' - pre. ati ala 0 1 Right Down In s prima one ta excel, in its s their sports. arch-enem clad in civvies, didn't get a schedule. hands warmly. was stunned silence. Then thi was for an event unexpected. thoroughly, warmly genuine. Before young position - El eA Rwy ger id ra 3 SH & las him again, even for that. No. : 'When Gordie Howe Stole Show Montreal ® Sporting gestures, in which this column i § That's traditional. There'll be many of them -this year, as. In every other year, 1 and professional sport will both contribute their quota. : : 5 But. at year-end, we doubt if you'll find ntaneous spirit, that developed in Montreal before a fanatic hockey erowd, one night last January, { You'll require a bit of background, appreciate this. Maurice (The -Rocket) ontreal sportdom, What Babe Ruth and Christy' Matthewson were to baseball; what Lionel Conacher, Red Grange and Thorpe were to football,.the Rocket is to Montreal's vast hockey public, plus. That January night, Canadiens were playing one of bitterest rivals, the powerful Detroit Red Wings, and as an additional attraction, if one was needed, Richard the Rocket was to receive the award in recognition of being the of 1951, so selected by and for an American magazine devoted to 80 it was, in reality, a Richard night, a Richard crowd, come to pay homage to an:-idol, But unbelievably, because of one spon- taneous sporting gesture the whole show was stolen by Rfchard's of the National League right-wing ice lanes, quiet, "hard-shooting young Gordie Howe of the Wings, who just then was battling Richard tooth and nail for the N.H. It wasn't that Richard, unable to play because of injury, and reat ovation when he stepped out on the rubber runway, while players of Red Wings and Canadiens stretched in a line across the ice pounded on the ice with' their sticks to make their own contribution to the occasion. It wasn't that Mayor Houde, a master-craftsman of words in such events didn't speak with eloquence. All that went smoothly as per routine When the presentation was finished, and Richard had marched back to the promenade and was just about to disappear into the erowd, Howe suddenly skated away from his position, wheeled over, and called out, "Hey, - Howe doffed his glove extended his hand, and the two rivals for top goal-getting honors in the National Hockey League shook It was a sort of genuinely unrehearsed spontaneous gesture that caught the big crowd completely by surprise. Montreal erowds are appreciative of dramatic moments and color in sport, and they of them. For a few seconds there -- erowd who had come to cheer the - Rocket blasted out a thunderous roar that even exceeded the warmth. with which Richard had been received, because this cheer felt, rightly, that here was od owe skated quietly back to his right wing on, a press photographer asked him to shake hands again with Richard, but "Howe, no actor, had already corntribiited a | sincere gesture,'and was In no mood to add any studied theatrical touch and shook his head smilingly, And after that, he went on to score the en with the ailing Richard. And the pro-Cana interested, dot the sports scene. Amateur perhaps, to more fully ichard, is the idol of im ockey Player L. scoring lead. Rocket!" When Richard turned, It. was a cheer unrehearsed, and fied! that put him en crowd cheered - \ i SHR waLTC T gale} Although our personal angling , J pretty much Ash and chip shops and St. Law- ] tence Market, what with the trout . 1 season just- about to open, there ' doesn't seem any reason why we shouldn't devote a "bit of space to the sport piscatorial, And, speak- - Ing of St. Lawrence Market--To- sonto--we might as well tell about a really funny incident that occur- red down there. J ox # Sid Perkins is the name of a very large sea-food stand down Se rs 0 INE 57 the grape, stood reading the sign. "Does that thing mean what : says?" he demanded of the pro- prietor. "It certainly does," replied the latter, ; Lo» * * "O.K.," said the inebriated one, "Just bring me Esther Williams." + » * According to Bob Turnbull, who Should know what he writes about, £ our Department of Lands and For- : ests is "considering some changes In the' legal lengths for game fish confined to the: NE there and overhead is a large sign 5108 reading "IF IT SWIMS WE A403 SELL IT." One afternoon a : gentleman, slightly bemused by" it | and in the method of determining said lengths. * * * ca As things stand now it is pro- per to measure a fish from -the tip of the nose to the base of the alk fork. What they are consider- ing now Is the adoption of a new method to measure from the tip of theinose (jaws closed) to the tip of the tail, with the lobes of the latter held together to give the maximum strength, - * * * t Legal length limits might then become -1I' inches (now 10) far smallmouth and largemouth bass; 15 inches (now 13) for walleyes; .32 inches (now 30) for muskies; trout--speckled, - brown, = rainbow and Aurora--to remain at 7 inches, since these have more or less square tails, Kamloops, a spring spawner, now also 7 inches, may be raised to 12. - * * x Most anglers will 'applaud such changes, In Otnario we have been over-generous to the angler in the foregoing respects, Many would like to see trout raised to 9 or 10 inches, -bass to 12, for anything under these sizes isn't worth keep- | TEST YOUR Bee Coe : 1. A facade is a: : . . No ont of 'a building f mall 'animal --Boer. War --American Revolution --Emily Dickinson 79 : --Charlotte Bronte . --Papa Dionne --Hon, C. D. Howe 8. Alaska was discovered by a: Total your points. A score of superar; 90-100, very superior. --Kind of food . Al 3. The author of the novel Jane Eyre was: --Dorothy Parker 4. Who said, "There's one born every minute?" --George Drew " ~Fish net 5 2. General -Burgoyne-was a British-officer in the: - a --Boxer Rebellion Eis --World War II --P. T. Barnum --Dane --Russian --Englishman ~Norwegian 6 Which of the following is not an official language of Switzerland: ~French ~Italian ~German --Spanish J. Listed below are four occupations and opposite them, jumbled up, " are tools used in those jobs. Match them, scoring 10 points for : © each corfect answer, ~~ : of g 3 (A) physician ~T-square (B) machinist ~stethoscope pag : . (C) draftsman yok, ~miter box Soiiiani (D) carpenter ~--calipers 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, ==Emily Posi 2 INTELLIGENCE | i : Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six Questions: ~ Doggy Playground--A little German girl readies her pet for a treadmill "solo" at-a playground especially designed for canine amusement in Frankfurt, Germany. Question is: Which rider Is most amused, The park project is aimed at keeping dogs off the 2 Eo city's streets. : N . nd ing, but for the moment we're happy to see a step in the right direction being considered. ' * * * 7 There are said to be something tike <5 million fresh water fisher- men- on this continent--and most of them are "rarin' to go." Some - of course, being bass, pike and 'muskie specialists merely marking time on the trout stream, much to the disgust of the brook, brown and "rainbow brotherhood, who complain that they <would be able competition if the "outsiders" - be eliminated. J * * oo» could The others retaliate by pointing out that they would be able to get better results from their min- nows and worms if the fly fisher- men . down the streams swishing flies, to anglers. * » High, cold and discolored waters provide normal conditions for the early anglers, and while they exer- cise their prerogative by complain- ing and by .mouthing loud vows * to remain at home on -next year's opening, there is an increase rather than a diminution in their numbers from year to year. Anglers, like taxes, are on 'the increase. In view of the expanding fishing pressure, many conservation agencies have abandoned. all hope of providing 'enough' trout te: keep their legions happy, -and are content if they can stock enough fish: to provide token sport. - * * * Eo Anglers are convinced, and some ichthyologists back them up, that trout do not begin 'active feeding c until the water temperatures hovér in the late 50's, and as opening of contemplative * ~~ "the very early 40's, the results usually conform to the theories. This argument will be settled in the .reasonably near future, for scien- tists of the University of Califor- nia ware - doing research on the matter, EL EE 3 The scientists expect to find out what happens in streams during the cold-water periods, what fish and what insects are available in the watery larder at this time. In addition to settling the cold-water- _ feeding dispute, the survey should be able to work out a means of regulating the insect populations of streams, thus providing more food for the fish, and, of equal importance, more fish-for the an- glers. a EE] DOLTRE J The spring freshets of the past _ two seasons have dane . consider- + able harm to the insect life in a number "of popular trout streams. the .movement of rocks and the . deposits of silt, have resulted in the decreasedef great numbers of insects' that provide food for trout and inspiration for fly fishermen. With the. destruction of these in- sects in the larval and pupal forms, can be affected for several years. Trout lost through such freshets can be replaced, but the re-stocking' of insects is quite a problem. * * * Thijs problem. was partially solv: ed by a small group of Pennsyl vania anglers a few years ago. although in the process of this activity passing motorists were | convinced they were in close pro: ximity to a group of escaped' luna- tics. When one of the small trout streams suffered from lack of in sect life, the group made some . crude "butterfly" nets, converged on a nearby stredm with abundant insect. life, and gathered thousands. of flies. The insects were impris- oned in closed trucks, transported to the fly-barren stream, and re- leased there. The results, in a few years, were reported to be highly . satisfactory, 2to--enjoy- more --solitude--and--less--}- were not moving up and' 'the peril of the eyes, ears and noses | day temperatures usually 'linger in eat, if anything, during this period The scouring of: the stream bed, - the insect population of a steam | HARD WORK Oriana Atkinson, clever wife. of Critic Brooks Atkinson,' accom. panied her husband to the "Soviet Union"and returned with a rather jaundiced view of the situation. She tells .of meeting one Russian distraught, "I'm overtired," admitt- ed the girl. "Pve gone without sleep for two whole nights rehearsing - tomorrow." girl who seemed very nervous and - for 3 spontaneous demonstration' += Wvarytiiig hat WHITaker | mile-long He Was A Big Man --So Were His Follies Wright did was on a grand scale. A range of hills spoiled Whitaker's view from his bedroom window had to be removed. : "One day he 'decided he would like an under-water - ballroom: Soon, there it was,. with a' glass roof so the goldfish in his quarter- artificial 'Jake = could watch the dancers below. This was Whataker's Folly -- one of the most extravagant homes built in England. It took 2,900 workers to put. up the $2,352,000 * house that could do credit to the "under-water ballroom, ton Even when he was found guilty of fraud in his stock exchange dealings and sentenced to seven years in jail, Whitaker was equal to the occasion. He swallowed sentence was pronounced. That was in 1904. Today the auctioneer's men are swarming over Whitaker's Folly, cataloguing the contents for auc- tion, The present owner, Sir John servants Whitaker planned on, 'Whitaker Wright was a big man in financial circles in the 1890's-- all 250 pounds of him. He floated companies like little boys float paper boats. He fraternized with the Prince of Wales, who became Edward VII .- But the authorities finally caught On. x - i : If it weren't for Wright's Folly, ~ gotten now. _ built a 74-foot-long bridal bed- 'room, with piano, (harp, zither, Chi- nese gong and 40-odd windows? Or the 32 bedrooms? Or the deer park closed in by a $100,000. stone wall? - But soon auction custemers. will hear: == "Who'll give me a bid on this fine, glass-walled, under-water bill- _iard room and cocktail bar?". _ | Will Not Shut Up--Releasing a flow -of choice turtle-talk, old shell-back of the London zoo lets the keeper know that he's not a bit pleased with that foot-high fence around his dwelling ES ATs ? Lest We Perish Another generation, not very far in the past, remembered well-these words of the Savior from the 16th chapter and 26th verse of St. Mat- thew: ! "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Today that text is shortened by many. It bécomes: "For what is a man profited?" The interest is in the profit, The soul seems forgotten, or perhaps just placed in a deep freeze. The idea is that expendables are expen- dable. #2 : Success is reckoned in material things: in money, or social position or political power, or even in her- edity. "He comes of a good family --a very good family," is often heard. The idea isto get "up there" by whatever means and to stay "up. there" by. whatever means: Indocgration begins early. Col- lege atifetics often become semi- professional at the best. The em- ' phasis is on winning--on having the best team and 'most famous coach --and there is no subterfuge. which is not attempted toward this end. The fever has even spread to the high _schools. Nor are -sports--the- only activity affected. The educa- tional system -- from a 'student standpoint--is frequently a system of getting by, not of knowledge. The young follow the bad example of their elders, : s 'While this is going on, the good citizen and the good neighbor lives his life, hardly noticed except by those who appreciate his worth, and they are few in the scheme of world ballyhoo., Good deeds do not shine far, Honesty, honor, kindness and integrity go unrecognized when the tabulation for success 1s "made. . The' Washington scandals shock ed the nation. But they did not occur overnight, 'They took root as moral fabric decayed. They flourished in the favorable atmos- phere of "what's wrong With that?" and "everybody's doing, it" And 4, J | -- known humorist grabbed the mike the indignation which greeted the disclosure of corruption will not produce reforms unless. there also a moral regeneration, -- "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" 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