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Canada's athlete of the year was born
when 16 -year-old Marilyn Bell, a whole-
some slip of a high-school student, a girl
who sings in her church choir, seized
the edge of a boat at the 'Toronto hardor
front and was pulled • from the water,
after swimming the cold, treacherous
breadth of Lake Ontario from the United States to Canada.
This Canadian girl, with an immense heart in her 116 -
pound body, gave a performance beside which almost every
other athletic feat you can recall pales into insignificanos.
Facing competition from the great, established star, Florence
Chadwick, who had three times swum the English Channel,
as well as breasting the Catalina Channel, the Bosporous
and the Dardenelles, little Marilyn's chances for success in
this cruel test of heart and body were rated, sub -zero in
advance of the race.
So, here was drama, here was stark courage, here was
unbelievable stamina and will -to -win. Imagination is shaken
as you try to picture and analyze this tremendous feat
The kid started from the New York side of the lake be-
fore midnight.
All through the black night she swam, with icy waters
lashing into her face, blinding her, driving into her ears.
Slimy eels were clinging to her legs, fastening their
mouths upon her, a sickening chapter of the swim. Thus,
all through the night.
Came dawn, she was still swimming, battling her
way along. All day she swam, with the sun in the
heavens, then with dusk coming on. And still she .swam
— 40 miles of it, they say, as lake currents carried her
here and there, before she reached the shore, after 21
hours in icy water,
This rates the greatest athletic feat of the year in
Canada, and we're not forgetting the double 4 -minute mile
in the Empire Games. at Vancouver, as Bannister and
Landy, great Empire athletes, both raced within the un-
believable circle. That was a mighty feat, indeed. But,
after all, Bannister and Landy each had run the mile in
under 4 minutes once before. They were athletes who
came up to the Games fully prepared, trained to the min-
ute. From either of them, perhaps not from both, but
from either, a 4 -minute mile was generally expected.
They were already famous.
But this high-school kid, this Marilyn` Be11, had never
before been heard of. Her entry into the race was im-
promptu, backed we imagine by no concentrated scientific
training. What training can a kid of 16 years do, besides a
daily swim?
Her equipment, physically, as she entered into a gruel-
li"1>lg battle with the watery elements of the broad, cold lake,
were just her natural God-given courage, stamina and
strength. That's what, in part, makes her performance so
wonderful. Canada's sports event of 1954.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcome'
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 437 Yonas 5,., Toronto,
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AMHERS76URG, ONTARIO
Co bier's T„.',cks
Gaged A art
Mr. Mold, a bootmaker of
Edgware Road, London, looked
at the boots he had just finished.
They were beautiful boots lined
with lambswool, for a very
beautiful woman. Miss Camille
Cecile Holland was - a favourite
customer'' of his , and he always
put his best work into her
cerders. It was the year 1897.
He took a handful of brass
tacks and tapped his initials"M”
into the waist of each boot. It
was his stamp of approval for
his own work—though he would
hardly have dreamed it was also
to be the "signature" to a
death warrant!
But that lay in the future.
Only "Chief Inspector Luck,”
who so often stands for justice
when the efforts of human de-
tectives falter, could have known
o its significance.
Florence, the servant at Moat
Farm, Clavering, in Essex, was
iefraid of her master. She had
good reason to be, for he had
ilorcibly kissed her, and had at-
tempted to break into her room.
.When, one evening in May,
1899, Mr. Samuel Herbert
.'Dougal drove home in the pony
and trap without the mistress,
Florence was terrified. She bar-
Itieaded herself in her room and
was prepared to jump out of the
'window should Dougal break
town the door.
The mistress never carne back
nor did Dougal attempt to
molest Florence that night. He
had something else to do; and
Florence left next morning.
•
lee
ry
It was the year 1903. Mr.
Dougal, the wealthy owner of
Moat Farm, had acquired a
reputation as a ladies' man, and
there, was tap -room gossip about
lights -o' -love, but he was
hearty and generous and much
was forgiven him at first. His
wife — the real wife,+not the
lady who had accompanied him
to Moat Palen Ili' 1899—had ''run
away with an engine driver.
But Mr. Dougal had so many
affairs with village girls that at
last a note of spite crept into the
gossip. It was discovered that
his' first consort at Moat Farm
had been a beautiful Miss Cam-
ille Holland, and rumours be-
gan to circulate ,that although
she had left him, she had not
taken any of her possessions
with her. Gossip grew to scan-
dal, scandal to a suggestion that
Miss Holland had never left
Moat Farm. no
The local constable, P. C.
Drew, wrote a report to his
Chief Constable, who not only
sent do w n Superintendent
Pryke, but communicated- with
Scotland Yard.
Quite a lot was discovered
about Miss Holland and Mr.
Dougal. He was an ex -soldier
who had forfeited his pension
after a conviction for forgery;
the lady was a wealthy spinster
who, most surprisingly, had
been persuaded to throw in her
lot with a vulgar and un-
scrupulous adventurer. Moat
Farm stood in her name.
At this time the police be-
lieved Miss Rolland was a
prisoner in her own house,
their belief being strengthened
by the fact that cheques and
POCKY LEAVES — Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, on
kis way to Los Angeles, is kissed at I'dlewild Airport by his wife,
gorbara. She avoids both the bandaged nose and taped eye -
brew of her husband.
HARVEST QUEEN — All these vegetables and Loretta Kaiser, 19,
go to make up a luscious dish, served up for the"County Fair.
Loretta reigned as the "Vegetable Princess" of the annual
event, held this year at Pomona.
other documents bearing her
signature had been presented
and cashed regularly by Dougal.
By now nephews of Miss Hol-
land, already uneasy at the four
years, absence of news of their
aunt, had been shown speci-
mens of cheques bearing her
signature. Some of these they
definitely declared to be for-
geries.
Superintendent Pryke visited
Moat Farm to investigate, but
failed to find any trace of the
missing Miss Holland.
Although the Superintendent
appeared satisfied, Dougal lost
his nerve. The next day he
withdrew all his balance at
banks in Saffron Walden, some
$3,000, and left Moat Farm. Ap-
parently he intended to move
very far from Essex, for he de-
posited his luggage at Liverpool
Street Station and went to the
Bank of England to change some
ten -pound notes.
These had been obtained on
a cheque which the police be-
lieved was a forgery of Miss
Holland's signature, and their
numbers had been circulated,
Dougal was arrested at the bank
and charged with forgery.
The next day he appeared be-
fore the magistrates at Saffron
Walden and was remanded in
custody.
By now the police had aban-
done Meat.- pe_ salahnding:, Miss-.
Holland alive, but for the sake
of justice they still hoped to
find her body. For five weeks
they searched the large house,
dug the garden, drained the
moat which gave the farm its
name. They found only fish.
At last two local labourers
recalled that four years ago
there had been an open ditch
across the farm, and that this
had been filled in. Digging start-
ed in a new direction. After
several hours the effort was
crowned with grim success. A
fork, wielded by a police con-
stable, struck something hard.
It was a boot, and it contained
the bones of a human foot. Fur-
ther digging revealed a skele-
ton with portions of .rotting
clothesroundit.
The remains were those of a
woman, the medical experts de-
clared. She had been shot
through the head, and the posi-
tion of the bullet holes ruled out
suicide.
There was no doubt in the
minds of the police whose body
it was, but at first it seemed as
though proof might be impos-
sible.
Dougal stood his trial at
Chelmsford in June, 1903, on a
charge, not of forgery, but mur-
der. There was one amusing
incident to relieve the grim
story. Miss Florence Pollock of
Bayswater, at whose house Miss
Holland stayed in 1893 while
Dougal was "courting" her, was
called to identify the accused.
She gazed round the court and
her eye fell on a figure sitting
beside the judge.. "That's him,"
slie said, pointing.
"Look around the court," she
rx as told by counsel.
Miss Pollock looked round,
then pointed again to the figure
on the Bench, "Yes, that's him,"
she repeated. "He is much
changed since I saw him last."
Then she caught sight of the
man in the dock. "Oh, that is
him! That is him!" she exclaim-
ed.
To convict Dougal it was
necessary to prove that the
body was that of Mise Holland.
It was past recognition, but the
boots were not—boots lined with
lambswool, skilfully made for
small feet, and each bore the
letter "M" worked in brass
tacks on its waist.
Once again, when the efforts
of the police to establish con-
clusive proof seemed to have
reached a dead-end, "inspector
Luck" had stepped in. If Mr.
Mold, the bootmaker, had not
made a habit of "signing" his
HONOR MOM — Mrs. Anastasia
Tsybizova, who has- borne nine
children, wears medals for the
first, second and third-class of
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awarded to Russian mothers.
UE fou IlIllan:
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Photo and caption material
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best work, the skeleton's iden-
tity would probably never have
been proved.
As it was, Mold was able to
establish beyond all doubt that
he had made the boots six years
before for Miss Camille Holland.
And, largely as a result of his
evidence, Samuel Herbert
Dougal was hanged at Chelms-
ford on July 14th, 1903.
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Shoes For Sc<<,:o&&
Four out of ten children are
tripping back to school this fall
in shoes that are liable to cause
permanent injury to their feet
b e f Or e vacation time rolls
around again.
These grim statistics are bas-
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by a national foot health organ-
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parents and schools are neglect-
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Children's feet and their shoes
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Here are a few rules prepar-
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(2) Do not pass on an older
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—squeezing a young foot into a
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by another child is a dangerous
procedure. The shoe will not
give—but the foot will with un-
fortunate results.
(3) Sheck the construction of
the shoes you buy. Foot doc-
tors recommend a shoe with
supple uppers and flexible and
resilent soles. Leather has a
double virtue -"-in that it pro-
vides the firmest and most flex-
ible support for young feet, and
also allows air to circulate free-
ly inside the shoe through its
tiny invisible pores,
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Of the Lower School the whale
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