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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-01-15, Page 71 SPORTS C0 9MN ,4 70 + t One of;the most interesting •developments Canadian sport has known ;in the 'last few years is Little League baseball; now a coast to :coast affair, and growing : tremendously every year.. 'Few civic enterprises have Made ;l more permanent Contribution to the community. "Through careful planning and able leadership this .worth- while' activity bas` been made available to thousands 'of boys and girls all over North America. Tailored. to meet the special needs of boys in the 8 r. 1°2'age group, Little League baseball has gained widespread popularity. Under the leadership of various civic organizations and public- spirited citizens, teams have been organized, equipment purchased, and in some cases special regulation size Little League parks constructed. • Only about 4 years ago there were 94 Little League leagues of from 4 to 6 teams ill•existence. Today there are 1788 registered Little Leagues comprising 7,538 teams in the United States, its possessions and Canada. Approximately 150,000 players are register. - ed from the ages: of 12 down. In Canada, there are 6 Leagues in the Proviuee of Qiu'hec; 4 on the Island of Montreal, 1 in St. Johns and. 1 in St. liustache. The Province .of Manitoba has • 25 ful'1-fledged Little Leagues operating and British Columbia has 10. Progress has been made in Little League baseball in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. There are .leagues in Moncton,: Saint john, Halifax and Sydney. 'There are fully equipped regulation Little League Parks in Manitoba and British Columbia. These add color, incentive and pride. Williamsport, Pa., with a population of 50,000 has fifteen fully equipped Little League baseball parks. It is estimated that over• 20,000,000 people witnessed Little League baseball this year in the United States and Canada. There Yr were 7,000 games going., every week, and as the season is 10 weeks long this would give you 70,000 games played per season. The most significant thing about Litt'e League is the way it gets these boys in their formative years, giving thein a chance to learn good sportsmanship, team play and proper submission to constituted authority. It- gives the boys something constructive to do. It gives them a standing among their own age group and gives them a place in the community. It helps the boys overcome, self- consciousness. Among the importantlessons it teaches are good sportsmanship, fair play, team play, and how to get along with Bathers. On top of this, it provides wholesome recreational' activity e 9441 eft Your comments and suggestions for this column wilt be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert 1-touse, 437 Yonge St., Toronto. "atv 1 �, DISTILLERS LU4 TED ASH ERSThURG, ONTARIO From time to time this col- umn has seen fit to take a mild nlam or two at the 'type of 'sportsman" who buys or bor- rows a gun and Some ammuni- •dion, gets a 'slanting licence and then goes out and bangs away' at anything that happens to be moving across the - landscape. (Sometimes he doesn't , even 'bather' to see if it moves.) Occasionally we have received criticism . for such: articles from :folks who say that just because vve personally lack- the guts to face; 'a 'ferocious deer or duck,.. we shouldn't poke fun a`. those who have. Well, here's what the December 8th issue of NEWS - WEEK had to say about the kind of hunting referred to, not so much. from the standpoint of rms. sportsmanship, but rather Irons' that of the senseless human slaughter which takes place each year: Here' it is, as it appeared under the h e a d i n g "FOR SPORT'S SAKE." .r :x' 'The' deer hunter claims that editorial writers and cartoonists exaggerate his accident record with other people's .isdoings. Of 1,105 hunting mishaps of all sorts reported to the National Rifle Association last year, for example, rabbit . hunters out - blundered deer hunte7 by 268 to 189. (Rifle hunters also like to point out that shotgun users' accidents outnumbered theirs by 627 to 309.) Ther were sterner statistics, however, that still made the American leer -hunting season look like the most macabre spot on. the sporting calendar last week. k u +k A check of just five states — Maine, Colorado, Michigan, Wis- consin, and New York—found 45 already dead. Maine reached the conclusion of another long seas- ' on .Oct. 21 through Nov 30 with 16 dead and 45 others shot, which compares grimly with the 15 deaths and 53 woundings that occurred during last year's rec- ord deer :till of 41,730. A man cutting underbrush was wounded three times (and mortally) by ititrIVITO ? 0,PPi4 ONt9L, ll ,!iitg,Pli g01V 1 .:.is ers star Slater Martin,who has lust sideste ed ' ' finger tips i>~ Lak� PP ;. erari ly'rtart 's+s ' to lYe"ri('ill'iF' isattlttirOOn e* ritck`ts.f racciievw `1 Square Garden. Grand-' Champion—Leader II, chosen Grand Champion Steer at the Interncitional Livestock Exposition, takes the honour without so much cis an acknowledging bellow, but not so his herdsman, Dick Sauer. Dick waves his hat in glee as he learns that the 1100 -pound summer yearling has won the award. It is the first time in five years that a shorthorn has won the coveted honour. two hunters. A Leon -ase dau.gh- ter fatall3 shot her mother in the back. A. teen-age boy killed his brother., 5 The brief interval of Wiscon- sin's seven-day season produced eight killings. With four days of . its fift•".e"-day season left, Michi- gan reported nine dead r nd 30 others shot. Colorado noted one encouraging point on it: list of six gunshot victims: None had been mistaken for, a deer. New York had knocked off six deer stalkers in much less time and had until Dee. 5 to raise the count. ''' 'a Comparison: Yet to come were such other ordeals as a two-week stand in Pennsylvania with 300,- 000 licensed hunters -a density which last year killed 72,534 deer and eight human beings— and a six-day session in Mass- achusetts, which slew only 3,428 deer a year ago but obliterated eight hunters. If anything, the chances seemed morbidly certain that deer hunters would outdo the 48 fatalities scored against them—compared with 33 for rab- bit hunters and a mere~ 6 for pheasant hunters — in the 198 hunting deaths reported in 1951. ,t Experts still believed that the score could be reduced by 'edu- cation, Lew laws, and stiffer pen- , alties. In Colorado -where hunt- '' ers Last year killed 75,000 deer, 10,330 elk, and 530 bear wit'' the loss of only three lives—a hunt- . ing "college" was conducted this year by The Denver Post, the University of Deliver, and the state's fish and game department. In Maine :The Portland. Sunday Telegram in an editorial titled "Let's* Take Their Guns Away," suggested a law that would pro- hibit hunting with firearms by anyone under age 18. A more widespread idea: stif- fer penalties f o r accidental shootings. The fatal, shooting of a hunter in Wiscc Lain is now considered negligent homicide— but in Vermont there is still no law that even requires hunters, doctor's, or hospitals' to report such accidents. - For the most part, The Boston Herald pointed out last week, a r unter can kill another man and expect * othing more severe than a fine of $100 or less. Under the consequent "dis- graceful" conditions, The Port- land Sunday Telegram remark- ed: "We'llbreathe more easily with General Eisenhowe.: i Kor- ea than we would if he came to Maine on a hunting trip. He'll be safer there." And with the end of that NEWSWEEK qu tation, we rest our case. Undoubtedly it was a sore financial blow to the North- ern tourist trad'.: when the foot- and-mouth scare kept so many Yankee deer hunters from corn- ing here this' Autumn. But, just as certainly, their absence meant that quite a few Canadian citi- zens are still in the land of the living wk.o otherwise would by now havr been under the sod. 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