spectacle?
The answer to this is likely to be that Toronto's huge Var.
sity Stadium, with its 28,000 seats, can accommodate mere
people than any other bowl in Canada. If that's the answer,
it isn't a good one because it contains two holes through
which you could shoot a 250 -pound line plunger.
The first gap hi this tine of thought, presuming 11 exists,
is that ip giving Toronto the monopoly on this game, several
thousand Canadians, west and east, who couldn't afford a trip
of Toronto and probably couldn't secure a seat for the game
if they got there, are shut out.
And these several thousand are the folks who, by giving
their whole -hearted support to the teams of the Western
Conference on the prairies, and the Big Four in the east.
make the Grey Cup spectacle possible.
The second yawning gulf in the answer is financial. 1f the
Grey Cup is to be made a medium for extracting the ultimate
in dollars, then its practical proponents are missing a bet.
If it were played on the same practical basis as the baseball
World Series, or the hockey Stanley Cup, two ends would be
served. Those who helped make the series possible would
see the games, and the receipts of, say, a 3 -game series, ane
east, two west, and vice versa in alternate years, would mare
than equal the returns from a single game.
There are those who urge that this is Canada's moss. gaudy,
glittering and colorful sports drama of the year. We agree.
But we don't agree to the argument that it should be
limited to one game, one city, or to the theory that it would
cheapen the Cup finals to broaden the scope. it hasn't
cheapened the world's baseball series or the Stanley Cup
series in any noticeable way, and these give the fans who
paid aid season a chance to view not only the prologue, but
the final drama. Sn it shield be with the Grey Cep,
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St„ Toronto.
Calvert
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By BOBELUS
Among the books we brouaul
home from our trip to Nova
' Scotia last. September, there is
one which we can strongly rec-
gxnmeud to each and all who are
interested in co-operation.
It is the life story of "Father
Tompkins of Nova Scotia," right-
ly called the founder of the
Antigonish Movement.
The author, George Boyle, had
known Father "Jimmy" Tomp-
kins for more than thirty years
ao and renders his story in clear
simple words.
Adult Education.
To help people help them-
selves, was Father Jimmy's life
work. His great love of God and
his Fellow Man, his infinite faith
in the people and their funda-
mental goodness, his compassion
on their mute suffering, his un-
bounded spirit, gave this frail
little priest the strength to car-
ry on the fight for the Brother•
hood of Man under the Father-
hood of God.
It was Father Tompkins in-
tense belief that if people were
only given the knowledge of how
to go about it, they would be
able to free themselves from the
shackles of a "feudalistic econ'
omie system" which was holding
them down in poverty, malnu
trition, ignorance and apathy.
"Adult Education" was his
magic formula, "at the pit heads;
down in the mines, out among
the fishermen's shacks, along the
wharves, and 'whenever the far-
mers gather to it and talk in the
Double Speed -- Scott Crossfield,
32 -year-old lest pilot for the
National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics, examines a mo.
del of the plane he piloted to.
1,927 -males -par hour which is
twice the speed of sound. Cross'
field smashed his own existing
speed record of 1,272 -miles -per -
hour.
evenings," Out of it carne the
Rural Conferences, the Extension
Department of St. Francis
Xavier (University, the Antigon-
ish Movement.
Creams .for the Few,•
His first act in his little par -
isle of Canso, where he was exiled
for his "radical" ideas, was to
start a credit union.
"Capital must'- be decentraliz-
ed," he wrote to a friend, "Our
Branch Banking is making us a
glorified branch nation all al-
ong the line. I notice in Canso
for instance -- an important fish'
ing center — that the people are
poorer and more dependent today
than they were twenty years
ago."
"They claim the place, then'
employment and their employ
ers. They do not know what the
matter is, and they are too poor
and too ignorant to find out for
themselves. The reason back of
it all is that they are being ex-
ploited by fish firms owned by
men in Montreal and anywhere
else but Canso. Montreal banks
will give money to Montreal men,
but Canso has no money to help
encourage Canso brains."
"And so we become, as I said,
a branch people, and a few
places hundreds of thousands It
miles away skim off the cream,
which goes into the pockets of
the very few .— not the 'best
place to keep cream, but you will
forgive the figure," -
First Co-op.
He encouraged his fishermen to
pool their resources and to send
a crate of lobsters, for which
they '4vouid have received from
the local dealer the grand sum
of $9.75, to a merchant in Bos
ton.
When, after weeks of anxious
waiting and speculation, back
came a cheque for $32, the first
lobster marketing co-op was un-
der way. Today it operates one
of the largest, .if not the largest,
lobster cannery in the world,
Father Jimmy's love of people
was all -embracing; it was cath-
olic in the strict sense of the
word, which means universal
"I do not know of any Catholic
or Methodist way of cutting coal
or canning lobster;" he used to
say. -
Father Jimmy Tompkins is
dead, but his work is carried on
by the men who - came after him
and his memory continues in the
minds and hearts of the fisher-
men and miners the lumbermen
and farmers of Nova Scotia.
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, Box 1,
123 • 18th St, New Toronto, Ont,
Queen Wins A Title - "Grecian Queen," who piled up earnings of
$229,375 this season, has recently been named Champion
Feminine Race Horse of 1953. Being led by her trainer, "Grecian
Queen" is shown above on her arrival at I-liolea,h Race Track
where she may meet her male rivals in the $100,000 Widener
classic in February,
S
i,A Stx51TC i't LC
1)o you lappen to ,'ecatl a
character named Arthur Newton
who ran for 24 hours, to Ham-
ilton, and covered 152 miles or
thereabouts?
Well, if you du, you certainly
can't play junior any longer, be-
cause it was over 22 years ago.
Personally, we had forgotten all
about it till our memory was
jogged by a piece.. in The Chris-
tian Science Monitor by Sydney
Skilton, writing from London,
England.
Take it away, Sydney!
a • a
We have had one of those Bo-
as -you -please endurance tests
that used to so fascinate our
grandfathers. On the University
of London track at Hotspur Park
eight men entered and six start-
ed for a 24 hours running race
Three were there et the end, the
winner having covered 6371
laps of the four -to -tile -mile (tin-
der track.
He was Walter Hayward, a
45 -year-old Johannesburg • budd-
ing inspector. His official dis-
tance, which rates as an unoffi-
cial world record, was 159 miles
562 yards. It was 7 miles 12
yards further than the prevlous-
best distance that stood to the
credit of Hayward's host, Ar-
thur Newton. l-Iis performance,
accomplished as a professional,'
was on a square 13 laps to the
mile track at Hamilton, Ontario,
in1931. e
Second to Heyward was Derek
Reynolds, a 39 -year-old Lon-
doner. with a distance of 154
miles 1,226 yards, which also im-
proved on Newton's best per-
formance and which rates as the
best -ever by an ` Englishman.
Third was Leslie Griffiths, of
Reading Athletic Club, Aged 48
years, and the oldest of the six
starters, Griffiths went off the
track for two hours during the
night, but after deciding to re-
sume went: on to complete 120
miles 248 yards.
Hayward, too, went off the
track for half an hour after com-
pleting 100 miles. To that time
he had been trotting rhythmic-
ally ground and round the cir-
cuit, averaging a steady eight
miles an hour. But after resum-
ing Ile never recovered the
rhythm and eventually finished
a completely exhausted man.
M i, e
While being assisted to the
dressing room, Hayward was
asked by Newton "Well, it was
worth it, wasn't it?" To which
a distressed Hayward gulped
"Passed don't worry. Your ease
Mort realm Chet le you live
fog owe*, you OratogiN mntall' pttlt
"Never again," But less than 48
hours afterwards as he boarded -
a plane for home he had changed
his mind and stated "I'll try the
run once more, if It can he Ar-
ran ged."
ry Y y
There's the rub. Arranging
these things is quite an -expen
sive business because there is
so little return. Nobody [,aid
Hayward and his fellow com-
petitors to run and nobody paid
to watch them. But the hiring
of the track, the refreshments
for the competitors and those
for the recorders, markers and
timekeepers all have to be paid
for. The payees are the few and
scattered devotees of this pecu-
liar pastime of ultrll distance
running, They come from all
parts of the world.
r 1 a
Hayward, as we have men-
tioned comes frond South Africa,
He travelled to Britain entirely
at his own expense, spending
£500 of his savings to do so.
While here he set new records
for the London to Brighton (50
mills) and Bath to London 1100
miles) runs. They were wcrk-
outs for his 24-hour effort. He
arrived home, after an absence
of 35 days, as the greater ultra -
distance runner in 'history.
1 * *
The trip would not have been
possible had it not been for the
camaraderie of these indefatig-
able long -journeymen, Host to
Hayward while in this country
was 70 -year-old Arthur Newton
who did not take to running un-
til well into his 30's and then
only to draw attention to what
he considered an unjust confis-
cation of his farming land in
Natal: In one of his books New-
ton states that he was confronted
with two alternatives in order to
draw publicity to his case. One
was to be sent to prison for
crime and the other was to be-
come a sports champion. He be-
came a champion marathon run-
ner, winning races and setting
records in the continents of Af-
rica, Europe, and America.
a
In due course Newtoe captal-
ized on his athletic prowess and
although today he still rates as a
professional he has never lost
his love of running for the sheer
joy of running, Thus it was a
typical Newton action to invite
Ilayward to board and lodge at,
the Newton home in Ruislip,
some 20 miles northwest of. Lan-
don, s t' o
Another old-timer, rallying
round the hailing of Haywards
to Britain was Peter Guvuzzi
who handled the feeding ar-
rangements, Gavuzzi will best
be remembered as runner-up in
that fabulous trans -Continental
race from New York to Los An-
geles in 1929. He is regarded as
an authority on racing refresh-
ment where his golden rule is
"No solids." Thus Hayward dur-
ing his remarkable feats of sta-
mina had a diet of egg -custard
and rice and frequent swigs of
warmed lemon juice laced with
sugar and salt. The patient offi-
cials were those who needed the
proteins!
Blades of paring kniv s have
an uncanny way of waking
loose from the handles. Push
a little plastic wood well into
the crevice of the handle and
replace the blade of the knife,
Let it dry for a few hours and
the knife will be as strong as
new.
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Immediately after the war,
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Japan produced 402,769 cam-
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