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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1949-05-05, Page 3ores w did 0 e Thing
or Another
By Frank Mann Harris
Just 'what is it that brings out
$he record-breaking crowds to any
sports event. Is it the expectation
of seeing a close, well -played c n-
test — an "exhibition of skill and
science" as the boxing and wrest-
ling boys phrase it? Or is it the
thrill of being among those present
when something unusual, some-
thing that will make the big head•
lines, is taking place,?
* * *
A combination of both would pos-
sibly be the most nearly correct
answer, because in any big crowd
there are bound to be botli the real
sports lovers and the thrill -seekers.
Eut any experienced sports promo-
ter will tell you the the latter out-
number the former by so much that
there's no real comparison,
* * *
They're the folks who cheerfully
fork over five or tk.n times the box-
office price for tickets to a World's
Series ball game or Stanley Cup
hockey match—even although they
know right well that what goes on
fir these "classics" is, as a rule, dull
and wearisome compared to what
is seen during the regular season.
They're the ones who pack the
tracks to suffocation point for the
running of a King's Plate or Ken-
tuckj Derby _ brought there by
ballyhoo, and not through any real
liking for horses or horse -racing.
* * *
So when some sixty thousand
people -59,661 to be exact =turned
out for a track and field meet re-
cently, you may be certain most of
them were expecting to see some-
thing sensational. They were. A
couple of weeks earlier Mel Patton,
by running 100 yards in 9.3 seconds,
had broken a record that many
shrewd observers thought might
never be topped, And now Patton
was going to try and do the same
to the 100 meter mark.
They got their thrill and sensa-
tion O.K.—and a terrific roar went
14p when it wai announced that Pat-
ton had clipped the 100 -meter mark
by almost a full second. But a lot
of thein, a few moments later, were
wishing they hadn't put so muc'
strain on their lungs when it was
discovered that—due to an error of
the man who laid out the course—
Patton had travelled only 99 yards
s inches—or almost 10 full yards
short of 100 meters.
The fuss that was made over this
unfortunate error has rather taken
the . spotlight away from Patton's
wonderful feat in making that new
100 yard mark. The 100 yard dash
has always been one of the real
glamour events of track and field—
a.nd whenever it's mentioned names
like those of Jesse Owens, Frank
Wyckoff, Bobby Kerr, our own
Percy Williams and many others
are bound to come to mind. •Yet
the man who many consider to have
been the greatest speedster of them
all is almost forgotten.
He was Jack Donaldson, a long-
legged speed -ball out of Australia,
who ran as a professional during
most of his career. Thirty-eight
years ago, running in South Africa,
he was clocked at 9 and three-
eighths seconds for the hundred
yards—(they used eighths instead
of tenths in those days)—and that
is a mere three -fortieths of a second
lower than Patton's mark, What
is more, when he did it Donaldson
had his opponent so well beaten that
he eased up all through the last 25
yards or so. There's no doubt he
could have gone even faster—and
there are plenty of those who should
know about these things who hon-
estly believe that, with the ad-
vantage of the better -constructed,
springier sprinting track of nowa-
days, Jack 'Dlonaldson night very
well have run the hundred in 9
seconds flat.
It was in a match race with Reg-
gie Walker right after the latter
had won the 100 meters at the
Olympic Games in London, that
Donaldson made his record. It is
said that something like two million
dollars was bet on the result, and
the South Africans, who had backed
their Reggie as though he was al-
ready home -free, took a terrible
financial lacing.
* * *
Some of Dlonaldson's other ai-
inost incredible feats were recently
recalled by one of his most ardent
admirers, He ran the 130 yards—a
favorite distance for professionals—
in 12 seconds flat! He was timed
by the official clocker for the Aus-
tralian Jockey Club who, when he
saw the figure on his stop -watch, at
once said that the distance must be
short, so incredible was the figure.
So they measured it with a steel
tape—the kind that doesn't stretch
—and it was found to be 2 yards 2
inches MORE THAN the correct
distance.
* sf, *
Donaldson seldom tan the quarter
mile—but when he did he covered
the 440 yards in 47 seconds flat
years before any one else ever did,
Coaxed into representing his Regi-
ment in a four mile run during
World War One he came in first
by almost half a anile, Six feet tall,
and with a phenomenal stride of
nine feet, Donaldson was really
something—and those who contend
that there never was anything to
equal him, before or since, have
plenty of weight behind thele arm.
scent,
.L
Laying Cornerstone for New House of Commons—A new House of Commons will rise in:
London from the remains of the old building bombed during the war. Col. Clifton Brown,
speaker of the House of Commons, lays the co rnerstone for the new structure. Among those
present is Winston Churchill, extreme left.
What Goes On in The World
By Norman Blair
South Africa
Seventy-eight years of age, and
of mixed Dutch and French an-
cestry, Jan Christian Smuts has long -
been known throughout South
Africa as "the old boss". "In the
Boer War, 1899-1902, he fought
against the British. Later on he
held many portfolios — including
those of Minister of Diefense and
of the Interior — in the new Brit-
ish Dominion, the Union of South
Africa,
During the last two years of
World War One he was a member
of the British War Cabinet, and
was a leading figure in post-war
settlements. He helped write the
League of Nations Covenant, then
returned to Africa to become the
Union's Premier from 1919 to 1924.
At the outbreak of World War
Two, Smuts got the Premiership
again, and put his country on the
side of Britain in the struggle with
Hitler, His Government ruled over
a population of between 11 and 12
million. Less than a quarter of
these are of white European descent.
The balance are mostly of the na-
tive Bantu races.
In the South African parliament
Until quite recently, General Smuts'
united party has had a lower house
majority of about 25 seats. But late
this May "the old boss" ran into
an unexpected snag. In the criti-
cal g neral election for a new
House of Assembly the opposition
Nationalist party and its allies won
a clear majority. Smuts himself lost
the Standerton constituency which
he had represented in Parliament
for 24 years.
The day after the voting Smuts'
comment was — "These things do
happen. There it is — there it is."
Then .he resigned his pos't as Pre-
mier.
Japan
After Japan's defeat in the war
the Emperor resigned all his re-
ligious claims to supremacy. Voices
are now being raised — although
still wit. a me sure ' caution —
that he should acknowledge his re-
spons;bility for the course of events,
and step 'own from his throne.
But, strangely enough, those
same liberal voices are being joined
by those of others whose devotion
to t'' ancient system has never
been even shakLn. Those figure it
something as follows — if Hirohito
abdicates he would doubtless be
sl ceded by ,1•r 14 -year-old Crown
Prince, who cannot in any way be
blan-ed for the disasters of war.
Thus the Imperial institution would
be coutfiued and fortified. But the
best hope for a really liberal Japan
would be for the fossilized Imperial
institution to disappear completely
— and that very possibility is now
being discussed in influential Nip-
ponese circles,
Finland
Finnish Conservatives, aided and
abetted by Social Democrats and
-,iberals, apparently started some-
thing they were unable to finish.
When, to everybody's surprise, they
voted I,eino, the Communist In-
t_rior Minister out of office, the
upshot is that Leint's wif,, has been
taken into the Gorerllr ent. And she
— fierta Kussinen — is an even
higher-ranking Communist than her
husband.
So im,nartial observers regard the
wile thing as a victory for The
Reds, in spite of the fact that in
Finnish offiei, circles it is termed
a compromise.
One ' etor is now plain, It is that
the Kremlin now has a direct line
into the Finnish Government in the
person of Mrs I,eino, Talented
daughter of the President of the
P'nnish Kareliai, Soviet Republic,
who is also a member of the Soviet
Supreme Council, she frequently
visits Moscow to consult her father
on Finnish affairs.
The Middle East
A common bond of enmity to the
new State of Israel has drawn ail
the Arab states together In one cause
— something that has not been
achieved since the Turkish Empire
broke up sone thirty years ago.
How long this can last nobody can
say, but the fact is that thty have
put aside long-standing disa(lrre-
ments t'^ face tile present crisis to-
gether. •
Another part of the Middle East
picture is the role the Communists
are playing. There is a widespread
conviction throughout Lebanon;
Syria, ,Iraq, Iran and Palestine that
the Russians are making political
.pital of the situation.
For one thing, it i salt. that Rus-
sia is backing the Palestine parti-
tion plan in order to get a better
foothold in the Middle East, partly
by winning the friendship of Isreal.
At the same time the Soviets are be-
lieved to be fomenting strikes and
disturbances in Arab countries with
the aim of dividing the attention of
the several Arab Governments, so
that they would have less strength
to expend on tit Palestine fight,
and also less with which to han.dle
internal difficultie's..
But Russia may not have counted
on 1' fact that all Arab countries
are by nature anti -communist. Arabs
are keenly conscious of the anti -
religious aspects of communism,
and do not appear to be at all im-
pressed by recent Russian changes
toward religion.
Germany
Soviet propagandists in Germany
are adding new vigor to their propa-
ganda drive based on the theme of
"German unity" — and the univers-
al appeal of such a theme cannot be
discounted. It may even out -weigh,
for a while at least, the strong anti-
Soviet feeling which has prevailed
in `Vestern Germany since the war's'
end.
The Russians have coupled this
slogan of German unity with accusa-
tions that the Western Powers are
dismembering the country; and they
insist that this "dismemberment"
is only a preliminary to 'lie use of
W stern Gerniai,- as an arsenal of
war and as a springboard for an
eventual attack on the Soviets, in
which case Germany would be the
battleground. This touches the fears
that every German has for the future.
Some of the propaganda tales that
are Icing spread — and believed —
seem fantastic to us. A German
in Hamburg is told that in United
States zone Genian girls are forced
to clean the boots of American
troops. Germans in Nurenburg are
informed, quite seriously, that in
Dusseldorf the British are quarter-
ing Indian troops on the German
population. In Cologne the tale is
spread that "in the Russian zone"
anyone who worked on a farm or
in a factory gets all the gasoline he
needs, "It i; only the profiteers and
Jews who do not receive gas
rations I"
It is hard to believe that any
thinking people could be duped by
such stuff. But it must be remem-
bered that Germans of today are
people whose moral fibre and in-
tellectual integrity has been weak-
ened by over 15 years of fascism
and war. In such mental soil even
the crudest propaganda can take
root.
The British Way
Discrimination against holders of
religious., political, and other beliefs
is repugnant to those who hold fast
to the British way of life. "This is
a free country" is no catchphrase;
it is written more indelibly into the
most deeply cherished creed of the
ordinary people of Britain than ever
Calais was on Mary Tudor's heart.
Centuries of civil strife and the blood
of many mar' -s have won the right
to think, to say, and to do what
con-cieuce dictates.
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Assorted heavy -breed mixed chicks 11%c. As-
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Immediate delivery chicks, and started. Bray
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EGG SHORTAGE
Total chick hatchings down 50 percent from
year ago. Feed prices will be lower and egg
prices higher.
POULTRY MEAT SHORTAGE
Reports, show cockerels started to date down
70 to 80 percent from year ago. 8-4 Ib.
broilers are selling for 36 to 40e lb. live
weight. The margin of profit is greater than
ever.
PROMPT DELIVERY
50.000 Lakeview chicks weekly. We can give
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STARTED PULLETS 4 wks.-24 wks.
Get a head start with started pullets or book
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HEAVY BREED COCKERELS
Thousands available weekly. Send for special
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CAPONS 4 WEEKS READY MADE
There Is good money in raising capons. Sell
for as much per lb. as turkeys. 36 to 400
per ib. alive now.
Send for large illustrate$ catalogue and man-
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ISSUE 15 — 1948
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