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• There is a popular notion that athletes
can succeed where statesmen have felled;
that good, glean rivalry in sports can clear
the atmosphere of all international hos-
tility and bring nations closer to one
another.
This writer does not necessarily agree.
Sports have often brought the represen-
tatives of different nations so close to one another that the
good offices of the local police were required to pry them apart
again.
But there is something encouraging about Russia's latest
efforts to establish closer ties this side of the Iron Curtain
through the medium of athletics, The Russians have invited
western track -field stars, soccer and hockey teams to play
against Communist athletes on Soviet fields.
And more important still, the Russians have indicated that
their athletic representatives may yet be permitted to com-
pete in America.
Let us hope this isn't all just propaganda. We don't nave
to be politicians to see that the sooner we get a chance to
show young Russians what the western world is really like,
the sooner will ..n important gain be made In international
relations. That gain may be just a tiny seed, but tiny seeds
often grow into trees.
To be sure, we do not believe tor one moment that the
cold war will ever be settled on an athletic field. But it is
a fact that Westerners and Russians got along better com-
peting against each other in the Olympic Games than they
ever did in political arenas,
No doubt, th, professional diplomats nave accomplished
great things at times. But some results cannot be achieved
through professional diplomacy alone. Sometimes the uran-
in -the -street is the diplomat, whether he knows it or not. The
young Communist who today learned to know and like the
athletes representing Canada, Britain or the United States,
may be a political boss in his country tomorrow. He won't
readily hate the men he knows personally to be good guys.
We would like a chance to welcome Communist athletes
to this continent. We want them to see for themselves what
life in the western world is really like. If it won't end the
cold war, it isn't likely to do any harm, either.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
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Superstitions
Criminals Hold
,ase";
The murderers Of Constable
Gutteridge in a lonely part of
STssex shot out both his ayes af-
ter fatally wounding him. Super-
stition was behind that atrocious
act, for Bro vne and Kennedy be-
lieved that a murderer's likeness
is retained as in a mirror in the
dead eyes of his victim, and they
feared that they would thus be
recognized.
T h e superstitions connected
with crime are often very an-
cient, and in the past were even
used for purposes of detection.
Because it was believed that the
wounds of a dead man would
bleed afresh if the body were
touched by his murderer, it was
a common practice to force a
suspect to the Ordeal of the Bier,
in other words he was compelled
to touch the body in the pres-
ence of witnesses.
Similarly, the belief that soon-
er or later a murderer must re-
turn to the body of his victim is
probably the reason why the
bodies of the slain were exposed
to public gaze in the Paris
morgue—and the police carefully
watched those who came to see.
A curiously morbid supersti-
tion was current in Eastern Eur-
ope that the right hand of a sui-
cide was a protection to thieves,
and the door if a house were
rapped with it seven times, the
occupants would be held in slum-
ber, and would not hear intrud-
ers.
Baseball's High -Flying And Woolly — No wonder Umpire Nestor
ll•hylak, above, is confused. He's used to ducking high flies, but
not "flying tigers." In this case, it's Detroit Tigers' Second Base-
man Frank Bolling who's floting through the air with the greatest
of ease, chasing a wild throw from the plate during a game with
White Sox at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Tigers snagged the game
"on the fly;" 3-2. Below, "Ethel" and "Albert" make life easy for
Groundskeeper John Gery at Breedon Field, home of the Allen-
town, Pa., Cardinals. They keep the grass mowed, rain or shine,
according to Gory.
Not In The Script — Gordy Jennings ducks as Dick Walker (top,
left) and Bob Collins collide in mid-air. The mishap occurred
while the San Diego Water Ski Association members were tun-
ing up for an exhibition, No was injured.
Boxer Was
Knighted By
Drunken Prince
Knighthoods are rarities in
the realms of sport, Cricket can
boast Sir Jack Hobbs and Sir
Donald Bradman; the Turf has
Sir Gordon Richards. Lawn ten-
nis—Sir Norman Brooks and
Rugger, Sir Wavell Wakefield,
There may be others that do
not come so readily to mind.
But what about boxing?
Has the fight game ever been
thus honoured? If you say "No"
you are wrong and if you try
to guess you'll probably fail.
Yet perhaps the first sports-
man ever to be knighted was a
prizefighter, none other than
Dan Donnelly, the Champion of
Ireland, who received the hon-
our in 1819 after winning a fam-
ous victory at Crawley Hurst
in Surrey, thirty miles from
London.
Donnelly carne to England
from Dublin after winning the
Irish championship and imme-
diately issued a "manifesto to
the milling world," in which he
declared his readiness to fight
any man in the country at his
weight for a purse Of £100 to
£500.
The challenge was taken up
by Tom Oliver, a Battersea gar-
dener who had no pretensions
to being a pugilist until, chane
ing to look up from a cabbage
patch he was planting, he saw
a bare -knuckle bout taking place
in the next field and remarked
at the finish: "Well, if they call
that prize fighting I'll be hanged
if I don't think I could do a
bit myself."
The bout between Donnelly
and Oliver aroused wide enthu-
siasm and betting was heavy. So
great was Irish support for their
champion that numerous large
parties made the trip to England
and laid two -to -one on Dan
without the slightest hesitation.
Most of them walked all night
from, London to Crawley Hurst
in torrential rain, determined
to be on hand when the men
took the ring next day. It was
still raining when they set up
the ring and from all directions
came excited spectators on foot,
while a string of carriage;' of
every description reached for
nearly a mile along the nearby
main road.
The fight lasted an hour and
ten minutes and covered the best
part of thirty-four rounds. It
was a punishing bout, in which
fortunes fluctuated, but in the
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end Oliver was exhausted and
finally knocked insensible, leav-
ing Donnelly the winner.
Both men were escorted to a
neighboring farmhouse where
they were put to bed and bled.
In the course of Half -an -hour
they dressed, shook hands and
drank each other's health. Dan
returned to London where his
friends feted him for a week.
The Prince Regent, who was
living at Brighton, had betted
heavily on the Irishman and
sent word that he would like
Donnelly to visit him. When
Dan arrived at the Pavilion, the
Prince, in a moment of bibulous
hilarity, borrowed a sword, or-
dered Donnelly to kneel before
him and, tapping him on the
shoulder in the approved man-
ner, said: "Arise, Sir Dan."
Thus the Irish champion be-
came the first and only pugilist
ever to be knighted.
Few in London society recog-
nized the honour bestowed on
Donnelly, but none could deny
him the right to style himself
"Sir Dan," a title by which he
was known from then onwards.
Donnelly first saw the light of
day in Dublin in the year 1788.
He set out as a carpenter, but
was soon attracted to fist fights,
being tempted into the game by
his friends who asserted that a
physique such as Dan possessed
was only meant for the prize
ring.
A writer of the day decribed
the Irishman's appearance in
these words: "He is all muscle.
His arms are long ... his neck
athletic and bold; in height
nearly six feet; in weight thir-
teen stones (182 lb.) and his
whole bearing that of a boxer
with first-rate qualifications."
Of course, such a man at-
tracted the ladies and Dan did
not deny himself their company.
When he was staying at the,
Castle Tavern in Holborn a por-
ter came to tell him that his
"wife" was at the White Horse
in Fetter Lane and wished to see
him as soon as possible.
With great eagerness Donnel-
ly asked, "What sort of a wom-
an is she?"
To which the surprisec mes-
senger inquired:
"What, sir, don't you know
your own missus?"
The champion, smiling re-
plied, "Is she a big woman, dark
or fair? Well, never mind, tell
her I'll come and look, just to
see if I know her."
In training Donnelly was a
law unto himself and absolute-
ly unmanageable. It was usual
for a pugilist to have a com-
panion to see that a regular
schedule of exercising was main-
tained, but not so with Dan.
Even had such a Jerson been
assigned to him it would have
been little use, for the Irish-
man was quite beyond normal
control.
While training at Riddlesdown
for the Oliver fight, he would
often take a drop of "stuff" with
him to bed, to prevent his lying
awake. At other times he would
steal out at night to 'poach for
petticoats" and the preserves of
Croydon, it seems, supplied even
more than .'his wants,
In Dublin, Donnelly opened
a public house and thele the
sports thronged to pa; homage
to their great champion's prow-
ess. Sir Dan's house overflowed
nightly with company and he
kept pace with the revelry.
Negotiations were opened to
match hint with join Carter,
the champion of. England, but
before another bout could be
arranged, the fistie knight was
laid low by Fate itself,.
For the undertaker eventually
boxes the best of champions and
one day, after drinking forty-
seven glasses 0f whiskey, Sir
Dan indulged in a fast game of
fives which brought him to a
great heat, whereupon he drank
a copious draught of cold water,
As a result Of this he suffered
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