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Calved SPORTS COLUMN
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When the Irish and their descendants
celebrate, this week, the birthday of their
patron saint, they can include football in
the list of sports events for which a na-
tive of the Emerald Isle is responsible.
For it was an Irishman who invented
arts of
the Empire. It is alsot
heg imstill played
which our own as such in lCl anadian
football descended by a series of stages.
The legend that Rugby was trans:Iormed from soccer to a
more volatile game in which carrying the ball was invented
quite by accident, is perfectly true. And it was an Irishman
'who, perhaps involuntarily, made the transformation. There
is a monument on the campus of Rugby, a famed English
school, that bears the inscription:
This stone comnnemoratea, the exploit of William Webb
Ellis, who, with a fine disregard for the rules of football as
played in his time, first took the ball in his arias and ran
with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby
game. A.D. 1823.
Now, it seems, the young man who performed in such
unorthodox fashion, was an Irishman who had gone to an-
cient Rugby school for further edua'ation. And possibly, it was
no accident that Master Ellis picked up the ball and ran with
it. Ile had, no doubt, played or was acquainted with Gaelic
football in his homeland.. The Gaelic game from time imme-
morial allowed handling of the ball, unlike soccer.
So it was intuitive on Ellis' part to. grab the ball and
"dribble" it a few steps before kicking on the run. The trouble
was, he ran all the way across the goal.
It was typical of sports -minded Britons, who know a good
thing and a dramatic thing when they see it on the field of
play that, instead of heaping reproaches on the young Irish-
man for a breach of ethics, they turned his error into a game,
and •built him a monument. And, as always, they phrased it
well. The wording, "with. a fine disregard for the rules" could
be developed only ina country that appreciatesfreedom of
thought : and action so much that it forced the Magna Carta
at Runnymede.
Master Ellis meant no harm, no offence to the sports
code. His innocent idea of soccer was to latch onto a loose
bail and run .it. And so a game was born. At the time, 132
years ago, Rugby was a school; not the label of a football
game. The sports identification came later, all thanks to a
young Irishman.
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CHAMPION FIGURE—Tenley Al-
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playing the fine form which has
made her the world's . figure -
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ond time, during a practice
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Saved y a Cat
Does a cat possess some strange
instinct which enables it to sense
impending disaster?
They are asking this question
in Dusseldorf, Germany, follow-
ing an amazing incident when a
storm, accompanied, by an
eighty -mile -an -hour gale, raged
over the city a short time ago.
A man named Paul Kleun, Iiv-
ing with his wife in three rooms,
always feeds his cat at the same
hour every evening. As usual
that night he pint down her plate
of minced meat, expecting her
to eat it quickly, for he knew she
must be hundry.
To his surprise the cat refused
to touch it; and then, as the
storm raged, began to run ex-
citedly up and down between
her owner and the doorof his
bedroom. The puzzled man went
to the door amid opened it,
At that moment came a great
crash as ceilings and walls col-
lapsed. Great pieces of stone and
brick hurtled down on to the spot
where the man had been stand-
ing a few moments earlier.
He was uninjured—saved by
the door frame in which he was
standing when the storm wreck-
ed the house. His wife, who was
in the bedroom, also escaped
'death, although she was pinned
under wreckage.
The man and his wife are con-
vinced that that cat's "sixth
sense" enabled her to foresee the
disaster.
For days before a great vol-
canic explosion on the island of
Inrakatoa, between Java and
Sumatra, hundreds, of living
creatures were seen plunging
into the water and making their
escape.
Was 'it significant that not a
single animal was known to have
perished in the disaster?
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Air Conditional
The authorities of the London
Zoo faced a problem when they
decided they had too little space
to display all the animals they
wished — and too many iron
bars to show off even the ani-
mals they had.
Now they are to spend all
million in gradually rebuilding
the Zoo, restoring its old pres-
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In the new Zoo only the
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the wild birds will live in
cages. Ingenious tricks of
lighting and ventilation will en=
dire that few of the other crea-
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own quarters—on the farside
of a moat.
Even snakes can be openly
displayed on warm islands of
sand circled byfrozen tempera-
ture zones which they will have
no desire to cross. Tropical
birdscan be contained in sun-
lit compartments walled by
darkness. Clever lighting will
enable visitors. — nearly three
milion a year on average — to
view the birds without them-
selves being seen.
The allotted area of the Zoo
in Regents Park, restricted to
thirty-six acres, allows no space
for expansion. So Zoo develop-
ment is to be upwards. The new
animal houses are to be several
stories high, with covered
ramps leading to centrally -
heated apartments for pumas
and perhaps an attractive roof
garden for giraffes.
This means a new deal for
3,500 animals, but many un-
usual questions had to be an-
swered before young architect
Frank Stenglehofen could com-
plete his plans. "What is the
farthest a tiger has ever been
known to leap?" he asked one
day, and found that the defence
ditch in the tiger house would
have to be at least twenty-five
feet wide.
Visitors to the Zoo are some-
times worried by the pungency
of skunks and wild cats. Sten-
glehofen experimented with de-
odorants, but this robbed the
cats of their enjoyment of their
own aroma.
Thermostats controlling the
precise degree of •temperature
will give beasts accustomed to
warm climes greater .comfort
than ever before. Some smaller
mammals will be kept instinc-
tively in check and prevented
from escaping, not by bars, but
by broad bands of . color which
they regard as dangerous.
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Fast Gr
Babies
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British scientists have been
slithering around on polar ice
weighing babies that grow fast
enough to please the proudest
mother ---the babies of "Antarctic
elephants."
A full-grownelephant seal can
be the length of a bus, Whereas
the human mother is happy
enough if her baby puts on a
few 'ounces a week, the mother
of a ton (400 lbs.) at 3 weeks!
lates in terms, of 100 lb. per
week. An elephant seal cub
weighs 100 lb, at birth and a fifth'
of a ton (448 lb.) at three weeks!
The British scientists who've
been weighing them soon got a
healthy respect not only • fon the
swishing tail of these lusty
babies but for their lumbering
dads, whose tails could flatten
the toughest scientist.
Why are these scientists
weighing Antarctic elephants?
Because they want to know if
the elephant seal herds of the
Far South can be increased
sufficiently to permit commercial
sealing. And at leastpart of the
answer is to discover how fast
the elephant seal grows.
Weighing drill is as follows:
erect makeshift scales near a
herd of seals, select your baby,
separate it from Mum, keep Dad
at bay while you drive, haul or •.
shove it toward the scales, roll it
into position, record its .weight,
return it to Mum, take a
breather—and start on the next
young customer! And every time
there's a row with Mum and
Dad elephant—sometimes with
Dad breaking up the weighing
party.
Here's a earning
T AU Goal Tenders
It happened a little while ago
at the end of a football match
in Germany which ended with
the score at 8-0. It was a re-
sounding victory for the visiting
team.
As the referee's final whistle
blew, a blonde and comely Ger-
man girl ran on to the field,
her pretty face distorted with
anger, and scampered up to her
fiance, the defeated team's goal»
keeper;
r Flinging her engagement ring
at his fee, she cried loudly: "You
played disgracefully, dishonour-
ing your team and nie, I refuse.
to marry a man who reveals his
inefficiency by letting so many •
'goals through. It snake me real-
• ire that you would never snake
a success of marriage."
It was probably the first time
a , man has been jilted by his
sweetheart because he played
poor football, And the incident
proved once more that the most
unexpected and trivial circum-
stances can lead to broken en-
gagements.
In a cafe in an industrial.
town, an engaged girl, having
her first meal with the young
man of her choice, created a
scene because he suddenly be-
gan to blow his soup, after com-
plaining that it was too hot.
She handed him back the
$1000 ring he had given her and
walked out on him, declaring:
"Never come near me again!"
Philosophically, he finished
his meal — and married the
girl's twin sister within a year.
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She apparently didn't seem to
hind his table manners.
Living the self-imposed life
of a bachelor girl is a pretty
brunette who impetuously broke
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developed a distaste for kissing
her and refused to let her sit
on his lap.
When the puzzled girl asked
him the reason for his sudden
coldness, he replied: "I went to
a medical lecture and heard
that germs are often conveyed
through kissing. As for your
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the crease in my new trousers."
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strongly to his fiancee's driving
one rainy day, 'that they began
to quarrel. At the next traffic
lights he reached from his seat
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wrist.
The incensed girl's reaction
was swift. She took off her en-
gagement ring and hurled it in-
to it into the trailer of a lorry
as it sped past them a few mo-
ments later. It rolled from the
trailer and down a drain.
The couple parted there and
then -- and the young man had
to walk home in the rain.
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