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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-08-14, Page 3THE siva SPORTS Cad elf igy geotor 9o946144,0 Sr The late esteemed Daniel Webster, who won very considerable fame as a gentleman who knew what words really meant, defined sport as a noun meaning that which diverts and makes mirth; pastime, amuse- ment, If Mr. Webster was around today, he might alter the definition. He might remove the word "mirth: For there is little more real fun in the major realms of sport. It has become a very serious business, with few laughs. If there is any mirth, then it is strictly coincidental: ,and unintentional. In fact, the athletes of today aren't evert characters as we knew such in other days when there was less money, more laughs. They're cold, calculating and skillful, workmen. It wasn't like this in the not so old days when sport had its sports. The guys (and gals, too) had personality, There are no more roistering characters such as, for instance, the late Harry Greb{ Pittsburg's bouncing boxer who buffeted hie way to the world middleweight title, Grebes deviations from what were known es routine training methods won him fame of a sort, Certainly notoriety. Once in New York he rolled out of bed late m the afternoon, went to the hotel barber -shop, requested a shave and a face massage with hot towels. It had been a rough night , The barber asked courteously: "Who do you think will win the fight tonight, Mr. Greb?" Replied Harry, indifferently: "Who's fighting?" "Why, you are, Mr. Greb," said the amazed barber. He was right too. Out west they recall lurid tales of big, rugged Amby Moran, who played major hockey both east and west, Amby was careless about training, too. He played so.poorly for Regina one season, that the late Wes. Champ, advised hint he would have to report in shape the next fall or do without a contract, So Moran bought a pair of pants three sizes too big for himself, donned thein, reported to Champ. When the manager queried him about weight, Amby ran his hand around the top to show how much larger they were for hint "as a result of his program of getting in shape." "It cost me $9 for those pants, but I got a contract," recalled Amby, Sprague Cleghorn, one of hockey's great all-time defense players, was a paradox, a practical joker off the ice, a hard man on it, One ?tight while he was managing Montreal Maroons, the Governor General of Canada was present in the Montreal Forum as patron and guest of honour at a big Christmas -basket charity boxing event, He was invited to the Maroon dressing -room to meet Me players, who were hurriedly summoned. Just as the Governor General and his staff were making a dignified entrance, a horrified Forum official noticed Cleghorn had a "buzzer" attached to his hand. He was instructed, in hasty whispers, to get rid of it. "Surely" said the official, "you were not going to shake hands with the Governor General wearing that thing?" "Certainly I was," said Cleghorn. "The boxing show is poor, the Governor looks bored, and deserves some sort of a thrill." There is no such humour around the major sports wheel today. Big money has chased out the laughs, made it serious business. Your comments and. suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 437 Yonge St„ Toronto. ell DISTILLERS 'LIMITED ASIHERSTBURO, ONTARIO As we have explained many times before, these columns have to be written a Little in advance of their appearance. A few weeks ago we did a piece about how many major league managers had already been let out this season, little thinking that something of a similar nature was about to take place a lot nearer home. .5 k But before said piece got into print, sure enough Joe Becker of the Toronto Maple Leafs had been handed his pink slip, and Burleigh Grimes brought in—with consider- able fanfare—to replace him. % N * Becker's firing, of course, was due to nothing else but the fact that the Toronto athletes—or rather the athletes wearing Toronto uni- forms—were not only failing to live up to the Leafian slogan, "First in Fifty -Two," but were showing signs of slipping right out of the four - team playoffs. Whether or not they'll do any better for Grimes, only time will tell. Burleigh is a good baseball pian and so is Joe Becker, But even John McGraw, or Casey Stengel, or any of the other "Miracle Men" couldn't win pennants if they didn't get pitching and hitting from the hired help. . * * 4` However, even if the Maple Leafs aren't exactly balls of fire on the diatnond, they're not doing so badly In one other very important res- pect—that of making the cash regis- ters jingle profitably. With the aid of certain circus -like features, "Special Days," and the like, the Queen City representatives in the International Loop continue to draw crowds that are really remarkable when you consider the large vacant spaces that used to yawn in the stands and bleachers just a year or so back. * * k But before long Owner Cooke and the rest of the Leafs' top brass are going to find themselves fresh out of outstanding occasions to cele- brate. And, always anxious to be helpful, we suggest that they put on a "Special Day"—or even a ser- ies of them—in honor of what has ' become, over the years, one of base- ball's most important and best - loved features. Not to keep you in suspense, we refer to nothing but the Frankfurter — hot dog to your For, way over in Deutschland the burghers and citizenry of Frank- fort -on -the -Main are in the midst of a big, celebration marking the hundredth anniversary of the in- vention of that luscious delicacy. d5 n German historians seer—according to Martin Gansberg in The Near York Times—that the glorified sausage known es the Frankfurter or hot dog, Was developed in 1852. And we hope that you won't get the foolish idea that such an im- portant development was the work of a single man—or even a married one. No, the Frankfurter was the joint production of the members of the entire •Frankfort Butchers' Guild—and there are some who say that its final shape was determined by a butcher who was inspired by his own dog—one of those dog -and - a -half -long -half -a -dog -high affairs known as Dachshunds. "dying bisc"—This may look like a "life boat" from a flying saucer, but in reality it's only a new auto being tested, by Alfa Romeo in Milan, Italy. Built along entirely new principles, the "flying Disc" is powered by a six -cylinder engine with three double -body carburettors and can develop about 200 horse power with a maximum speed of 120 m.p.h. w Switching Hours—Six-year-old Maxine Rudner plugs into a minia- ture switchboard without ever getting et "wrong number." The board was one of. the novelties displayed at the Toy Guidance exhibit. But even the Germans admit the food didn't come into international prominence until it was imported to America and used as an attrac- tion at the Chicago World'ls Fair in 1893. There, history states, the original and its imitation, the hot dog, were devoured by the thou- sands. t• * a While the elongated, pork -filled secretly smoked product has made the city of Frankfort famous inter- nationally, it has taken New World enthusiasm, New World resort life and New World spectator sports, especially baseball, to put the hot dog into the big time. For on this side of the water the frank- furter actually is so popular as to be a national institution. One in eight pounds of meat eaten by the average family is of the sausage category, and 32 per cent of the meat thus consumed is in the form of the hot dog. W * e Statistics for last year, for ex- ample, show that 3,739,267,000 bot dogs (canned, boiled or on a roll) were devoured by gourmets of all ages. A steady increase from year One thing a manufacturer won't tell is how long 11e smokes his frankfurters. * * One informant revealed that, be- sides the Persian casings he uses nothing but finely ground pork from electrically killed pigs, and „ spices prepared by a trusted cook. "The real secret is in the smoking," he confided. But he refused not only to tell how long the process lasted but also what wood he used. * * * Proud of the work that goes into their product and its ultimate suc- cess, manufacturers (Canadian, American or German) are taken aback when the content of the frankfurter is questioned. Asked if there was any chance that he or his competitors might slip in some horse meat 'to increase the profits, a Frankfort manufac- turer showed his irritation. "Horse- furters? Never! We butchers are craftsmen—not chiselers!" * 5, So come on now, Mr. Cooke. Don't look so glum as you glance at the League standings and see your Toronto minions hanging over "No Money Wasted On Monkey Business"—Bonzo, Hollywood's famous chimp actor, looks every bit the politician as he declares himself a "dark chimp" candidate for the presidential nomination. to year has been noted. by manu- facturers since 193E . * * German manufacturers condemn the Canadian variety as inferior. One of them explains that a good frankfurter should snap when you bite it. Explaining why his own product is so successful, he adds, "Our best frankfurter skins used to come from Russian and Chinese lambs. We can't get them now, but we are getting some from Per- sia. Half the secret of a good frank- furter:is in the casing," This maker says that our model Is pale and wrinkled in contrast to the original. "It can't even be com- pared," he says, "No flavor, no tcx- turn, no snap,' * ♦ a Manufacturers over here shrug off comparison with the Frankfort model, and statistics show that they have just cause. Four times as many casings for 'hot doge are !m ported into the United States alone - as into Germany. * o e Last year, for example, hot-dogs casings from Canada (including Newfoundland and Labrador) ran mare than 5,348,000 pounds and from Argentina more than 3,371,000 pounds. German makers imported from these ,countries, itt addition to Persia, Russia and China, a little over 2,000,000 pounds, w * Admirers of the Frankfort pro- duct explain that tike secret of a successful wiener is Itt the smoking. the brink of the second division abyss. Maybe—perish the thought —the Leafs won't be "First in Fifty -Two." If memory serves there have been other years when they didn't quite make it either. But that's no reason to let A.D. 1952 slither past without taking advant- age of the chance of putting on a real, never -to -be -forgotten celebra- tion in honour of the delicacy which plays no favourites but cheers and sustains winners and losers alike —the ROT DOG! Put plenty of mustard on ours! Many people feel about modern art as they dp about a pigeon: they don't like it when it is over their heat. SALLY'S SALLIES • "I'm glad we had thaturieture, darling, I am half -stated any. way" CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ALIENT.5 WANTED YOU will make more money, day st day,year after Year, ep111ae DtIPG NYLONS, priced to sell and repeat, tans FREE. Write teday, ARCH HOSI. Saar, 104, N. runt. Philadelphia d, Pa. WATER Systems—Aermetor Windmills end Electrta Pressure Systems. Ilerke- ley Turbine Pumps, Quinn Use and POW. try Waterers, clualttY goods, reationablie priced. II. 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Ally your druggist for D.D.D.PRESCRIPTIOtx Protect your 910)0 5S anti 1AS41 crow (GEE and THIEVES, We have a deo and type of Safe, or, Cabinet, for mar purpose. Visit as or write tar ostlers nuc.. to Beret. w J.&'J.TAVLi i7f" UMITLL TORONTO SAFE WORKS' ire Crnnt St. E., 'rmm�to Estnhlished 1962 HARNESS & COLLARS Farmers Attention—Consult your near. est Harness Shop about Stereo Harness Supplies. We sell out goods only through your local Stoco Leather. goods dealer. The goods are vight and so aro out prices We munufao• tore In our factoriest Harness Horse Collars, Swear Pads, Horse Blankets and Leather Travelling Goods. Insist 00 Stoce Brand Trademarked Goods and you gel satisfaction Made Only by SAMUEL TREES CO. LTD. 42 Wallington 85 e„ fordo** — Write for Catalogue — ISSUE 32 -- 1953