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T'N Calvert SPURTS CQIUMIR
History repeated itself as Muzz Patrick,
younger of Lester Patrick's two big eons,
recently took over as coach of the New
Ilea Rangers. Ile thus becomes a rival
of his brother Lynn, former playing star
of Rangers, now coach of Boston Bruins.
History enters into this brother -rivalry
because it happened before, Lester Patrick the colorful White
Eagle, was coach Of New York Rangers atlmest from the be-
ginning of that colorful club's career. For one or two seasons,
Frank Patrick, brother of Lester, was coach of Boston Bruins,
later 0f Moe treal Mavoons, so these two brothers were rivals,
too,
The Patrick family has written indelible chapters lute the
saga of hockey in Canada, at home and abroad. Lester and
Frank engineered one of the most daring promotions in the
entire history of sport on this continent when, nearly 50 years
ago, after both had starred brilliantly in eastern hockey, they
invaded the west coast, set up a series of artificial ire -rinks
in Vancouver, Victoria and New Westminster, scoured the east
for playing talent, and formed the Pacific Coast League.
This became the first international body in professional
hockey, long before eastern United States cities became part
and parcel of the National League, As far back as 1914, ten
years before a United States city entered the National League,
Portland, Oregon, had a team in the Patrieks' West Coast
organization, followed the next season by the entry of Seattle.
Not only did the Patricks conduct the League, with Frank
as President, but both played regularly in the bitterly -fought
games that marked the hockey of that era. So dangerous to
eastern hockey did the Patricks become .— they appropriated
Toronto's Stanley Cup champions of 1914 intact and took them
to the Coast — that the easternmogulsdeclared war. But the
Patricks won the skirmish, and for a time, believe it or not,
their Pacific Coast League had drafting rights from the east.
When their western league petered out, the Patricks sold
out their stars to the east, and Lester became manager of
Rangers, a position he held until 1946, a 20 -year span.
Meantime, his two sons, Lynn and Muzz, had starred for
Rangers. Lynn later became coach for a time, then moved
to Boston to take over there, with signal success. Now brother
Muzz comes east from the Pacific Coast Tacoma team, follow-
ing a familiar Patrick trail, so the Patrick .rivalry blazes once
again.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Eimer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
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me PLAIN HORSE SENSE..
y BOB ELUS
Rome, Italy
We were flying in a Constel-
lation of Air France on the way
from Paris to Rome. The altitude
was 19,000 feet and deep down
below us was a thick blanket Of
woolly clouds,
Suddenly a chunk of rock broke
through the clouds and another
and another. We were right over
the Alps and they were creeping
up closer and closer until you
could see the tracks Of game in
the snow or thought that you
could see them.
When we passed over the Mont
Blanc, with 16,000 feet Europe's
highest mountain, one wondered
for a moment whether we would
be able to keep clear of it But
there were still a safe 3,000 feet
between the eplane and the icy
peak.
Romans, Goths and Americans
To do in Rome as the Romans
do one has to have 6 to 8 cafe
espresso per day which are sup-
posed to be as black as the night,
as hot as hell and as sweet as
love. They are black and sweet
all right, but we have not come
across a hot one yet.
Twenty five centuries are piled
up here one over the otther. You
pass the ruins of the Coliseum
five times as large as the Tor-
onto Stadium, where the first
Christians were martyred, and
you come to a row of ultra mod-
ern office buildings with flush
toilets and automatic elevators,
where 1,000 people of 15 differ-
ent nationalities work for FAO,
Food and Agriculture Organiza-
tions of the United Nations.
You turn around the atrocity
called monumento Vittore Em-
manuele which looks like a tre-
mendous wedding cake with
sugar icing on top, and you stand
before a little underground pris-
on where St. Peter and St. Paul
were held before the ane was
beheaded as became a Roman
citizen and the other crucified to
die like his Master.
The walk back to the city takes
you past the Palazzo Venezia
with the little balcony from
which Mussolini used to make his
speeches rousing the Romans of
his time. You come to the Scala
Santa, the holy steps which
Christ walked up to meet Pilate
and which were brought to Rome
by the Empress Helena from the
Holy Land,
You go on and cross the river
Tiber, past the Mausoleum . of
Hadrian, the last "stronghold of
Its .. I
�a Nearly CrazyWas
Very first use of soothing, cooling liquid
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the Roman Empire against the
Ostgoths fifteen hundred years
ago, and after a short walk up a
new avenue you stand on a tre-
mendous round, place facing the
largest church of the world —
St Peter, large enough to hold
100,000 people. Man feels very
small indeed.
Government Trouble
Italy is trying to get itself a
new government, At the time
this is being written, signor Fan-
fani has just finished the big
speech in which he developed
his program and the debate has
started. Before this report gees
in print the world will know
whether he has the confidence
of the House or had to make
room for another man.
The House is split roughly in
three groups, each made up of
several parties. In the center
axe the Christian Democrats with
the Liberals and Democratic So-
cialists; on the right the Mon-
archists and Neo -Fascists and on
the left the Communists and the
Socialists under Nenni, who is
said to be redder than Togliatti,
the Communist leader and who
apparently intends to be the Tito
of Italy,
Much Needed Reforms
The questions of contentton are
social welfare measures and ag-
ricultural reform. Fifty million
people live in a country as large
as the Maritimes. The soil is not
as productive as in France or the
Netherlands and ownership of
the land is concentrated in the
hands of a small feudal class.
The rich are richer and the poor
are poorer here than in any
other country in Western Europe
with the exception , perhaps ref
Spain and Portugal.
How desperately poor they are,
may be seen from the consump-
tion et pleat which in the South-
ern parts of Italy is less than five
pounds per person per year.
To keep Europe Non -Com-
munist, the Communists have to
be kept out .of power in Italy.
Unless Fanfani, who stands on
the far left of the Christian Dern-
ocrats, or some other member of
his party comes up with a genu-
ine reform program, and has the
courage to really enact it with the
co-opersltion of the Democratic
Socialists, the future looks dark
for Italy and Europe.
This column welcomes sug-
gestions, wise 0r foolish, and all
criticism, whether constructive
Or destructive and will try to
answer any question Address
your letters to Bob Ellie, Box 1,
123 - 18th St,. New Toronto, Ont.
"LITTLE WILLIE"
Willie stopped a cable car,
While standing on the troth.
1t gave his system quite a lar;
His shims now wear black.
!Feeling Jumpy Shapely Sandra Francis jumps from the deck
of a sturdy lis -inch plastic toboggan during her visit to the 10th
Annual Conference of the Society of Plastic Engineers in Toronto.
Everything — well, almost everything — in the picture is plastic,
from the toboggan and swimsuit to the snow,
PO
iv A
Some famous telemeter once
cracked, "Whenever a new book
le published I go and read an
old one." Well, as is probably
no secret, that is similar to the
system we use in writing these
articles. Whenever we are too
lazy to dig up a new sports story,
we revive one. And that which
follows is regarding one of the
unique characters of sport, Al
Schacht, the Clown Prince of
Baseball.
a 0 a
This was back about 30 years
ago when Al, because of a sore
shoulder, had been demoted
from the Big Time to Reading,
in the International loop. He
could only pitch once in a while,
so spent most of his time in the
coaching b o x, needling the
enemy hurlers and thinking up
some of the goofy stunts which
later made him famous. It was
during this season, we believe,
that he devised his great golfing
act in which he used a nickel
rocket baseball as the golf ball
and a shovel for a club.
a * *
Came a day when the Balti-
more Orioles were in Reading
for a doubleheader and Schacht
gloated over the grand oppor-
tunity to use his needle on the
hide of one of his bitterest
enemies, the great Rube Parn-
ham. Chief Bender, who both
managed and pitched for Read-
ing, won a close one over Jake
Bentley in the opener; and when
Parnham was announced to hurl
for Baltimore in the second
game, Al was all set for the time
of his life.
*
Schacht's antics in the coach-
ing box got Parnham so hot and
bothered that Reading was off to
an early lead; but as time went
by Rube settled down and Balti-
more gradually drew closer. At
last Manager Bender sent Al to
the bull -pen to warm up and
when, in the top of the final
inning the Reading pitcher got
into a real jam, Schacht went in
to pitch with nobody out and the
bases loaded. "But," as Al always
told it, "any time I went in to
pitch there were always three on
bre e 0 0 0
On his way in from the bull -
pt... Al reached into his pocket
for a handkerchief and there he
found one of the nickel rocket
balls already referred to. So he
promptly stuck the regular ball
into his pocket and substituted
the phoney, first warning his
catcher, privately, to signal for
nothing but fast balls.
* * *
• First Oriole to face Al was
Joe Boley, who had been hav-
ing a grand afternoon at bat. In
comes the fast one, Boley takes a
tremendous swing — but, instead
of heading for the bleachers, the
"dead" ball floats through the
air and settles in the shortstop's
hands. One out!
• * * *
The ball had been knocked
slightly out of shape by Boley's
swing but Al managed to twist
it into some kind of shape, and
faced the next Balstimore hitter.
Again bat and ball connect with
a resounding smack, and this
time the ball drifts lazily into
the second baseman's glove. Two
out -;bases still jammed — and
the batter, Mr. Parnham.
* 0 *
Walking over to his enemy
Schacht yells, so that half the
people in the park can hear.
"Whateha carrying that bat far,
Ruge? You know it isn't any
good to you." Then, toeing the
rubber, lie t't'dda insult to injury
by tossing the ball plateward
underhanded.
Parnham stands there, really
waiting for that cripple, and
when he swings meets it right
on the tradenierk, Expecting
the ball to go over the fence
Parnham starts on a load dash
around the bases -- and then, to
his utter astonishment, sees
Schacht dancing around in the
pitcher's box, waiting to make
the catch.
This is too much for Parnham.
Rushing to Umpire McGowan he
shouts: "Make him show you
that ball!" Schacht has no time
to get the real horsehide out of
his pocket, and has to hand the
phoney to the limps.
* v 't
At first Schacht tried 10econ-
vince McGowan that it was the
same ball he found in the box
when he took over the pitching
duties. Then, he admitted that
the ball he pitched to Parnham
was a ringer, but insisted that
he had pitched a regulation ball
to the first two Baltimore bat-
ters. As there was, by now, no
chance of disproving the latter
statement, McGowan ruled that
Schacht must pitch again to
Parnham.
0 a e
Every time Schacht got set to
pitch, Parnham would back out
of the batter's box and demand
to have a look at the ball. The
crowd, naturally, gave Parnham
a terrific going-over, and
Schacht managed to work up the
count to two strikes and no balls,
a * a
Then, when the odds are about
ten -to -one on the next pitch
being high or outside, Schacht
puts everything he has into it,
and it comes across, right
through the middle. Parnham
starts to swing, but he's too late.
He goes all the way around but
doesn't get even a piece of the
ball. Strike three! And the
game is over. And to cap the
climax Al gets the ball from
the catcher, rolls it toward his
departing enemy and softly says,
Snow Queen — Suitably dressed
for the occasion, blonde Carol
Handy stands in the midst of her
white domain after being elect-
ed Snow Queen.
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o * *
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s * a
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