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SPORTS COLUMN
Etmer ipeorpakmo
O THIS COLUMN is a composite --a voice
crying in the wilderness, and a man en-
gaged in the futile process of locking the
stable after the horse has departed. But
wilderness or not, this voice is still in favor
of the Grey Cup final being played as a
home -and -home series, between the eastern
and western football winners. Pretty nearly everybody else has
declared to the contrary, including the Canadian Rugby Union
itself, but we stili claim the right to speak our piece on behalf of
fans, east and west, because we happen to think that under the
present one -game final, the fans don't get a fair break.
We grant freely that the one -game football final in Toronto is
the greatest sports show Canada produces, and that Varsity Sta-
dium at Toronto with its tarpaulin -covered field is better fitted
than any other place in the Dominion for such an event. On the
drama of a one -game final, and on the setting and equipment,
there's not the slightest argument.
But the world's baseball series and the Stanley Cup series are
reasonably dramatic events too. Yet they are not settled in one
game, in a city which may be a neutral battle -ground, many miles
from tate home -sites of the contending teams, The folks who made
possible, by their seasonal box-office contributions, the very exis- •
tence of the winning teams in the .American and National baseball
leagues, and in the National Hockey League, get a chance to see
their beloved heroes in the final classic, and that's more than you
can say, as a general rule, of the Canadian football final. And we
happen to thick this isn't fair to the fans who have supported the
winning teams.
To this radical observer, the one -game set-up is the height
of frustration for fandom in the home cities of the winning teams,
something akin to throwing the audience out of a theatre just as
the dramatic finale of a gripping thriller is about to begin.
Perhaps we're wrong. We're merely offering the opinion that
the Grey Cup could follow, in lesser fashion, the pattern of the
world's baseball series or Stanley Cup series, and be settled by
home -and -home games, one in each of the cities whose team won
the title. We believe the fans in Ottawa, Montreal and Hamilton
would like to see the team they rnade possible playing for the top
honors. So would fans in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Regina and Cal-
gary who under present plans, can't get a peek at the play, at all,
at least not until television comes in.
While we're in a mood which is not one of sweet reasonable-
ness, we alight as well disagree, too, with the hoist to eight
imported players per team, as against seven. This, we believe,
furnishes double discouragement for Canadian athletes seeking
a any oflall thecmajor teams, ht a imports the salaries necessaryize their tolure Ameri-
can of
players here leave little money, comparatively, for Canadian
athletes, thus obscured in their own game.
We believe the C.R,U., as an economic measure to protect
clubs which are spending too much money on imports as it is,
should have reduced the number of imports. But, after all, we're
merely a voice crying in the wilderness.
Your comments and suggestions for Phis column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
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As nobody probably remem j rs,
not so long ago this co'lu'mn
emitted a mild beef to the ,fleffect
that modern baseball, especially',.in
the upper brackets, was •.sadly
lacking in colorful characters::' , Out-
side of Satchel Paige, we alleged,
today's diamond-dusters—off ''duty
—could very well be mistaken for
a bunch of bank clerks or fourth
year ' university students, esc,ept
that the latter would sho'lftr,'; a
whole lot more verve and zip'ay
* is 'e
Right away one of our readers
threw us a slider by inquiring
"What about Bobo Newsom?" And
we had to admit that we had 'clean
forgotten that Louis Norman New-
som is still in the Big Time -if
you call Washington Senators Big
Time—all of 225 pounds of him.
* * *
And if Bobo Newsom lacks color,
then Uncle Joe Stalin is fre,
of enemies and ill-Wisherl
Take the time, some 15 yet42fi
or so back, when the Washington
Senators opened the home season
with the New York Yankees as
their opposition. President Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt and all his Cabinet
were present, and. Newsom was on
the mound for the Senators. In the
third innings Ben Chapman drop-
ped a hunt toward third base. Bob?,
instead of watching what was hap-
pening, was staring at the Pre-
sidential box—or maybe it• was it
blonde in Row Three. Anywa
when Third Sacker Ossie Bluege
fielded the ball and threw toward
first, Bobo forgot to duck, and
the ball hit Newsom right behind
the ear,
t * *
Bobo was hurt plenty; in fact;;-
his roars of agony could be heard
as far away as the Bowie Race.
Track, But he stayed in the game
for six innings more. What is'.
more he won a 1 to 0 decision•
from the great Lefty Gomez And
it wasn't till he got into the dress -,`r.
ing room that they discovered thats
his jaw had been broken.
* * *
"When the President conies here •
to see Bobo pitch," quoth Mr,
Newsom, • "O1' Bobo ain't gonna
disappoint him,"
,p , *
Bobo has been quite a traveller
in baseball circles. He hit the
upper brackets first with Brooklyn
back in 1929. Then he labored for
Jersey City, Macon, Little Rock,
Chicago Cubs, Albany, Los An-
geles, St. Louis Browns, Wash.
ington Senators, Boston Red Sox,
Browns again, Detroit Tigers,
Senators once more, Dodgers,
Browns, Senators, Philadelphia
Athletics, Senators, New York -
Yankees, Giants, Chatanooga, 131r.
iningham, and—now back to the
Senators.
"This is Bobo's fifth term in
Washington," he announced, to
start the present season, "which
makes Bobo one up on Roosevelt, '
* *As you *
have
dis-
cerned, Mr. Newsom yhas rthe yhabit
of talking of 'himself in the third
person.• To this he adds another
habit of addressing the person he's
talking to as "Bobo" as well—.
which snakes his collversatio0
rather hard to follow at times.
* * *
Bobo not only thinks he's pretty'
good. He freely admits it. In fact
they say the phrase "He's the` only
roan who can strut sitting down"
was minted as a description of him.
And, strangely enough, there were
times when he was just as good
as his opinion of himself,
Bacic in 1940, for example, he
was with the Detroit team which
won the pennant. Newsom was to
collect a nice bonus if he won 20
games and already had 19 of them
in the bag. In a double-header he
was scheduled to pitch the second
game; but the first was a tough
uue and Manager baker signalled
to the bull pen for a relief pitcher.
* *
To Baker's utter amazement out
of the pen strode nobody else but
Newsom, "Get ,back there, you
dumb-bell," yelled the manager.
"If Bobo ain't worrying none,
Bobo," replied that worthy, "you
shouldn't ought to neither." So
Bobo proceeded to win the first
game—then won the second as
well. * * *
There was the time when Earl
Averill crashed back a screamer
which caromed off Newsom's
knee, Bobo howled in pain but
managed to hobble over, field the
ball and throw Earl out at first.
He continued to pitch but eventu-
ally lost the game. In the dressing
room he shouted to the trainer,
"Bobo thinks his leg is broke."
It was, too—the kneecap com-
pletely shattered.
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m
Bobo bad the unique distinction
of pitching a no-hitter—and losing
the game. He was pitching for the
Browns against the Red Sox in
1934 and toiled the regulation nine
innings without givingup the
semblance of a hit. Then,with two
out in the tenth, he allowed his
first hit, and it lost him the game.
* *
By no means the luckiest hurler
who ever lived, Bobo Newsom, But
it would be a gross mis-statement
to say that he Iacked--or lacks—
color, Or guts! Maybe he won't get
very far in his fifth term at Wash-
ington. But there are plenty who
will be pulling for hint to come
through.
Being Sorry
Won't Help
Last year lightning crashed down
into Canadian forests 940 times
and reduced to ashes about 400,000
acres of good timber.
That was a small part of the
story. Man did a much bigger job.
He blew into a puff of smoke 1,6
million acres.
Every year the ratio is the same
-four fires to one are due to pre-
ventable causes. Every year the
press, forestry associations and
timber firms, service clubs and
radio stations warn the public that
eight -tenths of forest fires in the
corning year will be. man-made and
could be stopped. And every year
80 per cent of forest fires go on
being man-made.
Every year 4,400 irrespousiblep
, turn two million acres of wealth
into waste land that won't be fit
for timber or agriculture for an-
other 75-100 years, Last year's
v 4,400 irresponsibles can, each and
`every one of them, claim credit
for destroying enough wood to
''; build 20 five -roomed bungalows.
Most unsuspecting arsonists
"when discovered and informed this
;year no doubt as always in the
past, will trip over themselves tell-
;ing the authorities how terribly
sorry they are, A Iot of good that
does. '.i'he time to be sorry is not
after the event, it's before.
The forest is a pretty good friend
to all of us—and to half a .Million
Canadians it's their bread and but-
ter, To our export trade it is vital
It's time we treated this resource
with a little more care and respect
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