Zurich Herald, 1952-02-14, Page 6tit SPURTS COLUMN
eifveet o t,
40 THOSE EXPERT viewers of the
sports scene who record such things recent-
ly voted to decide who was the "greatest
l woman Canadian athlete of 1951."
We may be quibbling, but we believe
that while the selection was perfect, the
term used is incorrect. The greatest athlete
of the year, of either sex, is always a question to debate. But
if this ballotting was intended, as no doubt it was, to designate
the competitor who provided the most thrilling and spectacular
success of the year, there wasn't much doubt about the award.
The honor of becoming Canada's Girl Athlete of Distinction
in 1951 went, and quite rightly, to a snub-nosed freckled bit of
a girl, 17 years old and weighing 108 pounds, who undoubtedly
rated listing as Canada's most dramatic single figure of 1951.
This was Marlene Stewart, a poker-faced bundle of golfing
dynamite from obscure Foothill, Ont., who captured the Canadian
Ladies Close and Open championships at .Montreal's rolling
Laval -sur -le Lac links.
Marlene night go down in golfing history as the Little Girl
Who Played Like a Woman, For here she was, only 17 years
old, a mere slip of a girl who had never faced such crowds, nor
such competitors before, pitted against some of America's best.
Let us paint in a bit of the background to a Canadian girl
athlete's finest performance of the year. Marlene, the Mighty
Mite, in achieving the first "double win" by a Canadian woman
since Toronto's Ada McKenzie turned the trick in 1934, eliminated
Mar;orie Rowe and Mae Murray, two topnotch US players in the
opening rounds of match play. That set the stage for a gruelling
35 -hole final against Grace Lenezyk, two-time Canadian open
champion and one of the best women amateurs on the continent.
Wee Marlene held a sl.aky one-up lead at the 35th on the
tricky back nine at Laval, and headed for the final hole with the
knowledge that her powerful opponent was getting stronger,
having erased a one-time three -up margin The chips were down.
This was it. And wee Marlene stet the challenge. She 1 unched
her slim shoulders and boomed a tee -shot right down the middle.
Grace Lenezyk duplicated the feat. They both• made the green in
three. Marlene stroked her 18 -foot putt within incl es of the cup,
while Miss Lenezyk missed her i5 -footer and cnpccded Marlene
the match.
Youth marches on, in sport, as it always has done, but more
decisively than ever. In Canada a 17 year old girl becomes the top
athlete of the year. Across the line, by coincidence, another girl
still in her teens is named the United :Sates girl athlete of dis-
tinction for 1951. Maureen (Little Mo) Connolly, the second
youngest player ever to win the United States national tennis
championship, blazed her way to this honor 12 days before she
became 17 years old.
There seems to be an interesting moral in this continued
upsurge of youth in sport. It means, we think, that the kids are
getting into sports competition at earlier ages than ever be'ore,
and there's nothing wrong with that. It means, broadly, that
instead of a nation of onlookers, we're becoming a nation of par-
ticipants, which is a great deal better for both moral and p'•ysical
well-': sing,
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be r; aalcomecl '
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge 5'., Toronto.
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Ever since the start of the Kor-
ean War I have been carefully
scanning the headlines for the
above announcement (writes a
TIT -BITS correspondent), feeling
that the planners in their constant
search for square -meal substitutes
will have got wind of the fact that
the Koreans are partial to a tasty
handful of termites, which, in addi-
tion to their high nutritive value,
are alleged to have a,rejuvenating
effect.
The idea is not so. far-fetched.
During the Burma 'campaign in
the last war,o many men lost in ,
the jungle owed their lives to "In-
sect Rations," and were actually
briefed on how to live off 'the
country, with ant's eggs, grass-
hoppers, and giant caterpillars
forming a staple part of their djet!
As with everything else, it is
only a question of getting used to
the idea. I have eaten locusts mix-
ed with rice and pumpkin on the
West Coast of Africa, and thor-
oughly enjoyed them..
For centuries, many countries
have been insectivorous, and ex-
periments have proved. that many
of these meals have a high food
value. Certain insects have, in ad-
dition, medicinal qualities, and
there are thousands of tieop]e who
have eaten food coloured with
cochineal without realizing that
the dye came from crushed beet-
les! After all, we in Britain have
been eating honey since the day:
of tl.e Romans, and honey is a
secretion from iusccts.
In \Vest Africa: District Officers
• have been called in to quell pitched
battles over white ants. The na-
tives •wait until .the queens are
egg -laden, then raid , the nests.
Handfuls of the queens ares gather-
ed and eaten raw and wriggling!
Some of the natives helieve that
a diet of these queen ants, if eaten
by a wife, ensures fertilit, ,
In .Australia, too, the Bushmen
are ant -eaters. They dig for the
nests of the honey -ant and "milk"
the insects into their mouths.
Some of tl ese Aborigines even
make a "punch" by pulverizing the
ants in nater. In :Mexico, ants are
considered a delicacy and ant
honey is a ritual Wedding Dish,
Crickets and grass oppers are a
favourite diet in Mexico and
among the North American In-
dians: In times of grasshopper ,
plague, the insects are gathered
in basketfuls by the woolen, dried,
powdered and used as needed.
A missionary 1 'know whose
"parish" ' was in tl.e Dutch Haat
Indies ham' dine(: on a mixe(i "di; t
of fried silkworms cooked in oil,
with rice, curry, and a beetle sim-
ilar to our own seag-beetle, and
found the meal quite 'palatable.
China, fasted for its exotic dish-
es, lists everything from roaii
caterpillars, grasshopper j a m ,
white -ants' eggs • and centipedes.
which, when crushed in ti e mouth,
taste like apricots!'
. I've seen tinned rattlesnake on
'sale in this country. Perhaps to-
morrow may bring a recipe "New
Ways With Woodworms!" or
"Bottle • Your Beitics Now!"
Look Dad, Some Whoppers! * Twelve -year-old Luis Henrique,
proudly shows his dad what a good man he is with, the 30 -pound
net.. Luis is a commercial fisherman at Isla Verde, Puerto Rico just
like his father, but strictly after school hours,
All Dressed Up And Waiting — Ready and waiting for the 1952
Canadian National Sportsmen's Show, to be held in the Coliseum,
Toronto, March 14 to 22, are these 11 -year-old twins, Joan and
Beverley Turnbull, with Wanda Little Canoe of the Six Nations
Indians' reservation near Brantford, Ontario. With more exhibitors
than ever before, new attractions and features and a completely
different stage and water revue, indications are that the. 1952
Sportsmen's Show will be bigger and better- than ever. Show is
sponsored by the Toronto Anglers' and Hunters' Association in -the
interests of conservation. •
This Mother Was A
Real Individualist
`!'here are a few stories about my
mother in her advanced:«years
stories swell -known in the shall
Indiana town where she lived so
long—which will a little better. ac-
quaint you with her stalwart in=
divldualisnl and her witty eccentri-
cities ... .
One of .the typical stories about_
her was told of an occasion; in her
ninetieth year, when, cane in hand,
and a basket on her arm, she had
toddled down to the post office to
nail a letter. Consistent with her
frugally, she never bought more
stamps than she needed at the
moment. On this day, she asked for
a three -cent stamp and tendered a
twenty -dollar hill in payment. It su
happened that the post office's cash
t eserve was low, and they couldn't
handle that much 'money.' They
were quite willing to trust her, but
Mama abhorred iimebtedtiess and
the thought of owing anybody three
cents was insupportable..
Directly behind her ,stood a tall,
well-dressed, amiable man who
said: "Madam% if it will be a,, con-
vtnience 'to you, I can change your
money." She thanked him gracious-
ly; and when' the transaction had
been completed, she said: "I see
that you are a stranger among us.
I am Mother Douglas. Perhaps you
will tell me who you are."
Said he: "I am Reverend so-and-
so, the new minister of the United
Brethren Church."
Manta offered him a wrinkled
little hand and said: ''1 ant glad to
meet you, sir. 1 want to shake
hands with a preacher who is able
to change a twenty -dollar bill!"
My mother was conspicuously
old-fashioned. Never, in my recol-
lection, did she change her planner
of dress, or her. habits, or her
opinions. By refusal to alter the
fashion of her clothing, she claimed
that she could 'be in 'style—for a
brief 'period—once about, every
tweut.y years.
1 often tried to give her a few
modern conveniences in her little
home, but she preferred a primitive
mode of living, and had no use for
labor-sav'ng gadgets or electrified
giro cracks. -
When the Great Depression first
,struck,.and the banks all over the
country were closing, and people
by the -thousands were becoming
bankrupt overnight, Mama took her
'cane in hand and walked down
Monroeville's main 'street, first on
one side and then on the other—
• going into every place of business
-They tell me she shook her cane
in the face of each proprietor (with
alt of whom she had a first -name
acquaintance) and said: "People are
in a panic. They are taking all their
money out of the banks everywhere.
This is what makes banks fail. All
the money I possess is in the bank
here in Monroeville. I am not
taking out one penny, and I don't
want you to. If all the business men
leave their money in the bank, it
will not fail." I am happy to add
that the business men followed her
good advice and the bank con-
tinued to function.—From "Time to
Remember," by Lloyd C. Douglas.
Provincial Curling
Playdown Dates
rr Dates for provincial curling play -
downs in British Columbia, Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba were
announced in Montreal recently.
British Columbia leads off in the
play-off quest •which will end next
March in Winnipet; when champ-
ions from every province square off
in the round-robin competition for
the nation's most prized curling
bauble — the Macdonald's Brier
Tankard, emblt.matic of Canadian
single rink supremacy. Top curlers
from the Pacific Coast province will
trek inland to the mining town of
Kimberley for six days of compet-
ition which. will get underway on
.February 4 and end February 9.
Crack curlers from Manitoba, tra-
ditionally the province to beat when
Brier time rolls around each, year,
will start their own provincial elim-
inations at Winnipeg on February
7, with play continuing until Feb-
ruary 14.
Edmonton will be the scene of a
sudden -death battle on February 16
between northern and southern Al-
berta. champions, with the winner'
carrying, the oil province's torch at
Winnipeg. -
Battling for the right to tarry the
Saskatchewan colours gets under-
way late in the month at Saskatoon,
with play scheduled for two days,
• February 22-23.
Winners in each of the four west-
•
STRIKES versus TI -HE PUBLIC
llow can we prevent tie-ups in public utilities or in other industries,
such as tl.e dist!dbi tion of a vital food, where the convenience, safety
and sometimes even the life of the private citizen is involved?
That is a problem we must solve or we face a complete breakdown
of our society.
In recent months we have had some bitter and costly experiences,
We have seen our railroads paralyzed with every industry great and
small throughout the country immediately affected. We have seen
commercial transportation services in a great city and its suburbs
halted for almost three weeks. TI ere have been threats to 'shut off
fuel for cooking and heating in scores of thousands of homes.
This sort of thing simply can't go on.
What is the solution?
Compulsory arbitration without , stoppage of work has been sug-
gested and the Ontario Government, it is understood, is liow considering
appropriate legislation. But compulsory legislation without the•genuine
support of labor unions and workers would not he sufficient, There are
some ;things that a law cannot do or cannot do well. One of them is
to make an unwilling person work.
To really protect the public, as' one experienced observer has sug-
gested to The Financial Post, to prevent the private citizen from being
used as a pawn in industrial squabbles, essential services niust'be main-
tained. To do this when arbitration is rejected then means must be
provided'for:
The dismissal of those refusing to work or work satisfactorily.
• Effective policing to prevent malcontents from defying the lawrand
interfering with the rights of others to work and, finally— •
Provision for operation of essential services by substitute Help,' if
necessary by the militia.
In our complicated; modern economy the public is absolutely de-
pendent on• the continuous functioning of its great public 'utilities, We
must find a sure way of keeping them ftmctioniug.
—From The Financial Post,
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• ISSUE 7 — 1952