HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1949-08-18, Page 6Couldn't Beat Channel — Mrs. Willie Croes Van Rijsel, 30 -
year -old 'Dutch mother, was forced to give up hereffort to
swim the English Channel only a mile and a half from the
Dover Cliffs after she'd been in the water 14 hours and 16,
minutes. Here Mrs. Rijsel talks with her trainer just before
she began her futile swim.
LOR
A SlXBITC
You read and hear—and we trust
pay heed to -countless warnings
regarding the dangers of such
liquids as
beer,
wine and spirits:
s.
butfail we to remember any such
admonitions about the trouble a
guy can get into through mixing
too freely, in an athletic way, with
what we scientists refer to as H20,
commonly known as water. And
we think it is about time.
* * *
For those who take their sport
mixed with water seem to suffer
more heartbreak and punishment,
in return for less monetary or other
reward. than any other class of
athletes we know. Why they do so
will always remain -a mystery to
us—unless, just possibly, they do
these things because they like do-
ing then!, and are in sport—awful
thought!—for the sheer love of
sport. * * *
Thinking over the list of horrible
examples the name of Sir Thomas
Lipton comes to mind—the man
who spent millions of dollars trying
to lift a Cup, and knowing all the
time that, by the rules which gov-
sl'ned the contest, he was beaten
before he even started. However,
perhaps Sir Thomas is not the
happiest choice we might make, as
we seem to remember that he was
connected with a certain food pro-
duct which gained a heap of in-
direct advertising through his ef-
forts. * * *
Then there were the English
Channel swimmers. They take an
awful beating, those blubber -coated,
oil -besmeared lads and lasses who
attempt the crossing from England
to France, or vice versa—and what
do they get out of it. Try and re-
call the names of just three of those
who finally made it. Try and recall
the names of one who got more
than a few front-page headlines—
then oblivion.
Yet they're still at it. A Dutoh
housewife had to be pulled out of
the water after battling with the
waves for half a day; and an Eng-
Ssh boy and a Yankee Miss are
training hard, at this writing, in an
¢fort to succeed where she, and
Conn t 1 e s s others, have failed.
Dangerous stuff, that water.
* * *
We could go on and on, citing
the scullers and crew oarsmen who
—if asked to toil for wages a
quarter as hard as they do for fun—
would start either a strike or a.
revolution. There are the men who
take a shot at Inch trophies as the
Harmsworth — and who see the
hopes and labors of months go
blooey when an engine conks out.
StHI, they keep on coining back for
more.
* * *
A perfect example of what we
mean is found in the case of the
Livingston Brothers, who run a
Sheep ranch down at Gambia in
Australia. They got the notion
they wanted to get into a boat race
—not the sort we have at various
Canadian race tracks we might,
but s'or't mention. And this is what
the Livingstons did to achieve their
ambition.
* * *
The race was the fifteenth Calif-
ornia to Honolulu event — a mere
jaunt of 2,225 miles. But in order to
get to the starting post at San
Pedro, the Livingstons had to travel
9,355 miles. And although their
ketch could only carry a nine man
crew, more than 200 applied for
plrc..
Anyway the KURREWA sailed
out of Melbourne last April 19; and
although
the date of the a race was
some two and a half months away,
the two Livingston boys were wor-
ried about getting to the barrier on
time. So they decided to carry the
same amount of canvas day and
night.— much more than would
have been needed at the speed they
originally planned.
* * *
That wasn't the only hitch. Be-
fore they were well started a storm
blew away the "blister" which pro-
tected the helmsman. A little later
their deck etores were s washed
away. Getting short of fuel the boys
couldn't keep their refrigerator go-
ing, so vitamin oils had to take the
place of fresh food.
* * *
In the blackest portion of an ex-
tremely dark night a crewman was
batted on the head by a boom and
was barely saved from going over-
board. Another crewman, diving in
for a swim when the ketch was be-
calmed, landed on s shark basking
in the shadow of the hull. They say
he showed a rare turn of speed
getting back on board, and we don't
doubt it. Only three of the nine
escaped seasickness.
* * *
KURREWA looked fairly well
battered when she reaohed San
Pedro on June 27th., but they soon
got her spruced up a bit. But ever'
then her luck proved to be any-
thing but good. Only minutes after
the 24 contestants started, the
KURREWA was damaged aft and
knocked off her course when a rival
rammed into her. Local information
picked tip by the Australians was
either misleading or misinterpreted.
It sent the KURREWA squarely
into a sixteen -hour calm in the lee
of Catalina Island.
* * *
Over the whole 2,225 -mile race
route the KURREWA carried a
2 -ton overload. With the Hawaiian
shipping strike still on, the Aue-
tralians oouldn't afford to leave
California without supplies for the
poet -race trip from Honolulu back
to Melbourne. "That overload,"
Frank Livingston estimated, "cost
us days." * * *
At 4:24 a.m. HST on July 18 the
KURREWA crossed the finish
line. Her elapsed time (13 days, 18
hours, 24 minutes, 32.7 eeconds)
didn't compare with the new
straight -time record (10 days, 10
hours, 13 minutes, 9.5 seconds) set
by Richard Rlheem's 98 -foot
schooner, Morning Star, of Los
Angeles.
* * *
But sailing men agreed that
under the circumstances the KUR-
REWA, fifteenth among the seven-
teen finishers that bettered the pre-
vious record time, had done well.
Skipper Frank Livingston thought
hie ship would do even better next
tome: "We might even win, if we
manage to enter as a racer instead
of as a freighter."
* * *
That last sentence proves our
contention to the hilt. After all the
grief they'd gone through, those
Llvingstona — and, we presume,
the rest of the orew — are eager•for
more of the same. It's certainly
time they laid off the dangers of
malted, vinous and spirituous
liquids and issued warnings to in-
tending athletes about the perils of
jtlatplain water—unless, of course,
you happen to have real sporting
blood running through your veins.
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GREAT BRITAIN
"Never in: the courae of human
affairs has such great havoc been
w'rought by suchsmall men," was
one of the striking phrases from
Winston Churchill's speech to the
forty thousand Tory faithful who
packed the football stadium at
Wolverhampton — a crowd which
greeted its leader with such a
terific rendition of "Land of Hope
and. Glory" that it brought tears to
Churchill's eyes and caused his
thin to tremble with emotion.
But Churchill in his speech[ not
only refrained from criticizing the
social services of the welfare state,
but claimed credit for their intro-
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ernments causing still further
muttering in the ranks of the Con-
servatives who believe that the
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leader.
Here is how the situation looks
to a neutral—Fred Vanderscltmidt,
chief of the London Bureau of
NEWSWEEK, a journal that cer-
tainly has no Socialistic or Leftist
leanings.
'The Tories' failure to propose
just now that the British take the
hard way out of their troubles is a
tribute to the success. of Socialist
propaganda, which accuses the
Tories of planning large-scale un-
employment when and if they come
to power. Unemployment still is
the most -feared word in the lan-
guage of England.
"The Conservatives have ob-
viously gained some ground since
Britain's latest trouble same out in
the open. Nevertheless few shrewd
Britons would yet give even money
on a Tory. victory. Indeed many
businessmen who ordinarily would
like to see the Conservatives in
power fear this would soon be fol-
lowed by labor troubles. That is
why they are talking again of a
national government, perhaps head-
ed by Sir Stafford Cripps. Yet his
remains a very doubtful prospect.
"Now that they have had time for
reflection, some thoughtful Britons
are beginning to say that the
origins of the high-cost area in
which Britain's economy now finds
itself stranded go back at least two
decades before the present Socialist
regime. The seeds of trouble were
planted in the 1920s when the in-
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easier to take their profits out in
dividends rather than maintain and
improve their capital equipment.
'The future was uncertain, labor
was restless, and the owners on the
whole were afraid to take risks.
The few who dad—including the
Cunard Line, the builder of the
Queens—are now in a position to
compete with anyone in the world.
The others are not."
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