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3 | ed ih Sa Ta) aot SAG) ard ra HB § Te Hd Si - completely wrong ant sport in ollowers. x and Que] organization, which contest, that mem century ago. of the Bluenose C years, a Part 1: HOW CURLING CAME TO CANADA ou asked the average sports fan: is Canada's most popular winter - oe ; sport?", he undoubtedly would zeply; "Hockey." On ti l-sis of participant activity, he would be Probably 60,000. boys in Canada play hockey in some form or another. But 200,000 men, women and children are ourling addicts. It is questionable, indeed, whether any other articipi orth America attracts $0 many ardent It is well "over a century ago that the Royal Montreal Curling Club 'began to issue franchises to members trans- 'ferred to different parts of Canada. then acting as headquarters of the Royal Caledonia in Canada. Since then other provinces have set up 'their own curling headquarters although Montreal, the eastern part of Ontario bec generally are still par : took the "Royal" 'title in 1842 when Queen Victoria visited Scotland, 'and attended a curling Many clubs in Canada can boast of having. achieved the ripe old age of 100 years, or more. A r8 of a Scottish regiment stationed at Quebec introduced the game to Canada, using cannon balls cut in half to spin along the ice surfaces. Factually, it is known that the Montreal Curling Club was founded in 1807, and records indicate that the first inter- city curling match was played in 1835, between teams repre- senting Montreal and Quebec City. In proverbially Scottish eastern Nova Scotia, particu- larly in Pictou county, curling came i ) Scots who settled at Albion Mines soon after '1827 were first to play the game in that country, and' minutes ub in New Glasgow date back The Hamilton Thistle Club is 101 years old. Before this club was founded, there was some scattered curling in the district, As far back as 1838, Hamilton curlers were at a loss | how to get stones. A woodworker in nearby Fergus made a set of "stones" from ohrly maple, and these were used for ~ Next week:" Part II --Curling's Modern Growth Canada's Most Popular Winter a : Sport - Nol It Isn't Hockey =f by Etmer Pergussn is the first of two parts on anada's popular sport of curling.) The ancient club was t and parcel of the Scottish opular tradition is into being more than a to 1853. b A SuaiTC hg 4 1C For the past year or so sports columns have been full of tales concerning record-breaking feats. You could hardly pick up a paper without seeing headlines proclaiming that somebody had set a new mark for running, jumping, tossing the bull or some such, And yet until we fooked in the columns--of all placesl--of the Christian Science Monitor--we are unaware of What was possibly the most uusaal feat of all, 1 : Figure it this way. The number of those who haye dreamed about breaking four minutes for the mile would run into the thousands--and the same for the two-miles, weight-lifting and so forth. But literally millions of indoor athletes" have visioned them$elves scoring a "possible" in snooker pool--a break of 147, And yet, until just recently, not-a single one of them had made it. The man who accomplished it was Joe Davis. And Mr. Davis has this satisfaction, Some day, somewhere, somebody will un- doubtedly break Roger Bafinister's one-mile record. The same goes for all the others. But--unless they change the rules of the game _. =nobody, nowhere, can ever hope to do better than tie Joe Davis' proud mark. Fancy that, Armand! And now, for the low-down on what it is all about, we turn you over to Sydney Skilton. Comedian - faced 'Joe Davis whose cue artistry has delighted Britain's billiards and snooker's pools fans for upwards of 30 years, treated us to his broadest- ever. smile when he became the first man in the world to make a maximum 147 break. That smile radiated pride of accomplishment because more than 575 times the green baize maestro from Chesterfield has exceeded the century break and twice has he reached 146. The smile also radiated all 'the warming characteristics - of a man whose charm and modesty and ability and achievement have placed him among the na- * tion's greatest sports entertain- ers of all time. For 20 years he reigned undefeated as world champion at snooker, Then 'he resigned to "give the youngsters a chance" but he still' kept on for the joy it gave him, And the loy it gave others. ENTER HALL oF FAME--From left to rights Ted Lyons; Dazzy Vance; Jos DiMaggio; and Gab- There are few parallels to the 147 break at snooker, It is the acme of perfection and necessi- tates going to the table and put- ting into the pockets each ball in correct sequence and without making a single mistake, Only three other players in the whole world have ever looked like do- ing it in the three-quarters of a century the game has been played, They are England's Rex Williams, Canada's George Che? nier and New Zealand's Clark McConachy, who have all ex- ceeded 140, Being several years younger than 53-year-old Joe Davis they all can be expected to bring it off before they pack away their cues for the last time, * * . But to Joe forever stands that glory of being the first. It is only fitting that it should be so hecause no other honor has eluded this brilliant cueist who strode the game like. a Colos- Na DOWN SHE GOES--The bomblike device in the center, flanked by two scale-sized models, Is a supply parachute with helicopter blades. The device provides pin-point dropping of supplies into confined areas with greater accuracy than parachutes. The blades unfold from the sides as the unit is dropped from the bomb rack of an airplane, lowering the device at a slow speed. Material to be dropped Is loaded in the nose, which sticks Into the ground on Impact, or STTEmEET sus, dominating it like Bobby Jones did golf and' Paavo Nurmi did athletics. You can gauge his superiority from his collection of 575 century breaks, No other player, professional or amateur, has yet made 100 hundreds. His world championship reign, fol- lowed since by an-<almost non- - stop run of victories against challengers on a handicap basis, is a further example of his su- premacy.- *. _* + - ie Joe's snooker pre-eminence follows a sound grounding at bil- liards, the 3-ball precision game which the 22-ball bright and breezy snooker ousted from the tables. Back in his boyhood Joe . was a member of the local church institute at Chesterfield. It boasted a billiards table and every. spare minute young Joe had was devoted to the'study on it of ball control,-He was never satisfled with less than six hours practice a day and: when Davis senior was convinged that junior was really set on 'billiards a 'cue was purchased at 'a second-hand store. That cue became Joe's . prized possession and it is what he used the other day for the -- 147 break, * of " After becoming English na- tional junior professional cham- pion Joe at the age of 20 years came to London and challenged for the senior title, He received a severe chastening' from the reigning champion, Tom New- man, and went home for more practice. Four years later Joe was back again and so marked was the improvement that New- man was nearly toppled. The year after that, in 1928, the name of Davis was inscribed as cham- pion. It remained there until displaced. by the Australian, Walter Lindrum, in 1933. * * * Meantime snooker's pool, a game said to have been invented by British subalterns in India, suddenly began to find favor dfter being scorned by the staid- like Victorian and Edwardian - English The cathedral-like at- mosphere prevailing for billiards "play was not a bit necessary with snooker and the younger players fell for it. Professionals, Davis and Lindrum among them, sensing the swing, tried snooker as a filler-in at the end of ses- sions, The variety and:entertain- ment the pros were able to in- troduce in contrast to the exact- ness and, too often, dullness of billiards was an instant success. » * * Another reason for snooker's popularity is its 'simplicity. There are 22 balls to play around with and, consequently, many more alternatives than bil. liards. Snooker is largely a mat- ter of potting balls into pockets and controlling the ball with - which to do it. To the billiards purist snooker is a sacrilege but to Joe it has become merely an- other method of displaying "his cue and ball control. And how superbly he does it! by Hartnett have been elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. 2; : {t - Numerous times I ae] have watched him do the impossible. His" tflck shots never cease to amaze and he can make a ball rest on a postage stamp after traveling six times round the table and sometimes off of it. He makes it all look so simple, especially that favorite of his when he measures up with his eye, poises his cue on ihe bal}. turns to engage in conversation and "pots". the ball while look- ing away. Always it's a winner. And so was his 1471 SPRING "THONG" -- For young 'bucks to admire on those cool, sunny spring days is this warm, ret light, beige woolcoat with uckskin-strap closing and col- lar edging. It's being shown in Paris, France. Their First Rain In 374 Years: 1 Twenty inches of rain fell in twenty hours on the island city of Key West, Florida, recently. It was the worst rainfall in the city's history, and streets were flooded to a depth of four feet. Sounds a lot, but "scientists calculate that 125,000 cubic miles of rain hit the earth yearly, This rain falls to earth, they say, with an accumulated force equal to the explosions of six million tons of dynamite each second. If this energy could be harnessed it would generate as much power as three million tons of coal. We grumble at the rain, but how would you like to live in what ,has been called the wet- test place in the world, Cherra Punji, in the Khasi Hills of As sam, where 500 inches of rain have fallen in a year? Rainy Britain's average is around forty inches a year. Forty inches of rain once fell in Cherra Punji in twenty-four hours, In 1925 an American scientist who went to South America to study weather phenomena re- ported that sudden torrential showers had lately fallen in some parts of the continent which had not known rain since 1551, when Edward VI ruled England. It was the first rain for 374 years. It turned desert areas into a paradise in an incredibly short time, causing millions of hardy seeds which had lain dormant in the ground through years of drought to sprout and grow with amazing vigour, ~-teaching 'a" Kid the © to. go with their power. Jackie Robinson Looks Things Over In spite of the opposition still voiced by a minority group om the appearance of the Negro in professional baseball, Jackie Robinson is convinced that play- ers of his race are in the game to stay. "The fans have made it so," declared 'Robinson, in Boston as part of a. nationwide tour for the National Conference of Christians and Jews. "They have accepted the Negro and perman. ently established him in base- ball. They want him, so he will stay." Jackie's job of pioneering the arrival of the Negro in the big leagues is one of the greatest stories of all time and is told, at least in part-\by himself in three installments pf Look Mag- azine, : When asked to pick out one or two 'men most influential in helping establish him ada major leaguer, Robinson replied: "Pee- wee Reese helped me the most .on the field. He ws wonderful. I remember the very first day I started at second base, eight years ago. I think-it was right here in Boston, against ithe old Braves. Players were giving Peewee a pretty rough riding from the bench and he knew what it was all about. He, a southerner, playing beside a Negro. But Peewee stopped it . quickly by walking over, put- ting his hand on my shoulder and saying something in my ear. That's just one example, There were many others." Jackie is a stanch supporter of the Little League progfam for kids. "It's being criticized be- cause of the affect it has on the kids who lose," he said, "But there's nothing wrong with winning habit, It's the American way. I hope, they don't disband the Lit- 'tle Leagues. If there are prob- - lems, there must be solutions. "The Little Leagues are great for the pro game, too," he went on. "It's a program engaged in by the ertire family and that's a fine thing. Eventually, mother, dad, and the kids pay their way in the pro parks." Speaking of the pros, how did the Brooklyn Dodger veteran see the 1935 National League race? © "Well, we've got a well bal- anced league," he replied. "I think the Dodgers are going to win, naturally, in spite of a few question marks. I don't think the Giants will win the big - games as often as they did in '54. Milwaukee will be tough. Se will the Cardinals and Cincin- - nati, if- they get some pitching Pitts- burgh flgures to be much im- proved. There just aren't any breathers in our league like there are in. the American. "Losing Roy Campanella last year hurt us, but so did young Podres, who was seven and two on the mound before forced out by an injury." Jackie continued. "We didn't have that good left- hander that's needed against certain clubs. I think young Spooner is going to help us, He throws a fast ball at lot like Robin Roberts. It's always moving. You think it's going to be a strike, but it's a ball. "I'd like to see Cleveland win again in the Americag League, but I don't think.they Zean. I think you may en Yankees back in there. Chicaga could be trouble if it gets pitching. Ralph Kiner may help Cleveland more than people think, however. I haven't seen it. written any- where, but he was slowed by injuries all last season." What about Jackie Robinson in '55? "Well," he said, smiling, "I had only about two weeks last season when I wasn't slowed by injuries. The rest of the time it was rough, If I had another year like that, '55 would be my last. When I quit playing, I'll step out of baseball, I have a job lined up, but can't talk about it now. I have a nice home, wonderful family and a lot of good friends. Baseball has been very good to me." Why Eskimos Don't Fear Winter Cold When 1 looked out of my tent one morning, my eyes met a changed world; a soft layer of snow covered valley and moun- tain; only the precipice stared me in the face as black as ever. Snow! 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