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0. The afternoon of Saturday, May 2, was
the occasion of the seventy-ninth run -
Wag of the Kentucky Derby, at Churchill
Downs, Louisville, Scores of thousands of
out-of-town novelty seekers were pres-
ent The local and visiting attendance
` lifted the total to a r o u n d 100,000.
And it's all about a race that doesn't seem to deserve the at-
tention, publicity and money lavished upon it.
For the .Derby isn't a derby, to begin with—not in the
requirements of distance, for. example. Of course, in America,
the. term "derby" has come to be used very loosely, and very
frequently. Alb sorts of tracks have a "derby" annually. But
few, if any, parallel the daddy of all derbies, the Epsom
Downs race, in the matter of distance.
This Kentucky Derby, run annually on the first Saturdayof May furnishes the first •test of three -year-olds over the
distance of one and one-quarter miles. This is one-fourth of
a mile short of the regular Derby distance as established by
the English classic run. at Epsom Downs, from which the name
"derby" is derived. The English race is at a mile and a half,
and is raced in early June.
• The Kentucky race occurs almost too early for eligible
females of this age to compete on equal terms with colts. And
it is too early tor condition even the males of the species tor
a 10 -furlong struggle.
You may think that transportation difficulties -are annoy-
ing now. But back in 1875, the year the Derby was first run as
a modest little race, the sporting folks of the era who attended
really had grief. The "Louisville Jockey -Club race -track" since
labeled Churchill Downs, was so far from the city that horse-
drawn street cars required two hours to make the trip. Many
of the custonfers started to walk the distance early in the
morning. Others went in wagons, buggies and on horseback.
Attending the Derby in the seventies and eighties was a jour-
ney, not a trip.
Arrangements for the race were primitive. There was,
of course, nothing like a starting gate. Etren the web barrier
of 40 years ago was unknown. The starter drew a line in the
dirt across the track with the butt of the flag he used to start
the field and then lined up the candidates well behind it. A
walk-up start was the system.
When "Col. Johnson of Nashville", the starter for the first
of all Kentucky Derbies, got his field in alignment he flashed
down his flag. A drum sounded the official start and the field
was off.
There were many other differences between the races of
those early days, and now. 7t has gained in importance, in
glamour, in attendance, and in speculative interest, so who are
we to point out minor technical shortcomings of the continent's
No. 1 glamour race?
'Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/a Ca/vert House, 437 Yonge St„ Toronto. '
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by BOB ELLIS
Sour Feelings
The Ontario farmer works hard
and produces as much as he cat
at as little. expenseas he can.
Without any - strong' organized
bargaining , power he has little
control over his prices and most
of the time has to take for his
product what he is told to take.
He has just as little control
ovtli his expenses as far as pro-
duction is concerned. He can
economize by foregoing personal
conveniences, but when he buys
gas, and oil and spare parts for
his tractor, or concentrates and
feed grain for his cattle, he has
to pay what he is told to pay,
It is therefore with sour feel-
ings that the farmer listens to or
reads the good advice dished out
to him by'learned guest speakers
at farm meetings or in wise
editorials by writers usually not
encu .tiered with any factual
knowledge.
Greedy Growers
One of the rarest and most
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mic thinking recently sprung up
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In an editorial chastising the
tomato growing farmers. of Ont-
ario
for "pricing themselves out
of the market," • some •agricultural'•
expert 'blamed, the existing sur
plus of canned tomatoes on an
increase of the producer price of
$1.50 per ton.
We have never been very
efficient with the one R dealing
with figures, but tried our luck
anyway with a pencil and a
piece of paper.
Endeavouring to divide 150
cents by 2,000 pounds of toma-
toes we carne — with all due
apology to our old math teacher
—to the result of 71/2 of one
hundredth of one cent, or in other
words a little more than one
thirteenth of one cent per pound
of tomatoes.
It is really too bad that the
greedy tomato growers by such
excessive demands have caused
the closing of 4 or 5 canneries in
Eastern Ontario.
All too Little
Having disposed of the tomato
dilemma, it might be interesting
to do a little more probing into
producer and consumer prices.
How much or how little does the
(armee actually get from the
housewife's dollar? The answer
is in the following column:
Farmer's
Commodity: Price: Share:
Milk 21c lOc
Bread 18c 3c
Canned corn 16c 31/xe
Canned tomatoes 17c 31/se
Roostheaf Ib 55c 24c
Skint milk powder 39c nothing
Cabbage Ib. .5c lc
In view of these figures will
any person of average IQ really
maintain that a difference of a •
few hundredth of one cent in
the producer price would make
any difference in the consumer
price and create buyer resist-
ance?
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SPQR,
To millions of tender -headed
TV-peekers, who watched hinn
l.ay a character nalned . Collins
like a carpet in a Boston ring
recently, lightweight champion
Jimmy Carter appeared to be a
really rough and tough-.speci-.
men, and no fooling. In '.fact,
while he Le Working at his trade
of dishing out leather, Mr. •Car-
ter is a long way from being a.
Little Lord 1' auntleroy or ` any
other sort of momma's darling,
But outside the ring Carter
has so little color — excepting
in his skin — and acts so differ-
ently from the majority of fight-
ers, that he has his associates
and the boys of the press very •
much puzzled; in fact some call
him the "mystery champion."
Borers as a rule are snappy
dressers — i.n fact you. might al
most make that "snappy" into
"loud," But when a Hollywood
gents furnishings dealer recent-•
],Y .presented Carter with a rath-
er striking sports shirt, the
champion sen t it back, with
thanks. "Jimmy couldn't wear
that kind of a shirt," his mes-
senger reported. "He thinks it
would attract too much atten-
tion to him on the street."
Shades of Jack Johnson!
F r:
Carter, born Dec. 15, 1923, at
Aiken, S. C., was brought to
Philadelphia, with two brothers,
by his widowed mother when he
was yet in a 1 1. When he' was
nine, Mom moved the family to
New York's Harlem.
James William, named for a.
grandfather, completed grade
school and attended high school,.
but he soon had to get out and
work. As a boy, he boxed in.a-
Catholic youngsters' club. " He
left a grocery clerk's job in 1943.
to enter the army. He was .in
three years, serving, in England,
France and the Philippines. He
won a camp championship and
had a few bouts overseas.
On his return from overseas-
Carter
verseasCarter mite to the notice of. Wil-.
lie Ketchum, a well known
trainer of fighters.
Ketchurn promptly 'put the
willing newcomer into intensive
training. He found hills: easy to
handle and, by the spring of
1946, had him boxing prelims.
Jimmy was a good four -round.
boy. Too good. Before long, his
reputation made it tough to get
-matches for him.
n :% a
Jack Friday, who: occasionally
works in Carter's corner, re
,calls:
"I remember how faithfully
he'd train, day after day. Sonee-
tinles he'd have to borrow a
dime to get home. He'd work
Public Relations
Farmers know that the price
spread between producer and.
consumer is far too great. They
know that too many middlemen
take too much, out of the con-
sumer's food dollar.
The people who clo not know
it are the good folks in the cities
and towns of Ontario. Misled and
misinformed by tomato -brained
journalists, they are inclined to
blame the farmer, if they think
that they are paying too much for
their milk and bread and neat.
The housewife shopping at the
corner -store does not know that
the producer does not get a frac-
tion of a cent out of the 39 cents
she has to pay for a pound of
dried skim milk powder. -
"Dagwood" may yell loud at
the sight of the grocery bill, but
he does not realize that profits
of the meat pa'ckers were the
highest ever in .1952 when pro-
ducer prices went down by al-
most 40 per cent, while consumer
prices did not follow suit.
If food prices are too high, the
responsibility lies not with the
producer, but the distributor.
The farmer can help by bringing
out the facts.
Here is a public relations job
for the farm organizations to do,
which in the end will benefit
both, the producer and. the con-
sumer.
This column welcomes sug-
gestions, wise or foolish, and all
criticism, whether constructive
or destructive and will try to
answer any question. Address
your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1,
123 • 1.8th Street., Now Toronto.
Ont..
EAT ANYTHING
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V you have trouble with plates
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U H 1 MiYI SE P Rc{+c
with Denis Pat Brady, a good
fighter then, and he'd raise the
dickens,"
In little over a year, Carter
W46 -fighting ten -rounders with
tough cookies like Joe Brown
and Charley Cabey Lewis. Also
Sandy Saddler, wherein hangs a
very interesting story. "Al Weill
was . xn Washington," Ketchum
says, "and he said, 'You're mak-
ing .$150 tops with Carter; I'll
give you $500 for him to fight
Saddler.' .[ said, 'Are you kid-
diiIig? .Saddler knocks guys out.
i"got just a steady -boxing guy,'
Well, . you know Weill, he wears
you clown.
took it and, in the first two
rdunds, Carter was doing noth-
ing, Corning up for the third, I
jumped on him. 'I put you in
thisr.beoause I thought you could
w,n; Now, do something!' He
ne'.er. stopped. I thought he won
atjut'they called it a draw."
.: top workman in the clubs
d xi,ng 1948, Carter inevitably
"wglde "red up a dead-end street.
1“couldn't get money matches.
l 1950 Carter was so res-
peted, and avoided, that he had
'Only,. three fights in the entire
4^0a",ar.
`'tatter's title break came early
iehl.:951 when he upset Percy
'3sett, strong Philadelphia con -
st
at St. Nick's. The brain
for Ike Williams, then
i+r I 'fining, decided he was "de -
se tying of the chance,"
0n May 25, 1951, in Madison
Stjuare Garden, lie flabbergasted
a ,;small "studio audience" and a
big television' audience by drop -
,
four times before
klt`ocking him out in the 14th
resund. The next day America
q'ti.eried: "Who is Carter?"
•'New York still showed no
great interest in him and Ket-
chum took him to California for
over -the -weight battling. In his
third start there he lost to Art
Aragon, but he struck gold, be-
cause the setback set up a title
meeting with the so-called Gold-
en Boy, for which. Carter was
paid $30,000,
w= 4 *
During 1952, Jimmy went to
the post 'nine times, three times
for the crown, all with Sales.. He
won the first so handily, he
couldn't work up respect for the
Mexican in the second, accord-
ing to Ketchum.
Carter's boiling point was
reached finally when they fought
again, at Chicago, in the fallof
last year. Sales didn't win a
round on many score -cards un-
til the eleventh, and then he took
only three of 15.
As 1952 ended, Carter's career
record stood at 79 fights, 59 vic-
tories against 13 defeats,. 21
,krtrticleouts and 38 decisions, with
seven `draws. •-
Jimmy has been on the floor
only once, against Tommy Camp-
bell, whom he policed promptly
on getting up.
Ketchum points out Carter is
a "natural" lightweight, except
when he goes -on an eating spree
and b l o w s himself up to 145
pounds. "`
Fainly man Carter' is conser-
vative in -dress, he has no more
than a dozen quiet suits, and, if
he has been in a night club half
a dozen tunes, it is a lot. In his
tenure as champ he has saved a
little money and, prepared to
campaign actively, he expects to
save a lot more.
He expects to open a liquor
store, someday; how could he
miss in that calling? asks Lester
Bromberg in The Police Gaz-
ette. Being a one -beer man at
best, he'd never drink up even a
small part of the profits.
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