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ie Hockey in the major sphere is a hard
game, a hard -bitting game, but we believe
that one player, whose body -checking was
the terror of opposing forwards when he
was at the peak of his rugged career, moves
into well-earned retirement with a keen
appreciation of the sporting spirit of old-
time ice -enemies who might have crashed him when he had not
mush left with which to combat them, but didn't.
No one ever played the game harder than did John Sherratt
(Black Jack) Stewart, at the peak of his career with Detroit
Red Wings, or when he first joined forces with Chicago Hawks.
Black Jack Stewart, 185 pounds of brawn, muscle and courage,
was rated one of the most punishing body -checkers in the
National hockey League. Ice hit with shattering force. He and
Jimmy Orlando, in the hey -day of both, formed a defense for
Detroit Red Wings which kept many an opposing forward awake
nights, counting the teeth he might not have. after the next
game.
Stewart was still a great hockey player when he was
traded to Chicago Black hawks, But the crashing, hard-hitting
type of game he played finally bounced back on hint, as if retri-
bution had set in. A disc slipped in his back, forced him to quit.
With typically grim spirit, he fought this off, took daily flours
of exercise even while flat on his back in bed. lIe came back to
play, apparently recovered. Then he ran into even greater mis-
fortune at the beginning of the 1951-52 season, He crashed into
a team-mate, fell backwards, struck his head heavily, and sustained
a severe concussion,
Even after that, Jack Stewart came back again. But quickly
it was apparent that all Stewart had left was the light of battle
that blazed from his dark eyes, and the grim set of his mouth.
That was enough to render many opponents cautious, as they
recalled his body -checking prowess, but it soon became evident
that Stewart couldn't hit a body -check, that he was depending
on skill and experience to foil opposing players.
And here this observer saw what he believes to be one of
the finest sporting gestures made in hockey action. For years
Stewart had been a star, a player who -asked no quarter, gave
none. He was a hockey player's 'hockey player. But when in the
closing chapters of his career, when he night easily have been
knocked over, perhaps badly hurt, if crashed by an incoming
attacker, other players seemed careful to avoid hint. It wasn't
through caption, at this time. At least, that's what we are sporting.
minded enough to believe. It was out of sheer respect for a
once -great player who in his hey -day would have mowed down
the invaders. Briefly put, the boys just didn't want to hurt Jack
Stewart, They had too much regard for his courage, for his great
record as a hard-hitting, game and accomplished defensive star,
now not quite able to defend himself.
So this observer believes Stewart carries into his retirement
a recollection that sporting spirit runs high among the players
of the League.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/0 Calvert House, 431 Yonge Sf., Toronto.
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Such was the nightmare that
astonished, our grand-parents—the
lone ordeal of a sixty -year-old
Shetland woman named Betty
Mouat who, critically i11, was being
rushed to the mainland for urgent
medical attention on the bitterly
cold January 30th., of 1886.
The Shetland smack Columbine
was so small that it required a
Brew of only three men. The little
cabin had no bunk, and Betty
Mouat was made as comfortable as
possible on sacking.
Swept Overboard
An hour after sailing a heavy
squall struck the smack. The skip-
per and mate were swept over-
board, but the mate managed to
grab a rope and was hauled aboard
again by the third man.
The two then launched a boat
in a fruitless attempt to save the
skipper, who vanished in the, waste
of waters. When the two turned to
row hack to the Columbine they
saw that the smack also was well
on her way to being lost.
By some queer freak the gale had
trimmed her canvas and the vessel
was spanking seaward as though
steered by an invisible helmsman.
In the rising wind eh,se v. -ss im-
possible.
The two men. after a fierce
struggle, reached Lerwick and re-
ported the disaster. 'f he only two
steamers in the harbour at once
put to era, but although they
searched for twenty-four hours they
saw no trace of the Columbine.
All this time the invalid was
crouching in the dimly-lit cabin of
the smack in deadly fear. She did
not know what had happened to
the crew, for wind and water had
jammed the hatchway, making her
a prisoner.
As hour after hour passed she
realized that something—she knew
not what—had happened to the
crew. Her only provisions were a
couple of biscuits and a quart of
milk. After two days she had eaten
her biscuits and Iittle remained of
the milk. On the eighth day, awak-
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heard the ship grounding on a
shore. Looking out through the
tiny cabin window site saw fisher-
men running along the beach, and
eventually one swam out to her
with a life -line, When he spoke she
did not understand his language.
National Heroine
For over a week the :Columbine
had scudded across the North Sea
and had come safely to the shore
of Lepso, in Norway, 280 miles
from Lerwickt
Betty Mouat could only tell her
story by signs; but within a few
days she was world-famous. News-
papers put her in the headlines. A
public ovation as a national heroine
awaited her, and Queen Victoria
sent her a letter with a present of
5100.
Strangest of all, Betty Mouat
completely recovered from her
illness and lived another thirty
years!
He's Got His Goat—Pablo Picasso, renowned painter and sculptor,
displays one of his newest creations, a semi -abstract goat, ex -
(muted in bronze, at the Annual May Salon in Paris. Picasso's
:onsroverslol work has often 'gotten the goat' of some art patrons,
Royal Sport—Cheered on by the crowd, 18 -year-old Crown Prince
Akihito of Japan takes a hurdle in fine style in one of the many
difficult jumps he made at a Tokyo equestrian meet. He is seen
in many public places and has entered a co-educational school to
continue his formal education.
That flyweight fight over in
Tokyo the other day in which
Yoshio Shirai brought japan its
first world title by outpointing Dado
Marino, seems to have been a rather
unexciting bout, that is for those
who like a mite of mayhem and a
few knockdowns mixed with their
box -fighting.
* * *
To old-timers it recalled another
flyweight championship bout fought
just about 29 years ago, in the Polo
Grounds, New York, in which an-
other dark-skinned fighter from
the South Pacific was one of the
participants. That was the fight
between Pancho Villa, a black-eyed
windmill fighter out of the Philip-
pines, and the Pride of Wales—the
"mighty atom" Jimmy Wilde. And
while it was a lucky punch that
spelled doom for the wonderful wee
Welshman, chances are that he
would have been beaten anyway.
* * *
But his defeat, just the same, was
such a thing as to bring tears to
the eyes of men who admire cour-
age—as the author of "Fights
Never to he Forgotten" puts it. For
on that night of June 18, 1923,
under a blaze of artificial lighting,
it was apparent from the moment
the two stood together to listen to
the referee's instructions that noth-
ing short of a miracle could bring
Wilde through on top. It was the
same old story of youth versus
age—the Welshman's chance of
winning was five years or so back
on the fistic trail.
* * *
When Jilmny crossed the At-
lantic to hang his world's flyweight
title in the balance against a worthy
foeman, there were very few fistic
followers who believed he really
could "come back"; nevertheless,
so awe -compelling was the record
of his exploits that his admirers
cherished a forlorn hope. They fig-
ured that for virtually the first time
in his long and brilliant career
he was meeting a boxer of his own
poundage. He would not • be, as
was Isis custom, conceding from five
to fifteen pounds to his adversary
and on that account he might come
out on top and retain his cham-
pionship.
Fondling this delusion, the Wilde
admirers discounted the prophecies
of the more expert, that Wilde's
last appearance prior to coming
over saw him knocked out in Lon-
don by the heavier Pete Herman,
former bantamweight champion.
Since that occasion, some two years
before, Jimmy had not drawn on
a glove in a real ring contest. He
was thirty-one years old and the
settled fattier of a family brood.
* * *
Against Wilde's heroic past, the
glamor of his prowess and the
rusty remains of a once uncanny
ring skill, Villa brought up tre-
mendous forces. The Filipino had
an advantage of ten years in the
matter of age; he offered a wild
and irresistible ambition and will
to win, tireless youth, a sharp
punch, fine timing and judgment
of distance and perfect physical
condition, Trained to a razor edge,
his body deprived of every vestige
of fat an,' his usually round Orien-
tal features sharpened to gaunt
lines by unremitting work on the
road and in the gymnasium, little
Panclio looked the victor all over
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as he squared off against the solid
white -skinned, slow Moving Wilde.
* * *
Added to Villa's splendid physical
condition was the element of luck.
If ever chance favored a ring gladi-
ator it -was on the side of "Poncho
the Puncho" in his bid for a world's
championship. This assertion should
not be construed as implying that
Villa's victory was lucky, but for-
tune undoubtedly favored him and
hastened the doom of the game
little Welshman.
* * *
just as the bell was sounding to
end the second round, Villa swung
a vicious overhand right for Wilde's
jaw. Jimmy heard the gong and in-
stinctively dropped his 'bands. At
the instant he turned his head to-
ward his corner, Villa's fist, des-
cending with terrific speed, caught
the Welshman squarely on the
chin and dropped hint like a shot.
He was knocked out then and there
to all intents and purposes, and by
a blow which landed after the bell
had sounded. Nevertheless, it was
purely unintentional on Villa's part
and Patsy Haley, the referee, could
not disqualify the Filipino because
he could not stop a swing already
started on its way as the bell was
rung.
* * ,k
Wilde's seconds rushed to the
centre of the ring and, lifting up
the little champion, bore hint to
his corner, where they restored him
with' ice packs and other heroic
treatment. But thereafter Wilde's
goose was cooked. From the second
round on to the finish in the seventh
he stood up under as frightful a
beating as any ring gladiator ever
endured. But he faced it like the
gamecock he was, always trying,
never backing up, taking the fiercest
sort of punishment without a
whimper. The pitcher had gone to
the well once too often, The "years
that the locust had eaten" were
gone beyond recall. But great as
he was when at his best—and there
were many who thought and still
think that, pound for pound, he was
about the finest piece of fighting
machinery ever seen—Jimmy Wilde
was never greater than he was,
that June night, in defeat.
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