The Seaforth News, 1955-11-17, Page 7tHE4a6vtrt SPORTS COLUMN
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• When Jolly Jack Adams, for 29 years
leader of Detroit's powerful hockey
forces, swept through his Stanley Cup
champions of this year, and traded oft
half a dozen of them including his
fabulous gooier, Terry Sawohuk, casual
hockey fans wondered if he wasn't
wrecking a great machine.
But owners and leaders of competitive teams uneasily
tightened their belts and donned their armor to cope with
the new Red Wing dynasty, knowing full well that the
shrewd, and daring Adams makes few, if any errors in his
re -building programs. Almost invariably he comes up with
something better than before.
Jack Adams knows his hockey from the ground up.
Late in the season of 4917-18 the Fort William native broke
into the new National League with Toronto Arenas and his
debut came amid stormy scenes. The Arenas were playing
off for the League title with Montreal Canadiens in a 2 -game
series. The Toronto team won the first game on home ice 7-3.
Canadiens believed they could make the Arenas quit and
overcome the 4 -goal deficit on Montreal ice. into this situ,
ation, fraught with possibility of mayhem, came the tow.
headedyoungAdams. Arenas survived a rough, slugging
game, Adams scored two goals, and Arenas went on to win
the Stanley Cup from Vancouver.
Adams is a man of many facts. Jack the Jolly can turn
has achieved iri Detroit. It is the United States capital of
the hockey world, and Adams invariably has teams not' only
of efficiency, but colour, His teams have won the National
League title eleven times, including seven straight up to
1954-55, and the Stanley Cup seven times.
Adams is a man of many facts. Jack the Jolly can turn
into a grim fighter.Conversely, he is a man of deep religious
convictions ,and practice. Ile abhors foul language and once
fined a player for swearing, bonused another to keep his
epithets silent. Above all, he's a master craftsman in the
business of building champion hockey clubs,
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge Si., Toronto.
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This Was Before
The Age of Speed
j(t is highly amusing now to
lead, in -the diaries of someof
those grave and quaint men of
the olden time, Of the misfor-
tunes and adversities that befell
them in their occasional pere-
ations. Thoresby, the well -
own antiquary, piteously re-
lates how he was in danger of
losing his way on the ancient
North road (one of the best in
the kingdom), and how he ac-
tually did lose himself between
Doncaster and York. The court-
ly and eccentric Pepys, together
with his wife, travelling in
their own carriage, Iost their
way twice in one short tour,
euid on the second occasion nar-
rowly escaped the penance of
Sassing a comfortless night on
alisbury plain. The condition
of the roads was often frightful,
especially after a fall of rain,
when travellers were sometimes
delayed for a week . It was
Only in fine weather, even in
the 17th century, we were in -
/Armed by the most delightful
of modern historians, that the
whole breadth of the road was
available; icor wheeled vehicles.
Often the mud lay deep on the
right and left, and only a nar-
row track of firm ground rose
above the quagmire... .
Let us next see what ideas
these ancient islanders had
about long journeys, and what
was the Ordinary rate at which
they were accustomed to travel.
Many of our readers will call
to mind the boyish wonder and
awe with which they were wont
to listen to the reminiscences of
some ever memorable jourrkey-
ing exploit performed more
than half -a -century before by
some venerable village patri-
arch, or city Methuselah; the
months he had spent in antici-
pation, and the weeks in anxious
prparation; how he had• gone
about taking tender and dolor-
ous farewells of friends and
neighbours; , ,
Why, twenty miles were
deemed a good day's progress
in those lethargic times, even
when traversing the choicest
roads. In the reign of Charles
II, the stagecoach which ran
between London and Oxford
squired two days for a jour-
ney which is now effected in
about two hours on the Great
Western line. The stage to Ex-
eter occupied four days. Even
so recently as 1703, when Prince
George of Denmark visited the
stately mansion of Petworth
with the view of meeting
Charles III of Spain, the last
nine miles of the journey took
six hours. Several of the car-
riages employed to convey his
retinue were upset. An unf- "tu-
nate courtier in attendance com-
plains that, during fourteen
hours, he never once alighted,
except when the coach over-
turned, or stuck in the mud.
Think of this, and learn to be
grateful, ye modern grumb-
lers at slow trains! — From
"Tait's Magazine," 1852.
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To Get You Up
Can you get up easily in the
morning:>, If not, you need a
super alarm clock like Ted
Mahon has invented.
Steel -worker Ted was losing
$3 'a week by being late for
work or missing a shift because
he couldn't get up in the morn-
ing. Now he has provisionally
patented a new -type alarm that
whisks the bedclothes off his
bed.
"It's the complete answer to
absenteeism," says Ted. "And I
reckon it's saving me $150 a
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The alarm sets off an electric
motor that draws in the strings
attached to his bedding. It's as
simple as that. Yet all through
the centuries men • have. been
inventing --and sleeping through
gadgets to help them out of
bed,
The Greeks had a sun -clock
that doused the sleeper with
water. King Alfred, it's said,
failed to hear an alarm bell, so
he used to keep a night candle
burning that ultimately set fire
to a bundle of straw. His sense
of danger, he found, proved the
surest alarm . of ail,
In New York recently claimed
a cruelty divorce because her
husband insisted on using a tip-
ping device that threw them
ottt of their double bed
A man claimed a divorce be-
cause his wife deliberately
alarmed him every morning by
planting her habitually cold
feet in the middle of his back.
Switch -on alarm radios and
tea -making sets have become a
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a super -alarm, gently arousing
the sleeper by bringing him . to
a sitting position.
A Boli,mian cleckmaker in-
vented a lullaby clock to put
people to sleep with a gentle
tune on a musical box --and in
the morning, by way of con-
trast, the
on-trast,'the same clock set off a
Now To Play 'Squash'
That's what you'd learn if you played opposite Herb Diedrich,
Dundee high school's 335 -pound junior -year menace. Sports
good firm which outfits him says he wears the largest football
uniform ever made—a claim nearly as hefty as is Herb. Sta-
tistics: Size 62 jersey, 56 pants, 7% helmet. And all this moun-
tainous threat to the opposition is hung on a five-foot, eight -
inch frame.
world commonplace since the
war. But, as long ago as 1830,
a Northumberland farmer had
a home-made alarm clock work-
ing a bellows to liven the ashes
of the fire and heat a kettle of
water. The 1851 Exhibition had
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Nor could anyone sleep
through a campaign clock used
in 1815 that awoke the sleeper
by igniting a charge of gun-
powder.
No one knows who invented
the first alarm clock. But the
Romans had a water -clock that
pulled a cover off a bird -cage,
automatically awakening the
sleeper with bird -song.
Knock -out Drops
One of the less endearing
habits of those who Jive outside
the law is the practice, adopted
by some of them, of putting
goof -pills, Yen Shee, or just
plain knockout drops in a drink
intended for a victim.
The practice is as old as crime
and is constantly recurring. The
methods and ingredients are
various and exotic, ranging from
the ancient method of dropping
snuff into the vietim's beer to
the administration of a modern
drug.
One of the oldest methods is to
lace a dring with laudanum.
This was used by Burke and
Hare who stupefied their victims
before suffocating them and sel-
ling the bodies to medical stu-
dents. In 1839, John Stewart, of
Edinburgh, and his wife were
executedfor killing a man they
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Another method was to con-
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ring on the finger and drop it
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practice did not find favour as
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HIS ERROR
George Heister tell of a tired
businessman whose grueling
day at the office was capped by
his wife's announcement that
the maid had walked out.
"What was the trouble this
time?" he inquired wearily.
"You were!" she charged. "She
said you used insulting language
to her over the phone this morn-
ig." "Good grief," cried the hus-
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Backward Writers
People who write backwards
are becoming rarer, according
to a handwriting expert. He was
commenting an the case of a
Pasadena woman who boasts
that she can write backwards
almost as rapidly as she can
write forwards.
"I read my backward writing
by holding it before a mirror,"
she says, "During the war I used
to write long letters backwards
to my husband when he was
overseas."
Some years ago a Devon serv-
ant, aged twenty-eight, sud-
denly began to write back-
wards, hold books the wrong
way up to read and spell words
in reverse after an illness. Doc-
tors put her under "light hyp-
nosis" and suggested that she
would be able to read, see and
write normally when she awoke,
'The treatment was successful.
People who naturally do this
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