The Seaforth News, 1952-01-31, Page 2ratCalvert SPORTS COLUMN
56803 er9cedo'f,
w NO DOUBT thousands of good, decent
United States citizens stood aghast as the
sequence of shocking revelations concern-
ing the "fixing" of college basketball games
steadily developed. Previously, there had
been similar revelations concerning boxing
and football, and the regular routine of
knavery in horse -racing circles,
Bur few good citizens thought the filthy hand of the fixer
could ever invade collegiate circles. And even fewer good citizens
stopped to think that in the final analysis, they themselves, the
good citizens, were largely to blame.
You can hear the Good Citizens cry in harrort "Who, ME?"
And the answer is: "Yes, YOU."
For the Good Citizen of the United States, Canada, and
everywhere else, bets on games. He bets, of course, in a spirit of
innocent fun, He wouldn't, for the world, try to "fix". a game, but
he unwittingly contributes to a structure whereby games con-
ceivably could be fixed.
,Test wl.y a substantial citizen cannot enjoy football, hockey
or basketball games without betting on the outcome, is not quite
clear. It demonstrates a degeneracy in the appreciation of sports,
whether amateur or professional, a search for a thrill the contest
itself does nut provide.
But people bet, and the urge to bet is nut necessarily evil.
But we'd say that if you ft el an irresistible stimulus to bet, make
it a private deal with a friend for a hat, a round of drinks, a
dinner, a hand -painted necktie, or $50 incoinof tie realm.
But don't place it in a commercial booth. That's where the
possibility of an "arrangement" creeps in. Keep it private and
personal, among friends whose integrity you know, and make it
modest.
It is all well and good to scorn the characters who did the
fixing in the scandals uncovered in American sport. They are
pretty loathsome creatures, and fortunately in Canada, we've had
little or nothing of such things, certainly nothing that would even
faintly cloud our collegiate sports picture, nor our football, or
hockey, or basketball. But the same developments as came to
light in the United States are possible in Canada too. And it is
the amateur wagers, piling up in volume, your wager and your
friend's wager, if diverted into commercial wagering channels,
that develop into dangerous growths in our own midst.
This observer is by no means alarmed over the possibility of
scandal creeping, or leaping, into Canadian sports. We don't have
such a practical approach to our games as exists across the line.
Our approach is more on the sentimental side. And we don't
have the organized betting, apart from racing and this may be
the most important factor of all in keeping our sports scandal -free
and above reproach.
One of professional hockey's near approaches to scandal
developed a few years ago, and ended in gales of laughter,
The player involved was tall "Babe" Pratt, a genial, though
somewhat uninhibited and unpredictable young man, then playing
on Toronto Leafs' defence.
The word got around in some way that Pratt was betting on
hockey games. Inlnlediately, there was internal turmoil, pallid
faces, and nervous concern in the higher ranges of the National
League, together with a solemn clucking of tongues, and a variety
of "tut, tuts."
Investigation was, of course, set on foot. Yes, said Pratt when
questioned, it was quite true. He was betting on hockey games,
In fact, he was betting on his own team, the Maple Leafs, to
win. And what of it, enquired Pratt brusquely.
"This betting is very naughty," said one of the investigators
with solemn mien. "You can't do that sort of thing. It's unethical,
it endangers the very foundations of our structure."
"Besides that," agreed Pratt, with straight face, "it's just
plain silly. I bin betting on Leafs for three weeks, and we ain't
won a game in that time. If you gents will return me the money
I have lost, I will quit betting right away."
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Tonga St., Toronto.
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women don't know how to put on
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They recommend semi step-in
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Power Politics. In Pahok-e, Fla.,
Mayor Lewis Friend explained how
he happened to shoot his fellow
hunter, Town Councilman D. W.
Cunningham, who had selected a
tree as handy observation post: "I
mistook his polka-dot shirt for a
turkey gobbler."
Winnie Honored' --Winston Churchill becomes a full member of the
Society of the. Cincinnati --men whose ancestors helped wrest
America from Britain 175 years ago, The Prime Minister is shown
receiving the Golden Eagle from MCI. Gen, Edgar Eskine Hume,
society president,
What's The Punch Line?—Welterweight' boxing whiz Chico Vejar
listens closely as Prof. Randolph Somerville takes the 20 -year-old
actor -boxer through some lines at the School of Dramatic Arfs,
P,ORT
is StYBITc%l tC
Like countless other citizens of
this fair to cloudy country, we had
always thought of canoeing as a
sport which, if not exclusively Can-
adian, was one in which Canadians
excelled, Just why we should har-
bor such a notion is a mystery, as
we personally haven't set foot in
a canoe or wielded a paddle since
around the year when Hickory Jim
was a weanling, which is quite a
while back and no mistake about
it,
e
However, it was quite a shock
recently to read a long screed
about International canoeing in
which the name Canada got a mere
single mention, even if it did hap-
pen to be canoe -sailing, which we
recall from youthful days as a very
sporty pastime especially if the
young lady you took along as a
passenger didn't know how to swim.
* ,i *
Anyway, we learned from the
afore -mentioned screed that the
New York Canoe Club Cup, an in-
ternational challenge trophy for
canoe sailing, is to be raced for this
sunnier — if summerever comes,
that is. A United States challenge
had been reeived by the British
holders of the trophy, and the match
will come off at Aldeburgh, on the
east coast of England, during the
annual sailing week of the Royal
Canoe Club.
* * * u
It is understood the American
challenge is to be headed by Mr.
L. Whitman, a member of the com-
pany that attempted to recover the
trophy in 1948. That attempt, sail-
ed off Hayling lsalnd near Brit`ain's
naval base at Portsmouth, was the
first by U.S.A. since Britain took
possession of what is the major
prize in sailing -canoeing. In 1936,
however, the British successfully
withstood a challenge from Canada
through Gordon Douglas of the
Gananoque Club.
* * *
The British cane into possession
of the N.Y. Canoe Club Cup at
Bayside, Long Island, in 1933 when
Roger de Quincy and Uffa Fox,
made history by taking the prize
out of the U.S.A. for the first time.
* * *
All previous challenges from the
time of the first in 1886 by the
Britisher Warrington Baden Powell
had been msuccessfully warded off.
They were made in 1888, 1890, 1891,
1892, 1895, 1913, and 1914. Usually
the races take place over a trian-
gular course of about 4% miles
and a time limit of two hours is
imposed,
* 5 5
The Royal Canoe Club which
holds the trophy on behalf of Brit-
ain and which promotes the annual
sailing regatta is the oldest canoe
club in tine world. It was founded
on July 26, 1865, at a meeting at
the Star and Garter Hotel, Rich-
monrl-on•Thames, called at the in-
stigation of John Macgregor, This
British soldier- barrister- traveler -
author was the pioneer of canoeing
as a recreation, He developed the.
Rob Roy type of canoe to aid him
in his travels throughout Europe
and the Holy Land,
* * *
Where and when the canoe was
born is shrouded in the mists of
antiquity, The. Eskimos and Amer-
ican Indians Have had them for
centuries, But the British can justi-
fiably claim credit for developing
the art of paddling and sailing a
canoe as a sport. They introduced
it to the European continent soon
after the formation of the Royal
Canoe Club through two students
attending the University of Bonn,
the Rhine city famous as birthplace
of Beethoven. And "a mad En-
glishman" astonished the inhabit-
ants of Sweden shortly afterwards
by paddling a canoe across their
country,
* * *
Today Sweden stands number
one among the canoeing nations of
the world.. At the last Olympic
Gaines, here in London in 1948,
Sweden headed the 'unofficial rank-
ing by nations and supplied the
winners in the four kayak events
for Men. They inaugurated at Vax-
holm in 1938 the world champion-
ships which have now become a
firmly established feature of the an-
nual international sporting calen-
dar, And in their capital city of
Stockholm they house the head-
quarters of the International Canoe
Union in affiiliation with which are
more than 20 countries.
* * *
Trials to select Britain's Olympic •
representatives will be held in June.
Only those competitors considered
likely to be not outclassed will trav-
el to Helsinki. The canoe events
have been arranged for July 28 and
29 following the conclusion of the
rowing regatta at Taivallahti, a
center only about three-quarters of
a mile from the main Olympic sta-
dium. For the first time since
canoeing came into the Olympic
Games in 1936 the course will be
salt water one.
* ,t *
The Finns themselves are among
the newcomers to canoeing. Their
oldest club is only 26 years of age
and their national association was
formed as recently as 1932, Today
there are 39 clubs with an approxi-
mate membership of 4,000.
* * *
Finland's outstanding canoeist is
Kurt Wires. He is one of the very
few to hold a victory over Gert
Fredericksson, Sweden's phenomen-
al world champion. Wires has won
numperous important internation-
al races and was a silver -medalist
in the Olympic 10,000 -meter kayak
singles in 1948, Itis compatriots on
his home waters are looking to him
for a silver -gilt medal this summer.
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I verybotly who wallas regularly
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Paris, knows Hobert Idefrance and
Itis wife Christiana, For this de-
voted pair are both blind, and
every clay they ran be seen walking
slowly, sometime~ hand in band,
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Blit something went wrong re-
cently. Men were working nearby
and a manhole was accidentally left
open for a few moments. Chris-
tiana 1)efranee chanced lei be two. -
steps in front of her husband. ,She
stepped into the hole and plunged
19 ft. to the roaring stream below.
The shock caused her to lose con-
sciousness and she lay helpless and
silent..
Robert sensed at once that some-
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foot found the hole and lie did not
hesitate. He at once jumped
through, deriding to be by her
side rather than matte no attempt
to save her, despite his blindness.
He said afterwards that the fall
seemed endless. Down, down he
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of his wife. He lifted her and held
her grimly as he shouted for help.
Nobody had seen the blind couple
step into space, but the httsbancl's
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canal into which they had plunged
is one of the deepest in Paris,
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STAY PUT, BROTHER!
A shgpwrcrlted sailor, who had
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