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ATFORD IRRG STRATFORD, AUG. 26, 1932 No. 13 : Average Man Would S Say ~ Ontario Had Advantage 'The average man in the street would 'say that Ontario has an advantage in living next door to a dry country. He * would probably be thinking of the tourist trade when he said it. It is to be expected that thirsty Americans, . living in neighboring states, would Ws naturally | think of Ontario when plan- ning their vacation. Besides offering them a change of scenery, fishing, - poating, and all the outdoor pleasures _ which o with the vacation season, - Ontario offers them an opportunity to quench their thirsts within the law, and without the danger of being pois- oned. , ves When Canadian distillery stocks Mee shot up with President Hoover's an- _ mouncement of a change in his views _ toward prohibition as it is now under- : stood in the United 'States, Canadians : were somewhat surprised 'and looked z for the answer. The Border Cities Star, being next door to Detroit, was interested, and a has the following to say: _ "If and when the States go wet -- and the betting is that fhey'll go wet, or rather wetter, mot long from now-- 2 Canada will immediately, if not soon- er scrap the statute forbidding legal : _ export of liquor and there'll be great and good demand for these products o of the Dominion wherever an honest American foot is placed on an honest American brass rail, or the equivalent thereof. It takes quite a while to make good whisky. This is where Canada has the jump. Millions of gallons are in storage over here, wait- img for the word "go!" 'So promising -- 'is the outlook, in - fact, that it would not surprise us at all to see another distillery establish- ed in the Border Cities ere the crack- ed ice accumulates in the river. Just a guess, of course, but paste it in your hat so-that we can say, 'We told you a ha In The Realm of Sport Kitchener has been responsible for a thorough mix-up in the second schedule of the Central Ontario Box Lacrosse League. After notifying the local team not to go to Kitchener for the first game of the schedule on Friday night last, the Kitchener team arrived in Stratford for the return game on Tuesday night, despite a previous notice that they had dropped out. The same information had ev- idently been sent to the president of the league. *» * *& Stratford refused to play the Dutch- men on Tuesday night, as they were totally unprepared for a game, so the first two games of the schedule stand unplayed. es s 8 ¢ The locals journey to Brantford to- night, and will doubtless buck up against tough opposition, as the Brants have a wealth of material from which to select their team. It is likely though that a number of their Indian stars will be missing from the line-up, as the little formality, of get- ting amateur cards will prove trouble- some to the red men who: have been playing Sunday lacrosse. The first home game here is on Monday night, when Red Brown will trot out his Hespeler squad. Hespeler loomed up as an aggrega- tion which was just as good, if not better than Brantford. The loss of their Indians should not weaken the Hespeler tea mgreatly. Night baseball has been given a trial in both the United States and Canada, but it remained for Brant- ford to force pre-breakfast baseball " Sense and Nonsense'"' "story| Local officials of the C. N. R. have discovered however that one of the speediest ways of increasing the traf- fic over the local lines is to have a wreck down around London. * * * aM title of tonight's bedtime story _ the children will be "Back to thin a Week." Now pleas- * Kxasihin for gee riding sent a Toronto ao to jail for twenty days = hi Stratford huntsmen have declared themselves as in favor of an open season for partridge. The only Part- ridges around Stratford are respected citizens. ecco eae on page 4) In the last series,. on the Stratford Nationals. In view of the fact that the Nationals had to play thé Brantford Red Sox again in the afternoon, and were defeated, as everybody expected they would under the circumstances, the inauguration of pre-breakfast baseball would seem to have worked out very successfully for its sponsors. x» * & Baseball teams just can't seem to play ball. in the morning, snatch up a hot dog, ride forty or fifty miles, and climb out on another diamond to minutes for warming up. It just isn't done in baseball apparently, and the Nats. are no more iron men than the ordinary run of teams. * * * Outside of inaugurating something entirely new in the sport world Brantford's excuse for forcing the Nats. into an early-morning game, followed by another one in Brantford ' immediately after, is that Stratford had conspired to have a Saturday game so they could clean up at the gate. Any person who was here Wed- nesday and Thursday knows that base- ball was out of the question. On Friday it rained again, and the dia- mond was in poor condition. Heavy storm clouds threatened all day, and the management wisely decided to call it off. Had they been anxious to call it off on Wednesday, the Ingersoll team would not have been here ready to go ahead, even after the ground had been soaked in the morning and again after dinner. oe... Be While amateur spont cannot be run on theory and idealism, it would ap- pear that Brantford is placing just a little too much stress on the financial end of it, when they force a team into the type of double-header which Strat- ford was forced to play last Saturday. * * & See. The most soothing balm for the rightful indignation of local fans would be the elimination of the cocky Red Sox at the hands of the Nats. That very desire will likely take a capacity crowd to Dufferin Park tomorrow afternoon. play a championship game after five | Regard The Stade Race As The Oldest Contest In the ancient great Greek athletic contest at Olympia the first event was always a foot race, called the stade race, according to Science Service. It was a dash the length of the stadium and was about twice the length of the 100-meter dash of the modern Olym- pics. ' The Greeks regarded the stade race as the oldest contest of the Olympics, and. Professor Walter W. Hyde of the University of Pennsylvania, who has studied ancient Greek athletics, found that the stade race was continued throughout the long series of Olym- piads of ancient Greece. Three other races were usual at the nationak games of Greece, although many var- jeties of foot races were developed from time to time. There was the» diaulus, or double race, that requires the, runners to go from one end of the stadium to the other and back again. This race cor- 'The Greeks also had a long race, or ,dolichus, probably an outgrowth of the practice of Sending messages by swift runners. This ranged in length from less than a mile to about three miles. Just as the marathon today is a test of endurance rather than fleetness, so the long races: of the ancient Olympiads were for the dem- onstration of physical fitness rather than speed. Increase In Leather Footwear Output Old as it is, the adage "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good" seems to hold true today, because they are not riding, people are walking, and that seems to be helping the boot and shoe industry. According to an in- dustrial report there has been an in- crease of 10 per cent in the output of the leather footwear industry in Can- ada for the first quarter of the cur- rent year as compared with the cor- responding period of last year. During the first quarter of this year 4,390,813 pairs of boots and shoes were produced in Canada as against 3,991,- 810 pairs during the corresponding period of 1931. One way to keep your old car from being stolen is to insure it and leave it unlocked and hope for the worst. AJESTI 'THEATRE | 'The Best in. Talking - 'Pictures NOW PLAYING Jack Holt -- Ralph Graves 'War Correspondent' They lived and fought for thrills and love. MONDAY -- TUESDAY DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM WARREN WILLIAM in ** SKYSCRAPER SOULS ~ --AND-- CAPITOL FILMS present TRAGEDY OF EVEREST ~ WEDNESDAY ANB THURSDAY DOUBLE FEATURB PROGRAM BUCK JONES in "HELLO TROUBLE" --AND-- Ben Lyon--Joan Bennett in " WEEK-ENDS ONLY" responded roughly to the quarter mile 'l of modern athletic contests. i