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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. MAR. 26, 19M Calvert SPORTS COLUMN • It may be a trifle early in this year ot grace to start picking any "mosts" or "bests" along the sports trail. So we'll settle, right now, for a somewhat shaded "most", to Avery Brundage, the high potentate of amateur sport in America, as the "most daring" gentleman of this year to date. It happened this way: There was some discussion among amateur leaders to the general effect, that when the next Olympic Games are held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, they should be cut down to fit the size of the sponsoring country's ability to take care of the world's greatest athletic celebration. The high cost of- everything--food, transportation, equipment--in view of the ever-increasing number of athletes and officials involved, and the ever-expanding sports programs, was the cause of this debate. For Finland sustained a heavy loss, last summer in its Olympic venture. So the daring Mr. Brundage, practically taking his athletic, if not his human life in his hands, tossed a bomb into the debate by suggesting that the women's events be dropped from the Olympic program. He suggested separate Olympic Games for the women athletes, which, of course, could mean that women's participation in the Olympics was ended. For what nation would care to take the financial gamble of staging an Olympic meet for women only? The girl athletes will scream in fury if any such effort is made, for the competitions, engaging girls only, in a comparatively few years, has become a very definite and colorful part of the big Games. Of course, Mr. Brundage in self-defense --of which we believe he will need a great deal--could retort by pointing to history. For, more than 2000 years ago the women's Olympics were separate from the men's game, which women were not even permitted to view ! But times have changed since then. Women have become, steadily, a more important factor in the sports world, and to sprinting, diving, swimming, figure-skating, and other Olympic events, they have made a very definite contribution not only of feminine pulchritude, but of real athletic qualities. Mr. Brundage will find himself the centre of a great upheaval if he seriously undertakes to enforce this man-made idea. Our own notion is that Olympic transportation and other expenses could be sharply cut by every nation, including our own, if the teams included only those athletes who have proven they can equal the best Olympic standards, and have a real chance of scoring points. Then, too, regional or zone competitions might reduce the size of each nation's Olympic team. There were no fewer than 69 countries represented at Helsinki. Literally scores of athletes, male and female, verging on mediocrity by Olympic standards, get on board for the ride, every Olympic year. It's this excess baggage which runs up the costs, not the presence alone of the girl athletes, bless their Uttle hearts. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. Calvett D ISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURO. ONTARIO fa A SixbitCC A writer in a' large Canadian weekly recently made the statement that, for danger and excitement, the Grand National Steeplechase in England lays •way over any other sports event on earth. And maybe, he's right, at that; But we wouldn't mind making him a small wager that the sport of bob-sledding, as practised over in those dear Alps, runs English steeplechasing a dose second, or might even nose ft out. Now we do not wish to pose as an authority on eitner of these pastimes. The nearest we ever came to participating in the Grand National was tearing up sundry sweep tickets on same. And our experience of bob-sledding was pretty much confined to the back hill slope in Elora which ended out on the frozen surface of the Grand River. The latter was exciting enough, goodness knows, especially the time when we put too much trust in the thickness of the ice and ended up in about three feet of very frigid water. Three feet may not sound like very much water, but it's sufficient to wet and chill a small boy all over--and through. Stilll, we guess that.this Cresta Run in Switzerland may be a teeny bit steeper and--possibly a mite more dangerous. Here's the way it looks to a writer in "Answers." At the top of a steep slope of polished ice, a man wearing a crash helmet, gauntlets and elbow protectors lies face downwards on a steel skeleton. He is given a signal, and plunges suddenly downwards with a speed that may reach 80 m.p.h. If he is lucky, he lifts himself from his toboggan just one minute later, more than three-quarters of a mile away, 500 feet lower down. Into those 60 seconds on the Cresta Run have been packed more thrills and Oriental Patience in an Occidental Pastime--At the recent Sportsmen's Show in Toronto, eight-year-old Richard Matsumoto attracted much favorable comment with his skill in the delicate Oft of fly-tying. --Photo by Ron Sculthorpe r - 4*%/ spa Log Riding Dog--Peppy, talented balancing dog starring at a sports show, perches high on a chair-back for his master, Bill Fontana, of Fort Frances, Ontario. The man balances the floating log while his dog stands on the chair which straddles the bobbing The Cresta Run is the fastest and most testing toboggan course in the world. Early ever year, when continuous frost provides the necessary polished surface, it lures men from many countries to St. Moritz. Experts ride the breath-taking course themselves, and thousands more come just to watch. The hazards of the course make the sport as exciting for spectators as for riders. The sport reaches its climax on February 12th, when the riders compete for the Curzon Cup, blue riband of tobogganing. On the path of ice between banks of frozen snow are ten corners, banked so that they can can be taken at speed. The slightest mis judgment and the rider goes shooting over the bank. But the curves are only part of the story. The course has varying gradients cunningly designed to test the rider's skill. With his face only a few inches from the ice, he travels at speeds varying from thirty to eighty miles an hour. To steer he shifts his weight on the steel skeleton. He has no brakes except his boots, fitted with rakes which he digs into the ice. In this, the fastest sport in the world without engines, everything depends on the skill of the rider--and his courage. The course starts with a steep dive. When the rider reaches maximum speed, he is at Church Leap, and the toboggan momentarily leaves the ice. He "lands" and" continues. Every hazard of the course has its name. Battledore and Shuttlecock, perhap's most famous, is an S-bend where the rapid change in direction sends many riders over the bank. Those who suffer this misfortune qualify for membership of the Shuttlecock Club. One hazard is hardly mastered before the next is presented, until at the Cresta Leap the rider is airborne, a second or two before crossing the finishing line at the bottom. In spite of the dangers, serious injuries are few. In a long career that started in 1907 and included three wins of the Curzon Cup, Lord Brabazon had only one serious accident when he fractured ribs and his jaw. But bruises and abrasions there are in plenty, in spite of rubber "cushioning" to absorb the worst bumps, and heavy protective clothing. Spills are usually more spectacular than dangerous, but no one is allowed on the full Cresta Run until he has qualified on portions of it. The Run is opened in so that even experienced riders can work up gradually to the hazards of the whole course taken at full speed. For many years women have been forbidden on the Run. In addition to complete physical fitness, a rider needs an acute sense of balance and ability to make split-second decisions. Only experience teaches the fastest possible speed at different points of the Run under different conditions. RELIEVED IN A JIFFY "TCH D^D.p.^Prescriptton J^^^^kves^raw aEtaMess.f'"I^iaier)»ttktrmustesatisfy or monev back. Ask your druggist for D.D.D. PRESCRIPTION. For this reason it is a sport where the middle-aged often beat the young. Daring and courage alone are not enough. Lord Brabazon made some of his best runs after the War when he had passed his sixtieth birthday. The Run has to be built afresh each winter at a cost of several thousands of pounds. The snow is banked and water poured on the surface of the Run, where it freezes. The process is repeated until there is a thick coating of polished ice. An elaborate signalling and timing aparatus, electrically controlled, prevents two riders being on the Run at the same time, and measures the time taken to a hundredth of a second. Every rider dreams of hitting his best form at a time when the track is fastest. A hard-to-beat - record of 56.9 seconds was set up in 1935 by William Fiske from the U.S.A. Fiske's name is commemorated not only at St. Moritz, but also jft St. Paul's Cathedral, for five years later he became the first U.S. airman to die in the war. Aeroplane pilots and racing motorists often do well at this most unmechanical sport. The qualities of split-second thinking and judgment required are the same in racing on the ice, on the roads, and in the air. Medical Hint Help for the Paralyzed. Paralysis of legs and the lower portion of the body after injury to the spinal cord is not always hopeless -- not even when the paralysis has lasted for years. 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