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The Brussels Post, 1956-01-04, Page 3SHEAR PLEASURE —.Nick Luhman, 19, left, is-the, new National 4-H Club sheep-shearing champion. His sheep was shorn in 4 minutes, 46 seconds during competition at the recent Internation- al Livestock Exposition. At right, Darrell Stoops, clipped off top' honors in the professional division in 1 minuje,„ 48 seconds. Cattert, SPORTS COLUMN 3e0o4.709.444o0 No •glittering performance dotted the nuilestones of Canada's sport trail in, the year now coming to an end. There was provided no great heart-throb to, rate with Marilyn.Bell's heroic conquest of Lake Ontario, no Double Miracle Mile, nothing, in brief, that will blaze In lasting brilliance over the years. But there was plenty of good, sound, and even dramatic performance, and for a second year in succession, honours fell to the distaff side. rn the Pan-American Games at Mexico City, Montreal's Beth Whitten, 18, won the 100-metre butterfly, the 400- metre free-style and swam the third leg in the 400-metre relay race, all within half an hour, to win three gold medals for Canada against the pick, of the swimmers of two con. tinents. Another Canadian gold medalist in the Pan- American Games was Helen Stewart of Vancouver. She set three new records in the Canadian swimming champ- ionships. In the senior women's 100-yard backstroke Canada was victorious over the .,famous Washington, D.C., Walter Reed Swimming Club. Lenore Fisher, Canadian champion of this event at the last Pan-American Games, downed the U.S. swimming ace, Shelley Mann, and racked up a new mark of 1:7:2. Canada's beloved Marilyn Bell swam the English Channel. This could hardly be said to duplicate her conquest of Lake Ontario. But for sheer heroism and durability, it was a feat of high merit. From the bowing alleys of Kitchener came an almost unknown kid named Moe Norman, to compete for the Kitchener Rockaway Club in the Canadian amateur golf title meet at Calgary. He wasn't highly rated, but on a sizzling August day over the prairie city's links, he battled Lyle Crawford of Vancouver a gruelling, testing, 39-hole playoff to win the championship, Norman sets pins in a Kitchener bowling alley all winter, plays golf all summer with a rare and , complete de-, votion — 36 holes every day -- and hits at least 500 golf balls daily. The stuff Of which champions are made. We said the performances were not glittering. Perhaps we were wrong. They sound wonderful in the re-telling. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO ATOMIC CLAW — Nancy Shortreecl, tests 1.1ier skill with a "through-wall" mechanical hand for handling radio-active• sub- stances. Visitors to the International 'Ato'mic Expositibn had fun with the ohand," trying to place rings on pegs and various objects. 0,P-P .4. PIXIE — Elfin whimsey is fash- ioned into this pointed bonnet. Buttoned strips of matching felt gather the stitched panels togethee in this casual London creation. Unbuttoned, hat has a practical aspect. It folds flat for easy packing. Bet On. Horses With Big' Hearts If you Want to pick the win- ner in 1965, - you'll' need to wander round the paddock with an electrocardiograph. At any rate, an Australian veterin- ary surgeon at the. University of Sydney believes that this heart-sounding machine h a s outdated the form book. What counts now in finding the winners are 'heart capacity" and eeeedorn from heart defects or abmirmalities. The cardio- graph,can" check both. Two'e hurideed racehorses at firstciaee training stables have been cerdiegraphed. They were put into five grades according to cardiograph' results — largest heart capacity, grade one; next largest, grade two, end so on. All horses With heart defects were put into, grade ,ffee. Then these groupings were checked against performance in racing. Almost all the outstand- ing horses were those which had been placed in grades ode and two. Horses that could Win occasionally in non-major races were in grade three. Horses that might now and then win or get a place in weak company were in grade four. The grade„ five horses were also-rans. This startling report on • the electrocardiographing of race- horses revealed, incidentally, that a surprisingly high pre- portion of runners had hear weaknessee or irregularities. Loss of form may well be due to this. 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Ny, Gilbert, a man of ,violent temper .and acid wit, was 'sea* sitive 0911t, the title -Qf 0100.T.et .**, one of the many cern., is operas in. which he was asp, • elated, with Sir Arthur Sullivan,. • Meting a friend in the street One day the .conversation tools a 'Personal turn, Wow's. "bloodygore" goirt asked his friend, 'You mean •"Iittdcligore".,' cor- rected Gilbert, 'Same thing', said the other, 'Indeed?' returned Gilbert acidly, , 'When if I say I admire your ruddy ,countenance (which. I do), it means I like your bloody cheek. (which I clon1).! .• . The :same gentleman was taken to task by a friend for using the word 'coyful' in one of his opera.s. 'How can anyone be full of. coy?' Gilbert was asked, `I don't know,' he replied, 'but for that matter how can anyone be full of bash?' • Pere: is, possibly, the most cutting one of all: • When. Kaiser Wilhelm. II went - to Rome for an audience with the Pepe, he took with .him a. huge Staff (it 'glittered', of course) containing Herbert . marck, son of that famous Chane oollor who. is :generally ato4, with Iron, hut who - often behaved — :•and, J000,1,901;0' like a fOstrated. :bloodhound. In the ante chamber to V* Holiness' apartments in the were assembled Cardinale. Bishops, members. of the Court, Noble Guards *OH duty, 4114 'SA on. The Kaiser entered' followed by his suite, The greet' double dno..e to the Hall Of Audience were opened from. within.. The Kaiser .stalked through: Put When Bismarck at- tempted to follaW, the doors . were silently closed by ini01110. hands, Perhaps. the 'timing Was a bit unfortunate, Its effect was to halt Bismarck. suddenly 'end confront him with firmly shut mahogany, at a .distancebtabout • three inches, Characteristically, he corn, pletely lost his temper. He 'rat- tied on the doors with his sword hilt and kicked them with his spurred jack.-boots. At this 'a little. -old cardinal advanced and pleecl a Testrainr,. ing hand on Bistnarek'S arm,. 'But you 'don't • understand!' • exploded the • rate Dunker. 'My name is Von Bisrneeelcil" 'That', retortedethe Prince of, the Church, `explains, 'but does net excuse, your• conduct" Some Classic "Wise Cracks"? The very essence of repartee is, of course, that is should be instantaneous, Indeed the Wrench have an expression, ,,Es. grit de rescalier' — Meaning the witty crack which one would have enjoyed making but only thought of afterwards when go- ing downstairs, The following examples of repartee may not be new to you. But they seem so good as to be worth resuscitation, * Although they were sometimes at loggerheads, there is no doubt that Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler often enjoyed one ,another's company, Whist- ler's banter was inclined to get a bit acid; but they seem to have 'delighted in, their verbal fenc:- ing, and there were many bate ties of wit and wits in which Wilde, who was a good 'sort in many respect s, frequently laughed with his opppnent. Af - ter one particular brilliant sal- ly of Whistler'e, he remarked, 'James, how I wish. I had said that!" 'You will, Oscar, You, will!' an- swered Whistler, * e 4. Charles II, who was as great a diplomatist as 'Palleyrand but a far kinder man, and an even greater wit, scarcely ever took umbrage at the things his inti- mates said about. him. But he knew how to answer. John Wilmot, Earl of Roches- ter, had the sauce to write an anticipatory epitaph on Charles: 'Here ' lies a great. and mighty King Whose promise none relies on; He never said a foolish thing„ Nor ever did a wise one. Charles' riposte was annihilat- ing: 'That is very true: for my words are my own, and my ac- tions are my ministers'.' * * * We also like Charles' answer to' his capable but unpleasant beother, —James, Duke of York, who later ascended the throne as James II. He was remonstrat- ing with Charles, of whose popularity he was beastly jeal- ous, about mingling so freely with his subjects — strolling 'in Pall Mall with his buddies and his girl friends. `But my dear James', replied Charles, 'Surely you don't think anyone is going to kill me to make you King?' 4. * Now a couple of not so hi- storical one.s The late Barnett Cohen, who died. in 1927, played a great part in the development of our Com- pany. He was as generous as he was shrewd, and a contact- man — that is the right ex- pression — of genius, with hosts of friends in many different in- dustries. Indeed, stories about him still filter round to us sometimes, from South Wales in particular. Although he did not take rac- ing very seriously, he owned a few horsese at various times -- notably 'Jarvie', 'Taunting Car', 'Urgent', Golden Brick' and 'Hope'. To his utter surprise, 'Jarvie' one clay won quite a valuable race, the Victorian Cup, for which B.C. didn't think the horse had an earthly. Next day he was greeted by one of his acquaintances with the words: 'Nice pal you are! When% I have a horse that's going to I tell my friends!' 'Urn!' answered Barney, 'that wouldn't take you longi' * * On the next, occasion when 'Jarvie' was mining the saene unpleasant type, . Who happeriad to be very well-to-do, with . large, interests in the refrigera- tion and wholesale butchery trade, backed the horse heavily. But 'Jarvie', far from wit -tine, was miles down the 'Course.' When next he saw B.C. he growled: 'If I were you, Barney, I'd make catsmeat of that rotL: fen animal of yours'. 'And why' asked.' )arn y, 'should I want to cc ripete: in your business?' * * 4 W,10 When Disraeli w ' P • STRANGE TALES. OF. . • THE "SECOND SIGHT" ing from a severe heart attack. The doetor was in time to save her life. Had the little girl made up the story of the vision? Why should she have done so? It could only have caused delay in getting help. It was verified later that the girl had in fact visited the doc- tor before 'going home. This is a case where a "supernatural" explanation is more convincing than a rational one. An example of 'a vision of the - past, hitherto unpublished, comes from Burma. In 1898, a Mr: Frank Sausman took up an appointment at M o'u 1m e Another, official, Mr. Wilcox (from whose son I learned the story). engaged' a house for Mr. Sausman; and his family. The family included his mother. The day after the. Sausmans arrived, the Wilcoxes called on them to 'see if they needed help with :settling in. 'At once old Mrs. Sausman came out of her bedroom • and told of the hap- penings of the previous night. She had been awakened by a babble of voices in a fiereign tongue. She got out of bed and went. into the dining-room and saw an elderly grey-haired man sitting at the, table with a Ro- man Catholic priest. Suddenly, several men carry- ing long' knives rushed into the room and hacked the old man to death. The priest ran to. a back entrance. There he was met, by another gang of armed men and he, fee, was killed. Mrs. Sausman insisted that this was not , a, dream,• but that the house was haunted. "I am the seventh child of a seventh child," she said "and I possess second sight." ` Had anything really happen- ed in the house? The Wilcoxes had been stationed at Moulmein for several years but had not heard any report of such a mur- der., But they called on a Mrs. Wilkie, widow of a doctor and oldest. European inhabitant of Molmein. After hearing the • story she recalled the case. This double murder had hap- pened, indeed, about forty years earlier; her husband had been called in to certify the cause of death. The grey-haired man was a French contractor named Ramos, a hareh employer of native la- bel'''. One evening he .had had a stormy dispute with his Chinese carpenters, and in a rage they had returned at night and mur- dered him and a priest, whO was his guest. The murderers had been caught, tried and hanged. CLASSIFIED.ADVERTISING One day in June, 1938, a cer- tain lady was lunching in a par- ty at Lord's cricket ground. She was not at all surprised when she saw her friend Mr. E. V. Lucas going out of the dining- room door, fpr that distinguish- ed writer was a very' keen fol- lower of cricket, "Look, there's E. V. going out," she said, pointing to the door, The other members of the party: looked — but none of them saw anyone going out. , B ; the lady diner insisted that ehe saw him, and as he moved away he 'seemed to get smaller and smaller. Later the news came that Mr. Lucas had died that. day. This power Of "seeing" things, not physically visible, of look- ing intp the past Or the future; is more than an old wives" tale. For many. years it has• been an object of serious scientific study, 'with careful eliecki .to preclude the -possibility' of cheatihg. One of the, pioneers in the ex- aminetion' of E.S.P., (extrasen-' sory perception, the technical name of this ,strange power) is Dr. J. B, Rhine et Mike Univer- sity, North Carolina. For his experiments he de- vised * packs of 25 cards. Each card had one of five symbols on it: a circle, a plus sign, a rec- tangle, a star, wavy lines. A pack would be shuffled; and in the presence of witnesses' and separated :by 'a screeh, Or some- times even in different, rooms, one person would, at a given signal, turn up a card and an- other would write down or draw the symbol that he believed was on it. The process would go till the whole pack was • turned up, BABY CHICKS 'AN' OFFER to every inventor List of indentions and full Information sent free The itarnsaV Co. Regittered Pat- ent Attorneys 273 Bank 'St. Ottawa. PERSONAL and would be repeated after shuffling. Pure chance would enable the guesser to get the right symbol once in every five attempts; but. Dr. Rhine found many subjects whose success was greatly above the average. A notable example w a s Mrs. Eileen Garrett, medium who was correct 888 times in '3,525 trials over a per- iod of three days. • The odds against this happen- ing by chance are more than a billion to one. Mrs. Garrett could not call up her power et will; in later experiments she scored no more than the chance expectation of right answers, It is as well that E.S.P. is not controllable; one can easily' im agine the evil ,uses to which it cot I be put by unscrupulous persons. But here is an instance of a strange vision which proved true and beneficial. It is recorded in "Phantasms of the Living," compiled in 1886 by Edmund Gurney; F. W. H. Myers and Frank Podmore, three distinguished scholars who were among the earliest physical re- searchers in England. A girl of about ten years of age *as walking along a country lane when her sur- roundings seemed to fade away. She saw her mother lying ap- parently dead on the floor of a little-used room at home, and near her on the floor was a lace handkerchief. 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