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THE Calvert SPORTS COLUMN
Leif Seote49ev40.40
CALVERT SPORTS COLUMN ALW
• This may sound like one of those
trick questions you !sear on radio quie
programs. And, to fad, it is. Here's the
question: "Would it be possible that elle
biggest Upset to Canadian sport during
1953 didn't happen in Canada at ail?"
Phe answer isn't too dilllcu)t. Hockey
is a C:renadien spirt, and Ctauaciians were an both ends of the
upset when -the lowly Boston Bruins, who bad just barely
scrambled into the Stanley Cup play oil's, knocked the lordly
Detroit Red Wings right out of the picture It didn't happen
m Canada, of course, because lire six games -which saw the
National League-cluunpione and Cup holders unceremoniously
shouldered out of the picture to the amazement of every
hockey tan on the continent, were all played on 11 S. ic•• Bei
it was the sports upset of the your.
The depth of the upset can en ;sen in a quielt review of the ..
regular -season figures, to which Detroit MG 10 games, tied
two and lost 'two against. Boston. The record•setting Wings,
who won 00 unllrecedeuted fifth straight NHL title, also out-
scored the Bruins, 02 goals to 19, over that stretch. On Detroit
ice,. where Boston won a key game in the Cup series last
spring, the Wings hold a fantastic 27-2 margin over four sea-
sons, including 12 straight wins, But in the Cup series, Bruins
scored 21 goals in the six mimes, the sone number, by voinc•i•
dence, as did lied Wings,
The hero of the spectacular Boston triumph uucloubtedly
was Samuel (Sugar Jim) Henry, the teruins' goaler. Two years
before, Henry had been a spare goalie in the hockey camp of
the Red Wings. When a call for help carne from Bruins, the
veteran goalmtuder, who had failed in previous tries with New
York and Chicago, was sold to the Boston club for n few thou-
sand dollars,
• So amazing Was Reury's coxueback with Boston that during
the first year, 1951-52, he was named to the second All-Star
team and was third in the voting for the National Hockey
League's Most Valuable Player award.
In the opening round of the post -season playoffs he came
back to thwart the team that had sold him to Boston,In the
first three games against Detroit, Sugar Jim made 122 saves as
Boston upset the defending champions twice to take a 2.1 lead
in the best -of -seven series.
And when Bruins battled Canadiens right down to the wire
in the Cup finals, it was the gallant Henry, hobbling on one
loot, his ankle badly damaged, who held the Habitant team at
bay, without a goal, until one whistled past ilim in overtime
of the fifth and tenet game to give lila Montreal tram the title.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson,CaLvett c/o Calver! House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
DISTILLERS
' AMHERSTIURG, ONTARIO
IMITED
.. PLAIN HORSE SENSE
By BOB ELLIS
Looking back over the year
1983 we find three events in the
agricultural field of special
significance for the future.
The first was the establish-
ment of the Ontario Hog Mar-
keting Agency which started
operations in January at a time
when hog prices were at a low.
The time was opportune for
farmers to take more control of
the marketing of one of their
products.
The leaders of the associations
are trying their very best to
do a good job for their fellow
members which is not as easy
as those believe who do their
squawking either after the meet-
ings or at home.
We have some doubts though,
whether orderly marketing by
direction only will be effective
once supplies get more plenti-
ful and do hope that plans are
being made for farmer controlled
processing.
If farmers would get together
and set up a number of ro-opera-
tively owned and operated meat
packing p 1 a nt s, strategically
placed all over the province, it
would give them the greatest
assurance of just and fair prices.
in the home market. •
Farmers Sell. Cheese
The second event giving rea-
son for good cheer was the sale
og 10,000,000 lbs. of Ontario
cheese to Britain made by the
Ontario Cheese Marketing Board.
The emancipation of agricultural
producers from the government
will not only work out for their
own best, but will make govern-
ments — provincial and federal
-- mare amenable to reasonable
demands by farm organizations.
After all, these governments
are still being elected mostly on
farm votes, even if they don't
'want to have it true. It could
well happen that farmers, if
they were to find out their own
strength, could decide to take a
more active and direct part in
the organization of governments.
Farmer -Labour. Relations
The third and perhaps most
MERRY MENAGERIE
"Now deo what your Stubborn:len
hdp done!"
significant event of the past year
was the closer drawing together
of organized agriculture and
organized labour. _ For years we
have heard, in the annual meet-
ings of farm associations and
labour unions, resolutions on the
necessity of co-operation between
these two groups, These resolu-
tions always carried, but no
action was taken.
However, in March 1953 the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
and set up a number of co -opera -
and the Ontario Federation of
Labour, at long last came to-
gether and appointed a joint
committee to study and further
their common problems.
First action taken jointly was
the brief prepared by the Farm
Implement Council of the United
Steelworkers and United Auto-
mobile Workers to be presented
to the Federal Government with
the support of the Federation of
Agriculture. •
Spark'Plug'
How far this sudden upsurge
of organizational activities in
farm circles was spark plugged
by the appearance of the Ontario
Farmers Union, is beyond our
knowledge.
There can be no doubt that a
good share of the credit for the
accomplishments of 1953 should
go to the men of the Union
whom we found u, be Christian
gentlemen and 1 , of good will.
It is a good thing that up there
in Grey and Bruce is still enough
fighting spirit to prevent the On-
tario farm movement from get-
ting dull and drab.
IiappY New Year
Perhaps we should mention
the Toronto Milk Producers who
are endeavouring to establish
their own milk processing plant.
To them, to the hog producers
and cheese producers, to the
Federatioi and the Union men,
to one and all, our best wishes
for a Merry Christmas and a
happy and prosperous 1954.
Lest we forget that we all
work for the same aim, a full
and abundant life for ALL.
This column welcomes sug-
gestions, wise or foolish, and all
criticism, whether constructive
or destructive and will try to
answer any question. Address
you123 r letters
New Toronto,ox
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CITIZEN'S TATS
The preacher came along and,
wrote on the fence: ",I pray for
sell,"
The lawyer wrote underneath:
'1 plead for all,"
The doctor added: "I prescribe
3or all." .
• The farmer wrote: "I pay tar
all:'
Million -Dollar Smile — Harry Trotsek of Hialeah Roce Track has
a great deal to smile about. He's the third trainer in turf history
whose horses have earned over a million dollars in one season.
Trotsek holds a check representing the $1,026,950 that recently
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Of ,q Sw. i'rC'1• L(
We just know that all our
readers, and especially those
who deplore the free scoring.
trend in most modern sports, will
'be interested in learning the. re-
sult of the most recent 'fixture
of Eton's famous "Wall Game,"
Not to•keep you in suspense too
long, the Oppidans walloped the
Colleger by a score of two shies
•(that's "shies," not "tries," Mr.
Linotype) to nothing. As you
doubtless already know the Op-
pidans are the lads who board
out or' live in the town itself,
while the Collegers are resid-
ents of England's most famous
school.
t ».
•
Now two to nothing may not
sound like any great rash of
scoring, but you've got to con-
sider that this was the first time
since 1949 that there had been
anything but a scoreless draw.
Actual goals in the Wall Galne
occur about once every 40 years,
the last one having been scored
back in 1909. The gambling gents
who like fast action for their
'dough and who bet on every
goal in hockey, every pitch in
baseball, would certainly have a
dull time at Eton. As a matter
of fact it was the lack of defin-
ite results and the scarceness of
goals that brought about the new
rule reducing the teams from
eleven to ten a side -- a move
which, we feel sure, caused much
head -shaking among the more
conservative of the Old School
Tics.
According to the invaluable
Sydney Skilton of The Christian
Science Monitor, from who we
do considerable of our borrow,
ing regarding sport Over 'Ome, to
score a 'goal in the Wail Game
is about as easy as doing a golf
round of eighteen consecutive
holes in one. All you have to do
is secure the ballfrom a scrim-
mage .in a set region of the wall
and then shy it at a goal. One
of the goals consists of a little
door and the other is an old elm
tree trunk, with both of then so
awkwardly placed that the
thrower has to be an Annie Oak-
ley to even come close. They
started keeping tab over a cen-
tury ago, in 1841 to be exact,
and in all that stretch one of
other of the goals has been hit
only three times. 11 the salary is
reasonably liberal, we fancy that
the job of Permanent Scorer for
the Wali Game would suit us no
end.
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The origin of this Wall game
is shrouded in the mists of an-
tiquity and the theory that it
just grew with the school, now
more than 500 years old, is the
one generally and conveniently
accepted, But another theory
propounded by a fellow of the
Royal Historical Society is that
it arrived there in 1824 when
Sir Henry Wooton became pro-
vost, Sir Henry brought it from
Italy when he had served for a
long time In the diplomatic
service as the English ambassa-
dor In Venice,
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The same historian goes on to
state that the Eton 'Wall game
demes from a type Of football
Which was played and described
in Italy around the middle of the
18th century. A wall was an in-
tegral part of the FlorentIno and
Siamese versions of the game
and was so mentioned in vari-
ons books published in Venice
some 400 years ago. The retest -
tion of Latin phrases in the Eton
game supports the historian's
supposition, "Calx," Latin for
lee01 or foot, from which the
Italian "Calcio" 1 a kick) is cle-
1-ived is an example.
We niudt' try and remember
that word "calx," There are sev-
eral characters we would like
to . -alt heels, and maybe if
we did It in Latin, wt. could
get away with it. But we must dear get back to that Eton),
*.
The whole game is replete
with hazards and odd sounding
words. and phrases, They include
"bully," "rogue" and "cools." To
give an explanation of the game
except to an actual eye-wit-
nels, is almost an impossibility
because once the ball, somewhat
smaller than a soccer ball, is
tossed in the. midst of the play-
ers anything' and everything can
and does happen.
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The striking of 12:30 by the
old clock in Lupton's Tower is
the signal of the start and play
takes place in an area between
the wall running along the
Slough -Windsor road and a fur-
row, which is the touchline about
six yards away, running paral-
lel to the wall.
*
„,Surmounted 00 the 12 ft..high
wall are all the schoolboys who
can manage it plus photograph-
ers whose efforts of portraying
- the struggling and straining of
the mass of humanity down be-
low never seen; to change from
year to year.
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The telun comprises -walls"
who wear what looks like old
sacking, caps and gloves to pro-
tect them against the wall's ab-
rasions, "seconds" who operate
in support of the "walls," "out-
sides" and "behinds." Most of
the play is "tight" which means
that the ball is kept within the
scrimmage as the two sides fight
their way along the wall into
each other's territory. "Loose"
play is when the hall is booted
as far as possible in the oppon-
ents territory.
Hallway through the players
change ends. The side which
began by attacking "Good Calx"
now defends it. This is the end
so named because of the. superi-
or playing surface and where
the goal is the door in a distant
wall running. at right angles to
the wall proper. The opposite
10 -yard area at the other end is,
obviously, "Bad Calx."
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"Shies." ten of which can count
as one goal, are scored when a
player can, despite the interfere
ence of many pairs of stout boots,
manage to get the ball up on his
foot against the wall and touch
it with his hand as he shouts
"Go it." Providing he is in "calx"
and providing the umpire agrees
with him he has a shot at goal.
The great thrill of hitting a goal
has been reserved for the pleasure
of only three assembles. But that
does not detract one monocle's
wroth of enthusiasm from an
honored and picturesque annual
tradition at England's famous
school.
*
And thanks once again to you,
Sydney Skilton. If ever we get
that job eve shall certainly try
and get you the post of Assistant
Scorer, On a purely honorary
basis, of course!
MOS ON THE BIDDY
Sergeant: "X'm all in. I've
been running around all day
trying 10 get something for my
wife,"
Private: "Well, have yen had
any offers?"
Broke up the Carle
Also the Mayers
Big league baseball fans: are
discriminating critics of comedy
ae well as uncompromising con-
noisseurs of the game itself. It's
tough for a ballplayer to make
the glade on both counts, but
Herman Schaefer, better known
as Germany, was a big favorite
with Detroiters for both his base-
ball ability and his comic artistry
when he was n member of the
old Tigers.
One sunny day in Chicago, elle
Tigers were trailing the White
Sox 2 to 1, and Germany had
given p his second -base duties
to coach at third. The crowd
watched only incidentally as
Doe White struck out the first
two Tiger batters in the first Of
the ninth --most of their atten-
tion being focused on Germany's
clowning, Whether because of
the distraction around third or
some other undisclosed reason,
White had a momentary lapse
against the next man at the
plate, and walked him on four
pitches. Germany was wild with
joy, but manager Hugh Jennings
postponed his celebration and
tried to select a pinch hitter for
his hurler.
Schaefer was impatient. "Hey,
Boss," he shouted. "Want to
win this one? Better let me batt"
Jennings played the hunch and
sent Germany to the plate.
You've got to say this for Chi-
cago's South Side 1 ans. They
give e credit to a ballplayer
re-
gardless of the name on his uni-'
form, and Germany Schaefer re-
ceived a great hand as it was
amioux'iced that he was replacing
Donahue.
Schaefer strode to the plate as
though he wore the seven -league
boots. There was cockiness in
every step, and as he approached
the batter's box, he held up hie
hands to silent-& the cheering
crowd. Much like a cireus
barker, lie addressed the fans:
"Ladies and gentlemen—Permit
me to present to you—Herman
Schaefer, the World's Greatest
Batsman-- who will now give you
a demonstration Of his marvelous
hitting power." The crowd loved
it, and even Doc White smiled.
Billy Sullivan signalled for Doc's
fast one, and the southpaw burn-
ed it down the middle. Whaml
Germany met the ball with tre-
mendous power, and it sailed
clear over the pavilion in left -
center field, one of the longest
home runs ever hit in Comiskey
Park.
Ordinarily, that gine-winning
homer would hie satisfied any
ballplayer, particularly after a
prophetic speech as Germany had
just delivered. But he was just
warmed up. He took off for
first like a shot and slid into
the hag. Getting up, he dusted
himself off, and announced, "At
the quarter, Schaefer leads by
a head!" Whoosh . . . he was
off for second and a gorgeous
slide. After a deep bow, he in-
formed the fans. 'At the half,
Schaefer leads by a length." The
crowd was helpless with laughter
as he slid into third and an-
nounced, '(Schaefer leads by a
mile!" Not content with that,
Germany tore for the plate as
though he had to beat a throw
by the skin of his teeth, and slid
into home in a cloud of duet, As
he smoothed down his dirty uni-
form and doffed his hat to the
stands, he shouted Once more,
"This,
's and ladies gentlemen,
will conclude the afternoon'
performance. I thank you, one
and all!". The White Sox were
doubled up in laughter in spite
'of the homer, and they were
easy outs in their half of the
inning. It was probably the only
time in history a team enjoyed
losing a ball game.
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