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98 THE OmAWA Tima, Thurso, May 21, 1964 LEPT HOME AT 12 i 12. To a generation of ins on the Pacific coast, been a perenni: ice whose famil y they public ralds the start of another race. bg waged apig beginning of a little drama, foe beginning of ile cram, racing Short ~ nee he ran away from home 7 at 12 to "barnstorm and gypo" | ak caer ken sont With horses. ('I lied about my eset said I was 14,'"') Short, a pioneer in the field, broadcastt for 31 years, The first 7 reation with sound effects 'om a broadcasting studio, For e last 30 he has broadcast m Cibicilés on the roofs of agpeg stands, hat on the ack of his head, description tebe from beneath a trim fea it was a simulated re- ustache. * The consistently high level of Bis broadcasts reflects a per- sotial excitement that is con- tagious. . "I love thoroughbreds," he' explains simply. GACH A DRAMA * "Each race is.a drama. I what is going on down e," he says, speaking from @ year's experience with horses and horsemen. * "A rider may have to win for fome reason. An owner ma feed a win to meet a feed bill. know horses, I live with jorses. I know that some are Courageous and some not so courageous . . . These make the race interesting." + Short's love affair started ae an owner in. his native ctoria let kids ride his horses in eXchange for performing chores. Soon Short was spending more time at the sta- Bles than at school and even- JACK SHORT AT tually he ran away to follow the horses. -He was a jockey at tracks from B.C, to Mexico until he became too heavy. 'In those days you lived and slept with the horses. This was the true the life. It got in my blood. There were no phone bills, no taxes to pay." TRIED DANCING gypsy life... . I loved When he had to give up riding for a living the gypsy life led him briefly into adagio dancing along the fairs circuit followed) "I was really frightened for to the $2 backer. by the horses. Soon he became the youngest|/asked myself 'What am I doing minutes. Until the finish, he's horse trainer in North America,|with my life?'"' Veteran Race Announcer Has Loved Horses For 40 Years got a job selling refrigér- ators and in two years was leading the field in Depression- hit northern California. In his spare time he organized dance band known as Jack Short's Cavaliefos. "The fact that I. couldn't read a note of music was strictly coincidental.' I waved a baton before seven of eight of these @uys and got by." Then, U.S. immigration au- thorities got toltigh and he re- turned to Vancéiver, landing a jOb selling time on radio to sponsors. He started broadcasting one race a day, une of the first regular radio race broadcasts * popular. HIS MICROPHONE then an owner of a horse called Mary Dear. Once he put his entire savings of $500 plus $9 pocket money on Mary Dear to win, She came second. "T didn't have a nickel to bet two weeks later when the horee won and paid $52 on a $2 bet." After roaming the race cir- cuit, sometimes with hundreds of dollars in his pocket, some- times flat broke, Short landed in San Francisco in 1930 with total. assets of 25 cents. \the first time in my life and I in North America, although at firet it was a studio recap. "Sometimes the sound effects man didn't realize what kind of noise racing fans maxe and the broadcasts would sound like the' sécond battle of the Somme," he fecalls. WENT LIVE But, despite the weird crowd noises, the broadcast became The following year, with a salary of $5 a day, he became public address an- nouncer at the race track and began broadcasting all the races. It has been that way ever since. Although Short says he sél- dom backs a horse anymore for fear his preference might show in his announcing, he supports the fan who makes moderate wagers and incurs moderate lodses. The $20.a fan might lose in a day at the races buys him enertainment as good or better than a $20 night on the town, he says. For 3% minutes, from the time a horse enters the paddock unti! the end of its race, it belongs "You buy the horse for 30 4lthe scené Sunday with a million By JACK SULIAVAN -- Canadian Press Sports Editor Steve Owen it 34 of his 66 years in football before he left memories and as many friends in Canada and the United States. Steve died in hospital in Oneida, N.Y., after a brief ill- ness. Nothing really seemed to bother. this huge, big - hearted man who steadfastly refused to take life -- and football -- as deadly serious. Modern - day coaches may have passed him by their fancy talk about com- plicated plays and formations, but. all it did was leave fans wondering what the game. was all about. They ate famous for uttering tired old cliches and making a big thing out of watching game movies to find out what hap- Football Comrades Bury Steve Owen ONEIDA, N.Y. (CP)--Steven Owen, 66, named coach of the year two years ago for lifting the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Western Football Confer- ence out of the cellar, was car- ried to his last resting place here Wednesday by football comrades. Stout Steve, as he was affec- ada in 1987 after nearly a quar- ter of a century with the New York Giants of the National time the team reached the play- offs eight times and won the championship twice. after a cerebral hemorrhage. Caron Wants To Make NHL yours." SPORT FROM BRITAIN ' English Racing Scene - Colorful But {LONDON (CP)--British rac- suffers from two serious tages that tend to = the sport of Kings a pas- for paupers. * One is the fact that the odds ére tilted in favor of the book- Makers, and the other is that the draw for starting positions often vad the formbook out the window. . At its best, horseracing in jo ong is a delight. It has a and charm that com- te for the ab of Hi- Heat's flamingos and the amen- ies Of Woodbine. British turf fans, contemplating what they regard as the mechanized ity of North American rac- be. speak contemptuously of American bingo." * Bookmakers and colorful "tic- fac' men, signalling the odds with agitated gestures of white- gloved hands, impart a pictur- esque touch to British tracks, Which often seem primitive by transatlantic standards but nev- ertheless have a refreshing old- jworld quaintness. * BIAS FOR BOOKIES * A sight to remember, for in- tance, is the view at dusk rom the tiny bridge at one of Windsor's exits; the pleasant walk through a forest grove t just outside Ascot; and the|two sections. much of the availabl are reluctant to give it back to racing: tending to fali behind the qual- ity land, where the tote nourishes turf finances, Results of Eng- land's classic races, with the total eclipse of homebred hopes, show how things are going. FIELD DIVIDED Slipping ferry ride across the Thames to| Hurst Park, now turned into a housing estate where the thud Of hooves comes from the morn- ing milkwagon. All very pleasant -- but achieved at high cost. The book- makers enjoy a built-in bias, partly because of big fields and partly between the various courses make picking a winner a boon for hatpin manufacturers, And the bookies, after draining away' because the difference Arthur Halliwell Was Buried Today TORONTO (CP) -- Funeral services were held today for Arthur Jennings. Halliwell, 164, one of Canada's top sports) men, who died Monday night. Born jn Manchester, England, he came to Canada at the age of six. He was known as one of the best soccer players ever de- viloped in Canada and played professionally in Scotland, the first Canadian player ever -- by a- United Kingdom eam, Horseracing was his. second love and Halliwell became one of the top owners of thorough- bred racing horses in Canada. money, The result is that racing is rovided in France and Ire- A related difficulty is that 'of! the draw for places in some of the big races. Many important évents in this country are run jover a straight mile When the urn course is soaked with rain, the 'going' seems to be more holding on one side than the other, giving a decided advant- age to one group of horses since the field usually is divided into|far side and gave Pourparlér a In this season's first two clas- sics, tun at. Newmarket after jalmost - daily downpours, the horses split into two distinct groups, one racing on the stands side, one on the "far" side. In each case, the winner, second and third all came from the high. numbers racing far away from the rails. Baldric Il, actually drawn) No. 10 in the Two Thousand Guineas, acted up at the start and veered to the far side, then went on to win easily. Pourpar- ler, first home in the One Thou- sand Guineas, was drawn No. 17 in a field of 18. Ironically the second horse Gwen --_was \drawn No. 3 but also was frac- tious at the.start, moved to the \tough race. Cassius Says A Little Voice Gives The Word ACCRA, Ghana (AP)--World heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay says the little voice that tells him when an opponent will fall now tells him his next rival will be excham-| pion Floyd Patterson. Clay said, however, that he doesn't always listen to the little voice. " "He'll fall in round one,' the voice says, 'If you don't get him in one, make it two,'" Clay added. At & press conference at the Ghana Press Club, Clay said rather more seriously that he would defend his title early next year because of Uniteq States taxation and that he would wel- come an arrangement enabling him to defend the title in Ghana but he didn't kauw his next op- ponent. Asked what he thought about a separate black state in Amer- ica, Clay said: "It's the only way in which we can get re- spect, We don't want. segrega- tion; we want separation. Na- ture won't let black and white mix, Our leader, Elijah Mu- hammed, teaches us--and I be- lieve he's right--that the inte- |gration programs are not ef- 'fective,"" This Season DOLBEAU, Que, (CP)--Alain Caron, one of the most prolific] 7 scorers in professional hockey, says that if he doesn't make the National League next season he will quit the game. "It ig this year or never," says the powerful winger, who scored 7 goals in 72 games with St. Louis Braves during the season that just ended. Though with his legs in the past, exer- cise has made it easier for him to: skate. He has no trouble whatsoever scoring. Jack Adams, president of the] Central Hockey League in which Caron played, said last season he believes the St. Louis scorer could count 40 NHL goals "'if| he was used with a centre able to pass him the. puck." Coosa, just turned 26, was voted player most valuable to his club and likes St. Louis. He was treated royally when he re- turned to this Lake St. John centre, his hometown, in April. But his goal is the NHL. "It doesn't matter which club." Remember When? ... By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sam Snead won the White Sulphur Springs, Va., golf festival named after him for the sixth time three years ago today by one stroke over Vancouver's Stan Leonard, Snead finished the 72--hole grind with a total of 266, 14 under. par. Leonard missed a 20-- foot putt on the last hole that would have given him a tie. tionately known, cate to Can-|§ Football League, during which|> He died Sunday in hospital : has had trouble| | Steve Owen Was Easy-Going Guy On Or Off Field pened on the field. Steve didn't go for any of this stuff. He contended that "'the best offence can be built around 10 basic plays and defence on two." "All the rest is dazzle-razzle, egomania and box-office." He once said that 'coaching is like a monkey on a stick." "When you're going up you always see somebody going down." WITH GIANTS Steut Steve, a six-footer and 259 pounds, looked at the world with kindly eyés. And he was up and down the stick many times since he first turned to coaching in 1031 with New York Giants after a five-year career aé a tackle with the club. He was top man with the Giants for 23 years and during that time the team won two Na- tional Football League cham- pionships and eight Eastern Di- vision titles: He came to Can- ada in 1950, coached Toronto Argonauts, Calgary Stampeders and Saskatchewan Roughriders and in 1963 coached Syracuse Stormers in the United Football League. It has been estimated that big-time coaches spend about 40 per cent of their time in actual teaching and 60 per cent watch-/] ing game movies. He didn't follow the party line. } "Some teams," he wrote 15 years ago in his book My Kind of Football, 'claim to use hun- dreds of plays on attack and that sounds mighty impressive and awful difficult. But funda- mentally every football club op- erates with six to 10 basic plays. All the rest are varia- tions. "In fact, the most brilliant set of plays won't mean much if a team cannot gain off - tackle. That is the essential bread-and- butter play." \ As for watching game films, he used to say: "Movies are for Hollywood." His office door was always open for reporters and he never ducked a question. His wit and easy-going manner considerably enlivened the scene in Canada and it wasn't unusual for fans to stop him on the streét and talk football. "It shows that people will talk to me," he said, It was a refreshing change to get a down-to-earth guy in the coaching business. CALL THE CLASSIFIED | DEPARTMENT 723-3492 for families with careless drivers Now there's a kid-proof add extra glamour to your home! Abitibi Woodgrain Panels, beauty and is with way to the new, protective surface coating. It's the panel that has everything you're looking for! 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