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Home My WebLink AboutThe Seaforth News, 1948-06-17, Page 3Sports -And One Thing or. Another By Frank Mann Harris Just what is it that brings out -the record-breaking crowds to any sports event. Is it the expectation of seeing a close, tvell•played c n test — an "exhibition of skill and science" as the boxing and wrest- ling boys phrase it? Or is it the thrill 'of being among those present when something unusual, some- thing that will make the big head- lines, is taking place?; * * * A combination of both would pos- sibly be the most nearly correct answer, because in any big crowd there are bound to be both the real sports lovers and the thrill -seekers. Butany experienced sports promo- ter will tell you tha the latter out- number the former by so much that there's no real comparison. * *. *. '. They're the folks who cheerfully fork over five or tt.n times the box- office price for ticketsto a World's Series ball game or Stanley Cup hockey match -even although they know right well that what goes on it these "classics" is, as a rule, dull and wearisome 'compared to what is seen during the regular season. They're the ones who pack the tracks to suffocation point for the running of a King's Plate or Ken- tucky Derby brought there by ballyhoo, and not through any real ,liking for horses or horse -racing. So when some sixty thousand people=59,661 to be exact=turned out for a track and field sleet re- cently, you may be certain most of them were expecting to see some- thing sensational. They were. A couple of weeks earlier Mel Patton, by running 100 yards in 9.3 seconds, had broken a record that litany shrewd observers thought might never be topped. .And now' Patton was going to try and do the same to the 100 meter mark. They got their thrill and sensa- tion O.K.—and a terrific roar went up when it wai announced that Pat- ton had clipped the. 100 -meter stark by almost a full second. But a lot of them, a few moments later, were wishing they hadn't put so ntuc' strain on their lungs when it was -discovered that—due town error of the Ivan who laid out the course— Patton had travelled only 99 yards 5 inches—or almost 10 full' yards short -.of 100 meters. * * * The fuss that was made over this unfortunate error has rather taken the spotlight away from Patton's wonderful feat in making that new 100 yard mark, The 100 yard dash has always been one of the real glamour events of track and field= and whenever it's mentioned names like those of Jesse Owens, Frank Wyckoff, Bobby Kerr, our own Percy Williams and many others are bound to come to mind. Yet the man who many consider to have been the greatest speedster of them all is almost forgotten. * * * He was Jack Donaldson, a long- legged speed -ball out of Australia, who ran as a professional during most of his career. Thirty-eight years ago, running in South Africa, be -was clocked at 0 and three- eighths seconds for the hundred yarcls—(theyy used eighths instead of tenths he those days)—and that is a mere three -fortieths of a second lower than Patton's mark. What is more, when he did it Donaldson had his opponent so well beaten that he eased up all through the last 25 yards or so. There's no doubt he could have gone even faster—and there are plenty of those who should know about these things who Hon- estly believe that, with the ad- vantage of the better -constructed, springier sprinting track of nowa- days, Jack Donaldson might very well have run the hundred in 9 seconds fiat. - It was in a match race with. -Reg- gie Walker right after the latter had won 'the 100 meters at the Olympic Games., in London, that Donaldson made his record. It is, said that something like two million dollars was bet on the result, and the South Africans, who had backed their Reggie as though he was al- ready home -free, took a terrible financial lacing. * - Some of Dlonaldson'e other ab most incredible feats were recently recalled by one of his most ardent admirers. Hp ran the 130 yards -a favorite distance for professionals-- in rofessionals-in 7.1 seconds flat! He was tinted by the official clocker for the Aus- tralian Jockey Club who, when he saw'the figure on his stop-watchl at once said that the distance must be short, so incredible was the figure. So they measured it with a steel tape=the kind that doesn't stretch —and it was found to be 2 yards 2 inches MORE THAN the correct distance, * * * Donaldson seldom ran the quarter mile -but when he did `he covered the 440 , yards in 47 seconds flat years before any one elseever did. Coaxed into representing his Regi- ment in a four mile run during World War One he came in first by almost half a mile. Six feet tall, and with a phenomenal stride of nine feet,- Donaldson was really something—and those who contend. that there never was anything to equal him, before or since, have plenty of weight behind their argu- ment. Laying Cornerstone for New House of Commons—A new Ilouse •of Commons will rise in London from the remains of the old. building 'bombed during the war. Col, Clifton Brown, speaker of the House of Commons, lays the co rnerstone for the new structure. Among those • present is Winston Churchill, extreme left, What Goes. On In The 'World By Norman Blair South Africa Seventy-eight years of age, and of mixed Dutch and French 'an- cestry, fan Christian Smuts has long been known throughout South Africa as "the old boss". In the Boer War, 1899-1902, he fought against the British. Later on he held many portfolios — including those of Minister of Defense and of the Interior — in the new Brit- ish Dominion, the Union of South Africa. ' During the last two years of orld War One he was a member f the British War Cabinet, and was a leading figure in post-war settlements. He helped write the League of Nations Covenant, then returned to Africa to become the Union's Premier from 1919 to 1924. At the outbreak of World \\'ar Two, Struts got the Premiership again, and put his country on the side of Britain in the struggle with Hitler. His Government ruled over a population' of between 11 and 12 million. Less than a quarter of these are of white European descent. The balance are mostly of the na- tive Bantu races. In the South African parliament until quite recently, General Smuts' united party has had a lower house majority of about 25 seats, But late this May "the old boss" ran into an unexpected snag. In the criti- cal t, neral election for a new Ilouse of Assembly the opposition Nationalist party and its allies won a clear majority, Smuts himself lost the Standerton constituency which he had represented in Parliament for 24 years. The day after the voting Smuts' comment was — "These things do happen, There it is there it is." Then hd resigned his post as Pre- mier. Japan After Japan's defeat in the war the Emperor resigned all his re- ligious claims to supremacy. Voices are now being raised — although still wit, a me ;are ' caution — that he should acknowledge his re- sponsibility for the course of events, and step 'own from his throne. But, • strangely enough; those same liberal voices are being joined by these of others whose devotion to t'• ancient system has never been even shaken. Th.•se figure it something as follows — if Hirohito abdicates he would doubtless be sl ceded by .1-r 14 -year-old Crown Prince, who cannot in any way be blared for the disasters of war. Thus the Imperial institution would be continued and fortified. But the best hopefor a really liberal Japan would be for the fossilized Imperial institution to disappear completely - and that very possibility is now being discussed in influential Nip- ponese circles. Finland Finnish-Con,,ervatives, aided and abetted by Social Democrats and " iberals, apparently started some- thing they were unable to finish. When, to everybody's, surprise, they voted Leino, the Communist In- t-rior Minister nut of office, the upshot f, that Leint's wife, has been taken into the Governr.eat. And she - .Herta Kussificn — is an even higher-ranking Communist than her husband, So impartial observers regard the whc' thing as a victory for The Reds; in spite of the fact that in Finnish offici. circles it- is termed a compromise. One ' ctor is now plain. It is that the 'Kremlin now has a direct Zine into the Finnish Government in the person of Mrs Leino, Talented daughter of the President of the I.shish Karelian Soviet Republic, who is also a member of the Soviet Supreme Council, she frequently visits Moscow to consult her father on Finnish affairs. The Middle East A common bond of. enmity to the new State of .Israel has drawn all tiie Arab states together in one cause something that has not been achieved since the Turkish Empire broke up some thirty years ago. How long this can last nobody can say, but the fact is that ehvy have put aside long-standing disste-ee- ments ,.-'face the present crisis t.t- gether. Another part of the Middle East picture is the role the Communists are playing. There is a widespread conviction throughout Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Palestine that the Russians are staking political .pital of the situation.. For one thing, it i sale. that Rus- sia is. backing the Palestine parti- tion plan in order to get a better foothold in tite Middle East, partly by winning the friendship of Isreal. At the same time the Soviets are be- lieved to be fomenting strikes and disturbances in Arab countries with the aim of dividing the attention of the several Arab Governments, so that they would have less strength to expend on tit Palestine fight, and also less with which to handle internal difficulties. But Russia may not have counted on t' a fact that all Arab countries are by nature anti -communist. Arabs are keenly conscious of the anti religious aspects of communism, and clo not appear to be at all im- pressed by recent Russian changes toward religion. Germany Soviet propagandists in Germany are adding new vigor to their propa- ganda drive based on the thence of "German unity" — and the univers- al appeal of such a theme cannot be discounted. It may even out-weidli; for a while at least, the strong anti- Soviet feeling which has prevailed in Western Germany since the war's end, The Russians have coupled this slogan of German unity with accusa- tions that the. Western Powers are disfneinbering the country; and they insist that this "dismemberment" is only a preliminary to •he use of \qtr stern Gernlal.- as an arsenal of war and as a springboard for an eventual attack on the Soviets, in which, case Germany would be the battleground. This touches the feats that every German has for the future. Some of the propaganda tales that are Leing spread — and believed — seem fantastic to us. A German in I-Ianlburg' is told that in United States zone German girls are forced to clean the boots of American troops,' Germans in Nurentburg are informed, quite seriously, that in. Dusseldorf the British are quarter- ing Indian troops on the German population. In Cologne the tale is spread that "in the Russian zone" anyone who worked;ou a farm or in a factory gets all the gasoline he needs. "It i3 only the profiteers and Jews' who do not receive gas rations!" It is hard to believe that any thinking people could be duped by such stuff. But It must be remem- bered that Germans of today are people whose moral fibre and in- tellectual integrity has been weak- ened by over 15 years of fascism and war. In such mental soil even the crudest propaganda can take root. 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Catherine West, Montreal 18, HELP WANTED GRADUATE NURSES For general duty in small hospital. 8 -hour day. 6 -day week. Good salary, Apply Superinten- dent, Rosamond Memorial Hoepitat, Ahnonto, Ont, SINGLE or married man for dairy farm. Purebred Hoatoins, on 35 and R,O,P, Apply Pomona Farms, mhamesford, 'Ont. HOUSEKEEPER, with boy 14, for farm home, Apply to Laurence Brows, Dalkeith, Box 64, Ont, ISSUE "5 — 1948 POP—The Pill } WANTSOMB PREPA4L11D AGEtTYISAL1CYLI ACID I By J. MILLAR WATT