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The Brussels Post, 1952-10-8, Page 3TNECaLvedd SPORTS COLUMN eowt 709440i. It was more annoying than funny at the time, bpt, . looking back now, we find a TUobei?taift degree of hilarity marked the end 'sit Of the Olympic Games. /ISM • Abd of all things, the laughs were pro- vided by the sombre Russians. When they •were edged out on total points by United States athletes, on the standard scoring system, they proluptly. invented their own, and proved that they were the Whitten. It was so childish, so obvl9usly in.the naive Russian mould of propaganda, that, at this distance, it's good for a chuckle. And it's psi{ notion thatthe international importance of the Olympics, as proving that any one country is physically better than another is just plain silly. Ideally; the Games are 'competitions among individuals; not between countries. Some countries have these individual stars at various times, some haven't, For popular consumption a newspaper scoreboard is kept. But triumph doesn't necessarily represent a national superiority over the countries 1 which didn't do so well.: This being so, we're ;glad the United States won the mythical ,, title. For the difference between a , Runsiap and an American over-all peinta'victory id that the Soviet' propaganda' machine would have made this a tremendous apring„board forboasting the decadence ,of the "imperialistic" ,countrie , ,as epfppared with the virility of'Staliri's empire. Am€riga will merely boast its undeniably. great -athletes -and attach no blobulsr' political significance to the outcome. Superiority in running, or jumping, or throwing weights proves nothing as indicating one nation is more virile, stronger than another. If it did, then Czecho-Slovakia would outrank all others, for they sent to the Games the greatest athlete of, Zatopek, the man who scored the umbelieveable trip% suspect that Russia went into the Gaines to prove what thelps3n ganda machines would label national superiority, and they ;a did it. We suspedt,.too, that the Soviet master -mind woui have allowed a Muscovite team to enter unless they wet sidered loaded; lest the cause of collectivism be set back b feats on athletic fields. That's the reason there developed that, childish stratagem, a re -arrangement of the scoring values, to convince the folks at home that Russia really won, but was robbed by the money -barons of Wall street. Let's forget any national significance or racial superiority that points -victory in the games might be taken to prove. Our own Canada didn't get many points in the Olympics, but we happen to think, even so, that Canada is a very swell country in which we prefer to live in preference to all others, even if we never score another Olympic triumph. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert Nouse, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTEURO, ONTARIO SFORTy w: .t. .t. b/ A Slxa1TC 1 lc A mere fourteen years ago the world's record run for the game of Snooker was 138 points—and as it stuck there for more than a decade, snooker devotees figured that it' might never go higher. That per- fection—a break of 147 — would ever be reached was almost unthink- able; for a 147 snooker break is comparable to a golfer putting to- gether a round of 18 holes -in -one. * * * Yet in all probability, before the present snooker season is over one or more of the top professionals will have made the grade. It might be Joe Davis of England, or his brother Fred. It might be the Canadian George Chenier; or it might be the veteran New Zeal- ander, Mark McConachy. As a matter of fact the latter once ac - tastily did ring up a 147 score—but, alas, when his record came up for ratification, it was found that the pockets of the table on which he played were slightly over the stan- dard width, so it didn't go down in the books. . • * * * Here, for the benefit of those who didn't misspend sufficient of their youth to' understand such things, a little explanation might be timely. Actually the game should be called Snooker's Pool, it having been in- vented by a certain Colonel Snoo- ker while serving in India. For many years the game was 'con- sidered to be just a sort of disrepu- table cousin of billiards. and it - `wasn't even allowed to be played in high class billiard rooms. But, following the end of World War One, snooker came on with such a rush that, in England now, three - ball billiards is about as rare three -headed elephant. * *" * To explain 'what is meant by the 147 break, it is necessary first of all to explain about the game of snooker. It starts with 22 balls on the table. There are 15 red, six various other colors, and one white which is always the cue ball. A red pocketed scores one point and the colors are valued yellow 2, green 3, brown 4, blue 5, pink 6 and black 7. The reds once they are down stay there but the colors are returned to the table until the last red has been put away. Then, the colors are played in order of v a 1 u e. TJs u s it is possible, by potting a maximum - registering black every time after putting down a red and then taking all the col- ors in turn, to score 147. There is another way by which 147 can be exceeded but it is regarded as too freakish to consider seriously. What has to happen is that a player has to be snookered unfairly and claim a free ball before any single one of the reds had been put down. In this way a 155 break is possible. * * * Snookering is the negative side of the game and consists of exe- cuting, or persuading your oppon- ent to execute, what are termed "foul" shots. These are too numer- ous to be enumerated here but the main ones are usually perpetrated by hitting a ball other than the one you should; missing tale objective altogether; or permitting the cue ball to enter a pocket. You can best persuade your opponent to do any onet or two of them by inter- posing a ball' between the cue ball and the ball les is required to hit. If you do this you are said to have "laid a snooker." ti 5 * Joe Davis, already mentioned, t 1, Me?—I'm Famous?- -' Paui;'i; pet mongoose who�`` belong3". fo Anthony Sheridan,., 11, of Elstrbe, England, can't quite belibve•Ite's,famous, end Anthony is a little in awe of his pet from Calcutta, India, Paul is the father. of 'the first mongoose to be born In captivity in England, and survive. "Titch," Paul's Mate, refused to come out and be photographed. Previous efforts to breed the little snake -killing anintals In captivity hove fallad:' Sola Themselves to Help Their Church The auctioneer cried, "Sold!" and the school superintendent's secre- tory became a'scruh"woman for a day, A church eider was' bought an a coal shoveler. ,A .sohoolteacher found himself sold jo .his *pother;,, in-law as a ditch digger. - These were only a few "of"a steady stream of Fisk, 85issattri, residents " who mounted the auction block and'' had their services knocked downto',' the highest, b'lider.. 'let it was all,. in fun and for a gppd cause—to help pay forthe$6p00arepair job to the First Presbyterian Church. • For years the church had been struggling 'through balre'salei, be, zaars, .rummage,Isolias and'suppecs,n to help, inset expenses, Everyone,,, was pretty. .weary of .these ofd'' stand-bys, besides,, they brougR4 t in little' money; ElderI3'ialdt Jbliy dlecid&'`lt wt time fora change, The old method,y * just couldn't raise enough to meet, the costs of the church -remodeling. There must be something else tie' church could 'sell that the towns' people would want" There must .bei something new that would arouse their interest, "We've sold just about every product we can get donated except one," he told his wife. Helen. "We've sold people's cakes, pies, covered dishes, attic castoffs and what have you. But'' we haven't yet sold their services. People who can work, who can do anything. We'll sell their skill and' their muscle to the highest bidders," Mrs. Jolly liked the idea—and so did the other elders of the church. It was cold and damp the day of the auction, but practically every- one in the town of 520 souls was on hand to buy or sell. Mostly they did both. The school superintendent's sec- retary brought $8 as a scrub woman. Elder Jolly's services as a coal' hauler and a shoveler were valued at $13. The school teacher was worth $7 to his mother-in-law. A young baby-sitter brought $4.50, as did a barber who offered six hair- cuts. Someone decided the services of a hunting -and -fishing guide were worth $13,, but a painter brought only$8. man A and his tractor went for$12 an wthe he use ofa grain stn g combine brought in $35. Paper hangers; dressmakers, handy men, carpenters, cotton pickers, cooks, bakers, electricians found their way to the auction block; flexing their muscles to prove they were able il:.. •II Series -Serious -Thomas Fleming is a New York baseball fan who was determined to keep posted on what happened to the three New York teams in the final days of the -pennant races. Via two radios and television set, Fleming saw and heard simultaneously the Giants, Dodgers and Yankees, in and out of New York City. A huge scoreboard recorded results as they came it. to satisfy the highest bidder. Two professional auctioneers did their stuff without pay. , Just to make sure that no opt., portunity was missed to collet every possible cent, a community' store was set, up and brought ,fit $37. The sale, of Christmas cardsi netted anotheC $50. One church member went around measuring thea• waists of everyone she encountered, fining them a penny for each inch-, The idea was worth $30. : ' The day's total receipts amount -is ed to $778.38, far, far more than atyft previous event bad brought into the church coffers, c e s, "It proved' a fine way to raise money for the church," Brad Jolly says. "We had a lot of fun and our'' members as well as the towns-: people who helped out were drawn, closer together," From "The Country Gentleman." Radar Eye On Speeders—Parkway police in Winchester County try out a new radar camera in clocking speeding autos. When a car exceeding the speed 'limit enters the radar beam, an electric switch is tripped and the camera takes a picture of the speeding car on 16 -mm. movie film. A case is being prepared to test the device's legality in court cases. held the world title for 20 years, raising the record point by point till it reached 138. There it remain- ed until, in 1949, good old Joe struck another digit with 141. • * * * The following year the game be- came international among the lead- ing professionals and in February of that year George Chenier, of Winnipeg, set the ivory -rolling crowd agog with a new world 'mark bg 144. But the Canuck's reign wasn't to last long. Within a month, playing against Chenier, Joe Davis rolled them for 146— just one point short of perfection. And there, unless somebody upset sit within the past ,week or so, the =record still stands. H H'earirtgith(elp 0 An abnormal 1%owtlt' of„spongy \bode 4n the ear causes one common type of deafness. Sound Waves can't ';get past the batbrier: A' delicate 'fenestration operation has been de- -%fited to cut a wigdbw in the bone so the sound' cad travel .through, Now a study .of 88 patients, S or more years Itfter the operation, shows a high rate of success, Near- ly -two thirds were pleased with the. improved hearing. 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