Zurich Herald, 1952-12-25, Page 3tvert
SPORTS GEOMN
aote4 ptaeOttPt
e it's Christmas again And no matter
how hard-boiled and impervious to senti-
ment you. may think you are, or as folks
may be:leve you ars, and indeed as perhaps
you are, as a general thing, Christmas does
something to yott. It dui something to Old
Scrooge, so probably thu rest of us, who
live in a rugged, realistic world, where no one expects, or gets,
any the better of it, are not immune, either
As every Christmas approaches, you decide that this year,
you're going to take the attitude, but firmly. that Christmas is
only another Saturday, or Tuesday, as the case may be. This time,
you say, you're not going to go overboard for a lot of gifts—well
maybe something for a few little neices and nephews, but no one
else—and no partying, and running around to other folks' houses,
no receptions at your .twn, Just a good book, ruri up in front of
the fire, and relax.
Then the Christmas cards start to ,:ome :it+. You hear from
folks that, in many cases, you'd almost forgotten, from others who
form a bond of attachment in your life that, you strangely find, is
a great deal stronger than all the anti -Christmas resolutions you'd
mentally made. You see the light in a child's eyes as he peers
hungrily through a half -frosted window at the glittering array of
tempting toys grouped about a giant Santa Slaus who shakes
with rumbling laughter. Or you hear slel.gh-bells across the frozen
snow. Or the boys who sing the Christmas carols touch some
half-forgotten chord of other days that was :inking deep in your
memory.
And all of a sudden, you realize what you knew all along, that
there's a real Santa Claus, a real Christmas for all of us, in the
spirit of the season. It's something you can't escape. And when
you come down to it, who wants to? You'll go through with that
one resolution, though, to ctrl up in front of the open fire with
a good book. And the book will be Dickens Christmas Carol,
and you'll rejoice in the reformation of Scrooge, in the joys of
Tiny Tim, and all the :est of those folks in the greatest fictitional
Christmas story ever written. so poignant that it still can bring
a lump to the throat of one who has read it fr'nn boyhood, which
is more years back than be cares to think. 'And a day when you
can make the old wish that never seems to he -orae trite:
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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DISTILLERS IIMITED
AA4HERSTSURG, ONTARIO
Swarm. of Locusts
Stops Express Train
A swarm of locusts six miles
ilsmg has held up a Pakistan ex-
press train at Junshahi, seventy
miles from Karachi. The swarm
was so thick that it reduced the
d'river's visibility to a few feet
*nil he had to halt the train.
After the locusts had passed the
train resumed its journey to La-
:txere.
This happened abroad, but in
. r'itain a single earwig has been
known to stop a train. It hap-
ptened_,on the. old._District.;Rail-
.
may at I1ounslow years ago. The
earwig crawled into the signal -
keg aparatus and caused a short
avlcuit which kept signals at
manger."
3n the Malay States an ele-
phant charged a train. Although
it committed suicide in doing
go, it succeeded in knocking the
*engine off the line. Cattle which
estray on the track in Canada
can be a great nuisance; they
have sometimes caused fatal ac-
cidents to passenger trains.
Lions used to be a pest on the
Mombasa line running from the
coast up to Uganda. Again and
again they besieged lonely way-
side stations, imprisoning signal-
men and consequently delaying
trains.
In Italy dense swarms of white
butterflies have been known tie
settle on railway lines and stop
trains.
In French Guiana thousands
of little green• frogs. blocked a
railway line. Between . Rensj ons
and .Rautas;'"•Lapland,•Vii" Sassed -t"
ger train ran into a herd of 500
reindeer. Sixty of the animals
were killed outright or shot by
passengers and railway staff
after sustaining injuries.
"All exi;relneiy bright leen are
conceited."
He shrugged gracefully, "Oh,
I don't know; I'm not "
"Gee this is swell " exclaimed delighted 7 -year -o d Danny Welsh,
stf Valois, on seeing Santa's Workshop, theme of this year's
Christmas displays in Canadian National Railways Central Station,
Montreal. An added thrill for Danny was a warm and hearty
greeting from Santa Claus and other members of the official
party inspecting the exhibits when Danny came to •town, Six
fanciful floats and a tableau, featuring gnomes, toyland trains,
vliephant, racking horse, doll's house, jack-in-the-box, with motion
0 -plenty, have been set up in the gaily decorated station. Shown
with "Tiny Tim" are, left to right, Santa, Donald Gordon, CNR
president, Gordon Mct. Pitts, representing the Mayor of Montreal,
luted L A, Lapointe, director of departments for the City.
Porker "Model II" Takes the Prize—The Poland China hog, above,
was selected as Grand Chcimpion, Barrow sef the 1952 Interna-
tional Livestock Exposition.
You don't have to be so very
ancient to recall when Ontario's
own Jack Purcell was acknowl-
edged to be the finest Badminton •
player in the world, and when
Canadians, Yanks, and players
from the British. Isles pretty well
monopolized the top ranking
positions in that sprightly past-
time. But if' you happen to be
travelling aroundunder the de-
lusion that what we erroneously
call the "white races" are still
bosses in Badminton — Oh,
brother, take a look at the darned
thing now.
For here are the top ten as
ranked by Herbert Scheele, hon-
orary secretary of the Interna-
tional Badminton Federation,
secretary of the English Badmin-
ton Association and editor of the
official magazine "BADMIN-
TON." Mr. Scheele should cer-
tainly know his shuttlecock har-
riers if anybody should, and here
is how be rates them.
1. Weng Pong Soon, Malaya.
2. Marten Mendez, U.S.A.
3. Ool Teik Hock, Malaya.
4. L Abdullah Piruz, India,
5. Ong Poh Lim, Malaya.
6. Trilok Nath Seth, India
Jorn'Skaaiup➢' Denmark,
S. Eddy Choong, Malaya.
9. Cheong Hock Leng, Malaya.
10. Devinder Mohan Lal, India.
* 4. *
The preponderance of Malay-
ans in that list is eloquent testi-
mony to the supremacy of
Malaya in international play. The
south-east Asian country won the
Davis Cup of the Badminton
realm, the Sir George Thomas
Cup, when it was first competed
for in 1949 and successfully re-
tained it at Singapore this year.
0 * *
It is mainly upon play in this
year's .Thomas Cup competition
that Mr. Scheele has based his
reckonings. Twelve countries en-
tered and U.S,A., Denmark and
India traveled to Malaya to con-
test the zone ties for the right to
enter the challenge round. U.S.A.
won this elimination but in the
challenge round went down to
Malaya by seven matches to two.
Emerging as outstanding indi-
vidual star in that galaxy of
shuttlecock chasers was a 34 -
year -old Singapore sports goods
salesman, Weng Pong Soon.
a 0 0
He accounted for the Ameri-
cans, including champion Mar-
ten Mendez in a convincing
manner, and this feat plus the
fact that a few weeks earlier he
had flown to London and won
the English open title in which
the. pick of the European stars
competed, indisputably placed
hien. as the world's number one.
That London victory gave to
Soon his third successive English
title without conceding a set and
his championship of Malaya three
months after the Thomas Cup
finals was his fourth in a row
and seventh since 1940.
No one therefore can seriously
disagree with Mr. Scheele's first
placing. There are, however, a
number of people who have sug-
gested to him that he was not
sufficiently appreciative of the
Malayans overshadowed by Soon
and that more than six should
have been placed in the top, 10.
Ool Teik Hock, it is implied
should have been rated. above
Mendez to whom he lost in the
Pig Problem—Using oversize in-
struments, Arlington High School
math teacher Roderick McLen-
nan, at right, outlines details of
a problem in geometry to Wil-
liam Gregory, at left, and Ro-
bert Bloeker, centre. The super -
size method of teaching geo-
metry is being used here for the
first time.
.Thomas Cup iaal'beciause of his
more .imposing record especially
among top-ranking Malayans.
Mendez on the other hand had
in the period under review tasted
defeat against the new Canadian
champion Donald Smythe. That
is a moot point but what is cer-
tain is that of all international
ranking lists published this year
this one by Mr. Scheele will be
faulted least.
ry n 0
All of which goes to prove --if
anything—that those Malayan
Badmintoners are very badly in
need of a good Press Agent, be-
cause the one they have certain-
ly isn't getting them the space in
the Sports Pages that they de-
serve. If you had come right up
and asked us — before we read
the article from which the above
was lifted — what the principal
sport of Malaya was, we would
have probably answered watch-
InL the dawn conte up like thun-
der, and spearing flying fishes
and the like—although, now we
come to think of it, that was
Mandalay not Malaya.
e: d. e
Anyway, that will be enough
about Badminton for now — and
quite enough of this column too,
although there was something
else we intended to say, but it
has slipped our memory.
Oh—yes—now we remember --,-
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE
AND ALL!
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
The news that Harry had lost
his job spread around quickly,
and an inquisitive friend asked:
"Why did the foreman fire you?"
"You know what a foreman
is," Harry shrugged. "He's the
one who stands around and
watches the other men work."
"What's that got to do with.
it?" his friend wanted to know.
"Well, he just got jealous of
me," Harry explained. "People
thought I was the foreman."
A visitor to the village, watch-
ing a rustic fishing in a shallow
stream, noticed that for half an
hour the hook was never drawn
from the water. "Are there any
fish in that stream?" the visitor
asked at last.
1'No, sir, I don't think so," the
rustic replied. .
"But you seem to be fishing."
"Yes, sir."
"Then what is your object?"
"My object, sir, is to show the
wife that I've no time to peel the
potatoes."
sc His Trousers
in The High Road
Have you ever wakened up,
dripping with perspiration, after
having dreamedthat you were
walking down the street in
broad daylight without your
clothes?
For some 'unfortunate people
such. nightmares have come true.
Early this October, Mr. Dairo
Sichi was in Castle Street, Glas-
gow, when a car drove past and
ripped off his trousers. Trying
to hide his bare knees with a par-
cel, lie made for the nearest po-
lice station and was taken home
in a Black Maria.
A mall who probably sympa-
thized with him was the Irish-
man whose trousers were caught
in the Dome of Discovery escal-
ator. He was removed from the
trousers and wrapped in a blan-
ket while repairs were carried
out.
Golf is known for its hazards,
but a new one was met by a
Scottish doctor on the West Kil-
bride course, in Ayrshire. A flash
of lightning burnt off his trou-
sers.
Not quite so bad was the plight
of taxi-driver James Deeds. He
lost merely the seat of his pants
when he was helping a passenger
to unload luggage and backed in-
to a passing car.
If asked to describe his most
embarrassing moment, a certain
Danish amateur boxer would tell
you of his recent experience in
Copenhagen. He entered the
ring, took off his dressing -gown,
and the audience shrieked with
mirth. He had forgotten to put
on his trunks.
Red-faced, too, was the Can-
adian who woke up on a Toronto
bus to find that he was wearing
only his shirt. It was thought
that he must have beat) eicell-
walking.
dt much more rational explan-
ation was given during the war
by Squadron - leader Philip
Schneidau, who, in his under-
pants, had to report to the C.O.
of an R.A.P. station, Returning
from a mission, he was advised
by the pilot to take off his clothes
as they were coming clown in the
sea. The pilot miscalculated,
however, and they made a dry
landing.
Occasionally these involuntary
strip -tease acts have a happy
ending. In Southern Germany a
young motorist was amazed to
see a girl, clad only in her under-
clothes, chasing after his car.
Heavy traffic slowed him up
and she caught him.
She told him that the door han-
dle of his car had ripped the
dress from her back. The least
he could do was to give her a
lilt. By the eny of the journey
they decided that they were
mutually attracted, and last year
they drove together again—to
their wedding.
MERRY MENAGERIE
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