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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT. OCT. 14, 1954 r IE CftiVtrt SPORTS COLUMN • History will record the glittering feats that, more likely than not, will dot this season's world's baseball series. But history will have quite a chore if the feats in this year of grace excel for drama and colour and, unfortunately, the occasional blunder of a long storehouse of memories that dot the autumn classic. It is doubtful that this series will produce another such thrill as Babe Ruth's magnificent gesture of pointing to the seats in Chicago's Wrigley Field in 1932, and then socking a homer right there. There was only one Babe Ruth, and the pattern died with him. It is equally doubtful that this year's series will produce that rarity Of baseball, an unassisted triple play. The only one in World Series history took place in the fifth game of the 1920 Series played before 26,884 fans at Cleveland. It was fashioned late in the game by the Indians' second baseman, Bill Wambsganss who caught a line drive with two Dodger runners On base. Bill stepped on second, turned, and tagged the Dodger runner, unable to halt in his headlong dash from first base. That's baseball history and even the most casual fan will remember it for the impossible spelling of Wambsganss's name, if for no other reason. There was Pepper Martin's reckless base-running for St. Louis Cards "Gas House Gang" against the Athletics in 1931, and there were the Dean boys, Dizzy and Daffy, each winning two games for the Cards against Detroit in 1934. There was All Gionfriddo's circus catch of Joe DiMag-gio's 415-foot drive to the bull-pen gate in the 1947 Series that will remain forever with those who witnessed it. Bobo Newsom pitched a shutout in his second start in the 1940 Series for the Cincinnati Reds against-Detroit. Then, off the paths of glory, there was the famous third strike which Mickey Owen dropped in Ebbets Field in 1941, which permitted the Yankees to win the fourth game and go on to win the title the following day. And away back in 1912, New York Giants and Boston Red Sox were playing out a bitter duel. It was the last game of the series. Two pitching immortals Christy Matthewson and Smoky Joe Wood were tied at 1-all in the tenth. Giants gave Matty a run at the top of the tenth. Engel pinch-hit for Wood in Boston's turn, a pop fly to centre. Fred Snod-grass caught it -- then dropped it. Boston won the series. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be we/eomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. Calvert D. STILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO SPORTS It isn't only in spots like New York and Chicago that the noble sport of hockey seems to be taking it on the chin. Over in Bri tain, where once it seemed to threaten even soccer in the matter of popularity, things seems to be going from worse to lousy. According to Sydney Skilton, of the Christian Science Monitor, the lads are having it very tough trying to make ends meet; and In his report of conditions the tale of how hockey was ousted for shows like "Chu Chin Chow" CHOSEN - Gen. Chu Teh has been named vice president by Red China's National People's Congress. Chu is commander of Communist China's armies and a member of the powerful politburo. is highly remindful of New York where there is always the possibility of the team qualifying for the Stanley Cup -- you should live so long -- and then having to play home games on foreign ice because Ringling's elephants had squatters' rights on the space. B i g league sport. Imagine Cleveland Indians or New York Giants moving out for anything short of Armageddon. Or even for that, for that matter! So -- take it away, Brother Skilton. England's and Scotland's ice hockey promoters have at last come together. Necessity has driven them to form a British National League with which they hope to find public favour and overcome the adversities that have beset the puck game in this country since the boom period just after World War II. At that time a large number of leading Canadian professionals were here serving with the Allied Forces. They drew capacity crowds to the rinks. Their speed, their skill, their daring and above all their robustness created new-found audiences to ice sport and set a new standard. But it was a standard that nosedived suddenly when the Canadians returned home for demobilization. English rink promoters, especially in the metropolitan area, attempted to revive the standard by wide scale re-importation of Canadians, Scottish promoters although doing the same thing decided also on a policy Of fostering home talent. They decided that no team should be all-Cana- STRONG MIDGET--The glass reinforced plastic body of thl» sports car is lighter than aluminum and has greater strength than steel, according to its manufacturer. Called the "Sorpion," H weighs 1000 pounds and Is powered with a Croiley engine. It will also be made with a Jeep engine in the future. carf and a horsehair ed Korean tennis player. dian and that room ior at least two home trained players should be found in each national league team. The outcome was a rise in native talent, especially as most of these youngsters were able to operate without forfeiting their amateur status. This was a commendable policy but the English could not adopt it because of their larger rinks. In order to meet their extra overheads they had to have capacity, or near capacity crowds. Logically, in order to secure such crowds they had to provide the game crowds were prepared to pay to see. Such stuff came only when the squads were packed with Canadians. They were brought over as amateurs on expense chits at first but later as "independents." Home players in England never stood a chance of inclusion because their presence inevitable weakened the team and consequently the chances of winning the match. Losing sides, however courageous, just don't pull the cash customers. Thus the English and the Scottish went their own way but when it came to the international representative occasions, like the world championships or the Olympic Games, it was Scotsmen who occupied the bulk of the platings in the Great Britain team. Englishmen, however keen, seldom had a chance to prove themselves and those that did were quickly lured over to the professional ranks, usually on the European continent In this way Scotsmen began to dominate the home scene and when the English big rink owners found it even more profitable to present these mammoth ice shows like "Chu Chin Chow" Canadian performers in England found they had no ice to skate On. Some returned home, some were sent on tour and some, much to the disgust of their loyal fans, were obliged to play "home" engagements on rivals' rinks. Players were loaned and borrowed to the confusion of everybody and to the detriment of hockey as a genuinely competitive sport. That was the situation at the end of the 1953-54 season. A number of rinks decided to end with ice hockey altogether, while others decided to dispense with imported Canadians and try their fortune with native talent. One such as these is Streatham, the south London rink with one of the largest ice surfaces in the country. Streatham was one of the most successful combinations but despite winning the Autumn Cup last season and finishing runner-up in the English League it failed to pay its way. During the summer the British Ice Hockey Association and the promoters got together and the outcome is the formation of the British National League. It comprises four English and eight Scottish teams and to meet the additional costs imposed by travel a fund into which a percentage of box office receipts will be paid is to be created. The new league has much to commend itself. It means that for the first time the league is really British national instead of being either just English or Scottish and it means an end to the dreary monotony of the same teams and nearly always the same players meeting each Other week after week. Indeed, the new league might well be the salvation of ice hockey in Britain. Canadians, of course, will again be the principal boys of *the show and news of their signings appear daily. London's Wembley, for example, has signed defenseman Raymond Larouche. This 182-pound French Canadian from Chicouiimi captained Laval University last season in its championship success. Wembley, apparently, intends making a big bid to win this new championship. If this is so then this is the best news London's ice hockey fans have had in years because it will do more than anything else to retrieve the game from the shadow of the provinces to where the ice glamor shows have forced it. People IVIe&Ty for The Oddest Reasons Why do people marry? Because they're in love, you retort. Or, if they're older, for companionship. But it's not always so. The decision to wed has often been made for the most oddly unexpected reason. Possibly one can take with a pinch of salt the explanation given by a Lancashine woman. She told her husband she married him so" that she could warm her cold feet in the middle of his back. Another rather different attitude was expressed by George Montgomery and Dinah Shore, who married because "We like the same things and the same people. We don't drink and we don't stay up late." The motive for many marriages has been -- strangely enough, a desire to save expense. Bartholdi, the sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty, used as his model pretty Jeanne Bayeux. When he married her, it was widely believed he had done so merely in order to avoid paying her fees. Though there is a Scots proverb, "Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper," a good many people have. In 1953, when an Englishwoman was granted a divorce from an Ohio peanut vendor, she frankly told the judge her reasons for marrying him. "I desired adventure, luxury, a rich American husband and an escape from rationing," she declared. Similar sentiments were expressed by an Australian woman, asked why she married two men in the same year. "I wanted security," she replied. This isn't a purely modern attitude. In the 1860s, a famous woman journalist, Mrs. Lynn Linton, accused the girl of the period of looking for a banker rather than a husband. Sometimes people marry with not the slightest intention of living together afterwards. Some years ago in U.S.A. a wealthy young man divorced his first wife, married another woman, divorced her and announced his engagement to a third person-- all in one day. The marriage sandwiched in between was in order to give a name to a son born a year earlier. The idea behind a somewhat similar event in Las Vegas was different. Both parties hoped to gain financially. Immediately after their marriage Alex Bin-ney and the former Constance Fleet made tracks for the divorce court. It was only by becoming man and wife that they could benefit under a will, but the testator hadn't made any stipulation as to how long their wedded bliss should last. It is a frequent condition of receiving a bequest that the legatee should forsake his single state. A will was published only last July, in which a furniture manufacturer in his early forties was left about $25,000. This he must forfeit if he remains a bachelor. There is a time limit. He must marry during the lifetime of the testator's widow. 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