HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-03-13, Page 2THE Calvert SPORTS COLUMN
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• HAVE YOU ever heard of Canada's
Athletic Hall of Fame, and the names of
those who dot the mythical enclosure.
Probably not. Yet it is a record of a long
and important cross-section of Canadian
sports life and endeavour, significant be-
cause it reveals that in Olympic competition,
Canada, despite its comparatively aparse population has compiled
an amazingly fine record,
We think Canadians should know more about this particular
Hall of Fame. It was Brat suggested in 1947 by Lt, Col. George
C. Machum, E,D., President of the A,A.U, of C., adopted by
that body in 1949, officially inaugurated by the Governor General
in 1950.
First members are first -place gold medal winners at the
Olympic Gaines, for Canada, and the number of these might
surprise you.
The first member was a brawny Montreal police officer,
Zenon Pcsinarteau, who won the 56 -pound ha:ilnter toss at the
St. Louis Olympics in 1904. Then came little I3iily Sherring, of
Hamilton, who galloped home in front of the world's athletes
over the original marathon course in Greece, at the 1906 games.
Bobby Kcrr, of Hamilton, winner of the 200 -meter event at the
1908 Olympics in London; George Hodgson, who won two swim
events at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm and the great Cana-
dian walker George Goulding, who won in the Antwerp tames
in 1928, help swell the roster.
Vancouver's slim whippet, Percy Williams, who scored a
double at Amsterdam, winning the 100 to 200 meter sprints;
Ethel Catherwood, the beautiful western girl who captured the
women's high jump there, and the Canadian girls' relay team of
Fannie Rosenfeld, Myrtle Cook, Ethel Smith and Florence Jane
Bell, all won places in the mythical Hall. In 1932 at Los Angeles,
Toronto's Lefty Gwynne, a boxer and the western high -jumper,
Duncan McNaughton, both won championships. In 1936 at Ber-
lin, Frank Amyot of Ottawa defeated the world's best paddlers,
``And in 1948, at St. Moritz, it was Canada's sweetheart, Barbara
Ann Scott, who added to the Dominion's sport glories by winning
world and Olympic fancy skating honors.
The Hall committee hasn't stopped at that. 1.ouia Ruben-
stein, who won the world fancy skating title in St, Petersburg
over half a century ago; the late Charlie Gorman, of Saint John,
N.B., one of the greatest bladesmen to come from this hot -bed
of speed skaters; three Canadian Diamond Scull winners, Lou
Scholes, Joe Wright, Jr., and Jack truest, Sr., are listed. So is
slim Phil Edwards, one of the great modern runners, three tinter
on Canadian Olympic teams.
There will be many more to come, such as Moncton's Jimmy
Humphrey, Montreal's Frank Lukeman, Hamilton's Tom Long-
boat. There's John C. Caffrey and Johnny Miles, each of whom
won the Boston marathon twice, and slim Gerard Cote of St.
Hyacinthe who took this classic four times. These are only a
few. You could rattle off scores of illustrious names that over the
years figures in international competition, and brought glory to
the Dominion, There are the great professionals, George Young,
Hod Stuart, Howie Morenz, George Dixon, Sam Langford,
Tommy Burns, whose names would grace any Canadian athletic
roster,
But, as it stands, the Hall's list reveals more strikingly than
perhaps you imagined that Canada has sent sone great athletes
to the international wars.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will he welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, e1e Calver! House, 431 Ycnge St,, Toronto.
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Studying The Ways
Of Thunderstorms
Roscoe R. Graham Jr., recently
told the American Meteorological
Society that most of the moisture
and energy in a thunderstorm is
dissipated without falling as rain
or appearing as lightning. Only
one drop out of every nine poten-
tial rain drops in the storm actually
falls as rain.
Even though the relative pro-
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derstorm is small, 110,000 tons of
water will drop over a maximum
area of eight square miles. About
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'ghat passes through the thunder-
storm never condenses to rain -
rain but evaporates again as it
moves in the downlraft that lies 'in'i
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the heart of the thunderstorm dur-
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Of the reineinder, only a third
actually falls as rain. Part evapor-
ates from the sides of the individ-
ual thunderstorm cell, and part re-
mains as vapor in th cloud left
behind the storm. Most of the en-
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moving large currents of air into
and out of the thunderstorm cell
itself. hese air movements are on
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fested in the winds that blow out
of the cell along the earth's sur-
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These figures are based on a
study of nearly 100 thunderstorms.
The purpose of the project is to
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Recent experiments have shown
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atmospheric electricity. The ob-
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chargee that travel well in advance
of thunderstorm fronts, Dr. -Schil-
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creased conductivity about twelve
miles above the earth's surface are
the principal agencies at work.
Bully For Him — Champion Brampton Lavender Pinn is tagged
"Grade A" by Miss Nola Langton. Ten daughters of the bull have
averaged 567 pounds of butterfat annually,
Worth His Weight In Blood—Brownie, 15 -year-old horse, views his
latest contribution to the welfare of mankind—two gallons of his
blood. During seven years the horse has given 2000 pounds of
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/y A lx0ITC 1 LC
Of course, betting an horse races
is strictly illegal, not to say im-
moral, except when the Govern-
ment gives its blessing—and takes
its rakeoff. Besides, since our
Queen's Park solons cut loose with
their investigation last summer, the
handbooks have gone into deep hid-
ing and nowadays it is about as
hard to find somebody who will
accept a small wager en the ponies
as it is m find a—well, to find a
used car Int or a road. dug up for
repairs,
k * *
Still, even in these reformed and
uplifted times it is interesting to
think back on the bad old days
and the various methods the horse
players had of trying to beat the
races. (Beat thein, did we say?
Why, most of us were like the
character who, On entering a cer-
tain race trach one afternoon, feel-
ingly remarked to a friend: "Gee,
I hope I break even today because
I certainly need the moneyl")
* * *
But although horse players know
in their hearts that they can't beat
them, it doesn't prevent them from
trying. And of all the million or
so systems' for doing so, probably
the wackiest of all is playing
hunches, (We know, because we've
been-ahunch player ever since first
bonnre was Out.)
* * *
In case your early education was
neglected and you don't know ex-
actly what playing hunches means,
a little illustration will be the
quickest way to inform you. Some
years ago, on his way to Thorn-
cfiffe Race Track, a friend of ours
had to jump quickly to avoid being
sloughed by a passing automobile.
He landed, in a sitting position,
in a roadside mud puddle. Furious,
he tried to get the number of
the offending car, but it was going
too fast. All he could catch were
the last two numbers—Number Two
and Number Seven.
* * *
His fury immediately evaporated.
"That's a swell hunch," he said to
himself. "I'11 just go and play
Numbers Two and Seven in the
Daily Double."
e
Which he proceeded to do. Two
and Seven stepped down in front
like little gentlemen, with the re-
sult that our friend collected some-
thing like $180. So that's hunch -
playing; although, of course; it
doesn't always work out to such
a satisfactory ending, more's the
pity.
Possibly the costliest piece of
hunch playing on record was back
in the I933 Kentucky Derby—the
race in which Don Meade, riding
Broker's Tip, and Herbie Fisher
astride the favourite, Head Play,
came down the stretch using every
foul tactic in the book—and some
that weren't—on each other, Brok-
er's Tip finished in front by a snoot,
undoubtedly the poorest horse that
ever won the Kentucky Classic,
* * *
But—as f-Ior•ace Wade recalls in
a recent issue of The Police Gazette
—Head Play's fate was settled long
before that—settled several days
earlier in a London drawing room
purely on a hunch.
* 't *
Mrs, Silas Mason, ambitious to
be recognized as queen of the
turf, a crown then worn so regally
by Mrs. Payne Whitney, hoped to
scale those heights with a Ken-
tucky Derby winner. Thus, shortly
before the 1933 running, she pur-
chased the favoured Head Play
from William Crump, a former
rider who decided $50,000 in the
hand was worth a possible fortune
on the hoof.
* f. *
However, Mrs. Mason's social
calendar did not permit time to see
the Derby running, although it be-
came a topic of animated conversa-
tion among members of the gilded
London set to whose social circle
she belonged. This included the
Prince of Wales, fated to soon suc-
ceed his father as King of the Bri-
tish Empire.
* * *
It was a credulous and bizarre
era of spiritualists, swamis, crystal
gazers, fortune tellers and seers
of all kinds and Mrs, Mason, while
enjoying afternoon tea at a friend's
home facetiously consulted a visit-
ing Hindu soothsayer. She then
became so impressed by his fore-
casts that she asked for a prediction
regarding Head Play's chances in
the Derby.
* * *
The swami peered deep into the
transparent depths of the ball.
"Your horse," he said, "is the
best, but I see a cloud in the crys-
tal. You are in danger of being
crossed up by a crooked clique."
Mrs. Mason was startled out of
her accustomed calm.
"What can I do?" she asked
anxiously.
* * 0
"Come and see me shortly be-
fore sundown when the crystal ball
is clearer. I can then give you a
more definite prediction," the swami
replied.
Later that afternoon he again
consulted the magical ball of glass.
"Change jockeys and -your horse
will win," was his prophetic, utter-
ance, and so on Derby eve the
turf world was startled when a
cablegram reached Churchill Downs
instructing Head Play's trainer that
"Herb Fisher must ride my horse
tomorrow.' The message was as
terse as it was inexplicable. It
meant that Charlie ICurtsinger, one
of the nation's leading jockeys, was
to be replaced at the last moment
by a comparative unknown.
* * *
The rest of the story is to be
found in the record books; how
Head Play, many pounds the
better horse, tasted the dregs of
bitter defeat dished out by Broker's
Tip, a "maiden" horse. The favor-
ite's failure was laid by many to
overconfidence as well as alleged
foul riding tactics by Don Meade
who did everything but commit
mayhem on Head Play through the
stretch. He not only retarded hint
by banging on to the bridle, but
also whipped the horse cruelly
around the bead, forcing hint back
time and again and enabling Brok-
er's Tip to react) the finish litre in
front, the first and only race the
Bradley color -bearer ever won.
* n *
Fisher, far less capable than the
replaced Kurtsinger, was complete-
ly unable to cope with the gifted
Meade in that home stretch duel,
although making such retaliatory
efforts as he could. 'There was no
lingering doubt 'in anyone's mind,
however, that with ICurtsinger
aboard Head Play would have
been a galloping Derby whiner,
instead of losing the race, because
of a woman's sudden hunch in-
spired by iter contact with a Ti!udli
mystic.
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