HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-02-22, Page 3Johnny Bower
Kept in Stitches
—Also Viae Versa
A thin lineof blood dripeed
down his face, cutting across his
eye and down the side of his
nose, Johnny Bower, a chunky
blond who plays goalie for the
Toronto. Maple Leafs, reached up
and clutched his foreheard —
sliecd by a puck fired from bare-
ly 15 feet away. Then, guided by
the referee and pressing a towel
to his head, Bower skated off the
Ice at New York's Madison
Square Garden. "It's just a numb
feeling, like I ,always have when
I get hit," he said,
TwelVo minutes and six stitches
tater, • Bower returned to the ice.
As he stopped ten of eleven shots
in the remainder of the game one
night recently, Toronto defeated
the New York Rangers, 4-3.
After seventeen years and 230
stitches in professional heckty.
Bower, 37, the National Hockey
League's oldest. player and sting-
iest goalie, is familiar with pain
and punishment.
"It's like being a target for Jae
Louis every night," said Bower, a
5 -foot -9, 187 -pound target, after
the game against the Rangers.
"You know you're the guy they're
all swinging at. That black spot
(6 ounces of hard rubber) comes
at. you about 90 miles an hour.
You don't mind when it's flying
straight at you. It's when it drops
or flips in mid-air that you've got
to get your chest in front of it.
And don't forget that you're
bound to lose sight of the puck
a few times a game."
The puck is not a goalie's only
occupational hazard. A skate
slash once ripped a tooth out of
Bower's mouth and opened a cut
that required 32 stitches. Another
time, when an opponent slid into
the goal mouth, Bawer broke
three ribs.
Brutal and blinding; the job of
goaltending takes a heavy toll
throughout the National Hockey
League—even among the men
who do it best. Chicago's Glenn
Hall gets sick to his stomach be-
fore many games. Montreal's
Jacques Plante, five -time Winner
of the Vezina Trophy, refuses to
play without wearing a Fiber-
glas face mask, Detroit's Terry
Sawchuk, while with Boston five
years ago, suffered a nervous
breakdown. "I'd rather see my
son do something less dangerous
—like walk a tightrope across
Niagara Falls or take up bull -
Plighting," says New York's Gump
Worsley.
"The pressure's always on,"
said Bower in the locker room.
"You can never relax. Even
when the action is at the other
end, I'm studying our own shoot-
ers.
hootars, You never know who might
get traded and start. shooting at
you. You've always got to be
ready for any type of shot,"
What's the most difficult shot
for Bower to stop? . "The break-
away," he explained. "With that
one man coming against you, all
you can do is stand there and wait
for him to make the first move.
Guys like Gordie Howe, Bobby
Bull, and 'Boom Boom' Geoffrion
are great fakers, skaters and
shooters. Give them a little hole
and they'll beat you."
To keep the times an opponent
beats him to a minimum, Bower
sleeps at least an hour before
every game and refuses to strain
his eyes by going to movies. "The
eyes are the most, important
thing." he said, brushing the
blood off his cheek. "I don't
mind catching one in the face as
long as they keep it away from
the eyes," From NEWSWEEK
A. bride-to-be had just shown
a friend the list of wedding
guests. "Isn't it strange," asked.
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RED STARLET — Mao A-po
of the woman's second team,
Peiping Physical Culture Insti-
tute, jumps in a basket try
during a game in Peiping,
Photo: Communist source.
Heroes Who Died
In Southern Snows
As the British explorer strug-
gled up the long icy slope to-
wards his goal, he could not
know that he had failed already.
He and his party aimed to be
the first men at the South Pole.
But a Norwegian was planting
his eountry's flag there at that
moment.
Captain Robert Scott had lost
the grim race across the bleak-
ness of Antarctica when, on De-
cember 14th,1911, Amundsen
reached the South Pole. He was ,
more than a month in front of
his British rival.
That was fifty years ago last
month. And explorers' societies
everywhere are remembering • the
yaliantloser, as well as Amund-
sen himself.
Amundsen should really have
been at the opposite end of the
world — the North Pole. It was
for an expedition there that he
had raised funds,
But when he heard that the
North Pole had been reached by
Peary, he secretly changed his
plans and sailed to the Antarctic.
There he waited through a win-
ter for the race to be first to the
South Pole,
Only by accident did Captain
Scott, also waiting to attack the
Pole, learn that he had a com-
petitor. His ship, Terra Nova,
met Amundsen's by chance in
the Bay of Whales.
Captain Scott learned that Am-
undsen was starting sixty miles
, nearer the Pole, and would be
able to start earlier because he
was using ponies. These - were
two important advantages. But
Scott refused to reconsider his
plans.
"The proper course," he wrote,
"is to, proceed exactly as if this
had not happened and do our
best for the honour of the country
without fear or panic,"
At the moment Amundsen was
standing at the South Pole, Scott,
who had started ten days later,
was struggling up the great 125 -
mile slope of the glacier whose
summit is 350 miles from the
Pole.
His party was man -hauling
sledges and had run into bad
weather. A blizard had kept •
them tent -bound for four days.
Now the wet and sticky snow
meant the sledges were continu-
ally getting bogged down.
He did not know he had lost
the race, and on Christmas Day
hp and his companions celebrat-
ed the festival in their small
tent pitched in the bleak desert.
TELLTALE ISOTOPE — Atomic science came to the aid of
employes at the Forth Worth plant of General Dynamics
whena sewer Zine was "lost " After installing a new sink
In a laboratory, workmen sought to hook it up to the existing
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(7 1---ri traces the sewer's. path with a chalk,
•
in mid-January they found the
track of Amundsen's sedges, a
few miles from the Pole. Then,
they knew that they hadlost the
race for Britain. It Was a bitter
blow to the morale of Scott and
his four companions,
But they :left a Union Jack
flying on a cairn beside Amend-
sin's tent. Then they braced
themselves for the return jour-
ney — 900 miles of solid drag-
ging
It was a desperate race then
against the Antarctic winter.
When it came, travel would be
impossible,
On the first few days of the
disappointed party 's 360 -mile
march back -to the glacier, they
had fine weather. Then blizzards
swirled around then again, and
soon injuries and frostbite added
pain to their exhaustion.
They began to suffer from lack
of sleep and slow progress meant
that they had to reduce their
food ration. Reaching the glacier
and mountains after six weeks on
the completely featureless pla-
teau cheered them,
But then their real troubles
began. Petty Officer Evans, the
biggest and strongest of the par-
ty, was hardest hit by frostbite,
and he could hardly pull on the
sledge ropes, writes J. M.
Michaelson in "Tit -Bits",
As the party were negotiating
a crevasse he stumbled, arid Fell
into the abyss. His team mates
hauled him out, but he had sev-
ere concussion. Somehow he
kept up with his companions far
a while.
Then he dropped behind, say-
ing he had trouble with his skis.
When Captain Scott, Dr: Wil-
son, Captain Oates and Lieuten-
ant Bowers realized he had not
caught them up again, they went
back.
They found him lying in the
snow, his hands uncovered, a
wild look in his eyes. The party
made camp and lifted Evans in-
to the tent. But that night he
died.
Two hours later his compan-
ions resumed their march. They
carne off the glacier, and now
had 424 miles to go. But one mis-
fortune after another hit them.
The temperature dropped away
to forty below zero.
The wind which should have
been at their backs had veered
into their faces. Every step be-
came a struggle. Seven miles in
a day was an effort.
They were nearly out of fuel,
but had placed a dump of a few
cans which they found again.
When they opened the cans,
though, they found them nearly'
empty. The spirit had either
evapol'ated, or seeped away.
Oates was severely frostbitten,
so exhausted that he dragged on
his companions. Dr, Wilson, him-
self severely frostbitten, dressed
Oates's terrible injuries.
It was obvious that Oates
would not be able to reach even
One Ton Depot, 130 miles front
the base • which was now the
party's utmost hope. There they
had placed a stock of food and
fuel and medical .supplies.
Every pace 'a struggle, they
fought on for another six days.
Oates said he could move no far-
ther and begged them to leave
him in his sleeping bag.
Scott refused, and that day
they made a few more miles.
When night fell, Oates went to
sleep hoping he would never
wake. But he did — to find a
blizzard blowing,
Scott wrote what happened
next in words that have become
immortal, "Oates said: '1 am
going outside and may be some
time.' He went out into the bliz-
zard and we have not seen him
since,
"We knew that poor Oates was
walking to his death; but though
we tried to dissuade him, we
knew it was the of of a brave
man and an English gentleman.
We all hope to meet the end with
similar spirit,— and assuredly
the end is not far."
They resumed the march for
two or three days, with Scott's
foot now frostbitten and his two
companions weakening. They
pitched camp one night only
eleven miles from the haven of
One Ton Depot. Perhaps next
day they would reach it.
But during a night a blizzard
sprang up. For ten days, perhaps
longer, they lay without fuel and
only scraps of food, hoping each
day the blizzard would lift at
least to give them . a chance of
covering those eleven miles. But
it did not abate . , ,
When, months later, the tent
was found, it seemed Scott had
been the last to die, His arm was
across the body of Dr. Wilson,
as if to comfort him.
Towards the end, Scott wrote:
"1 do not regret the journey,
Which has shown that English-
men can endure hardships, help
one another and meet death with
as great fortitude as ever in the
past."
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America's Wild .West produc-
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One of his best customers
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ISSUE 5 — 1902
MERRY MENAGERIE
X want you to meet my'
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