The Seaforth News, 1953-06-25, Page 7HIECa Vert SPORTS COLUMN
e' When a teats loses, whether it's in base-
ball, football, or hockey, you know who is
first in line to get the blame, The (teach,
That's axiomatic of sport, And though
Canada is reasonably tolerant in spurts
matters, we've known of conches chased
out of jobs beeanse they didn't have a team •
that was good enough to win. And that occurred in all three
tf the sports named.
But when a team wins, who lets the credit, The poetize
Don't be silly. The players are heroes, wonderful guys, The
coach is some unknown figure in the background who opened
and shut the gate.
Well, I'd like to pull a switch on that. For everything
Canacliens accomplished in winning the Stanley Cup, I want
to give a measure of credit to coach Dick Irvin, whose teams
in Chicago, Toronto and Montreal have missed the playoffs
only once in many years of leadership
I'm giving Irvin credit because of his skill, and his daring,
in benching regulars who weren't producing in the early part
of the Chicago series and gambling on four minor leaguers and
a veteran who was considered "washed up," This was the
gamble that placed the Canadians in the Stanley Cup finals,
which they %von.
Canadians' "Unwanted Players" as Irvin called them after
his team had whipped the Bruins, 74, at the Boston Gardens
to sweep both games there, were Eddie Mazur, who wintered
in Victoria in the Western League; Lorne Davis and Cahlm
Mackay from Buffalo in the American League; and veteran
Ken Mosdell. The fourth minor leaguer was goaler Jacques
eslante who served. the coach's purpose by helping to win 2
games, one a shutout.
"Nobody wanted these players in Montreal," Irvin de-
clared. "The press and the tans were against them, But my
regulars weren't producing. Besides, they were small, So I put
in that quartet, adding 574 pounds of beef to my team, and
it turned the tide,"
Irvin is not a fellow to stand pat, If things aren't going
right he's quick to make changes. He benched his three regular
left-wingers, Paul Meger, Dick Gamble and Bert Olmstead.
In their places he put Mazur, Mackay and Dickie Moore, a
promising youngster who missed most of the season with a
knee injury,
There was a little more to it than that. Irvin watched
everything. He juggled the team. When a player looked hot,
he shot the player into action. He made up lines as he went
along. He gambled on freezing Gerry htcNeil's injured ankle
in the first game of the final series at Boston.
Irvin proved a master strategist, and I'm very happy, in
the midst of all the bouquets being tossed at the players, to
hang one on the lapel of the forgotten man, the Coach,
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c.'o Culvert House, 451 Ycnge St., Toronto.
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Criminals Blame Influence of the Moon
Be seems to go off the rails
when the moon is full," a bar-
rister said recently, defending a
man in court on a charge of
housebreaking.
"He gets this moon trouble,"
his wife told the court, "He acts
very strangely and goes off for a
week at a time, It always happens
at moon time."
Life Giver—Afflicted since birth
with an incurable stomach dis-
order, Jewel Penley, 9, lives
on milk. When her cow died re-
cently, her father was unable to
buy another. The cow, seen
above, is a prize Jersey which
was awarded the little girl when
she wrote lo a national radio
program.
The man concerned had been
to prison nine times and served
a period of corrective training.
But the Bench was obviously
impressed by the possibility that
under the influence of the moon
he acted against his better
nature, for they put him on pro-
bation.
Is it possible for the full moon
to have some strange unexplain-
ed effect on some people, making
them commit irresponsible acts?
Bloodlust
Scientists and most doctors
laugh at the idea as mere super-
stition. Yet the word "lunatic,"
originating thousands of years
ago and meaning "moon -struck",
suggests men long ago noticed
a connection between the moon
and mental instability. The belief
has persisted through the cen-
turies. And if the scientists
pooh-pooh the idea, the police
know better. Whenever there is
senseless and motiveless, you
will find them particularly alert
at the time of the full moon.
Again and again it has been
found that attacks on girls in
certain areas have taken place in
"waves," coinciding with the
phases of the moon.
At one period before the war,
one area of Surrey was alarmed
by a series of such attacks. In
every case the police noted that
the attack took place at the time
of the full moon.
"This is because the attacker
can see his victim better and
escape more easily," said the
scientists. But the police authori-
ties expressed the view that the
man had fits of bloodlust coin-
ciding with different phases of
the moon.
Maybe He's Part Monkey—This Puerto Rican horse likes to eat
bananas, which, according to the book, horses do not do, but
maybe he didn't read the book, The horse, named "Coco," will
go to almost any extreme to get his favorite fruit, as shown In
the picture, His owner is Victor Ortiz Perez, shown astride his pet.
Sweet Sailing—Flying through the air with graceful gestures is
pretty Shirley Cawey of London, England. Seen above, competing
in a broad jump, she was one of the many contestants at the
Sward Trophy meet in London's Polytechnic Stadium,
ITC l' iC
Evidently it isn't only on this
side of the Atlantic that the sport
of hockey—or "duck -on -the -rock -
on -ice" as some prefer to call the
modern variety—is taking a bit
of a kicking around. From dear
on' Lunnon comes a dispatch by
Sydney Skilton which goes to
show that all is not so hot in the
Old Country for Conn Smythe's
favorite pastime. And as any
news from over there that is not
embellished with upper -bracket
portraits is something of a
change, here is the dirt as dish-
ed out by Brother Skilton.
.
Ice hockey that has flowered
so colorfully as a spectacle in
the English sporting scene now
has a withered look. This has
happened because, in spite of the
gay bloom, it has no real roots
in English soil. And even less
likelihood of establishing them
as a result of recent develop-
ments, "
At a meeting here 10 London
of promoters of teams compris-
ing the National League it was
agreed that English ice hockey
cannot in future be conducted
on methods prevailing in season
1952-53. Rising costs and falling
attendances wrought a financial
crisis. It means that Canadians
in large numbers are not likely
to be transported across the At-
lantic next season.
It also means that ice hockey
will be relegated even further
down the rink owners' scale be-
cause the stuff served by English
amateurs who are the only ones
available to fill the vacancies,
lures about as many watchers to
the ice stadia as village crick-
eters would to Lord's or The
Oval.
English ice hockey as aur-
nished by the aces from Canada
who, as "Great Britain," :von the
world and Olympic champion-
ships in 1936, has been a great
success as a spectacle. But in the
last couple of years or so it has
been out -spectacled by the mam-
moth "icecapades" from U.S.A.
They have drawn capacity
crowds for the ice rinks night -
after night and week after week.
Summer shows now are increas-
ingly fashionable. Thus ice
hockey has had to fit in es best
it could during intervair be-
tween this glacial glamor. (Bor-
rowers Note, Just like Madison
Square Garden, what?) And
that it has not done so with a
great deal of success is reflected
by the judgment of the . rink
owners and the attentions of the
public. ' '
For a number of years there
has been a gentlemen's agree-
ment among the National League
rinks not to spend more than
in the region of 4250 a week on
their imported Canadian play-
ers. But in order to retrieve their
fortunes and revive public ap-
peal some of the rinks want
greatly in excess of that Even
so, one well known arena with
a highly successful playing rec-
ord in the season recently ended,
reports being well in the red.
* H.
At their get-together the pro -
motors are understood to have
discussed future policy In an
agenda ranging from giving up
the game entirely to a 20 per
cent all-round cut in expenses.
Claude Langton of London's Em-
press Hall rink told one reporter,
Canadian Envoy—Arnold D. P.
Heeney, 51 -year-old Montreal
lawyer, has been named new
Canadian Ambassador to the
U.S. Heeney has served as Can-
adian
anadian representative to the
North Atlantic Council.
"Ice hockey players, drawing
3,000 people, are getting twice
what footballers receive for pull-
ing 50,000. 1 English professional
footballers average £14 per
week.) The danger is that three
or four rinks may give up the
struggle, and that will be the
end of ice hockey here.
"We have to find," went on
Mr. Langdon, "a remedy before
the season begins in September.
Costs must be cut drastically, ex-
pensive Canadians must go, and
there must be more encourage-
ment for English players" An-
other meeting is to be held soon.
r r *
Eneburaging home talent has
been a policy diligently pursued
by the British Ice Hockey Asso-
ciation ever since fellow mem-
bers of the world federation suc-
cessfully protested in 1938 against
the use in world, Olympic and
European championships of play-
ers who although Englishborn
had learned their game in Can-
ada.
But the policy although warm-
ly approved everywhere in prin-
ciple has been subject to the
caprices of the rink owners who,
not unnaturally, have put their
biggest money -earning attrac-
tions first. With all the good will
in the world they have just been
unable.to help amateur talent to
the extent they Would like to
nor even to the extent they did
before rocketing costs and heavy
taxation sliced their margine,
Thus the young Englishman
finds himself very small fry in
the ice hockey world and only
the utlra-enthusiastic persist.
The youngster probably becomes
a member of one of the junior
teams operated by the local rink
and usually he performs on a
Sunday afternoon or at' some
other time whehn the ice is not
required for major play prac-
tice or "icecapade" rehearsals
and at a time when nobody
could care less about watching
hockey, * * *
In these far from encouraging
circumstances the youngsters at-
tempt to emulate their heroes
from Canada. Usually they fail
to stick. Of those who do only a
very few make the grade, the
vast majority prove deficient, not
through inexpert instruction, but
through lack of skating ability
required to make a high-grade
he-man puck chaser.
Ate 12 fl L* Of Sugar
What docs a champion weight-
lifter eat? When the Spanish
champion strong man Aguerre,
lifted a granite block weighing
350 lb. 78 times in three ten-
minute rounds recently, he ate
12 Ib. of eugar while performing.
Afterwards he sat down to an
enormous five -course lunch, in
which figured large quantities of
meat, The lunch was paid for by
some of the fifteen thousand
people who had watched his feat.
His nearest rival was a strong
man named Garachabal, who lift-
ed it 66 times. Aguerre received
163,500 prize money and many of
his fans who had backed him to
win came away richer by hair,.
dreds of dollars.
The Spaniard's feats fall far
short of that achieved by London -
born Thomas Topham, who once
lifted three barrels filled with
water weighing in all 1,836 lb.
They were slung together in the
shape of a clover leaf, the end of
the sling being passed over Top -
ham's head to rest across the back
of the neck.
Topham once found a watch-
man fast aslep in his box, Picking
up box and sleeper, the strong
man fast asleep in his box. Picking
placed the box on the wall of a
churchyard and left it there with
the watchman still sleeping
peacefully inside!
Nluckl—Chicago spectators scat-
ter in the right -field bleacher
section as a home run heads
their way. Hit by Ed Matthews
of the Milwaukee Braves, the
ball tops the woll as Chicago
Cubs' player Preston Word
watches.
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