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o When these lilies were written,
there very, fortunately had not been in
recent National Hockey League battling.,
any such disturbing injuries as the skull
fractures suffered in the past by Ace
Bailey and Elmer Lech, and it is de
voutly to be hoped that no such near-
tran : annals of the game.
But If such .an accident does befall, it will be in part the
fault of the victim, because he, like all other hockey players,
refused to wear a helmet. In baseball there is nothing like
the contacts or the physical dangers that are constantly pre-
sent in hockey. But during the past summer, Frank Lane of
the Chicago White Sox revived the idea of compelling all
batters to wear protective headgear at the plate. And, of
course, he was 100 per cent correct.
Serious consequences have followed "beaning" of batters,
whether purely accidental or the result of trying to "dust off"
the hitter, just as falls on the ice, or headlongcrashes into the
boards, whether from checks or trips, lay hockey players open
to similar injury.
Ballplayers are like hockey players, and said to oppose
this safety device, however. "False pride" is the explana-
tion offered. "Pride goeth before destruction" is a proverb
recommended to the attention of potential beanball victims of
baseball, or head injuries in hockey.
In other sports, where head injuries are always a possibility,
protection is accepted and in some cases mandatory. J?ckeys,
football players, auto race drivers and fighters in training al]
use protective headgear. Some football players even wear
fase masks, not only in scrimmage practice but in games.
After the Ace Bailey crash, there was an edict that all
hockey players must wear helmets.: The teams provided
these, but after a few weeks they were tossed into the discard.
Players said they were too hot. But the truth is, the players
were too proud of their physical toughness to wear them.
They considered helmets effeminate.
But if those exposed to danger in other sports wear helmets
for safety, why should -hockey players be too proud to do like-
wise?
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.. PLAIN 'HORSE SENSE ..
By BOB ELLIS
Listening the other day to C.
H. Millard, National Director of
United, :Steelworkers, address -
big the Semi -Annual Meeting
of the Ontario Farmers Union
we could not help being greatly
impressed with the speaker's
sincerety' and his• concern over
the welfare, not only of his own
steelworkers, but of all working
people.
Referring back to the times
. when women and children used
' to work twelve hour days in the
mines and factories of Britain,
Mr. Millard said that such con•
dition§ would be unthinkable
today; ' the" change had been
brought about by the people '
themselves when they organized
into 'pinions. .
Same 'Interest
Mr. Millard said that an or-
ganization was as strong as the
loyalty of its members tet.. "It
is not enough to organize for an
inunediate material profit.' Far -1 l'
mers must- have faith in far-
mers, ; workers in ;worke.r4 and'
both in each other',"
The interests of fanners and''
No Yolk — Mrs. Frarik Miller
is mightly proud of the huge
half -pound egg that was laid re-
cently. on her farm. Above, Mrs.
Miller smiles after cracking. the
*hstiernt egg, into a• bowl. Below is'
''r.* clone. -up of the contents of tbe
`•'big's}telt—a-normal'egg-and two
yolks. •
Workers, the two largest groups
of producers and consumers,
were interdependent, if .:; one
group was down 'and out, the
other would soon follow. As an
example Mr. Millard cited the
farm implement industry .which,
due to the reduced ;purchasing
power of the fernier, had laid
off :over Half of its employees.
Those unemployed, of course,
could not buy the farmer's prod-
ucts and• eventually all• would
"end up in the same soup."
Farmers; Organize!
He was therefore not speak-
ing unselfiphly,•,said Mr. Millard,
when he urged • fariiners; to build
a strong organization of their .
own.
The >00 farmers:,. ,who had
' come . ''to Arthur "from as far
as 100 miles away to listen to
Canada's great leader of work-
ing people, heard his oti:ei that
"anything ,that labour has learn -
.ed by *ay • of'reseach and or-
ganizatioll is at your disposal."
'Proud of Union
Earlier ,in the„day, the . meet-
ing was given a report by Chris.
Hansen, Junior ,President of • the
Saskatchewan Farmers Union
on union activities in the West,
mainly concerning wheatand
livestock marketing..
Thee were 1050 union locals
with close "to 70,000 members in
Saakatchpyan, Mr. Hanson stated.
He also related how Mr,. Gar-
diner, Minister;;, of • Agriculture
was once asked at a political
meeting .what he thought of the
Farmers Union.
For ,an .answer Jimmy Gar-
diner pulled out his Member-
ship' card -drft1 said that r1•e liad'
been , a member 'for twentry
years, that he 'vas proud of the
union and that every termer
should belong to it.
Resolutions
The meeting • - discussed and
adopted a number of rp'5tution
demanding , lagi lation r; W pvid•h
ing for national lattaltefisitragens
cies; an . enquiry,i .41 e prob-
lems created by rittedi'ble oilimi4
tations of dairy iiioducts arid an
enquiry into the chte es. , of high
prices of fdrin ma}hiilel,y, fere
tilizer, binder twine and rubber
goods.
The 1111ion far,.Mrs, also went
en record as `av
f oux ice; union
security for farmers and workers
by the voluntary revocable
checkoff or other • suitable
means,• and urged the govern-
ment to bring in the necessary
legislation.
• ',>;his , ,column welcomes sug-
gestions, 'wise or foolish,, and all
Criticism, whether constructive
er .destructive Sind .will' try to
answer • any. question.. Address;
your letters to Bob Ellis, BOX 1.
123 ' 18th Street, New Toronto,
Ont.
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We were under the impression
. '. that we were familiar with.
about all the horse -racing 'stories
and anecdotes that had ever
been published. Indeed, at vari-
ous times we have ebeen guilty
of inflicting a few on the read-
` ing public.
However, in the latest issue of
"•The Police Gazette" which
isn't a bit like the old sheet we
• used to buy surreptitiously and - •
' read behind closed;- doors
Charles Morey has a batch of
them, some of which were new
to us, and all well worth pass-
ing on. So here are a, few of.,
them: • • k - * *
Bookmakers, in the days when
they held .sway, were like every-
body else. Soilie;'were -good, some
were bad; some w e on the
level, some were cheaters; and
some were just plain lucky.
Back in 1919, a bookn'laker
operating at Saratoga refused to
subscribe to the morning line. It
was the custom of the .other
'bookmakers to chip in and pur-
chase a line of prices from an
expert. The lone hold-out used
to wait for the other books .to
post their prices. Then he would
"steal” the line.
The other bookies brooded
about it for months and decided
to fix the cheater.' . One day,
when Man 0' War was entered,
they posted an opening price of
3 to 1 on Big Red. The cheating
bookmaker followed suit. Then
the others quickly changed their
odds t0 3'to '5.
Meanwhile, the ' cheater was
being rushed from all sides by
bettors, eager to get 3 to 1. He
soon found himself with thou-
sands of dollars on Big Red and
no bets on anything else.
The date was Ailgust;.13;::1919.
The race was the Sanford Stakes.• •
It was the only race Man ,0' ,War,
ever lost. And the winner's naine
was Upset!
Don', Give up the Ship too Soon
Department:
At A4ueduet last summer a •
filly named Grecian Maid ran
away before the start of a race,
jumped the fence, ,and disap-
• peered into the. stable'area. She
was returned to the post, while
her backers moaned. Their
moans turned into cheers when
'she romped home, the winner by
three lengths.
A couple of decades ...ago, at .
Belmont Park, a•).filiy.e•-named
Watch Her was an...eyen-looney
favorite in a race 'down the
Widener Chute She too, ran
away, but she did it in spades.
Watch Her raced through the •
Chute, jumped the rail, and gal-
loped through the paddock out
ionto a highway which parallels
Belmont. It took the effotts of
several mounted policemen to
corral her.
• She was taken back to the
post. Bookmakers were offering'
any price against her, with no
takers, Watch Her zipped to the
front at the•break and galloped
on the lead all the way to 'win
easily. * * *
A .man who had just been fired •
from hits job drifted into Rock-
ingham Park in Salem, New
Hampshire, one afternoon in 1945.
'Figuring that. things couldn't get
worse, he decided to try his luck
with the horses. ,He noticed that
a herse entered in the first race
was named Mighty Tough, and
that another in the second raee
. was Called Detach. He coupled
the two horses lit `the daily
deuble.
ningol The pay -oil was $8,614. -
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-Pretty Kitty — Veteran show-cat-
"Cy-Boh" relaxes in his basket
during the recent opening of the
international Show of the Cat
Club in Paris, France. Some 300
felines were exhibited at the
show.
40 for $2.001
A once-in-a-lifetime happen-
ing? Perhaps. At a Midwest
track, two soldiers rattled up to
the gate in a well-worn convert-
ible. They had $2.19 between
them. Their •uniforms- got them
in at the pass gate. A dime pur-
chased a program. They placed
the program on the ground and
rolled a .pebble over it twice,
noting where the pebble stopped
but neither of .the selected
horses' appealed to them. They
rolled the pebble twice more and
this time shot their $2.00 bank-
roll on a daily -double ticket.
Again bingo! The pay-off was
$2,400 for $2.001
At Monmouth Park in New
Jersey, several lucky people
cashed in a double of $2,831.40
on the Combination of . 8 and 1.
One exultant 'winner 'explained
that he was caught in a traf-
fic jam on his way to the track
and was anchored behind one
car for most of the trip. The
license number was 81. An old
lady. cramming' big • bank notes
into a` tiny purse; gave the•cred-
it to her parents. "'1 played my
age — 81," she explained. "But
suppose I were a year older or
younger 1" * * 4'
An, axiom of the turf insists
there are 1,000 ways to lose a
race,' The 1,00th way carne up at
Rockingham Park a few years
ago.. Jockey ': 'Warren arren Yarberry
turned into the stretch aboard
the front -running Singing Slave.
As the jocks say,'• he was just
"lo ikin' an' cookin.' "
Singing Slave's backers were
racing to the pay-off windows as
4e filly flew .peri •rt'he sixteenth
pole five lengths in front. Just at
ti at moment, a hurricane roared
i , to Rockingham. It lifted Yar-
brry neatly out of the saddle and
deposited hiin,startled but un-
injured, in the infield,
:> 4' *
A. good jockey doesn't need in-
structions, and a poor, One can't
follow them, Some years ago the
clever veteran, Ty Meloche, was
riding for an inexperienced 'Ow-
ner. In the paddock, before the ••
race, the novice horseman told ..
the rider he had prepared in-
structions for hixn.
He showed the pop -eyed Me-
1.6ehe a map,of the Thistle Downs
.racing strip on which he had
indicated the various furlong
poles with 'exact instructions on,
what to do at each past. "Be on ,
your toes at the start," read the
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midway up the backstretch and
take the lead at the top of the
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.stuffed the riding orders into his
`boots. The horse he was riding
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'What happened, can't . you
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"Sure, I can read," Meloche
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