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w There are presently only fourteen
10 -year players in the National Hockey
League. And, considering the high speed
and heavy bodily contacts of hockey,
it's a wonder that so many have sur-
vived 10 or more years of ice warfare.
And it's even more surprising that in
the present season, the most amazing player campaigning
today is, getting closer to the day when he can say he broke
into major hockey 20 years ago.
For it's almost 20 years since the name of Milton Conrad
Schmidt first appeared in a Boston club's line-up, It was
late in 1936 or early 1937 that he was called up to relieve
some Bruin situation, and played . enough games to bag a
couple of goals.
Schmidt weighs around 180 today, but he was a skinny
18 -year-old when he first played for Bruins. .He grew fast
and he learned fast, Three seasons of absence from the major
league hockey front, while he wore an air force uniform,
didn't halt Schmidt's hockey career. The hub of the Kraut
Line came back in 1945-46. And in '46-47 he enjoyed his
biggest scoring season — 27 goals.
Among players currently active in the Big Top, only
six had scored 200 goals or more when the present campaign
started. Schmidt is, of course, one of these, with 225 to his
credit when the season opened. In points -making, he ex-
celled all but one of the current top figures. Rocket Richard
started the season with 651 points, 384 goals and 267 assists.
Schmidt had the greatest number of assists of any active
player, 338 — a points total of 563.
Schmidt, Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer, all natives
of Kitchener, Ont., became hockey partners early in their
careers at Boston. They lived together, played together,
and as the Kraut Line, became one of the great threesomes
of all time, a clean -going line with tremendous scoring
punch. In one season (1939-40) they led the scorers in 1.-2-3
order.
The Krauts were broken up when Bauer retired to a
business career in Kitchener after the 1946-47 season.. Schmidt
and Dumart carried on. Dumart was still with the Bruins
last season, and, like Schmidt, one of 26 players to score 200
goals in their careers in NHL history. For durability they
rate high in the tough winter game.
Tour comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yong.e St., Toronto.
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A few weeks ago a ceremony
'VERS performed in Chelsea, Lon-
don, that recalls a famous au-
thor whose dazzling career was
brought to an untimely end in
.1895 by a scandal that shocked
the whole country.
On the wall of No. 34, Tite
Street • will be unveiled one. of
'those b i u e porcelain plaques
that thea LondonCounty Coun-
call fixes to the houses in which
great men once lived. The name
on the plaque will be Oscar
Wilde's.
A disgraced and ruined man
at the age of forty-six, Wilde
died in a third-rate hotel in
Paris in 1900. Since then no
less than a hundred books have
been written about him. Which
:raises the question: has he re-
mained the centre of such in-
terest for more than half a
century, because his plays are
performed everywhere and his
books sell in their thousands?
This can scarcely be so, for
Wilde's literary output was com-
paratively small. In fact, it is
probably true to say that now-
adays his literary reputation
rests on nothing more substan-
tial than a single play and a
poem.
His play, 'The Importance of
Being Earnest," is *certainly a
masterpiece, and has been film-
ed. His poem, "The Ballad of
/Reading Goal," is still frequent-
ly quoted. Other works he
wrote, however — among them
a once celebrated essay entitled
The Soul of Man Under Social-
ism" -- are for the most part
forgotten.
To what, then, can we attri-
bute Wilde's increasing fame?
How is it that his name is
known to millions of people
who have never read a book he
wrote, or seen one of his plays
acted? Perhaps the answer is
to be found in what the man
himself once confided to as
friend:
"Shall I tell you the great
secret of my life?" he said,
smoking one of the perfumed,
gold -tipped cigarettes he never
liked to be without. "It is that
I put my genius into my life,
but only my talent into my
work. Writing bores me so!"
Bored, or otherwise, he was
forced to write' in order to live.
But there can be no doubt that
life, as he chose to live it —
extravagantly, and with unbe-
lievable recklessness -- turned
out to be far more dramatic
than any plot he ever invented.
Born a hundred years ago last
month, Oscar Wilde achieved
considerable notoriety shortly
after leaving Oxford University
where a great future had been
predicted for him. As the leader
of a poetic cult in London, he
was frequently caricatured in
the pages of "Punch" wearing
long hair a n d satin knee -
breeches.
But this poetic phase did not
last. In a remarkably short time
Wilde had become the idol of
smart society.
This- position he achieved
through his charm and his ex-
ceptional wit. As an entertaining
conversationalist he was con-
sidered second to none, and on
more than one Occasion Edward
VII (then Prince of Wales) en-
joyed his scintillating dompany.
Examples of his witty remarks
he was always throwing off in
the course of conversation are
the following:
"Work is the curse of the
drinking classes."
"Genius is born, not paid."
"Her capacity for family af-
fection is extraordinary. When
her third husband died, her hair
turned quite gold from grief."
C iUGOIN' ALONG—Two persons can supposedly ride in comfort
in this tiny three -wheel auto. it was designed by electr"cian
Andre Siames, of Boulogne Sur Seine, France, Powered by a one -
horsepower motor and capable of reaching speeds up to 50
mph, the homemade car was the hit of a Paris gadget exhibit.
And Away We Go Four persons seem to fit"coinportabiy inside
the "Minicc(r," a three -wheeled automobile, on display in Lon-
don, England. Designed along modern lines, the car can
supposedly get 90 miles to gallon of gas.
"1 c an resist everything —
except temptation."
How strangely prophetic was
that last utterance of the ugly
shape of things to come. For if
Wilde had not been tempted to
bring an action for criminal
libel against the Marquis of
Queensberry (the creator, inci-
dentally, of the famous boxing
rules), his life might not have
ended as disastrously as it did.
What happened was this:
Wilde's morals had been fre-
quently criticized, the—climax
coming when Queensberry open-
ly accused him of indulging in
unnatural practices.
Recklessly — since his private
life at this time did not bear
investigation - Wilde took the
marquis to court. And he lost
his case. Not only that, but he
was himself put in the dock and .,
charged with a number of seri-
ous offences.
After two lengthy trials (at
the first the. jury disagreed),
Wilde w as found guilty and'
sentenced to two years' hard
labour.
The wit he indulged in when
under cross-examination by the
prosecuting counsel (an Irish
barrister' who was later to be-
come Lord Carson) availed him
nothing. His brilliant career
ended with the suddenness of a
light switched off.
Wilde made plain in a pathe-
tic Tetter he wrote in Reading
Prison just how completely
changed his life was:
"On November 13th, 1895, I
was brought down here from
London.' From two o'clock till
half -past two on that day I had
to stand on the centre platform'
of Clapham Junction inconvict
dress, and handcuffed, for the
world to look at . When
people saw me they laughed.
That was, of course, before they
know who I was. As soon as
they had been informed. they
laughed still more."
There could be no greater
contrast than that between the
gay farce "The Importance of
Being Earnest," which was pro-
duced three months before he
was sent to prison, and the
sombre "Ballad of Reading
Goal," written after his release.
Particularly interesting a r e
t h e circumstances surrounding
the latter composition. Exercis-
ing in the prison yard one
morning, Wilde noticed in front
of him a new young prisoner.
This was Charles Thomas Wool-
dridge, a trooper in the Royal
Horse Guards.
He was to be hanged for the
murder of his flighty wife, who
had been passing herself off as
a single woman. Stung by jeal-
ousy when he met her on the
road between Windsor and the
village of Clever, the husband
had cut her throat.
Deeply moved by the pitiful
story, Wilde wrote his great
ballad, which has long since
become world-famous.
But is one classic farce, and
a single ballad (even a ballad
which ranks with the best in
the language) a sufficient
achievement to keep an author's
name as much alive as Oscar
Wilde's is today? Opinion on
this question is divided; a popu-
lar theory being that Wilde has
established himself in the per-
manent memory of mankind by
reason of his personal tragedy,
' Certainly his trial brought in-
to the open a subject which up
to that time had been unmen-
tionable. Since then, Wilde, its
central figure, has been looked
upon as the victim of a law
relating to sexual offences that
at the., very moment doctors and
others are seeking to have
changed.
Because • it is felt that a hos-
pital, rather than a prison, is
the place where those who com-
mit unnatural offences should''
be sent for treatment. Wilde
has come to be looked upon as
something of a martyr.
Only in the years to come
will the change, or otherwise,
in public opinion with regard to
these matters, decide whether
it is as a distinguished author,
or notorious convict, that Oscar
Wilde's name lives on.
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