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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-04-19, Page 21IIL1A1M FI4T £jpkett Thc• .talc of the mini known as A1lolttlny Applest.ed" has been tole{ {many titles and in {malty forms. Walt Disney even devoted part of one Oi his pie:Awes to Johnny' doings. Naturally, ,1 great deal of legend has been iluilt up aronud the figure of the man \vho devoted must of his life to pro%iding apple trees for future generations destined to live their lives"in places where thr'rc \\';iS little or no fruit. 1, :r Whether or not Jonathan Chap- man—Johnny's real 7lalue---ev'l'r visited riot trio is --1 believe—some- what delett,thle. Some say he did— others that he Inver carne' this far north. But every lover of apples— and of genuinely tine characters— will be interested, 1. believe. in something about the actual lilac, as reported recently h The New "fork • Pieties. ,1. hundred and tlftv years this Ap it a stranger turned up in Lick- ing :'piing, Olfo. Strangers were scarce in I -'eking Spring. The only white roan living there looked this 1y at this one. He was 2o, tail thin, black-eyed. He wore h .inroads ir:ntier-.stvle clothing. His nanl , he said, was Jonathan Chapman and he had come West - 'from 'Massachusetts by way of Pittsburgh. What he did at Lick- ing Spring must have baffled its cn.y resident. Instead of staking off a piece of land for himself, Chapman hunted until he found a ssnlall clearing. He took apple seeds -from a loaded burlap bag and planted them. He put a rough fence around the plat and left Lick- ing Spring as noiselessly as he had come. • That was the first appearance in Am.rican history of "Johnny Ap- pleseed", a Tuan more tenderly re- nienrbe: ed in the years to follow than any river -boat load of assort- ed polticians, generals and states- men, * * :x A few weeks later Johnny was seen on the Ohio with .two boats tilled with app:eseeds from the cider presses in Pittsburgh. There- aft.r his tail is not. easy to fol- 1:.w He paddled his boat up White Woman Cre:k, up the Licking River, the Muskingum, the Mohi- can and the Kokosing. He set out his orchards at Steubenville' and a half hundred other places in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, Wherever apples bloomed fresh in the wilder- ness a man cou:d say for sure that Johnny had been there. Sometimes ',ohe return:ed •'to : h'is olantidgs `• for seedlings to set elsewhere; as often, he did not. He left his nurseries behind in the hope that the set- t:ers might realize tvhat beauty and riches he had planted for them and care for them as he did, states a writer in The New York Times. is 3 * A hundred shall towns knew hitt, but they knew as little of his coni:ng and going as of the birds of spring and autumn. They knew hint as a religious zealot but one. who lived his religion far more more than he talked it. The main drive of his life was selflessness; he had set out to plant apples be- cause, back East, he had heard that Ohio apples were . dying ,and he • felt called to replant theft, that the settlers might eat the fruit and be spared the scurvy. His way of life and his work nrade hila a leg- end among the simple people of his day and long before he died. In a land that was hard and where life was hard, his disinterest in the thins that concerned most Hien brought him the great love that c utiasted his life. He died in 1845 near Fort Wayne, Ind., after catching cold while inspecting one of his nurseries. * +x •* After his death the legends about hint grew like one of his own trees. Men told of his ways With the Indians, of their friendship Stan's Stance—St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial has only a slightly different stance on the golf course from the one he has on the baseball diamond. However, from the position at•left, he collects only birdies, while the ,stance at right brings• hint about $75,000 a year. He has won the National League batting championship four times, a record for lefties. Lr trio and their trust and of the times Johnny had dealt with them alone and unafraid. _Another man told how he had seen .Tohnny play - with bear cubs while the mother bear watched without concern: few humans have walked this earth wh r could da that. Others told how Johnny would cat no {neat. ca ry no gun, how he would give the clothes from hie back to any man who needed ,thein, how be wou'd walk the \\-inter woods barefoot, how he would ask a Simple meal at a cabin door and pay for it with appletrees, how he asked to sleep the night on a cabin floor and was gone long be- fore his hosts awoke. The men of his day who sought and gained wealth, power and pres- tige are long forgotten, Still re- membered, as fresh as Ohio apple bl:ssoms, is the s,mple man who took no care for the things of the morrow as he walked through early American history and brushed close to people's hearts. Perhaps is was because, after all, wealth and power. and po'estige may not be so hard to achieve; many a man gets them. Johnny . Appleseed aimed at something much tougher: to leave the world a more neigh- b:rly place than he found it. P0111As1•YI;StTC Hanging in the late Charlie Qucr- rie's office in the Toronto theatre he used to manage, there hung a very striking sports picture. (It may be there yet, for all we know.) This picture showed the crowd which attended a field ,lacrosse game at Ilanlan's Point, between the Torontos and the Tecumsehs. * :x When anybody asked Querrie who won that gauze he would reply, "We did"—the ''we" meaning the Tecumseris. Then he would go on to explain: "Of course, the Toronto's happened to outscore 'os—BUT IT WAS OUR HOME GATE." Then he would grin. :r * For that gate was a juicy one, make. no mistake about that, be- cause the crowd shown in that picture was huge foe those long - ago days. In fact, it would be a really sizeable crowd even today. And we sincerely believe that mod- ern hockey stagnates and promoters, especially those pushing the "ama- teur" brand of hockey-, would do well to study that picture and con- sider the lesson it tells. HAROLD ARNETT BILCUSII TRAY ;MAKE'tat FOOL OA- ti T $ )$HES BY Cu -rti MST -6A, IL. alCi2r0 PffQVJDE ATR019614 AND 51DEw FLAP. LATTER IS BENT TO MAOfiw A LEC, CAUSING "1"RAY TO 51,1.l?. i"$-. .,•, ,„„,„ ,„,,, , . Field lacrosse, once by far Canada's biggest crowd pleaser and draw, has long since passed into the limbo of almost forgotten things. The principal reason for its de- mise. in the opinion of those best fitted to pass one, was too much unnecessary roughness, too much pandering to the tastes of those who like to sec the blood flow. Decent people began staying away from lacrosse in droves and the end was not far off. And there are plenty who think' that if hockey doesn't soon clean house, some- thing similar will happen to it. • ,x +x From the leading editorial in a recent issue of The Toronto Daily Star we quote as follows: * 1 3 Professional hockey shows little indication that it has taken suffi- ciently to heart the public reaction against the brutality of the play- off games. The people and news- paper press of Ontario, if the signs are not misleading, feel that hockey has been getting out of control in a way that encourages brutality instead of speedy skating, skilful stick -handling and combination play. Excessive roughness and dis- regard of the spirit of true sports- manship are certain to ruin hockey as a game and as the commercial proposition which it has become. :x :3 'x Ottawa, St. Thomas and Toronto newspapers are among those that have sounded warnings against 'ex- isting tendencies. Gordon Sinclair has gone on the air to condemn the conduct of hockey rowdies. He has named one player as deserving banishment from the game. * * :x In a story of Friday night's play- off game in Detroit, a Toronto newspaper reports that Dick Irvin, the Montreal coach, said the punch that Maurice Richard, 'The Rocket,' landed on the face of Ted Lindsay of Detroit near the end of the first period was the turning point in the game. Dick Irvin is quoted as say- ing: "When Richard threw the punch, Lindsay went down and it took all the fight out of the Red Wings." * Allowing for the boastfulness of some hockey coaches, it still seems obvious that a remark of that kind is more likely to encourage rough and illegal play than to discourage it. Richard received a seven -minute penalty but apparently his team and. coach felt that the punch did the trick and that that was all that mattered. _x :x Many persons cannot escape the feeling that coaches and manage- ments must shoulder a heavy bur- den of responsibility for the increas- ing roughness of hockey. This, if it is not checked, may lead to players being killed on the ice. * The most regrettable feature of the whole hockey situation is that the same tactics and the same wrong ideas that are spoiling the pro- fessional game are being carried down into the junior OHA, which no longer is an amateur organiza- tion. Once upon a time the OHA was the pride of Ontario as an ex- ample of true sportsmanship and true amateurism, N e Junior hockey teams are being subsidized today by NHL teams. The style of play in the big league is being copied by the juniors. The players' main ambition is to show such qualities that they will catch the eye of those who run the big league. From what they read about the NIfL play-offs, if not from what their coaches tell them, they con - elude that they have to be rough, tough and nasty if they hope ever to star in professional hockey. 1 'x .x In Friday night's junior game between Barrie and the Toronto Marlboros, a total of 18 penalties were incurred. The Marlboros ac- counted for 13 of the penalties, One player, found guilty of hooking, tried to trip the referee and was given a 10 -minute misconduct pen- alty. Another player served five minutes for rough playing and two went off for fighting. :g M There are those who say that the fans like rough stuff. Too many of them do, Any battle with sticks can be dramatic and exxcitinng, But that does not make it worthy of Canada or something that can be. dignified with the name of sportsmanship... * ,x If Ontario citizens who love the thrills of hard, clean hockey insist on, getting that and nothing else, and enlist the support of some of the more reasonable men and good citizens who sponsor professional hockey, the game can once more become the pride of all—Canada's national winter game. :x 3 We, personally, agree with every word of the above, and to those who say that today's hockey fan demands the rough -and -tough stuff, and that hockey can't live without it, we would add this. Frank "King" Clancy stated that the final play - down game between Canacliens and Detroit Red Wings was the finest hockey match he ever witnessed, Ring Clancy is no sissy. If there was a fight on the ice, in his play- ing laying days, he was in the thick of it '—generally on the bottom of the pile-up. His experience as a player, referee and observer is vast. When he puts a hockey game away as the "finest ever" you may take it that it was something worth travelling many miles to see. YET THAT PARTICULAR GAME WAS PLAYED WITHOUT A SINGLE PENA LTY BEING CALLED. Crawling Around For 100 Millior. Years What creature from the myriad species found in the animal and in- sect world will survive longest on earth? - The scientists have put their Money -on the cockroach. They have discovered that it has already survived longer than any other known creature, past or pres- ent. It has been crawling around the earth for over 100 million years, whereas Man's ancestors can only be traced back a mere million, During that time the cockroach has learned much about the art of survival in uncertain circumstances. He has watched the giant dinosaurs come and go — the sabre-toothed tigers, the woolly mammoths. Itis body has enabled hits to live on, reproducing himself without change through all those trillions of years. • Eats His Own Skin One of his secrets is that he can . live without some of the vitamins absolutely essential to life for most other creatures. He eats almost any- thing, including his own sheet skin. His body is sensitive to light. De- prived of his eyes he still slithers for cover when lights go on. His armour protects hila so well that he can be trodden or without corn- ing to much harm. We may well wonder how it is that -lfan, whose survival qualities are so titin lower than those of the cockroach, has nevertheless man- aged to assume such a dominant position on earth in such a short time. Each species of animal has some special equipment of its own that makes it methods of survival differ- ent from those of all others. Some animals can hear many sounds in- audible to Man, for instance, Longest In Queue Others can see much better, Others can run faster or jump far- ther, or go longer without food or water. Some, by' clever camouflage, can blend with their backgrounds. In all of these fields and many others Man is very poorly equip- ped. Everything he has, except one thing, is outclassed in many other species. The only instance it which Man shows a superior development is his brain. Only by its use has Man come so far and so fast, Only Man's 0 f '11 ed I vertisst n '.. n.. AO16N'r5 tv,ti'rgi OILS, GREASES, TIRES BATTERIES, paints, electric Inoters, stoves, mesas, refc'igcratars, fast freez- ers, milk coolers and feed grinders. Power sates, drills, and lathes, etc, Dealers wanted. Write: \Vareo Grease and 011 Limited, Toronto. w _� 1'1'4 A 1 A('T SI''llINO clpau)ng time is here. 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