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0 The late esteemed Daniel Webster, wllo
won very considerable fame as a gentleman
who knew what words really meant, defined
sport as a noun meaning . that which
diverts and makes mirth; pastime, amuse-
ment.
If .Mr. Webster was around today, he
might alter the definition. He might remove the word "mirth."
For there is little more real fun in the major realms of sport. It
has become a very serious business, with few laughs. If there is
any mirth, then it is strictly coincidental ,and unintentional.
In fact, the athletes of today aren't even characters as we
knew such in other days when there was less money, more laughs.
They're cold, calculating and skillful, workmen.
It wasn't like this in the not so old days when sport had 'its
sports. The guys (and gals, too) had personality.
There are no more roistering characters such as, for instance,
the late Harry Greb, Pittsburg's bouncing boxer who buffeted his
way to the world middleweight title. Greb's deviations from what
were known as routine training methods won him farne of a sort.
Certainly notoriety. Once in New York he rolled out of bed late in
the afternoon, went to the hotel barber -shop, requested a shave and
a face massage with hot towels. It had been a rd"ugh night .
The barber asked courteously: "Who do you think will win
the fight tonight, Mr. Greb?"
Replied Harry, indifferently: "Who's fighting?"
"Why, you are, Mr. Greb," said the amazed barber. He was
right too.
Out west they recall lurid tales of big, rugged Araby Moran,
who played major hockey both east and west. Araby was careless
about training, too. He played so poorly for Regina one season,
that the late Wes Champ, advised him he would have to report
in shape the next fall or do without a contract. So Moran .bought
a pair of pants three sizes too big for himself, donned them,
reported to Champ. When the manager queried hien about weight,
Araby ran his hand around the top to show how much larger
they were for him "as a result of his program of getting in shape."
"It cost me $9 for those pants, but I got a contract," recalled
Amby.
Sprague Cleghorn, one of hockey's great all-time defense
players, was a paradox, a practical joker off the ice, a hard pian
on it, One night while he was managing Montreal Maroons, the
Governor General of Canada was present in the Montreal Forum
as patron and guest of honour at a big Christmas -basket charity
boxing event. He was invited to the Maroon dressing -room to meet
the players, who were hurriedly summoned. Just as the Governor
General and his staff were making a dignfied entrance, a horrified
Forum official noticed Cleghorn had a "buzzer"attached to his
hand, He was instructed, in hasty whispers, to get rid of it.
"Surely" said the official, "you were not going to shake hands
with the Governor General wearing that thing?"
"Certainly I was," said Cleghorn, "The boxing show is poor,
the Governor looks bored, and deserves some sort of a thrill."
There is no such humour around the major sports wheel today.
Big money has chased out the laughs, made it serious business.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
• by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
DISTILLERS LIMITED
AIAHERSTB0RG, ONTARIO
As we have explained many times
before, these columns have to be
written a little in advance of their
appearance. A few weeks ago we
did a piece about how many major
league managers had already been
let out this season, little thinking
that something of a similar nature
was about to take place a lot nearer
hone.
* *
But before • said piece got into
print, sure enough Joe Becker of
the Toronto Maple Leafs had been
handed his pink slip, and Burleigh
Grimes brought in—with consider-
able fanfare—to replace hint.
* * *
Becker's firing, of course, was
due to nothing else but the fact
that the Toronto athletes—or rather
the athletes wearing Toronto uni-
forms—were not only failing to live
up to the Leafian slogan, "First in
Fifty -Two," but were showing signs
of slipping right out of the four -
team playoffs. Whether or not
they'll do any better for Grimes,
only time will tell. Burleigh is
a good baseball man and so is Joe
Becker. But even John McGraw,
or Casey Stengel, or any of the
other "Miracle Men" couldn't win
pennants if they didn't get pitching
and hitting from the hired help.
4t * *
However, even if the Maple Leafs
aren't exactly balls of fire on the
diamond, they're not doing so badly
in one other very important res-
pect—that of leaking the cash regis-
ters jingle profitably. With the aid
of certain circus -like features,
"Special Days," and the like, the
Queen City representatives in the
International Loop continue to draw
crowds that are really remarkable
when you consider the large vacant
spaces that used to yawn in the
stands and bleachers just a year
or so back.
* * *
But before long Owner Cooke
and the rest of the Leafs' top brass
are going to find themselves fresh
out of outstanding occasions to cele-
brate. And, always anxious to be
helpful, we suggest that they put
on a "Special Day"—or even a ser-
ies of them—in honor of what has
become, over the years, one of base-
ball's most important and best -
loved features. Not to keep you in
suspense, we refer to nothing but
the Frankftirter — hot dog to yout
* * *
For, way over .in Deutschland
the burghers and citizenry of•Frank-
fort-on-the-Main are in the midst
of a big celebration marking the
hundredth anniversary of the in-
vention of that luscious delicacy.
* * * '
German historians say—according
to Martin Gansberg in The New
York Times—that the glorified
sausage known as the Frankfurter
or hot dog, was developed in 1852.
And we hope that you won't get
the foolish idea that such an im-
portant development was the work
of a single man—or even a married
was the
one, No, the Frankfurter
joint production of the members
of the entire Frankfort Butchers'
Guild—and there are some who say
that its final shape was determined
by a butcher who was inspired by
his own dog—one of those dog -and -
a -half -long -half -a -dog -high affairs
known as Dachshunds.
°"1"lying Disc" This may look like 'a "life boat" from a flying
saucer, but in reality it's only a new auto being tested by Alfa
Romeo in Milan, Italy. Built along entirely new principles, the
°lying Disc" is powered by a six -cylinder engine with three
double -body carburettors and can develop about 200 horse
power with a maximum speed of 120 m.p.h.
Switching Hours—Six-year-old Maxine Rudner plugs into a minia-
ture switchboard without ever getting a "wrong number!' The
board was one of the novelties displayed at the Toy Guidance
exhibit.
But even the Germans admit the
food didn't come into international
prominence until it was imported
to America and used as an attrac-
tion at the Chicago World's Fair
in 1893. There, history states, the
original and its imitation, the hot
dog, were devoured by the thou-
sands.
* * *
While the elongated, pork -filled
secretly smoked product has rade
the city of Frankfort famous inter-
nationally, it has taken New World
enthusiasm, New World resort life
and New World spectator sports,
especially baseball, to put the hot
dog into the big time. For on
this side of the water the frank-
furter actually is so popular as to
be a national. institution. One in
eight pounds of meat eaten by the
average family is of the sausage
category, and 32 per cent of the
meat thus consumed is in the form
of the hot dog.
.* * *
Statistics for last year, for ex-
ample, show that 3,739,267,000hot
dogs (canned, boiled or on a .roll)
were devoured by gourmets of all
ages. A steady increase from year
One thing a manufacturer won't
tell is how long he smokes his
frankfurters.
* * *
One informant revealed that, be-
sides the Persian casings he uses
nothing but finely ground pork
from electrically killed pigs, and
spices prepared by a trusted cook.
"The real secret is in the smoking,"
he confided. But he refused not only
to tell how long the process lasted
but also what wood he used.
4' * *
Proud of the worie that goes into
their product and its ultimate sus'
cess, manufacturers (Canadian,
American or German) are taken
aback when the content of the
frankfurter is questioned.
Asked if there was any chance
that he or his competitors night
slip in some horse meat to increase
the profits, a Frankfort •manufac-
turer showed his irritation. "Horse-
furters? Never! We butchers are
craftsmen—not chiselers!"
* * *
1, So come on now, Mr. Cooke.
Dont' look so glum as you glance
at the League standings and see
your Toronto minions hanging over
"No Money Wasted On Monkey Busiriess"—Bonzo, Hollywood's
famous chimp actor, looks every bit the politician as he declares
himself a "dark chimp" candidate for the presidential nomination.
to year has been noted by manu-
facturers since 1931.
*
*
*
German manufacturers condemn
the Canadian variety as inferior.
One of them explains that a good
frankfurter should snap when you
bite it. Explaining why his own
product is so successful, he adds,
"Our best frankfurter skins used to
come from Russian and Chinese
lambs. lige can't get them now,
but we are getting some from Per-
•sia, Half the secret of a good fi•ank-
ftn•ter is in the casing."'
* * *
This maker says that our model
is pale and wrinkled in contrast to
the original. "It can't even be com-
pared," lie says. "No flavor, no tex-
ture, no snap,'[
• *
Manufacturers over here shrug
off comparison with the Frankfort
model, and statistics show that they
have just cause. Four times as
many casings for hot dogs are im-
ported into the United States alone
as into Germany.
* * *
Last year, for exainple, hot-dogs
casings from Canada (including
Newfoundland and Labrador) ran
more than 5,348,000 pounds and
from Argentina more than 3,371,000
pounds. German makers imported
from these countries, in addition
to Persia, Russia' and China, a little
over 2,000,000 pounds.
* * *
Admirers of the Frankfort pro-
duct explain that tate secret of a
successful wiener is in the smoking.
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Day old and started chicks and turkeys.
Older pullets. Special broiler chicks.
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Guelph Ontario
the brink of the second division
abyss. Maybe—perish the thought
—the Leafs won't be "First in
Fifty-Two."If memory serves there
have been other years when they
didn't quite make it either, But
that's no reason to let A.D. 1952 •
slither past without taking advant-
age of the chance of putting on a
real, never -to -be -forgotten celebra-
tion in honour of the delicacy which
plays no favourites but cheers and
sustains winners and losers alike
—the HOT DOGI Put plenty of
mustard on ours!
Many people feel about modern
art as they do about a pigeon: they
don't like it when it is over their
head,
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ATTRACTIVE SERVICE STATION and
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Excellent opportunity, In operation now.
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CLINICS
;SICK"—Write Clinic Doctor -671 Dan-
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DEALERS WANTED
OILS, GREASES, TIRES
Paints and varnishes, Electric Motors,
Electrical Appliances, Refrigerators, Fast
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Hobbysbop Machinery. Dealers wanted.
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HAVE you anything needs dyeing or clean-
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EQ7i SALE
SAVE time—bfoneY. Convert your ground
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REGISTERED Dambrel and Cornell
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bag. H. R. McKim, Dresden, Ontario.
TIRES
Hamilton's Largest Tire Store Since 1933.
Used Titres, 97.00 and up. Retreaded Tires,
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WHEEL chairs, Invalid walkers, folding
and adjustable, Free Literature, Foam
rubber ring cushions 67.50 delivered.
Bamford -Regis Limited, Ottawa, Ontario.
USED hooks for sale. Catalogue free.
Balliol, Box 86, Station K, Toronto.
SCRAP and salvage yard business for
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Apply advertiser. 60 Samuel St,. rear.
Sudbury.
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CRESS CORN SALVE-10or sure relief,
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FOlt SALE MAGREGOR GOt'RLEY FOUR
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Safety Iron Holder
Iron holder can be mounted on
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With Egg Grading experience preferred,
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Farmers Attention—Consult your near.
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-- Write for Cata!ogu.e --
ISSUE 32 — 1952