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Nert SPORTS COLUMN
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• This may not be a seasonable time to
discuss skiing, that sport which has grown
in popularity in these Dominions by the
proverbial leaps and bounds. But it might
be as good a time as any to discuss a Cana-
dian ski-er destined for even more fame
than he has already acquired, who started
Ills career on the long blades when he was only eight years old.
We're always intrigued by those stories of athletes who have
devoted their lives to perfectmg technique in'their favorite sport,
and a young man named Ernie McCulloch, native of the little
Quebec city of Three Rivers, undoubtedly comes in that category.
Here, we believe, is one o£ the really great Canadian athletes of
our time, and even though warm suns are shining on the grass
and the trees are in leaf, we feel we should devote a column to
singing his praises.
IfcCulloch climaxed a brilliant career last whiter when he
captured the ski-ing "Grand Slant," never accomplished before
by Canadian, American or European for that matter.
liis phenomenal feat began when lie captured the National
Giant Slalom at Alta, Utah, followed with a smashing victory in
the Aspen North American championships. He went on from
there to capture top honors in the National Downhill champion-
ships at White Fish, Montana, and his final triumph was in the
Harriman Cup at Slui Valley.
When you consider he was competing against the very best
in North America, and a field that included a sprinkling of former
European champions, you get a quick vision of his greatness.
When McCulloch began his ski-ing career at the ripe age of
eight years, he started practice jumping on a hill behind his
home, and by the end of his first season, was jumping 40 feet.
By the time lie was 13, he had already captured schoolboy
jumping meets in Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City and Ottawa,
The long, lean youngster already had made a name for himself in
the Three Rivers Ski Club with a record jump of 114 feet.
At this stage of the game, McCulloch began slalom and down-
hill work. At 15 he entered the downhill race in the Quebec City
championships and finished second.
There's no such thing as ski-ing cautiously with Ernie, It's go-
go -go from start to finish. Hisrecordof 56 seconds down the
precipitous slopes of Mount Baldy in Sun Valley, is still a challenge
for other stars. One young racer who completed the gruelling grind
in a little over a minute remarked: "I dont see how anybody could
possibly have gone faster than I did today without breaking his
neck." Ernie didn't break his neck but was a full four seconds
better than the aspirant to his title.
In 1949 Ernie rode to International glory on specially -designed,
self -constructed skiis. He beat the entire French team, consisting
of Henri Creiller, George Panisset and Coutet.
McCulloch won the Harriman cup again this year and if he
wins again, becomes the only skier in history to take the award
three times,
All this being so, we thought we'd write a column about a
great Canadian athlete who has been overlooked,
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St,, Toronto.
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Some Tales About
.Timmy Durante .. a
At an age when most men are
Jimmy Durance is still a bundle
of dynamic energy,
Four things place him apart from
nose, a gravelly voice dat mold-
ers de English language, a unique
strut, and innate good humour.
At the top of his profession, Jimmy
is still an unaffected guy with
simple wants, and he knows more
than anyone the meaning of "com-
ing up the !lard way."
He earns a fabulous salary, but
a good deal of it goes to charity.
He's never yet denied a loan or
gift to anyone, and once lie con-
fided to a friend: "I only wish I
was a financial typhoon like Rock-
in fellow."
Shrinkin Violence
His extraordinary capacity to
mangle English is part -natural,
part -developed. Nowadays he de-
stroys prdf`tunciation automatically.
Son of an Italian barber, he was
born in the slums of New York,
and never had a real education.
Audiences get a big laugh out
of his nose, but he confesses that
as a kid it used to worry him. "I
was shrinking violence, Every time
I went down the street, I'd hear:
`Lookit the big -nosed kid!' And
when anybody'd look my way,
I'd just sneak off. All through
life, even when I ant making a for-
tune on account of my big beak.
at no time was I ever happy about
it."
In his 'teens he worked seven
days a week, from eight at night,
till six in the morning, as a cafe
pianist. In 1910 he was workin in
a New York dive that was so
tough, "if you took your hat off
you were a sissy." Then he moved
to another joint, where he played
from eight o'clock "'until I was
subconscious."
During the First World War he
teamed up with a dancer -baritone
called Eddie Jackson, and led a
small dance band in various clubs.
One day a girl who was later to be
his wife, walked into the club and
asked for an audition. He accom-
panied her on the piano, but she
was a soprano. Jimmy didn't like
sopranos and said so. "Whoever
told you, you could play the
piano?" the girl , said spiritedly.
Jimmy retorted: "Them is the con-
ditions that pervail."
Frequent Brawls
When prohibition c a ni e into
force, night clubs sprang up every-
where, serving the liquor behind
locked doors. Because he was
talked into it, Jimmy started his
own club. There he met a soft-
shoe dancer named Lou Clayton,
and shortly afterwards America
took to its heart a new team of
entertainers billed as Clayton, Jack-
son and Durante.
' Unveiled Girls learn embroidery in a Moroccan school, But most
Moroccan girls stay home, never learn to reed or write.
The team prospered—and so did
the club. It was a decade of loose
stoney and racketeers. "To pre-
vent gunplay on the premises,"
records Gene Fowler in "Sclmoz-
zole," his biography of ,Durante,
"Clayton made it a rule that all
marlcsmen had to turn in their
side arms on entering the room,"
But there were frequent brawls,
and peace -Loving Jimmy would
disappear to all-night cafes, waiting
"till things had quieted down.
Several times in his money mak-
ing career Jimmy was threatened
by gangsters, but Lou Clayton
knew the underworld and saw that
the comedian was well protected.
During Prohibition gangsters
weren't the only people after Jim-
my, The police arrested hila for
selling liquor, but sentence was
suspended with the warning that
if ever he was caught serving an-
other drink, he would have to go
to jail. Jimmy never erred again,
Clayton, Jackson and Durance
split up when Jimmy was offered
a personal contract in Hollywood
•nearly twenty years ago. Clayton
became Itis manager and Jimmy
began his film career, But he made
a series of bad pictures which did
nothing to enhance his carrer, so
he decided to return to the stage
for a while.
"What Elephant?"
In 1935 he opened in a Broad-
way show which was a smash hit.
Jimmy recalls that before the first
night was particularly worried about
one line that he had to deliver. On
stage with an enormous live ele-
phant that he was supposed to
be stealing, a sheriff walked on and
shouted: "What are you doing with
that elephant?" Jimmy looked
round in bewilderment and replied:
"What elephant?"
At first this line didn't seem
very funny to him, and he wanted
to cut it, but it proved to be one
of the biggest laughs of the even-
ing.
Talking of elephants, he was
once embarrased by an unintention-
al laugh when he heard two fellows
train passengers disussing Africa.
"I've seen some fantastic things
in Africa." one man remarked, "in-
cluding an elephants' graveyard.
The great beasts sometimes travel
as much as two thousand miles
to die there,".
The astounded Durante thought
about this information for a while,
then he tapped the speaker on the
knee. "It's the trip," he suggested,
"that kills them."
By 1943 Jimmy was so short of
money that he went back to night-
club engagemnts. That year his
wife died and he lost all confidence
in himself. It was a long time be-
fore Clayton could pursuade him
to go back to work.
"But when the band plays," said
Jimmy later. "you forget even your
griefs for a moment. You forget
everything until you come off. Then
when you come off, you flop
down."
His night-club act was a big suc-
cess. Hollywood beckoned again,
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received more favorable comment than the "Seagram Tells The World About Canada" compaign.
At the recent Canadian International Trade Fair in Toronto the original paintings on which the
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here --and were admired by many thousands of visitors from all parts of the world.
and' a new generation discovered
the little man with the rasping
voice, "I borrowed dat note from
Caruso; he was glad to get rid of
it")
Back to. Work
Then he was signed up for a
radio series. His poutarity has been
so great in recent years among
actors and audiences alike that
when he went into hospital for a
serious operation, top ranking enter-
tainers like Bob Hope, Red Skel-
ton, and the late AL Jolson took
over his radio show without any
fee until he was fit again.
He was booked to appear at the
Palladium two years ago, but his
old friend and partner Lou Clay-
ton, died and the engagement was
postponed. 'Clayton's death upset
him almost as mulch as his wife's,
but Jinimy went back to work and
felt his way gingerly into American
television studios. Loyal to his
friends, he is also loyal to his old
jokes, but the youngsters hadn't
heard them before, and in the last
few months his success as an en-
tertainer has been unsurpassed.
This is the lcind of experience he
has been relating on his TV pro-
grammes:
"I'ti lyin' on the park bench
takin' my siesta—as is my wont—
when along comes a buch of flies
and settles on my nose.
"I lets 'em loiter — live and let
live is my motter.
'Den a bee comes along—lights
on my nose and stings me. 'Dat
does it,' I says. 'Dere's always gotta
be a smart aleck in every crowd.
Now, just for that — EVERY-
BODY OFFI"
Or how about this one?
How Right!
"I sings for the Sultan of Pascha,
and he says to me: 'Jimmy, to
show my appreciation, I'm gonna
give you 500 wives.' I turns him
down flat. He says to me; 'Jimmy,
why do you refuse this modest
compensation?' I says to him:
'Your Highness, who wants to find
a thousand stockings hangin' in
da bathroom every morning?"
Almost everyone loves to hear
Jimmy Durante's stories. But when
he was a 'teen age piano player
knocking out dance tunes in dingy
New York cafes, he always thought
he'd be nothing more than a sec-
ond-rate musician.
He teamed up for a short while
with a singing waiter called Eddie
Cantor, who once said to him:
"You"Il never get anywhere as an
ordinary pianist, Jimmy. You've
got to have personality. Why don't
you talk to the customers—make
remarks — while you're at the
piano?"
Shy young Jimmy Durante re-
plied seriously: "I couldn't do that,
Eddie, I'd be afraid people would
laugh at me,"
How right he was!
That's Navigatin'!
Dr, Kroeber of Columbia Univer-
sity says bees have a kind of sign
language so they can tell one an-
other where the best sources of
pollen are to be found.
By moving in a circle or a figure
eight, for example, the bee can in-
form others in the hive Low far
it is to a particularly luscious -flow-
er bed. By Inc sing its body from
the vertical by the proper number
of degrees, the bee can inform
coworkers the direction from the
sun in which to fly to reach the
desired spot.
1:)r. Kroeber's work is indeed re-
markable. What puzzles us, how-
ever, 1s flow a moth, at large in a
six -room house without a naviga-
tor's map, never fails to find, in a
corner of a forgotten drawer, the
only pair of wool sox which has not
been put away for the summer in
moth balls. There's a mystery
worthy of Dr. Kroeber's talents.—
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