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0 THE GENERAL hockey public doubt-
less harbors the idea that referees are a
drab, humorless lot of folk, whose principal
aim in life is to annoy and harass toiling
hockey players, spoil the contests by tooting
their whistles, and visit upon the home.
players penalties which are of course put
rageously unfair and uncalled-for.
But the referees are, in fact, a very pleasant lot of folk,
doing a very difficult job, and in the main, doing it extremely
well. ,And most of them have a sharp sense of humor. If they
didn't, it's doubtful whether they could retain job and sanity.
Hockey lost a referee of vast color and keen sense of humor
when Frank King Clancy decided to hang up his whistle and
return to coaching duties.
But the fast -talking Clancy did not always get the best of
it in verbal exchanges. One night he was being heckled by Babe,
Pratt, another lad who was very fast on the verbal trigger.
Finally, in exasperation, Clancy snapped at Pratt: "1 wish I
was playing against you tonight."
''!Veil, ain't you?" innocently responded Pratt.
Clancy credited his mental balance in the refereeing field
to the hard-boiled veteran Mickey Ion, who refereed for years
in the major league. "In my first game as an NHL referee,"
said Clancy, "I was working with Mickey. When we started
for the ice, I was literally shaking, I was so nervous. Ion noticed
this, stopped, took me by the arm, and said: 'Don't worry, kid.
Remember this: the second after that puck is dropped, there will
be only two sane people in the entire house, you and 1'
"I always kept that in mind," Clancy said later, "and I often
thought afterwards that Mickey was right."
The late Lou Marsh. a rugged citizen and hard-hitting sports
writer, refereed hockey games with the sante virility that char-
acterized his writing. In a small Ontario town one night, a lady
fan, seated close to the ice, was giving Marsh a terrific verbal
beating. Lou heard, paid no attention. But a play developed that
forced a faceoff in front of the belligerent lady. So she screamed
at close range: "If you were my husband, Marsh, I'd give you
poison."
"If I was your husband," Marsh retorted politely, "I'd
take it . "
Bald, fast -skating George Gravel, is one of the wittier refer-
ees of the present era. When a player feigned injury one night,
and lay on the ice as if knocked completely out, Gravel said
to him, quite pleasantly: "Please get up. The hockey players
need the ice."
President Clarence Campbell is a martinet in the matter of
enforcing rigidly the rules of the game, and stands four-square
back of his referees, has visited sharp punishment on players who
tangled with the officials on or off the ice. But when he was
a referee, he took a lenient view of player belligerence. In the
heat of a Stanley Cup match, Dit Clapper, of Boston Bruins, a
notably clean and sporting player, annoyed at a penalty, tossed
a punch at referee Campbell and landed a light, glancing blow
of no damaging qualities. Most of those who saw the incident
expected dire punishment to be visited on the offender. But
Campbell didn't even report it. "Clapper is a nice fellow, always
a gentleman, and just lost his head for a few seconds," he said.
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Most Of Your Taste
Is In Your Nose
We take our sense of taste very
much for granted, yet it is the least
reliable of all our senses, and the
easiest to fool. It can be so in-
fluenced with one taste that it be-
comes incapable of doing its job
properly.
You are probably quite sure that
you can tell the difference between
a sweet and a sour apple. But you
can be misled quite often because
a great deal depends on what you
eat prior to the apple.
If, for instance, you have been
eating chocolate, and then have a
bite of apple, it will taste sour,
even if it is really sweet.
The reason is that chocolate acts
on your sense of taste like opium
on the brain. It acts like a drug
and overpowers them.
Your taste buds, incidentally, are
those little pimples which. cover the
surface of your tongue. They are
'divided into four sections, one for
each of the basic tastes.
There are four of these — sweet,
sour, bitter, and salt. Generally
speaking, the buds sensitive to
sweet tastes are on the tip of your
tongue, sour on the sides, bitter at
the back, while all your tongue is
sensitive to salt.
That is why, of all tastes, you
recognize salt first, because all your
taste buds are in combination.
The slowest to attract your at-
tention is. bitter taste, and it might
take as long as a second for the
buds to work.
Taste is the Weary Willie of the
senses. It very soon becomes tired.
That is why a cigarette tastes best
when it is first lit. After a few
'draws the taste buds get tired,
Lazy Buds
They are so lazy that they expect
to be continually assisted by the
other senses. If you were blind-
folded it would take you a fraction
longer to tell the difference between
a cup of tea and a cup of coffee.
W„hen.you can see what..it is, your
"sight ; notifies your taste buds what
to expect. That is why your mouth
waters at the sight of something
you know is delicious.
You will find that although many
blind people do smoke it is usually
because they smoked before losing
their sight. It is very rare for a
person to take up smoking after
being afflicted by blindness. Tobac-
co tastes better when you can see
it, thanks to lazy taste buds.
Their best ally, is your nose. In
fact, without the co-operation of
your nose, your taste buds would
fold up and refuse to work. You
can, prove that any time you have
a cold in the head. Your nasal pas-
sages are affected and you can't
taste a thing.
With your nose pinched tightly
you cannot tell the difference be-
tween quinine and coffee. Your
mother's idea, when you were
young, of pinching your nose while
you drank castor oil, was a very
good one, for it robbed the castor .
oil of most of its taste.
Another way of fooling your
taste buds is 'to dry them, for they
hate working without moisture.
Just dry your tongue with a piece
of blotting -paper, and whatever
you place on it will have absolutely
no taste at all.
Return in Loaves. In Menasha,
Wis., a few days after Mrs. John
Gillingham lost her pocketbook
containing $500, it was returned to
her in the rnail, containing $1,810.
Slap -Happy — Harvard sophomores Oakleigh Thorne, left, and
Richard Mortimer, bang away cit each other during their 48-hour
face -slapping marathon. Having heard how two of Stalin's Reds
sc'r a record of slapping each other 17,26 times, they bettered
that mark by one slap,
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Fishermen's Woes Visitors from all parts of Ontario will attend
the 1952 Canadian -,National Sportsmen's Show in the Coliseum,
Toronto, from Marchi 14 to 22. Continual demonstrations of fly,
bait and plug casting will be one of the many features of this big
springtime exhibition, sponsored by the Toronto Anglers' and
Hunters' Association. Here, novice caster Terry Hinds gets some
help to untangle his snarled line from Treva Hinds, another mem-
ber of the Toronto Anglers' and Hunters' Association. Officials
predict the 1952 Sportsmen's Show will be the best ever held in
Canada.
Who was the greatest all-round
athlete of all time? Here in Canada
Lionel Conacher is the general
choice, South of the border they
plump for Jim Thorpe. Buf over in
Great Britain there are a lot of
folks who believe that they had,
some sixty years or so ago, some-
body who could have topped either
Big Con or Indian Jima'
* * *
He was Alfred Lyttleton,father
of Oliver Lyttleton who was re-
cently appointed Colonial Secre-
tary by Winston Churchill!' Alfred
himself held the same Govs,i hent
position".. between 1903 ant 005 and
did a good job too. But -it is as
an outstanding athlete that he is
best remembered.
* * *
Alfred was the best of eight
athletic brothers and was consider-
ed the finest games player: of his.
data, He was selected to play for
England at cricket and soccer, was
first class at rugger, distinguished
himself at the wall game at Eton,
was very good at five until he
broke an arm, represented Cam-
bridge at rackets, and won the
tennis M.C.C. Gold Prize for many
years. This, we might add, was not
lawn tennis but the real thing-
and a very tough sport to play at
that.
* * *
At soccer he was a very strenuous
player was specialized in kicking
goals and "bunting" his opponents;
that is, heaving them with a jerk
of the hips. Once, playing against
the Royal Engineers, he ran from
one end of the field to the other,
flooring four men on the way,
then kicking a goal.
* * *
He was a Worcestershire man,
and the crowds in the Black
Country and. at Kennington Oval,
where cup finals and other im-
portant matches were played,
would yell themselves hoarse with
delight whet he carne charging
down the field. During one Varsity
match a collier in cloth cap and
.,muffler stopped Alfred's brother,
Edward, and said: "Ha, Lyttel-
ton, I'm glad to see youl but it's
your brother we all love so. To
see hint knock 'em down at foot-
ball—oh, it does me 'eart good, it
does!"
* * *
ButserLcket according to Harvey
Day, was his game and he will go
down in sporting history for his
part in that famous test at the Oval
in 1884, when the Australians made
532 for six wickets and the Eng-'
land skipper, Lord Harris, had
given every fielder, a turn with the
ball. At last, he went over to the
wicket -keeper. "Alfred," he said,
throwing hire the. ball, "you take
that end."
* * *
Alfred Lyttelton kept his pads
on and bowled lobs. A miracle,
such as Englishmen dream of
when faced with stubborn Austra-
lian tail -enders, was wrought. In
eight overs he dismissed Midwinter,
Blackham, Spofforth and Boyle for
eight runs. Yet he never took an-
other wicket as long as he lived!
* * *
A few days before his 'death he
was invited to Bethnal Green, his
constituency, to play in a charity
snatch. Though he had not touched
a bat . for nearly twenty years he
made eighty-nine runs and went
home stiff, but happy. But, during
the game, he was hit by .a ball.
The blow' brought on an internal
abscess, and in less, than a week
he was dead.
Most Henpecked Men
In All The o rld,
A traveller in the I-Ioggar Moun-
tains of the Sahara Desert was, re-
cently surprised to discover a white
woman, Miss Daisy Wakefield, in-
habiting a small mud hut in the
village of Tamanraset, 1,315 miles
south of algiers. She ]las lived
among the Tauregs for fifteen
years, where the custom :` for Hien
to veil themselves and women ,.to
rule.
Miss 4Vakciie1d, a missionary,
went to Tamanraset when she was
fifty -talo, to translate the Bible into
Berber, and has stayed there ever
since. She is the only British 'sub-
jest to that tiny French colony,
and, though the French treat her
with r'rrspect they look upon her
with'Becertain amount of stispi-
cion, believing she belongs to the
Br#tisk+" Intelligence Service!
Pierce Fighters, But , ,
No one knows exactly how or
why the Taureg worsen first starts
ed bossing their menfolk, for the:
male Tauregs are fierce and strong
reribwt ed for their fighting qualm
ties, Yet all the laws are compiled
by ttfie woniee, and the men sleekly
acquiesce.
The women own all the calneis,
tents and such property as the
tribe possesses. if they do comics-
Bend to 'visit a male, he considers
himself highly honoured; for it is
the custom in this barren country
for men to pay homage to women.
A man must even lavish presents
on the ladies if be wishes to remain
a guest in Taureg territory.
Taureg women are enormous
creatures, many of them over six
feet tall and weighing. over four-
teen stone. A feature of their dress
is the two huge breastplates ---as
big as soup plates—that they wear.
It is not uncommon to find Tau -
reg men seven feet tall, tough and
muscular; yet they do exactly as
their wives dictate. They perform
the housework, such as it is, pound
millet and look after ,the babies,
while their wives sit around drink-
ing strong tea• and gossiping
At meal -time in this feminine
paradise the wives sltlt5ver steam-
ing wooden bowls 0l, boiled millet,
goat's milk, cam el'sr ci' ase and
wheaten bread placed 01.1 grass
mats, while the husbands wait on
them patiently. Only, after they
have eaten their fill'autPare toying
with, coffee, do the men think of
eating.
A Taureg goes to irntneusc trou-
ble to win a bride, lite sings", com-
poses love poems and tries to spar-
kle at repartee.
Refuses to Creed' Lm
A plan comes into his, own only
when on the back of hiS. game! ill
the desert. At home h(. i.' a,glori-
fled lackey, for if he disgjs'ys his
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wife she' can take away his camel .
and refuse to feed him.
As well as laying down the law,
Taureg women declare war, too;
and when it is over they formulate
the peace terms. Perhaps it is best;
. for when the Tauregs lined up not
':so- long ago to fight the Senussi,
the women decided. at the last
moment to 'call the thing off.
Once, the Tauregs lived on the
shores of the Mediterranean, but
the Arab invasion of • the eighth
and ninth centuries drove them
south. They in turn established a
feudal system over the Negroes of
the Suttee, who paid them in slaves
and grain to keep the Arabs at
bay. They have been nomads for
centuries, and the fact that the men
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