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Zurich Herald, 1955-11-10, Page 7iNECalraert SPORTS COLUMN gv &met 57orL�Gtcedo4e • in Prince Edward island's Garden of the Gulf, quiet Scottish tempers and normal blood -pressures rise whenever Joe O'Brien is described as a native of New Glasgow, N.S., which he often is by major news services. For Joe O'Brien, top driver in harness racing's Roaring Grand, was born in Alberton, • P.E,1. It was something of a coincidence that, in this Cen- tennial Year of the island province, •Joe O'Brien drove the long -striding Scott Frost to victory in the Hambletonian, richest of a]1 trotting stakes. New Glasgow, the sporting little town on the east coast of Nova Scotia, probably deserves an assist, or some other credit -mark, in the background of little Joe. It was to New Glasgow he went after he left home, .weighing 100 pounds. with $2.00 in his pocket, and took over Dudey Patch, an 11 -year-old, that was owned by the Dudey Patch Club, and SO was a sort of community horse. O'Brien cured this horse of 'quitting by kindness and drove him to the Canadian championship. Thus he came into national attention for the first time. Little Joe now weighs 135 pounds and stands 5 feet 6 inches. In the . United States alone he won $1,347,485.67 in purses, not including the racing successes of the present year. Sep Palin, a famous driver who won the Hambletonian with Hoot Mon when driving for Castelton Farms, wanted a man who could train and drive pacers. He hired O'Brien. and not long after. Little Joe won the $50,000 California pace with Indian Land. He left the Palin interests, was quickly snatched up by the wealthy Californian Sol Comp. went on to fame. In 1954, he drove horses into s'nn 771 20 worth of purses, -headed by Scott Frost, picked up at the yearling sales for $8,000. Scott. Frost was among the few 2 -year-old trotters to go a mile in 2.00 flat. His dart in Alberton tells of the first race Joe ever drove. "My own dad," said Joes's father, "didn't race horses. But he had a fine trotter and some challenges were thrown at him. Dad wasn't interested. but Little Joe sneakc'T the horse out of the stable, drove .him against one of the challengers in a race on which considerable money was tvr' gered - and won it." Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge S1., Toronto. Catvtrt DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG. ONTARIO Flow T Bag A Bird Here, surely, is the strangest sport of all - shooting eagles from an aeroplane! It is some- thing Australian woman pilot Mrs. Charles Walton has had to Icesort to in order to help a Wend whose sheep farm has (leen the object of attacks by wedge -tail eagles. Before her marriage Mrs, Wal- te% was Nancy Elird, one of Aus- tralia's most distinguished wo- man pilots. Recently she was staying at. a 55,000 -acre sheep farm at Ennis Downs, 900 miles north-west of Brisbane. Her hostess was bemoaning the loss of her sheep, so Nancy decided on an unusual course of action. She made openings in Hie side of her plane, so that she could fire shots through it, ok to the air, and in her first outing "bagged" four eagles. ... Now owners of other home- steads have taken up the idea. Seven light aircraft are now op- erated by station -owners and their wives in the Ennis Downs area, which now has four air- strips, a service station, and a i'ulltime aeronautical engineer. Needed Stimulant A familiarcharacter on Wall Street someyears ago was a colorful broker named P o p Schwed. Pop loved nothing bet- ter than to reel off aprocryphal tales of his youth in the wide- open town of Goldfield, Nevada, jjust after the turn of the cen- tury. There was one hellion there, he recalled, who went ber- serk every time he had six drinks inside of him, which was usually. An itinerant medico Persuaded him that if he didn't forswear all hard liquor . at once he'd be dead inside of two months. One evening the reformed character was in the toughest dive in Gold- field, disconsolately sipping a beaker of ginger ale, when a prospector sashayed to the bar. pumped his faithless wife and her paramour full of lead, shot out the lights as a parting ges- ture, and vanished into the night. The paralyzed silence that fol- lowed -was finally broken by Pop Schwed's reformed f r i e n d. "Waiter," he barked hoarsely, "for God's sake! A double order of ham and eggs!" REALIZED! Very few of us realize our boyish ambition. In fact a chum of ours has. He wanted to be- come a pirate when he was a kid. He's now a topnotch lawyer. UNITED GREETING - Artist Antonio Frasconi shows his sone Pablo, 3, cover which he has designed for the United Nations' Christmas card, Flags of the United Nations surround a polar projection of the world, symbol of the Unilted Nations. "Season's Greetings/' in five languages, will be imprinted within the folded card. Proceeds of card sales will go to U,N.'s Children's Fund, BY HER OWN BOOTSTRAPS - "Monitor" experimental craft built under Naval contract, skims across Lake Mendota, on hydrofoils. The ladder -like devices supply lift in the same fashion as do the wings of a plane. They raise the craft about 30 inches above the water when it is under sail. Monitor made a land speed of 30 miles per hour under.a,moderate (15 miles per hour) wind. Her trial speed bests that of the hitherto speed -queen of sail -the Catamaran. Jealous Lover Set Mad Bull On Rival A man was dismissed by his employer, so he burned the fac- tory down. A wife found her husband with another w. man; she attacked her so viciously that her victim went to hos- pital. Revenge! Next to love and hate, and possibly fear, it is the most powerful emotion in the world. It destroys both reason and common sense, rouses primitive passions which civilized beings have learned to control. Carried to extremes it becomes a form of insanity. Terrible and almost, incredible are the depts to which men and women sink when their pride is hurt. In a London suburb there is a girl who was once pretty but whose face is now disfigured with livid scars caused' by re- venge—the viciousness of ` the young man she turned' down. For several months the two had been on friendly terms. Then he asked her to marry him. She refused; he argued. At last to placate him • she agreed they would spend a final evening together. On the way home he flung vitriol in her face, miraculous- ly without damaging her eyes. ."So much for your beauty!" '-1e jeered. "Now you'll never find a husband!" But vengeance needn't neces- sarily take the form of violence. A man I know was intensely jealous of another who was ex- tremely popular. He spread the stor„ that the object of his dis- like had been in jail for a par- ticularly wicked offence., A vicious lie, but it worked. In- stead of being welcomed as us- ual the v4ctim found himself ostracized. Worried and puz- zled, he sought the reason, and was able to refute the horrible accusation. But mud sticks. It was too late to repair the damage entirely. One of the most frightful tragedies of revenge occurred in Arkansas. A farm-hand was sacked for associating with his employer's youngest daughter, a girl of sixteen. He shot the father, the mother, the girl ,ler self, and her two younger sis- ters and brother. Then he com- mitted suicide. In a peaceful country pub a number of farmworkers were playing darts. Suddenly there was an .argument. "You never could throw straight," one of them sneered contemptuously. He was in a nasty mood, and the man addressed was quick to respond. "My aim is as good as yours!" he retorted aggres- sively. In a second he had his an- swer. The first man hurled a dart -but not at the board. 11 caught the other player full in the eye. Two cdwmen figured in an even worse case of revenge. Employed on the same farm, for several years they had been close friends. Then the farm. er's wife engaged a ne'v maid. It was the old story. She was young, pretty and very flirta- tious. The two men fell for her charms, and were soon suspi- cious of each other. The girl was highly delighted. The situation appealed to her vanity. The climax came when her two admirers were moving a bull from one stall to another. Normally it was ,reasonably docile, as bulls go. But sud- denly it went mad, pawed the gound viciously, then charged one of the men with savage fury. The victim was hurled into the air, landed heavily on his head -and died. It turned out that the other man had deli- berately infuriated the bull by prodding it with a pitchfork. A husband in a small Mid- lands town resented of all things - his wife going to church. He himself preferred to potter around the garden or to read the Sunday newspapers. t'lecupations for which y o u would think his wife's presence was scarcely necessary. Yet her churchgoing annoyed him. He hit on a plan. "No clothes, no church," he thought. And so on the following Sunday the wife was unable to find any suitable garments. Her husband had hidden them in the potting - shed. She was puzzled and then furious, guessed what had hap- pened. But the husband had underestimated a woman's de- termination. She beat him -by going to church in an old jumper and a pair of slacks. Asked the reason by her curious friends, she told the truth. They were sympathetic, and so was every- body else. Her husband became a laughing -stock. In • a very different case the husband received the sympathy and the wife the contempt. After a quaere] a Frenchwoman decided to teach her husband a lesson. While he slept, she sawed partly through his wooden leg. Going down the stairs the fol- lowing morning the unfortunate man felt his false limb give way, and he had a nasty tum- ble. At the top of the stairs the wife laughed maliciously Others were not amused. The wife was scorned by her neighbours. Then there was the odd affair of the office -boy who was tick- ed off by the senior clerk. "I'll have my revenge, you beast," he muttered darkly. Easy to talk -but how? The boy solved the problem -or so he thought. It was his job to fetch the tea. He put a large dose of salts in the senior clerk's cup. The man took a sip, made a grimace, then caught the office- boy watching him, and became suspicious. Come here!" he growled. Then he forced the lad to drink th horrid concoc- tion himself -with dire results. That revenge went wrong, but another inspired by a sim- ilar reason didn't. Instead it resulted in a serious accident. An apprentice who had come up against the foreman re- moved the brake -blocks from his bicycle. 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