Zurich Herald, 1954-06-10, Page 7ill
Catveit SPORTS COLUMN
4 E*e$effseot ?e'944cm'
rt Roger Bannister, slim British medical
student, performed the individual ath-
letic feat of the century when he ran
a mile in less than four minutes, The
Miracle Mile.
The ink was scarcely dry on the news-
papers reporting Bannister's achieve-
ment when 225 -pound Parry O'Brien of California sent the
16 -pound shot hurtling through the air for 60 feet, 5 inches,
leaving the fabled 60 -foot mark shattered.
And so there is added oto the record more evidence that
man is steadily improving athletically, despite the supposedly
softening effects of the automobile and the other luxuries of
which our grandparents never 'even dreamed. Man runs faster,
jumps higher and farther, hurls weights greater distances than
!ver before,
Take the most basic of all athletic endeavours — running.
In the mile, which is reckoned to be the blue ribbon of all
distances, athletes today are running nearly ten per cent
speedier than a century ago. Times which won titles in the
first years of one -mile championships are now commonplace
with high school boys.
In the second half of the last century a 4:30:0 miler was
a rarity, In fact, England's Walter G. George was the only
really outstanding one, His amateur"record of 4:21:4 stood
from 1882 until 1895, and it was not until 1915 that his pro-
fessional record of 4:12% was bettered by Norman Taber of
the U.S. When George set the professional mark, the news
was received on this side of the Atlantic with grave doubts.
The feeling you glean from periodicals of the time is that it
was then held impossible for anyone to run that fast.
But when, a few weeks ago, Bannister's flyingfeet car-
ried him through the "impassable" 4 -minute barrier, the world
marvelled at the performance. No one expressed the slightest
doubt of the timing accuracy,
The smashing of athletic records has become almost mono-
tonous in recent years, and there exists no doubt as to the
authenticity of each new human feat of speed, endurance or
performance.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/a Calvert House, 431 Yonge 5,., Toronto.
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One Way To Soften
Old Sam's Punches
Old Sam Langford was one of
the hardest hitting heavyweights
in the business. The "Boston Tar
Baby" had just as much respect
for his own punch as the next
moan, too. The first time he sign-
ed to fight in England, he
showed up before the bout at the
National Sporting Club in Loin -
don. The promoter began to dis-
cuss the coming engagement with
Belting Sambo. Among other
things he told Sam that he could
have his choice of any of three
referees. ,
Langford shrugged his power-
ful shoulders and broke into a
wide grin. "Uh-uh," he said.
"That won't be necessary. I
carry my own referee."
The English promoter threw
up his hands in terror. "I'm
Sorry, Langford," he stammered.
"We can't permit that."
Old Sam raised his ponderous
arm and doubled his ham -like
fist under the promoter's nose.
"Boss," he said, "this is my
referee!"
And it was: Langford knocked
cut his opponent in jig time that
night. But there was another
Occasion when his "referee" fail-
ed him.
In 1911, Langford was matched
with Bill Lang. Before the fight,
Langford was approached with a
proposition, namely, to throw
the fight. Sam refused. He was
too confident of achieving an
easy victory over his opponent.
The first thing that seemed
odd to Sam Langford as he sat
in his corner was the gloves he
was given to wear. A box con-
taining the two pairs of gloves
tee
had been tossed into the ring.
When the box was opened, Lang-
ford was astonished to see that
the gloves were white. He saw
immediately that the gloves had
been ordered by Lang's manager
purposely because white • gloves
would show up better against his
own dark body and might there-
fore sway the judge's decision.
Sam shrugged it off, however.
As far as he was concerned, he
could win the fight under any
conditions, white gloves or green
or sky blue. pink.
In the second round of the
fight, Langford dropped the Eng-
lishman a couple of times. Sam
grinned even more widely. He
knew now for sure that he had
an easy job on his hands. In the
third round he again put Lang
down for a short count, When
he returned to his corner his
manager berated him gently for
not finishing the Englishman off
for good. Langford promised to
clean up the business in the very
next round.
In those days, when Sam Lang-
ford really wanted to kayo a
man, all he had to • do was land
five good punches, then turn his
back and walk to his corner
while they counted the poor un-
fortunate out. The trick usually
worked. Well, on this occasion,
old Sam wound up and let go
with five terrific punches. Down
went the champion Of all Ireland
and England. But, instead of
being . counted out as Langford
expected, Bill Lang got up fairly
fresh at the count of nine,
It was at this point that Sam
Langford began to smell a rat.
Through the fifth and sixth
rounds, Lang kept going down
and bouncing up again. As
wobbly as he was, Lang still
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managed to stagger around the
ring'; tin d e r Sam's hammering
fists. :And then, as Sam let loose
a terrific haymaker, Lang wav-
ered out of the way and Lang-
ford missed. So strong was Sam's
follow-through on the attempted
punch that he went sprawling on
his hands and knees on the mat, •
Before he could get up Bill Lang
tapped the big Negro on the top
of the he a d. Immediately,
referee Eugene Corri stopped the
bout, awarding the fight to
Langford on a foul. There was
many a sigh of relief from the
sporting gentry around the ring
who had made over -enthusiastic
bets on the Englishman to win
and who had now saved their .
wagers by the nature of the
decision.
Old Sam refused to give up
his gloves at the end of the bout.
He insisted on taking them to
his dressing room for the pur-
pose of finding out why they had
caused him to lose his vaunted
knockout punch. He cut them
open and learned the truth.
Someone had deliberately stuffed
his gloves with rabbit fur which
was so soft and pliable that all
the sting had been taken out of
his blows! Imagine trying to
knock out a man with a fistful
of air!
notty I1
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According to ancient legends
the people of Phygia, an ancient
country of Asia Minor, were ad- "
vised by the gods to choose as
king the first man they met on
the way to Jupiter's temple. The
peasant Gordius passed by driv-
ing a wagon, and, hailed as king
to his great amazement, he con-
secrated his wagon to the god
Jupiter.
Now Gordius is remembered
for the knot by which he fixed
his wagon to the temple. So
cleverly was it tied that no end
could be perceived in the' cord,
and it came to be predicted that
whoever could untie the Gor-
\dian knot would win the whole
empire of Asia. Alexander the
Great happened to pass that way
in his conquering sweep across
Asia Minor. He tried. to undo
the knot, but was unable to
solve the puzzle. Impatiently he
drew his sword and slashed the
knot in two. This daring act
impressed his soldiers, who al-
ready considered Alexander as
the future conqueror of Asia. We
now speak of any complex pro-
blem that can be solved only in
a drastic way as a Gordian knot,
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Time Goes 'Ticktock' and 'Drip -Drop` —• Elliott Steranes, 3, at left, wonders why his dad is always
busy, when he's got so much time "on hand." Watchmake,t Eimer O. Stennes has collected 50 old
Boston subway clocks, and uses their Swiss movements to construct his specialty, grandfather
clocks. At right, Tom Kennamer, doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, is glad he need not
rely on this ancient water dock when alerting members of the House that a session is about to
begirt. The one -handed antique's weights are moved by the difference in balance caused when
water „drips from upper to lower containers. Kennamer prefers his electric clocks and push-but-
ton gongs.
Just Loafin' Along — But not for
long. According to the Navy,
this Viking 10 rocket has travel-
ers nearly 4000 miles per hour,
land reached a height of 136
miles,
'We ;;.4,, re
Amused
0
There may not seem to be
much connection between a slot
machine and an atom bomb: but
a New York manufacturer of
amusement gallery contraptions
has produced a variation „of the
"try your skill" slot machines
that, ,gruesomely enough, makes
the connection. The idea is to
score points by aiming an "atom
bomb" on a moving target—a
city shown on a color film strip.
When the machine appeared
recently in a Stockholm amuse»
ment park 100 youths demanded
that the management remove it.
Our sympathy is heartily with
the objectors. It would be hard
to imagine a crasser, more cal-
lous and stupid form of "amuse-
ment."
amuse-
ment"
One of the most valid objec-
tions to the miscalled comic
books, filled with torture, slug-
gings, and murder, ' has to do
not merely with the emotionally
unbalanced child who may be
led to emulate these horrors but
with the normal child (or adult
reader) who simply has his
sense of human values ,:heap-
ened by a steady diet of them.
The unamusing atom -bomb game
is open to the same censure,
with an added objection to its
insult to international sensibil-
ities.
For many Americans have
talked too glibly about dropping
atom bombs, without any regard
for the fears of allies and neu-
trals living under the very
shadow of the Soviet atomic
arsenal. There are still those in
other countries who fear that
Americans are living in an im-
tnature, comicbook, spy -thriller
world where the hero's answer
to every obstacle is a "sock on
the jaw"—or an atom bomb.
This is a gross parody of the
deeply - concerned thinking of
mature Americans. But it be-
hooves each individual hi a
country that produces 20,000,000
sensational "comic" books a
month, lethal toys for its young,
and now -an atom bomb "game,"
to make sure that his finer moral
sensibilities are not blunted by
becoming accustomed to the
thought of violent destruction.
—From The Christian Science
1V.tonitor,
The German mathematician,
Zacharias base, once multiplied
two 100 -digit numbers together
in his head,
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