HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1948-09-23, Page 2Not Quite so Tough and Cocky Now—The self-styled leader
of the notorious "Beanery" gang, accused of making life miser-
able for residents at Ontario stammer resorts, doesn't look at all
happy about the whole thing as he is seen in custody of pollee
officers at Barrie. Unable to raise bail on an assault charge; .
21 -year-old Frank Stothers sobbed, "My folks have deserted
me—I don't want to go back to jail."
It would be a very modest esti-
mate to say that the 21 speedboats
registered as starters in the Gold
Cup race on the Detroit River rep-
resented an investment of at least
a million dollars. For one ex-
ample, Guy Lombardo and Sam-
mie Simmons, her former owner,
have spent over two hundred thous-
and on TEMPO IV. alone.
* * *
Of the 21, only fifteen were able
to get to the starting line, what
with one thing and another. And
of those fifteen only two could go
the full ninety miles, which is the
distance represented by the three
heats The balance fell, or dove,
by the wayside.
Now there's no doubt that the
racing, of„ speedboats. is.. a, very
thrilling sport; in fact we know of
few, if any, which furnish a bigger
kick to both contestants and spec-
tators. Still, when you come to
think it over, if a guy really wanted
to go anywhere by water, he'd do
it a whole lot cheaper and with a
great deal more certainty by means
of an old fashioned rowboat, or
even a raft.
Last year we commented several
times about Jackie Robinson—the
first of his race to make the major
leagues in baseball with praise for
his brilliant play, also his gameness
for sticking in there in spite of the
rather rough passage he was given
by some of his fellow -players and
by a certain section of the fans.
* * *
This season Jackie's name hasn't
been appearing in the sports head-
lines quite so frequently—a fact
which was the probable cause of a
reader of this column recently
cracking—"What's the matter with
your friend Robinson, that you used
to be boosting so hard? Looks like
he's just another of those fireworks
players—up like a rocket and then
down like the stick. I knew all the
time he didn't have what it takes."
*. *. *
So just out of curiosity the other
morning we took a look at the
National League box scores, just
to see to what depths the dusky-
ekinned Dodger had fallen. On
the Saturday, we discovered, all
Robinson had done was score
Just For Fun
There are many who*po doubt
still remember the fabulous
Florida real estate boom of
twenty-five or so years ago,
when many an investor paid
terrific sums—"sight unseen"—
for land later discovered to be
more adapted to swimming than
farming.
One such victim ruefully sur-
veyed his worthless acres, or as
much of them as was visible un-
der six feet of water, then' made
a bee -line for the promoter who
had sold him the property.
"You faker," he yelled. "Did-
n't you tell me I could grow
nuts on that property?"
"I said nothing of the kind,"
replied the promoter firmly.
"What I said was that you could
GO nuts on it"
both of Brooklyn's only two runs—
they won 2 to 0—hit a home run and
a triple, and taken part in a double
play.
The next day it was even
worse. Mr. Robinson's chore that
afternoon consisted of merely four
hits in six times at bat—including
a double, a triple and a homer; two
runs batted in; one stolen base;
and a part in a double play. When
we saw that, in addition to this, he
had been guilty of committing an
error, we couldn't help thinking
that it's a wonder they don't charge
him admission to the ball park. But
maybe they make him help sweep
out the grandstand after hours to
earn his salary.
* * *
Also we cannot help thinking—for
about the hundredth time— what
a marvel it is that the colored boys,
who are cutting such wide swathes
in baseball, football, track-and-
field and most every other sport
you might mention, simply cannot
seem to make the upper grades of
a game called hockey, It just must
be that they simply do not take to
Canada's national game—for the
idea that they could be under any
other handicap, or that there might
be anything even faintly resembling
a color -line drawn, is simply un-
thinkable—we hope.
* *
"Train up a child in the way
that he should go, and when he is
old he will not depart from it" is a
web known Scriptural quotation
with a wide range of application,
One of these, in our opinion, is Can-
adian football, which we think will
be eligible for an entirely new name,
seeing that the "foot" has come to
play so little part in it.
* * *
For several years we have been
calling attention to the fact that
when a bunch of kids get together
on a corner lot with an inflated pig -
akin, about ninety per cent of their
activities consists in practising
tossing and catching forward passes.
Back in the days when we could
really enjoy watching a game either
at• 90 in the shade or ten below
zero, it was just the other way.
around.
* * *
All the young squirts of that era
wanted to be lnughty punters, and
that is what they spent their time
learning. Now, this failure to
"train up a child etc." is bearing
fruit—and sorry fruit it is; and we
older fans sit there and listen, in
amazement, to the crowds cheering
"Mot -moth" punts which, a, few
years back, wouldn't have beecon-
sidered up to par in a prep -school
game.
* * *
When you see a large proportion
of the kicking here being done by
ex -Americans, you know that the
worst has happened—for our punt-
tors could always out -range those
from the south of the border by
anything from 15 to 30 yards. One
of these days a Smart Canadian
coach, instead of importing hie
hired help from the U. S. A., will
bring in a few of those English
rugby boot artists, Give one of
them a season to become ai:clim-
atized to our game, and he's prob-
ably
ably kick his team to a Dominion
championship without even getting
the bosom of his britches muddied.
SO1•
1N THE
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Norman.Blaiv
South Arabia
It was only a very brief dispatch
from Washington, and received but
little attention or comment. Yet it
brought news which, in times like
these, was so unusual as to be al -
moat
-moat unbelievable.
This piece of news told of the
Government of Saudi Arabia deli-
berately refusing to accept a fifteen
million dollar loan from the U.S.A.
because of that nation's attitude on
the Palestine, problem.
"We feel we would like to get
assistance from a friend and not
from someone helping our ene-
my," was the way a spokesman
phrased it.
As to the differences between the
Arabs and the Jews no comment is
intended, except to say that the lat-
ter have had greatly the best of it
in the matter of publicity. But
those South Arabians must be more
backward — or more self-respect-
ing—than was generally believed.
Someone should really tell them
that nobody turns down a "hand-
out" these days just -over such a
paltry thing as national pride.
Central Europe
The Danube "conference" is
over; and as everybody expected,
even before it started, it was a con-
ference in name only, merely serving
to confirm the Russians in a posi-
tion they had already seized. The
voting at Belgrade proved not only
Russia's ability to exert mastery
over the greater part of the Dan-
ube River, but gave clear evidence
of that country's tight control over
the foreign policies of the six other
members of the "eastern bloc."
The world's most famous waltz
is the "Beautiful Blue Danube,"
written by Johann Strauss, an Aus-
trian. But neither Austria or Ger-
many, which has for centuries had
a vital interest in Europe's most
important river, will have a word
to say in the matter of its control.
Thatff will be in the hands of Russia
alone—or technically of Russia and
its satellite nations, which means
exactly the same tiling.
The United States Government's
blast at the outcome of the confer-
ence pointed out that the Russia,
plan for Danube control upsets the
traditions and usages of more than
a century and a quarter. Mr. Vish-
insky's conte -back was typically
modern - style Russian. "Certain
changes have been made," he brus-
quely remarlced, "and all appeals to
the past, to dead traditions of obso-
lete organs, cannot halt the mighty
upsurge of a new life."
British and French representa-
tives at the conference refrained
from voting. They knew they were
beaten—so what was the use? There
are those who profess to "pooh-
pooh" the Russian danger by say-
ing that Stalin and his buddies are
"only bluffing." If that is the case,
they're certainly managing to get
away with it.
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The Middle East
News from Damascus tells of a
project' which niiglit have an ' im-
mense effect on future world events.
This is the new port to be built in
Syria to serve as a terminal for
thirty -inch pipeline which, when
completed, will boost Great Bri-
tain's oil supplies from Iraq from,
4 million to 25 million tons annu-
ally.
After much inspection of possible
sites the Iraq ,Petroleum Co. has
asked for permission to buy the '
necessary land near the small town
of Banias on the Mediterranean
coast. The new port will probably
be even bigger than Beirut—up to
now the principal seaport of that
area—and will be able to handle as
many as 20 tankers atone time.
The new pipeline will be built
along the most direct line from
the big oilwells at Kirkuk to the
sea. Just when the other new 18 -
inch line running to Haifa in Pales-
tine will go into action is a mat-
ter of some doubt. It is almost
complete, but cannot be used at
present.
The United States
The case of the "kidnapped" Rus-
sian school teacher, and the conse-
quent ousting of the Soviet Consul
General, have been getting most of
the front-page "play" in United
States newspapers'. But if it
should reach the objective aimed
at, a bill signed by President Tru-
man—although receiving little pub-
lic attention—might have a more
direct effect on the lives of more
Americans than anything the Ka-
senkina's, Samarin's and Lomakin's
chance to do.
The people of the United States
—like a good many Canadians—
have the habit of buying things on
the installment plan. Americans
now owe something like 7 billion
dollars "on time"-- billions more
than ever before. And one of the
provisions of the new bill is intend-
ed to put somewhat of a curb on
this practice.
Some of the new regulations call
for down payments of one-third on
automobiles and one-fifth on wash-
ing -machines and other household
appliances. Payment for all pur-
chases under $1000 must be com-
pleted within 18 months—over that
amount in 18 months.
Whether or not the new law will
act, as intended, as a curb against
inflation, remains to be 'seen; but
most observers doubt that it will.
The "time purchase' habit seems
too deeply ingrained to be so easily
checked. As the vaudeville come-
dian used to say, "If it wasn't for
the installment plan a lot of minks
and other animals could wear their
own furs in winter." Plenty of
them will still probably be in dan-
ger of losing their pelts, act or no
act.
Deer Don't Know
What Fools Men Are
It has been observed that deer
caught in a forest- fire will some-
times run into the fire rather than
away from it. An explanation is
that fires are a comparatively new
"natural enemy" of forest animals.
At one time, forest fires were a
rarity, started only by lightning
a ranger tells reporter Ann Foster:
"Today, for every fire started by
lightning, a hundred are started
by men , .. And that is why a deer
will run into a fire instead of away
front 3t sometimes — his instinct
has not yet caught up with plan's
stupidity."
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from Free Rumania." This is fol-
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