Oshawa Times (1958-), 4 Nov 1961, p. 26

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Or another of them may explain that if and when he risks a bob on the outcome, he's going to go along with the experts. "They know their business," he explains. The point we're groping for here (and eluding so successfully) is that football fans speak of experts as though they know where a nest of them lives, or at least could call one by name if an emergency arose. HO is an expert? A vast segment of the -population regards sportswriters as experts, and maybe they are, but the trouble is that most of them are loyal experts. Western experts tend to a slight partiality towards the west and eastern experts (after a thorough diagnosis, of course) note that the east can't lose. This makes them prudent experts, but not expert experts. Some years ago, in the days: before Grey Cup telecasts, a national radio pro- gram on the eve of the big game polled the -- ah -- experts, in this case a panel of eastern and western reporters and broad- casters. All the easterners picked the east and all the westerners picked the west -- except one, Jack Wells. "T think the Argonauts will win by two touchdowns," said Mr. Wells of Win- nipeg, the voice of western broadcasting from the Lakehead to Tokyo (where, incidentally, he's understood). The fact that the Toronto Argonauts did indeed beat the Winnipeg Blue Bomb- ers by 13 to 0 the next day made ao impression on the listeners back in Win- nipeg. Wells' wife was so overwhelmed by phone calls that she finally removed the instrument's receiver. His radio station was plagued by indignant callers, and for weeks afterwards people in pubs con- fronted Wells wanting to know why in Hades he'd picked the Argos. Did his call make him an expert? It did that year, but since then Wells has concluded it's net worth the trouble and each year, after exhaustive research and analysis, he picks the west. ODESTY almost but not quite pre- vents your correspondent from relating that he had a couple of brief flings as an expert, picking Winnipeg to beat Hamil- ton in the Grcy; Cup game of 1958 on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1961 | the old Jim Coleman television show, Hamilton to beat Winnipeg in Mayfair, Magazine, Edmonton to beat Ottawa in Maclean's Magazine, and the Montreal: Alouettes to win it all for Liberty. As it: turned out, Winnipeg did indeed beat Hamilton and we went around for several weeks reminding people that we'd picked the Bombers. In a more serious pursuit of expert' opinion recently, we fled to Hamilton when the Edmonton Eskimos played there back in September, and had a conversa- tion with Joe Ryan, the general manager of the Eskimos. If any man ought to be able to put substance into this nebulous term expert, Ryan is the man. He recru- ited the original Winnipeg Rugby Club,. the forerunner to the Blue Bombers, and' was the Architect behind the west's first: Grey Cup victory, Winnipeg over Hamil- ton by 18 to 12 in 1935. Later, it was he who put together the Montreal Alouettes who won the Grey Cup in 1949 after a three-year building job by Ryan. A year ago he moved to Edmonton, and thus has covered more than a quarter of a century of football development in this' country. "Where's the game headed?" we asked Whispering Joe, "What are the trends?" "More wide open," he replied ey, "bigger scores, more excitement." "What'll happen in next week's game?' 4 (After Hamilton, the Edmontons were scheduled to play host to the Toronto Argonauts the following week). "The Argos have a great scoring ma- chine," said the expert, Mr. Ryan. "They'll score 21 points on us, for sure, but I'll tell you this: we'll score 40 on them." A rapid safari was then made to the lair of Mr. Jim Trimble, of the Hamil- ton Tiger-Cats, and he corroborated Mr, Ryan's appraisal. "Definitely a trend toward offensive. football," said Mr. Trimble. "With nine men now eligible to block downfield, de-. fenses will grow increasingly vulnerable. Yes, I'd say Mr. Ryan is flirting with the truth when he says his club will beat Toronto by some 40 to 21." Armed with this invaluable intelligence, your correspondent mrade several judicious wagers -- Esks by two TDs; minimum of 50 points in the game -- and posed for five days as an uninhibited, fearless expert. There developed one small flaw: The Eskimos and the Argonauts played an 8 to 8 in. impartial,

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