HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-01-20, Page 3THE CA:vett SPORTS COLUMN
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0 And so passes the most amazing year
in all the history of sport, Amazing,
because of the shattered records that
dot its trail, Amazing, because the Brit-
ish E"inpire, long an international door-
mat in sport, arose 3n its might to
contribute to the saga of 1954 the most
astonishing of all sports feats.
That was, of course, the double Miracle Mile. In fact,
you might term it the Double Doublt Miracle. First England's ..
Roger Bannister crashed through the mental sound barrier
with a 3.59,4 mile, But the ink had scarcely dried on the
records page when along came slim John Landy, from the
Empire outpost of Australia, to reduce the mark to 3.58.
And then, the Miracle of Miracles, both these great athletes
broke the 4 -minute mark in their unforgettable battle in
the British Empire Games in Vancouver.
These were the feats not merely of the year, but of
the century. In . a year when records fell like clay pigeons,
these two stand out like beacon lights.
The 5,000 metres mark fell so fast and so often you
could scarcely keep track. Fixst Zatopek the Czech, then
the Russian Valdimir Kuc, then England's great red-haired
Chris Chataway, then Kuc again. And there was England's
Fred Green, shattering the 3 -mile mark.
And 1954 was a big year for Canada in sport. Marilyn
Bell amazed the world as she fought icy waters to swim the
40 miles across Lake Ontario, an almost unbelievable feat.
And Tom Parker, a chunky Canadian distance swimmer
from Hamilton, Ont., thrashed across the treacherous Cat-
alina Channel in the record-breaking time of 13 hours, 25
minutes, 41 seconds.
It was Canada's year on our golf courses, too. Both
Canadian Open events were won by Canadians. Pat Fletcher
of Saskatoon became the first native-born Canadian to
win the Men's Open in nearly 50 years, capturing the Sea-
gram Gold Cup and its rich cash awards. On the distaff
side, little Miss Marlene Stewart captured the Canadian
Women's Open.
For Canada, for the British Commonwealth as a whole,
1954 was a fine sports year, indeed.
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Royal Bank ssets
Top $3 Billion Mark
The Royal Bank of Canada'
closed its fiscal year ending No-
vember 30th with assets of $3,-
026,895,844,
3;026,895,844, the first Canadian
chartered bank to pass the $3
billion mark. The Annual Bal-
ance Sheet, just released, shows
assets have increased by over
0131,040,000 as compared. with a
year ago. Loans and Deposits
are at the highest levels ever
attained by any Candian bank.
A notable feature of this year's
tatement is a major change in
the capital structure of the bank.
As a result of the issue last July
est of 700,000 additional shares
of Capital Stock, the paid up
capital of the bank has increas-
ed from $35,000,000 to $41,809,-
863. From the sale of this addi-
tional stock the bank also real-
ized a premium of $13;619,726
which, together with $16,000,000
transferred from inner reserves
has been added to the Rest
11'und. In addition the bank has,
for the fifth year in a row, trans-
ferred to the Rest Fund a por-
tion of the current year's net
earnings, the figure this year
being $4,000,000. As a result of
these transactions the Rest Fund
now stands at $103,619,726.
Capital Funds thus total $146,-
933,664, a figure which sets a
record high level for all Can-
adian banks, When the -instal-
ment subscriptions for the new
issue are fully paid, the Capital
and Reserve Funds will stand at
$42,000,000 and $104,000,000 re-
spectively, which, with undivi-
ded profits, will make the total
Capital Funds of the bank $147,-
604,075.
Deposits have attained the im-
pressive total of $2,797,548,149,
of which over $1,126,000,000 are
personal savings deposits pay-
able in Canada. Deposits by the
public have increased by nearly
$90,000,000.
Loans, exclusive of mortgage
loans under N.H.A., total $1,188,-
022,047, an increase of $43,875,-
823 over the 1953 figure. Call
loans at $156,395,203, show . a
moderate increase, while other
loan s, including commercial
loans in Canada, have increased
by $36,761,094 to $1,031,626,844,
The degree to which the Royal
Bank participated in mortgage
lending under the provisions of
the N.H.A., is reflected in the
' figures shown under the new
heading "Mortgages and Hypo-
thecs insured under the N.H.A.
(1954)", namely $22,672,390.
The liquid positionof the bank
is strong. Liquid assets amount-
ing to $1,881,900,848, are equal
to 65.34% of the bank's liability
to the public. Included in these
liquid assets are Dominion and
Provincial Government securi-
ties totalling 069,888,546.
Profit for the year amounted
to $20,913,511. From this amount
$2,079,466 has been set aside
for depreciation of bank prem-
ises and $9,276,000 for income
taxes. After the above deduc-
tions net profit was $9,558,045 as
compared with $8,635,136 in 1953.
Out of net profit, $5,569,345 was
paid in dividends to sharehold-
ers, leaving $3,988,700, which
added to the'previous balance of
$1,515,375 totals $5,504,075. Of
this amount $4,000,000 was trans-
ferred to the Rest Fund leaving
a balance of $1,504,075.
NO WONDER
The doctor was puzzled. "You
ought to be better by now," he
said. "Have you carried out my
instructions?"
"Well, doctor," said the pa-
tient, "I've done most of them,
but I can't take the two-mile
walk every morning you ord-
ered.. I get too dizzy."
"What do you mean—dizzy?"
"Well," said the patient, "per-
haps I forgot to tell you, but
I'm a lighthouse -keeper."
Horse Of The Year—Determine, with Jockey Ray York up, nuzzles
the hand of Trainer Billy. Molter just after winning the•$25,000
Added Golden Gate Handicap at Albany, Calif. His $15,300
purse brought the gray colt's winnings to $328,880.
Overtime Was l; +'r
]Referee's : enefit
Soccer fans at Naples, who
have made itnecessary for ref-
erees to escape from the Stadio
Vomero ground disguised as
firemen, and have threatened to
lynch offending- radio commen-
tators, grow •no milder, Earlier
this year they provoked an ex-
traordinary incident which
eventually resulted in their club
being heavily fined and having
to forfeit two of its .points.
The occasion was a home
match with Genoa, in which
Naples were not doing well.
Viney, the team's Hungarian
left back, -badly fouled an op-
ponent, and was ordered off the
field by the referee. The crowd
immediately became extremely
menacing; and Viney, although
he had sworn atthereferee,
was allowed to play oThe
crowd's temper was such that
the referee realized that he
would be lucky to escape with
his life.
He therefore adoptedthe
stratagem of refraining from
blowing his whistle when it
came to full time, and allowed
the game to go ' on. On and on
it went, for some ten ITiililtes,
until at last Naples attacked
and a Genoa defender controlled
the ball quite lawfully in his
own penalty area. There was no
semblance of a foul—but it was
the chance the referee had been
waiting, for, Without hesita-
tion tion he awarded a penalty,
which Naples scored, thus "win-
ning" the match. As soon as
the ball was in the net the ref-
eree blew for full time 1
Whe DC . elks'
Visite ice er>iCa
No reception was ever given
to any foreigner in the United
States quite like that accorded
to Boz. The visit of Lafayette
a few years before (1826) had
been an occasion of greater na-
tional honour. The later visits of
stich people as the patriot Kos-
suth called forth larger crowds
and more public tribute. But the
young Dickens was hailed with
a warmth of personal affection
never manifested before or
since. They welcomed in him
all the geniality of Mr. Pick-
wick, all the appeal of little
Oliver and Little Nell, all the
charm of old English Christ-
fas for the people of a newer
England. And Dickens at the
first met it with a boyish and
buoyant delight that matchedhis
welcome, He was full of life
and power and of speech that
never flagged: "Here we are,"
he said in his clear and merry
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No. 400 la int The Net—Maurice Richard (second from left) glides away after scoring against
the Black Hawks in Chicago, Cancidiettis' Kenny Mosdell, who started the play for the Rocket's
historic goal, is at lefts The Hawks are frank Martin and goalie Al Rollins,
voice as he entered the old Tre-
mont House. Later on, after
dinner, he was out in the snow-
bound streets, merry, boister-
ous, exuberant, delighted with
everything, Boz was just what
Boz ought to be. No wonder,
they smothered him with adul-
ation.
The country simply went wild
over him. The time of his com-
ing was fortunate. There was
at the moment no particular na-
tional excitement. The tumult
over "nullification" had died
down, and secession had not yet
come up. It was midway be-
tween two presidential elections.
There was no cable to bring
news of foreign wars, and no
foreign war to bring news of.
Under these circumstances the
arrival of young Boz became a
first-class national event.
The proceedings opened with
a rush of reporters to meet the
ship, a sort of procession to the
Tremont House, where Dickens
was to stay, and a crowd of
eager faces lined up on the side-
walk to get a look at him. Then
followed calls and invitations
in a flood. Dickens' table at the
hotel was soon piled high .with
unopened letters. He had to en-
gage a young man, a Mr. Put-
nam who wrote an account of
it . all. He gives us a picture of
Dickens and . his wife break-
fasting in their sitting room at
the hotel, Boz tearing open let-
ters, dictating, eating, and talk-
ing all at the same time, and
a local sculptor of note (a Mr.
Alexander) making a bust of
him at the side of the room and
occasionally walking around to
get a "close-up" look at him,
There were dinners and recep-
tions in all directions. Boz was
introduced to the leading liter-
ary people of Boston and of
Harvard. He was taken out to
Springfield to see the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, where, we
are told by the press, "his ap-
pearance in the Senate cham-
ber created quite a stir among
the members."—From "Charles
Dickens His Life and Work," by
Stephen Leacock.
"iUpslde.Down"
Tree That
Never Dies
She Ne ;:rly ught
F iling Star
When John Donne wrote "Go
and catch a falling star" he
thought_ he was creating an im-
age of impossibility. But a Mrs.
Hulett Hodges of Sylacauga,
Ala,, who perhaps doesn't read
John Donne (few people do,
these days), very nearly caught
a falling star. Rather, it very
nearly caught her. She was
struck on the hip and hand by a
meteorite that ripped through
the roof of her home while she
was taking a nap. It was only a
nine -pound meteorite, an astral
fragment which the skies will
never puss. But to Mrs. Hod-
ges, it is her meteorite, her per-
sonal evidence that stars once
really fell on Alabama,
Now they want to take it
away from her, "They" means
the Air Force and the State
Museum of Natural History. The
Air Force has taken possession
of the meteorite and says it will
be sent to Washington for scien-
tific research, The museum, 10-
cated in Tuscaloosa, says it
wants the meteorite for display
purposes. Mrs. Hodges says she
wants the meteorite as a sou-
venir to talk about when folks
drop in.
Science, of course, must be
served, and perhaps some kind
of a compromise can be worked
Out whereby the Air Force can
conduct its experiments and re-
turn the aneteerite forthwith to
Mrs. Bodges. In her turn, she
might be willing to lend it to
the museum occasionally, say on
alternate Sundays. :But it might
well be made the law of the
land: any meteorite falling on
any person shall belong t0 said
pcirson. Let others go and
catch their own falling stars..-.
New York Herald Tribune,
Africa's toughest tree, the
baobab, survives fire, etorzn,
girdling (stripping 011all the
bark) and all kinds Of ill-treat-
ment. It is sometimes called
the "cream of tartar" tree be-
cause the acid in the fruit pulp
is tartaric acid.
Its roots go deep but its bran-
ches are short and stubby and
for most of the year are bare Of
leaves. It rarely geows higher
than sixty feet—which is low
compared with the girth of its
trunk. When thetree is found
in dry inland regions the
branches look so much like
roots that local native legend
says "an angry devil planted
the baobab upside down.
Though the baobab takes
many centuries to achieve its
full size (a trunk with a diam-
eter of thirty feet is quite nor-
mal), its timber, unlike most
trees that mature slowly, is soft
and pulpy and quite useless. Its
leaves are not unlike those of
the horse -chestnut.
Africans have found that its
fibrous bark makes excellent
ropes and even tough fabrics.
The fruit, known as monkey
bread or sour gourd; has a vari-
ety of uses, The seeds and the
acid -tasting pulp make a gruel
which natives quite enjoy. The
pulp juices are invaluable as
medicine to combat various
swamp fevers, while witch -doc-
tors use them as cure-alls. The
natives have found, also, that
when cooked the leaves have a
spinach -like flavour. They feed
them to their cattle when other
crops are in short supply.
The baobab is a tree which
refuses to die, Natives, seeking
1- bark to make ropes, fre-
quently girdle the tree, strip,
ping the bark oft completely las
high as they can reach.. , This
would kill any normal tree, but
the baobab is unperturbed. It
simply grows another barlt
round its 100 feet of girth -ss
and meanwhile goes en growing,
Frequently natives carve
gentle caverns inside the trunk,
leaving only a foot -thick outer
"skin," and then use this cave
as a dwelling, or to store things.
Sometimes they fill the cave
with water and use it as a res-
ervoir in dry periods.
Even forest fires, which have
swept other trees of apparently
sterner stuff into dusty ash, fail
to destroy the baobab. Stunted,.
blackened, it soon puts forth
new branches which in tinny
are again covered (in season)
with leaves.
It can, of course, be cut down.
But it is a tough task. Famous
David Livingstone saw this for
himself, when he ordered one
to be chopped down. At last
it fell. But not to die. Months
later he noted with amazement
that the "dead tree" had grown
another inch since it had been
Jelled to the ground!
TOPPED HIM
Two boys were arguing about
the strength and ail -round abil-
ity of their respective fathers.
"You know the Pacific'
Ocean?" said one. "Well, my
father dug the hole for it."
His pal paused for a moment,
then said: "Have you ever heard
of the Dead Sea? Well, my
dad killed it."
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