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Canada's athlete of the year was bora
when 10 -year-old Marilyn Dell, a whole -
seine slip or a high-school student, a girl
who sings in her church choir, seized
the edge of a boat at the Toronto harder
front and was pulled from the water,
after swimming the cold, troaoherous
breadth of Lake Ontario from the United States to Canada,
This Canadian girl, with an immense heart in her 116 -
pound body, gave a performance beside which ahnost every
other athletic feat you can recall pales into insignificance:.
Facing competition from the great, established star, Florence
Chadwick, who had three times swum the English Channel,
as well as breasting the Catalina Channel, the Bosporous
and the Dardeneilea, little Marilyn's chances for success in
this cruel test of heart and body were rated sub -zero in
advance of the race,
So, here was drama, here was stark courage, here was
unbelievable stamina and will -to -win. Imagination is shaken
as you try to picture and analyze this tremendous feat
The kid started froth the New York side of the lake be-
fore midnight.
All through the black night she swam, with icy waters
lashing into her facet blinding her, driving into tier ears.
Slimy eels were clinging to her tags, fastening their
mouths upon her, a sickening chapter of the swim. Thus,
all through the night.
Came dawn, she was still swimming, battling her
way along. All day she swam, with the sun in the
heavens, then with dusk coming on. And still she swam
40 miles of it, they say, as lake currents carried her
here and there, before she I' e a e h e d the shore, after 21
hours in icy water.
This rates the groateat athletic feat of the year in
Canada, and we're not forgetting the double 4 -minute mile
in the Empire Games at Vancouver, as Bannister and
Landy, great Empire athletes, ,both raced within the un-
believable circle. That was a mighty feat, indeed. But,
after all, Bannister and Landy each had run the mile in
under 4 minutes once before. They were athletes who
came up to the Games fully prepared, trained to the min-
ute. From either of them, perhaps not from both, but
from either, a 4•minute mile was generally expected.
They were already famous.
But this high-school kid, this Marilyn Bell, had never
before been heard of, Her entry into the race was im-
rolnptu, backed we imagine by no „concentrated scientific
raining. What training can a kid of 16 years do, besides a
daily swim?
Her equipment, physically, as she entered into a gruel-
ling battle with the watery elements of the broad, cold lake,
were just her natural God-given courage, stamina and
strength. That's what, in part, makes her performance so
wonderful. Canada's sports event of 1954.
Your comments and suggestions for this column Alli be welcomed
by Eimer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 481 Yonge S1:, Toronto,
D STRiLERS L MITED
AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO
C oblees Tacks
Glged A Man
Mr. Mold, a bootmaker of
:Edgware Road, London, looked
at the boots he bad just finished.
They were beautiful boots lined
with lambswool, for a very
beautiful woman. Miss Camille
Cecile Rolland was a favourite
customer of his and he always
put his best work into her
enters. It was the year 1897.
Ile took a handful of brass
tacks and tapped his initial "M"
into the waist of each boot. It
was his stamp of approval for
his own work—though he would
hardly have dreamed it was also
to be the "signature" to a
death warrant!
But that lay in the future.
Only "Chief Inspector Luck,"
who so often stands for justice
when the efforts of human de-
tectives falter, could have known
o its significance.
Florence, the servant at Moat
Farm, Clavering, in Essex, was
afraid of her master. She had
good .reason to be, for he had ,
forcibly kissed her, and had at-
tempted to break into her room.
When, one evening in May,
1899, Mr, Samuel Herbert
Dougal drove home in the pony
and trap without the mistress,
Florence was terrified. She bar-
rticaded herself in her room and
was prepared to jump out of the
window should Dougal break
clown the door.
The mistress never came back
nor did Dougal attempt to
molest Florence that night. He
bad something else to do; and
Florence left next morning,
It was the year 1903. Mr.
Dougal, the wealthy owner of
Moat Farm, had acquired a
reputation as a ladies' man, and
there was tap -room gossip about
l.is lights -o' -love, but he was
hearty and generous and much
was forgiven him at first. His
wife — the real wife, not the
lady who had accompanied him
to Moat Farm in 1899—had run
away with an engine driver.
Eut Mr. Dougal had so many
affairs with village girls that at
last a note of spite crept into the
gossip, It was discovered that
his first consort at Moat Farm
had been a beautiful Miss Cam-
ille Holland, and rumours be-
gan to circulate that although
she had left him, she had not
taken any of her possessions
with her. Gossip grew Id scan-
dal, scandal to a suggestion that
Miss Holland had never left
Moat Farm.
The local constable, P. C,
Drew, wrote a report to his
Chief Constable, who not only
sent down Superintendent
Pryke, but communicated with
Scotland Yard.
Quite a lot was discovered
about Miss Holland and Mr.
Dougal. He was an ex -soldier
who had forfeited his pension
after a conviction for forgery;
the lady was a wealthy spinster
who, most surprisingly, had
been persuaded to throw in her
lot with a vulgar and un-
scrupulous adventurer. Moat
Farm stood in her name,
At this time the police be-
lieved Miss Holland was a
prisoner in her own house,
their belief being strengthened
by the fact that cheques and
ROCKY LEAVES — Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, on
his way to Los Angeles, is kissed at Idlewiid Airport by his wife,
lecerbora. She avoids both the bandaged nose and taped eye-
brow of her husband.
HARVEST QUEEN — All these vegetables and Loretta Kaiser, 19,
go to make up a luscious dish, served up for the County Fair.
Loretta reigned as the "Vegetable Princess" of the annual
Event, held this year at Pomona.
other documents bearing her
signature had been presented
and cashed regularly by Dougal.
By now nephews of Miss Hol-
land, already uneasy at the four
years, absence of news of their
aunt, had been shown speci-
mens of cheques bearing her
signature, Some of these they
definitely declared to be for.
geries.
Superintendent' Pryke visited
Moat Farm tQ investigate, but
failed to find any trace of the
missing Miss Holland.
Although the Superintendent
appeared satisfied, Dougal lost
his nerve. The next day he
withdrew all his balance at
banks in Saffron Walden, some
$3,000, and left Moat Farm. Ap-
parently he intended to move
very far from Essex, for he de-
posited his luggage at Liverpool
Street Station and went to the
Bank of England to change some
ten pound notes.
These had been obtained on
a cheque which the police be-
lieved was a forgery of Miss
Holland's signature, and their
numbers had been circulated.
Dougal was arrested at the bank
and charged with forgery.
The next day he appeared be-
fore the magistrates at Saffron
Walden and was remanded in
custody,
By now the police had aban-
doned all hope of finding Miss
Holland alive, but for the sake
of justice they still hoped to
find her body. For five weeks
they searched the large house,
dug the garden, drained the
moat which gave the farm its
name. They found only fish.
At last two local labourers
recalled that four years ago
there had been an dpen ditch
across the farm, and that this
had been filled in. Digging start-
ed in a new direction. After
several hours the effort was
crowned with grim success. A
fork, wielded by a police con-
stable, struck something hard.
It . was a boot, and it contained
the bones of a human foot, Fur-
ther digging revealed a skele-
ton with portions of rotting
clothes round it.
The remains were those of a
woman, the medical experts de-
clared. She had been shot
through the head, and the posi-
tion of the bullet holes ruled out
suicide.
There was no doubt in the
grinds of the police whose body
it was, but at first it seemed as
though proof mightt be impos-
sible
Dougal stood his trial at
Chelmsford in June, 1903, on a
charge, not of forgery, but mur-
der. There was one amusing
incident to relieve the grim
story. Miss Florence Pollock of
Bayswater, at whose house Miss
Holland stayed in 1893 while
Dougal was "courting" her, was
called to identify the accused.
She gazed round the court and
her eye fell on a ,figure sitting
beside the judge. "That's him,"
the said, pointing.
"Look around the court," she
leas told by counsel.
Miss Pollock looked' round,
then pointed again to the figure
on the Bench. "Yes, that's him,"
she repeated. "He' is much
changed since I saw him last."
Then she caught sight of the
man in the dock. "Oh, that is
him! That is him!" she exclainI-
ed.
To convict Dougal it was
necessary to prove that the
body was that of Miss Holland.
It was past recognition, but the
boots were, not—boots lined with
lambswool, skilfully made for
small feet, and each bore the
letter "M" worked in brass
tacks on its waist,
Once again, when the efforts
et the police to establish con-
clusive proof seemed to have
reached a dead-end, "Inspector
Luck" had stepped in. If Mr.
141oid, the bootmaker, had not
made a habit of "signing" his
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best work, the skeleton's iden-
tity would probably never have
been proved.
As it was, Mold was able to
establish beyond all doubt that
he had made the boots six years
before for Miss Camille Holland.
And, largely as a result of his
evidence, S a m u e l Herbert
Dougal was hanged at Chelms-
ford on July 14th, 1903.
Choose With Fare
Shoes For School
• Four out of ten children are
tripping back to school this fall
in shoes that are liable to cause
permanent injury to their feet
before vacation time rolls
around again.
These grim statistics are bas-
ed on a survey conducted dur-
ing the school year just ended
by a national font health organ-
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parents and schools are neglect-
ing care of children's feet.
Children's feet and their shoes
should be checked at regular in-
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Here are a few rules prepar-
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(2) Do not pass on an older
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shoes can do severe damage. No
two children's feet are identical
--squeezing a young foot into a
shoe already molded into shape
by another child is a dangerous
procedure, The shoe will not
give -but the foot will with Hn-
fortunate results.
(3) Sheck the construction of
the shoes you buy Foot doe.
tors recommend a shoe with
supple uppers and flexible anal
resilent soles. Leather has a
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also allows air to circulate free-
ly inside the shoe through ire
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Churchill Didn't
Shine M School
Winston passed into Harrow
the .lowest boy in the lowest
form, and he never moved opt
Of the Lower School the whole
five years he was there. Roll call
was taken on the steps Outside
the Old School arid the bogy's used
t0 file past according is their
scholastic record.
The masters struggled with.
Churchill in bewilderment and
indignation. He was self-confi•
dent and assertive; he could talk
the hind leg off a donkey; why
could he net learn the rudiments
el' Latin and Mathematics?
Churchill insists that where "my
reason, imagination or interest
was not engaged, I Gould not or
would not learn," There is no
doubt that stubbornness played
a considerable part for when his
twelve years of school came to
an end he declared with some
pride that no one had ever suc-
ceeded in making him write a
Latin verse or learn any Greek
except the alphabet,
As a result he remained per
petuu,ily at the bottom Of the
c:'leso; and as a further result he
was thoroughly grounded hi
English. 1f hc• *LIN too stupid
to learn Latin he could at least
learn English. He was drilled
Over and over again in parsing
and syntax. "Thus," he writes,
"I got into my bones the essen-
tial structure of the ordinary
British sentence -- which is a
noble thing. And when in after
years my schoolfellows who had
won prizes :and distinction for
writing such beautiful Latin po,•
etry and pithy Creep epigrams
had to come down again to come
mon English to earn their living
or make their way, 1 did •not•i'eel-
myself at any disadvantage."
Churchill loved to experiment
with the ase er words and was
-yassionately fond of declaiming.
He astonished the Headmaster,
Dr. Welldon, by reciting twelve
hundred lines of Macaulay's
Lays of Ancient Rome without
making a single mistake, for
which he won a school priac "I
do not believe 1 here ever scan
in a boy of fourteenaiich a-vnn-
eration of the English language,"
Welldon once declared.
Churchill was 00 better at
sport than he web at Latin or
Greek.—From 'Winston Church-
ill, The Era and the Man," by
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