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4 &melt 9e/flew**
e Lightning, that vagrant and unpredict-
able thing which isn't supposed, by
theory, to strike twice in the same place,
may fool the hockey folks this year.
At the end of the 1938-39 hockey season,
Montreal Canadiens finished sixth in a
7 -club league. They managed to scrape
into the play-offs, but were quickly ousted. It was a bad year
for the French-Canadian team, except in one instance: the
League's leading point -maker, with 24 goals and 23 assists, was
Hector "Toe" Blake, battling left wing, And for his services
in out -pointing such greats as Apps, Schmidt, Cowley, Bauer,
Schriner, Dillon and Drillon, he won the Hart Trophy, as the
player most useful to his team.
As these lines are being penned, there seems to be devel-
oping a feeling, perhaps sentimental, that once again a member
of the League's lowliest club should be very carefully consid-
ered for the coveted award this season. For it is believed that
Elwin Ira (Al.) Rollins of Vanguard, Sask., the ."Thin Man"
who guards the Chicago Black Hawks nets, has an excellent
chance of winning the award.
Last season, Rollins was second , only to Detroit's Gordie
Howe in the voting for the "most valuable player to his team."
And if any player has filled that description this season the
player is Rollins.
The Hawks have never been known as a defensive -minded
team in the postwar years, and manning the nets for them
has been too much to handle for several outstanding goalies,
like Boston's Sugar Jim Henry, Harry Lumley, now with Tor-
onto, and ex -Bruin Frank (Mr. Zero) Brisnsek.
And when you discount the 24 goals scored against Chi-
cago in four games Rollins missed earlier this season, you get
a true picture of his value. Two other goalers, including former
rookie award winner Jack Gelineau, tried' to stem the tide,
but ha vain.
Tall, slim, poker-faced, Rollins is lightning -fast with hands,
feet and stick, has perfect reflexes, a keen eye. It was the
goaling wizardy of Rollins that carried Hawks, last spring, to
their first play-off berth in six years, and forced Canadiens,
ultimate Cup winners, into seven games in the semi-finals.
The Hart Trophy award was made before this series, and
Rollins might otherwise have won it. But lightning may strike
twice, and a member of another lowly team may edge more
prominent stars out of the "most Valuable" award.
Your comments end suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yong* St., Toronto.
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By BOB ELLIS
Rome, Italy
Here in Rome the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) has its
headquarters. In one of the ultra-
modern buildings that Mussolini
put up for one of his government
departments, a thousand people
of a dozen `different nationalities
collect and co-ordinate all infor-
dation on production and distri-
bution of food products in all con-
tinents.
It is here that we gathered
some of the facts and figures
necessary to get a picture of the
situation in Europe.
Increased Production
Agricultural production In
North. Western Europe 'has in-
tireased by about two per cent
snnually since 1950 it has kept
pace with the increase in popula-
tion wince 1938 and in the United
Ningdom considerably exceeded
This result has been obtained
with lower imports of animal
Reeding stuffs and the index of
production net of .imported feeds
exceeds the index of gross pro-
duction by about five per cent.
In 1952-53 the production of
cereals and sugar exceeded the
average of the four previous
bears, but the production of po-
tatoes was lower and the weather
was not generally favourable for
pasture and other green fodder.
We
Deblurbing TV
We used to dream about it and
eventually it came true—the
little device by which one is en-
abled to sit snugly in one's -arm-
chair and switch off the sales
talk from a TV commercial. The
makers of Blab -Off, the device
in question, report high and
mounting sales for their handy,
humanitarian little gadget.
Here is evidence of what Orte-
ga y Gasset might call a "revolt
of the masses" against the com-
mercial drivel to which their TV
gets mercilessly expose them.
However, the announced aim of
Blab -Off is not to kill commer-
cials but to improve them. Ad-
vertisers who give new facts,
new ways to use their products,
new items to enrich the lives of
their hearers — these sponsors
won't get blabbed off. But the
unctuous and interminable ap-
peals 't0 vanity and fear and
false appetite—these can be re-
duced to silent mouthings on the
screen, to be ignored at will.
Now the advertisers are ad-
vertising Blab -Off, and the cycle
is complete. Perhaps it proves
that a free society carries within
itself the remedy kr its Own
Worst excesses. -From The Chris-
tian Science Monitor.
With an excellent harvest, the
production of bread grains in
most continental countries equal-
led and in a few cases surpassed
the prewar average. Except In
France the output of coarse
grains was generally greater than
before the war.
Italian Production. Down,. _.
In Italy expansion of agricul-
tural production has not kept
pace with the increase in popu-
lation. Most progress has been
achieved in special products such,
as fruit, vegetables, wine and in-
dustrial crops, most of which are
largely grown for export. A de-
cline in the cereal area has not
been compensated by higher
yields, and coarse grain produc-
tion in particular is considerably
less than before the war. Live-
stock production as a whole is
not yet at the prewar level, but
is approaching It for milk and
eggs. A somewhat larger produc-
tion of rice and sugar has been
a feature of Italian agriculture in
recent years.
How far Italian production is
lagging behind can best be judg-
ed by comparing the average yield
per hectare of the years 1948-52
with the average„ of the period
of 1934-38. While Western Eur-
ope has increased its production
by. 15 per cent, Mediterranean
production is down six per cent,
In rice and maize—in spite of
the first -mentioned larger pro-
duction—they produced in 1948-
52 only 83 per cent of the average
of 1934-38. Maize and rice are the
most important staple foods of
Italy.
Italian Politics
The low productivity and the
concentration of land ownership
in large holdings on which the
peasants work either as share
croppers or for very low wages,
are the main stumbling block for
the formation of a new govern-
ment. The situation is clearly re-
cognized by all parties.
The parties on the extreme
right want to maintain the sta-
tus quo, those on the extreme
left — Communists and Nenni
Socialists—are aiming at totali-
tarianism and within the Chris-
tian -Democrats, party of the
Centre, opinions are divided.
Signor' Fanfani, leader of the
social minded faction of the
Christian -Democrats, wanted to
go to it alone and has antagon-
ized the three small parties of
the old De Gasperi coalition, the
Liberals, Republicans and Demo-
cratic Socialists.
There is still hope that the old
coalition can be rebuilt.
This column welcomes sug-
gestions, wise or foolish, and all
criticism, whether constructive
or destructive and will try to
answer any question. Address
your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1,
123 -,18th St., New Toronto, Ont.
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A week or so ago, in poverty
and almost forgotten, there pass-
ed away one of the greates leath-
er slingers, for his poundage, that
ever crawled between the ropes
Of a ring. He was 13attling Nel-
son—and, if memory serves •'us
aright, the Battling was nett. a
nickname, but part of his right-
ful moniker. We may be wrong, ,
but as we recall it, the Durable
Dane's was christened — over in
Denmark — Oscar 1Vlatthew Bat-
tling Nelson, Of course, as we
said, we night be mistaken -^
and if anybody wants to slip us
return fare to Copenhagen, first'
class, we'd be glad to slip over,
and look it up.
* 9• .4
But there's no mistake about
Nelson's battling ability. He was.
about as tough as they come, and
the following tale — borrowed
largely from Bill Stern's "FA-
VORITE BOXING STORIES" —
a must for every fight -fan's li-
brary—tells of the deadly feud
between Nelson and one of his
great rivals, Jimmy Britt.
:k * *
The fighters were as unlike as
they could be, Britt was young,
handsome, intelligent, a smooth
dandy who not only acted like a
perfect gentleman but looked;the
part in his Prince Albert coat
and high hat. On the other hand,
Battling Nelson, the Durable
Dane, was a hardboiled, tough
little man with a weazened face
and a tangled mop of wiry hair
that defied the discipline of a
comb and brush. Nelson's idea of
fashion consisted of turtle -neck
sweater and a cap,
One day, Battling Nelson, . at-
tired in his tasteful ensemble of
sweater and cap caught a glimpse
of Jimmy Britt in his smart
Prince Albert and shiny high hat.
The idea of a prize fighter wear-
ing a hat like that positively in-
furiated the little tough guy. He
determined on the spot to de-
stroy Jimmy Britt together with
his fancy clothes, slick manners,
and, above all, his high hat.
* . ,
It was inevitable that these
two fighters meet in the ring.
They came to face each Other in
a crowded arena under the hot
blue sun of a California sky. As
Nelson glared across the ring at'
®atm Jimmy Britt, he could still
see the high hat In his mind's.
eye. .
k * *
When they met in the middle
of the ring, Jimmy Britt looked
into Battling Nelson's face and
what he saw there sent a cold"t
chill down his back. Nelson's
eyes were those of a dead man,
expressionless, terrifiying. Jim
my Britt -shook off the feeling
with difficulty. He had never
been afraid of any man in the
ring, and he would not let him-
self be frightened now.
* *
As the bout began, Britt drew
• murmurs of appreciation from
the crowd for his superb boxing.
He landed six times as often as
the grim little Nelson, and his
blows were hard and sharp. The
Durable Dane shook them off and
kept ploughing in.
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Soon, Nelson's expressionless
face was a mass of crimson jelly.
With every blow landed by the
clever Britt, Nelson shook him-
self, and muttered in Britt's ear,
"I'll lick you. You and your high
'hat."
4 *
For fourteen rounds, Jimmy
Britt cut Battling Nelson to rib-
bons and the Dane kept coming
back for more. Britt, at the end
of his patience, and somewhat
battered and groggy himself
from the unending charge of his
opponent, stopped boxing and
stood toe to toe, slugging it out
with Nelson. He began to realize
that his adversary was determin-
ed to destroy him, and that a
beating was not enough for. the
Durable Dane to take from the
ring . in victory. The constant
snarl of Battling Nelson, "I'll lick
you, you with your top hat!"
made Britt realize at last that
'Nelson was fighting him with
;.hate in his heart.
* * .4
At the start of the eighteenth
round, Battling Nelson tore into
Jimmy Britt, showering him
With club -like rights and lefts.
The handsome, superb boxing
:('.piaster, Jimmy Britt, went down.
A hush fell over the arena. The
i,s,idol of the crowd had crumbled
efore the fists of the scrubby
h little guy from the Middle
6st.
* * *
, - Britt's eyes were glazed as he
I rolled over and tried to pick him-
self up from the canvas. Nelson,
a mass of bruises and beaten to
a pulp himself, leaned over the
.fallen warrior, snarling with
hate.
Britt tried desperately to pull
himself to his feet to go on with
the battle. As Nelson growled
with animal satisfaction, Britt's
head sank once more to the can-
vas and the referee counted him
out.
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crowd for the conqueror. Battl-
ing Nelson was hailed as a king,
swept up on the shoulders of his
new admirers and carried tri-
umphantly from the ring.
* * *
From this height, Nelson look-
ed down on Jimmy Britt as the
latter was being helped to his
corner, `Let him wear his high
hat now," snarled the new fa-
vorite. "He'll never be the
champion l"
* * *
Battling Nelson was right.
Britt never did become cham-
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thanks to a feud that started be-
cause he could not bear to see
another fighter wear a high hat.
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