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The Brussels Post, 1953-7-8, Page 3inealvert SPORTS coquiiiN r e .f ;`f , • It was seventeen years age this a G' , week — the exact date was June 22, 1936—that Joe Louis became champion ,F heavyweight boxer of the world, by Efi knocking out James J, Braddock i11 eight rounds at Chicago, The loser thus holder became the fourth former world's title- } who fell before the dynamite exploding In the fists of the Brown Bomber, Before that, Primo Camera, Max Baer and Jack Sharkey all had been toppled by the dead- pan Negro, It's silly, in the writing game, to deal in superlatives. Joe Louis may not have been the greatest heavyweight champion that the ring ever has known. Anybody that says he was runs himself .right into a lot of argument from the monsoatersncl Corfbett n Or' allntheeway, back to those whotthink' We ring never has seen the equal of John L. Sullivan. But there was this much about Joe Louis. The ring never knew a champion who had 'more enthusiasm for his job, Maybe it wasn't in his face, because he was strictly a dead- pan fighter. But it was in his work, in his quids knockout victories. He had the Dempsey flair, and the Dempsey con- trolled savagery for that. Louis took only a round to dispose of opponents like Max Scluneling and John Ilenry Lewis, and after that any- body might think that Joe would ease up a little when he. came up with a soft touch. But there were no soft touches hi Joe's book. They were all fighters trying to knock his brains out if they could. So he walked into them and knocked them, all out. This observer saw Louis when he was, possibly, at his peak;' a night in 1935 when he made Max Baer quit in four rounds. Louis was that night a tighter to strike fear to the heart cif any ,opponent, even before he raised a glove. Be- cause he was so coldly, so utterly indifferent to his opponent. Louis was first in the ring that night. He dropped into his chair, and looked up at a, plane that was circling above the stadium. Baer entered the. ring, glanced toward his opponent, But Louis didn't take his eyes from the plane. Without ex- pression, he watched • the circling lights above. Baer, a for- mer world's champion, wasn't accustomed to being treated like this. He was plainly disturbed and nervous. For he was confronting a sphinx, an unknown quantity that seemed to exude a cold, lethal threat. He was being ignored. And from that moment, before a blow was struck, before the impassive and sombre Louis had moved from his corner, Baer was a beaten man. The fight itself was merely a matter of effi- ciently conducted routine, I saw Louis again. Louis at the end of the trail, Louis in his thirties, fighting a young, clever Ezzard Charles, a Louis whose reflexes had faded whose fists no longer carried lightning. In his prime, Louis would have knocked out Charles in a few rounds. But this was a Louis stumbling against the barrier 01 athletic age, whose fists 'weren't fast enough to do what his brain commanded, a Louis at trail's end. Your comments and suggestions for this columnwi lbe welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St, Toronto. Calvtrt DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO ..Plain Horse Sense.. by EOE ELLIS Ever since the beginning of the last war Canada's farm im- plement industry has had boun- tiful years. During the war it was armament that kept the fac- tories busy on such a scale that farm machinery had to take sec- ond place. With the end of hostilities the industry was ready to swing into full production of agricultural implements and took all possible advantage of the situation. Pro- ductivity increased to such an extent that 12 per cent more em- ployees produced 160 per cent more goods in the six years from 1995 to 1950. Profits Up The industry, however, did not follow the sound old principle that with reduced cost per unit the selling price should be re- duced accordingly. Quite to the Contrary prices were jacked up with the result that by 1950 the share of wages and salaries in the farm machinery dollar (at the plant) was down to 28.9 per 'cent from 92.4 per cent in 1945, while gross operating profits had increased from 9,9 per cent in 1945 to 16.8 per cent in 1950, ac- cording to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Caught in Squeeze To replace wornout machinery and to make up for the shortage of help farmers have been buy- ing heavily in the post-war years. They have paid "cash and signed notes for the machines and implements they simply had to have to get their work done and are deep in debt to the com- panies, • In the past 18 months they were caught between the high prices they had to pay for every little bit they were buying and the falling prices of their own products. Buying and selling„ they were dealing with large cor- porations who carried on. their businesses after the principle "I will get all the market will jus- tify me getting." Put On Pressure The effects of this price and profit policy are now becoming evident. The chickens are com- ing home to roost. The compan- ies have priced themselves put of the Market and sales have fallen off to so low a point that already 4000 workers had to be dismiss- ed. This is bound to draw, wider circles and will affect basic steel, rubber and others, causing unem- ployment and in turn decreased consumption of farm products which means more surplusesand lower prices. Farmers might do well to put more pressure behind the 'de- mand of the Interprovincial Farm Union Council, submitted on March 16, 1953, to the federal government for "either a parlia- mentary commission of enquiry on farm implement costs, distri- bution prices, etc:; or that an in- vestigation be ordered by the combine investigation committee of these farllt implement compan- ies' operations." This column welcomes sug- gestions, wise or foolish,. and all criticism, whether constructive or destructive and will try to answer any question. Address your letters to Bob Ellis„ Box 1, 123 • 18th Street, New Toronto,. Ont, Doorman—Policemon Leonard Micharlsen is quite happy to de- monstrate the "open door policy" when the person involved is someone as attractive as Betty Weisinger. The ladycaught her head in a subway turnstile, as seen above, and Patrolman Micharlsen of the police emergency squad, freed her. When The ,Dutch Had Tilted Maps Wind and water were the chief help -mates of the Duteh in the days when man had not yet learned , to harness steam and electricity in his service. The wind blew into the sails elhips and mills and kept comrheree and industry in perpetual 'mo- tion, the water supplied the routes of conveyancer Railways and aviation have increasedthe. speed but not, the reliability of transpprtatien.. . On the inland waterways the youth of- Holland and Zeeland got their first 'thrill of navigation. A trip in the trekschuit was for many a little boy the beginning of a seafaring career. To • pass from the canal barge onto a sea- going vessel, to change the watery groove through the low pasture land fpr the trackless ocean was the ambition of many a young.Dutcbman, Jan Huygen van Linschoten, one of the great navigators of the late sixteenth century, wrote to his parents, "Day and night I think of no- thing -else but travel in foreign lands; , ., there is no worse waste of time than for a young fellow to hang around in his mother's' kitchen like a dolt who is ignor- ant of what there is to be seen in the world." "East West, Home best" is the popular saying. . , The young did not agree with it, They went not only east and west, theysailed as readily to the Arctic and and the tropics. Still, north and south do not figure in' the proverbial lore of the Dutch: The saying -must date from that early period when Dutch commercestill hugged the coasts .of -western. Europe and shuttled' back and forth between east and west, that is, the har- bors 431 the Baltic and Portugal. For they called 'the trade' with the countries around the Baltic Sea the eastern trade and that with England, France, and Por- tugal the western trade. Early map makers placed the map of the Netherlands with the coastline facing north, their mo- dern successors make it, face west; in other words, the projec- tion on the page has been turned round to the left a full quarter of the dial. A modern school Brown Out Dims Yankees—This is a family scene of the St. Louis • Browns' happiness boys who took a 3-1 victory over the New York Yankees in New York and (a) halted the Yankee 18 -game winning streak as it tottered on the edge of a record, and -(b) ended the Browns' 14 -game losing streak. Left to right are; Vic Wertz, who hit a 2 -run homer; Johnny Groth who got three hits; Duane Piilette, the winning pitcher; and Marty Marion, the playing manager. child learns to call west and east what was south and north to his forbears; yet many topographical names that he nnlst learn by heart are intelligible only in the light of the early map -makers' wisdom. On present-day school snaps the North Sea appears west of Holland, and the Zuiderzee, which means southern sea, ap- pears east; on the old maps their positions are in accordance with their names. 'When a burgher of Leyden walks out of the city in the direction that the modern cartographer calls west, he leaves it by a street called Noor- deinde (north end); The Hague counts among its chief thol ough- fares a Westeinde (west end) which in the modern school at- las is shown to run south; and the sea which the Dutch call Oostzee (east sea) is not to be looked for in the Orient but is none other than the Baltic,— From "The Pageant of Nether- lands History," by Adrian J, Barnoww. PORT. �/ /a SLXBITC Nowadays most folks take sports pages — anti' sports col- umns — pretty much for granted, and many of the younger fans might find it hard to believe that there' was a time, not too long ago, when sports news — such as it was — would be scattered throughout a paper instead of be. ing all hunched in one section, * e * Here in Canada we give the late H. J. P. Good — father of the lamented former sports wri- ter Charlie Good — credit for being the first to put all the sports items together. Over in the States the pioneer was Ri- chard Kyle Fox, who emigrated from Ireland to New York back in the 1870's, practically penni- less, and took a job selling ad- vertising for the Wall Street Journal and then for the National Police Gazette, The latter printed on pink paper as some oldsters will recall — was on the verge of bankruptcy and Fox, by taking shares of stock instead of cash, by 1876 Was boss of the affair. • * , t= Ensconced as publisher, F o x revolutionized the Police Gazette with a series of daring ideas, at least 'two of which became em- blazoned in history. First, he hired several outstanding artists, who adorned his stories with some of the most magnificent Woodcuts ever to -appear in a periodical. These were the fore- runner of the fabulously success - f u 1 modern tabloid (picture newspaper), + a * Next, Fox had a hunch people really were interested in sports, despite the highly disorganized state of athletic activity. He esta- blished a regular sports section in the Gazette, a feature which was then totally unknown in the daily newspapers and magazines Prize fighting was illegal in 1880, "Yet when a match was made . between Joe Goss and heavyweight champion Paddy Ryan that y e a t, Fox assigned several artists and reporters to give the fight full coverage. * 5 o Felt's hunch paid 011 handsonie- ly,'After the big flout, the Police Gazette had the only full account, replete with vivid ringside pic- tures which attracted more at- tention than the Garfield . Van - cock presidential campaign! rot weeks, the Gazette presses kept rolling to fill the demand. Cireu- lation doubled ... and Fox prov- ed in dollars and sense that the people were hungry for sports news, * 5 * To compete f o r circulation, other journals began assigning reporters to sports events. From the ranks of these men calve the sports experts and the columnists. But it was Fox and the Police Gazette who fathered the mo- dern sports page, * * r This is one of the little-known milestones of sports which is brought to light in the 278 nos- talgic pages of "The Pictorial His- t o r y of American Sports," by John Durant and Otto Bettman, which has just been published. a * * "The Pictorial History of American Sports" covers each period in sports history, even through pleases of bizarre pas- time like gander -pulling, skittles, animal -baiting, turkey racing, roque and stoole ball. The book, whose basic appeal is much like t h. a t of the vividly illustrated Police Gazette, has a host of sports collectors' items. 5 5 4 For instance, did you know that in 1929 the New York Sun pub- lished its All-American football t e a m, listing only ten men? Bronko Nagurski of Minnesota made it both as tackle and full- back, Also, in case you wince in re- collection of the 104 degree heat that felled Sugar Ray Robinson in his title bout against Joey Maxim last year, just hearken back to the 120 degree conditions at the heavyweight championship fight July 8, 1889 at Richburg, Miss., between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain. That blistering fight -to -a -finish went 75 rounds, lasting 2 hours and 16 minutes before Sullivan kayoed his foe to win the $10,000 National Police Gazette championship belt plus the $20,000 stakes. This bout is pictured in the Durant-Bettman volume, and listed as the only existing photograph of a bare - knuckle prize fight. * * 4 Baseball and America are as closely associated as ham and eggs, or apple pie and coffee. Yet the "Pictorial History" points out that there is only one purely American sport — that's basket- ball. This game, which has sup- planted soccer as the most popu- lar sport in the world today, was the brain -child of one man, the Canadian Dr. James A. Naismith. Canadian Pageant .Amazed Champlain Some day, I regret to predict, the circuit of St. John will be one of the world-famous drives on our picturesque planet. The small segment which conducted me along cliffs ofe,gray Archaean rock that raised one high above the lake„was an avenue of sere- nity. To the sunsetward. ver- milion lights from late afternoon poured between the birches; on the lake -hand was stillness, as the earth , . , assembled for the vesper ceremonial. I coasted and came, with here and there a dun cottage in some trees, to the beach at Pointe Bleue, where, all unanticipated, another world awaited, the world of the woods Indian from the North. The beach was dotted with encamp- ments. No one had told me of this. I have seen Indians on reser- vations, on basket -selling er- rands, in paid -for -in -advance dance, in circuses, and have stared at them—possibly beyond my money's worth. On this even- ing beach, I could no more have done that than I could have stalked up to Paderewski and asked to look at his hair. For these people were real, entitled to as much freedom from intru- sion as, say, a novelist in his work -room. So I walked fur- ther along and sat down beneath a birch to .get a permissible fill of the scene. It was the sunset hour. From each group of tents blue smoke rose in a pearly column to a lazy heaven. Corpulent squaws, almost as dark as the kettles they were tending, bended and stirred and threaded their steps fwoods,loNes//,e"/4Brebdenherg gate '" &resorts.amola blvd ' Poisdamer plolz rSrilish,U.S ,Soviet nector 4- ,• �/,.rte .s'•�„cf%' SOVIET ZONE ' )�RlTISH0NE/—!s Pork 020*, rwooded. 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It was a sight belonging to any century these three past For since the founding of the Hud-.. son's Bay Co. in 16'70, the an- nual custom of the Indians has been to congregate about the post during the months of early summer... . I had now grown accustomed to looking out on Lake St. John for beauty. Even during the im- perceptable progress of these summer days, which were dry- ing out the forest mosses in their ardor, I had caught unseen hands arranging unfamiliar colors on the monotony of waters. But that evening the dark was being wel- comed with special prepara- tions... . Out of the hyacinth west came two canoes, marching beneath that close, curt stroke like liv- ing things. It was another fam- ily arriving. The front canoe car- ried a young man, two children, a squaw and papoose in lap, one dog, and the father. The other was propelled by two young men, and had a load of duffle, a bundle of probably furs, and two dogs. Also two guns. 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