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* This is the second of three Calvert
columns designed to give you an idea,
possibly in
Canada prior sketchy,
of
p at Conf ede atio existedas it RE
)Mars ago.
Lacrosse, curling and snowshoeing are
rated as the first organized sports to be
played in Canada, and in that order, but of this we have some
doubt.
For the most primitive sport in the worldis foot -running.
Some claim that wrestling is the oldest. But we harbor the
thought that primeval, pre -historic man, was more likely to have
instinctively taken to his heels at top speed, when one of the
horrifying beasts of the era came into view. Wrestling such a
monster would be a last and probably fatal resort.
So Canada had foot -racing aback in pre -Confederation days,
among other sports. This can be proven by the records. Though
faulty, doubtless in the matters of time. these indicate that foot -
racing was a major sport in 1867, and doubtless before.
At Barrie, Ont., still an extremely sporting city, there was held
on October 14, 1867, what was termed a Canadian Pedestrian
Tournament. It was featured by a 3 -mile race for $200., cash and
a gold medal, and the winner was one DeKelso• whose time for the
disancor tthe ewatcheswas registered
for this time was considerably track the faster than
Gundar Haegg's modern record for the distance.
On Toronto's Parliament grounds of the time, on June 24, 1867
(we quote a long -defunct sports publication known as "Spirit of
the Times" for these facts) there was a championship race ,to
decide the best professional or amateur runner on the continent.
Sergeant Harley and Private Wood, both of the 17th regiment, met
in this test, the private won, and the time was announced as 4
minutes, 2 seconds.
We should be very remiss. to the point of lacking in patriotism,
if we failed to mention Canada's national game, lacrosse, which
undoubtedly was in full swing throughout Canada in and long
before 1867, but unfortunately authentic records of this are lost,
ifathey ever existed. It is said that the first recorded match, under
some sort of rules, was played in 1834 between teams of Iroquois
and Algonquin Indians at a Montreal race -course. There is some
record, too, that the Olympic Club of Montreal, organized in 1842.
held annual athletic meets, the highlight of which was a game of
lacrosse between Indian teams, or whites against an Indian team.
Apparently the supremacy of the Indians was admitted, for the
whites were allowed 7 men to the Indians' 5 in these contests. It is
Said, though not proven, that the first organization to be devoted to
lacrosse was the Montreal Lacrosse Club, formed in 1856.
Undoubtedly the game was played then throughout Ontario. for
in 1867, when the separate provinces of Canada were welded into
the Dominion, lacrosse was adopted as Canada's national game by
act of Parliament.
We spoke of curling and snowshoeing as following lacrosse in
the matter of age in the Canadian sports picture. The Montreal
Curling Club, founded in 1807, played its first inter -city game at
droveThree cities
byivers sleigh,tal835 mere against
atter huebec. of 200 miles,ecurrs of there and back.Those
were the days of real sport.
The third of three Calvert columns, sketching sport at the time
of Confederation and before, appears newt week.
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, ONTARaO
It is just exactly 2,728 years since
the first Olympic Games were held
on a plain, beside the river Alpheus
over there in that dear old Greece.
And while we didn't happen to cover
the event personally, nor did the
sports writers of that day make
mention of such facts -they didn't
even tell the size of the gate -we
"'wouldn't mind making a modest bet
that it is just exactly 2,728 years
since the first Olympic games
squabbling also took place. In fact,
we would be prepared to offer fair-
ly liberal odds that su"h is the case.
* * *
How do we know that this is
so, when the historians and record
books are silent on such matters?
Well, it is only a comparatively
short time -56 years to be exact -
since a Frenchman by name Baron
Pierre de Coubertin had the screwy
idea that, since boys and athletics
have gone together down the ages,
education and athletics might well
go hand-in-hand toward a better
international understanding. So he
and a bunch of similarly deep
thinkers revived the Olympics.
* * *
The first of the modern Olympics
were held in Athens in 1896. Since
then the athletes have gathered
-to promote goodwill and interna-
tional understanding -in Paris, St.
Louis, Athens again, London, Stock-
holm, Antwerp, Paris, Amsterdam,
Los Angeles, Berlin, and London.
It is estimated that more than 29,000
athletes representing 58 nations
have competed in the games. And
it is also estimated - by us
that there have been far more than
29,00Q. squalsdes, squabbles, ` and .
general rhubarbs over `said games,
to say nothing of a couple of World
Wars and four or five minor league
ones. Of course, we aren't saying
that the Olympics were entirely re-
ponsible for these World Wars.
Still, we didn't have them till the
games were revived, and we've
had little else since.
* * *
"The competitions were entirely
amateur at the start and the only
prizes were laurel wreaths" -we
quote again from the record. "Only
free Greek citizens were allowed
to compete. But civic rivalry led to
trickery and professionalism and the
Games became degraded after some
centuries. When Rome conquered
Greece the Roman emperors turned
the Olympic Games from patriotic,
religions and athletic festivals into
carnivals and circuses. They drag-
ged on malodorously until they
were finally halted by decree of
Emperor Theodosius of Rome in
A.D. 394."
* * *
Weir, here we are in the en-
lightened year 1952 with the latest
edition of these Olympics coming
up; and already here in Canada we
have a foretaste of what is to come
-already Toronto is claiming it has
been gypped by Montreal and Van-
couver -already half of our ama-
teur athletic authorities are calling
names and making snoots at the
other half and vice versa. What
with Joe Stalin's boys hack in com-
petition over there at Helsinki,
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Parisian "Ski-rewballism" -$'no snow in Paris these warm sum-
mer days, so French Olympic ski champion Henri Oreiller, who
is also a singer and composer in a Parisian cabaret, gayly "sla-
loms" down the Champs Elysees on a pair of wheeled skis. The
apparently unconcerned gendarme gives the impression that such
stunts are as common in France as over here.
what is liable to happen there is
likely to make the Finns think, they
are having an encore of the atom
affair at Hiroshima. On paper"these
Olympic Games .are a very fine
affair. But in practice -well, ..they
seem to work out a bit different.
And while we are no boosterfor
dictatorship, every time the Olym-
pics come up we can't help Wishiiag
for somebody like Emperor Theo-
dosius of Rome, who ". . . finally
halted them by decree."
* * *
Now, to turn to a subject a;bit
more pleasant, here's some news
for you lovers of the trotters and
side'wheelers.
* * *
A record entry of 600 horses,c for
15 stake events had been filed'wth
Thorncliffe officials when the lists
were closed on April 15. In view
of the anticipated heavy shipment
of horses for over -night events, it
rangements haw • been made, once
again, to quarter the racers in:'''t'1}e
running -horse barns, in addition
to the 350 stalls which have beet:,':
exclusively the property of the trot
ting fraternity.
The Canadian Cup itact, ,.t;ylinest,
harness -racing event in Canada -
has been scheduled for Saturday,
August 9. The event customarily
has been raced on a Friday boat
it was shifted to Saturday this.
summer in order to facilitate the
presence of many farming harness-
racing enthusiasts who find it dif-
ficult to get away from their farins
on weekdays.
* * 4'
In the past two seasons, three
horses -Dr. Stanton, Linda's Boy
and Malcolm Hanover -have divid-
ed the spoils in The Canadian Cup
Pace. In 1950 Dr. Stanton won
the first heat and then was beaten
by Linda's Boy in the second dash.
In 1952, Malcolm Hanover beat Dr.
Stanton in a photo -finish in the' first
heat but the Doctor cause back to '
win the second dash with Malcolm
in close attendance.
* * *
The situation is likely to be clari--
fled on August n, for all three
horses have been entered in this
year's renewal and one of them
may lay claim to the clear title of
Canadian Pacing Champion. Dr.
Stanton recently equalled the track
record in scoring a smashing vic-
tory at Yonkers Raceway.
Beek Fumes Cure
Who ping Cough
Children suffering from whoop-
ing cough in the Swedish village
of Halmstad quickly recover,
thanks to a novel cure devised by
a local doctor.
We hear that, after examining a
young victim, he invariably orders
him to be put out to' play in the
yeasting hall of the local brewery.
Here he has found that the car-
bonic acid fumes given off during
the yeasting process banish whoop-
ing cough even in very bad cases.
Unusual cures for whooping
cough have been tried for centu-
ries. In our own time the flying
cure has had some success. Two
Yorkshire children of seven and
four were taken 14,000 ft. up in a
'plane and were said to be better
after the trip.
North country people used to
believe that if whooping cough
victims inhaled ammonia fumes at
gasworks they would be cured, but
there's no reliable evidence that
any were, A Sussex man claimed
that he cured himself of "the poop-
ing cough" in 1822 by riding hat-
less over the Downs in a rain-
storm.
Another quaint "remedy" years
ago was to place a live frog on a
child's chest, The idea was that
, the cough would be drawn into the
frogs
This Was The First
"Delicious" Apple •
One might consider it a miracle
that, from one seed, an apple could
grow that in time produced one of
the world's outstanding apple
varieties. This is exactly what hap-
pened with what we now call the
Delicious apple.
In about 1870, Mr. Jesse Hiatt
discovered his orchard north of
Peru in Madison County, Iowa, a
young seedling, which was growing
outside of a row of apples. Know-
ing that most seedlings were worth-
less, he cut this young sprout off
and thought no more about it until
it sent up another vigorous stem
and then he decided that if it want-
ed to grow so badly, he would let
it grow. In due time, this seedling
produced fruit. He thought so much
of it that he first named it the
Hawkeye, honoring his adopted
state of Iowa. He tried for years
to get local nurserymen interested
in propagating and introducing this
variety without success.
In 1893, the Stark Brothers NNur-
Iery, at Louisiana, Missouri, were
';tdiilg their annual fruit show, in -
vi ing anyone interested to send in
especially• new seedling varieties.
,Mr: Hiatt sent in a few specimens
and they came to th • attention of
Mr.' Clarence Sta k, who immedi-
ately fell in love with the apple.
However, in some t ay, the name
and address of the sender had be-
come lost, so no contact that year
was made with Mr. Hiatt. Mr.
Hiatt being a persistent man. sent
ano't'er sample the next year to
the same show, and this time Mr.
Stark immediately got in touch with
Mr, Hiatt and, through it contract,
secured propagation rig t- for this
apple.
These are two stories told as to
how the apple was finally named.
One was that a friend of Mr. Stark,
while testing thir new seedling
apple, exclaimed: "Delicious." The
other story is that Mr. Stark kept
a notebook in which he jotted down
favor:t names and among them
was the name tha was finally decid-
ed upon to give this new variety,
which in time became the most
popular apple tariety in the world.
It is claimed that there are more
Delicious apples than any other
one variety. -From "The Original
Delicious Apple Tree," by Robert
L. Hendrick, in "Pioneer American
Gardening," compilyd by Elvenia
J. Slosson.
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A film star spent a week -end
at'a New York hotel. On leaving,
he presented the manager with a
huge bouquet, saying: "These are
for the telephone operators."
"What a nice compliment," said
the manager.
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retorted the film star. "I thought
they were dead."
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ISSUE 26 - 1952
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