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The Seaforth News, 1953-04-02, Page 7E Calvert SPUR!TS m,O[&i N Voter .7eIrciedvo w Trapshooting is nut, of ecarst, what might be termed a popular sport. It has a Ilmlted participation, an even more limited spectator following. So it was but natural that a glittering hockey star, Rocket Richard of Montreal Canadiens, whose feat in breaking the ancient lifetime goals ecord, 334, compiled by Nets Stewart, shook( bare been voted Canada's athlete of the year. Richard is the Babe Ruth of hockey, a dynamic showman, a magnetic figure. But it seems as though the selevfors, perhaps • soured by Canada's fareine of honors et the Olympic Games, overlooked one. of the most brilliant achievements of 1952 by a Canadian youth. We mean the performance of 17-yc;ar•old George Genereux of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the high school boy who won 10 of Canada's total o1 30 points, and its only Gold Medal, symbol of Olympic supremacy, when he defeated the greatest trap -shooters in the world. That one tin young should win such honors is unusual. That he should loch the acclaim such a performance merits, is unfortunate. Goorge Genereux's record in his favorite Spee. is Me short of fabulous. Ile Was only 13 years old when he first started to shoot at the Saskatoon Gaut Club, Ills ability was quickly spotted by Jimmie Girgulls, veteran trapshooting star, Girienlis was introducing his sons to the stay -target busting; business one afternoon, by letting them shoot at birds with a .410 shotgun, when George joined in. This proved to be an important meeting, for, from that time on toarnament_wise fsirgulis kept George tinder his wing and has been his coach ;md mentor ever since. Tlie first major viel.ory in competitive shooting for George was in 1949, when at the tender age of 14 he shot his way to the Manitoba -Saskatchewan Handicap Championship, Two years later at the Ameriean Trapshooting ASSOriattOn competitions at Vandalia, Ohio, he won three North American champion- ships --the Junior, the Junior All -Around and the, Junior High Over All. Last year at the contest:: sponsored by the A.T.A. he was runner-up in the Junior Preliminary Handicap Championship, and won the Junior Champion of Champions of North America title. To this he added the Saskatchewan Championship (Singles), Then before goingto the Olympics he stopper! at Oslo, Norway, where he placed second in the World Champion- ships. - George Genereux is just a normal boy. In a game that requires chilled -steel nerves, there is no ice -water in his veins. At school, he is a star in hockey and baseball. And a good student. Just a normal, healthy Young Canadian, whose fine feat was, unfortunately, overlooked in the attention paid more glamorous competitive sports. Your comments and suggestions for fbrs column win @e welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c: o Caked House, 431 Yonge St., Toronfa, CaLvtr't DISTILLER LIMITED AleHE6sT0112C, Ot4IAFIO Championships, trophies and playoffs in sport are a dime a dozen, or thereabouts. But what would you think of a champion- ship that has been contested an- nually for just 365 years? Well, .If you'll hold still for a moment, we shall try to give you the low- down—and if anyone asks if we, personally, were present when the contest was initiated, he will be promptly heaved out of the congregation. > ,} Well then, it seems that back in the year there were two young men, Giles and Hodge, living in the village of Tinsley Green who were both greatly smitten with the charms of a young lady of the vicinity. The name of this tomato - has, not, unfortunately, come down to us through the passage of the years, but she must have been something of a looker because, in order to prove which was most worthy of her hand, Giles and Hodge went through a course of athletics which would make some of these Olympic Decalthoners look like :loafers. } Not -to make too much of a :mystery of it, Giles and Hodge tied into one another at stool - bail, ring -ball, club -ball, hand- ball, hand -tennis, archery, cud- gel play and wrestling. And when they were finished the score, be- lieve it or not, was absolutely even. 4 c 4 ._ (A friend of ours, who has .a suspicious turn of mind, sug- gests that the lads were prebabiy making it close in order to assure plenty of customers for the fi- nals; but we resent such a sug- gestion, which shows too much of the modern commercialistic spirit to have existed so long ago—we hope Besides, the rec- ords don't mention anything about gate receipts at all, so we are willing to let it 'go that the lads were strictly levelling, al- though we must say that they were certainly very evenly matched.) 5 } Sydney Skiiton, writing in the Christian Science Monitor, says that at this point some Tinsley Green character made the Solo- mon -like suggestion that the, boys should saw the young lady M two, each taking half, - and let it go at that. But the lady had a better idea, and proposed that her swains should battle it out, to a finish, at—hold your breath now! --the sport of marbles. 4 :r } The sports writers of that era must have been a sloppy lot, because they have failed to rec- ord which was the winner—Giles or Hodge—and whether or not he and the young lady lived hap - Hidden Horse Hide --Ducking the ball behind a pitcher's glove to keep batters from seeing it is an old trick being taught to pitcher Bill Connelly of the New York Giants, at left. Matter of the art is Giant Coach Fred Fitzsimmons,. Maple Syrupy Symphony—Gulping the sweet distillation of mople tree sap ore these youngsters enjoying a "sugaring off" party on the farm of Allis Freeman. The boy al lower right has pushed his cup of syrup ln'o the snow 10 chill it. The syrup will thicken into a toffy -like mass. pity ever after. Allwe can tell you is that, every Good Friday since then, they stage the tradi- tional marbles tournament in the forecourt of the old Grey- hound Inn, in Tinsley. Grein. lt': a gala occasion with teams from all the neighboring. n hamlets and vilialees out in fulfarce to do or die for the honor of their respective communities and we ivouldn't mind making a shall wager that it's not much of et holiday for the tapstcrs and bar- maids of said Greyhound Inn. The teamtitle is presently held by the Tinsley Green Tigers — which is more than floe Detroit Tigers can-s.y—and this .year their challengers include the Handcross Bttlldogs, the Cop- thorne Cherrypickers, the Arun- del Mullets, the Fletching Fusi- liers and goodness only knows who else. It looks like a big day, with plenty of action, and we just love to be there, al- though our knowledge of marbl- ing form is very small, and we probably couldn't hope to make any sort of a cleanup picking •winners. 4 The procedure In this British marbles championship is that teams of six players each take part. They are drawn in pairs to decide which side shat] , oppose which. Bach match is commenced by the two captains concerned standing upright by the circle and dropping their "tolleys" (the heavy glass marble with which the shooting is done) from im- mediately beow their noses to a line 'marked on the ground. The one nearer to the line then opens the shooting and members of the opposing sides operate alternate- ly until all the 49 light clay mar- bles bunched originally in the center of the ring have beer. knocked out. e 5 ,} A shooter scores one point to each marble he drives out (using a thumb • action like a steel - spring) and if his "tolley" re- mains in the ring after a success- ful shot he is permitted to shoot again. Should, however, he fail to expel a marble and at the same time leave his ' toiley" in the circle each of the opposing players may try to shoot it out. Should this happen • a point is added to the score and the un- fortunate "toiley" owner is out of the match for good and all. '} 4 0 The highest scorer in each, team then goes forward into the • match for the individual eharo- pionabip where they start sol over again but with only 13 mar - hies in the center of the ring ' 5 5 } Should we get any word of how the battle turns out, you may be s'u'e we'll relay the' news to you as promptly as possible. And, somehow or other, we lust wish we had a ticket on those Copthorne Cherrypickers We don't know a thing about their ability, or whether they can stand up under a tough grind. But we certainly do like that name. . Television Causes Onychophagy??? Television gets the blame for many things these. days. It kills the art of conversation, say non- viewers, acts as a drug on the mind, and keeps the kiddies up too late. Now it's being cited as a spreader of onychophagy. There may be something in it, For what is more conducive to nail-biting (alias onychophagy) among the very young than an eerie play on TV? ---unless it's a horror film, ))adio thriller, or even a creepy book. Nail-biting is said to be due to the instinct of a' child to put every object in its mouth. (Also listed as one of the reasons why ptpesmakiug is popular. with men.) " It', an automatic, U0c00- stious and frequently impulsive act," according to the Journal of We A.M.A., "an expression of tenseness usut,lly found in fidge- ty, highly -strum:, over active children." Treatment should be aimed al finding the cause of the tension. -Nagging or punishing a nail - biter never stops him for mare than half a minute. 1t often in- creases his tension:' says the Journal. "Is he being urged o1 corrected or warned or scolded loo much?" One final word of warning• -"Bitter drugs applied to the nails do little good. Some children grow to enjoy the taste of drugs; others turn to biting other parts ur the fingers." CHEERFUL (1) THOUGHTS ON INCOME TAXES 'The taxpayeristhe only var- mint expected to yield a pelt every year." —• D. O. Flynn. s > r "Today every taxpayer turns philanthropist willyzilly. Men have to love their neighbor as themselves whether they like it or net." --Rev. Samuel Henry Prince, % 4 4 "The (F..verhment assumes not that a man swears to the truth when he delivers his tax re- port, but that •he more or less deliberately swears to a' false- hood. Its entire income tax ma- chinery is conducted upon that principle." —George Jean Nathan.' 7 5 5 "A power over a man's sub- sistence amounts to a power over his will." —Alexander Hamilton, 5 e 5 "A taxpayer is a government corker with no vacations, no sick leaves, and no holidays." —Anon. 4 4 5 "I learned my three R's from the tax collector. He says, "This is ours; that is ours; every- thing is ours.' 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