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TAECa1��Vert SPORTS COLUMN
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• It was more annoying than funny at the
time, but, looking back now, we find a
certain degree of hilarity marked the end
of the Olympic Games.
And of all things, the laughs were pro-
vided by the sombre 1.2.ussians. When they
were edged out' on total • points by United
States athletes, on the standard scoring system, they promptly
invented their own, and proved that they were the winners. It was
so childish, so obviously in the naive Russian mould of propaganda,
that at this distance, it's good for a chuckle.
And it's our notion that the international importance of the
Olympics, as proving that any one country is physically better than
another is just plain silly. Ideally, the Games are competitions
among individuals; not between countries. Some countries have
these individual stars at various times, some haven't. For popular
consumption a newspaper scoreboard is kept. But triumph doesn't
necessarily represent a national superiority over the countries
which didn't do so well.
This being so, we're glad the United States won the mythical
title. ?ror the difference between a Russian and an American
over-all points..victory is that the Soviet propaganda machine
would have made this a tremendous spring -board for boasting the
decadence of the "imperialistic" countries, as compared with the
virility of Stalin's empire. America will merely boast its undeniably
great athletes and attach no blobular political significance to the
outcome.
Superiority in running, or jumping, or throwing weights
proves nothing as indicating one nation is more virile, stronger
than another. If it did, then Czecho-Slovakia would outrank all
others, for they sent to the Games the greatest athlete of all,
Emil Zatopek, the pian who scored the undlelieveable triple. We
• suspect that Russia went into the Games to prove what the propa-
ganda machines would label national superiority, and, they almost
did it. We suspect, too, that the Soviet master -mind would not
Nave allowed a Muscovite team to enter unless they were con-
sidered loaded; lest the cause of collectivism be set back by de-
feats on athletic fields.
That's the reason there developed that childish stratagem,
a ues, to convince the folks at
home that Ru srithet of
Russia reallywon rb t waing s robbed by the money -barons
of Wall street.
Let's forget any national significance or racial superiority
that points -victory in the games might be taken to prove. Our
own Canada didn't get many points in the Olympics, but we
happen to think, even so, that Canada is a very swell country in
which we prefer to live In preference to all others, even if we
never score another Olympic triumph.
Your comments and by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St.,estions for this column will be welcomed
c Toronto,
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AMHERSTSURO, ONTARIO
A mere fourteen years ago the
world's record run for the game of
Snooker was 138 points—and as it
stuck there for mor. than a decade,
snooker devotees figured that it
might never go higher. That per-
fection—a break of 147 — would
ever be reached was almost unthink-
able; for a 147 snooker break is
cotnfiarable to a golfer putting to-
•
gether a round of 18 holes -in -one.
* * *
Yet in all probability, before the
present snooker season is over one
or more of the top professionals will
have made the grade. It might be
joe Davis of England, or his
brother Fred. It might be the
'Canadian George Chenier; or it
might be the veteran. New Zeal-
ander, Mark McConachy. As a
shatter of fact the latter once ac-
tually did ring up a 147 score—but,
alas, when his record came up for
ratification, it was found that the
pockets of the table on which he
played were slightly over the stan-
dard width, so it didn't go down in
the books.
:e *
Here, for the benefit of those who
didn't misspend sufficient of their
youth to understand such things, a
little explanation might be timely.
Actually the game should be called
Snooker's Pool, it having been in-
vented by a certain Colonel Snoo-
ker while serving in India. For
many years the game was con-
sidered to be just a sort of disrepu-
table cousin of billiards. and it
wasn't even allowed to be played
in high class billiard rooms. But,
following the end of World War
One, snooker carte on with ,suet. a
rush that, in England now, three -
ball billiards is about as rare as a
three -headed elephant.
* * * .
To explain what is meant by the
147 break, it is necessary first of
all to explain about the game of
snooker. it starts with 22 balls
on the table. There are 15 red, six
various other colors, and one white
which is always the cue ball. A
red pocketed scores one point and
the colors are valued yellow 2,
green 3, brown 4, blue 5, pink 6
and black 7. The reds once they
are down stay there but the colors
are returned to the table until the
last red has been put away, Then,
the colors are played in order of
v a l u e. Thus it is possible, by
potting a maximum - registering
black every time after putting down
a red and then taking all the col-
ors in turn, to score 147. There is
another way by which 147 can be
exceeded but it is regarded as too
freakish to consider seriously. What
has to happen is that a player has
to be snookered unfairly and claim
a free ball before any single one
of the reds had been put down. In
this way a 155 break is possible.
*
Snookering is the negative side
of the game and consists of exe-
cuting, or persuading your oppon-
ent to execute, what are termed
"foul" shots. These are too numer-
ous to be enumerated here but the
main ones are usually perpetrated
by hitting a hall other than the one
you should; missing the objective
altogether; or permitting the cue
ball to enter a pocket. You can
best persuade your opponent to do
any onet or two of them by inter-
posing a ball between the cue ball
and the ball he is required to hit.
If you do this you are said to have
"laid a snooker."
* *
*
Joe Davis, already mentioned,
vamous?—"Paul," pet mongoose who belongs to Anthony
Sheridan, 13, of Eistree, England, can't quite believe he's famous,
and Anthony is a little in awe of his pet from°Calcutta, India.
Paul Is the fats\er of the first mongoose to be born in captivity in
England, and survive. "Titch;' Paul's mate, refused to come out and
be photographed. Previous efforts to breed the little snake -killing.
animals in captivity have failed.
Series-Serious—Thomas Fleming is a New York baseball fan who
• was determined to keep posted on what happened to the three
New York teams in the final days of the pennant races. Via two
radios and television set, Fleming saw and heard simultaneously
the Giants, Dodgers and Yankees, in and out of New York City.
A huge scoreboard recorded results cis they came it.
held the world title for 20 years,
raising the record point by point
till it reached 138. There it remain-
ed until, in 1949, good old Joe
struck another high with 141.
* * *
The' following year the game be-
came international among the lead-
ing professionals and in February
of that year George Chenier, of
Winnipeg, set the ivory -rolling
crowd agog with a new world mark
og 144. But the Canuck's reign
wasn't to last long. Within a
month, playing against Chenier,
Joe Davis. rolled them for 146—
just one point short of perfection.
And there, unless somebody upset.
it within the past week or so, the
record still stands.
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Elder Brad Jolly decided it was
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People who can work, who can do
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Mrs. Jolly liked the idea—and so
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It was cold and damp the day of
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The school superintendent's sec-
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Elder Jolly's services as a coal
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Just to make sure that no op-
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The idea was worth $30.
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