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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-12-25, Page 31H U Wert SPORTS COLUMN Eefget eCooxo • it's Christmas again And no matter how hard»boiled and impervious to senti- ment you may think you are, or as folks may believe you ars, and indeed at perhaps you are, as a general thing, Christmas does something to you. It dui something to Old Scrooge, so probably the rest of us, who live ui a rugged, realistic world, where no one expects, or gets, sny the better of it, are not immune, either As every Christmas approaches, you deride that this year, you're going to take the attitude, but firmly, that Christmas is only another Saturday,. or 'Tuesday, as the case may be. This time you say, you're net going to go overboard for f. lot of gifts -well maybe something for a tew little neices and nephews, but no one else—and no partying, And running around to other folks' houses, no receptions at your own. Just a gond book, curl up in front of the tire, and relax. Then the Christmas cards start to ;.erne a,. You hear from folks that, in many cases, you'd almost forgotten, from others who form a bond of attachment in your life that, you strangely find, is a great deal stronger than all the anti -Christmas resolutions you'd mentally made. You see the light in a child's eyes as he peers hungrily through a hail -frosted window at the glittering array of tempting toys grouped about a giant Santa Slaus who shakes with rumbling laughter. Or you hear sleigh -bells across the frozen snow. Or the boys who sing the Christmas carols touch some half-forgotten chard of other days that was lurking deep in your memory. And all of a sudden, yon realize what you knew all along, that there's a real Santa. Claus, a real Christmas for all of us, in the spirit of the season. It's something you can't escape. And when you come down to it, who wants to? You'll go through with that one resolution, though, to curl up is front of the open fire with a good book. And the book will be Dickens Christmas Carol, and you'll rejoice in the reformation of Scrooge, in the joys of Tiny Tim, and all the :est of those folks in the greatest fictitional Christmas story ever written, so poignant that it still can bring s lump to the throat of one who has read it front boyhood, which is more years back than he cares to think. And a day when you can make the old wish that never seems to be-ome trite: • Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St„ Toronto. alvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO Porker "Model 11" Takes the Prize -The Poland China hog, above, was selected as Grand Champion Barrow of the 19.52 Interna- tional Livestock Exposition. Swarrin of Locusts , &ops Express Train A swarm of locusts six miles long has held up a Pakistan ex - grecs train at' Junshahi, seventy wiles from Karachi. The swarm etas so thick that it reduced the driver's visibility to a few feet and he had to halt the train. After the locusts had passed the train resumed its journey to La- ken*. This happened abroad, but in )Britain a single .earwig has been lxnown to stop a train. It hap- pened on the old District Rail- eyay at Hounslow years ago. The earwig crawled into the signal- issg aparatus and caused a short circuit which kept signals at 'Danger." In the Malay States an ele- phant charged a train. Although it committed suicide in doing ea, it succeeded in knocking the engine off the line. Cattle which Astray on the track in Canada can be a great nuisance; they have sometimes caused fatal ac- cidents to passenger trains. Lions used to be a pest on the Mombasa line running from the coast up to Uganda. Again and again they besieged lonely way- side stations, imprisoning signal- men and consequently delaying trains. In Italy dense swarms of white butterflies have been known to settle on railway lines and stop trains. In French Guiana thousands of little green frogs blocked a railway line. Between Rensjons and Rautas, Lapland, a passen- ger train ran into a herd of 500 reindeer. Sixty of the animals were killed outright or shot by passengers and railway staff after sustaining injuries. "All extremely bright men are conceited." He shrugged gracefully. "Oh, I dgn't know; I'm not" • "Gee this is swell!" exclaimed delighted 7 -year-old Danny Welsh, of Valois, on seeing Santa's Workshop, theme of this year's Christmas displays in Canadian National Railways Central Station, Montreal. An added thrill for Danny was a warm and hearty greeting from Santa Claus and other members of the official party inspecting the exhibits when Danny come to town, Six fanciful floats and a tableau, featuring gnomes, toyland trains, elephant, rocking horse, doll's house, jack-in-the-box, with motion el -plenty, have been set up in the gaily decorated station. Shown with "Tiny Tim" are, left to right, Santa, .Donald Gordon, CNR president, Gordon Mat. Pitts, representing the Mayor of Montreal, stnd L. A. Lapointe, director of departments for the City. You don't have to be so very ancient to recall when Ontario's own Jack Purcell was acknowl- edged to be the finest Badminton player in the world, and when Canadians, Yanks, and players from the British Isles pretty well monopolized the top ranking positions in that sprightly past - time. But if you happen to be travelling around under the de- lusion that what we erroneously call the "white races" are still basses in Badminton - Oh, brother, take a look at the darned thing now. 5 7 For here are the top ten as ranked by Herbert Scheele, hon- orary secretary of the Interna- tional Badminton Federation, secretary of the English Badmin- ton Association and editor of the official magazine "BADMIN- TON.". Mr. Scheele should cer- tainly know his shuttlecock har- riers if anybody should, and here is how he rates them. " 5 " • 1. Wang Pong Soon, Malaya. 2. Marten Mendez, U.S.A. 3. Ool Tells Hock, Malaya. 4. I. Abdullah Piruz, India, 5. Ong Poh Lim, Malaya. B. Trilok Nath Seth, India. 7. Jorn Skaarup, Denmark. 8. Eddy Choong, Malaya. 9. Cheong hock Leng, Malaya. 10. Devinder.Mohan Lal, India. n e 5 The preponderance of Malay- ans in that list is eloquent testi- mony to the supremacy of Malaya in international play. The south-east Asian country won the Davis Cup of the Badminton realm, the Sir George Thomas Cup, when it vvas first competed for in 1949 and successfully re- tained it at Singapore this year. 5 * e It is mainly upon play in this year's Thomas Cup competition that Mr. Scheele has based his reckonings.' Twelve countries en- tered and U.S.A., Denmark and India traveled to Malaya to con- test the zone ties for the right to enter the challenge round. U.S.A. won this elimination but in the challenge round went down to Malaya by seven snatches to two. Emerging as outstanding indi- vidual star in that galaxy of shuttlecock chasers was a 34 - year -old Singapore sports goods salesman, Weng Pong Soon. 5 5 u He accounted for the Ameri- cans, including champion Mar- ten Mendez In a convincing manner, and this feat plus the fact that a few weeks earlier he had flown to London and won the English open title in which the pick of the European stars competed, indisputably placed hint as the world's number one. That London victory gave to Soon his third successive English title without conceding a set and his championship of Malaya three months after the Thomas Cup finals was his fourth in a row and seventh since 1940. No one therefore can seriously disagree with Mr. Scheele's first placing. There are, however, a number of people who have sug- gested to him that he was not sufficiently appreciative of the Malayans overshadowed by Soon and that more than six should have been placed in the top 10. Ool Tells Hock, it is implied should have been rated above Mendez to whom he lost in the IS *Mess se lessees: eetedrestereseeteses, :lig Problem -Using oversize in- struments, Arlington High School math teacher Roderick McLen- nan, at right, outlines details of o problem in geometry to Wil- liam Gregory, at left, and Ro- bert Bloeker, centre. The super - size method of teaching geo- metry is being used here far the - first time. Thomas Cup final because of his snore imposing record especially among top-ranking Malayans. Mendez on the other hand had in the period under review tasted defeat against the new Canadian champion Donald Smythe. That is a moot point but what is cer- tain is that of all international ranking lists published this year this one by Mr. Scheele will be faulted least. o All of which goes to prove -if anything -that those Malayan Badmintoners are very badly in need of a good Press Agent, be- cause the one they have certain- ly isn't getting them the space in the Sports Pages that they de- serve. If you had come right up and asked us - before we read the article from which the above was lifted - what the principal sport of Malaya was, we would have probably answered watch- ing the dawn come up like thun- der, and spearing flying fishes and the Iike--although, now we come to think of it, that was Mandalay not Malaya, 5 5 5 Anyway, that will be enough about Badminton for now -- and quite enough of this column too, although there was something else we Intended to say, but it has slipped our memory. Oh -yes -now we remember --- MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL) MISTAKEN IDENTITY The news that Harry had lost his job spread around quickly, and an inquisitive friend asked: "Why did the foreman fire you?" "You know what a foreman is," Harry shrugged. "He's the one who stands around and watches the other men work." "What's that got to do with it?" his friend wanted to know. "Well, he just got jealous of me," Harry explained. "People thought I was the foreman." A visitor to the village, watch- ing a rustic fishing in a shallow stream, noticed that for half en hour the hook was never drawn Irons the water. "Are there any fish in that stream?" the visitor asked at last. "No, sir, I don't thinly se," the rustic replied. "'But you seem to be fishing," "Yes, sir." "Then what la your object?" "My object, sir, is to show the wife that I've no time to peel the potatoes." Lost His Trousers In The High Rand knave you ever wakened up, dripping with perspiration, atter having dreamed that you were walking down the street in broad daylight without your clothes? For some unfortunate people such nightmares have come true. Early this October, Mr. Dairo Sichi was in Castle Street, Glas- gow, when a car drove past and ripped off his trousers. Trying to hide his bare knees with a par- cel, he made for the nearest po- lice station and was taken home in a Black Maria. A man who probably sympa- thized with him was the Irish- man whose trousers were caught in the Dome of Discovery escal- ator. He was removed from the trousers and wrapped In a blan- ket while repairs were carried out, Golf is known for its hazards, but a new one was met by a Scottish doctor on the West Kil- bride course, in Ayrshire. A flash of lightning burnt off his trou- sers. Not quite so bad was the plight of taxi-driver James Deeds. He lost merely the seat of his pants when he was helping a passenger to unload luggage and backed in- to a passing car, If asked to describe his most embarrassing moment, a certain Danish amateur boxer would tell you of his recent experience in Copenhagen, He entered the ring, took off his dressing -gown, and the audience shrieked with mirth. He had forgotten to put on his trunks. Red-faced, too, was the Can- adian who woke up on a Toronto bus to find that he was wearing only his shirt. It was thought that he must have been sleep- walking. A much more rational explan- eticn was given during the war by Squadron - leader Philip Schneidau, who, in Isis under- pants, had to report to the C.Q. 01 an R.A.F. station. Returning tram a mission; he was advised by the pilot to take off Isis clothes as they were coaling down in the sea. The pilot miscalculated, however, and they made a dry landing. Occasionally these involuntary strip -tease acts have a happy ending. 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