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iN a os A 1 'fodder for the sports well informed on the game. afoot, College headed b in the matter of a playe: reached. is 9.3, Some people : Hockey Not The Fastest Game Clim Lactose Players Species ® Back in the roaring 2's, when. the National Hockey League's tentacles were reaching out into American cities, the late Frank Calder asked this agent to an outa weekly publicly sheet, sonful. ockey news, Jiro player-fac : and such -- uid that ages at those new hockey points bring the gospel of the game closer home to a public not so At that time, in a burst of enthusiasm, we termed hockey "The World's Fastest Game," and that was a banner-line used in the publicity sheets for years. No one disputed the claim, It -was taken for granted that hockey was the speediest of all ~ games, because of a belief that skaters travel faster than men 'After all these years, we are told we erred. Toronto's Sport Reg. Percival leaves few stones unturned etic research, and in a letter to this column, ! Percival declares against the theory that hockey is faster than, > say lacrosse, He writes: "I have read comments and seen esti- mates that, state a hockey player travels from 40 miles per ~hour up to 110 miles per hour. % "This is not true. We have tested and {imed many hockey including the fastest in the N.-H.L,, and find that ap- pro tely 23 miles' an hour is a maximum rate of ed e speed reached by the average player is co ably lower than this, This rate of speed compares equally with the spéed that can be reached in ordinary running, g = Vo 2 "A further interesting note is that the world's speed skating record is 9.4 for 100 {is and the sprint record for running elieve that hockey quickly than do runners, but this has also been proved a |. fallacy. A runner afoot (such as ! stop and start again much more quickly and can.make sharper | -- turns and changes of direction. "If you take measurement standards of speed and distance covered during a game as the criterion, it is impossible to claim at hockey is. a faster game than lacrosse." All of which we find very interesting, and if the Sports College findings are correct, then lacrosse is entirely welcome to take over our original line "The World's Fastest Game." might provide and so » " - der- layers start more aerosse player) can also There used to be a time when one of our main worries was milk fever in our cows. 3 From reports coming from the University of California it. is learned that at least in one test herd this disease has been licked. Dr. J. M. Boda and Dr. H. H. Cole of the University have used their special diet in a herd which had 'a high percentage of milk fever over a number of years. - ~The two scientists had reason- ed that the shortage of calcium in the cow's bloodstream which causes the paralysis so well known to most dairy farmers, is a result of the non-functioning of the parathyroid gland during the dry -period of the cow. During this time the cow can take the calcium she needs for herself and the growing calf out of her feed and the glands be- come relatively inactive. "#=" Keep Glands Working Dr. Cole and Dr. Boda came. to the conclusion that "the way to prevent milk fever would be to keep the parathyroid glands in good condition while the cow is dry." + : ' This was to. be done by feed- Sole Support <= A bad casa bf fallen arches could put the skids to this Italian circus formation in Rome, One man is supporting eight others, Geont 'em. PLAIN HORSE SENSE. | By BOB ELLIS ing a ration low in calcium _and thus force the glands to draw 'more from the cow's bones. To further stimulate the parathyroid more. phosphorus: was to be fed. "The first group of cows receiv- ed straight alfalfa hay; this .means a calcium-phosporous ratio of 8 to 1. Five of the 14 cows went down with milk fever. The second group of 19 cows was fed oat hay, meal and cal- cium carbonate, pretty close the same calcium-phosphorus ratio as the first group. Another. group of 20 cows were given a ration in which calcium and phosphorus were balanced. Three out of the twenty showed symptoms of milk fever, I To the last group of 16 cows the two doctors fed their special ration of oat hay, meal and mono- sodium phosphates, giving them 3.3 parts of phosphorus to every e part of calcium, Not one of the 16 showed any signs of milk fever. To check on their experiment the doctors took eight of these sixteen and put them on high calcium feed be- fore their next freshener. Four of them went down with milk fever. : Keep Calcium Away These results: would indicate that the more calcium a cow re- ceives in*her feed during: her dry period, the easier she will be - susceptible to milk fever. The meal fed to the cows in- the- last group was mixed from 800 pounds ground barley, 600 pounds 'rolled barley, 500 pounds of .bran, 100 pounds of cottonsged _ meal, 10 pounds of salt and 40 pounds of monosodium phosphate which is a relatively cheap min- eral supplement, Eight pounds of this mixture were fed, per day to each cow, plus eight pounds of oat hay. In all probability brome or timothy could be substituted for the oat hay as they arg equally low in calcium. J The results 'of these experi- ments are by no means conclus- ive, but they sound 'convincing "enough to be worth a trial .in herds much plagued with milk _ fever, We remember the late Dr. Booth advocating the feeding of barley and bran to dry cows and the fertilizing of pastures and hayfields with super-phosphate. We also know from experience that: the more super-phosphate we used, the less trouble we had. This: column welcomes sug- - gestions, wise or foolish, and all criticism, whether constructive or destructive and will try to answer any question, Address your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1, 123 - 18th St., New Toronto, Ont. Earthquakes -- in Quantities Scientists now generally be- lieve that earthquakes are caused by the natural ageing: and contracting: of the earth's + grust, Previously many different explanations were put forward -- the effect of the moon on the earth's. gravitation; sunspots local weather conditions -- an # has even been 'suggested that oll in the earth acted as a lub- rloant, and its removal brought about earthquakes. But it has been found that there are about 30,000 tremors every year, most of them very" minor ones, and that the great - majority of them fall within two definite belts -- one down the west coast of North and South America, and the other stretching across the Mediter- ranean into south-east Asia and .-the Western Pacific. Britain has on the average 13 slight tremors every year, but they seldom do more than rattle the windows. Tremors are recorded on very . delicate instruments called seis- mographs. By comparing the time at which two separate seis- mographs record a movement of the earth's crust, a scientist can pin-point = the "centre of the 'quake before the news of it has arrived" . - er Sometimes the earthquake takes place under the sea. In- 1750 one occured some miles off the coast of Portugal, a 40-foot wall , of water swamped over Better Not Miss -- Bimbo, star Hi many, scores a bull's-eye with head of V. Trubke, his trainer, B ger of a circus in Munich, Ger- this spectacular leap over the imbo is probably just as thrilled as the spectators, because the stunt signals the end of the per- formance 3 for him. / tec - v Lisbon, _and "the effect on the -sea-level was noted across' the other side of the Atlantic, as well as in the inland waters of Norway and Sweden, - Who "was the greatest heavy- 'weight that ever lived? That's one sports argument that will never be settled. Nor will it ever be ended, for that matter, as box- ing=fans will probably be still arguing over it right up to the moment when Armageddon starts: LE * * ~ Dempsey -- Tunney -- Johnson -- Langford -- Fitzsimmons -- - John L. Sullivan. -- each and every one of them has his sup- porters, and all of them have - strong claims to the honor. But even if we do not, personally, put in with the Fitzsimmons clan, we will freely admit that Ruby Robert was, in his day, a very tough cookie indeed. LJ LJ * Imagine, it you can, one of our | modern maulers making a seri- ous offer to fight Ezzard Charles, Earl Walls and Champion Rocky Marciano ALL WITHIN A PER- IOD OF TWENTY-ONE DAYS. Well, that's what Bob Fitzsim- mons did, and almost got away with it too. Only the two that he did fight were considerably tougher than Charles and Walls. Here's how it came about, » » * = "I stand ready" Fitzsimmons announced, 'to take on both Gus Ruhlin and Tom Sharkey for the right to fight Jim Jeffries for my old title, providing all three bouts can be arranged to be fought be- _fore the Horton Law comes into effect," + * 1] * This 'Horton thing, we might explain, was due to come into -effect-on-September-Ist-and-would make illegal all boxing matches in that section of the States, . * - Well, both Sharkey and Ruhlin were willing, so it was arranged that #itzsimmons and Ruhlin good. .Gus. . -Sharkey; and it must be remem- were to battle at Madison Square Garden on August 10, 1900, with the winner to take on Sharkey' at Coney Island, And Jim Jef- ries stated that he stood ready to fight the winner of the Fitz- simmons-Sharkey-Ruhlin imbrog- Ho provided the match was set for a date prior to the deadline, September first. (Gee, nowadays, the boys would spend more time than that posing for pictures!) * * -® kd In boiling . heat a capacity crowd of 10,000 jammed into the Garden with Fitzsimmons, al- though a former champ, only a slight favorite. For Ruhlin, earlier that year, had -taken a' decision from Sharkey and, two years before, had held Jim Jeff- ries to a twenty-round draw. He was also ten years younger than Fitz, who admitted to thirty- eight, but was probably more than that. ® - . At the start, according to that Dean of Boxing Writers, Ed. Van Every, Ruhlin looked pretty In the midst -of a heavy exchange inthe opening round Fitz went to the floor, although some claimed that it was a push, rather than a punch, that did the upsetting. Also, an after-the-bell smack in the eye sent the old champ to his corner looking a bit dazed. However, after that it was all Fitzsimmons. A body smash in the second had Ruhlin groggy, and--although he made an occasional rally, a left to the head and a right to the body in the sixth spelled curtains for Be ey ._ -- Then, two weeks later at ihe Coney Island 'Club, Fitz took on bered that, only the previous November and in the very same ring Sailor Tom had dropped a very close and highly unpopular HRA Li .Narly Start -- Eleven-yeqr-old Stev the dachshund statue which he created. The youngster, who began modeling formal sculpture when he was seven, & having 2 _ his first one-man sculpture exhibition, 1 en Romm displays fondness for twenty-flve-round decision to Champion Jeffries. * Ll * Early in the fight Sharkey showing defensive skill he had never exhibited before. With a stinging right he sat Fitzsimmons flat on his Frances, and although Bob got up at the count of sev- en, he was pretty shaky. .Shark- @y opened the second with a rush but the fluvry was soon ov- -er. Fitz clubbed a right to the body that almost tore Sharkey apart and a follow-up left to the . jaw - sank the ship, Sharkey ner, and was unable to toe the mark for round three. L] * * So now everything was set for ~ the champiodship match -- ev- erything with one exception, When the Fitzsimmons party showed up to sign articles, Jef- fries' manager, William A. Brady, declined to ink his name. Brady contended that, with boxing 'having only six more days to go in New York State, and a Cor- bett-McCoy match scheduled dur- ing that time, the:.championship battle would have to go outside New York and at some later date. - Ll] * v And s0 vanished Bob Fitzsim- mons' chance to become the first man ever to win 'back a lost heavyweight title -- a feat which, fully capable of accomplishing had Brady 'and Jeffries not play- ed hard-to-get. x . kl " The Police Gazette strongly criticized the champion for side- stepping Fitzsimmons, and wos of the opinion Bob would have regained the title had the match with Jeffries been gone through with as planned. Sports Editor Austin = intimated sarcastically, that the champ might be ready to take a chance with Fitz once he had passed the 40 mark. $ L * Fitzsimmons fought Jefries two years later in San Francisco, And. he belted the champion around until his (Fitz') hands gave out in the eighth round. 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