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A letter written. to John Steadman, sports editor of the f Has One Staunch Admirer Baltimore Teresa's mother, Mrs. Joseph Ariosa of suburban Lutherville, explained how it began. carnival at Eastpoint in the hopes of raising enough money to start a summer program for the children, any price for a personal ap- pearance but he donated an hour of his time to sell tickets News-American, by In 1959, the Parents League or Aphasic Youngsters held a "John could.have demanded | "Although no one has ever told her just what a forward pass is, she knows John's pass- ing percentage. Once she fi- nally mastered using a pair of scissors, she saved every mag- azine piece that had even a tiny picture of John in it. "At the Maryland School for the Deaf, the other girls have pictures of the Beatles, movie stars and the like. Teresa has a picture of John. "In a room full of people, John will always find his way to Teresa and hug her. "Tf he sees her in church, he / tion of a national rowing foun- dation to help the sport in the United States was announced here Thursday. Among the trustees are Sen- ator Leverett Saltonstall (Rep. makes a point to sit near her. If he sees us without Teresa, he always says to send his love. Last year, he wrote her a let- ter. "All this for a little girl who may never buy a ticket, who/scal can't even sing his praises, ex- cept with her eyes, and who Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune; and Juan Trippe, board chairman of Pan - American World Air- ways. Organizer of the foundation is Don Spero, Diamond Sculls concerned, whelming consensus of the American that it should be solved by pri- vate rather roment initiative."" As far as the U.S. problem is he said, "the over- . fraternity is gove: has nothing to offer but love." He said the foundation, seek- an initial endowment of 000, will try to promote amateur by pro all kinds of assistance. It not have any governing func- tions and would be separate from the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen and from the college rowing bodies. winner at Henley, who said most major rowing countries have government - subsidized programs to finance crews and to provide coaching and equip- ment, as needed, on a national in, le. "Three notable exceptions are the United States, Canada and Britain," he said. "They - Think of a smooth tlow of power from back with Baltimore Colts. Joe grew up in Vankleek Hill, Ont., east of Ottawa, and began playing senior hockey in Cornwall, Ont., THAT'S MY BOY--Roland Joseph (Joe) Matte, former Canadian hockey player, poses proudly with a por- trait of his son Tom, quarter MATTE-ATHLETIC FAMILY Joe Was Hock about 1922. He turned pro in 1929 and retired in Cleve- land in 1943 where he now lives. (CP Photo from AP) ey Star, Two Sons Footballers {squeaked out a 13-10 victory Tom, who played quarterback in college, had been used as} Matte retired from hockey| halfback by the Colts until} ho the 'Wcvempalt Cuirvainak Johnny Unitas and Gary Cuozzo| millwright now has a "second| were hurt. lease on life in sports" thanks} Joe will get another chance) to his two sons. to watch Tom handle the Colts} The difference is that Joe's| Sunday on television from} boys play football. |Miami against Dallas Cowboys) Tom broke: date the sports|" the Pro Bowl between the) ' . |NFL runner-up teams. | headlines when Baltimore Colts) : : i of the National Football League|, Although he's a confirmed| lost their first- and second-string| football fan. now, Joe Matte quarterbacks through injuries] @vho pronounces his name Mat and had to switch Matte to pivot| While Tom is called Matty) says - from ck, ey, is the only game I ever Bru Matte. isn't as well Played. jo He's quarterback with| He grew up in Vankleek Hill, | Miami University of Oxford,|Ont., 60 miles east of Ottawa, | Ohio, and also plays baseballjand by the time he was 15 he well enough to have received of-| Was Playing senior hockey in fers from four major league| Cornwall, Ont. His family moved clubs jto Ottawa and after a season) "T never pushed the boys into|in Cornwall he shifted to the| sports," says Joe Matte, a na-|Capital and played defence for tive of the Ottawa Valley village| Ottawa Shamrocks, a junior of Bourget, Ont., who played| 'eam that won the Ottawa dis- briefly in the National Hockey|rict title in 1929. Sanne with Chicago Black! Joe Matte remembers playing Hawks and the old Detroit Cou-|@gainst Harvey (Busher) Jack- gars. son and Charlie Conacher when "T just Jet them go. I feel so Shamrocks met, and lost to, very proud of those two boys,|70rento Marloros in the East- though. They've given me a sec-|€tT Memorial Cup final. ond lease on life in sports." | TURNED PRO ay "Conacher scored five goals in UNITAS INJURED that series. I remember it was doe sees Tom play three or\a two-game series and we lost four times a year and gets to) the round 6-5 after-we-woen the watch Bruce a little more often./first game in Toronto." His big thrill was watching Tom| Jackson and Conacher turned) quarterback the Colts in the|pro the following season with NFL's Western Conference play-| Toronto Maple Leafs and hooked off which went into overtime|up with Joe Primeau to form before Green Bay Packers! the famous Kid Line. By JIM CRERAR | Canadian Press Staff Writer | It's more than 15 years since SPORT FROM BRITAIN | England's Fox Hunting | No Longer 'Posh Event' By JIM CONWAY jmuch prized achievement and LONDON (CP)--Fox and stag)exclusive hunts like the Quorn Matte also moved up to the NHL the following season, play-| ing with Detroit that year and! part: of the next before being sent down to Pittsburgh. When) the Pittsburgh club disbanded] a couple of seasons later he caught on with the old Canadian Professional League team in Niagara Falls, Ont. In the early 1930s he moved back to Pittsburgh and then to} Cleveland. "Cleveland owed me _three- quarters of my salary from the| year before, so I bought out my| contract and went to St. Louis."| He played defence, centre and wing for St. Louis of the Ameri can Hockey Association and in the 1942-43 season had a final fling in the NHL ith Chicago He pulled a groin muscle after 12 games and finished the sea-| son, his last as a pro, in Cleve-| land. | RETIRED AT 40 Matte, whose NHL career rec-| ord was no goals, three assists) and eight minutes in penalties, became playing - coach of a semi-pro team in Akron, Ohio, and stayed around for five years until he retired in 1948 at the} age of 40 | "My wife finally talked me| into quitting but I could have stood another year or two." job with a Cleveland brewery and in 1950 became a millwright. He became. an American citi-| zen in 1937. Both sons were born| in the U.S., Tom in Pittsburgh June 9, 1939, and Bruce in| Cleveland July 13, 1944 Joe's full name is Roland Joseph Matte but "the only per- son who called me Roland was! my mother." To everyone else he was sim- ply Joe--a throwback to his| uncle, the late Joe Matte, a de-| fenceman in.the NHI with Tor-} onto St. Pats and Hamilton from| 1919 to 1922 and later with Van- couver of the Pacific Coast League. | Another athlete in the Matte/ He sata i s2@-ZOt-8-} - engine to road with never a ripple.That's -what Oldsmobile's Turbo Hydra-Matic means Try it. The back of the seat seems to do all the work, You put your foot down, and the back of your seat gives you a polite but irresistible urge forward. Ease the pressure and the seat does likewise. All without jumps or jerks or awkward pauses. We could get technical, but do you care? What goes on, down there in front of the gas pedal, is mechanics. What you feel, is exhilaration. That, you will care for. Exhilaration. That's what Oldsmobile ts all about. a -- omer RS TSS SSSSSSSSSISSS ------ tis | hunting, once the exclusive|in Leicestershire are as difficult| family is Joe's brother Jock who sport of the landed gentry, has|to join as a St. James' Street| lives in Ottawa. He was Ottawa become the latest symbol of af-! club. fluence among the British mid- dle classes Each winter weekend thou sands of bankers, businessmen, stockbrokers and storekeepers| change their pinstripes for tweeds or hunting pink and follow the huntsman and his hounds. More than 40,000 people set out during the hunting season to chase foxes, stags, otters, badgers or almost any wild ani- But while hunting gains an ever-Wider appeal in England,! a growing body of anti-blood sport campaigners is in full cry,} headed by the 42 - year - old League Against Cruel Sports. The league claims it has roused national support during the last seven or eight years and has a membership of almost 15,000. The league tirelessly lobbies members of Parliament to in- troduce legislation banning hunt- mal unprotected by law. ing, which it consider a bar- By far the most popular vic- baric sport. Nine years ago it tim is the traditional fox. In bought 500 acres of Devon and England there are 193 mounted|Somerset forest land. for deer hunts and a further 30 that | sanctuaries. Members gleefully clamber on foot with their | ptong gd the successful prose- over the rocky Peak District! cution of a hunt for trespassing mountain area of Derbyshire. {on one of its parks while chas- A good season between No-ing a stag. vember and March can yield) A militant splinter group, 13,000 foxes, once prized. for|called the Hunt Saboteurs' As- their fashionable tail brushes, | sociation, formed two years ago but now just classed as vermin./by journalist John Prestridge, Sex is no barrier to the hunt-| has taken more dramatic action. ing field: 36 of the hunt "mas-| Its country-wide membership ters" this season are women. (of 5,000 organized in some 50 Hunting need not be expen-)branch groups uses disruptive sive for the casual participant./techniques ranging from sit- Herses can be hired far £4 to|down demonstrations at hunt £5 ($12 to $15) a day and|meetings to chemical sprays | non-members can hunt for as|and raw meat to put hounds off) little as £1 a day. the scent. | For the regular hunter, even} The usually autonomous hunts} if he already owns a thorough-| are relying on their two associa- bred horse, the initial outlay can|tions, the Masters of the Fox-| easily be £330 and annual costs, | hounds Association and the Brit-| including tickets to the tradi-'ish Field Sports Society, to de- tional hunt ball, are often more fend their sport in public each than £500. time the saboteurs and abolition- Memussonee iste strike. Ms ofany hunt is al |table tennis champion at 16, a Canadian junior lawn tennis finalist in 1939 and also played a season of football as halfback for the University of Ottawa. 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