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t SPORTS COLUMN
w Hockey has faded now into that past
which envelopes sports events so rapidly,
as seasons overlap, with hockey intruding
on football, baseball pushing its way in
on hockey. The cheering is a distant echo,
the cups have been won and lost, individual
feats are entered in the records.
There's an award for almost every individual performance
in the major hockey of today, a great many too in the lesser
leagues, which is the way it should be. When athletes can rise
above the level, and soar to greatness by their own skill and
courage and spirit, it's only fair and just that this should be
recognized in some tangible fashion.
Unfortunately for one player in the National Hockey League,
who did all this, plus, there is no award for a courageous come-
back, not even a special notation in the records, which are coldly
mathematical, and don't delve into the human side. Yet, if any
player deserved some recognition that would entitle him to special
notation, special award, that player who should have been worthy
in large and generous measure of such recognition would have
been Winnipeg's Samuel James "Sugar Jim" Henry, goaler of
the Boston Bruins, who survived the buffeting of Fate, survived
a fire that scarred his hands and arms, and returned to stardom.
Hockey developed some great figures the past season, but
we doubt if any of these is so compelling, so fraught with the
rugged romance of sport as the return of Henry to the Big Time.
This is pure Hollywood throughout the piece. A high voltage
script -writer could pen no more gripping drama.
Jim Henry first won a spot in the major leagu,. with New
York Rangers, in 1941. But his stay there was short, for at the
end of his first season, he enlisted in the Army to serve in World
War II, remained there until the end of the fighting. Then he
returned to hockey, played briefly with Rangers, after which his
sports pathway was a dizzy zig-zag lane that seemed to be
leading nowhere. Twice he came up to Rangers, alternating
with minor league chores. Then to Chicago in the Big Time,
then suddenly back to the minors, for three seasons.
This isn't offered as a history of Henry's hockey meanderings.
We merely paint it in for background, to prove that, despite
vicissitudes, real courage doesn't weaken. Three years in the
minors was bad enough, but the worst came in the summer of
1951. A flash fire suddenly enmeshed Henry at a summer resort
camp, he was badly burned about the hands and arms. That,
you might think, would spell the end of a career in hockey,
where hands with speed and certainty are, for goalers, almost
as essential as lightning reflexes.
But Henry didn't give up. He reported to the Detroit camp
of the Red Wings, for he had played the previous season for
Indianapolis, a Detroit farm teani. But Indianapolis already had a
good goaler, young Hall, so the chances for Henry with his
burned hands remaining even in minor hockey looked slim.
But Boston Bruins of the National League needed a goaler.
They tried to buy Hall, but, against their own judgment, were
talked into purchasing Sugar Jim Henry, for a moderate sum,
The club started poorly. Boston didn't win a game in its first
ten. Henry's job seemed shaky. Then the team improved, but
near the end, seemed to have little chance to make the play-offs
for the Stanley Cup. But near the end of the race, Bruins started
to roll. They won or tied all but two of the last 12. And the
star, the steadying influence that hackgrounded the drive—that
carried them into the finals? Why ,none other tha . Sugar Jim
Henry, with his fire -scarred hands and his unshaken courage.
There's no prize for come -backs, for those who survive .the
bludgeoning of fate with head unbowed. If there was, Sugar Jim
Henry would be one of the candidates.
Your comments and suggestions for tl'rir column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calver` Havre, 437 Yonge St., Toronto.
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As this is written the Ontario
horse racing season has been in pro-
gress Iess than a fortnight. But
already, according to the grape-
vine, Toronto sales of headache
powders and other pain -relievers
has more than doubled.
* * *
For while we have sometimes
doubted whether horse racing does
very much toward improving the
breed of horseflesh, we would be
the first to contend that it is of the
utmost value in developing a breed
of the gamest animals on earth.
Gluttons for punishment, undaunt-
ed by defeat, heads bloody but un-
bowed; bruised and battered but
coming back for more—these are
only a few of the phrases appli-
cable to the species of Genus Homo
known as the Horse Player. In fact
we sometimes think it must have
been a confirmed horse -player the
poet had in mind when he penned
the immortal lines—
"I'll lay ole down and bleed
awhile,
And then 1'11 rise and fight
again."
* * *
Why do we say that the horse -
player is so game? Wel. he knows
that there are at least 53 ways in
which a horse can lose a race—and
these are honest ways, and don't
include such things as the owner
not wishing the horse to cop till
the odds are better, the jockey hav-
ing a small wager on some other
stet(' in the race, or any of the
dozens of other kinds of skulldug-
gery that sometimes takes place
on a race track—but not, of course,
and thank goodness, on tracks in
this beloved Ontario of ours, since
our racing was purified.
* * *
Nor do the 53 ways .include—
as Horace Wade recalls in The
Police Gazette—such things as the
great Eddie Arcaro's recipe for
blowing the 1949 Pimlico Cup at
historic old Pimlico race track.
America's premier rider proved he
doesn't do all his sleeping in bed
by misjudging the finish of the two
and a half niile race, He pulled up
sharply the first time past the stands
while enjoying a comfortable lead
atop the odds-on favorite, Blue
Tiillc. He forgot there was another
lap to go and Pilaster galloped past
him to a lucky victory.
* * *
Arcaro's bonehead play at Pim-
lico was not without precedent. In
the 1946 Kentucky Derby, Jockey
Job Dean Jessop misjudged the
finish and took 'hold of his mount,
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Sign For Title Bout—Sugar Ray Robinson (left) keeps an eye on the
proceedings as Joey Maxim puts the pen to a contract for their
June 21 title bout in New York's Yankee Stadium. Welterweight
champ Robinson will be seeking Maxim's light -heavyweight laurels
Hampden, seventy yards from the
pole. It cost him second money in
the Bluegrass classic.
* * *
Not quite so costly was the men-
tal lapse of Joe Notter on Colin
in the 1908 running of the Bel-
mont Stakes. Notter pulled up at
the wrong furlong pole, saw . his
mistake and booted Colin into act-
ion again in time to win by a head
and thereby keep intact Colin's un-
beaten record. It was a close shave
for a horse which started. 15 times
during his career and 15 times
landed home in front.
• * * *
The chap who coined the. phrase
"nothing is sure but death and
taxes" must have been a Horse
player. If so, he might have met
a kindred spirit in Lyle Simons,
a well known horseman who cam-
paigned the horse, Milton„ over
tracks in the Middle West ":a few
years ago. Milton was a 'tough
horse to figure out, due to a hi-onic
case of rheumatism which ,jl'1agued
him off and on throughout its rac-
ing life, making him a mosti'uncer-
tain betting tool. Many, 1piwners
would have given him up acs, bad
proposition, but Simons bkle'd his
time and waited for the proper day
and the right spot. ;�
* * *•
He finally found a 14e he
thought Milton could win, here
was an immediate change , m ; the
horse's training routine. They, rheu-
matic old fellow plodded offet w .rds
un, the saddling paddock ud iri.l airy
layers of blankets will
stripped from his back in
dock stall. There his shl
were rubbed liberally with t' al •
-
cohol and witch hazel. He . was
again covered under a doub c layer
of blankets.
rs
* * *
Bookmakers, although inf tined
of these strange shenanigan',. 're-
fused to take the horse ser*sly,
sniffing their disdain and �1' ying
him on their slates at 60 to Li:hey
overlooked the fact that 'Iton
was parading to the post sou?d1 as
the proverbial bell of brass.
* * *
Simons had picked a Saturday
for his attempted "killing," a day
when the bookmaking ring was
open to more than 80 layers of
odds. He )meandered from one book
to another, betting small chunks
of change on his color bearer as the
price slowly receded to a final. 20
to L So quietly had it been done
that not until bookmakers totalled
up their bets afterward (lid they
find that they stood to lose nearly
$300,000 among them if the rheu-
matic Milton won the race. It was
one of the few times that book-
makers deserted their stools and
surged down to the railing to watch
a race. ,
* * *
Simons, figuring every man had
his price, left nothing to chance.
Just to insure an honest ride his
jockey, a boy reamed Webber, rode
with tickets in his boot calling for
$5,000 on Milton's nose.
* * *
It was a rejuvenated 'charger
which snapped away from the tape
that afternoon, his nostrils glowing
crimson as coals of lire. There were
none of the rheumatic kinks which
had landed him among the "also
rans" in so many races. On the
upper turn -he finally s rged to the
front shooting out from the pack
as if propelled by a spring to take
a four length lead in as many
strides,
* * '
A collective moan went up from
the bookmaking ranks while Sim-
ons looked on serenely from his
position near the finish line, watch-
ing more than a quarter of a mil-
lion dollars coasting home into 'his
pocket. Fifty yards from the judges'
stand thefield was driving hard
behind Milton, . with no apparent
chance to catch that, elusive, flying
figure. And right then, with victory
less than a dozen leaps ahead, the •
horse stepped on a stone, stumbled
badly and crashed into fhe dust
with a broken leg.
* * *
No, there is nothing sure on a
race track/ The hazards are count-
less, ITorses which loom as copper.
riveted cinches often tumble in de- •
feat. Back in 1031 Equipoise, tutf-
dom's famous "Chocolate Soldier,"
was held at odds of 3 to 20 ito
win the Chesapeakke Stakes at
Havre de Grace. "Chicago" O'-
Brien, who parlayed show bets on
short priced favorites into a mil-
lion dollar bankroll, bet $25,000
on Equipoise just to pay his week-
end expenses. Then, wheft the dust
of battle had settled, a stunned
grandstand counted Equipoise a
straggling sixth, 13 lengths behind
the winning Anchors Aweigh, hob-
bling off the track with a blind
•quarter crack which ended his use-
fulness for the year. It was one of
the greatest upsets in modern turf
history.
* * *
Despite popular belief, lightning
can strike more than once in the
same place. Som( years ago, in
th” Grand Prix at Saratoga, Vol -
ante at odds of 1 to 12 was sound-
ly whipped by the •10 to 1 shot
Royal Arch, which would today be
equivalent to a cheap claiming plug
winning over Citation. Volante
immediately sought revenge in the
California Stakes at the same course
against the salve horse. This time
Royal Arch was 20 to 1 as com-
pared to the prohibitive 1 to 20
rice posted against Volante.
* * *
Just before post time a horse
owner sauntered up to a bookmaker
and said:
"'I'm forced to travel to Chicago
so I think I'll let you pay the
price of my railroad ticket. Just
bet me $400 on Volante."
The famous plunger, Mike Dwy-
er also liked Vrlante to the tune
of $40,010 to win a comparatively
paltry $2,000. Whereupon Royal
Arch, who couldn't read odds and
didn't know he was outclassed,
again won in a canter.
* * *
Yes, brethren, take it from an
expert, your dyed-in-the-wool horse -
player is a champion — well a
champion something -or -other.
Marks Birthday — President Tru-
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reporters how he felt, he re-
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Drowsiness es well as drinking
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Dr. Nathaniel Kreitman, Univer-
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