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Zurich Herald, 1953-03-12, Page 3tq €Calved SPORTS COLUMN erc,(44-40,4e • There are those sports iotfo'wers who believe that, in matters of sport, the Cana- dian colleges have withdrawn. too much within themselves, by limiting, mainly, their athletic competition to inter -college play. Some critics even go so far as to in- timate that there should be, hi Canadian college football, a "bowl" game between east and west, played annually. This writer is not in. agreement with such theories. We believe Canadian colleges have struck a very sound perspective in their survey of sports, by making study the paramount thing. We think it will be a sorry day indeed when the only standard we have for collegiate superiority is the ability to win at foot- ball, hockey, or other games. Sports can be justified as sport in our educational system only when played primarily for the student body and by the boys who are enrolled through normal channels. These boys should desire to play as a normal phase of their collegiate life. We don't believe the day will ever come .in. Canada when, even in ratio, collegiate sport will reach the highly com- mercialized status achieved, by the American football teams In the myriad "bowl" games played on New Year's Day. There were at least 12 of these in the United States, ranging frons the Peanut Bowl in Georgia to the gigantic Rose Bowl show In Pasadena. Over two million dollars was netted, and turned aver to the competing schools and Conferences and associated institutions that shared in the cuts. That's all very nice. But if you happen to reflect on the situation; and get beneath the money, the roses, and the glamour, and the printer's ink so profusely spilled, it may suddenly dawn on you that these things have no educational value, that it may be an insult to the educational process to turn college`'boys into a trained act to be trotted out before the clamoring throng. But the golden ladle is there and the appeal is apparently hard to resist. So credit is due to those American schools which rejected this last act of mass entertainment and told their players to go back to their studies. This year's bowl extravanganzas were bigger and louder than ever, but each year the available cast grows more limited, as one smaller school after another, and some of the larger schools, too, abandon an enterprise which places the emphasis on physical power. So we should be a little proud of the fact that Canadian colleges permit no such commercialization of the students. Studies are the paramount thing, sport • a pleasant side -line, relegated to its proper place. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o advert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. Calvtd DISTILLERS LIMITED RMHERSTEURG, ONTARIO In the course of a long career sial a sideline onlooker — both geld and paying—at athletic pas- times, we have seen various cit- ies, towns and communities go what you might call fairly' goofy Over a variety of sports. In fact when we consider some of the igoings-on we have witnessed 'wt'hen, for instance, a bunch of professional athletes gathered from all over the continent wear- ing Winnipeg uniforms engage in a game of football with a similar bunch wearing Argonaut • sidforms, we have sometimes been inclined to think that the •asltinxate height of goofiness had heen reached. But, apparently, such a con- clusion would have been consid- atrably astray. Compared to the "say American basketball fans -lade their favorite sport, we Ca- nadians who bust a gusset over. k,ockey or football are cold, aloof and without enthusiasm. As wit- ness the following quotes from a>New York Times article writ- ten. by Kenneth S. Davis, who lives in Manhattan, Kansas, deep in the heart of the United States basketball belt. Take it away, Mr. Davis! A student of that peculiarly American phenomenon "sports fever" could not do better, right now, than visit this Kansas col- lege town where everybody is "nuts about basketball." The scene here is typical of hundreds of other communities over the country, though there are few perhaps where the mania is more highly concentrated upon a sin- gle sport. The syniptoxns of lun- acy may be slightly more ob- trusive this year than usual as Kansas State has been consist- ently rated among the "top ten" college teams in weekly national. polis. At 8 o'clock on a basketball night the huge $2,500,000 field - house, completed two years ago No Nicks Please—Well aware that a deep scratch would scrape off a lot of valuable metal, gold -bar counters and weighers -:heck government-owned gold carefully. The .24 -carat bricks etre balanced delicately as the gold is assayed. A truckload of bars already assayed can be seen at lower right, Where's The Bali?—Looking like people playing a game of blind man's buff, these three basketball players seek and reach in every direction for the ball' which seems to be floating off at far right. (one of the five largest college structures in America), is packed by 11,500 to 12,000 people, though Manhattan's population, includ- ing 5,000 K -State students, is barely 17,000. The main lights. go down. Only the court remains brilliantly focused, and two spots beamupon a huge American, - flag hanging above the court's center. Out of loudspeakers above the. hushed throng used to come e mellifluous .voice saying (until recently, when the administra- tion called for a slight change of script) : "Welcome to big. time. basketball as played in Kansas State's new fieldhouse." The starting players are introduced individually, each of . them drib- bling a basketball. out onto the court and passing back to the next in line as the crowd rears its applause. Then officials ;and coaches are introduced, the 'K - State coach, Jack Gardner, in- variably receiving a standing ovation. By this time ' the crowd is welded by a single excitement which maintains itself through tremendous peaks and sli ht valleys until the game ends. I personally seen and felt i ot1l;;, g like this save, perhaps, atl'i`g. two or three minutes of a • bull- fight, once in Mexico City. a a "s To partake of this intoxication people 300 miles away buy sea- son tickets, often driving to Man- hattan for a Saturday -night game, returning home that same night, then driving • over and back again for a Monday -night game. A Colorado alumnus of K -State last year arranged his return from a South American vacation so that he'd be in the Fieldhouse for a game which he'd heard might decide Big Seven standings. 3 0 Pregnant women in these pants have been known to insist upon a radio in the delivery room on game nights—a request the (*- tor, being as delirious as his pa- tients, does not deny. Few civic clubs, or church organizations, or women's clubs are .so foolish as to schedule meetings on basket- ball nights. Rare is' the hostess. who dares to give a dinner party On a night when the team. is, playing out of town without an- nouncing that "our radio will be on." Even the fine arts here reflect basketball fever. The public li- brary has been exhibiting paint ings by Hobart Hays, instructor in fine arts at K -State, and` his. show has been the most popular the library has had in a long time. It features oil paintings ,ef Jesse Prisock and Bob Rousey, key members of this year's five, in erten on the court. „ 9 n There was a lot of faculty com- ment when fans gave a, $2,000 silver service and a Chevrolet sedan to coach Gardner two years ago. "Jack doubtless de- serves the adulation of the fans," President James A. IvicClein de- ' Blared. "But it's regrettable that comparable recognition isn't giv- en such other members of our staff, as the scientists who de- veloped new wheat varieties which, last summer, brought.. our farmers well over $100 mil-' Ii01) of extra income." q •k 9 To which we can only add -- with a 'bow of thanks in the di- rection of Mr. Davis and the N.Y. Times — that, so far as sports goofiness is concerned, we in Canada "ain't seen nothin' yet" and have a long way to go, Still, we're a, comparatively young nation yet, so, as the late Dr. Munyon used to say, "There is still hope!" Modern e , Etiquette Q. Should the another of a • bride -elect or the inotlier of her fiance give a shower for her? A. Neither one of these per- sons should give a shower, as this would be in the nature of in- viting gift donations. Properly, only close friends of the bride should give showers for her. Q. Is It necessary to mail out engraved invitations to an open house one is holding in one's new home? A. No; this is an informal type of entertainment, and invitations may be extended either personal- ly or over the telephone. Q. Is It all right to pick up .a, chop bone with the fingers, when eating at the table? A. Never. If you are not able to extract all the meat with the knife and fork, then you should sacrifice it. Q. Shouldn't a man remove his topcoat before starting down the aisle of a church or theater? A. Yes. He should never go down the aisle disrobing. He should remove the coat and place it across his arnr before -starting down the aisle. Should he forget to do so, then he should wait until he reaches his row of seats. Q. Is it all right to mail out handwritten wedding invitations? A. Yes, if the guests are just a select few. However, if the guest list is sizable, I should think it would be easier and better to mail out the engraved type of invita- tion. Q. What is the proper thing to say when you have f ailed to understand or hear what some- one else has said? A. Either "Please?" or, "I beg your pardon?" is accepted form. Q. If someone asks you a ques- tion at the dinner table just at the moment you have put food into your mouth, what should you do? A. Be sure to wait until you have swallowed the food before you attempt an answer. You know only too well wbat it sounds and looks like when one tries to talk with food in the mouth. Q. When an engagement has been broken, is the girl entitled to consider the gifts and engage- ment ring the man has given to her as belonging to her? A. No; she should return all these. Q. 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