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• HAVE YOU ever heard of Canada's
Athletic Hall of Fame, and the names of
those who dot the mythical enclosure.
Probably not. Yet it is a record of a long
and important cross-section of Canadian
sports life and endeavour, significant be-
cause it reveals that in Olympic competition,
Canada, despite its comparatively sparse population has compiled
an amazingly fine record.
We think Canadians should know more about this particular
Hall of Fame. It was first suggested in 1947 by Lt, Col. George
C. Mecham, E,D., President of the A,A.U, of C., adopted by
that body in 1949, officially inaugurated by the Governor General
In 1950.
First members are first -place gold medal winners at the
Olympic Games, for Canada, and the number of these might
surprise you.
The first member was a brawny Montreal police officer,
Zenon Desmarteau, who -won the .56 -pound hammer toss at the
St. Louis Olympics in 1904, Then came little Billy Sherring, of
Hamilton, who galloped home in front of the world's athletes
over the original marathon course in Greece, at the 1906 games.
Bobby Kerr, of Hamilton, winner of the 200 -meter event at the
1908 Olympics in London; George Hodgson, who won two swim
events at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm and the great Cana-
dian walker George Goulding, who won in the Antwerp Games
in 1928, help swell the roster.
Vancouver's slim whippet, Percy Williams, who scored a
double at Amsterdam, winning the 100 to 200 meter sprints;
Ethel Catherwood, the beautiful western girl who captured the
women's high jump there, and the Canadian girls' relay team of
Fannie Rosenfeld, Myrtle Cook, Ethel Smith and Florence Jane
Bell, all won places in the mythical Hall. In 1932 at Los Angeles,
Toronto's Lefty Gwynn; a boxer and the western high -jumper,
Duncan McNaughton, both won championships. In 1936 at Ber-
lin, Frank Amyot of Ottawa defeated the world's best paddlers.
And in 1948, at St. Moritz, it was Canada's sweetheart, Barbara
Ann Scott, who added to the Dominion's sport glories by winning
world and Olympic fancy skating honors.
The Hall committee hasn't stopped at that. Louis Ruben-
stein, who won the world fancy skating title in St. Petersburg
over half a century ago; the late Charlie Gorman, of Saint John,
N.B,, one of the greatest bladesmen to come from this hot -bed
of speed skaters; three Canadian Diamond Scull winners, Lou
Scholes, Joe Wright, ,jr., and Jack Guest, Si-., are listed. So is
slim Phil Edwards, one of the great modern runners, three times
on Canadian Olympic teams.
There will be many more to come, such as Moncton's Jimmy
Humphrey, Montreal's Frank Lukeman, Hamilton's Tom Long-
boat. There's John C. Caffrey and Johnny Miles, each of whom
won the Boston marathon twice, and slim Gerard Cote of St.
Hyacinthe who took this classic four times. These are only a
few. You could rattle off scores of illustrious names that over the
years figures in international competition, and brought glory to
the Dominion. There are the great professionals, George Young,
Hod Stuart, Howie Morenz, George Dixon, Sam Langford,
Tommy Burns, whose names would grace any Canadian athletic
roster.
But, as it stands, the Hall's list reveals more strikingly than
perhaps you imagined that Canada has sent some great athletes
to the international wars.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
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DISTILLERS LIMITED
AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO
Studying -Thee Ways
Wthunderstorrns
Roscoe R. Brabant Jr., recently
told the American Meteorological
Society that most of the moisture
and energy in a thunderstorm is
dissipated without failing as rain
or appearing as lightning. Only
one drop out of every nine poten-
tial rain drops in the storm actually
falls as rain.
Even though the relative pro-
duction of rain in the average thun-
derstorm is small, 110,000 tons o£
water will drop over a maximum
area of eight square miles. About
one-third of the potential moisture
that passes through the thunder-
storm never condenses to rain
rain but evaporates again as it
moves in the downlraft that lies in
MERRY MENAGERIE
",'hat 'honey -chile -you -all stuff is
phony! Her first owner Came from
Brooklyn!"
the heart of the thunderstorm dur-
1ni4fiGrlges.
rs€Tie 'rem older, only a third
actually falls as rain. Part evapor-
ates from the sides of the individ-
ual thunderstorm cell, and part re-
mains as vapor in th cloud left
behind the storm. Most of the en-
ergy in a thunderstcrm is spent
moving large currents of air into
and out of the thunderstorm cell
itself. hese air movements are on.
a large scale, and are partly mani-
fested in the winds that blow out
of the cell along the earth's sur-
face.
These figures are based on a
study of nearly 100 thunderstorms.
The purpose of the project is to
discover ^ ays to iliminate haazrds
faced by airplane pilots who must
fly through storm areas.
Recent experiments have shown
that, thunderstorms act as gener-
ators , which reverse the normal
pattern of the electrical currents
in the atmosphere and thus main -
fain the earth's electric charge. Dr.
G F. Schilling points out that elec-
trically active clouds influence field
intensity measurements at distanc-
es of 100 miles, far beyond the
eye's range,
These experimental results de-
mand the possible revision of a
number of concepts in the field of
atmospheric electricity. The ob-
served effects may be caused part-
ly by wind-borne electrical space
charges that travel well in advance
of thunderstorm fronts, Dr. Schil-
ling believes that electrical cures
rents in an atmospheric layer of in-
creased conductivity about twelve
miles above the earth's surface are
the principal -agencies at work,
sully For Him --' Champion Brampton Lavenders Finn ix taggeth
"Grade A" by Miss Nola Langton. Ten daughters of the bullhave
averaged 567 pounds of butterfat annually.
Worth His Weight In Blood—Brownie, 15 -year-old horse, views his
latest contribution to the welfare of mankind—two gallons of his
blood. During seven years the horse has given 2000 pounds of
blood, 400 pounds more than his own weight, for use in man-
ufacture of tetanus antitoxin. He is: one of several equine blood
donors kept by the 'biological laboratory of a pharmaceutical firm
Of course, betting on horse races
is strictly illegal, not to say im-
moral,' except when the Govern-
ment gives its blessing—and takes
its ralceoff. Besides, since our
Queen's Park solons cut loose with
their investigation last summer, the
handbooks have gone into deep hid-
ing and nowadays it is about' as
hard to find somebody who will
accept a shall wager on the ponies
as it is to find a—well, to find a
used car lot or a road dug up. for •
repairs.
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Still, even in these reformed and
uplifted times it is interesting t�
think back on the bad old days
and the various methods the horse
players had of trying to beat the
races. (Beat them, did we say?
Why, most of us were like the
character who, on entering a cer-
tain race track one afternoon, feel-
ingly remarked to a friend: "Gee,
I hope I break even today because
I certainly need the money!")•
* * *,
But although horse players know
in their hearts that they can't beat
them, it doesn't prevent them from
trying. And of all the niiIlion or
so systems for doing so, probably
the wackiest of all is pial(
hunches- (We know, because we'
been a hunch player ever since first
bounce was out.)
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In case your early education was
neglected and • you don't know ex-
actly what playing hunches means;
a little illustration will be the.
quickest way to inform you. Some
years ago, on his way to Thorn
cliffe Race Track, a friend of ours.
had to jump quickly to avoid being
sloughed by a passing automobile.
He landed, in a sitting position,
in a roadside mud puddle. Furious,
he tried to get the number of
the offending car, but it was going
too fast. All he could catch were
the last two numbers --Number Two
and Number Seven.
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His fury immediately evaporated. "
"That's a swell hunch," he said to
himself. "I'll just go and play
Numbers Two and Seven in the
-Daily Double."
' s<
Which he proceeded to do. Two
and Seven stepped down in front
like little gentlemen, with the re-
sult that our friend collected some-
thing like $180. So that's hunch -
playing; although, of course, it
doesn't always work out to such
a satisfactory ending, more's the
pity.
* ✓n K
Possibly the costliest piece of
hunch playing on record was back
in the,,.1933 Kentucky Derby—the
race in which Don Meade, riding'
Broker's Tip, and Hetbie Fisher
astride the favourite, Head Play,
came down the stretch using every
foul tactic in the book --and some
that weren't—on each other, Brok-
er's Tip finished in front by a snoot,
undoubtedly the poorest horse that
ever won the Kentucky Classic.
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But—as Horace Wade recalls in
(
a recent issue of The Police Gazette
—Head Play's fate was settled long
before that—settled several days
earlier in a London drawing room
purely on a hunch.
* *`
Mrs. Silas Mason, ambitious to
be recognized as queen of the
turf, a crown then worn so regally
by Mrs. Payne Whitney, hoped to
scale those heights with a Ken-
tucky Derby winner. Thus, shortly
before the 1933 running; she pur-
chased the favoured Head Play
from William Crump, a former
rider who decided $50,000 in the
hand was worth a possible fortune
on the hoof.
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However, Mrs. Mason's social
calendar did net permit time to see
the Derby running, although it be-
came a topic of animated conversa-
tion among members of the gilded
London set to whose social circle
she belonged. This included the
Prince of Wales, fated to soon suc-
ceed his father as King of the Bri-
tish Empire.
It was a credulous and bizarre
era of spiritualists, swamis, crystal
gazers, fortune tellers and seers
of all kinds and Mrs. Mason, while
enjoying afternoon tea at a friend's
home facetiously consulted a visit-
ing Hindu soothsayer. She then
became so impressed by his fore-
casts that she asked for a prediction
regarding Head Play's chances in
the Derby.
* *
The swami peered deep into the
transparent,depths of the ball.
"Your horse," he said, "is the
best, but I see a cloud in the crys-
tal. You are in danger of being
crossed up by a crooked clique."
Mrs. 'Mason was startled out of
her accustomed calm.
"What can I do?" she asked
anxiously.
* *k *
"Come and see me shortly be-
fore sundown when the crystal ball
is clearer. I can then give you a
more definite prediction," the swami
replied.
Later that afternoon he again
consulted the magical ball of, glass.
"Change jockeys and your horse
will win," was his prophetic utter-
ance, and so on Derby eve the
turf world was startled when a
cablegram reached Churchill Downs.
instructing Head Play's trainer that
"Herb Fisher must ride my horse
tomorrow.' The message vas as
terse as it was inexplicable. It
meant that Charlie Kurtsinger, one
of the, nation's leading jockeys, was
to be replaced at the last moment'
by a comparative unknown.
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The rest of the story is to be
found in the record books; how
Head Play, many pounds the
better horse, tasted the dregs of
bitter defeat dished out by Broker's
Tip, a "maiden" horse. The 'Favor-
ite's failure was laid by mashy to
Overconfidence as well as alleged
foul riding tactics by Don Meade
who did everything but commit
mayhem on Head Play through the
stretch. He not only retarded him
by hanging on to the bridle, but
also whipped the horse cruelly
around the head, ,forcing him back
time and again and enabling Brok-
er's Tip to reach the finish line in
front, the first and only race the
Bradley color -bearer ever won.
* *
Fisher, . far less capable than the
replaced ICurtsinger, was complete-
ly unable to cope with the • gifted
Meade in that home stretch duel,
although making such retaliatory
efforts as be could. There was no
lingering doubt in anyone's mind, •
however, that with Kurtsinger
aboard Head Play would have
been a galloping Derby winner,
instead of losing the race, because
of a woman's sudden hunch in-
spired by her contact with a Hindu
mystic.
Definition of a psychiatrist; "Tele
last man you talk'. to before you
talk to yourself."
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ISSUE 11 1952