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The Seaforth News, 1953-05-07, Page 3TOESPORTS COLUMN &o at te � 4� • The afternoon of Saturday, May 3, was 'the occasion of the seventy-ninth run- ning of the Rentneky Derby, at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Scores of thousands of Out-of-town novelty seekers were Pres- ent. The local . and visiting attendance lifted the 'total to around 100,000. And it's all abort a race that doesn't seem to deserve the at- tention, publicity and money lavished upon it. Fel' the Derby isn't a derby, to begin with—not in the - requirements of distance, t'o2' exaIllple. Of course, in A4ncrica, the term "derby" has Colne to be used very, loosely, and very frequently. All sorts of tracks have a "derby" annually. But few, if any, parallel the daddy of all derbies, the Epsom Downs race, in the matter of distance, This Itentilcky Derby, run annually on the first Saturday of Alay furnishes the first test of tin'ee-year-olds over tete distance of one and one-quarter miles. This is one-fourth of a mile short of the regular Derby distance as established by the English classic run. at Epsom Downs, from which the name "derby" is derived. The English race is at a mile and a half, and is raced in early June. The Kentucky race occurs almost too early for eligible females of this age to compete on equal terms with colts. And it is too early to condition even the males of the species for a 10 -furlong struggle, You may think that transportation ditlie tlties are annoy- ing now. But back in 1875, the year the Derby was first run us a modest little race, the sporting folks of the era who rittended really had grief, The "Louisville Jocikey Club race -track" since labeled Churchill Downs, was so far from the city tbat horse- drawn street cars required two hours to make the trip. Many of the customers started to walk the distance early in the morning. Others went in wagons, buggies and on horseback, Attending the Derby in the seventies and eighties was a jour- ney, not a trip, Arrangements for the race were primitive. 'There was, of Bourse, nothing like a starting gate. Even the web barrier of 40 years ago was unknown. The starter drew a line in the dirt across the track with the butt of the flag he used to start the field and then lined up the candidates well behind it. A walk-up start was the system. When "Col. Johnson of Nashville", the starter for the first of all Kentucky Derbies, got his field in alignment he flashed down his flag. A drum sounded the official start and the field was off. There were many other differences between the races of those early clays, and now. It has gained in importance, in glamour, in attendance, and in speculative interest, so who are we to point out minor technical shortcomings of the continent's No. 1 glamour race? Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c,'o Calved House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBUR G. ONTARIO .Plain Horse Sense Eby BOIL Sour Feelings The Ontario farmer works bard and produces as much as he can at as little expense as he can. Without any strong organized bargaining power he has little control over his prices and most of the time has to take for his product what he is told to take, He has just as little control over his expenses as far as pro- duction is concerned. He can economize by foregoing personal conveniences, but when he buys gas and oil and spare parts for his tractor, or concentrates and feed grain for his cattle, he has to pay what he is told to pay. It is therefore with sour feel- ings that the farmer listens to or reads the good advice dished out to him by learned guest speakers at farm meetings or In wise editorials by writers usually not encumbered with any factual knowledge. Greedy Growers One of the rarest and most exotic specimens of deep econo- mic thinking recently sprung up in the fertile pages of the "Tor - Onto daily morning bible", the one and only Globe and Mail. Y',tree TO ALL THE T E Everybody gets a bit run-down now and then, tired -out, heavy -headed, and maybe bothered by backaches, Perhaps nothing seriously wrong, just 11 temporary Toxic condition caused by excess acids and wastes. That's the time to Farre Dodd's Kidney Pills. Dodd's stimulate the kidneys, and so help restore their normal action of removing excess acids and wastes. Then you feel better, sleep better. worst better. Get Dodd's Kidney Pills now. Leek for the blue box with the red band at all druggists. You can depend on Dodd's. 52 ELLIS lu an editorial chastising t ge tomato growing farmers of Ont- ario for "pricing themselves out of the market," some agricultural expert blamed the existing sur- plus of canned tomatoes on an increase of the producer price of $1.50 per ton. We have never been very efficient with the one R dealing with figures, but tried our luck anyway with a pencil and a piece of paper. Endeavouring to divide 150 cents by 2,000 pounds of toma- toes we came — with all due apology to our old math teacher. —to the result of 71/2 of one hundredth of one cent, or in other words a little more than one thirteenth of one cent per pound of tomatoes. It is really too bad that the greedy tomato growers by such excessive demands have caused the closing of 4 or 5 canneries in Eastern Ontario. AL1 too Little Having disposed of the tomato dilemma, it might be interesting to do a little more probing' into producer and consumer prices. How much or how little does the fanner actually get from the housewife's dollar? The answer is in the following column: Farmer's Commodity: Price: Share! Milk 21c 10c Bread i8c 3c Canned corn 16c 31/2c Canned tomatoes 17c . 31c Rouutbeoi ib .. 55c 24c Skim milk powder Ib, . 39c nothing Cabbage Ib. .. _ ....... Se ie In view of these figures will any person of average IQ really maintain that a difference of a few hundredth of one cent in the producer price would make any difference in the consumer price and create buyer resist- ance? Farmers, Market Gardeners Poultry en I THIS Is THE GREATEST VALUE EVER OFFERED! Would you be interested in buying—at a ridiculously kw price—used storm windows completely glazed, and screens fully screened, Those are useful for build- ing cold frames, root houses, poultry enclosures. We buy, them from homes where we install aluminunt storm windows—are willing to sell them for 90c each of our factory, Write: SHULLY•'S WINDOWS 645 Eglinton Ave. W., Toronto Or Phone: MA, 0363 y A Sinvic"j''► '2'o millions of tender -headed TV -peckers, who watched, hilar lay a character named Collins Jibe a carpet b1 a Boston ring recently, lightweight champion Jimmy Carter appeared to he a really rough and tough speci- men, and no fooling. In fact, while he is working at his trade of dishing out leather, Mr. Car- ter is a long way from being a Little Lord Fauntleroy or any other sort of momma's darling. But outside the ring Carter has so little color - excepting in his skin — and acts so differ- ently from the majority of fight- ers, that Inc has his associates and the boys of the press very much puzzled; in tact some call him the "Mystery champion," Boxers as a rule are ,nappy dressers -• in fact you might al- most make that "snappy into "loud," But when a Hollywood genas fiuI'nisllings dealer recent- ly presented Cartel' with a rath- er striking sports shut, the champion sent it back, with (hanks. "Jimmy cue ldn t wear that kind of a shirt," his mes- senger reported, "He ii7inhs it would attract. tee much atten- tion to 11110 on the street." Shades of Jaelt Johnson! Carter, born Dec. 15, 1923, at Aiken, S. C., was brought to Philadelphia, with two brothers, by his widowed mother when he was yet ,. n1 a 11, When he was nine, Mole moved the family to New Yol'k's Harlem. - Jan1e0 William, named fur a grandfather, completed grade school and attended high school, but he soon had to get out and work. As a boy, he boxed in a Catholic youngsters' club. He left a grocery clerk's job in 1943 to enter the aridly. •He was in three years, serving in England, France and the Philippines, He won a camp championship and had a few bouts overseas. On his return from overseas Carter came to the notice of Wil- lie Ketchum, a well known trainer of fighters. Ketchum promptly put the willing newcomer into intensive training. He found him easy to handle and, by the spring of 1946, had him boxing prelims. Timmy was a good four -round boy. Too good. Before long, his reputation made it tough to get matches fon him. 0 s Jack Friday, who occasiunally works in Carter's corner, re- calls: "I remember .how faithfully he'd train, day after day Some- times he'd have to borrow a dime to get home. He'd work Public Relations Farmers know that the price spread between producer and consumer is far too great. They know that too many middlemen take too much out of the con- sumer's food dollar. The people who do not know it are the good folks in the cities 1158 towns of Ontario. Misled and •misinformed by tomato -brained journalists, they are inclined to blame the farmer, if they think that they are paying too much for their milk and bread and meat. The housewife shopping at the corner -store does not know that the producer does not get a frac- tion of a cent out of the 39 cents she has to pay for a pound of dried skim milk powder. "Dagwood" may yell loud at the sight of the grocery bill, but he does not realize that profits of the meat packers were the highest ever in 1952 when pro- • ducer prices went down by al- most 40 per cent, while consumer prices did not follow suit. If food prices are too high, the responsibility lies not with the producer, but the distributor. The fanner can help by bringing out the facts. Here is a public relations job for the farm organizations to do, which in the end will benefit both, the producer and the con- sumer. This column welcomes sug• gestions, wise or foolish, and all criticism, whether constl•uctive or destructive and will try to answer any question, Address your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1, 123 - 10th Street, New Toronto. Ont. EAT IU YTHIRIG MTN BOSE TEETH It you have trouble with platen that Sip, reel! and enure pure gums -try Moms PIasU-1,l,er. One application mak,en }butes tit ,maty 10tlantld ant*, or near, bemuse ltrtnnnn Plusa't lour hardens Ins ,llallently to your pinto. It relined and rants inose plates in it way no pawner or paste 000 i10. 1:v0a On old rubber plates youget gond results ods mouths to a year or longer. 'YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING! Slmpt0 05, sett strip at rlastl-15uer Uu treubleaamo 1155er or lour Hite and 14 molds 1,000,110, Burp to err, tasteless, odorless, narrolnna to y011 find your platen. Removable 00 dhcutod. Plata elenuer lnelunr,t Money bend It not emnplOtely satisfied. 11 not available at yam drug atone, send 51.50 for relieve for 1 01,111.. WILDROOT LTD„ FORT ERIE, OWL Dept. VS with Denis Pat Brady, a good fighter then, and he'd raise the dickens." In little over a year, Carter was fighting, ten-ruendens with lough cookies like Joe Brown and Charley Cabey Lewis. Also Sandy Saddler, wherein Icaxegs a very interesting story. "Al Weill was in Washington," Ketchum says, "and he said, 'You're, mak- ing $150 tops with Carter; I'll give you $500 for him to tight Saddler." 1 said, 'Are you kid- ding? Saddler knocks guys out. I got just a steady -boxing guy.' Well, you know Weill, he wears you down. "I took It and, in the first two rfil.tnds, Carter was doing noth- ing, Coming up for the third, 1 ,lumped on him. '1 put you in this because I thought you could win. Now, do something!' Ile never stopped. I thought he won it, but they called it a draw." A lop workman ite the clubs during 1948, Carter inevitably wandered up a dead-end street. He couldn't get money matches. In 1950 Carter WEIS so res. pee 10d, and avoided, that he had only. thiel' fights in the entire }'ear a s• x: Carters title break cattle early in 1951 when he upset Percy Bassett, strong Philadelphia can - tender, at: St. Nick's. The brain trust fur Ike Williams, then reigning, decided he was !"de- serving of the chance," On May 25, 1951, in Madison Square Garden, he flabbergasted a small "studio audience" and a big television audience by drop- ping Williams four times before knocking him out in the 14t11 round. The next clay America quelled: "Who is Carter?" New York still showed no great interest in him and Ket- chum tool; him to California for over -the -weight battling. In his third start there he lost to Art Aragon, but he struck gold, be- r cause the setback set up a title meeting with the so-called Gold- en Boy, for which Carter was paid 830,000. During 1052, Jimmy event to the post nine tinges, tree times for the crown, all with Sales. He won the first so handily, he couldn't work up respect for the Mexican in the second, accord- ing to Ketchum, Carter's boiling point was reached finally when they fought again, at Chicago, in the fall of last year. Sales didn't win a round on many score -cards un- til the eleventh, and then he took only three of 15. As 1952 ended, Carter's career record stood at 79 fights, 59 vic- tories against 13 defeats, 21 knoc:ltouts and 38 decisions, with seven draws. Jimmy has been on the floor only once, against Tommy Camp- bell, whom he policed promptly on getting up. Ketchum points out Carter is a "natural" lightweight, except when he goes on an eating spree and blows himself tip to 145• pounds. 0 ') + Family man Carter is conser- vative in dress, he has no more than a dozen quiet suits, and, if lie has been in a night club half . a dozen times, it is a lot. In his tenure as champ he has saved a little money and, prepared to campaign actively, he expects to save a lot more. He expects to open a liquor store, someday; how could he miss in that calling? asks Lester Bromberg in The Police Gaz- ette. Being a one -beer than at best, he'd never drink up even a small part of the profits. 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STAMPS • STAMP '(LI.17CTIN,I ! r0 lo ?stooling. informs tide rid !Mil 1),d bobby, worth Stamps. on Ilppror01.rent emelt. urs Write for yotoday, 00371 meg. 70.17 Newton, Astoria 2. Nev Tend, Pile Sufferers Get Quick Relief When the dieb, horn mod pann of piles keeps .vee invoke at night, ark '344 3041 almost frantic los dry -go le any drag Stare and get n unel:age of Lene(t(nt. Sea hots fast this ..onn-whit V. sotto oth+ ointment euals the Vert hnr,dna, relict ev. hooting, seethes sash.. loo get oilier in one minute by the pupil,. One nnnlivu- Non awes ham, of comfort, Het Len- 0htt right 1100 at any drug stare. Enough to 1,00n 5,1(11 111(14(43 h,rrrsl ,credo. 3,013. 500, ISSUE 19 ,-- 1933