Zurich Herald, 1952-11-27, Page 3t.
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TnE Calvert SPORTS, COLUMN
4 eopei ovadaz
to It is only fair and right that those who
sparkled in the hockey crusades of other
years should get the preference as the roll is
,. called to pace the greats of the game in
their niches in the Hall of Fame. Perhaps
the moderns wi:1 chafe at this. They may
wish to see honored those of their own era,
pass. Tda,e are now 42 names listed for the Hall, of which number
32 are Vers, the other 10 selected because of their contributions
to the game in legislation, rules, or equipment.
This agent has at least one preference, in the names eo be
included in the next group names by the Committee. That is the
late George Hainsworth, who in his playing days with Canadiens
compiled a seasonal goaling record quite unlikely to be equalled
in these days when the rules are designed to place the accent on
scoring.
Ilainsworth, in this writer's opinion, was one of the greatest
goalers .of all time. Like that other great Canadian goaler the late
Georges Vezina, who preceded him by many years, Hainsworth
was ice-ccxol in the nets, almost mechanical in his perfection and in
his complete lack of what might be called "showmanship." Ex-
pressionless, unexcited, lie just stopped pucks, blocked the heaviest
drives without the flicker of an eye -lash.
Once, after this agent complimented him on one of his many
shut -out games, Hainsworth remarked, as ,if annoyed with h'm-
self: "I'm sorry I can't put on a show like some of the other
goalers. But I just can't do it. I can't look excited because I'm not.
can't shout at other on easy shots andpmakestl em loot{ hard. I guesscause that's not my allcan't
I can
divedo
is stop pucks."
He did very well indeed, at that chore. In the season of 1921-
29, facing some of the game's greatest snipers, such as Nels
Stewart, Ace Bailey, Bill Cook, Carson Cooper, harry Oliver,
Cooney Weiland, Frank Boucher, and others of that unforgettable
quality, little Hainsworth scored 22 shut -outs in a 44 -game schedule,
was scored on only 43 times in the regular season. an average of
slightly under one goal per game. No record has ever eln';ely ap-
proached this.
Undoubtedly this little fellow, who hailed from the great
hockey incubator, Ontario's Kitchener district, was one of the all-
time greats of the nets. And yet, curiously, he never made the all-
star teams of his era, for Charlie Gardiner, "Tiny" Thompson, arid
Roy "Shrimp" Wafters were names to conjure with when, in
1930-31, the selection of all-star teams began.
Your comments itnd
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column
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When people of my generation
complain that our football has
become far too Amercanized
Sind that Yankifcation has re -
]moved a whole lot ' of interest
from a once -grand games—the
usual retort from the modernists
its "Aw, you're too old to keep
up with the times" or words to
that effect, They also point to
the huge crowds attending
games in the Big Four and West-
ern Senior League, forgetting
that these are strictly pay -on -
the -line outfits, dominated by
American coaches and players,
and ballyhooed by our sports
writers in a manner that sickens
anyone who believes that Can-
adian kids should have a chance
to play a Canadian game an Can-
adian soil.
After all, when we go to see
the Hamilton Ticats, the Toronto
Argonauts or the Winnipeg Blue
Bombers we are paying to look
at -- pretty much — a second or
even third-grade American
team. The proper basis of com-
parison is not what any of the
above-mentioned teams would
do to Canadian outfits such as
Toronto Varsity or Western
University—but how they would
fare stacked up • against, say,
Cleveland Browns, Chicago
Bears or Los Angeles Rams.
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To read some of the maga-
zine articles that pour across
. the border, and to listen to the
super -heated broadcasts that
wend their way north, one
Red Yacht Races—Russians like
yacht races, too, as seen in the
above picture. Seen enjoying the
sport is a group of Soviet sail-
ors, competing in the Lenigrad
competition of the all - Union
races. Their fin -keel boat has
lust taken ilie wind, moving
them ..ahead in the contest off
the port of Leningrad, in which
over 470 sportsmenn took port.
The worst of it is ;that we came
to see McChesty and Van Flana-
gan score on Princetons Alas,
they may not appear on the field
again until the end of the third
quarter,
would imagine that Yankee foot-
ball is some sort of a super -
sport, played exclusively by
supermen. But nowadays, even
down there, some folks are be-
ginning to think that football
is degenerating • into a pretty
dull affair. Few men have
written more books, articles,
short stories and essays based
on American sport than •John R.
Tunis, and most of 'ahem have
been highly favorable and en-
thusiastic. Now for a change—
hearken to a few paragraphs
taken from an article in the New
York Times by Mr. Tunis, 'en-
titled "The Kick is Out of
Football." Hearken—also remem-
ber the next time somebody
suggests that we give Canadian
football back to the Canadians.
Take it away, Mr. Tunis,
"Some time ago ltoDert M.
Hutchins, then boss man at the
University .of Chicago, predicted
that in twenty-five years the Yale
. Bowl would be an archaeological
ruin. If the game of football gets
any more boring to watch, the
Bowl and other stadia in the
nation willresemble the Forum
in Rome long before 1975,
"The reasons why football is
such a dull game today are many
and varied, but most of them
can be traced back to the coaches
and the rule -makers, who are in
many cases the same people.
They have taken the kick out
of the game for the ancient gra-
duate.
5 5 5
"This sort of thing may assist
the coaches in building a winning
team (although, unfortunately,
Old Nostalgia keeps on losing as
it always did) and help the tele
vision announcers, but for the
old grad, by nature a hero Wor-
shipper, it's no fun. The two -
platoon system has been the
death of hero worshipping. When
your hero happens to be Me-
Chesty, No. 45 (or is it No. 54?)
you'll be able to adore him only
on rare occasions. Even then,
you know exactly what he will
do. Shortly he will toss a for-
ward and Van Flanagan will
catch it. Or try to.
"No doubt the motives of the
coaches and parliamentarians are
praiseworthy—removing some of
the risk for the players, and so
on—but the effects of their labors
from the spectator's view are
calamitous in two ways: they
have complicated, systematized,
broadened and otherwise .altered
the game so that the fan is utter-
ly confused ahout what is hap-
pening on the field, and they
have ruled out or abandoned some
of the greatest moments in the
game so that it has lost much
of its drama.
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"First, consider tic, elements
that put the spectator into a state
of confusion, in addition to any
normal size haze he may have
acquired from a flask. Many of
these new aids to confusion are
connected with the two -platoon
system—one squad of eleven hus-
kies performing white a team
is on the offensive and a different
eleven on the defensive. Sup-
pose Princeton is playing Old
Nostalgia. Nostalgia fumbles.
What happens?
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".Nowadays eleven robots
swathed in armour and all look-
ing exactly alike 'trot out onto
the field to represent Old Nos-
talgia, while eleven others shuf-
fle off. Off goes McChesty, our
dynamic passer, No. 45. (Or is
he No. 54?) Oft goes Van Flana-
gan, Nostalgia's great open-field
runner. In come a lot of guys
named Joe. And, of course, to
add to the confusion, in come
eleven new players for Princeton.
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"The chance: are that when
Nostalgia at if:st recovers the
ball, and Van Flanagan and Me -
Chesty return to play, you won't
even • recogn ee Ibem" The fact
is. you don't alta enough of any
player to know hire by sight. To-
day a minimum of forty.eight
men are involved in every game.
When Princeton started against
Columbia in New York this sea-. .
son they fielded a team of fifty,
nothing unusual.
"What's become of the Mighty
Atom? Or the Galloping Ghost?
Or the Four Horsemen? Where
are our heroes of yesteryear? ,
They've vanished since the two -
platoon system was invented, and
as a result, what used to be
football personalities have no*
become an assortment of nun,- •
bets. How can the old grad woe- Merriwell. Today y oat star is an
ship a "umbel? 'Come on, yo' offensive or defensive specialist.
53, come on for dear old Nobe re- There's no such thing as our hero
a, conie on 43, soon to be re • winning the game with a long
placed by 371'
drop-kick in the last darkening
feverish seconds of play. Pro -
"Another factor making for the bably there'd be no place for
confusion of modern football :is men like Iyer Strong or like
that nobody cart possibly ulider-
R Charlie Brickley, wh; kicked five
. field goals against Yale on a
single afternoon. Larry Kelley,
the great Eli captain, would
merely be an offensive left end
today due to play twenty-eight
minutes in the Harvard game.
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One -Man "Navy" — Harold
Charles Green, above, is a one-
man "naval" force for Queen
Elizabeth II. The veteran barge-
man handles all problems of
water transportotion for the
Queen, as he did for her father,
King George VI. Green, who
bears the title of "Queen's Wa-
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costume at the Coronation cere-
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stand or keep up with the rules,
This even goes for the coaches:
Otherwise they wouldn't change
them every twelve months. One
of the eternal charms of small
boat sailing is the knowledge that
nothing has been radically chang-
ed since some Phoenician invent-
ed the keel about the time of
Dido of Carthage. The rules iof
baseball are almost the same at
they were at Cooperstown. Chess
has scarcely altered since the
days of Ghengis Khan.
"But football coaches keep`
picking away. at weir game ev ety_
year like a gang" of `seriail' bi is
dismantling a model T Ford.
"As compared with football,
baseball is an open book. The
"rules are not changed every
Tuesday and Thursday to suit
the manager of the St. Louis
Browns. The spectators see the
field, the play, the players. Jackie
Robinson is not so completely
swathed in armc.ur as to be un-
recognizable. Three strikes are
still out as in the days of Abner
Doubleday. You may not, it is
true, understand the rerebrations
of the Great Mind standing in
the shadows behind third base.
But what he is thinking will
be plain soon enough. If it's a
hit-and-run play, you know when
it happens. You can see it too.
But in football it's probably a
hidden ball play and you have
to listen to the radio announcer
to find out what happened.
"Here is the point where we
come to the second category of
the things that are wrong with -
football today—the reduction in
its dramatic quality. Bit by bit,
the coaches, who make the rules
to suit themselves, have whittled
and pruned the ganlr down to
size. Many plays have vanished
or are largely neglected. Once
there was the drop kick, the
quick kick, the onside kick. One
rarely sees them nowadays be-
cause the coaches have taken
the kick out of football:
"These plays didn', hurt any-
one and they added -c the color,
the excitement and the variety
of the game. What happened to
the point after touchdown? In
the old days, this was one of
football's most exctting plays.
When the ball erossid the goal
li}1.e, it was brought out fifteen
yards from .he spot and kicked
at the resultant angae. Today,
regardless of where it crossed
the tine, the ball is centred be-
fore the goal posts cit the three -
yard line. Your. 80 -year-old
grandmother could kick a goal
after touchdown nowadays. But
remember tlae time when the
player who was on his way to
• a score at one side et the grid-
iron had to think about the point
after touchdown, so he struggled
toward the goal posts, keeping his
feet somehow, lunging, plunging
with four mastodons on his back
to the centre of the field? That's
out.
Ke a
"Anyhow, tht' fact is that the
game has lost some of its dra-
matic moments and our heroes
are gone. The triple -threat ni.an
who ran, passed, Picked—and
tackled too --usually all amazing-
ly well, went out with Frank
"The old grad has the feeling
that something has gone from
the game ha knew. The coaches
tell him that today football is bet-
ter played and mor • efficiently
played. No doubt, but efficiency
has replaced individuality. Pro-
bably everyone does whatever he
does munch` better" than . it -used
to be done, but there is no health
in it. Albie Booth was an indi-
vidual' in the way he walked,
ran, kicked and threw a pass.
From a plane 1,000 feet above
the Bowl you could tell Booth
down there on the flLld carrying
the ball. Those players don't
seem to exist today '
So much tor Mr. Tunis. W e
started off by saying that our
football had become much too
Americanized, and we'll finish up
on the same note. Here is the
whole thing in a couple of nut-
shells. We have eight senior
teams in Canada with apologies,
of course, to the O.R.F.U.—and
every one of these eight has an
American coach. With that sort
of domination, how long do you
think it will take for us to adopt
American rules in their entirety?
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The day is coming—and it isn't
far away—when a kicker who
can hoof that ball fo' both dis-
tance and direction, the way
some of the oldsters titled to, will
be as rare aa a Dodo And just
how many Dodos have you met
in your travels lately"
Imik TIJ EGO')
A group of fishermen in Maine
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road station, En . route they
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"I should hope it was," she ag-
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