The Seaforth News, 1953-03-19, Page 7Meaty
SPORTS C LOMN
6,144 90144-emt,
a/ This is a great week for the Irish, in-
deed and it Is now.
The sans of the Quid Sod may have lost
their leadership in boxing, inlong-jump-
ing and some other sports in which they
once excelled, but there's one Sport 110
one can take away from the Irish.
That's handball. They invented it. Not a major sport, to be
sure, but a great conditioning game of speed and skill, used
by fighters, wrestlers, firemen, policemen to reach top physical
shape, by business men, editors, lawyers, to keep that waist-
line down to normal proportions.
The hardy Irish played hand -ball in the tenth century.
They called it "fives", because the five fingers of each hand
were used to send the ball crashing into the board walls,
Mebam Biggs of Tipperary was the hand -ball wizard, the Bob
Feller, the Joe Black of his day. Ile could make a hand -ball
spin and curve like a baseball pitcher controls a ball. England
borrowed hand -bail from Ireland two centuries ago. "Fives"
is still a big game at Eton, has been for. years, From hand -ball,
so it is believed, carne tennis, racquets and other such sports.
They owe it all to the Irish. And this is a fine week, so it is,
to emphasize that point.
It goes without saying that hand -ball cane to America
'with emigration from Ireland. In 1882, one Phil Casey migrated
to Brooklyn and was distressed to learn therewere no hand-
ball courts in the States. Casey and fellow imigrants batted
the hard ball brought from the oultl country against the brick
wall of New York buildings, but the rough surface nullified
the spin, hence the finer art declfned.
Casey was enterprising enough to build a slick wooden
court with side walls and he charged a fee, Alumni of the
Casey academy soon penetrated to Midwestern and Pacific
Coast conununities, especially Detroit and San Francisco,
The Irish of that day had an ambition to join the "farce",
i.e., the force, and wear a uniform. Accordingly there was
hardly a police station or a fire house in the strip of Northern
States from the Atlantic to the Pacific that didn't serve ass -a
back wall for hand -ball playing. And in public and private
gymnasiums, the game cane into great vogue, because it was
much more convenient to play hand -ball, than, for instance,
golf, which took time to travel to the links. So today, thanks
to the Irish of 2000 years ago, and thanks later to the Caseys,
the Egans, the Cavanaughs and the McQuades, hand -ball, the
game of the Irish, still flourishes, sharpens the reflexes between
hands and feet, sharpens the eye, develops (durability, stamina
and good physical condition.
Four -wall hand -ball was the original game and still Is
played. But in Brooklyn alone, there are said to be some 1,200
one -wall courts against which descendants of the Irish im-
migrants of a Century back, and descendants of all other nation -
alines who help create the melting -pot of this continent, play
Ireland's game.
'(our comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
61y Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St„ Toronto.
CaLvtt DISUULLERS LIMITED
AkIHERSTBURO, ONTARIO
If ever a man deserved to be
ss, world boxing champion, it is
Archie Moore. His victory this
winter over Joey Maxim, at St.
Louis, Missouri, will surely go
down in fustic history as the fitting
unlmination to the 384 -ear -old
coloured man's incredible deter-
mination and .patience. And that
:flatement stands even if he loses
Oise title next time he puts it on
the line.
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Archie Moore has been a pro-
$essional boxer for something like
selizteen years. Fox nearly half
that time he has been the leading
nontender for the world light -
'heavyweight title. Yet, until he
seat Maxim in December, he had
weer had a crack at the title.
Why not? To quote Charley
Johnston, the boxer's manager:
"Moore is too good."
O 0. a
Ile calls hire Big Poison, poison
Ra other boxers because he usu-
ally beats them, such strong poi -
eon that no reigning champion
would meet him—even though he
ranked Number Two in his class.
]Polson because he had knocked
dssat 56 of nearly*130opponents.
Way back in 1939 Moore began
9e hit the headline% Then came
the war and the light -heavy-
weight title went into cold stor-
age. Hostilities o v e r, Moore
bused himself, on paper and in
fee eyes of hexing experts and
public, the leading 'contender for
Gus Lesnevich's crown.
n o 4
But every time a title fight oc-
1 asrred, Moore was never in one
of the corners, as everyone ag-
reed he should have been. Auth-
ority, like 2 elsen, turned a blind
eye.
4 a *
Moore, however, was never de-
terred. He just smiled, donned
his gloves and fought somebody
else. From St. Louis to Balti-
more, from Cleveland to Holly-
wood, he boxed on.
a 4 e
At one time he was promised
the next crack at the then reign-
ing champion, Gus Lesnevich.
But almost at the last minute
plans were changed. Lesnevich
went to Europe to meet Freddie
Mills. .
Moore laughed at the Fates
again, packed his bags and re-
sumed his trans -American wan-
derings.
O 0 0
Even some of the decisions in
his fights seemed to mark him as
one of boxing's "Forgotten Men."
Once in Cleveland he was fouled,
His opponent hit him while he
was on one knee after being
knocked down. But the offender
wasn't disqualified
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Instead Moore was given ten
minutes in which to recover and
resume fighting. It was one of the .
most ridiculous decisions .ever
given. He had been fouled so
badly that he couldn't continue,
and the official verdict was that
he lost by a knock -out
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So the years ticked by, and as
Moore added more candles to his
birthday cakes he must have
quietly wondered if there was any
Signs Of Spring
justice in the world Of one thing
he was very certain, however. If
ever he got the chance he'd make
darn sure of that title, ' Lesne-
vich, Mills, Maxim, whoever was
the champ, would know all about
it when they met Archie Moore
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Maxim was the man he met
and hammered, and with the rais-
ing of the new title-holder's arm,
years of injustice were 'indica-
ted,
At a
Nevertheless, it was an injus-
tice that can never be excused,
even though it can probably be
explained by one thing—promo-
ters always like the gate -pulling
contest best. They want Crowd
Appeal.
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As just one example, earlier
last year "Sugar" Ray Robinson
was considered to be a better
financial draw against Maxim
than Moore Robinson was fight-
ing out of hIs weight and lost
very decisively. But it was a
bout that attracted the dough.
That's what mattered.
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blades over the hone, Repeat
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The leaf -shaped silver cleaner
now on the market, with the
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A low cost electric broiler is
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working girls in single rooms or
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and can be fitted over almost
any kitchen utensil from a 12 -
inch skillet to a cookie sheet.
These act a drip pans. A rust-
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BEEF ON MQVE: The lifting of the United States embargo on Canadian meat exports to that country has
ste,ppped up activities in stockyards and meat packing plants throughout the country. These cows and steers bring
irnloacled at the CNR'e stocILyard In Montreala left, will end up on the hook", right, and shipped as dressed beef.
During 1051, Canada exported 272,850 head of cattle and other livestock to the United States and 107,735,410
pounds of dressed meat. A large volume of meat traffic was also carried by the CNR from Chicago to New
England through the Niagara "gateway" in southern Ontario. The UB, embargo was unposed a year ago ,because
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H' Baal Staring down a 12 -foot
boa constrictor is the job of
Warren Prince, He is seen above
in the Reptilarium of the Nation-
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What's The Reason
For "No -Hat" Habit?
A national survey by Britain's
hatters has revealed that today
fifty-six men out of one hundred
wear hats. This still leaves a lot
of bare heads, but it is claimed
that the thirty-year trend toward
male hatlessness has at least been
halted.
Hatters in America, Germany,
Italy, Holland, Scandinavia and
France are in cin this, for all have
been striving to put hats back on
men's heads. The no -hat habit has
spread t h r o u g h the Western
world—what's the reason?
Blame the times, says psycho-
logists. Hatlessness, they argue,
goes with insecurity and instabil-
ity, while hat -wearing reflects a
man's self-esteem. and confidence
in the future.
A hat fashion sometimes seen
in London's West -end is the Ed-
wardian -type bowler. -Plainly—
according to psychologists — this
is evidence of longing for a return
to the "good old days" of solid
prosperity and value for money.
Here's another intriguing psy-
chologist's -eye view. When men
wear low hats, and especially
when they wear no hats, it's a
sign that w omen are gaining
ground on the sex equality front.
This is an opinion endorsed by
the costume historian, Mr. James
Laver, of the Victoria and Albert
Museum.
"Male domination was at its
peak when men wore the highest
hats," he says. "Look at the ter-
rific toppers worn in the • mid -
nineteenth century. Then consider
what happened when an early
wave of female emancipation oc-
curred in the 1880s—men took to
wearing boaters 1"
Vet modern surveys conducted
in Britain and the United States
show that in both countries eighty
women out of every hundred
prefer their menfolk to wear hats.
Perhaps a psychologist will
workthat one out. Does it mean
that most women really want
their men to wear both a hat and
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A man in Lewistown, III., who
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