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e blistery will record the glittering
feats that, more likely than not, will
dot this season's world's baseball series.
But history will have quite a chore if
the feats in this year of grace excel for
drama and colour and, unfortunately,
the occasional blunder of It long store-
house of memories that dot the autumn classic.
It is doubtful that this series will produce another such
thrill as Babe Ruth's magnificent gesture of pointing to the
seats in Chicago's Wrigley Field in 1932, and then socking
a homer right there. There was only one Babe Ruth, and
the pattern died with him,
:rt is equally doubtful that this year's series will pro-
duce that rarity Of baseball, an unassisted triple play. The
only one in World Series history took place in the fifth game
of the 1920 Series played before 26;804 fans at Cleveland.
It was fashioned late in the game by the Indians' second
baseman, Bill Wambsganss who caught a line drive with two
Dodger runners on base. Bill stepped on second, turned,
and tagged the Dodger runner, unable to halt in his head-
long dash from first base. That's baseball history and even
the most casual fan will remember it for the nnpossible
spelling of Wambsganss's name, if for no other reason,
There was Pepper Martin's reckless base -running for
St. Louis Cards "Gas louse Gang" against the Athletics in
1931, and there were the Dean boys, Dizzy and Daffy, each
winning two games for the Cards against Detroit in 1934.
There was All Gionfriddo's circus catch of Joe DiMag-
gio's 415 -foot drive to the bull -pen gate in the 1947 Series
that will remain forever with those who witnessed it. Bobo
Newsom pitched a shutout in his second start in the 1940
Series for the Cincinnati Reds against Detroit.
Then, off the paths of glory, there was the famous third
strike which Mickey Owen dropped in Ebbets Field in 1941,
which permitted the Yankees to win the fourth game and
go on to win the title the following day.
And away back in 1912, New York Giants and Boston
Red Sox were playing out a bitter duel, It was the last game
of the series. Two pitching immortals Christy Matthewson
and Smoky Joe Wood were tied at 1 -ail in the tenth. Giants
gave Matty a run at the top of the tenth. Engel pinch-hit
for Wood in Boston's turn, a pop fly to centre. Fred Snod-
grass caught it -- then dropped it. Boston won the series.
'four comments and suggestions for this column wilt he welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calver? House, 431 nage Sf,, Toronto.
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It isn't only in spots like New
York and Chicago that the noble
sport of hockey seems to be tak-
ing it on the chin. Over in Bri-
tain, where once it seemed to
threaten even soccer in the mat-
ter of popularity, things seems
to be going from worse to lousy.
According to Sydney Skilton, of
the Christian Science Monitor,
Me lads are having it very tough
trying to make ends meet; and
in his report of conditions the
tale of how hockey was ousted
for shows like "Chu Chin Chow"
CHOSEN - Gen. Chu Teh has
been named vice president by
Rod China's National People's
Congress. Chu is commander
of Communist China's armies
sand a member of the power-
ful politburo,
is highly remindful of New York
where there is always the pos-
sibility of the team qualifying
for the Stanley Cup - you
should live so long - and then
having to play home games on
foreign ice because Ringling's
elephants had squatters' rights
on the space.
B i g league sport. Imagine
Cleveland Indians or New York
Giants moving out for anything
short of Armageddon. Or even
for that, for that matter!
So - take It away, Brother
Skilton.
England's and Scotland's ice
hockey promoters have at last
come together. Necessity has
driven them to form a British
National League with which they
hope to find public favour and
overcome the adversities that
have beset the puck game in
this country since the boom peri-
od just after World War II,
,r *
.At that time a large number
of leading Canadian profession-
als were here serving with the
Allied Forces. They drew capa-
city crowds to the rinks. Their
speed, their skill, their daring
and above all their robustness
created new-found audiences to
ice sport and set a new standard.
But it was a standard that nose-
dived suddenly when the Cana-
dians returned home for demob-
ilization,
English rink promoters, espe-
cially in the metropolitan area,
attempted to revive the standard
by wide scale reimportation of
Canadians, Scottish promoters
although doing the same thing
decided also on a policy of fes-
tering home talent. They decided
that no team should be al] -Cana -
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dian and that room for at least
two home trained players should
be found in each national league
team. The outcome was a rise
in native talent, especially as
most of these youngsters were
able to operate without forfeit'
ing their amateur stratus.
This was a commendable policy
but the English could not adopt
it because of their larger rinks.
In order to meet their extra
overheads they had to have ca-
pacity, or near capacity crowds.
Logically, in order to secure
such crowds they had to provide
the game crowds were prepared
to pay to see. Such stuff came
only when the squads were pack-
ed with Canadians. They were
brought over as amateurs on
expense chits at first but later as
"independents." Home players in
England never stood a chance of
inclusion because their presence
inevitable weakened t h e team
and consequently the chances of
winning the match. Losing sides,
however courageous, just don't
pull the cash customers.
e *
Thus the English and the Scot-
tish went their own way but
when it came to the international
representative occasions, like the
world championships or the
Olympic Games, it was Scots-
men who occupied the bulk of
the placings in the Great Britain
team. Englishmen, however keen,
seldom had a chance to prove
themselves and those that did
were quickly lured over to the
professional ranks, usually on
the European continent.
t *
In this way Scotsmen began
to dominate the home scene and
when the English big rink own-
ers found it even more profit-
able to present these mammoth
ice shows like "Chu Chin Chow"
Canadian performers in England
found they had no ice to skate
on. Some returned home, some
were sent on tool and some,
much to the disgust of their
loyal fans, were obliged to play
"home" engagements on rivals'
rinks. Players were loaned and
borrowed to the confusion of
everybody and to the detriment
of hockey as a genuinely com-
petitive sport.
• '
That was thesituation at the
end of the 1953-54 season. A
number of rinks decided to end
with ice hockey altogether, while
others decided to dispense with
imported Canadians and try their
fortune with native talent. One
such as these is Streatham, the
south London rink with one of
the largest ice surfaces in the
country. Streatham was one of
the most successful combinations
but despite winning the Autumn
Cup last season and finishing
runner-up in the English League
it failed to pay its way.
* +* *
During the summer the Brit-
ish Ice Hockey Association and
the promoters got together and
the outcome is the formation of
the British National League. It
comprises four English and eight
Scottish teams and to meet the
additional costs imposed by tra-
vel a fund into which a percent-
age of box office receipts will
be paid is to be created,
t +*
The new Teague has much to
commend itself. It means that
for the first time the league is
really British national instead of
being either just English or Scots
tish and it means an end to the
dreary monotony of the same
teams a n d nearly always the
same players meeting each other
week after week. Indeed, the
new league might well be the
salvation of ice hockey ID Bri-
tain,
.* * *
Canadians, of course, will again
be the principal boys Of the show
and news of their signings appear
daily. London's Wembley, for
example, has signed defenseman
Tisymeind Larouche. Thio 182
pound French Canadian from
Chicoutimi captained Laval Uni-
versity last season in its chain-
pionship success, Wembley, ap-
parently, intends making a big
bid to win this new champion-
ship -1f this is so then this is the
best news London's ice hockey
fans have had in years because
it will do more than anything
else to retrieve the game from
the shadow of the provinces to
where the ire glamor shows have
forced it.
People Marry for
e Dearest
Reasons
Why do people marry? Be-
cause they're in love, you retort.
Or, if they're older, for com-
panionship, But it's not always
so. The decision to wed has
often been made for the most
oddly unexpected reason.
Possibly one can take with a
pinch of salt the explanation
given by a Lancashine woman.
She told her husband she mar-
ried him so that she could warm
her cold feet in the middle of
his back,
Another rather different atti-
tude was expressed by George
Montgomery and Dinah Shore,
who married because "We like
the salve things and the same
people. We don't drink and we
don't stay up late,"
The motive for many marri-
ages has been - strangely en-
ough, a desire to save expense.
Bartholdi, the sculptor who de-
signed the Statue of Liberty,
used as his model pretty Jean-
ne Bayeux, When he married
her, it was widely believed he
had done so merely in order to
avoid paying her fees.
Though there is a Scots prov-
erb, "Don't marry for money;
you can borrow it cheaper," a
good many people have. In 1953,
when an Englishwoman was
granted a divorce from an Ohio
peanut vendor, she frankly told
the judge her reasons for mar-
rying him. "I desired adven-
ture, luxury, a rich American
husband a n d an escape from
rationing," she declared.
Similar sentiments were ex-
pressed by an Australian wom-
an, asked why she married two
men in the same year. "I want-
ed security," she replied.
This isn't a purely modern at-
titude. In the 1860s, a famous
woman journalist, Mrs. Lynn
Linton, accused the girl of the
period of looking for a banker
rather than a husband.
Sometimes people marry with
not the slightest intention of
living together afterwards, Some
years ago in U.S.A. a wealthy
young man divorced his first
wife, married another woman,
divorced her and announced his
engagement to a third person -
all in one day. The marriage
sandwiched in between was in
order to give a name to a son
born a year earlier.
The idea behind a somewhat
similar event in Las Vegas was
different. Both parties hoped to
gain financially. Immediately
after their, marriage Alex Kin-
ney and the former Constance
Fleet made tracks for the div-
orce court. It was only by be-
coming man and wife that they
could benefit under a will, but
the testator hadn't made any
stipulation as to how long their
wedded bliss should let.
It is a frequent condition of
receiving a bequest that the
legatee should forsake his single
state. A will was published only
last July, in which a. furniture
manufacturer in his early for-
ties was left about $25,000. This
he must forfeit if he remains a
bachelor; There is a time limit.
He must marry during the life•
time of the testator's widow.
One man who married for
money was Jerome Clegg, But
he married a horse. Considered
much tap irresponsible to handle
his own money, Jerome discov-
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