HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-02-14, Page 6TNECalVert SPORTS COLUMN
at THOSE EXPERT viewers of the
sports scene who.reeord such -things recent.
ly yot9ej t4 .decujg -whet. was :the. "greatest
WCehan>.f7aliadiaan athlete"of 1951."
We - 'nay' be quibbling, but we believe
that while the selection was perfect, the
term used ie incorrect. The greatest athlete
of the year, of either sex, is always a question to debate. But
if this ballotting was intended, as no doubt it was, to designate
the competitor who provided the most thrilling and spectacular
success of the year, there wasn't much doubt about the award.
The honor of becoming Canada's Girl Athlete of Distinction
M 1951 went, and quite rightly, to a snub-nosed freckled bit of
a girl, 17 ,years old and weighing 108 needs, who undoubtedly
ratecl listing as Canada's most dramatic single figure of 1951.
This was Marlene Stewart, a poker-faced bundle of golfing
dynamite from obscure Foothill, Ont., who captured the Canadian
Ladies Close and Open championships at Montreal's roiling
Laval -sur -le Lac links.
Marlene might go down in golfing history as the Little Gitl
Who Played Lille a Woman, For here she Was, only 17 years
old, a stere slip of a girl who had never fared such crowds, nor
such competitors before, pitted against some of America's best,
Let us paint in a bit of the background to a Canadian girl
athlete's finest performance of the year. Marlene, the Mighty
Mite, in achieving the first "double win" by a Canadian woman
since Toronto's Ada Mckenzie turned the trick in 1934, eliminated
Marjorie Rowe and Mae Murray, two topnotch US players in the
opening rounds of snatch play. That set the stage for a gruelling
36 -hole final against Grace Lenezyk, two-time Canadian open
champion and one of the best women amateurs an the continent.
\Vee Marlene held a sl:alcy one-up lead at the 35th on the
tricky back nine at Laval, and headed for the final hole with the
knowledge that her powerful opponent was getting stronger,
having erased a one-time thrce-up margin The chips were down.
This was it, And wee Marlene met the challenge. She Lunched
her slim shoulders and boomed a tee -shot right down the middle,
Grace Lenezyk duplicated the feat. They both made the green in
three. Marlene stroked her 18 -foot putt within inches of the cup,
while Mks Lenezyk missed her 15 -footer and conceded Marlene
the match,
Youth marches on, in sport, as it always has done, but more
decisively than ever. In Canada a 17 year old girl becomee the top
athlete of the year. Across the line, by coincidence, another girl
still in her teens is named the United States girl athlete of dis-
tinction for 1951. Maureen (Little Mo) Connolly, the second
youngest player ever to win the United States national tennis
championship, blazed her way to this honor 12 days before she
became 17 years old.
There seems to be an interesting moral in this continued
upsurge of youth in sport. It means, we think, that the kids are
getting into sports competition at earlier ages than ever -before,
and there's nothing wrong with that. It means, broadly, that
instead of a nation of onlookers, we're becoming a nation of par-
ticipants, which is a great deal better for both moral and physical
w e!1 -i edng,
Your comments and suggestions for this column will hie welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, 5/0 Calved House, 431 Yonge St„ Toronto.
CaLvttDISTILLERS LIMITED
AMHERSTSURG, ONTARIO
Like To Try Some
Nice Fried Ants?
"Tinned Termites Now Off Ra-
tion! High Nutritional Value —
Equal To Six Eggs."
Ever since the start of the Kor-
San War I have been carefully
scanning the headlines for the
above announcement (writes a
TIT -BITS correspondent), feeling
that the planners in their constant
search for square -meal substitutes
will have got wind of the fact that
the Koreans are partial to a tasty
handful of termites, which, in addi-
tion to their high nutritive value,
are alleged to have a rejuvenating
effect,
The idea is not so far-fetched.
During the Burma campaign in
the last war, many men lost in
the jungle owed their lives to "In-
sect Rations," and were actually
briefed on how to live off the
country, with ant's eggs, grass-
hoppers, and giant caterpillars
forming a staple part of their diet!
As with everything else, it is
only a question of getting used to
She idea. I have eaten locusts mix-
ed with rice and pumpkin on the
West Coast of Africa, and their-
oughly enjoyed them,
For centuries, many countries
have been insectivorous, and ex-
periments have proved that many
of these meals have a high food
value. Certain insects have, in ad.
dition, medicinal qualities, and
there are thousands of people who
have eaten food coloured with
cochineal without realizing that
the dye came from crnshed beet-
les! After all, we in Britain have
been eating honey since the `jays
of the Romans, and iloney is a
secretion from insects,
In West Africa, District Officers
have been called in to quell pitched
battles over white ants. The na-
tives wait until the queens are
egg -laden, then raid the nests.
Handfuls of the queens are gather-
ed and eaten raw and wriggling!
Some of the natives believe that
a diet of these queen ants, if eaten
by a wife, ensures fertilit; ,
In Australia, too, the Bushmen
are ant -eaters. They dig for the
nests of the honey -ant and "milk"
the insects Otto their mouths,
Some of tl.ese Aborigines even
make a "punch" by pulverizing the
ants in water. In Mexico, ants are
considered a delicacy and ant
honey is a ritual Wedding Dish.
Crickets and grass..oppers are a
favourite diet in Mexico and
among the North .American In-
dians. In tines of grasshopper
plague, the insects are gathered
in basketfuls by the women, dried,
powdered and used as needed.
A missionary 1 know whose
"parish" was in the Dutch East
Indies has dines on a mixed di: •1
of fried silkworms cooked in oil,
with rice, curry, and a beetle sim-
ilar to our own seag-beetle, and
found the meal quite palatable,
Chita, fasted for its exotic dish-
es, lists everything from roast
caterpillars, grasshopper j a m ,
white -ants' eggs and centipedes,
which, when crushed in tl e mouth,
taste like apricots!
I've seen tinned rattlesnake on
sale in this country, Perhaps to-
morrow may bring a recipe "New
Ways With Woodworms!" or
"Bottle Your Beetles Now!"
A •. ia. ,ia(
Look Dad, Some Whoppers!—Twelve'year-old Luis Henriquex
proudly shows his dad what a good man he is with the 30 -pound
net. Luis is a commercial fisherman at Isla Verde, Puerto Rico just
like his father, but strictly after school hours,
All Dressed Up And Waiting, Ready and waiting for the 1952
Canadian National Sportsmen's Show, to be held in the Coliseum,
Toronto, March 14 to 22, are these 11 -year-old twins, Joan and
Beverley Turnbull, with Wanda Little Canoe df the Six Notions
Indians' reservation near Brantford, Ontario, With more exhibitors
than ever before, new attractions and features and a completely
different stage and water revue, indications are that the 1952
Sportsmen's Show will be bigger and better than ever. Show is
sponsored by the Toronto Anglers' and Hunters' Association in the
interests of conservation.
This Mother Was A
Real Individualist
There are a few stories about my
mother in her advanced years—
stories well-known in the small
Indiana town where she lived so
long—which will a attic -better ac-
quaint you with her stalwart in-
dividualism and her witty eccentri-
cities ,
One of the typical stories about
her was told of ani occasion, in her
ninetieth year, when, cane in hand,
and a basket on her arm, she had
toddled clown to thepostoffice to
mail a letter. Consistent with her
frugality, she never bought more
stamps than she needed at the
moment. On this clay, she asked for
a three -cent stamp and tendered a
twenty -dollar bill in payment. It so
happened that the post office's cash
leserve was low, and they couldn't
handle that much stoney. They
were quite willing to trust her, but
Manta abhorred indebtedness attd
the thought of owing anybody three
cents was insupportable.
Directly behind her stood a tall,
well-dressed, amiable man who
raid: "Madam, if it will be a con-
venience to you, I ran change your
money." She thanked him gracious-
ly: and when the transaction had
been Completed, she said: "I see
that you are a stranger among us.
I ane Mother Douglas, Perhaps you
will tell me who you are."
Said he: "I ant Reverend so-and-
so, the new minister of the United
Brethren Church."
Mama offered his a wrinkled
little hand and sa'd: "I an glad to
meet you, sir. I want to shake
hands with a preacher who is able
to change a twenty -dollar billl"
My mother was conspicuously
old-fashioned. Never, in my recol-
lection, did she change her manner
of dress, or her habits, or her
opinions. By refusal to alter the
fashion of her clothing, she claimed
that she could be in style—for,a
brief period—once about every
twenty years. •
1 often tried to give her a few
modern conveniences in her little
home, but she preferred a primitive
mode of living, and had no use for
labor-sav;ng gadgets or electrified
gimcracks,
When the Great Depression first
struck, and the banks all over the
country were closing, and people
by the thousands were becoming
bankrupt overnight, {Mania took her
cane in hand and walked down
Monroeville's ntain'street, first on
one side and then on the other—
going into every place of business
They tell inc she shook her cane
in the face of each proprietor (with
all of whom she had a first -name
acquaintance) and said: "People are
in a panic. They are taking all their
stoney out of the banks everywhere.
This is what makes banks fail, All
the money I possess is in the bank
here in Monroeville. I am not
taking out one penny, and I don't
want you to. If all the•'business men
leave their money in the bank, it
will not fail." I am happy to add
that tate business men followed her
good advice and the bank con-
tinued to function.—From "Time to •
Remember," by Lloyd C. Douglas.
Provincial Curling
Playdosn Dates
Dates for provincial curling play -
downs in British Coluinbia, Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba were
announced in Montreal recently.
British Columbia leads off in the
playoff quest which will end next
March o 'Winnipeg; when champ-
ions front every province square off
in the round-robin competition for
the nation's most prized curling
bauble — the Ivfacdonald's Brier
Tankard, enlbkmatic of Canadian
single rink supremacy. Top curlers
front the Pacific Coast province will
trek inland to the miningtown of
Kimberley for six days of compet-
ition which will get underway on
February 4 and end February 9.
Crack curlers front Manitoba, tra-
ditionally the province to beat when
Brier time rolls around each year,
will start their own provincial elim-
inationsat Winnipeg on February
7, with play continuing until Feb-
ruary 14.
Edmonton will be the scene of a
sudden -death battle on February 16
between northern and southern Al-
berta champions, with the winner
carrying the oil province's torch at
Winnipeg.
Battling for the right to carry the
Saskatchewan colours gets under-
way late in the month at Saskatoon,
with play scheduled for two days,
February 22-23.
Winners in each of the four West -
STRIKES versus THE PUBLIC
How can we prevent tie-ups, in public utilities or in other industries,
such as the distribution of a vital food, where the convenience, safety
and sometimes even the life of tine private citizen is involved?
That is a problem we must solve or we face a complete breakdown
of our society.
In recent months we have had some bitter and costly experiences.
We have seen our railroads paralyzed with every industry great and
small throughout the country immediately affected, We have seen
commercial transportation services in a great city and its suburbs
halted for altnost three weeks. I'l.cre have been threats to shut off
fuel for cooking and heating in scores of thousands of homes.
This sort of thing simply can't go on.
What is the solution?
Compulsory arbitration without stoppage of work has been sug-
gested and the Ontario Government, it is understood, is now considering
appropriate legislation. But compulsory legislation without the genuine
support of labor rations and workers would not be sufficient, There are
some things that a law cannot do or cannot do well. One of them is
to make an unwilling person work.
To really protect the public, as one experienced observer has sug-
gested to The Financial Post, to prevent the private citizen from being
used as a pawn in industrial squabbles, essential services must be main-
tained. To do this when arbitration is rejected then means must be
provided for:
The dismissal of those refusing to work or work satisfactorily.
Effective policing to prevent malcontents from defying the law and
interfering with tine rights of others to work and, finally—
Provision for operation of essential services by substitute help, if
necessary by the militia,
In our complicated, modern economy the public is absolutely, de-
pendent on the continuous functioning of its great public utilities, We
must find a sure way of keeping them functioning,
—From The Financial Post,
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DON'T lot today's Price of eggs influence
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CRESS CORN SALVE—For mire relief,
Your Druggist sells ClfEh5,
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To date only one provincial
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Ken Weldon's Montreal St. George
rink winning a rou.ld-robin com-
petition last week at Quebec City
for the right tr, represent hi, prov-
ince.'
Was Nearly Crazy
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ISSUE 7 — 1952