HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-10-02, Page 7tiiECalVB'Ct SPORTS COLUMN
es A school of sports thought, that has de-
veloped since our nearly pointless efforts
in Olympic Games track -held, would elimin-
ate our competition therein until such time
ae we develop athletett of a calibre, reason-
ably certain of points, an meantime, devote
our funds to sending forth trap -shooters,
paddlers, boxers, in which diveraiona we might show to better
advantage,
It's a hound practical thought, all right, but though it mikes
no difference, 1 dont agree, The view -point can't very well he
disputed, if yon adhere to coldly practical grounds, But amateur
sport isn't founded, necessarily an coldly practical grounds.
There's a sentimental side to it. livery country doesn't send
track -field winners to the Gaines. Indeed, such entries are limit-
ed to a very few nations. And it would be putting the final
killing blow on the ambitions and hopes of young Canada if the
Olympic standards were act so high, in the Trials, that practical-
ly none could make them, There uutst be some sporting toler-
ance in these things, and the goal of Olympic competition and,
perhaps, Olympic victory, must be kept alive for the future, even
if we haven't done so well in the last couple of Games, .
The Olympic goal must remain, beyond the Empire Games,
So we must in Canada reach a compromise between the prac-
tical and the sentimental in our Olympic outlook, Shall victory
be the only consideration, with none but reasonably certain win-
ners sent to the Games, which would mean reducing the team to
non-existent proportions, or shall we maintain the attitude that
the Olympics are a goal worth retaining, but that if victory is
not achieved, then the competition itself has been worth while?
We. must take either attitude or abandon the fruitless- en-
deavor to distinguish between the two in a world where athletic
success becomes the hall -mark almost in the grade school with
little or no toleration 'for lack of it. Perhaps the attitude would
change if Baron deCoubertin's thesis was 'lung on every school-
room wall.
When he succeeded in restoring the Games, back in 1895,
Baron (leConbertin wrote: "The important part in the Olympic
Games is not to win dolt to take part in them, just as in life the
most essential thing is not so mach to conquer as to have
fought well."
Nations greater in population than Canada didn't -fare so
well in the Olympic track -field competitions. There must be
heart -burning and disappointment in many nations, as fond
hopes were dashed, by amazing performances that sent former
records rolling brokenly into the past.
So let's look ahead. We've had a Kerr, a Williams, a
McNaughton, a Sherring, a Hodgson before, Why not again?
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, e/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge Sf., Toronto.
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AMHERSThURO, ONTARIO
It was just 25 9ears ago that Babe
Ruth smacked out 60 four baggers;
and although at the start of each
season somebody is threatening to.
break that record — Ralph Kiner
was the "peoples' choice" in 1952,
remember?—nobody has even man-
aged to come close. Lots of hitters
get away from the barrier with
an even greater burst of speed than
The Bambino ever showed; but
when the chips are down in Sep-
tember, just when Ruth used to be
getting hot, . all the others seem to
cool off.
* * *
Just for the record, let's take a
backward glance at that historic
1927 cmpaign of The Babe's — a
campaign during which most ofgthe
fans were more interested in how
many homers he'd hit each day
than they were in who actually
won or lost.
* *
That record '27 campaign be-
gan innocently enough. On April
15th, in New York's fourth game,,
the Bambino bit one off Howard
Ehmke of the Athnetics at 'Yankee
Stadium, Eight days later he got
No. 2 off Rube Walberg, a big
Philadelphia southpaw, and the fol-
lowing day added Hollis Thurston
at Washington. On April 29th, No.
4 came off Slim Harriss at Fenway
Park and that was all for the sea-
son's first month.
* * 4
The customers began to think in
terns of a new record, however,
when the Babe warmed up to May,
Ide clouted an even dozen, starting
off with two in a May 1st double-
header with the A's at New York
and topping the month with an-
other pair facing A's hurling at
Shibe Park on the 31st.
* * * '
The Bambino slowed a bit in
June, getting a there nine. Twice
he got two in one game — once
off Buckeye of Cleveland and an-
other time versus Wiltse of the
Red Sox. That made a total of 25
with the season approaching the
half -way mark,
* * *
Ruth's Jnly pace was exactly
the same as that of June, with
his nine again including two in
one game on two occasions. He
did it off Holloway of Detroit and
Gaston of St. Louis.
* * :k
August, too, offered no hint
that the big outfielder was head-
ing toward an all-time record.
For the third straight month he
added an innocent looking nine.
That made it 43 going into Sep-
tember, and not even the Babe,
who was notlacking in confidence,
could have been. thinking about a
60 figure. After all, he would need
17 in September.
* * *
But, of course, he got the 17.
Not only that, he just missed two
or three others.
The mantis began when the
Babe bit one . off Walberg at
Philadelphia on the 2d. The Yan-
kees soon thereafter visited Boston
and Babe got five more — two off
Welter, and one each versus Rus-
sell, MacFayden and Harriss.
* * *
By the llth the. Yankees had
settled at home, where they were
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THE ROSES REACH A TRUCE—Former swimming star Eleanor Holm
Rase (left) and her hsowman husband, Billy. Rose (right), arrive
at the New York Supreme Court Building to begin their divorce -
separation case. The legal "Battle of the Roses" was expected to be
the court room sensation of the decade, ,but never came off as
Rose withdrew his divorce suit and agreed to let the court fix
alimony in a separation settlement.
to spend the rest of the month,
and there can be no doubt that
this was a fortunate turn of events
for the Bambino, Although a
threat anywhere, he was doubly so
at Yankee Stadium, with its short
lower grandstand in right field.
* * *
The Babe got No. 50 off Gaston
of the Browns on the 11th, then
added two more on the 13th off
Hudtin and Shame of Cleveland.
Blankenship of the White Sox
authored No. 53 and the popular
Ted Lyons of the same club
threw the hall that resulted in No.
54.
# * :k
Gibson of Detroit was on the
Mound. when No, 55 was hit and
Holloway threw the ball for No.
56. The great Lefty Grove, then
still with the A's, was responsible
for the 57th, arousing the suspi-
cion that perhaps, after, Ruth was
record bound. Buttherewere only
two more games to play.
* * *
On Sept. 29th the Senators
were in town and the Babe got
one off Lisenbee in an early inning,
then added another off Hopkins
later, That No, 59 tied his best pre-
vious year, in 1921, Then, as all of
baseball rose and cheered, Ruth
made it 60 on than final day of the
season off Tom Zachary, the Wa-
shington lefthander.
* *
Of course the day may come
when that 60 -nark will be eclipsed,
or maybe not. But one thing yoit
can give odds on—tile guy who.
does it will be more than a sprin-
ter.
Queer "Critters"
News that two South African
expeditions are off in search of the
quagga—a zebra -like animal believ-
ed to be extinct for centuries —
shows that science believe'; in the
stories of mysterious beasts that
only jungle natives know.
Such tales of strange animals are
particularly told in parts of Africa,
Australia, and South America. And
we cannot forget the recently pho-
tographed footprints of "the Abom-
inable Snowman" — whatever that
creature may be.
The first African expedition, led
by Mr. Bernard Carp, left Cape
Town late in March for the lower
reaches of Fish River Valley in
South-West Africa—as weird a par-
tial wilderness as any land on earth,
The second party, commanded by
Dr. T. G. Nel, biologist of the
National Parks Board, set out to-
wards the end of May for the gor-
ges of the Orange River.
Will they succeed?
Have you seen a hairy frog? A
year ago you knight have laughed.
But such an animal, new to natur-
alists, has been discovered by a
British expedition into the river
swamps of Africa. The Congo pea-
cock was found in 1937, and the
curious okapi, now in many zoos,
was a front-page discovery at the
turn of the century—although it
bad been laughed at as a native
legend.
In Australia, experts in animal
life believe there lives a 15 -foot
kangaroo. And there, too, may be
the thylacine or Tasmanian wolf,
which most naturalists declare be-
came extinct in our life -time, Pres-
ent-day stories of a strange beast,
large as a dog and fierce as a tiger,
couldtnea0 that thylacine still exist.
Their oddity is that they live on
red meat yet carry a pouch for
their young. And one of the rea-
sons for their disappearance - if
they have gone for good -was their
utter stupidity. Farmers could trap
them in enclosures with hedges
n0 more than two feet high, for
the beast never learned to jump.
From Venezuela copses a story of
a kind of ape over five feet high,
but with no tail. And in Patagonia
men talk of a live, yet so far un-
seen, giant sloth clad in armour -
plate and long hair. It is known
to science because it "died 'out"
some 10,000 years ago. And yet—
fresh traces of its remarkable skin
were found in a cave just before
the war.
Sheer chance sometimes unearths
unknown animals, as when a
French priest saw queer creatures
in the garden of Pekin Palace.
Sending home the skin and horns
of one, it was confirmed by zoolo-
gists that here was a new species.
Due to the Duke of Bedford. live
specimens were obtained, and so
to -clay you may see Pere David's
deer in our zoos while they are ex-
tinct in their native China, wiped
out in the Boxer Rising.
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A. four into these containers
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A. Soale in cold strong borax
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Q. How can I relieve heart-
burn?
A: A pinch of soda dissolved in
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Q. How can I avoid watery
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In 1796 a London newspaper re-
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headdress of his own devising—a
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The outcome of that trial is not
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