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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-04-23, Page 7A Catvtd SPORTS I01.J 4 c ev'd Trap -shooting is not, o'f eourse, what might be termed a popular 16port, It has a limited participation, an even more limited spectator following. So it was but natural that a glittering ,hockey star, Rocket Richard of Montreal •Canadiens, Whose feat in breaking the ancient lifetime goals record, 324, compiled. by Mels Stewart, should. have been voted Canada's athlete of the year. •••• Rielxard is the Babe Ruth of hockey, a dynamic showman, . a magnetic figure. But it seems as though the selectors; perhaps • soured by Canada's famine of honors at .the Olympic Games, overlooked one of the most brilliant achievements of 19:$2• by a Canadian youth. We mean the performance of 17 -year-old George Genereux of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the high school boy who won 10 of Canada's total of 30 points, and its only Gold Medal, symbol of Olympic supremacy, when he defeated the greatest trap -shooters in the world'. That one so young should win such honors is unusual. That he should lack the acclaim such a performance merits, is unfortunate. George Genereux's record in his favorite sport is little sb,ort of fabulous. He was only 13 years old when he first started to shoot at the Saskatoon Gun Club. His ability was quickly spotted by Jimmie Girgulis, veteran trapshooting star. Girgulis was introducing his sons to the clay -target busting business one afternoon, by letting them shoot at birds with a .410 shotgun, when George joined in, This proved to be an important meeting, 'for, from that time on tournament_w'ise Girgulis kept George under bis wing and has been his coach and mentor ever. since. The first major victory in competitive shooting for George was in 1949, •ivhen at the tender age of 14 he shot his way to the Manitoba -Saskatchewan Handicap Championship. Two years later at the American Trapshooting Association competitions at Vandalia; Ohio, he won three North American champion- ships—the Junior, the Junior All -Around and the Junior High Over All, Last year at the contests sponsored by the A.T.A. he was runner-up in the Junior Preliminary Handicap Championship, and won the Junior Champion of Champions of North America title., To this he added the Saskatchewan Championship (Singles). Then before going to the Olympics he stopped at Oslo, Norway, where he placed second in the World Champion- ships. George Genereux is just a normal boy. in a game that requires chilled -steel nerves, there is no'iee-water in his veins. At school, he is a star in hockey and baseball. And a good student. Just a normal, healthy young Canadian, whose fine feat was, unfortunately, overlooked in the attention porde more glamorous competitive sports. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, cis Calvert House, •431 Yonge St„ Toronto,. Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED ,wMHERSTBURG•. ON'1ARIO wmaeleff Championships, trophies and playoffs in sport are a dime a dozen, or thereabouts. But what would you think of a champion- bbip that has been contested an - :smelly for just 365 years? Well, :if you'll hold still for a moment, we shall try to give you the low- down—and if anyone asks if we, personally, were present when 'Use contest was initiated, he will be promptly heaved out of the congregation.. F ,k 1' Well then, it seems that back In the year there were two young nen, Giles and Hodge, living in the village of Tinsley Green who were both greatly smitten with. Ow charms of a young lady of She vicinity. The name of this lonlato has , not, unfortunately, .cone down to us through the passage of the years, but she :muse have been something of a looker because, in order to prove which was most worthy of her Mand, Giles and Hodge went through a course of athletics which would make some of these Olympic Decalthoners look like loafers. m Not to make too much of a :anystery of it, Giles and I•odge tied into one another at stool - ball, rang -ball, club -ball, hand- ball, hand -tennis, archery, end - gel play and wrestling. And when they were -finished the score, be- lieve it or not, vas absolutely even. 1 'F •F (A friend of ours, who has a suspicious tarn of mind, sug- gests that the lads were probably leaking it close in order to assure plenty of customers for the fi- nals; but we resent such a sug- gestion, which shows too much of the modern commercialistic spirit to have existed so long ago—we hope -Besides, the rec- ords don't mention anything about gate receipts at all, so we are willing to let it go that the lads were strictly levelling, al- though we must say that they were certainly very evenly matched.) Sydney Skilton, writing in the Christian Science Monitor, says that at this point some Tinsley Green character made the Solo- mon -like suggestion that the boys should saw the young lady in two, each taking half., and i.et it go at that. But the lady had a better idea, and proposed that her swains should battle it out, to a finish, at—hold your breath now!—the sport of marbles. F F . The sports writers of that era must have been a sloppy lot, because they have failed to rec- ord which was the winner—Giles or Hodge --and whether or not he and the young lady lived hap - nee. se eseseesseeesse. Midden Horse Hide—Ducking the ball behind a pitcher's glove tie keepbatters from seeing it is an ole! trick being taught to lltcherBill Connelly of the New York G'ia'nts, at left. Matter o f the art is Giant Coach Fred Fitzsimmons. Maple Syrupy Sympltorny—Gulping the sweet distillation of maple tree sap are these youngsters enioyindg a "sugaring off" party on the form of Ailie Freeman. The boy at lower right has pushed his cup of syrup into the snow to chill it. The syrup will thicken into a taffy -like mass. pily ever after. Al) we can tell you is that, every Good Friday since then, they stage the tradie tional marbles tournament in the forecourt of the 'old Grey- hound Inn, in Tinsley Green. It's a gala occasion with teams from all the neighboring hamlets and villages out in full force to do or die for the honor of their respective communities ---and we' wouldn't mind making a small wager that it's not much of a holiday for the tapsters and bar- maids of said Greyhound Inn. The team title is presently held by the Tinsley Green Tigers — whiola is more than the Detroit Tigers can say—and this year their challengers include . the Handcross Bulldogs, the Cop- thorne Cherrypickers, the Arun- del. Mullets; the Fletching Fusi- liers and goodness only knows who else. It looks like a big day. -with plenty of action, and we just love to be there, al- though our knowledge of marbl- ing form is very small, and we probably couldn't hope. to make any sort of. a cleanup picking winners. '" The procedure in this British Tnarbies championship is that teams of six players each take part. They are drawn in Hairs to decide which side shall oppose which. Each match is commenced by the two captains concerned standing upright by the circle and dropping their "tolleys" (the heavy glass marble with which the shooting is done> from im- mediately below their noses to a line marked on the ground. The one nearer to the line' then opens the shooting and members of the opposing sides operate alternate- ly until all the 49 light clay mar- bles bunched originally in the center of the ring have been knocked out. A shooter scores one point to each inarble he drives out using a thumb action like a steel - spring) and if his "tolley" re- mains in the ring after a success- ful shot he is permitted to shoot again. Should, however, he fail to expel a marble and at the same time leave his ' tolley" in the circle each of the opposing players may try to shoot it out. Should this happen a point is added to the score and the un- fortunate-"tolley" owner is out of the match for good and all. The highest scorer in each team then goes forward into the. match for the individual cham- pionship where they start .al over again bat with only 1.3 mar- bees in the center of• the ring * F * • Should we get any word of how the battle turns out, you may be sure we'll relay the news to you as promptly as possible. And, somehow or other, we just wish we had a ticket on those Copthorne Cherrypi.clter$ We don't know a thing about their ability, or whether they n stand up under a tough grind. But we certainly clo liltc that nate e. Television\ Causes Onychophagy??? Television WAS the blame for many things these. days. It kills the art of conversation, say • nun - viewers, acts as a drug on the mind, and keeps the kiddies up too Bite. Now it's being cited as a spreader of onychophagy There may be something in it. For what is more conducive to nail-biting (alias onychophagy) among the very young than an eerie play on Tit? --unless it's a horror .film, radio thriller, or even a creepy book. ....Nail-biting is said to be due to the instinct of li child to put every object in its mouth. (Also listed es one of the reasons why pipesmoking is popular with mein) " lt''s an automatic, uncon- scious and frequently impulsive act," according to the Journal of the A.M.A.., "an expression of tenseness -usually found in fidge- ty, highly -strung, over active children " Treatment should. be aimed at fending' the cause of the tension. "Nagging or punishing a nail - biter never stops him for more than half a minute. Et often in- creases his tension," says the Journal. "Is he being urged or corrected or warned or scolded too much?" One final word of warning: "Bitter drugs applied to the nails - do little good. 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