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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-09-10, Page 7fiHECalvert SPORTS COLUMN I got a chuckle the other day over a story which said the new pin-up boy in Ireland is a horse, and that "A Day in the Life of Tulyar" is the rage of the Sun- day supplements. This, we think, could happen only in Ireland, a country that not merely loves its horses, but breeds some magnificent animals, and in fact, owns one in the person of Tulyar. For Tulyar is the nation's horse. A few months ago, the Irish Parliament, or Dail, approved the expenditure of $700,000 for the purchase of a stallion name Tulyar from the fabulous Indian sportsman, the Aga Khan. Tulyar is reputed to be the horse of the century. He was undefeated as a 3 -year-old in the British Isles, where a racer has to run more than six fur- longs and with as much as 150 pounds on his back. The purchase of Tulyar didn't pass the Dail without all argument. After all, it happened in Ireland. The Conservative members of Parliament contended $'700,000 was a "luxury price" for an animal in a country facing an economic crisis. But the more liberal members won their point, 60 to 23, that Tulyar was a good investment in the national horse breeding industry. So Tulyar became a property of the government. He be- longs to the Irish National Stud Farm in Tully, County Kildare. The Irish are individualistic, if any race is, and they see nothing inconsistent in nationalizing the noble horse. Imagine the consternation on Ottawa's Parliament Hill if some sporting member advocated the purchase of Native Dancer for a million or so, for the purpose of improving the breed of racing animals in Canada. But, of course, race -horses don't mean so much to Canada as they do to Ireland. In Ire- land, the horse is big business. Export of horses is to Ireland almost what General Motors is to the United States or the gold, silver, lead and zinc products to Canada. Tulyar, the people's horse, will bring many a pound into Ireland. Not so many as the Irish sweep -stakes net, of course, but quite a tidy sum, you may be sure. .An American syndicate headed. by Jack Dempsey, Los Angeles insurance man (not the ex -pugilist) bid more than a million for Tulyar. The Moslem Aga Khan may have felt in conscience that the steed belonged to Ireland and took a cut in price, The Aga Khan was criticized in London for allowing Noor to get away from him. Bence he was sensitive about Tulyar. Noor was Irish -bred, and beat Citation every time out. Tulyar is held to be an Irish horse, because he was trained on the. emerald green grass of the Ould Sod for his English victories. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 437 Yonge St., Toronto. atviert DISTILLERS LIN"91TE AMMERSTBURG, ONTARIO ffSS to , ®. ai ��, d� ��� V./ se by BOB ECUS " r Ten years ago the representa- tives of 44 nations met in Hot Springs, Va., U.S.A., to discuss the human needs for food and how they could be balanced with the production of which modern agriculture is capable, if the hobbles are taken off it. Ten years have passed since the best experts of those 44 countries have sat together and still more than half of all mankind lays itself to sleep at night with an empty stomach. The same Problem, The first conclusion the Hot Springs conference arrived at was that there is no need for hunger anywhere in the world. Two thirds of the people on earth, they said, are food pro- ducers and with the means that science has given them, they are capable of feeding themselves and the remaining third. There are no surpluses, they said, there is a dearth of pur- chasing power. The problem is not production, the problem is distribution. The delegates scored the policy of some governments between wars of restricted production which was necessitated by price supports to prevent farmers in those countries to grow more of the supported crops which al- ready were considered "surplus." Capitol? Capital!—Helen Fiske Smith, 19, will represent the U.S. capital at the "Miss America" beauty contest in Atlantic Cify, Tariff barriers and export st b- sidies were another device to "protect" the producers. The delegates also warned that, unless a solution was found, re- strictions would again have to be imposed and more drastic ones at that, as production would continue to increase. The Answer. "But the world is sick of this negative approach to the prob- lem," the delegates continued in forming their answer. "The development of the less - advanced countries may be re- garded as the major need of the decades following the war. In an age of increasing agricultural efficiency and industrial mass production, it is a little less than suicidal to leave two-thirds of the world's people in a state of chronic poverty and undernour- ishment. Here lies the greatest opportunity not only for improv- ing human welfare but for ex- panding the demand for agricul- tural and industrial products. Unless the opportunity is vig- orously developed, through FAO and other international organiz- ations, industry and agriculture will have to continue throttling production down to a restricted demand, which is like hobbling a finely bred race horse and ex- pecting it to win the race." The conference was of the opinion that "No government In isolation could provide remedies for such a situation as that in which so many countries found themselves during the inter -war period; indeed, isolated action worsens the difficulties." International Co -Operation. The delegates of the 44 gov- ernments came to the ultimate conclusion that only by working together the nations could al- leviate want and poverty: "The high levels of production and the co-ordinated international plan- ning attained for the purposes of war have strengthened the con- viction that as much and more can be done for peace." Out of the Hot Springs con- ference came the Federation of Agricultural Organizations (FAO) for the purpose of blue- printing a plan. The question today, ten years later, is what have the member governments done to put it to work? This column welcomes sug- gestions, wise or foolish, and all criticism, whether .construetive or destructive and will try to answer any question, Address your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1, 123 - 18th Street, New Toronto, Ont. Easy Does It, Fellows!—Umpire Glen Roberts has his hands full at Ebbetts Field as Chicago Cubs catcher Clyde McCullough moves toward Dodger coach Billy Herman (being held by Roberts) dur- ing a third inning argument. The argument began when Brook- lyn's Pee Wee Reese was permitted to take only one extra base, instead of two, on a bad throw by Cubs' Bubba Church. Hockey - T3aseball - Football - Horseracing. Without getting out the slide -rule and calipers, we would say that these four pas- times occupy from 80 to 90% of the space devoted to sport in the average newspaper. '1' # * And yet not ane of the four is the sport that's played by more people, than any other. Thirty years ago—yes, twenty years ago —soccer occupied the Number One slot. But nowadays it's Bas- ketball leading the field, with the rest trailing. m x All of which comes t/a' mind because of the news that the famous Harlem Globe Trotters are just back on this side of the Atlantic after a seventeen -count-•= ry, three -continent tour which grossed over a million dollars. During Coronation the colored boys packed Wembley Stadium in London, England. Some eight weeks later they were perform- ing before a sell-out crowd in Cairo, before a cheering mob of be-fezzed Egyptians: Those lads certainly do get around, and no fooling. Nobody can do more with the thirty -inch "round bag of wind" than the Harlem Globetrotters. Nobody can sink fancier baskets. Nobody can spring more laughs out of a game that is supposed to be strictly dribble, pass, and shoot. And nobody—not even the perennial champion Yankees of baseball, nor Notre Dame's gold- en boys of football—can rate with the Trotters as a year-round box- office bonanza. n: 4 * As a fabulous sports attraction unmatched anywhere, the Globe- trotters can be faulted on only one count: their games are sev- enty per cent competition, thirty per cent vaudeville. Yet none but a sports purist can avoid be- ing converted—because, after all, this show is a hundred per cent talent. Whether involved in straightforward bask et ba 11, astounding acrobatics, or side- splitting comedy, the Trotters al- ways operate on a genius level of imagination and execution, e •t. 4, Ever see them stagger the op- position with a series of blind passes? Ever see them drop-kick the ball into the basket? Ever see them switch to a baseball - game pantomime right in the middle of a basketball rally? Ever see them slyly smuggle a round loaf of pumpernickel bread into the game, then bring down the house by taking angry bites out of the "ball"? A hundred million people all over the world have seen these stunts in the past quarter century. x * ,r How did it all start? Credit a five -foot -three maestro named Abe Saperstein. This British -born Barnum of basketball attended high school in Chicago. After- ward, he organized a neighbor- hood team called the Savoy 131g Five. They were sponsored by a ballroom in Chicago's Negro sec- tion. Impressed by their skill and showmanship, Saperstein decided to take them barnstorming. e 4' Abe renamed his team the Har- lem Globetrotters, to indicate (a) they were colored and (b) they were willing to travel. In their initial season of 197, the Trot- ters toured the East in a broken- down bus. Some nights they earned as little as five dollars when the hat was passed around after a game. But today the Har- lem Globetroters are a muitimil- liori-dollar enterprise, drawing over, $1,000,000 in salaries. Their business headquarters occupy an eleven -room suite in Chicago, three rooms in New York, . and similar space in their Pacific Coast and Paris branch offices. * * c In his time, Saperstein has been stone broke with his team in Lonesome Woman Gulch, British Columbia. But the pinte sized promoter and coach has also, with his team, been blessed by the Pope at the Vatican in Rome. 4 44 The Trotters have drawn .., audience of 31,648 in the Rose Bowl, 50,041 at Rio de Janeiro, 40,000 in three days in Paris. In all countries, in all languages, spectators hail Goose Tatum and. his Herculean hands, Marques Haynes and his electrifying drib- bling, and all the other stars of the Harlem Globetrotting troupe. * x, t: No small measure of basket- ball's rating as the world's num- ber -one sport can be credited to the Globetrotters. They have spread the gospel of the game to the far reaches of the globe... to the Metalatkah Indians on An- nete Island off Alaska, and to the laborers in the sugar -cane fields of Luzon in the Philippines. They have played in the rain in Lyons, . France; in the blazing sun on the beach at Casablanca, North Africa; and in a barn loft of a Nebraska hamlet. * 4' They've done a great job of selling this Canadian -inspired game to the world; and they've also done a whole lot towards breaking down obnoxious color - lines in many places. HER WORRY Two elderly ladies checked in- to a sporty new hotel in Miami Beach. The first thing they no- ticed was a furtive little man circulating from guest to guest in the lobby, whispering and collect- ing looney. They were told he was a bookie—a man who took bets on the horses. In vacation abandon, they de- cided impulsively to risk two dollars themselves. They lost. That night one of the ladies tos- sed around in her bed and sigh- ed so lugubriously that the other counseled her, "Becky, you shouldn't cry so over spilled milk. Stop worrying because you lost. It was only two dol- lars," "It ain't losing I'm wor- rying about," Becky answered, "I was worrying about if we had won. What would we have done with the horse?" IT MAY BE YOUR LIVER if life's not iworth living it may be your liven red a fact! It takes up to two pints of liver bile a daY to keep your digestive tract in top shape! if your liver bile is not flowing Reay your food may not digestm.. gas bloats uti your stomach. yois feel constipated all n . ell the fun and sparkle go out of life. More when you need mild gentle Carter's Little Liver fills. These famous vegetable ills help stimulate the ffow of liver bile. P your digestion starts functioning p.e and you feel that hakpy days aro mere a i Dont ottep,p 1,tv sun. A.it+lays keep COWS Little Liver Pills on hand. 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