The Brussels Post, 1953-7-1, Page 3t,
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'Avis[ sPoRTs cotuM$
Etoteot 9e4904000
•' when a team loses, .0vhother it's in base-
katr in line lto get or the blameou , The who
' liat'a axiomatic of sport, And though
Canada is reasonably tolerant In sports
matters we've known of coaches chased
• that was good enough
out of
And lthathey curred in allathree
of the sports named.
Don't be silly, Theam players' are heo roes, wonderful guys, The
' 'coach is some unknown figure in the background who opened
and shut the gate.
p
Well, I'd like to pull a switch on tijat, For everything
-t* give
Canadiens
measure creed dit o coach theStanley
Irvin whoselt anis
h Chicago, Toronto and Montreal have missed the playoffs
only' Once In many years of leadership,
I'm giving Irvin credit because of his skill, and his daring
in benching regulars who weren't producing in the early part'
of the Chicago series and gambling on four minor leaguers and
a veteran who was considered washed up." This was the
gamble that placed the Canadiens in the Stanley Cup finals,
.'which they won,
Canadiens' "Unwanted Players,' as Irvin called them after
this team had Whipped the Bruins, 7-3, at the •Bosto Gardens
t,tosweep both games there, were Eddie Mazur, who wintered
Mackay 'Victoria om BUffSIOhe e inrn the AmericanrLeague;sanddCalusn
veteran
Ken Mosdell. The fourth minor leaguer was goaler Jacques
* Plante who served the coach's ,purpose by helping to win 2
games, one a shutout.
"Nobody wanted these players in Montreal," Irvin de-
clared. The press and the fans were against, them, But my
regulars weren't producing. Besides, they were small. So I put
in that quartet, adding 574 pounds of beef to my team, and
it turned the tide."
in
fellow to
right he's quick to make changes,
He benched hiat. If s three regular
left-wingers, Paul Meger, Dick Gamble and Bert Olmstead.
In their places he put Mazur, Mackay and Dickie Moore, a
promising youngster who missed most of the season with a
knee injury.
There was a little more to it than that. Irvin watched
everything. He juggled the team. When a player looked hot,
he shot the player into action. He made up lines as he went
along. He gambled on freezing Gerry McNeil's injured ankle
in the first game of the final series at Boston.
Irvin proved a master strategist, and I'm very happy, 1n
the midst of all the bouquets being tossed at the players, to
hang one on the lapel of the forgotten man, the Coach.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge S1., Toronto.
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Criminals Blame Influence of the Moon
"lie seems to go off the rails
when the moon is full," a bar-
rister said recently, defending a
man in court on a charge of
housebreaking.
"He gets this moon trouble,"
his wife told the court, "He acts
very strangely and goes off for a
week at a time. It always happens
at moon time,"
Life Giver—Afflicted since birth
with an incurable stomach dis-
order, Je'wel Penley, 9, lives
on milk. When her tow 'died re-
cently, her father was unable to
buy another. The cow, seen
above, is a prize Jersey which
was awarded the little girl when
she wrote to a notional radio
program.
The man concerned had been
to prison nine times did served
e period of corrective training.
But the Bench was obviously
impressed by the possibility that
under the influence df the moon
he acted against his better
nature, for they put him on pro-
bation.
Is it possible for the full moon
to have some strange unexplain-
ed effect on some people, making
them commit irresponsible acts?
Bloodlust
Scientists and most doctor s
laugh at the idea as mere super-
stition. Yet the word "lunatic,"
originating thousands of years
ago and meaning "moon -struck",
suggests men long ago noticed
a connection between the moon
and mantel instability. The belief
has persisted through the cen-
turies. And if the scientists
pooh-pooh the idea, the police
know better. Whenever there is
senseless and motiveless, you
will find them particularly alert
at the time of the full moon.
Again and again it has been
found that attacks on girls in
certain areas have taken place in
"waves," coinciding with the
phases of the moon.
At one period before the war,
one area of Surrey was alarmed
by a series of such attacks. In
every case the police noted that
the attack took place at the time
of the full moon.
"This is because the attacker
can see his victim better and
escape more easily," said the
scientists. But the police authori-
ties expressed the view that the
man had fits of bloodlust coin-
ciding with diff'e'rent phases of
the moon, ,
Maye He's Part Monkey—This Puerto Rican horst! likes to eat,
bananas, which, according to the book, horses•do not do, but.
maybe he didn't read the book.The horse, named "Coco," will
go to almost any extreme to get his favorite fruit, as shown in
the picture. His owner is Victor Ortiz Perez, shown astride his pet.
Siot,Macbin s Are
By No Means New
Latest thingTin Act machines
is one guaranteed, to cure, a hang*
over. It comes from the U,S,A„
and when a"coin is inserted It
gives t114 customer' a" tett-second
whiff of pure .oXygell,
Just as- ingenigl}s is the fish
machine. installed,. on the rail of
the sea -lion pond at the London
Zoo: 'When' the money was drop-
ped It ga've'l[. lbw bleat to attract
the.',sea-lions bud then shot Out
three,fish 1p; quick succession; The
searf R.ps quickly , learned the
signal and would .catch the fish .
before they "even touched the
water.
There is nothing new about
slot machines, A Creek ,scientist
named Hero, who lived two thou-
sand years ago! invented the first
of them. When a coin was drop-
ped into his contraption it tilted a
balanced bar, opening a valve
that gave out small amount of
holy water,
This invention is the basis of
a business which last year sold
over a billion dollars worth of
goods. '
Some slot machines on, the Con-
tinent sell as many as seventy
separate items—anything from
' first=aid, kits to snuff. Mainly
they are used by shopkeepers
for selling after hours,
In Denmark, for example, slot
Machines are regularly wheeled
out at closing -time. Bakers, fish-
mongers and fruiterers each have
their own.
In the United States you can
even buy a ready -cooked meal
from a slot machine, with three
items on an aluminum plate. You
have .a choice offourteen meat
courses, four kinds of potatoes,
and eleven other vegetables.
Machines which sell books,
newsl3apers and magazines are
proving popular. A. new line be-
ing,,,developed is a machine . to
sell groinophone records,. ,
Sweet Sailing—Flying through the air with graceful gestures
is
pretty Shirley Cawey of London, England. Seen above, competing
in a broad jump, she was one of the many contestants at the
Sward Trophy meet in London's Polytechnic Stadium.
Manufacturers in the United
States had to learn how to pro-
tect their machines from vandal-
ism. Early slot machines could
sometimes be made to drop all
their merchandise at once.
To -day's machines are almost
foolproof. When a coin drops it is
automatically weighed and tested
by at least three different gadgets:
Evidently it isn't only on this
side of the Atlantic that the sport
of hockey—or "duck -on -the -rock -
on -ice" as some prefer to call the
modern variety—is taking a bit,
of a kicking around. Prom dear
on' Lunnon comes a dispatch by
Sydney Skilton which goes to
show that all is not so hot in the
Old Country for Conn Smythe's
favorite pastime. And as any
news from over there that is not
embellished with upper -bracket
p o rt r alt s is something of a
change, here is the dirt as dish-
ed out by Brother Skilton,
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Ice hockey that has flowered
so colorfully asa spectacle in
the English sporting scene now
has a withered look, This has
happened because, in spite of the
gay bloom, it has no real ropts
in English soil. And even less
likelihood of establishing them
as a result of recent develop-
ments. r + a
At a meeting here in London
of promoters of teams compris-
ing the National League it was
agreed that English ice hockey
cannot in future be conducted
on methods prevailing in season
1952-53. Rising costs and falling
attendances wrought a financial
crisis. It means that Canadians
in .large numbers are not likely
to be transported across the At-
lantic next season.
• e
It also means that tice hockey
will be relegated even further
down the rink owners' scale be-
cause the stuff served by English
amateurs Who are the only ones
available to fill the vacancies,
lures about as many watchers to
the ice stadia as village crick-
eters would to Lord's or The
Oval.
English ice hockey as fur-
nished by the aces from Canada
who, as "Great Britain," won the
world and Olympic champion-
ships in 1936,1= has been a great
success as a spectacle. But in the
last couple of years or so it has
been Out-speetacled by the mam-
moth "icecapades" from U.S.A.
They have drawn capacity
crowds for theice rinks night
after night and week after week.
Summer shows now are increas-
ingly fashionable, Thus ice
hockey has had to fit in as best
1 could during intervais 'be-
tween this glacial glamor. (Bor-
rowers Note. Just like Madison
,Squats ,Garden,. - what?).. And
that it has not done so with a
great deal of success is reflected
by the judgment of the rink
owners and;the attentions of the
publie. * 4
Icor a number Of years there
" has been a gentlemen's agree-
ment among the National League
rinks not to spend more than
in the region of £250 a week on
their imported Canadian play-
ers. But in order to retrieve their
fortunes and revive public ap-
peal some of the rinks want
greatly in excess of that. Even
so, one well known arena with
a highly successful playing rec-
ord in the season recently ended,
reports being well in the red,
* * *
At their get-together the pro -
motors are understood to have
discussed future policy in an
agenda ranging from giving .up
the game entirely to a 20 per
cent all-round cut in expenses.
Claude Langton of London's Em-
press Hall rink told one reporter,
Ice hockey players, drawing
3,000 people, are getting twice
what footballers receive for pull-
ing 50,000, (English professional
footballers average £14 per
week.) The danger is that three
or four rinks may give up the
struggle, and that will be the
end of ice, hockey here.
* * *
"We have to find," went o
Mr. Langdon, "a remedy before
the season' begins in September.
Costs must be cut drastically, ex-
pensive -Canadians must go, and
there must be more encourage-
ment for English players " An-
other meeting.is to be held soon.
o * *
Encouraging home talent has
been a policy diligently pursued
by the British Ice Hockey Asso-
ciation ever since fellow .mem-
bers of the world federation suc-
cessfully protested in 1938 against
the use in world, Olympic and
European championships of pQlay-
Canadian Envoy -Arnold D. P.
Heaney, 81•year-old Montreal
lawyer, has been named new
Canadian Ambassador 10 the
U,S. Heeney has served as Can-
adian representative to the
North Atlantic Council.
ers who although Englishborn
had learned their game in Can-
ada.
w +
But the policy -although warm-
ly approved everywhere in prin-
ciple has been subject to the
caprices of the rink owners who,
not unnaturally, have put their
biggest money -earning attrac-
tions first. With all the good will
in the world they have just- been
unable tothelp.amateur talent to
the extent they would like to
nor even to the extent they did
before rocketing costs and heavy
haxation sliced their margine.
Thus the young Englishman
finds himself very small fry in
the ice hockey world and only
the utlra-enthusiastic persist.
The youngster probably becomes
a member of one of the junior
teams operated by the local rink
and usually he performs on a
Sunday afternoon or at some
other time whehn the ice is not
required for major play prac-
tice or "icecapade" rel}earsals
and at a time when nobody
could care less about watching
hockey. * * *
In these far from encouraging
circumstances the youngsters at-
tempt to emulate their heroes
from
stick. Of those who do theyually
toeonly a
very few make the grade, the
vast majority prove deficient, not
through inexpert instruction, but
through lack of skating ability
required to make a high-grade
he-man puck chaser.
One -Rail Railroads
The early steam locomotives
caused much consternation in the
Press of that day. How was it
possible, Claimed one article, for
a human to pass through a tunnel
travelling at a speed of 'fifteen
miles per hour without suffering
severely from nose bleed due to
reduced air pressure.
The years passed and iron -clad
monsters clicked the rails at
speeds of 100 m.p.h. Recent rail
disasters clave caused fresh con-
sternation, and now in Germany
the working model of a new super
express has been completed.
This train will certainly tor-
ment the timid, for it is expected
to travel at 210 m.p.h. and on
only one rail. The sides of the
vehicle drape over the 19% -inch -
high rail bed and so keep it steady
on the track.
Mono railways, as these single
tracks are called, Can either have
the rail placed below or above
the vehicle.. The U.S.A. plans to
run an overhead stretch between
Los Angeles and Long Reach,
Speeds of over 200 'm.p.h. are
hinted at,
The method has been proved
safe by the famous overhead
mono railway between Barmen
and Elberfaeld, in Germany. Built
at the beginning of the century,
it has carried 500,000,000 passen-
gers at speeds of 125 m.p.h., and
there have been no fatal acci-
dents.
The L,N,E.R. erected a stretch
of overhead mono rails near
Glasgow before the -war. The cars
were driven by air screws and
were designed to travel et 100
m,p,h.
Louis Brennan invented are
markable mono railway worked
on a gyroscopic system. In the
gyro -car the gyroscope Conveys
its own powers of balancing and
thus keeps the 'cute upright,
No one really knows why these
excellent ideas have not been de-
veloped, except that it would be
difficult to salvage the vast
amount of capital sunk in two-
line railway systems,.
Me 12 lbs. ,Of Sugar
lifter
What eat? When then Spam! h
champion strong Men Aguerre,
lifted a granite block weighing
350 ib, 78 times in, three ten-
minute rounds recently, be ate
12 lb. of sugar while performing.
Afterwards hesatdown to an
enormous five -course lunch, in
which figured large quantities of
meat, The lunch was paid for by
some of the fifteen thousand
people who had watched his feat.
His nearest rival Was a strong
elan named Garachabal, who lift-
ed it 66 times., Aguerre received
$3,500 prize money and many of
his fans who had backed him to
win came away richer by hun-
dreds of dollars. .
The Spaniard's feats fall far
short of that achieved by London-
born Thomas Topham;' who once
lifted three barrels filled with
water weighing in all 1,836 lb.
They were slung together' in the
shape of a clover ',leaf, the end Of
the sling being passed over Top-
ham's head to rest across the back
of 'the neck.
Topham once found a watch
man fast ellen in his box. picking
up box and sleeper, the strong
man fast asleep in his box.Picking
placed the box on the wall of a
churchyard and left it -there with
the watchman still sleeping
peacefully inside!
Duck!—Chicago spectators scat-""
ter in the right -field bleacher
section as a home run heads
their way:Hit -by. ^Ed Matthews
of the Milwaukee -.Braves, the
ball tops the wall as Chicago
Cube' player Preston Ward
watches.
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