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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-02-28, Page 2TNECaVtr': SPORTS COLUMN Fuy $Ccxex 7ecqudua • THE GENERAL hockey public doubt- less harbors the idea that referees are a drab, humorless lot of folk, whose principal aim in life is to annoy and harass toiling hockey players, spoil the contests by tooting their whistles, and visit upon the home players penalties which are of course out- rageously unfair and uncalled-for. But the referees are, in fact, a very, pleasant lot of folk, doing a very difficult job, and in the main, doing it extremely well, And most of them have a sharp sense of humor. If they didn't, it's doubtful whether they could retain job and sanity. Hockey lost a referee of vast color and keen sense of humor when Frank King Clancy decided to hang up his whistle and return to coaching duties. But the fast -talking Clancy did not always get the best of it in verbal exchanges. One night he was being heckled by Babe Pratt, another lad who was very fast on the verbal trigger. Finally, in exasperation, Clancy snapped at Pratt: "1 wish I was playing against you tonight." "Well, ain't you?" innocently responded Pratt. Clancy credited his mental balance in the refereeing field to the hard-boiled veteran Mickey Ion, who refereed for years in the major league. "In my first game as an NHL referee," said Clancy, "I was working with Mickey. When we started for the ice, I was literally shaking, I was so nervous, Ion noticed this, stopped, took me by the arm, and said: 'Don't worry, kid. Remember this: the second after that puck is dropped, there will be only two sane people in the entire house, you and L'" "I always kept that in mind," Clancy said later, "and I often thought afterwards that Mickey Was right," The late Lou Marsh, a rugged citizen and hard-hitting sports writer, refereed hockey games with the same virility that char- acterized his writings In a small Ontario town one night, a lady fan, seated close to the ice, was giving Marsh a terrific verbal beating. Lou heard, paid no attention. But a play developed that forced a faeeoff in front of the belligerent lady, So she screamed at close range: "If you were my husband, Marsh, I'd give you poison." "If I was your husband," Marsh retorted politely, "I'd take it . Bald, fast -skating George Gravel, is one of the wittier refer- ees of the present era. When a player feigned injury one night, and lay on the ice as if knocked completely out, Gravel said to him, quite pleasantly: "Please get up. The hockey players need the ice." President Clarence Campbell is a martinet in the matter of enforcing rigidly the rules of the game, and stands four-square back of his referees, has visited sharp punishment on players who tangled with the officials on or off the ice. But when be was a referee, he took a lenient view of player belligerence, In the heat of a Stanley Cup match, Dit Clapper, of Boston Bruins, a notably clean and sporting player, annoyed at a penalty, tossed a punch at referee Campbell and landed a light, glancing blow of no damaging qualities. Most of those who saw the incident expected dire punishment to be visited on the offender. But Campbell didn't even report it. "Clapper is a nice fellow, always a gentleman, and just lost his head for a few seconds," he said. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. Wert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO Most Of Your Taste Is In Your Nose We take our sense of taste very much for granted, yet it is the least reliable of all our senses, and the easiest to fool. It can be so in- fluenced with one taste that it be- comes incapable of doing its job properly. You are probably quite sure that you can tell the difference between a sweet and a sour apple. But you can be misled quite often because a great deal depends on what you eat prior to the apple, If, for instance, you have been eating chocolate, and then have a bite of apple, it will taste sour, even if it is really sweet. The reason is that chocolate acts on your sense of taste like opium on the brain. It acts like a drug and overpowers them. Your taste buds, incidentally, are those little pimples which cover the surface of your tongue. They are divided into four sections, one for each of the basic tastes. There are four of these — sweet, sour, bitter, and salt. Generally speaking, the buds sensitive to sweet tastes are on the tip of your tongue, sour on the sides, bitter at the back, while all your tongue is sensitive to salt. That is why, of all tastes, you recognize salt first, because all your taste buds are in combination. The slowest to attract your at- tention is bitter taste, and it might take as long as a second for the buds to work. Taste is the Weary Willie of the senses. It very soon becomes tired. That is why a cigarette tastes best when it is first lit. After a few draws the taste buds get tired. Lazy Buds They are so lazy that they expect to be continually assisted by the other senses. If you were blind- folded it would take you a fraction longer to tell the difference between a cup of tea and a cup of coffee. When you can see what it is, your sight notifies your taste buds what to expect. That is why your mouth waters at the sight of something you know is delicious. You will find that although many blind people do smoke it is usually because they smoked before losing their sight. It is very rare for a person to take up smoking after being afflicted by blindness. Tobac- co tastes better when you can see it, thanks to Iazy taste buds. Their best ally, is your nose. In fact, without the co-operation of your nose, your taste buds would fold up and refuse to work. You can prove that any time you have a cold in the head. Your nasal pas- sages are affected and you can't taste a thing. With your nose pinched tightly you cannot tell the difference be- tween quinine and coffee. Your mother's idea, when you were young, of pinching your nose while you drank castor oil, was a very good one, for it robbed the castor oil of most of its taste. Another way of fooling your taste buds is to dry them, for they hate working without moisture. Just dry your tongue with a piece of blotting -paper, and whatever you place on it will have absolutely no taste at all. Return in Loaves. In Menasha, Wis., a few days after Mrs. John Gillingham lost her pocketbook containing $500, it was returned to her in the mail, containing $1,810. Slap -Happy .- Harvard sophomores Oakleigh Thorne, left, and R chard Mortimer, bang away at each other during their 48-hour face slapping marathon, Having heard how two of Stalin's Reds ser a record of slapping each other 17,26 times, they bettered that mark by one slap. Fishermen's Woes—Visitors from all parts of Ontario will attend the 1952 Canadian National Sportsmen's Show in the Coliseum, Toronto, from March 14 to 22, Continual demonstrations of fly, bait and plug casting will be one of the many features of this b g springtime exhibition, sponsored by the Toronto Anglers' and Hunters' Association. Here, novice caster Terry Hinds gets some help to untangle his snarled line from Treva Hinds, another mem- ber of the Toronto Anglers' and Hunters' Association. Officials predict the 1952 Sportsmen's Show will be the best ever held In Canada. Who was the greatest all-round athlete of all time? Here in Canada Lionel Conachcr is the general choice, South of the border they plump for Jim Thorpe. But over in Great Britain there are a lot of. folks who believe that they had, some sixty years or so ago, some. body who could have topped either Big Con or Indian Jim. * * * He was Alfred Lyttleton, father of Oliver Lyttleton who was re- cently appointed Colonial Secre- tary by Winston Churchill. Alfred himself held the same Government position between 1903 and 1905 and did a good job too. But it is as en outstanding athlete that he is best remembered. * * * Alfred was the best of eight athletic brothers and was consider- ed the finest games player of his day. He was selected to play for England at cricket and soccer, was first class at rugger, distinguished himself at the wall game at Eton, was very good at five until he broke an arm, represented Cam- bridge at rackets, and won the tennis M.C.C. Gold Prize for many years. This, we might add, was not lawn tennis but the real thing— and a very tough sport to play at that. * * * At soccer he was a very strenuous player was specialized in kicking goals and "bunting" his opponents; that is, heaving them with a jerk of the hips. Once, playing against the Royal Engineers, he ran from one end of the field to the other, flooring four men on the way, then kicking a goal. * * * He was a Worcestershire man, and the crowds in the Black Country and at Kennington Oval, where cup finals and other im- portant matches were played, would yell themselves hoarse with delight when he came charging down the field. During one Varsity match a collier in cloth cap and muffler stopped Alfred's brother, Edward, and said: "Ha, Lyttel- ton, I'm glad to see your but it's your brother we all love so. To see him knocic 'em down at foot- ball—oh, it does me 'eart good, it does!" * * * But crie,ket according to Harvey Day, was his game and he will go down in sporting history for his part in that famous test at the Oval in 1884, when the Australians made 532 for six wickets and the Eng- land skipper, Lord Harris, bad given every fielder a turn with the ball. At last, he went over to the wicket -keeper. "Alfred," he said, throwing him the ball, "you take that end." * * * Alfred Lyttelton kept his pads on and bowled lobs. A miracle, such as Englishmen dream of when faced with stubborn Austra- lian tail -enders, was wrought. In eight overs he dismissed Midwinter, Blackham, Spofforth and Boyle for eight runs. Yet he never took an- other wicket as long as he lived! k * * A few days before his death he was invited to Bethnal Green, his constituency, to play in a charity match. Though he had not touched a bat for nearly twenty years he made eighty-nine runs and went home stiff, but happy. But, during the game, he was hit by a ball. The blow brought on an internal abscess, and in less than a week he was dead. Most Henpecked Men In All The World A traveller in the Hoggar Moun- tains of the Sahara Desert was re- cently surprised to discover a white woman, Miss Daisy 'Wakefield, in- habiting a small mud hut in the village 9f Tamanraset, 1,315 miles south of algiers. Site has lived among the Tauregs for fifteen years, where the custom 'r for men to veil themselves and women to rule. Miss Wakefield, a missionary, went to Tamanraset when she was fifty-two, to translate the Bible into Berber, and has stayed there ever since, She is th t only British sub- ject in that tiny French colony, and though the French treat her with respect they look upon her with a certain amount of suspi- cion, believing she belongs to the British Intelligence Service! Fierce Fighters, But - No one knows exactly how til why the Taureg woolen first start- ed bossiltg their 'menfolk, for the male Tattregs are fierce and strong, renowned for their fighting .quali- ties, Yet all the laws are compiled by the women, and the leen meekly acquiesce. The women own all the camels, tents' and such property as the tribe possesses, If they do conttes- send to visit a male, he considers himself highly honoured; for it is the custom in this barren country for men to pay homage to woolen. A man must even lavish presents on the ladies if he wishes to remain a guest in Taureg territory. Taureg women are enormous creatures, many of thein over six feet tall and weighing over four- teen stone, A feature of their dress is the two huge breastplates—as big as soup plates—that they wear, It is not uncommon to fled Tau - reg men seven feet tall, tough and muscular; yet they do exactly as their wives dictate. They perform the housework, such as it is, pound millet and look after- the babies, while their wives sit around drink- ing strong tea and gossiping At ileal -time in this feminine paradise the wives sit over steam- ing wooden bowls of boiled Millet, goat's milk, camel's cheese and wheaten bread placed on grass gnats, while the husbands wait on them patietttiy. Only after they have eaten their rill and are toying with coffee, do the num think of eating. A Taureg goes to immense trou- ble to win a bride. Ile slugs, cont- poses love poetus and fries to spar- kle at repartee. Refuses to Deed Him A nein conies into his own on ly when on the hawk of his ranlel in the desert. 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