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• It was more annoying than funny at the
time, but, looking back now, we find a
certain degree of hilarity marked the end
of the Olympic Games,
And of all things, the laughs were pro-
vided by the sombre Russians. When they
were edged out on total points by United
States 'athletes, on the standard scoring system, they promptly
invented their own, and proved that they were the winners. It was
so childish, so obviously in the naive Russian mould of propaganda,
that at this distance, it's good for a chuckle,
And it's our notion that the international importance of the
Olympics, as proving that any one country is physically better than
another is just plaid silly, Ideally, the Games are competitions
among individuals; not between countries.' Some countries have
these individual stars at various times, some haven't. For popular
consumption a newspaper scoreboard is kept. But triumph doesn't
necessarily :represent a national superiority over the., countries
which didn't do so well,
This being so, were glad the United States won the mythical
title. For the difference between a Russian and an American
over-all points victory is that the Soviet propaganda machine
would have made this a tremendous spring -board for boseting the
decadence of the 'imperialistic" countries, as compared with the
virility of Stalin's empire. America will merely boast its undeniably
great athletes and attach no blobular political significance to the
outcome.
Superiority in running, or jumping, or throwing weights
proves nothing as indicating one nation is more virile, stronger
than another. If it did, then Czecho-Slovakia would outrank all
others, for they sent to the Games the greatest athlete of all,
Emil Zatopek, the man who scored the unitelieveable triple. We
suspect that Russiawent into the Games to prove what the propa-
ganda machines would label national superiority, and they almost
did it. We suspect, too, that the Soviet master -!Hind would not
have allowed a Muscovite team to enter unless they were con-
sidered loaded': lest 'the cause of collectivism be set back by de-
feats on athletic fields,
That's the reason there developed that childish stratagem,
a re -arrangement of the scoring values, to convince the folks at
home that Russia really won, but was robbed by the money -barons
of Wall street.
Let's forget any national significance or racial superiority
that points -victory in the games might be taken to prove. Our
own Canada didntt get many points in the Olympics, but we
happen to think, even so, that Canada is a very swell country in
which we prefer to live In preference to all others, even if we
never score another Olympic triumph.
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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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A mere fourteen years ago the
world's record run for the game of
Snooker was 138 points—and as it
stuck there for more than a decade,
snooker devotees figured that it
might never go higher. That per-
fection—a break of 147 — would
ever be reaches was almost unthink-
able; for a 147 snooker break is
comparable to a golfer putting to-
get'her.a round of 18 holes -in -one.
* * *
Yet in all probability, before the
present snooker season is over one
or more of the top professionals will
have made the grade. It might be
Joe Davis of England, or his
.,. .rother Fred. It alight be the
Canadian George Chenier; or it
might be the veteran New Zeal-
ander, Marla McConachy. As a
matter of fact the latter once ac-
tually did ring up a 147 score—but,
alas, when his record came up for
ratification, it was found that the
pockets of the table on which he
played were slightly over the Stan-
, dard width, so it didn't go down in
the books.
• * *
Here, for the benefit of those who
didn't misspend sufficient of their
youth to understand such things, a
little explanation plight be timely.
Actually the game should be called
Snooker's Pool, it having been in-
vented by a certain Colonel Snoo-
ker while serving in India. For
many years the game was con-
sidered to be just a sort of disrepu-
table cousin of billiards. and it
wasn't even allowed to be played
in high class billiard rooms. But,
following the end of World War
Onc, snooker came on with surf: a
rush that, in England now, three -
ball billiards is about as rare as a
thiee-headed elephant.
* * *
To explain what is meant by the
147 break, it is necessary first of
all to explain about the game of
snooker. It starts with 22 balls
on''the table. There are 15 red, six•
various other colors, and one white
which is always the cue ball. A
red pocketed scores one point and
the colors are valued yellow 2,
green 3, brown 4, blue 5, pink 6
and black 7. The reds once they
are down stay there but the colors
are returned to the table until the
last red has been put away. Then,
the colors are played in order of
value. Thus it is possible, by
potting a maximum - registering
black every time after putting down
a red and then taking all the col-
ors in turn, to score 147, There is
another way by which 147 ran be
exceeded but it is regarded as too
freakish to consider seriously. What
has to happen is that a player has
to be snookered unfairly and claim
a free ball before any single one
of the reds had been put down. In
this way a 155 break is possible.
* *
Snookering is the negative side
of the game and consists of exe-
cuting, or persuading your oppon-
ent to execute, what are termed -
"foul" shots. These are too numer-
ous to be enumerated here but the
main ones are usually perpetrated
by hitting a ball other than the one
you should; missing the objective
altogether; or permitting the cue
ball to enter a pocket. You can
best persuade your opponent to do
any onct or two of them by inter-
posing a ball between the cue ball
and the ball he is required to bit.
If you do this you are said to have
"laid a snooker."
* * *
Joe Davis, already mentioned,
Mo?—I'm Famous?—' Paul," pet mongoose who belongs to Anthony
Sheridan, 13, of Elstree, England, can't quite believe he's famous,
and Anthony is a little in awe of his pet from Calcutta, India.
Pout Is the father of the first mongoose to bo born in captivity In
England, and survive. "Titch," Paul's mate, refused to come out and
be photographed. Previous efforts to breed the little snake -killing
animals in captivity have failed.
Se:;es-Serious-Thomas Fleming is a New York baseball fan who
was determined to keep posted on what happened to the three
New York teams in the final days of the pennant races. Via two
radios and television set, Fleming saw and heard simultaneously
the Giants, Dodgers and Yankees, in and out of New York City.
A huge scoreboard recorded results as they come it.
held the world title for 20 Tears,
raising the record point by point
till it reached 138. There it remain-
ed until, in 1949, good old Joe
struck another high with 141,
* * *
The following year the game be-
came 'international among the lead-
ing professionals and in February
of that year George Chenier, of
Winnipeg, set the ivory -rolling
crowd agog with a new world marl(
og 144. But the Canuck's reign
wasn't to last song. Within a
month, playing against Chenier,
Joe Davis rolled them for 146—
just one point short of perfection.
And there, unless somebody upset
it within the past week or so, the
record still stands.
Sold Themselves to
Help Their Church
Thu auctioneer cried "Sold!" and
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These were only a few of a steady
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who mounted the auction block and
had their services knocked down to
the highest. bidder. But it was all
in fun and for a good cause—to
help pay for the $6000 repair job to
the First Presbyterian Church.
For years the church had been
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to help meet expenses. Everyone
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Elder Brad Jolly decided it was
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There must be something else the
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their interest. "We've sold just
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donated except one," he told bit
wife. Helen. "We've sold people's
cakes, pies, covered dishes, attic
castoffs and what have you. But
we haven't yet sold their services.
People who can work, who can do
anything. We'll sell their skill and
their muscle to the highest bidders."
Mrs. Jolly liked the idea—and so
did the other elders of the church.
It was cold and damp the day of
the auction, but practically every-
one in the town of 520 souls was on
band to buy or sell, Mostly they
did bath.
The school superintendent's sec-
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Elder Jolly's services as a coal
hauler and a shoveler were valued
at $13. The school teacher was
worth $7 to his mother-in-law. A
young Itaby-sister brought $4.50, as
did a 1“,”'--,• "' " r,f;ered six hair-
cuts.
Someone decided the services of
a hunting -and -fishing guide were
worth $13, but a painter brought
only $8. A man and his tractor
went for $12 and the use of a grain
combine brought in -435. Paper
hangers, dressmakers, handy men,
carpenters, cotton pickers, cooks,
bakers, electricians found their way
to the auction block, flexing their
muscles to prove they were able
to satisfy the highest bidder. Two
professional auctioneers did their
stuff without pay.
Just ter snake sure that no op-
portunity was missed to collect
every possible cent, a community
store was set up and brought in
$37, The sale of Christmas cards
netted another $50. One church
member went around measuring the
waists of everyone she encountered,
fining them a penny for each inch.
The idea was worth $30.
The day's total receipts amount-
ed to $778.38, far, far more than any
previous event had brought into
the church coffers.
"It proved a fine way to raise
money for the church," Brad Jolly
says. "We had a lot of fun and our
members as well as, the towns-
people who helped out were drawn
closer t o g e t he r." From "The
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