Zurich Herald, 1952-04-24, Page 2E
SPORTS COLUMN
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Sporting gestures, in which this column
is primarily interested, dot the sports scene.
That's traditional, There'll be many of them
this year, as in every other year. Amateur
and professional sport will both contribute
their quota,.
But at year-end, we doubt if you'll find
one to excel, in its spontaneous spirit, that developed in Montreal,
before a fanatic hockey crowd, one night last January.
You'll require a bit of background, perhaps, to more fully
appreciate this. Afaurice (The Rocket) Richard, is the idol of
Montreal sportdonl. What Babe Ruth and Christy Matthewson
were to baseball; what' Lionel Conacher, Red Grange and Jim
.l"horpe were to football, the Rocket is to Montreal's vast hockey
public, plus. That January night, Canadiens were playing one of
their bitterest rivals, the powerful Detroit Red Wings, and as an
additional attraction, if one was needed, Richard the Rocket was
to receive the award in recognition of being the Hockey Player
of 1951, so selected by and for an American magazine devoted to
sports.
So it was, in reality, a Richard night, a Richard crowd, come
to pay homage to an idol. But unbelievably, because of one spon-
taneous sporting gesture the whole show was stolen by Richard's
arch -enemy of the National League right-wing ice lanes, quiet,
hard -shooting young Gordie Howe of the Wings, who just then
was battling Richard tooth and nail for the N.H.L. scoring lead.
It wasn't that Richard, unable to play because of injury, and
clad in civvies, didn't get a great ovation when he stepped out on
the rubber runway, while players of Red Wings and Canadiens
stretched in a line across the ice pounded on the ice with their
sticks to make their own contribution to the occasion. It wasn't
that Mayor Ronde, a master -craftsman of words in such events
didn't speak with eloquence. All that went smoothly as per routine
schedule,
When the presentation was finished, and Richard bad marched
back to the promenade and was just about to disappear into the
crowd, Howe suddenly skated away from his position, wheeled
over, and called out, "Hey, Rocket!" When Richard turned,
Howe doffed his glove extended his hand, and the two rivals for
top goal -getting honors in the National Hockey League shook
hands warmly.
It was a sort of genuinely unrehearsed spontaneous gesture
that caught the big crowd completely by surprise. Montreal crowds
are appreciative of dramatic moments and color in sport, and they
felt, rightly, that here was one of thein. For a few seconds there
was stunned silence. Then this crowd who had come to cheer the
Rocket blasted out a thunderous roar that even exceeded the
warmth with which Richard had been received, because this cheer
was for an event unexpected. It was a cheer unrehearsed, and
thoroughly, warmly genuine.
Before young Howe skated quietly back to his right wing
position, a press photographer asked him to shake hands again
with Richard, but Howe, no actor, had already contributed a
sincere gesture, and was in no mood to add any studied theatrical
touch and shook his head smilingly.
And after that, he went on to score the goal that put him
even with the ailing Richard. And the pro-Canadien crowd cheered
him again, even for that.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert Howe, 431 Yonge SI., Toronto.
'IA DISTILLERS LIMITED
AMHER5TBURG, ONTARIO
A SINBITC
Although our personal angling
is pretty much confined to the
Ash and chip shops and St. Law-
rence Market, what with the trout
season just about to open, there
doesn't seem any reason why we
shouldn't devote a bit of space to
the sport piscatorial, And, speak-
ing of St. Lawrence Market—To-
ronto—we might as well tell about
& really funny incident that occur-
red down there.
* * *
Sid Perkins is the name of a
very large sea -food stand down
there and overhead is a large sign
reading "IF IT SWIMS WE
SELL IT." One afternoon a
gentleman, slightly bemused by
the grape, stood reading the sign.
"Does that thing mean what it
says?" he demanded of the pro-
rietor, "It certainly does," replied
the latter.
* * *
"O.K.," said the inebriated one,
"Just bring me Esther Williams,"
* * *
According to Bob Turnbull, who
should know what he writes about,
our Department of Lands and For-
ests is considering some changes
in the legal lengths for game fish
and in the method of determining
said lengths.,
* * *
As things stand now it is pro-
per to measure a fish from the
tip of the nose to the base of the
tail fork. What they are consider.
ing now is the adoption of a new
method to measure from the tip
of the nose (jaws closed) to the
tip of the tail, with the lobes of the
latter held together to give the
maximum strength.
* * *
Legal length limits might then
become 11 inches (now 10) for
smallmouth and largemouth bass;
15 inches (now 13) for walleyes;
32 inches (now .30) for muskies;
trout—speckled, ' brown, rainbow
and Aurora—to remain at 7 inches,
since these have more or less
square tails. Kamloops, a spring
spawner, now also 7 inches, may
be raised to 12.
* * *
Most anglers will applaud such
changes. In Otnario we have been
over -generous to the angler in the
foregoing respects... Many would
like to see trout raised to 9 or 10
inches. bass to 12, for anything
under these sizes isn't worth keep-
TES
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TES
YOUR INTO."
GENICE
Score 10 points For each correct answer in the first six questions:
1. A facade is a:
—Front of a building --Kind of food --Fish net
--Small animal
2. General Burgoyne was a British officer in the:
---Boer War —Boxer Rebellion
--American Revolution —World War 11
3. The author of the novel Jane Eyre was:
---Emily Dickinson —Dorothy Parker Eznily Post
--Charlotte Bronte
4. Who said, "There's one born every minute?"
"Papa Dionne —George Drew . -P. T. Barnum
.-Hon. C. I). Howe
3. Alaska teas discovered by a:
--Dane —Russian —Englishman —Norwegian
6. Which of the following is not an official language. of -Switzerland,
---French —Italian ' ---German —Spanish
7 Listed below are four occupations and opposite thein, iumbied up,
are tools used in three jobs. Match them, scoring 10 points for'
eidi correct answer.
(A 1 physician ---"T-square
(B) machinist ---stethoscope
IC) draftsman
—miter bolt
'D) carpenter --calipers
Intel e our points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-8d:
suprrior; 90.100, very superior.
1491=410 21714:41411=1610
Doggy Playground—A little: German girl readies her pet for a
treadmill "solo" at a playground especially designed for canine
amusement in Frankfurt, Germany. Question is: Which rider is
most amused, The park project' is aimed at keeping dogs off the
city's streets.
ing, but for the moment we're
happy to see a step in the right
direction being considered.
* * *
There are said to be something
like 15 million fresh water fisher-
men on this continent—and i1nast
of them are "rarin' to go." Some
of course, being bass, pike and
muskie specialists merely marking
time on the trput stream, much, to
the disgust of the brook, brown
and rainbow brotherhood, who
complain that they would be able
to enjoy more solitude and less
competition if the "outsiders" could
be eliminated.
• * *
• The others retaliate by pointing
out that they would be able to
get better results from their min-
nows and worms if the fly fisher-
men were not moving up and
down the streams swishing flies, to
the peril of the eyes, ears and noses
of contemplative anglers.
* *
High, cold and discolored waters
provide: normal conditions for the
early anglers, and .wbile,,they "ez,serr
cise their prerogative by complain-
ing and by mouthing loud vows
to remain at home on next year's
opening, there is an increase rather
than a • diminution in their numbers
from year to year. 'Anglers, like
taxes, are on the increase. In view
of the expanding fishing pressure,
many conservation agencies have
abandoned all hope,' of providing
enough trout to keep their legions
happy, and are content if they can
stock enough fish to provide token
sport. * * *
Anglers are convinced, and some
ichthyologists back them up, that
trout do not begin active feeding
until the water temperatures hover
in the late S0's, and as opening
day temperatures usually linger in
the very early 40's, the results
usually conform to the theories.
This argument will be settled in the
reasonably near future, for scien-
tists of the University of Califor-
nia are doing research on the
matter. * * *
The scientists expect to find out
what happens in streams during
the cold. -water periods, what fish
eat, if anything, during this period
and what insects are available in
the watery larder at this time. In
addition to settling the cold -water -
feeding dispute, the survey should
be able to work out a means of
regulating the insect populations
of streams, thus providing more
food for the fish, and, of equal
importance, more fish for the an-
glers. * * *
The spring freshets of the past
two seasons have done consider.
able harm to the insect life in a
number of popular trout streams.
The scouring of the stream bed,
. the movement of rocks and the
deposits of silt, have resulted in
the .decrease of great numbers of
insects that provide food for trout
and inspiration for fly fishermen.
With the destruction of these in-
sects in the larval and pupal forms.
the insect population of a stream
can he affected for several years,
"Trout lost through such freshets
can he replaced, but the re -stocking
ni insects is quite a problem.
*
'Phis problem was partially mew
ed by a small group of PennsyT-
Mania anglers a few years ago,
although in the process of this
activity passing tnotorists were
convinced they were in dose pro-
ximity to a group of escaped luna-
tics. When one of the small trout •
streams suffered frons' lack 'of in
sect life, the group made some
crude "butterfly" nets, converge,]
on a nearby stream with abundain
•insect life, end gathered thousand;
of flies. The insects were impris
oncd in closed trucks, transported
to the fly -barren stream, and re
leased there. The results, in a few
n
year's, were°,re nrterl to he Torr}.1
satisfactory,
He Was A Big Man
—So Were His Follies
Everything that Whitaker
Wright did was on a grand scale.
A range of hills spoiled Whitaker's
view from his bedroom window
near Godalming, England, so they
had to be removed.
One day he decided he would
like an under -water ballroom.
Soon, there it was, with a glass
roof so the goldfish in his quarter -
mile -long artificial lake could
watch the dancers below.
This was Whataker's Folly —
one of the most extravagant homes
built in England. It took 2,900
workers to put up the $2,352,000
house that could do credit to the
under -water ballroom.
Even when he was found guilty
of fraud in his stock exchange
dealings and sentenced to seven
years in jail, 'Whitaker 'was equal
to the occasion. He swallowed
cyanide and died 15 minutes after
;:sentence was pronounced.
That was in 1904.
Today the auctioneer's men are
swarming over Whitaker's Folly,
cataloguing the contents for auc-
tion. The present owner, Sir John
Leigh, can't afford to keep the 77
servants Whitaker planned on.
Whitaker Wright was a big man
in financial circles in the 1890's—
all 250 pounds of him. He floated
companies like little boys float
paper boats. He fraternized with
the Prince of Wales, who became
Edward VII. '
But the authorities finally caught
on.
If it weren't for Wright's Folly,
his name would be all but .for-
gotten now.
But who could forget a man who
built a 74 -foot -long bridal bed-
room, with piano, harps zither, Chi-
nese gong and 40 -odd windows? Or
the 32 bedrooms? Or the deer park
closed in by a $100,000 stone wall?
But soon auction customers will
hear:
"Who'll give me a bid on this
fine, glass -walled, under -water bill-
iard room and cocktail bar?"
THE HORSE, TOO!
Clem McCarthy, who has troad•
cast the details of practically every
impurtant horse race in the past
decade, can make the dullest event
in the world sound exciting by his
rapid-fire, staccato delivery, .You
can imagine the pitch to which he
worked himself when four horses
came into the stretch of one big
race absolutely neck and neck. A
rank outsider won by a nose, and
when it was led into the winner's
circle, McCarthy, limp with excite-
ment, croaked into the microphone,
"What a day t What a day! The
only one who hasn't gone absolute•
ly nuts is the horse.,"
At that moment, radio listeners
.heard a resounding crash. An nil. '
known humorist grabbed the mike
and ho:}eretl, "11 ey, folks, the horse
• •just kicked Al cCarthy 1"
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