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Not long ago there was a junior
hockey game in which the play grew so
rough and vicious that the referee himself
was knocked down. It seemed inevitable
that someone would get hurt or even
killed if the game continued. The referee
stopped it. This happened in an organized
league.
This shocking incident has an alarming significance. In
the past year, junior hockey was beset by many scenes of
violence and assaults on visiting players, According to the
reports, there have been charges, counter -charges and even
court. Cases.
By no stretch of the imagination can all this be considered
part and parcel of good sportsmanship. But such a sad state
of affairs could hardly have developed without some poor
examples, Youngsters in hockey, as in all the other sports,
copy their elders. They trust the judgment of their coaches
and leaders. They look to them for guidance.
Club leaders should recognise that they have a sacred
responsibility -- Young Canada, We do not want to see the
Canadian adult of tomorrow turn out to be a ruffian with no
respect for constituted authority and no regard for good
sportsmanship,
In the light of those incidents of rough play one may
wonders just what Canada's junior hockey players are being
taught, by instruction and by example. If, as One must suspect
they are learning the dubious arts of thuggery, slugging and
foul language, then the outlook for major hockey of the
future is a sorry one indeed.
But there is another, vastly more disturbing aspect to the
matter; this kind of conduct is liable to be copied by genera-
tion after generation of players; each may always be expected
to follow worshipfully in the footsteps of its synthetic heroes
of the toe -lanes. The result could be disastrous to Canadian
sportsmanship as a whole.
What major hockey players perpetrate in the way of
mayhem and discord is unseemly enough; but it is not as
significant as the sheer rowdyism that is becoming more and
more prevalent among the juniors. Senior players are already
set on their careers. But the juniors are just being launched
on what amounts to a pattern of life. Unless many of the
reported incidents in Canada's junior hockey are exaggerated,
it's going to be a pretty sorry pattern of life. '
The juniors are at the turning point of their lives ase
future athletes and as future citizens. With the wrong kind
of leadership, they could easily go the wrong way. If there
are, within the junior ranks, those who would teach tough
methods rather than good sportsmanship, they should be
weeded out—but fast.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yong@ St., Toronto.
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By BOB ELLIS
Geneva, Switzerland
It is little known that Geneva
is not only the home of the
League of Nations, now housing
offices of United Nations, but
also of the World. Council of
Churches.
The WCC grew out of the
conviction that the churches
must learn to cooperate hi their
attack on the world's social and
International problems. A con-
ference at Stolckhohn in 1925
led to the launching of the Uni-
versal Christian Council for
Life and Work, At that time
many felt that the churches
should ask themselves why they
were divided and whether they
were justified in such division.
This led to the World Conference
on Faith and Order in 1927 at
Lausanne.
To Coordinate Work
These movements for Faith
and Order and Life and Work
were found to be so closely re-
lated that the members in the
continuation committees of both
bodies decided to find a way to
coordinate their work. Conse-
quently they agreed to hold
their second conferences in the
same year, 1937, one in Oxford
and the other in Edinburgh.
Both accepted a plan for set-
ting up a World Council of
Churches.
In 1938 a meeting was held in
Utrecht to draw up a constitu-
tion for this Council. The new
body was to be permanent coun-
cil made up not of individuals
but of cooperating churches. It
wase, to be a "fellowship of
Churches which accept our Lord
Jesus Christ as God and Savi-
cur.."
Amsterdam Assentblp
The War prevented the hold -
of its first assembly until 1948,
but during the war years the
World Council functioned as a
symbol of a deep Christian loy-
alty transcending the barriers
Of nationality which war makes
so evident.
The staff of the Council,
operating under the supervision
of a Provincial Committee set
up by the Utrecht Conference,
was able to keep channels of
communication and contact open
throughout the war period. Once
the war clouds had lifted, the
World Council (still in process
of formation) appeared as a liv-
ing organism linking the church-
es tO one another.
In 1048, delegates from 150
churches in all parts of the
world met together in Amester-
dam and on the morning Of
August 23rd officially constituted
the World Council of Churches,
An Emergency Solution
It was a time for rejoicing, for
the churches had learned to
BOme together; but it was also
a time for penitence, for the
churches remained in deep and
essential ways divided.
"What then is the true func-
tion of our Council?" asked Dr.
W. A, Visser 't Hooft, the Coun-
cil's General Secretary, at this
first meeting. "Our name gives
us the clue to the answer. We
are a Council of Churches, not
the council of the one undivided
Church. Our name indicates our
weakness and our shame before
God, for there can be and there
is finally only one Church of
Christ on earth . . . Our Council
represents therefore an emer-
gency solution — a stage on the
road — a body living between
the time of complete isolation
of the churches from each other
and the time — on earth or in
heaven — when it will he vis-
ibly true that there is one
Shepherds and one Rock."
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 Ellie, Box 1,
123 -"18th St.. New Toronto, Ont,
After-dinner" speeches, as a
rule, fall into three categories—
mildly boring, sleep producing
and just plain lousy, with the
pediculous ones by far in the
majority, But there are others,
of course, and at the recent big
Sportsman's Dinner in Toronto
two famous former athletes
really wowed the crowd with
their wit. They were Herman
Hickman, ex -football star and
Lefty Gomez, who can control
an audience just as well as he
could a baseball back in the
days when he was pitching for
the old York Yankees. And
that is a real tribute tb Mr.
Gomez's ability as a speechifier.
* * *
As a matter of fact we would
put, Gomez at the top of his
class, perhaps the only contend-
er being Bob Zuppke, who
coached football at the Univer-
sity of Illinois with great suc-
cess, and did even better On the
fried -chicken circuit. Here's one
of Zuppke's most famous after-
dinner tales, which was out-
standing because of its origin.
Probably you've heard it before,
but don't think that's going to
prevent us from dishing it up
again. This Is how Zuppke told
its
Ready and waiting for the 1954 Canad'an National Sports.
men's Show being held in the Coliseum, Toronto, from March
12 to 20 are these two beauties from the Walter Thornton Model
Agency, dressed like Indian maidens, Joan Stevens, left, and
Joyce Landry. Sportsmen's Show is twice as big as in 1953
and features a boat show, motor show, bowling championships,
cribbage championships, a travel show, cottage show, a big
stage and water revue and two clog shows.
"Along the right of way on
the Illinois Central Railroad
nestle the towns of Savoy, To-
lono, and Tuscola. Somewhat to
the east lies St. Joe. Each year
these four cities enter football
teams in a tournament to decide
the Railroad Track Champion-
ship. Each of the teams was al-
ways equally anxious to win the
title, but one year St, Joe took
the bull by the horns and im-
ported an Italian boy from
Notre Dame to coach the outfit.
The other elevens in the league
were soundly trounced, and St.
Joe took the crown.
o e p
"From the size of the scores
rolled up, the St. Joe boys got
the idea that they were pretty
big potatoes. The whole town
developed a sort of campus hys-
teria which culminated in a
challenge to Danville for a post -
season game in which St. Joe
was definitely out of its Class.
There was a wholesale migra-
tion„jly the St. Joe fans — or at
least it was as wholesale as you
could get in St. Joe. Twenty
boys made the trip with the
team. The whole project was
terrifically over -commercialized.
The Athletic Association made
arrangement for the team to
travel by train instead of by
bus, and they sold broadcasting
rights to the contest to one of
the local. merchants.
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"The St. Joe team was im-
pressed with Danville's brand-
new gym because they didn't
have anything like it in the
home town. As they dressed,
they explored the place and the
coach had some trouble gather-
ing them together for a last-
minute chat about this and that
before they _went out to do or
get done in. Sticklers for pro-
tocol, the eleven regulars sat on
the front benches and the seven
scrubs sat in the rear of the
locker room.
4 * 5
"The coach, don't forget, was
an old Notre Dame man, trained
under the great Rockne, and an
opening pep talk was to him as
much a part of the game as the
opening kickoff. Dramatically,
he addressed his squad. 'Boys,
you are far away from home
acid in strange surrondings,
Danville has a big team, but the
bigger they are, harder they fall.
Just don't let them fall on you.
Your fathers and mothers are
listening in from faraway St.
Joe. Every move will be on the
air. You have come thirty long
miles to -fight for the honor of
dear of St. Joe, the best little
town in the world. You have
won the Railroad Track Cham-
pionship and are now playing in
the town from which Speaker
Cannon came and in which the
great actress Helen Morgan was
developed, Don't let that get
you down. And when you run
under that kickoff, run and don't
squat. When you hit that star
halfback, print the fair name of
St. Joe over his you -know -
whet! Now—are you ready to
tight and die for the honer and
glory of dear of St. Joe?'
e * o
"The team yelled as one Yvan:
Yes!'
e ae a
"They jumped to their feet
full of fight. Their cheeks and
eyes glowed with the flush of
expectant victory. Then, led by
their captain, they burst through
the door and — SPLASH — the
whole team fell into the swim-
ming pool of the new gym! The
misguided captain, in his excite-
ment, had opened the wrong
door."
5 0 a
Zup would go on to paint a
mirth -provoking picture of the
astonished team climbing from
the pool, dripping its way onto
the field, with its spirits thor-
oughly and literally damped.
Altogether it was a great tale.
e 0 5
But it wasn't till after Zuppke
had retired from the coaching
racket that he broke down and
confessed.
* e e
"That," said Zup, "is a story
I've been telling for twenty
years, For twenty years it has
been told and retold, not only
by me, but by men like Field-
ing Yost, Knute Rockne, and
others. It has been a favorite
yarn of locker rooms and ban-
quet halls and has become pass-
ed on as a story in which each
of these famous men has sworn
that he had a personal part.
I wonder what those borrowers
would think about their story if
they realized that it doesn't have
even a grain of truth. It was just
something I manufactured com-
pletely."
FERVENT PRAYER
Four-year-old Trudy was en-
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"Do you say your prayers
every night?" asked the minister.
"Oh, no, Mummy says them
for ma," answered Trudy.
"And what does she say?"
"Thank Heaven you're in bed!"
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