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It was more annoying than funny at the
time, but, looking back now, we find a
certain degree of hilarity marked the end
of the Olympic Games.
And of all things, the laughs were pro-
vided by the sombre Russians. When they
were edged out on total points by United
States athletes, on the standard scoring system, they promptly
invented their own, and proved that they were the winners. It
was so childish, so obviously in the naive Russian mould of pro-
paganda, that at this distance, it's good for a chuckle.
• And it's our notion that the international importance of the
Olympics, aS' proving that any one country is physically better
than another is just plain silly. Ideally, the Games are competi-
tions among individuals; not between countries. Some countries
have these individual stars at various times, some haven't. For
popular consumption a newspaper scoreboard is kept. But
triumph doesn't necessarily represent a national superiority over
the countries which didn't do so well,
This being so, we're glad the United States won the mythical
title. For the difference between a Russian and an American over-
all points victory is that the Soviet propaganda machine would
have made this a tremendous spring -board for boasting the
decadence of the "imperialistic" countries, as compared with the
virility of Stalin's empire. America will merely boast its un-
deniably great athletes and attach no globular political significance
to the outcome.
Superiority is running, or jumping, or throwing weights
proves nothing as indicating one nation is more virile, stronger,
than another. If it did, then Czecho-Slovakia would outrank all
others, for they sent to the Games the greatest athlete of all,
]Emil Zatopek, the man who scored the unbelieveable triple. We
suspect that Russia went into the Games to prove what the
propaganda machines would label national superiority, and they
almost did it. We suspect, too, that the Soviet master -mind would
not have allowed a Muscovite team to enter unless they were
considered loaded; lest the cause of collectivism be set back by
defeats on athletic fields.
That's the reason there developed that childish stratagem,
a re -arrangement of the scoring values, to convince the folks at
home that Russia really won, but was robbed by the m'oney-
barons of Wall Street.
Let's forget any national significance •or racial superiority
that points -victory in the games might be taken to prove. Our
own Canada didn't get many points in the Olympics, but we
happen to think, even so, that Canada is a very swell country
in which we prefer to live in preference to all others, even if we
never score another Olympic triumph.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
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To nine Canadians out of ten
today the name of Ned Hanlan
means very little. They know, pos-
sibly, that he cut quite a figure in
some sort of water sport, and that
Hanlan's Point—a sandbar off the
Fort of Toronto, densely populated -
in summertime by sunburn -seekers
—was named after him. But that
Is about all.
* * *
But there was a time when Ned
Hanlan was a bigger athletic figure
throughout Canada than "Rocket"
Richard is today in Montreal; and
. although we never personally saw
him in action, we can well recall
a time when a barroom without a
large lithograph of "The Boy in
Blue" on its walls was considered
to be as poorly furnished as one
'without spittoons—we mean, of
course, cuspidors—on the floor, or
free lunch on the counter.
* * *
Froin time to time the noted
American author Samuel Hopkins
Adams has been doing some remin-
iscing regarding the State of New
York, particularly in and about Ro-
chester back in the 1870's and there-
abouts; and in the August 23 edition
of The New Yorker he has a most
interesting article about one Asa
T. Soule, who peddled a patent
medicine called Hop Bitters with
considerable success—it had an al-
coholic content greater than whisky
although the folks who swore by
it didn't know that—and also dab-
bled in sports promotion. And
sports promotion in those halcyon
tinges must have been no game for
a nervous man. "There is no sport
which is not contaminated and, in
large measure controlled by the
gambling fraternity. A square con-
test of skill is hardly to be expect-
ed" is the way that one Rochester
editorial writerput it, and lvir.
Adams comments that this was not
much of an exaggeration.
* * *
What especially intrigued us in
the article was the part dealing with
the famous sculling races between
Charles E. Courtney of Union
Springs, New York, and Edward
Hanlon of Toronto, billed as for
"the championship of the world"
which both mien claimed. The fol-
lowing quotes Will give you an idea
of how interesting the article will
prove to anyone who likes to hear
or read about sports of a bygone
era.
* * *
"Courtney—as a youthful carpen-
ter without rowing experience, had;
built his own boat, entered a re-
gatta at Cayuga Lake, and outdis-
tanced a large field of professionals.
Thereafter his career was checker-
ed, not to say spotted. At his best
he was unbeatable; at all times
unreliable. Once, just before a race,
some miscreant is supposed to have
poisoned his iced tea, surely an un-
usual beverage for an athlete to in-
dulge in at such r. moment. Another
time, a submerged wire wrecked
him in mid -course without leaving
any mark on his shell
Notwithstanding, he was the idol
of his countrymen."
* * *
"Hanlon, six years younger, was
simply and solely a first class work-
man at bis calling. With his clum-
sy, humpy and dogged stroke, so
different from Courtney's smooth
style, he had vanquished opponent
after opponent on both sides of the
Atlantic .. His one meeting
with Courtney had resulted in vic-
tory, but the beaten man's backers
emphatically considered the test un-
satisfactory and inconclusive, com-
plicated as it was by a near foul.
Those cantankerous characters Wil-
liam H. Vanderbilt and James Gor-
don Bennett came forward—with an
offer of a six thousand dollar purse,
which was agreeable to the two
oarsmen, But the financiers ;fell out
over some detail—and withdrew the
offer."
* * *
"Enter Asa T. Soule to fill the
vacutun—he and his Hop Bitters
Company would put up the stakes.
He summoned the rivals and their
backers to a meeting, at the Brack-
ett House in Rochester, the after-
math of which was a powrful
stench. The sessions were private
—but even so the Democrat and
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One At A. Time—Washington second baseman Floyd Baker throws
to first, attempting a double play, after forcing out the sliding
Johnny Mize of the New York Yankees. The play came in the
third inning of the game at the Yankee Stadium, but the throw
was too late to get the batter, Gil McDougald.
Chronicle • detected 'some very
curious shenanigans' . William
Blaikie, a former Harvard stroke,
was agreed upon as referee. His
was the only reputation which sur-
vived the event unsmirched."
* *
"As the day of the race approach -
Chautauqua became the sporting
centre of the United tSates. Gamb-
lers and sharpers from all parts of
the country converged on it. May-
ville, the principal town near, the
course of the race, swarmed with
underworld denizens----. Loose
females flaunted exotic finery on
hotel verandahs. Room and board
rose from five dollars a week to
twelve dollars a day. A local Pres-
byterian clergyman cried from his
pulpit, 'The seven plagues of Egypt
swarm about us, and Hell's foul rays
are focussedupon our unhappy vil-
lage.'"
* * *
"Betting was fast, furious and
variable—. Wild rumors kept the
odds wild. Hanlan was reported by
the Associated Press to be so out
of condition that he would not be
able to row before spring. Courtney
—suffered from ague and sore hands
.----. Two days before the race, an
unidentified man, who may or may
not have had inside information,
waved a hundred dollar bill from
the steps of the Mayville post office,;,
and offered to lay it against twenty.
that Courtney would not come to
the scratch. There were no takers."
* * *
We haven't the time or .the space
to quote more regarding the fas-
cinating preliminaries. Look up the
article yourself, or when the book
is published, don't miss it. But as
to the race itself, about which there
was all that ballyhoo, here's how Mr.
Adams describes it.
* * *
"Both contestants took the water
in apparently prime condition. At
the -start, the American spurted
ahead, rowing with his customary
smoothness and skill. The Canadian
quickened his lumpy stroke, and
crept up foot by foot. Thereupon,
to quote a poetic reporter, 'Courtney
wilted like a tender flower in the
harsh blast of winter.' The imagi-
nary headache was still with him.
Trailing his oars, he brought out
a handkerchief and laved hie fevered
brow with the cool watel., of the
Potomac. The next thing his in-
furiated backers knew, he had turn-
ed at right angles and wavered off
the course. Hanlan was declared
the winner and went on to become
the undisputed champion of the
world."
* *• *
So much for direct quotes from
The New Yorker article; and, as
the old-time preachers used to say,
"just one more word and we'll be
ISSUE 36 — 1952
done." Mr. Adams later remarks
that professional rowing had suffer-
ed a blow from which it never re-
covered. Personally, we cannot say
that we are greatly gurprised. That
bit about Courtney wilting like a
tender flower was enough to kill
any sport. Still, we wouldn't have
minded being there in and around
Chautauqua' those days some 73
years ago. Sounds like—crooked or
not—it must have beet,, fairly in-
teresting, Especially around those
hotel verandahs!
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