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Zurich Herald, 1947-03-20, Page 6JUST IN SUN AU Changed "No more will I hear his foot- steps on yonder walk just as the clock strikes the hour of B." "Gracious, Jeannette!" "And the old parlor light will never burn low for him again," "You don't mean it?" "I do, and, furthermore, he will never sit on the sofa three nights a week and call me pet names as he has long been doing for two years." "I am astonished." "And tonight I am going to burn all the old love -letters in my trunk." "B -but why are you going to dis- card him?" "Discard him? Why, you goose I am going to marry him!" Definition A Continental endeavors to de- scribe the difference between clerks and managers as follows: "A clerk is a man who knows a great deal about very little, and who goes on knowing more and more about less and less, until fin- ally he knows everything about practically nothing. "A manager is a man who knows very little about a great deal and who goes on knowing less and less about more and more until finally Ise knows nothing about practically everything," He Was a ` o.rJd Champ in 1908 Remember Oscar "Battling" fightdom who won the world lightweight championshof the ip igreats0of 8? Well, the Battler is still in there pitching—here he is at Chicago's main post office, where hd's a clerk, w Your Hockey Stars —T '— By ED. FITKIN Once rated by Conn Smythe as the best all-round player in the N.H.L., Nick Metz is still a mighty Handy Andy for the To- ronto Maple Leafs. Now that Bob Davidson has retired from active participation, Nick is the veteran of the Leafs in point of service and is now playing his eleventh season as a Toronto regular. Born and raised in the sprawling wheat country •i around Wilcox, Saskatchewan, on Feb. 10, 1914, Metz learned his Nick Metz hockey with Centre Father Murray's Notre Dame Hounds. He came east to St. Michael's College in 1033-34, and it was the famed junior line of Nick Metz, Art Jack- son and Regis (Pep) Kelly which spearheaded the greatest Irish team of all time to the Memorial Cup championship; Between them the Irish aces accounted for 216 points in 35 games that season—including 135 goals. Jackson led the team with 52 goals and 38 assists; Metz was fourth (behind Johnny Ache- son and Drouillard) with 40 goals and 24 assists and Kelly was' fifth high man with 43 goals and 19 assists. `4I can't go another step—my sto- mach's killing me!" Erred Mrs. Brown was sitting in church listening to the sermon, when she remembered to her horror that she had put her Sunday joint in the oven without turning down the gas. She considered getting up and leaving the church, but then she changed her mind and scribbled a note and handed it to her hus- band, who was one of the side- men. He, thinking the note was for the minister, walked up and placed it on the cage of the pul- pit. The minister paused a moment in his sermon, picked up the note, and to his astonishment read: "For Heaven's sake, get off home and turn off the gas." Cheap, Accompanied by I,is son, Sandy entered a tavern, where he handed over a jar and asked for it to be filled with whiskey. When this had been done he found he'd left all his money at home. So, with a cynical smile, the landlord poured out the whiskey. "That wis an awful' peety," said the son when they were plodding home again. "Wheesh, son," replied Sandy warningly; "jist wait till we get Name an' see me squeezing oot the sponge." It Was For Him Jones: "Life is full of trials." Brown: "Yes, thank goodness." Jones: "Why do you say that." Brown: "I'm a Iawyer." Why? "How quaint the minds of child- ren are!" remarked- the late Jane Adams, of Hull House, one day at a mothers' meeting. "One New Year's Day I gave a little girl a present of a diary." "This is a diary," I explained to her. "Every day you must write in it a record of how you live." "The little girl turned the blank pages of the book, and said: "'But why isn't it called a livery instead of a diary, ma'am.'" Late Host: "Talking about Africa makes me think of the time--." Bored Guest: "Good gracious, you're quite right! I had no idea it was so late, Good-bye," Into The Fire The music master of a school near Bradford had been lecturing on Mozart, Beethoven, and other great musicians, when one of the scholars was struck by an original thought. "How is it, sir," he asked, "that musicians are always so ugly?" The music master looked em- barrassed. The seeker after truth suddenly realized with horror that his ques- tion might be taken personally, and he hastened toyymake amends. "Of course, sir," fie said, tactfully, "1 only mean good musicians." * * Metz, Jackson and Kelly turned pro en masse with the Leafs the following season. It looked as if the Toronto team had captured an- other breath -taking trio to follow in the footsteps of the aging Kid Line, but through some strange quirk of hockey, neither Metz, Jackson or Kelly was destined to develop into super stars of pro hockey. Or for that matter to function impressively as a pro line. After a couple of months with the Leafs, .Betz and Jackson were sent to Syracuse for seasoning. Kelly stayed with the team—but over the long run, Metz proved himself the best of the trio as a major leaguer,. Metz moved up to the Leafs for the 1931-36 season and has been a Toronto regular ever since—with time out for a two-year stint in the Army. Never a prolific scorer in the Big Time, the redhead from Wilcox has nevertheless proied of inestimable value to the Leafs and apart from doing a terrific if noir spectacular chore of playing shadow to the opposition aces, Nick has chipped in with some highly, important "clutch" goals over the years. * Probably his greatest contribu- tion to the Toronto cause came in 1941-42 when he fired what was probably the most important goal in the successful march of the Leafs to the Stanley Cup pinnacle. That was the shot that killed New York Rangers in the sixth game of the semi-finals at a point when Lester Patrick's defiant Blueshirts, twice behind, had rallied to tie the score and apparently were on the verge of sweeping to victory. Metz ended that comeback attempt, however, when he scored the tie -breaking goal with only,SIY SECONDS to play! That was the prelude to To- ronto's even more dramatic con- quest of Detroit Red Wings in the final series when they rallied, after losing the first three games, and swept to the championship by tak- ing the next four. As far as the Leafs were concerned, however, the title was won on Nick's goal against Rangers, come what may. They mobbed him, in the dress- ing -mom after that epochal goal, but Nick took it all in typical Metz style—without saying more than a couple of words. But Conn Smythe said enough that indicate just how valuable Nick was to the Leafs. "That Metz," he enthused, "is the best all-round player in the league. Be can play anywhere --and good. In any kind of going, You can use hint at centre, on the wings or At defense --and he'll give you all he's got, He was just the same as a junior and that's why we signed him." When he was with ry St. Mike's, Metz was a 60 -minute man—Often a 90 -minute man for the Irish that year ran into a few of those 30 - minute overtime marathons. He'd be on the ice every minute of every game and he was playing so much that the Leafs requested the coach to "ease up on the kid" before he burned himself out. Well the Irish idea of "easing up" on Metz was to shift him—when they • thought he was tiring—from the forward line to the defense! Not that Nick minded. The more hockey he got the better he liked it. He's been that way throughout his pro career, too. When the 1941-42 season ended, Nick went into the Canadian Army. Honorably discharged of 1944,hereturned to the Leafs and played a leading role in To- ronto's surprising Stanley Cup triumph. Against wartime puck chasers, Nick enjoyed his most prolific scoring season since his junior days. In league competition,. he fired 22 goals (he had never previously bettered 15), and had 13 assists for 35 points. A knee injury in a playoff game with Canadians at Montreal kept Nick side -lined for six games last spring, but he got back in time for the last three games of the seven - game Stanley Cup final series with Detroit and it was reliable"01' Nick who paved the way for Toronto's cup -winning victory. With the score tied 1-1 in the third period of the seventh and deciding game, Metz worked in close, fired a blaz- ing shot at Harry Lumley and Babe Pratt slapped the rebound home for the winning goal. VOICE OF THE' r EMS Just a Suggestion If you own or occupy a house with neglected surroundings, why not spend a few evenings preparing a plan for improvements this com- ing spring- You'll be surprised what a lot of fun you get out of it when you really get interested, And when you improve your home surroundings you do yourself, your neighborhood and your com- munity a real service. An active In- tercet in home beautification is the hallmark of good citizenship. —St. Thomas Times -Journal. Reminded Him A Montreal couple took their five-year-old son along on a trip to Niagara Falls for his first look at that tireless superspectacle. They trotted him up to the brink of the gorge, held bins firmly on the balustrade for a good look and awaited his reaction. The youngster stared long and silently, then declared: "1 wanna drink of water," —Maclean's Magazine. The British Soldier When the United Nations re- views the Palestine problem the world will be able to pay tribute to the forgotten Tommy Atkins and his misunderstood and thank- less task, There are many aspects of British policy in Palestine which call less for censure than for sym- pathy and understanding. —Winnipeg Free Press .Advice 'London Free Press says that where you smell a skunk in the back yard it means spring. We im- agine,it does, and the farther and faster you spring the wiser you are. —Ottawa Citizen Booketer is Customers of the Ideal Market, Lincoln, Neb., often come home toting a book in the grocery bag, says Pathfinder. Wedged b counters is a etween the store's 6001volume branch of the city's library. Like the mar- ket, the "booketeria" is self-service. (Book borrowers even figure out their own fines.) They like it, re- ports Manager Lyle Hans. And so does he. There was a definite hike in grocery sales the first two months 'after lee started satisfying "book- appetites." 311OO5IS ERAU IFtiLTA ri*RNXSHED $1.50 up What Coal Crisis Did The coal Crisis accomplished what Hitler never could do—forced suspension of such famous British weeklies as the Spectator, the Economist, the New Statesman and Nation. —Ottawa Journal. Would Want Dues Then if we did have that Broth- erhood of Man they'd want the dues taken from our pay envelopes, —Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph. Menace to All Provincial police intend to carry on an intensive campaign against motorists who drive one -eyed cars. Good. Such vehicles are a menace not only to their own drivers and passengers, but, to every other mo- torist and civilian on the highway. —Brantford Expositor. Picturesque She was only a photographer's daughter ---so she sat in a dark room and awaited development. —Galt Reporter Poor ,Idemory "There won't be another war - no nation can afford it," Gen. Eis- enhower says. But Ike seems to forget that lots of People who can't afford one car have two cars. ----Ottawa Citizen. Veterans Help Veterans One way to provide employment for jobless veterans might be to get them building homes for home- less veterans. —Port Arthur News -Chronicle. The Navy Cut Defence Minister Claxton has an- nounced that the navy will be evenly split between the two coasts. 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