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• In a recent Calvert Sports Column we
remarked that the Carey Cup final prob-
ably never would see again such gripping
drama as attended Winnipeg Sine Bom-
bers thrilling last -second bill for a tie in
1953.
We're glad we said "probably." Under the sullen grey
Toronto skies of Grey Cup Day ]954 there developed a tre-
mendous drama which unlike that of '53; roared to a positive
climax, such a climax as perhaps we'll never again soe,equal-
led in what has become Canada's greatest one -day sports
event, It contained the most vital element of all sports dramas:
Victory for an under -dog who carne up snarling and fighting,
bloody but unbowed, to snatch 'victory from the favourite.
Here was indeed treinendon drama, magnificent courage,
unyielding will to win, doubly climaxed in the closing min-
utes when, with victory seemingly safely in the hands of the
east once more, these dauntless white -clad, gold-hehneted
warriors from the west, Edmonton's gallant Eskimos, arose
suddenly in their might, crashed from end to end of the field
in a series of battering smashes that swept them across the
Alouette line and cut a 25-14 margin against to 25-20, after .•
tite ball had soared over the cross bar.
But this, with all its drama, was merely a lesser climax.
The great climax was yet to come, as the minutes fled swiftly
around the great clock at the end of Varsity. Stadium. The
powerful Alouettes drove back to the Eskimo 10 -yard line.
Hunsinger, leader last season in touchdowns for the Als went
racing through, Big Rollie Prather dived at hilt, and Hun -
singer threw the ball, as if seeking to make a lateral pass.
The pass, if that's what was iMtended, flipped out into empty
air. There was no Alouette near, The loose ball rolled in
among the westerners.
Jackie Parker, a speed -ball from the deep south, swooped
it up while on the run. Ile had broken for the Alouette line,
90 yards away, before any of the eastern champions -fully
realized what had happened. Then `a group of Alouettes set
off after him, sprinting desperately. But Parker is fleet of
foot. He had a running start.1le was not seriously threatened
as he sped over the line with the touchdown that almost .
unbelievably tied the count, and the convert kick gave the
western gamesters their 1 -point margin of victory.
And so, in this final burst of drama, the Grey Cup went
west for the first time since 1948. Canada's top football trophy
has fallen into worthy hands, the hands of a stout-hearted
team that couldn't be beaten, because it wouldn't be beaten.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
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Carried Away Jail To Rescue Prisoner
A. Portuguese politician who.
visited Angola, Portuguese
West Africa, said on his return
' to Lisbon: "Half the people in the
colony are in prison . and the
other half ought to be there.
Until shortly before the last
war Portugal, which loathes the
death penalty, transported
murderers to Angola and often
drafted convicts into the army.
They guarded the Loanda fort
of San Miguel in army uni-
form, and if a man committed
another murder in Angolo he
satin could not be sentenced to
death. "He was ordered to re -
valve a flogging — and the au-
thorities made sure that be did
not recover from it," an in-
formant told Lawrence G,
Green, who gives a graphic ac-
*ount of his West African tray -
:ea from Cape ,Verde to Angola
In "White Man's Grave."
The convicts enjoyed plenty
of liberty. Every morning a
horde of them—blue-uniform-
*d, ,straw -hatted --descended on
Loanda to work in homes,
chops, offices,even run a busi-
neas or grog -shop as long as
they returned to the castle in
the evening. Many housewives
'Aad murderers as cooks. Other
eonviets made baskets, carved
necklaces and ivory curios, and
mold them In the streets.
A visitor told Mr. Green that
during four days spent in Lo-
anda . he heard a drum -and -
bugle band playing the same
tune incessantly, and learned
that it was the prison band,
composed of ill-behaved con-
victs who had been condemned.
to play, one tune day after day
as punishment!
At Banana, in the Belgian
Congo, he found everyone talk-
ing of the disappearance of the
local prison a corrugated iron
shanty. A native thief had been
chained inside. Members of his
tribe crept up in the night and,
unable to break the chains, car-
ried both prisoner and prison.
away into the bush! The police
guard, who slept through the
proceedings, was flogged next
day.
Green knows an elephant
hunter who was canoeing in the
loneliest part of the French
Congo when a native. inquired:
"Master, are you not going to
see the white man?" and led
him to a hut in a clearing. He
never imagined there could be
a white man within a hundred
miles, but inside was one, sit-
ting on the mud floor in rags-
an elderly Frenchman who said
he had been there for ten years.
He never moved outside the
low grass hut. His face'was as
white as paper, but his manner
polished. He had given the na-
Thanks, Daddy -- Robert Bechtold, shows the President's Medal of
the National Safety Council, awarded to him for saving the
life of Roberta, his five-year-old daughter. Last summer, Bech-
told pulled the drowning girl from a pond and brought her back
to consciousness by applying artificial respiration.
tives his rifle and ammunition,
and they brought .•him food—
buffalo meat, chickens, eggs.
Back in Brazzaville, the hun-
ter learned that the hermit had
once moved in the highest Par-
isian circles. A scandal had
been hushed up; the young
nobleman went to French
Equatorial Africa' with an al-
lowance which he spent on
champagne. When the remit-
tances .stopped, he drifted up
the river without aim or desire
to work and lived in the hut a
life of hardship and incredible
loneliness.
Approaching Monrovia, capi-
tal of the Black Republic of
Liberia, aboard the Asie, Green
heard the captain shout ang-
rily from the bridge and point
to the bare foremast. • A. sea-
man raced clown the ladder,
and soon a flag with one star
and eleven red and white
stripes jerked up to the mast -
,head.
"Just in time," remarked the
purser. "Here they make their
money by fining . the foreigner.
It would have been an insult
to the Republic it we had en-
tered the harbour without fly-
ing the Lone Star flag—and it
would have cost us a hundred
dollars. . .
"When you go on shore," he
added, "be very careful not to
bump into anyone in the
street. That amounts to as-
sault --fifty dollars. And don't
take off your jacket anywhere
if you feel hot. They call it
'lack of respect'—only ten doll-
ars for that. If you hit anyone
we'll never see you' again.'1
Elections are a farce, the vote
being restricted to owners Of
property worth 62,500—that is
almost entirely to the Americo-
Liberians—the ruling aristoc-
racy, descendants of the freed
slaves who settled in Monrovia
early last century. Voting pap-
ers are marked in advance for
government supporters; each
man votes many times, stimu-
lated by free roast pork and
rum; the ballot is rigged in a
Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree — Paper .cutouts, symobilc of night life adorn a small real
spruce Christmas tree, left, which is sprayed with white paint. The three-foot spruces' came with
Metal bases filled with a liquid preservative, A bio department store looking around for Christ -
rocs decor came up with a tree worth about $100,000. The tree, right, is fashioned of 200 skint
of natural Russian Crown sable,
way that makes it impossible
to get the government out, and
the True Whig Party has ruled
for More than half a century.
You will not find many for-
eigners with a good word for
the life thele. "It is wretched
for white people," said an
American rubber man. "1 ord-
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my house, and he made things
so awkward for me that the
company flew me out ' as soon
as possible."
Whites are constantly threat-
ened with actions for defama-
tion. The wife of a U.S. rubber
plantation manager scolded
some Liberian children for
throwing stones. One child
yelled "Hit me! I want some
of those dollars too!" You can
fire your cook, but are warned
not to say more than "not satis-
fied." If you tell him he can't
cook, that's defamation and he
will get his dollars.
Would You Want
To Turn Back
The Clock?
Particularly in these days of
complexity and speed— of both
things and events — the past in
retrospect can glow as a Gold-
en Age of simple and genuine
virtues. And we can • easily
understand the pleasure that
came to an Ohio grandmother
when her family staged a truly
old-fashioned Thanksgiving din-
ner for her.
She was taken to her son's
in an old "spring wagon," its
bed filled with straw, a turkey
in a coop on the tail gate. Her
family, dressed in costumes of
the "gay 90's", sat down 'with
her at a dinner table lit with
kerosene lamps. The whole little
pageant must have brought
back warm recollectionsof her
girlhood. But `would she have
wanted the clock turned back
altogether to the world of 60
years ago?
Not as to the ameni-
ties, certainly. She, no doubt,
once accepted the bone -shaking
conveyances, t h e unsheltered
rides in chill winds, the dim and
flickering lamps, the fry -and -
freeze coal stoves of that day
because that was what life in
rural America was like. Would
she --or any' of us—choose that
life today when enclosed cars, .
electric lights, and evenly
warmed homes are all around
us?
Perhaps she would; we would,
if such sacrifice of creature corn-
forts would bring back some of
the virtues of yesteryear—some
of the courtesy, the repose, the
neighborliness, the family soli-
darity that now seems gone or
faded,
But would it? Are our troubles.
due to our increase in gadgets—
from electric
adgets—fromelectric toasters to atomic
reactors --or to our lack of pro-
portions'" increase in wisdom
and love: And would we bring
back, along with its virtues,
some of the narrowness, the un-
conscious cruelty, the social in-
justices of the past?
Spring wagons and meal oil
lamps will not save modern men
from themselves. Nor need jet
planes and television break .
down civilized society. The way
onward and 'upward lies, as of
old, in hearing and grasping,.
and doing the word of God.. The
guide to that—the Bible—is
available today as Bever before
In history.—From the Christian
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