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Amazingly low priced from §99.50+ * Prices subject lo change wilh. out notice, Remington, Remington Arms of Canada Limited 36 Queen Elizabeth Blvd., Toronto 18, Ontario ONTARIO TODAY SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1961 y TRENT FRAYNE HE problem last July, which was the baseball (or golf or tennis) season, was that the horizon was cluttered by the mastodonic silhouettes of football play- ers. The problem here in September, which ought to be the launching pad for football, is that already the hockey players are perspiring in earnest. Once upon a time there were games for seasons and the overlapping minimal. Then somebody dis- covered there was gold in them there games and the promoters of the various professional sports began milking every last minute out of the calendar. Consequently, we have the ridiculous spectacle of junior-age boys playing hockey for the Memorial Cup in mid-May and we have exhibition football games (at full rates for the seat-purchasers) in July. A friend of mine told me recently about a trip he'd made in the fall of 1954. On Saturday afternoon he drove past Detroit to Ann Arbor where he watched the University of Michigan play a college football game against the Army. On Saturday night he watched the NHL All-Stars open the hockey season by playing in the Detroit Olympia against the Red Wings, and on Sunday he drove over to Cleveland 'and saw the Indians and the Giants close out the World Series. This weekend of my friend's came to mind recently when I watched an old ex-athlete on television pro- pounding a theory he'd obviously been through many times. The- athletes of today, he kept insisting, did not 'belong in the class of his era, and to nail down his case he repeatedly said there were no all-round ath- letes around any more, as there were in his day. "Look at Lionel Conacher," he said triumphantly. "Name me a man around today who can do the things he did." ELL. it's entirely possible that there are no Lionel Conachers around today -- but not for the reasons he was citing. Where, for example, would Lionel Con-' acher have been on the weekend my friend went to. Detroit? At his peak, he'd have been starring in one of Lionell Conacher \ CONFIDENCE BRAND NAMES SATISFACTION Why do you buy Brand Names? Because you trust them. You know that they are consistently good, that they always meet the high standards of quality you've set for yourself and your family. You'll find Brand Name prod- ucts wherever you go. No guess- work shopping. Like good friends, they're always there. Brand Names Foundation, Inc. MONARCH } SHUNTING KNIFE Wisin | wl 3.95 EXTRA SHARP! PIERCES METAL! Internationally fam- ous Monarch Hunt- ing Knife. Thick KOR- IUM STEEL blade; stiletto sharp! Even pierces some metals! Reindeer scene deep etched into blade. Giant size -- 10 IN- CHES LONG' Bone handle topped wtih metal hawk head. Rugged service. Skin moose, rab- bit, deer. 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If it were possible for this era to produce an out- standing multi-sport athlete, chances are that Gordie Howe, the Detroit rightwinger, would have challenged the greatest records of Lionel Conacher. Howe still works out occasionally with the Detroit Tigers in summer. His business partner, Al Kaline, the Detroit outfielder, says Howe has the reflexes and timing and power at the plate that make a fine hitter. Howe used to play ball in a semi-pro league in Saskatchewan in the off-season, and one year led the league with a 410 average. He golfs in the low 70s, with an occasional foray into the upper 60s, but he can only play the game between April and mid-September without it interfering with his occupation. In addition, Howe is an excellent 10-pin bowler -- and who'd like to fight him? TILL, there was only. one Lionel Conacher, and it's no more his fault that he played in an era when sperts did not overlap than it is Howe's that they do now. Conacher scored three touchdowns in the first east-west Grey Cup game, back in 1921 Conacher played championship lacrosse when that anachronism was a booming game, fought Jack Demp- sey in a less-than-abortive exhibition, played in the outfield for the International League's pennant champ- ions, the Maple Leafs of 1926 (a teammate was Carl Hubbell) and in the early 1930s he made himself into an all-star defenseman in hockey with the Stanley Cup winning Montreal Maroons and Chicago Black Hawks. But let's have no loose talk about modern athletes being inferior. The way the seasons pile on one another these days, there is simply no just basis for comparison. Football starts now in July's heat.