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â- WW"»W"' ' pill â- wanniiBmi "^^^^f^^wwfsusBttffnmmmi - 4' Haidget Crackup -During ;i midget auto racing program at Solditr's l-ieUl in Chicago. Duke Nalon, right, craslies into the car driven l>y Harry Turner after Turner's racer skidded on a turn and hit the inner rim of the track. Both drivers e'-caped injury. 8 Tk'^es^llriicte^otSriC'tio'a^u.ri /5HOIlT5f(7l^ m Spikes In the Dust VINCENT LUNNl Urry Iltll gobblrd up a bad hupping Kfoundfr and tossed the ball (<) sccoi <1 base (or a force play, ending an inning in tlie Hawk.s' practice gam*'. "Tha tlic old pcppir!" shout- ed I'liil Weston, second baseman. "Y»)iril be in the lineup regularly with me yet." Hell and Weston had playtd to- fMtber (or four years in the minors, l>eii)g nurtured carefully (or their big league iiebut. Weston made the team easily ; the Hawks had not started Hell yet in a league contest. A wild Irishman named I'at O'Toolc clung to the shortstop position. Starting the next inning <jI the intra-rbil) game, the Irishman went to sh<,rt and it was Hell's mm to hat. He hit the first pitch solidly into right field. The next man up got a piece of the ball. A slowridler! a double play ball. Dell left (irsv with the crack o( the bat. O'Toole. covering second. lerpcd to take the high throw as licll bore down. I lie hall inalud tula O'l vvlc's Itinf!,' uAd slriki-s yiislciiid in tlu- ajtcrnutiu sun. when III,- du.U sub- tidii!. llure was Hell willi his li<) hi liked iiri)Ui:d the haiiâ€"safe .' The Irishman didn't move. He lay inert. Teammates carried O'- Toolc from the field and later an ambulance look him to the hospital. The trainer said he had concussion and a sivrred artery in the leg. Joe .-\iiibl(, brawiiey ciiliher Strode up to lielK "You miserable rat! Vou spik- ed him i»i purpose!" he rasped. "You're crazy. Why wouM 1 do that?" "To get into tlu gamt. c( course." The Hawks, on a road trip, look series (roni braves, Dodgers and Ciants. .Now they were back at home facing the mighty Cards. In a tight hall game the score was tied, starting the last hal( of the ninlli. Hell's thoughts were j'Mnbled a-, he sat on the bench awaiting hi^ tjrn to bat. His mates hadn't spf)ken to him since the spiking, ancl with the eontinue<l ' silence a little knot grew in bis s'oniach. Weston led on the last halt o( the ninth with a rlean singlv and Amble sacrificed, pushing the tying run o second. Hell started toward the plate. "Where do you think you're were said going?" Silkirk signalled him to the bench. "I'lease, lemihc take my cut," he pleaded. Selkirk ignored him. "Aw, let the kid hit." The voice SiWii tm'" ''^- ilSSi ''' ^^'^ back o{ the dugout. O^oolc was stand- ing there, his head swathed in bandages. "They just let me out of the hospital," he t.splaincd. "As a (av- er, skipper, let the kid hit." Selkirk's eyes twinkled. "Okay, Bell, lake your cut." The shortstop sauntered to the plate and waited for the pitch. He worked the count to three and one. The tie.vl I'il'li hnd /.i"Ji. gond. It â- ,va.i . . . mid Hi II luiuuited A wiil- /ii/> to lenli-r field, storimj Weston stiiiidiny up. (J'Toole led the para<l( to the dressing room. Tlic big Irish mail went up to Hell. "Nice going, kul." he said. "I thought you two guys cutting each other's throats?" Weston. "We've never . . ." The Irishman interrupted Hell. "Didn't you guys know that Hell came to visit ine in the hospital a(tcr the spiking? well, he gave me a blood transfusion which probably saved my life." Amble's eves (lashed, "fhe least he could do after deliberately spik- ing you." "Deliberately? Is that what you guys thi\ik?" Several players nod- ded. O'Toult paused, "It was a pure accident. The hall hft nie on the tiniple. .'Ns a nnillcr of fad it caromed off the thumb of my (â- love, I (el! into Hell's spikes," Mountain Burninsr For 10,000 Years On a mountain some 2iK) niiks nortbvtrest from Sydney, -Australia, a fire which started about 10.(K)0 years ago is still burning and is likely to keep on hiirniiig (or many years. On maps, tin locality is Mount Win- gen, but the local folk generally refer to it as the "Hurning .\Ionn tain," To industrialists this seeming- ly endless smouldering is a pathetic waste, for the fuel which feeds it is coal. The fire hums on a front about a chain in width, and moves at the rate of three or four feet a year. Through numerous vents and cre- vices in the mountain side. gre.lf volumes of smoke and intense heat emerge. Tile earth arenind is toe) hot te> hanelle, yellow sulphur clings to the wails o( tlu vents, and all arounel the ste)nes have been burnt a ilrad whiteness. The Champlain Road Was Indian Highway Most of Onlaricj's main high- ways are bu» the Indian water routes o( yesterday 0( such historic routes the one that is most closely linked with the past is that known as The Champlain Roail, one o( the earliest and one o( the most trav- elled o( them all. And its assei- ciation with the d.iys of the In- elians anil the explorers is in the (act that, (or part o( its course, it can be travelleel only as it was 300 years ago â€" in a canoe. It was in 1615 that Samuel de Champlain, father o( New France, in search of an outlet to th'c west- ern sea, bla-;-<l a trail up the Ot- tawa River to Mattawa, across Lake Nipissing and down the I'rench River to ihe shore of Georgian Hay and on to the land of Huronia where he was to es- tablish a western outpost of New i-'rance. The romance of the Champlain Road was not dimmed with the years. It is still existent along the highway that now parallels the majestic Ottawa â€" in Ottawa, ;n the towns that grew along the river in the elays when the lum- btrinan held sway, 'ii the quiet forest and along its upper reaches, in North Bay. It is abundant after the highway is left behinel and the famed fishing wa'^rs of Lake Nipissing, the I'rench River and C.eorgian Bay are .eiliscovercd by the explorer ot today. * Y f T â- 1 -4 7 â- r Teeding Timeâ€" "Spot," a pointer, is a great hcl)) in hringing up a lO-wcek-oid moihi:rici>s fawn â€" he liolds the bottle for the Httle orphan. Floors of Rubber Claimed The Best What is It ttiat your house guests spend 37.17 per cent of their time looking at? According to the Rubber Manutacturers As- sociation, it's your floors And if you want your guests to remark upon the.m einly in compliment- ary superlatives, you'll install rubber flooring which, the As- sociation claims is the aristocrat o( floors. Ndw thai rubber is again obtainable in quantity, the industry has startee! a campaign to broaden the field (rom com- mercial to domestic use. Qualities claimed by industry representa- tives -(or rubber flooi ing arc: It's durable, easy to clean, doesn't stain, is com(ortable to walk on, and <tuiet. Wide Open .And then, remarks The Tort William Times-Journal, there is tbe woman in London, England, who has the post e.ffice stumpee:. She insists o. sending a pair of trousers through the mail at print- paper rate, pointing out that the rate applies to packages open ^t both ends, and that she doesn't know anything more open at both ends than trousers. Less than (our out of ten Ca- nadian homes arc eeiuippiil with central lualing systems CROSSTOWN By Roland Coe fit, • t H r«,wi)4*i,« ittvi rMi«i«l ? > - Iii-wti-.t, th? Couldn't wait till we got herel" WILL SEE US THROUGH Last year, in orn' of its several published statements. The House of Seagram said, "Canada's great record of price con- trol was made possible hy the wholehearted co-operation of the Canadian people with their Government's anti-inflation method.s. Tliis fine record should be maintained ... by moderating our pleasures, by controlling unessential spend- ing, vc c(i>ntiniie to serve mir Nati<^n and ourselves best." That statement ^ve rc|»cat today. We need only march stea^lily ahead • . . with continued emphasis on those habits of mitderation, self-control and ••cMiinonscnsc which are so happily â€" and fortun- ately â€" characteristics of Canada, and Canadians. Then this Nation ^vill stand secure <in the road to its yd greatest oppor I unities. ty^// ff^fi 0)f///t^/>/'S^.>/ir'/'JVU^\ &4)'a€fice ^^!i>{/er{ilicft 0oduf* THE HOUSE OF mWil POPâ€" This "Way Out! By J. MILLAR WATT THE OEST CARTOC>N I ST6. KNOW WHAT TO CEAVC OUT I THEY DONV LEAvc rc/.T ro- rt ,f £,'â- / * J â-  j I If. 1 ». T^( • I