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e Hockey Players have been glorified
ever idolized in the score,
appreciation oft hockey'e
lonely men, the referees.
This is a grave injustice. 'Somebody
should write a piece about the trials and
tribulations of the men who dodge from
point to point, aloof from all human contact so that no shadow
of suspicion shall be cast upon their calling. They come
almost furtively into the cities where they are assigned to do.
their duties, brave the mass loathing, then make their mouse -
like exits to repeat their heroic chores elsewhere.
Chadwick, after 16 ys aroccurred braving the hostility oftfandolm
and the whimpering of players, decided to call it a career.
For 16 years he has been travelling 50,000 miles per winter
season. When he quit, he had covered about 700,000 miles,
had refereed in every Stanley Cup play-off since 1939, and had
never missed an assignment.
Referees today never travel with the teams, nor do they
stay at the same, hotel occupied by a visiting club. They talk
to no one. They travel and live a solitary life during the
hockey season.
Referees in the big league today have it somewhat easier
in one respect than their predecessors of an earlier era, like
Mike Rodden, Cooper, Smeaton, 13111 Stewart, the late Lou
Marsh and Ion. Today's referees are not generally exposed
to violence
Mike Bodden, tough and game as they come, was punch-
ed in the back by a spectator at Montreal's -old Mount Royal
Arena one night. He wheeled, and lashed out at the party he
thought to be guilty. Next time Mike .visited Montreal the
recipient of his light blow had Mike arrested. League heads
had a busy time- getting Mike out of the hoosegow in time to
referee.
Lou Marsh was almost mobbed at the same arena one
night. The crowd rushed on the ice, but Marsh shrewdly
tripped up the leaders, who fell in a heap Those behind,
skidding uncertainly, fell over them, and Lou skated blithely
to the dressing -room while his assailants untangled themselves.
But even without the threat of physical violence big
league refereeing is a lonely job. Referees are the unsung
heroes of hockey.
Your comments and suggestions for tEris column will' be wekomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonpe Si., Toronto.
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Sports Yarns
One day a travelling salesman,
driving by a ranch in California,
was forced to stop his car when
his radiator began to boil over.
He started to trudge to the near-
est house to get some water,
when suddenly he was startled
to see, in the nearby spinach
patch, a human figure flying
through the air. The salesman
forgot everything and tiptoed
closer to watch,
As he approached he saw a
shim youngster with a second-
hand bamboo pole take off
again down a home-made run-
way and sail over a makeshift
cross -bar. The salesman, who
happened to be a track fan, was
amazed to note that the bar was-
ever 13 feet above the ground.
The salesman rushed off to
the office of his friend, Flint
Manner, track coach at Fresno
State College, with his story.
Bursting it on him, he shouted,
".I've just seen a farm boy vault
13 feet in a spinach patch!"
The coach piled into the sales -
roan's car and together they.
shade a run for the ranch. There
the two ,men crept up to the
spinach patch to watch the farm
boy pole-vault. Coach Hanner
caught just one leap. Then he
headed for the ranch house
where he tackled the boy's
father with the proposition that -
the boy be enrolled in . Fresno
State.
The coach was persistent when-
the
henthe boy showed little eagerness
;for a college education. He
pleaded, coaxed, and tempted
the youngster. Finally the father
said to his son, "You'd better get
yourself a college education or
we'll never get rid of that man!"
So, Cornelius _Warmerdam
went to college to begin a career
In pole-valting that has never
been squalled or surpassed. He
was the first man in history to
vault 15 feet.
* *
Thirty-nine years ago an Eng-
lish Bishop had a son who was
a track star. Although the Bi-
shop disapproved of his son's
interest in sports, the young lad
went on to Sandhurst, Britain's
West Point, where he distingu-
ished himself, not only as a fine
runner, but also as an excellent
cricketer •and soccer player.
When the first World War
broke out, the Bishop's sonwent
to war. He landed in France in
August, 1914, and by October he
was a captain and had a deco-
ration for gallantry.
One day he led a bayonet
charge against a machinegun'
hill, Halfway to his goal, he
pitched forward on his face with
a slug in his lung. After the
battle was over, he was carried
back to a hospital where he was
pronounced 'dead.
On the way to the cemetery,
a Red Cross worker happened
to look at the corpse and was
startled to see its eyelids flutter.
The gallant captain was hur-
riedly taken back to the hospi-
tal for treatment. And the Bi-
shop's son was restored to life
after narrowly escaping being
buried alive.
The Bishop's son never ran
again. But he did go on with
his military career. He became
a great general in World War
II; and contributed to a very
great extent to the winning of
the bloo.diest war the world has
ever seen, .It seems that the
miracle that had snatched him
from death gave Britain its
greatest commander on the field
of battle, And all the world is
grateful that he was spared to do
so .much. His name will ring
down the ages. For his name is
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont-
gomery.
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V1GHTING SAUCERS—The little men from Mars aren't responsible
for the flying -saucer effect, nor is'the right uncorked by Alonzo
Joiner, right, as he hammers at Rudolph Corney, Saucers were
served up by the photographer; who made a double exposure
akuring the Golden Gloves bouts.
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i'Wti "f:°AY TREAT—Terry Bretzke likes flapjacks, as anyone can
see. The eight-year-old Boy Scout dug in not only to fill his
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children's summer camp; The Lions Club invited Terry's Scout
troop to a pancake -eating contest and donated 50c to the camp
for each flapjack the boys ate.
How Boy Movie Star
Got Nis Chance
Just a year ago, in "The Kid-
nappers," a couple of small boys
from Aberdeen were alternate-
ly touching our hearts and mak-
ing us roar with laughter over
their efforts to keep a baby they
found on the moors as a substi-
tute for the dog they'd always
wanted.
What has happened since to
Jon Whiteley, the solemn -eyed
older one of eight, with the
tousled mop of fair har, and
Vincent Winter, five and a half,
with the chubby cheeks, deter-
mined manner and rich Scots
accent?
Both boys have already made
good their early •promise and
will soon be seen again on the
screen. Jon Whiteley, who had
starred in "Hunted" with Dirk
Bogarde and so was a veteran
when he made "The Kidnap-
pers," has just gone home from
Hollywood after playing a big
part in "Moonfleet," a romantic
adventure story of the,hurbulent
eigeteelith century.
Exciting Chase
Young Jon shares many of his
big scenes in "Moonfleet" with
Stewart Granger, with whom he
struck' up al, immediate. friend-
ship. Granger and the boy have
a tremendously exciting chase
sequence, over 400 yards of
beach — with a former cham-
pion sprinter hot in pursult. No
ordinary extra could keen up
with them, so the runner Led to
be engaged specially for the
part, Then there is a tense mo-
ment when Granger lowers Jon
down inside an ancient well in
a bucket— one of the trickiest
scenes ever photographed in
CinemaScope.
The well -house on the surface
was built on one stage at
M.G.M.'s studios, the vertical
well shaft itself being Construct-
ed on a loftier stage, where it
came to within a few feet of
the ceiling. The camera was
mounted on a lift contrivance
that moved it up and down to
follow Jon's bumpy progress in
the bucket.
On the set young Jon made
friends with costar Joan Green-
wood, making her first Holly-
wood film, tuo His great delight
was to measure himself against
Joan almost daily, for she stands
only five feet one inch, and Jon
is going to be taller than she is
any minute now. Weekends he
spent visiting Stewart Granger
and Jean Simmons at their
home Granger devoted a lot of
time to giving the Iad swimming
lessons and was responsible for
what was probably the most
exciting moment of the whole
Hollywood trip..
One day Jon came back to
the set after lunch and found,
all laid out on a huge table be-
side his dressing -room, t h e
largest, most beautiful model
electric railway in the world
Granger's way of commemorat-
ing a good friendship.
tt was the way he recited the
Edward Lear poem, "The Owl
and the .Pussy Cat," on the radio
that first won Jon Whiteley a
chance to become an actor., This
pleasantly unspoiled, friendly
son of an Aberdeen schoolmaster
has learned to love acting bet-
ter than anything, and takes
each scene and every part very
seriously indeed.
The same could not possibly
be said for Vincent Winter, Jon's
one-time partner in crime.. At
the ripe old"'age of sir he now
plays Joanne ilru's son in "'The
Black Prince" — by the simple
end lhighly effective expedient
of being completely himself end
laying an interesting charade.like gamine in funny' clothes.
People >rok him to slay thing*,
move this way or that, but it
remains a game for Vincent. A
wonderful game, too — in which
he was allowed to ride on a huge
charger and to make friends
with a large black Labrador
dog Between takes he spent a
great deal of time consuming
cream cakes and drinking vast
quantities of milk.
"I don't think he realizes he Is
being filmed," his mother re-
marked in her pretty Scottish
voice, as she sat on the set,
quietly watching her little son
going through all the symptoms
of young joy
When the director says "Cut"
that's the signal for Vincent to
hurl himself on his mother and
demand that she read him one
of his favourite Wild West
stories.
"Dowsing" For
Buried 'Treasure
Tests by a diviner recently
revealed "strong indications" of
gold, silver and lead under the
altar of .a Devon church, once
one of the wealthiest in the West
Country. It is believed that ex-
cavations might reveal a Saxon
or mediaeval crypt containing
treasures.
Bishops were probably buried
there with their rings and other
valuable symbols of office. Be-
fore the Reformation this church
was rich in plate and. mediaeval
glass, much of which may have
been buried.
A preliminary exploration will
probably take place some time
this spring,
"Dowsing" for buried treasure
with special divining apparatus
which indicates the presence of
large quantities of buried metal
is on the increase all over the
world. Treasure hunting ma-
chines which saw war service as
land -mine detectors are being
used by some diviners to good
effect.
On the site of an old Spanish
fort in South America not long
ago a father and son operated
their metal -divining machine so
accurately that they located an
ancient casket filled with jew-
ellery, old swords, flint -lock
pistols and pewter.
A man who inherited a plan-
tation near Vicksburg, Missis-
sippi, had believed for years
that a great quantity of valuable
silverware was buried there. He
spent two fruitless days trying
to divine it with apparatus he
had invented.
On the third day he rested the
machine against a gnarled old
oak tree while he ate some
sandwiches. To his amazement,
earphones on the apparatus sud-
denly began to hum violently.
Investigation revealed that
eight feet below one of the tree's
great roots was the treasure he
sought. It has made him rich for
the rest of his life,
Metal -divining apparatus was
used by the French after the
first world war to locate buried
shells, While working with it,
one doveser was approached by
an old peasant who asked him to
try to find a large box of gold
coins—his life's savings—which
he had buried at the outbreak of
war and now could not find.
The dowser ultimately located
the gold under another field
some distance from the one
where the peasant had buried it.
A shell had blown it into the
air and buried it again at the
spot where it was eventually
recovered.
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