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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-07-12, Page 3d { love Finds A Way—Four-year-old Judy Ann Goral loves her Grandpa. He's her pal and has spent angst of his leisure time building her a swing, a playhouse, a merry-go-round and she has for- gotten how; many toys. So, when he .had to go to the hospital on the eve of his 62nd birthday, Judy was upset. She tried many times to visit him, but her age barred her. Finally she .went •.home and, with an assist from her mother, worked out her inspiration. With it she rushed back to the hospital and, as seen at right, was able fio wish him a happy birthday after all. Looking down at her from the hospital -room window Grandpa said: "That's my girl." River of Grass There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, ,eine of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them, their vast glittering open- ness, wider than the enormous visible round of the horizon, the racing free saltness and sweetness of their massive winds, under the dazzling blue heights of space. They are unique also in the sim- plicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life they enclose. The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse, of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and•water that is the meaning and the central fact of• the Ever- glades of Florida. It is a river of grass..... - The English from the Bahamas, charting the Florida coasts in the early seventeen hundreds, had no very clear idea of 'then: Gerard de flrahm, the surveyor, may have gone up some of the east -coast rivers and stared out on that end- less, watery bright expanse, for on his neap he called them "River Glades." But on the later English maps "River" becomes "Ever," so it is hard to tell what he in+ended. The present name came into general use only after the acquisi- tion of Florida from Spain in 1819 by the United State?. The Turner map of 1823 was the f.e.e to use the word "Everglades." ' ' ' The word "glade" is of the oldest English origin. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon (glaed," with thte "as" diphthong, shortened to "gla." (t meant "shining" or "bridge," perhaps as of water. The same word was used in the Scandinavian languages for "a clear place in the ;Icy, a bright' streak or patch of tight," as Webster's International• Dictionary gives it. But most dictionaries nowadays tad a definition of them with the snaiifying phrase, "as of the Flor- ida Everglades." So that they have has become uniquein being their 1,wn, and only, best definition.— From efinition:Frorssn "The Everglades: River of Grass," by Marjory Stoneman Douglas. From now on we don't believe anything we see in public print is going to surprise or shock us— no, not even if Colonel Bertie Mc- Corinick of The Chicago Tribune should start printing a picture of King George at his masthead, or The Toronto Globe and Mail should hail the Hon. C. D. Howe as the greatest Canadiai living or dead. * * * For, believe it or not, we have just finished reading an article in an English journal of wide cir- culation in which the sacred sport of CRICKET is most severely criticised. Cricket, mind you! Why, that's mutiny, that's what it is! Or firing on the guards! Or something! :k * * Writing about one of the current Test Matches between South Africa and England, the author, one Jef- frey Wyndham, says "The crowds will go because of the natural at- tractions of a Test Match and the knowledge that every player is a star. But although a five-day gate, when eventually shared out, may be a good physic for county trea- surer's sick balance sheets, these five-day marathons are ruining cricket as a spectacle!" * * * Fancy that! Ruining cricket, egad! Wyndarn may be an English name, but we suspect the man must be a Sinn Feiner at heart. .k * * But that is by no means the worst. Brother Wyndham is merely warming up. "Five-day matches are a modern fetish," he goes on to say: "They were started because England and Australia, scared of losing to each other, declined +o show boldness in play . . The only means so far devised of finish- ing a game was to stretch playing hours." * * * (Here we might say that th ow: NAPOLI) ARP ETT ' KEEP POTTEP PLANTS WATEREP WNI'LE ABSENT POM HOME~ BY PLACING' PLANTS IN A LARGE HOWL AND WEDGING Two INVERTED QUART SIZED ii BOTTLES OF -'WATER BETWEEN Par AND BOWL. stretching was done to the extent that instead of getting three sell- out gates they now grab off five. Which might be an idea, at that, for our hockey moguls who object to playing overtime. When the re- gulation 60 minutes end in a tie, tell the customers to kick in with the price of another admission and. stop to see the finish.) - * * * But back to Brother Wyndham. "When this happened the first prin- ciple of cricket was cast aside— that it's the game, not the result, that matters. Soon other cricket playing countries regarded them- selves as slighted unless they, too; were given five-day Tests." * * * "Five-day Tests are defeating their own object, They were de-' vised to bring about results and maintain interest, avoiding the frus- tration of a draw. But players have come to regard them as an exten- sion of their lease -of the wicket. In- stead of making sure they finish the game, they try to stay in as long as possible." Now the warm-up is over. Mr. Wyndham is out of the bull -pen and starts really flinging. Hearken! * * * It may be a grim business for the player, who is obsessed with the idea that he is engaged in a life - or -death struggle for his cricketing reputation. But spectators who pay to see a cricket match are not in- terested in a player's personal am- bitions. They want to be enter- tained—after all, they do pay enter- tainment tax: in their admission money. .. :k Cricket offers either the most delightful relaxation or the most boring spectacle. I know one cynic who frequently declares that coun- ties are encouraging boring cricket in the hope that it will drive spec- tators to drink and so increase the bar takings! But not even that excuse will last much longer. The most patient will evventually realize that they can get a cheaper drink outside the ground and save admission money as well. * * :k At heart, practically every Briton likes to watch a game of cricket, whether it is played in the sanctity of Lord's, the smoke -grimed at- mosphere of Manchester or Shef- field, a tree -fringed village green, or just a bump pitch in a public park. But however much he may of- fend the purists, what he really wants to see is the ball being hit. Crack it away to the boundary and he will raise a cheer; pat it back to the bowler ,and he re- mains dumb, or else applauds ironi- cally. -if he hasn't gone to sleep. k * rk It may be hard on the bowler, but it is the batsman who really (natters from the spectator's point of view. Everyone can see what he does; but even with binoculars it is sometimes difficult to discover what type of delivery the bowler is trying, Even in the prea box, where cricket writers are supposed to be neutral and unbiased, X and my col- leagues have often breathed a fer- vent "Thank goodness he's goner when a particularly stodgy batsman. has at last been removed. The crowd go to see runs scored, or else in the main they won't go at all. They will applaud the clas- tic strokes like the majestic off - drive, the graceful rut, or the al- most contemptuous pull. But they villi also applaud a snick through the slips or a blacksmith's swipe, * * * It may be sacrilege to suggest that the public are mainly inter- ested in seeing runs scored—but it is very near the truth. For con- firmation; look to the prosperous league club$ in the Midlands and North, where,: even if small grounds do make fours easy to get, -the crowds ; roll up to applaud quick runs—and make handsome collec- tions for the man who gets them. •k * •k Crowds went to see men like Hobbs, Woolley and Bradman be- cause they knew they would score plenty of runs, and usually get them quickly. Woolley, from whom, in the eyes of many small boys, anything less than a six was a mishit, was the most graceful bats- man in modern memory. Hobbs also was a supreme artist. Brad- man cared little about the arts, but he got the runs—and quickly. We still have Hutton and Comp- ton, who ate first-rate craftsmen as well as ground. -filling entertain- ers. ,k * * Men like these are rare indeed. But players with far less talent will quickly get a crowd -pulling reputa- tion just by trying to look enthu- siastic and going for the quqick singles that so many orthodox batsmen disdain. Call it tip -and -run cricket if you like, but that is my remedy for cricket's ills. Quick, runs at almost any cost, even if we have to lower the standard of batsmanship. As a lover of- the arts of cricket it is against my inner wishes to say so—but rather lively decadence than a genteel corpse. There's too much sauntering on to the field and when changing positions between overs. Too many players look bored. * The public do not want to wait five clays to know a match result. Three should be ample even for a Test. There may be ways to enliven cricket by artificial means, but for a start let's try more keen- ness and entusia"m among the players. A cricket ground is no place for bored players or bored spectators. If clubs remember that and act accordingly they will be a long way towards solving their problems. Bu,t s%1 Klein of such a .sad sub- ject for the time being, More than sufficient, probably, as we know that our readers' hearts must have been wrung, ,even as ours was, at such a sad tale. Just to think that there are cricketers who actually imagine that their personal batting averages matter a tinker's dam! just to think that there are cricket writers who consider that the cash customer—the guys who keep the game going—are deserving any consideration! Still, if the top brass of cricket are really worried, we have a couple or three suggestions to make. If they really want more and faster scoring why don't they call strikes on the batter or bring in the fenc- es encees closer to the pia—we mean the wicket? Better still, why not in- ject a small amount of rabbit into the ball? The Department of Agriculture regretfully discloses that there are only• 2,000,000 horses left in the United States. In the peak year, 1915, the equine population was over 21.000,000. 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