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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-12-17, Page 3(NECaLvCd SPORTS COLUMN Etotesi ?'4°' 4 once again, ani -e, r tn:ey 4uli foot- ball classic has been written into the colorful saga of one of Canada's mosi picturesque sports events, an epic strug• gle that annually attracts more far-flung attention and wider interest in these. Dominions than perhaps any other sports .•luding the Stanley Cup finals. And once again, this column raises a plaintive voice to en quire why and on what grounds the entire football populace of Canada's west, and a large proportion of the same hardy breed in the east, are excluded by mandate from viewing any part of this gridiron spectacle?' The answer to this is likely to be that Toronto's huge Var- sity Stadium, with its 28,000 seats, can accommodate more people than any other bowl in Canada. If that's the answer, it isn't a good one because it contains two holes through which you could shoot a 250 -pound line plunger. The first gap, in ties line of thought, presuming- it exists, is that in giving Toronto the monopoly on this game, several thousand Canadians, west and east, who couldn't afford a trip of Toronto, and probably couldn't secure a seat for the game if they got there, are shut out. And these several thousand are the folks who, by giving their whole -hearted support to the teams of the Western Conference on the prairies, and the Big Four in the east, make the Grey Cup spectacle possible. The second yawning gulf in the answer is financial. If the Grey Cup is to be made a medium for extracting the ultimate in dollars, then its practical proponents are missing a bet, If it were played on the same practical basis as the baseball World Series, or the hockey Stanley Cup, two ends would be served. Those who helped make the series possible would see the games, and the receipts of, say, a 3 -game series, one east, two west, and vice versa in alternate years, would more than equal the returns from a single game. There are those who urge that this is Canada's most gaudy, glittering and colorful sports drama of the year. We agree. But we don't agree to the argument that it should be limited to one game, one city, or to the theory that it would cheapen the Cup finals to broaden the scope. It hasn't cheapened the world's baseball series or the Stanley Cup series in any noticeable way,' and these give the fans who paid all season a chance to view not only the prologue, but the filial drama. So it should be with the Grey Cup. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson;' c/o Calvert House, 431 Yong° St.; Toronto. Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO ew PLAT HORSE SENSE.. By BOB ELLI; Among the books we brotig.nt home from our trip to Nova Scotia last Septein.ber, there is , one which we can strongly rec- ommend to each and all who are interested in co-operation. It is the life story of "Father Tompkins of Nova Scotia," right- ly called the founder of the Antigonish. Movement. The author, George Boyle, had known Father "Jimmy" Tomp- kins for more than thirty years and renders his story in clear simple words. Adult Education. To help people help them- selves, was Father Jimmy's ,life work. His great love of God and his Fellow Man, his infinite faith in the people and their funda- mental goodness, his compassion on ' their mute suffering, his un- bounded spirit, gave this frail little priest the strength to car- ry on the fight for the Brother- hood of Man under the Father- hood of God. It was Father Tompkins' in- tense belief that.if people were only given the knowledge of how to go about it, they would be able to free themselves from the shackles of a "feudalistic econ- omic system" which was holding them down in poverty, malnu trition, ignorance and apathy. "Adult Education" was his magic formula, "at, the pit heads, down in the mints, oit among the fishermen's shacks, along the wharves, and whenever the far- mers gather to sit and talk in the Double Speed — Scott Crossfield, a2 -year-old test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, examines a ma - lel of the plane he piloted to ,327 -miles -per hour which is Twicethe speed of sound. Cross. field smashed his own existing speed record of 1,272 -miles -per. hour. ' evenings." Out of it came the Rural Conferences, the Extension Department of St. Francis Xavier University, the Antigon- ish Movement. Cream for tote Few. His first act in his .little par- ish of Canso, where he was exiled for his "radical" ideas, was to start a credit union. "Capital .must be decentraliz- • ed," he wrote to a friend, 'Our Branch Banking.- is making 'us a glorified branch nation all al- ong the line. I notice in Canso for. instance — an important fish- ing center — that the people are poorer and more dependent today than they were twenty years ago." • "They damn the place, their employment and their employ • ers. They do not know what the matter is, and they are too poor and too ignorant to find out for themselves. The reason back of it all is that they are being ex- ploited by fish firms owned by men in Montreal and anywhere else but Canso, Montreal banks will give money to Montreal men, but Canso has no..inoney to help encourage Canso brains." "And so we become, as 1 said, a branch people, and a few places hundreds of thousands sf miles away skim off the cream, which goes into the pockets of the very few — not the -best place to keep cream, but you will Forgive the figure." First Co-op. He encouraged his fishermen to pool their resources and to send a crate of lobsters. for which they would have received from the local dealer the grand sum of $9.75, to a merchant in Bos ton. When, after weeks of anxious waiting and speculation, back came a cheque fol $32, the first lobster marketing co-op was un- der way. Today it operates one of the largest, if not the largest, lobster cannery in the world. Father Jimmy's love of people was all -embracing; it was cath- olic in the strict sense of the word, which means universal "I do not know of any Catholic or Methodist way of cutting coal or canning lobster," he used to say. Father jimmy Tompkins is dead,' but his work is carried on by the men who came after him and his memory continues in the minds and hearts of the fisher- n1e11 and miners the lumbermen and farmers of Nova Scotia. 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 Alis, Bois 1, 123 - IRth St„ New Toronto, Ont. Queen Wins A Title - "Grecian Queen,'.' who piled up earnings of $229,375 this season, has recerilly.; been named Champion Feminine Race Horse of 1953. Being led by her trainer, "Grecian Queen" is shown above on her ai`r.iva1 at; Hialeah Race Track where she may meet • her male rivals in the $100,000 Widener classic in Februa ,y. .17o you happen to recall a character named Arthur Newton who ran for 24 hours, in Ham- ilton, and covered 152 miles or thereabouts? Well, if you do, you certainly can't play junior any longer, be- cause it was over 22 years ago. Personally, we had forgotten all about it till our memory was jogged by a piece in The Chris- tian Science Monitor by Sydney • Skilton, writing from London, England. Take it away, Sydney! * * We have had one of those . go, as -you -please endurance tests that used to so fascinate our grandfathers. On the University of London track at Hotspur Park eight men entered and six start- ed . for'.a,-24•-hours . running races Three were there at the end, the winner having covered 6371/4 laps of the four -to -the -mile cin- der track. He was Walter Hayward, a 45 -year-old Johannesburg build- ing inspector. His official dis- tance, which rates as an unoffi- cial world record, was 159 miles 562 yards. It was 7 miles 22 yards further than the previous best distance that stood to the credit of Hayward's host, Ar- thur Newton. His performance, accomplished as a professional, was on a square 13 laps to the mile track at Hamilton, Ontario, in 1931. " `r Second to Hayward was Derek Reynolds, a 39 -year-old Lon- doner, with a distance of 154 miles 1,226 yards, which also im- proved on Newton's best per- formance and which rates as the best -ever by an Englishman. Third was Leslie Griffiths, of Reading Athletic Club. Aged 48 years, and the oldest of the six starters, Griffiths went off the trackfor two hours during the night, but after deciding to re- sume went on to complete 120 miles 248. yards. - Hayward, too, went off the track for half an hour after com- pleting 100 miles. To that time he bad been trotting rhythmic- ally round and round the cir- cuit, averaging a steady eight miles an hour. But after resum- ing he never recovered the rhythm and eventually finished a completely exhausted 'pan. s k :r While being assisted to the dressing room, Hayward was asked by Newton "Well, it was worth it, wasn't it?" To which a distressed Hayward gulped SALLY'S SALLIES S.U.SsewsmO PRISM iiai "Please don't worry. Your oats .port mewthat it youilvs g etloulleta, you *' f pith `Never again." But less than 48 rs afterwards as he boarded aplane for'home he had changed his mind and stated "I'll try the run once more, if it can be ar- ranged." ' S There's the rub. Arranging these' things is quite an expen- sive business because there is ,t,,so little return. Nobody [.laid i-Iayward and his fellow com- a etitors to .run and nobody paid o watch them. But the hiring cif the track, the refreshments .for the competitors and those for,the' recorders, markers and timekeepers all have to be paid for. The payees are the few and scattered devotees of this pecu liar pastime of ultra distance gunning. They come from all parts f the world. sas & e a, Hayward, - as we have men- ioned comes from South Africa. e travelled to Britain entirely his own expense, spending 4g00 --of 'lis savings. to '.do so. hile here he set new records for the London to Brighton (50 miles) and Bath to London (100 miles) runs. They were -work-' Outs for his 24-hour effort. He arrived home, after an absence of 55 days, as the greater ultra - distance runner in history. * * The trip would not have been Possible had it not been for the camaraderie_ . of these indefatig- able long -journeymen. Host to Hayward while in this country Was. 70 -year-old Arthur Newton Who did not take to running un- til well into his 30's and then Only to draw attention to what he considered an unjust confis- cation of his farming land in Natal, In one of his books New- ton states that he was confronted with two alternatives in order to draw publicity to 'his case. One was to be sent to prison for crime and the other was to be- come a sports champion. He be- came a champion marathon run- ner, winning races and setting records in the continents of Af- rica, Europe, and America. # 1) x 'In due course Newton captal- ized on his athletic prowess and although today he still rates as a professional he has never lost his love of running for the sheer joy of running. Thus it was a typical Newton action to invite Hayward to board and lodge at the Newton home in Ruislip, some 20 miles northwest of Lon- don, " Another old-timer, rallying rotund the hailing of Haywards to Britain was Peter Guvuzzi Who handled the feeding ar- rangements. Gavuzzi will best be remembered as runner-up in that fabulous trans -Continental race from New York to Los An- geles in 1929. He is regarded as an authority on racing refresh- ment where his golden rule is "No solids." Thus Hayward dur- ing his remarkable feats of sta- mina had a diet of egg -custard and rice .and ,frequent swigs of warmed lemon juice laced with sugar and salt. 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If the present sales rate contin- ues, one-third of Japan's 86,000,- 000 persons may possess cameras within a few years. Wealthier Japanese were noted for their interest in photography before the war. But photogra- phy in Japan has now become a hobby for rich and poor alike. Immediately after the war, there was little money for cam- eras or other goods which were not essential. But with the sub- sequent rise in the standard of living, people have had more money for hobbies -- and pho- tography has proved about the most popular. Postwar Japan- ese cameras rival Europe's best for quality and durability. Thousands of camera shops have sprung up throughout the country during the past three years. Major camera manufac- turers and photographic maga- zines hold nationwide annual competitions which attract world- wide attention. 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