The Seaforth News, 1955-11-03, Page 7THE Calvert SPORTS COLUMN
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• in Prince Edward island's Garden of
the Gulf, quiet Scottish tempers and
normal blood -pressures rise whenever
Joe O'Brien is described as a native. of
New Glasgow, N.S., which he often is
by major news services.
For Joe O'lsrien, top driver in harness
racing's Roaring Grand, was born in Alberton, P.E.1,
it was something of a coincidence that, in this Cen-
tennial Year of the island province, Joe O'Brien drove the
long -striding Scott Prost to victory in the llambletonian,
richest of all trotting stakes.
New Glasgow, the sporting little town on the east coast
of Nova. Scotia, probably deserves an assist, or some other
credit -mark. in the background of little Joe. It was to New
Glasgow he went after he left home, weighing 100 pounds.
with $2.00 in his pocket, and took over Dudey Patch, an
11 -year-old, that was owned by the Duclev Patch Club. and
so was a sort of community horse.
O'Brien cured this horse of quitting by kindness and
drove him to the Canadian championship Thus he came
into national attention ,for the first time. Little Joe now
Weighs 135 pounds and stands 5 feet 6 inches. In the United
States alone he won $1,347,485.67 1n purses, not including the
racing successes of the present year.
Sep Palin, a famous driver who won the Tiambletonian
with Hoot Mon when driving for Castelton Farms, wanted a
Oman who could train and drive pacers. He hired O'Brien,
and not long after, Little Joe won the $50,000 California
pace with Indian Land, He left the Palin interests, was
quickly snatched up by the wealthy Californian Sol fsemp•
went on to fame. in 1954, he drove horses into i;^nc'177 9,0
worth of purses, headed by Scott Frost, picked up at the
Yearling sales for $8,000. Scott. Frost was among the few
2 -year-old trotters to go a mile in 2.00 flat.
His dad In Alberton tells of the first race Joe ever drove,
"My own dad," said Joes's father, 'didn't race horses. But
Ise had a fine trotter and some challenges were thrown at
him. Dad wasn't interested. but Little Joe snerlre'1 the horse
out of the stable, drove .hint against one of the ehollengers
in a race on which considerable money was Ivegered —
and won it"
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Now To Bag
ABird
Here, surely, is the strangest
sport of all — shooting eagles
faxen aii aeroplane! It is some-
thing Australian woman pilot
Mrs. Charles Walton has had to
resort to in order to help a
friend whose sheep farm has
been the object of attacks by
wedge -tail eagles,
Before her marriage Mrs. Wal-
ton was Nancy Bird, one of Aus-
tralia's most distinguished we.
man pilots. Recently she was
staying at a 55,000 -acre sheep
farm at Ennis Downs, 900 miles
north-west of Brisbane,
Her hostess was bemoaning
the loss of her sheep, so Nancy
decided on an unusual course of
action. She made openings in
the side of her plane, so that
she could fire shots through it,
took to the air, and in her first
outing "bagged" four eagles. .,.
Now owners of other home-
tteads have taken up the idea.
Seven light aircraft are now op-
erated by station -owners and
their wives in the Ennis Downs
area, which now has four air-
strips, a service station, and a
fulltime aeronautical engineer.
Needed Stimulant
A familiar character on Wall
Street someyears ago was a
colorful broker named P o p
Schwed. Pop loved nothing bet-
ter than to reel 9t aproeryphal
tales of his youth in the wide-
open town of Goldfield, Nevada,
jjust after the turn of the cen-
tury, There was - one hellion
there, he recalled, who went ber-
serk every time lie had six drinks
inside of him, which was usually.
An itinerant medico persuaded
hips that if he didn't forswear
all hard liquor at once he'd be
dead inside of two months. One
evening the reformed character
was in the toughest dive in Gold-
field, disconsolately sipping a
beaker of ginger ale, when a
prospector sashayed to the bar.
pumped his faithless wife and
her paramour full of lead, shot
out the lights as a parting ges-
ture, and vanished into the night.
The paralyzed silence that fol-
lowed was finally broken by Pop
Schwed's reformed f r i e n d.
"Waiter," he barked hoarsely,
"for God's sake! A double order
of ham and eggs!"
REALIZED!
Very few of us realize our
boyish ambition. In fact a chum
of ours has. He wanted to be-
come a pirate when he was a
kid. He's now a topnotch lawyer.
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BY HER OWN BOOTSTRAPS — "Monitor" experimental craft
built under Naval contract, skims across 'Lake Mendota, on
hydrofoils. The ladder -like devices supply lift in the same fashion
as do the wings of a plane. They raise the craft about 30 inches
above the water when it is under sail. Monitor made a land
speed of 30 miles per hour under a moderate (15 miles per hour)
Wind. Her trial speed bests that of the hitherto speed -queen of
sail -the Catamaran.
Jealous Lover Set Mad Bull On Rival
A man was dismissed by his
employer, so he burned the fac-
tory down. A wife found her
husband with another woman;
she attacked her so viciously
that her victim went to hos-
pital.
Revenge!
Next to love and hate, and
possibly fear, it is the most
powerful emotion in the world.
It destroys both reason and
common sense, rouses primitive
passions which civilized beings
have learned to control. Carried
to extremes it becomes a form
of insanity. Terrible and almost
incredible are the depts to
which men and women sink
when their pride is hurt.
In a London suburb there is
a girl who was once pretty but
whose face is now disfigured
with livid scars caused by re-
venge—the Viciousness of the
young man she turned down.
For several months the two had
been on friendly terms. Then
he asked her to marry him. She
refused; he argued. At last to
placate him she agreed they
would spend a final evening
together.
On the way home he flung
vitriol in her face, miraculous-
ly without damaging her eyes.
"So much for your beauty!" he
jeered, "Now you'll never find
a husband!"
But vengeance needn't neces-
sarily take the form of violence.
A man I know was intensely
jealous of another who was ex-
tremely popular. He spread the
story„ that the object of his dis-
like had been in jail for a par-
ticularly wicked offence. A
vicious lie, but it worked. In-
stead of being welcomed as us-
ual the victim found himself
ostracized. Worried and puz-
zled, he sought the reason, and
was able to refute the horrible
accusation. But mud sticks. It
was too late to repair the
damage entirely.
One of the most frightful
tragedies of revenge occurred
in Arkansas. A farm-hand was
sacked for associating with his
employer's youngest daughter,
a girl of sixteen. He shot the
father, the mother, the girl ner
self, and her two younger sis-
ters and brother. Then he com-
mitted suicide.
In a peaceful country pub a
number of farmworkers were
playing darts. Suddenly there
was an argument. "You never
could throw straight," one of
them sneered Contemptuously.
fie was in a nasty mood, and
the man addressed was quick
to respond. "My aim is as good
as yours!" he retorted aggres-
sively.
in a second he had his an-
swer. The first man hurled 'a
dart—butnot at the board. If
caught the other player full in
the eye.
Two cowmen figured in an
even worse case of revenge.
Employed on the same farm.,
for several years they had been
close friends. Then the farm,
er's wife engaged a nen maid.
it was the old story. She was
young, pretty and very :flirta-
tious. The two men fell for her
charms, and were soon suspi.
cious of each other. The girl was
highly delighted. The situation
appealed to her vanity.
The climax came when her
two admirers were moving a
bull from one stall to another.
Normally it was reasonably
docile, as bulls go. But sud-
denly it went mad, pawed the
gound viciously, then charged
one of the men with savage
fury.
The victim was hurled into
the air, landed heavily on his
head—and died. It turned out
that the other man had deli-
berately infuriated the bull by
prodding it with a pitchfork.
A husband in a small Mid-
lands town resented — of all
things = his wife going to
church. He himself preferred
to potter around the garden or
to read the Sunday newspapers.
Occupations for which y o u
would think his wife's presence
was scarcely necessary. Yet her
churchgoing annoyed' him.
He hit on a plan. "No clothes,
no church," he thought. And so
on the following Sunday the
wife was unable to find any
suitable garments. Her husband
had hidden them in the potting -
shed.
She was puzzled and then
furious, guessed what had hap-
pened. But the husband had
underestimated a woman's de-
termination. She beat him—by
going to church in an old jumper
and a pair of slacks. Asked the
reason by her curious friends,
she told the truth. They were
sympathetic, and so was every-
body else. Her husband became
a laughing -stock,
In' a very different case the
husband received the sympathy
and the wife the contempt.
After a quarrel a Frenchwoman
decided to teach her husband
a lesson.
Whilehe slept, she sawed
partly through his wooden leg.
Going down the stairs the fol-
lowing morning the unfortunate
man felt his false limb give
way, and he had a nasty tum-
ble. At the top of the stairs the
wife laughed maliciously Others
were not amused. The wife was
scorned by her neighbours.
Then 'there was the odd affair
of the office -boy who was tick-
ed off by the senior clerk. "I'll
have my revenge, you beast,"
he muttered darkly. Easy to
taut —but how? The boy solved
the problem—or so he thought.
It was his job to fetch the tea.
He put a large dose of salts in
the senior clerk's cup.
The man took a sip, made a
grimace, then caught the office -
boy watching him, and became
suspicious. Come here!" he
growled. Then he forced the
lad to drink th horrid concoc-
tion himself—with dire results.
That revenge went wrong,
but another inspired by a sim-
ilar reason didn't. Instead it
resulted in a serious accident.
An apprentice who had come
up against . the foreman re-
moved the brake -blocks from
his bicycle. The foreman ran
into a car and fractured a leg
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ISSUE 44 — 1955
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FA I TA S
• Measure into large bowl, 1/2
c. lukewarm water, 1 tsp. gran-
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is dissolved. Sprinkle slowly
with 1 envelope Fleischmann's
Active Dry Yeast. Let stand 10
shin., THEN stir well. Scald
1 c. milk and stir in 5 tbs. granu-
lated .sugar, 2 tsps. salt; cool to
lukewarm. Add toyeast mixture and
stir. in Vacup lukewarm water. Seat
ip 3 c. -once -sifted bread flour; beat
well. Beat in 4 tbs. melted shortening.
Work in 5' c. more once -sifted bread
flour. Knead until smooth and elastic;
place in greased bowl and brush top
with melted butter or shortening.
Cover and set in warm place, free
from draught. Let rise until doubled
b bulk. Punch down dough in bowl,
grease top and let rise again until
nearly doubled, Punch down dough
and roll out, half at time, into
rectangle a scant 1/4" thick; lift
dough, cover with cloth and let
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or shortcningp cut Solo strips Eh"
wide. Pile 7 strips together; cut
into We pieces. Place cut -side up ]n
greased muffin pans'; separate slices
a little at top. Cover and let rise
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