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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1949-08-11, Page 6GOES IN THE WORLD �yNortnanBlair is rt: Couldn't Beat Channel-- Mrs. Willie Croes Van Rijsel, 30 - year -old Dutch mother, was forced to give up her effort to Swint the English Channel only a mile and a half from the Dover Cliffs after she'd been in the water 14 hours and 16 minutes. Here Mrs. Rijsel talks with her trainer just before she began her futile swim. You read and hear—and we trust pay heed to—countless warnings regarding the dangers of such liquids as beer, wine and spirits8; but we fail to remember any such admonitions about the trouble a .guy can get into through mixing too freely, in an athletic way, with what we scientists refer to as H2O, commonly known as water. And we think it is about time. :k * * For those who take their sport mixed with water seem to suffer mdre heartbreak and punishment, in:return for less monetary or other reward, than any other class of athletes we know. Why they do so will always remain a mystery to us—unless, just possibly, they do these things because they like do- ing thein, and are in sport—awful thought?—for the sheer love of sport. * * * Thinking over the list of horrible examples the name of Sir Thomas Lipton comes to mind—the man who spent millions of dollars trying to lift a Cup, and knowing all the time that, by the rules which gov- erned the contest, he was beaten before he even started. However, perhaps Sir Thomas is not the .happiest choice we might make, as we seem to remember that he was connected with a certain food pro- duct which gained a heap of in- direct advertising through his ef- forts, * * * Then there were the English Channel swimmers, They take an awful beating, those blubber=coated, oil -besmeared lads and lasses who attempt the crossing from England to France, or vice versa—and what do they get out of it. Try and re- call the names of just three of those who finally made it, Try and recall the names of one who got more than a few front-page headlines— Then oblivion. * * * Yet they're shill at it. A Dutch housewife had to be pulled out of The water after battling with the waves for half a day; and an Eng- lish boy and a Yankee Miss are training hard, at this writing, in an effort to succeed where she, and Relentless others, have failed. Dangerous stuff, that water, * * * n We could go on and on, citing the scullers and crew oarsmen who —if asked to toil for wages a quarter as hard as they do for fun— would start either a strike or a ?revolution. There are the men who lake a shot at such trophies as the ]Harinsworth — and who see the ?lopes and labors of months go blooey when an engine conks out. Mill, they keep on coming back for more. * ,* * A perfect example of what we mean is found in the case of the Livingston Brothers, who run a sheep ranch down at Gambia in ,.Australia. They got the notion They wanted to get into a boat race —not the sort we have at various Canadian race tracks we might, but won't mention. And this is what the Livingstons did to achieve their Ambition. * * * The race was the fifteenth Calif- ornia to Honolulu event -- a mere ,jaunt of 2,225 miles. But in order to get to the starting post at San Pedro, the Livingstons had to travel 9,355 miles. And although their ketch could only carry a nine man crew, more than 200 applied for place Anyway the KURREWA sailed out of Melbourne last April 19; and although the date of the race was some two and a half months away, the two Livingston boys were wor- ried about getting to the barrier on time. So they decided to carry the sane amount of canvas day and night — much mare than would have been needed at the speed they originally planned. * * * That wasn't the only hitch. Be- fore they were well started a storm blew away the' "blister" which pro- tected the helmsman. A little latter their deck stores were washed away. Getting short of fuel the boys couldn't keep their refrigerator go- ing, so vitamin oils had to take the place of fresh food. ' :k * * In the blackest portion of an ex- tremely dark night a crewman was batted on the head by a boons and was barely saved from going over- board. Another crewman, diving in for a swim when the ketch was be- calmed, landed on a shark basking in the shadow of the hull. They say lie showed a rare turn of speed getting back on board, and we don't doubt it. Only three of the nine escaped seasickness. * :k * KURREWA looked fairly well' battered when she reached San Pedro on June 27th., but they soon got her spruced up a bit. But even then her luck proved to be any- thing but good. Only minutes after the 24 contestants started, the KURREWA was damaged aft and knocked off her course when a rival rammed into her. Local information picked up by the Australians was tither misleading or misinterpreted. It sent the KURREWA squarely into a sixteen -hour calm in the lee of Catalina Island, * * ,k Over the whole 2,225 -mile race route the KURREWA carried 2 -ton overload. With the Hawaiian shipping strike still on, the Aus- tralians couldn't afford to leave California without supplies for the post -race trip from Honolulu back to Melbourne. "That overload," Frank Livingston estimated, "cost ins days.» * * * At 4:24 a.m. HST on July 18 the (KURREWA crossed the finish line. Her elapsed time (I3 days, 18 hours, 24 minutes, 32.7 seconds) didn't compare with the new straight -time record (10 days, 10 hours, 13 minutes, 9.5 seconds) set by Richard, Rheem's 98 -foot schooner, Morning Star, of Los Angeles. * * * But sailing men agreed that under the circumstances the KUR- REWA, fifteenth among the seven- teen finishers that bettered the pre- vious record time, had done well. Skipper Frank Livingston thought lais ship would dei even better next time: "We might even win, if we manage to enter as a racer instead I of as a freighter," * * * That last sentence proves our contention to the hilt. After all the grief they'd gone through, those Livingstons — and, we presume, the rest of the crew '*-• are eager for more of the same. It's certainly time they laid off the dangers of malted, vinous and spirituous liquids and issued warnings to in- tending athletes about the perils of just plain water—unless, of course, you happen to have real sporting blood running through yotlr veins, GREAT BRITAIN "Never in 'tile course of human affairs has such great havoc been wrought by such small men," was one of the striking phrases from Winston Churchill's speech to the forty thousand Tory faithful who packed the football stadium at Wolverhampton — a crowd which greeted its leader with such a terific rendition of "Land of Hope •and Glory" that it brought tears to Ohurc'hill's eyes and caused his Chin to tremble with emotion, But Churchill in his speech not only refrained from criticizing the social services of the welfare state, but claimed credit for their intro- duction by pre -Socialist Tory Gov- ernments — causing still further muttering in the ranks of the Con- servatives who believe that the party badly needs a new peacetime leader. Here is how the situation looks lo a neutral -Fred Vanderschmidt, chief of the London Bureau. of N.EWSWEEK, a journal that cer- tainly has no Socialistic or, Leftist leanings. Tile Tories' failure to propose just now that the British take the hard way out of their troubles is a tribute to the success of Socialist propaganda, which accuses the Tories of planning large-scale un- employment when and if they eon to power. UnemipIoyment still is the most -feared word in the lan- guage of England. "The Conservatives have ob- viously gained some ground since Britain's latest trouble came out in the open. Nevertheless few shrewd Britons would yet give even money on a Tory victory. Indeed many businessmen who ordinarily would like to see the Conservatives in power fear this would soon be fol- lowed by labor troubles. That is why they are talking again of a national government, perhaps head- ed by Sir Stafford Cripps. Yet this remains a very doubtful prospect. "Now that they have had time for reflection, some thoughtful Britons are beginning to say that the origins of the high-cost area in which Britain's economy now finds itself stranded go back at least two decades before the present Socialist regime. The seeds of trouble were planted in the 1920s when the In- dustrialists thougiht it safer and easier to take their profits out in dividends rather than maintain and improve their capital equipment. The future was uncertain, labor was restless, and the owners on the whole were afraid to take risks. The few who did—including the Cunard Line, the builder of the Queens—are now in a position to compete with anyone in the world. The others are not." Other Papers Pull Boners Too Sounds Just a Shade Messy From Warren (Ill.) 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