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Jimmy Peters of England didn't
win the marathon race at the British
Empire Gaines. But by sheer, unbeliev-
able courage, he won something more
durable. He set a standard, a new red
badge of courage, that will live through-
out the years when the naives of winners
are forgotten.
Who remembers the name of the winner of the 1908
Olympic marathon at London? Very few, we think. But
everybody remembers the immortal story of Dorando, Atte.little Italian pastry chef who, dazed and spent, started around
the track in the wrong direction in the final lap of the mara-
thon, staggered at every step and was kept from falling
only by the assistance of officials. Dorando was disqualified,
and Johnny Hayes of the United States declared the winner.
The Dorando story pales beside that of Jim Peters. Bill
Schroeder of that great American sports institution, !Helms
Ball, termed it "the greatest show of courage I have seen
in any sport." "The Helms Foundation will recognize Peters
by giving him an award for the greatest display of courage
In track and field history," he said.
Peters came into view on the • ramp leading into the
Vancouver Stadium, staggering like a drunken man. He
weaved from one side of the 30 -foot -wide downhill asphalt
ramp to the other, As he reached the level track he fell
flat on his face. He got up and then fell on his back, hitting
his head on the ground.
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The man,who had obviously had suffered a sunstroke
and could not see, crawled along on his hands and knees.
Again be got up, only to fall again. Nine times he fell to
the track. Finally he managed to crawl to a shady spot
just past the post marking the regular finish of the races
like the mile and 180 -yard dash. Apparently he thought he
had passed the finish line.
Finally he got up again and was facing the wrong way.
Instinct turned him around but he staggered again and the
team manager ran out and caught him in his arms.
This was about 200 yards short of the finish and Peters
was disqualified. J". McGhee of Scotland, who hadn't yet
entered the stadium, was eventually declared the winner.
But the heroism of Jimmy Peters will live in memory as
long as sport endures.
Your comments and suggestions for this column wilt be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calver{' House, 431 Yonge SS,'., Toronto.
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, and it's pretty certain that
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;any sticky situation and play
down the grim reality of it all,
And Betty Jeffrey, who was
serving with the Australian
Army. as a NursingSisterter when
she was captured by the 'Japan -
hse in 1942, is no exception. In
er dramatic and touching book,
°iWhite Coolies", she recalls the
momentous day in 1942 when
her party of nurses, plus civi-
lians, sailed away from Singa-
pore in the Vyner Brooke.
They were bombed, shelled,
end bombed again. It was
nerve-wracking. The little ship
shuddered and rattled. Then
eame a terrific bang that eclips-
ed all others; the ship was still
, no more elusive zig-zagging.
A bomb had hit the bridge,
another had smashed its way
straight down the funnel.
Standstill—for Glasses
During the scramble to get on
deck to the lifeboat stations, a
woman's high-pitched voice
screamed out into the confu-
sion and din: "Everybody stand
sitilL"
The effect was miraculous.
People stopped almost in their
tracks. Then, from the owner
4tf the penetrating voice: "My
]tusband has dropped his
glasses."
Of the sixty-five nursing sis-
ters who swam or floated ashore
when the ship went down,
twenty-one were murdered by
The Japanese, the remainder
taken prisoner.
Starvation diet became part
sand parcel of prison camp life.
The only alternative to starva-
tion was black market deals:
personal possessions being sold
to get money in order to buy
food to supplement the meagre
doled -out ration. These deals
were carried out by sneaking
past the sentry at night and
trading with natives. One girl,
a dusky go-between with black
hair, used to dress herself in
black pyjamas for the job; she
was almost invisible.
On one occasion, however, the
alarm clock she was taking out
of campsell-started
to its ring-
ing just as she wasstealthily.
slipping past a sentry. The
guard jumped and stamped all
round the place trying to find
the cause of the noise; but was
unsuccessful. The clock was
sold and the girl back in her
quarters before the sentry settl-
ed down at his post again.
Inmates of the campwere
denied most things that would
have made life a little more
tolerable. The Japs were always
full of excuses. At one period
Red Cross food parcels were
allowed to accumulate in the
guard -house without being dis-
tributed. This, despite that fact
that the prisoners—women and
children — were merely skin
and bone and living chiefly on
carrot tops, fern leaves, lily
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New York City as he prepares to go in training for what he hopes
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Because two small boys went
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The boys found a five -gallon
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There aren't many smugglers'
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Five thousand dollars were
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from a Belgian businessman
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from New York, They were
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of a coat he was wearing.
The skipper of a French
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smuggle into Britain 1,500
watches wrapped in a cargo of
rabbit skins.
Customs officers rummaging
in a ship noticed that the top
of a table in the captain's cabin
was unusually thick. They in-
spected it closely — and found
a secret cavity containing five
pounds of tobacco and a dozen
bottles of spirits.
When probing the coal bunk-
ers of a German ship, customs
men found under three feet of
coal fifty tins each containing
two and a quarter gallons of
spirits.
Some amateur smugglers still
conceal jewels in bars of soap,
umbrella handles, bones of face
powder, the collars of pet dogs
or inside stuffed birds and ani-
mals.
The smart walk of a plump
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one official as unusual. Her ape
parent girth did not seem to tal-
ly with her brisk step.
She was found to be wearing
seven Paris gowns, one on top
of another,
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year 1890, this bird has spread
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Ward.
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Many of our New Canadians,
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are accustomed to making palat-
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The Starling seems to have
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