Vapaus, February 14, 1957

              l^e Canadian teams, Montreal: Canadiens and Toroi^tp {JV^pIe
Leafs« are; among the: few "independent" teams in the l^H.L.,
% which are not under Norris' inflUence. Here we see Moipitl-^ars
i i Jean Beliveau being "fenced" in by Jim Thonapson and JimrMor-
- V rison of the Maple Leafs.
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.The scene, i s Crbsley - F i e l d i n
— ^ ^ ^ i a c i n n a t L - ,The, time is late Sep-
|||||||||'4|l^emW;'aäd the antagonis^^are the
• ""^ Redlegs, who are figh^
l^a)^, :Kand :the; Giantsiflyfbitii^e^e.
'söniggling to keep^öiit of the iJeiiar,
Justr^before the gamC' is .duei-Jto
staft the Giant catcher comes up
Vrith a tummyache. He can:t- play.
f ' T h e umpire then orders Cipciii-nati
to " l e n d " the Glants* its öwn
second-string catcher for this gäme.
iSQ.Sinoky Burgess catches for the
Giants. He -hits two home r u i^
sending his team down to a defeat
ihat eventually costs every Redleg
(jncluding Burgess himself) a cool
$10,000.
*>"*Fahtastic? Sure. It couldnH
'happen i n baseball or football or.
basketball. But i t can anid does
^apj>en i n hockey, and I don't mean
a- c o m e r lot game i n KamsaQk, Sas­katchewan,
but i n the huge arenas
:0f the National Hockey League
<4writes a - staf f reporter on liabor's
:I)aily, the I . T . U . publication). .
'ä Tbe last time i t happened wäs
-last season i n Montreal, when the
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tCanadiens^ " l e n t " a goalie to the
Wew York Rangers who l u m ed
around and shut out his own team*
.;inates; The volatile partisans o f
L e s Canadiens nearly tore down
i h e Forum after that one. But i t
'Vas ali " l e g a l , " according to a
jstrange rule i n the National H o c k^
' Leagtiev which specifies that i f thö^
«isifing team's goalie is incapaci^
-^^tated the liome team must make a
"äubstitute goal-tender available. »
•'K- this would seem to be incon-;
< liistent, w i t h the theories of free
renterprise, l e t i t be noted at oncc
-Mhat laissez-faire has been dead in
ftlie N H L f o r more than 15 years.
"T'"It's_ a tight mpnopoly and the
']dng[>ln viä' none''other than J i m
^Norris; the man who wouldn*t t um
' t i i s ' back,.'bn'B^ankie darbo, the
''h(ew ' i^drk. räcketeer, ' whom the
/NeuLYörk State Boxing Commission
.'.•^äs accused of being the realpower
I ^'löro^essional piigtlism.
^T.^o^'fy^,^;^, fe.best knöwri
^ ' t b e president of the IntemaUonal
Boxing Club. Soip,e„,.'|i,e6ple^ also
lmow thät he i s one öf the owners
of Madison Square Garden^) which,
i n t u m , is ^ the, owner of the New
Y o r k Rangers'SoG]j:ey teamTT"^. .
Somewhat fewer persbns •know
that Norris is also the'owner of the
Chicago Stadium and of the C h i -
cago Black Hawks, also i n the N H l i ,
And ottly a cömparative handful
know that Norris' slster was the
owner of the Detroit Red 'Wings —
a gift from B i g J i m . Eventually
Marge Norris gave up the Red
Wings •— to another brother.
"Since there are only six teams
i n the N H L , this means that the
Norrises control exactly half of
them. To draw the P a r a l l e l . with
baseball again, this would be ana-logous
to Dan Topping owning the
Yankees, belonging to a Corpora­tion
that owned the Boston R e d
Sox, and having a sister who owned:
the Detroit Tigers^ It wouldn't ne-cessarily
mean that somi^thing was
rotten i n Denmark — but- a J o t of;
the boys i n the bleachers would
still hold their noses.
For mor^ than a decade now the
Black I|awks have been the 'treäk
sister of the league. There are
some Black Hawk fans r - r y e s there
are still some left —- who insist
that is SO because the Hawks have
been run as a " f a rm c l u b " for the
Detroit Red Wings.
Some of t h e recent dealings be-tween
the two dubs has done notfa-i
n g to dlspel this belief. .'Take t he
case öf Metro Prystai, a; big- hardr
checking tobacco farmer frpm Sim?
coe, Ontario. Metro was o r i g i n a l ly
the property of Chicago; Several
years ago he was traded t o the
Wings and helped Detroit.witi four
championships. Two years -ago he
was shuttled back to the Hawks
and the Wings m i s s e d h im severely.
Sd läst season Metro was'"traded''
back to D e t r o i t ' '
' There can be little -doubt that
J im t^orris' hand way i n there on
that deaL rt is the hand that couid
eventuaäay strangle majof' league
hockey — i f ever the fans cätcb
wise/
lÄiililiiiiiil
Progressive GirI
Wins Äward for
' V i c k i e Wenman the 14 yeär- oVi
daughterof the fdrm^r häifd öfihH
coinmunist party i n ' Miehitän' häs
received' the TJ.S. Legion's "Afaaeri^
canism award*': ^
Her father Saul is free on bönd
pending an appeal of his conviction
under the Smith Act which has
been used against many progres-sive
thinkers i n the U.S. and has
often been referred to as thought
control legislation. Her mother
Peggy is fighting deportation to
Canada.
V i c k i e w a s g i v e n the award " f o r
gualities necessary to the-preserva-tion
and protection of our country."
Her brother David ,won^the same
award two years ago., :
The Wellmans live i n Detroit;
F.C.A.S,F. GY1V1 COXJRSES
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TO
"the ifipiiii mV^gym *cdui:öes vtVä
J)ä'fa'4ld.in auth^ main'centres dcbr-i
n g the next two months.-; T I J C Fihr
nish-Canadian Amateur Sports Fed­eration
has secured the services of
Dolores Nislcanen as gym and dance
instructor.
^- Everybody w i l l remember Dolores
from the last courses she instructed
a few years.ago and w i l l undoutedly
make arrangements to take advan-tage
of these courses. ^ Dolores ex-cells
i n both gym and d^nce instruc-tions
and she has a l o t ^ f new ideas
to work with.
The courses w i l l last f o r approxi-mately
two weeks in each centre
and there w i l l be a variety of ac-tivities
for *all age, groups.' There
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COMING SKI EVENTS
Canadian Junior 4-w»y dumptomlilps Oiiawa.
Ontario «enfc»r 4-w»y «haiiipIoMlili» Temhfcamfny Qnebee.
Scmthem Ontario «nfor AlpiBe Comnjirooa. \
Senior Canadian etoas-tovaOrf chamirtonslilps sponsored liy
Vohna hJC. haot hake. ' \
Canadian Senior Jtaaping «»ainpioMliI^ « ^ « A
Ontario Inter-sdiolast** cbampkmabips Fort William..
Finnl9h-.Canadian AiisOeor Sports FedöaOon cmas-countfy
^ f . - . r i ^ i r « « * Mpomateä by j a m A X , Bea*cr Lake.
SSSoii e n i « « i l . y «o«»«d by MB^AJC..
"Aas the explosion. o f atom and
hydrogen bombs affected the wea-ther?
Because this question is still
being asked the world over, a young
French nuclear physicist, Charles,
Noel Matrin, has made -some i n -
teresting'Studies. / •
He' has published a book which
we don'thear m u c h a b o u t . l t is a
summary of. ideas he put before
the; Academie des Sciences i n Paris,
i n November^ 1954.
His conslderationS go along these
Iines: What happetis when a group
of scientists' explöde an H-bomb?
One thousand million t o n s o f rock
and dust are 'blown slurward ^20^td;
25 miles. . , , \ ' !. '
" . - T b i s i^; weil-iiitcrTtne, region of
•the "jet ^treams,!' tiie y i o l e n t . ^ u r -
ricanes, pemanently circling- the
hemisphere i i p ; ten^perate . lati-tude^
. at ^^..high-altitude. TJfiese
n^ovcj froni ,west to east, taking a
f or.tnight to make qomplete^reyo-lution.
, , , , . ; S , i . i , xt^tt^ji
n-i They. carry.vyith.them the, huge
tonnage ;of matter, pulverized into
microscopically fine. partides, .and
radioactive, forming ijstratospheric
layer o£ matter lasting for months.
This layer operates as ^ an atmos-pheric
filter, xeducing very appre-ciably
the effectiVe solar< radiation
received down here leading; to, a
measurable temperature v, deficit
with a l i its consequences:
About once every ten years na-ture
throws her own H-bombs i n the
forra of volcanic explosions, the
quantity of dustthrust u p b y Mount
Krakatoa i n 1883 was of the order
of an H-bomb. It affected the
world's weather for three years, at
the end of which the loss. of solar
radiation i n Europe measured 15
percent. After the eruption o f
Mount Katmai i n the Aleutians' in
1912, a reductioh of 20 percent was
measured i n A l g e r i a . -
100 EXPLOSIONS
Since Hiroshima, the scientists
have exploded over'100 nuclear "de-vices"
iijcludfng a dozen or more
H-bombs. In the beautiful name of
"Security" they have fhiis taken it
Upon tbemselves to endanger the
balance of natiiral conditiohs (ecb-logy)
to which äll living organisms
have adjusted tbemselves i n the
course of milllons of years: This is
because the cumulative effects of
their- radiation follofving the soHing
'of the atmosphere causes sIower a ir
circulation, an alteration i n the
w(isrld's wind system, and falling
jnean temperatures, which, i n the
extreme, couId lead to the icing^up
of the globe.
'This is sobering enough, but what
of * the rain? j One of the' necessary
conditipns for the precipitation .x>f
r a i n is:the pi^esence:^»^ minute parr
ticles of dust>etc.^in^,tbe a i r t o ^ i y e ,
as n u d e i foi:'.the<xflndensation of
.water.r A ' - s d e n t i s t e - " s e ^ i ^ g ' , ' a
.cloud with, d r y ice itö.produc*}^rain
iS'.trying to,supp}y.just t b i s c o n -
.dition. ",i r,^, •>.• i ' \
.f il£4he-evidence of öur^eyes>is,to
be b e l l e v ^ the atomized and radiör
active particles f r om tjbe bomb tests
serve. the purpose witb far greater
effect. Each atomic explosion sup-plies.
the atmosphere w2th a colossal
number of highly efficacious, nviclei
for the condensation oftcldUdslrthe
relatively small uranium bomb ex-plosion
i s estimated to projdl^c&one
m i l l i o n radioactive atomic ;patticles
per cubic metre of air. ' ;
OVT O F CONTROL
Naturally, the use of our^^ whole
planet as a field of experiment f or
vast artificial rainmaking leaves the
consequences beyond control. a In
some i>laces we get flooä; catastro-pbes,
and since the total >mass. )0f
.water yapor-. remains concitänt,
drought ,oriunseasonab^. m i l d . w i n -
ter occurs i n other places.
• On every continent.i^ght round
the) worid> the- weathec had b^en
irregular and.idamage hp^,<,beeh
suffered. i; I n duration, ini^ns.i^ty
3n^ magni^ude^ i t is unpreciidentftd
i n modern history. .
The meteorologists, otcoufjSe, will
have none of this, asbefits the cpn-servative
mind, Only thoseoif ,Ita|y
'and'Japan have broken the other-wlse
solid front and recognized a
definlte relationship between"'tbe
bomb tests and the weather as an
undoubtable iact. It is estimated
that i t w i l l take 20 o r 30 years 'for
the others, relying on the statistickl
method, to see the point.
M O D E B N
' A little girl retumcd from her first
day at School and proudly proclalmed,
"I'm the brightest one iri my class."
"How Is thait?j'. her -mother asked.
"Weil," she sald, "tJie teacher told
each of us to draw a plcture on ttic
board and Wien the other children
were to guess what the picture. wa8.
Mine -was the only one no one could
guess,"
A N D T H A T ' S A F A C T
WaU Street'gets Its first voman
broäce;'. It wa6 only, a matter-of time
öntll -women got around to charging
a fee for relieving a man of his mo­ney."
'
i^e mXxeä cläSsiEls,^_the'ii/a^ .
*for nexl summer^ f e s t i v a l ' ' w d ^^
ihtroduced, Jind rehejarsed; \asfc
dance technique f o r girls; limbef ing
excrcises and gymnastics for child­ren
and Tcducing and limbering
dasses for older women; ;
;v As can be readily seen there w i ll
be plenty to do and it is important
that a l i clubs start making arrange-ments
immediately to have a good
turn-out at the courses because an
opportunity like this does not a l -
ways come even once a year.
; < Numerous centres are suffering
from the lack o f ^ competent i n ­structor
and the courses may^ help
overcome this burden. In any case;
after Dolores is around for two
weeks, ali centres will be.ableHo
continue. rchearsing the mass gym
for next summer whert the b i g
festival w i l l be i n Sudbury;
u E v e n people who do not wish to
specialize or Jliecome cxpcrts in
gymnastics should participate in the
classcs offered at these • courses
from the stand vpoint of health. So,
overybody should get i n on the
•conditioning and limbering classes;
Dolores has a whole series of move-ments
that are quite different to
the ones that we are used to doing,
SO attending the courses will give
us added interest to continue regu-lar.
classes i n gymnastics.
i ; Even i n the sbort period of .two
weeks these regular exerciscs will
develop f lexibility, endurance,
sUrengthi agility, balance, co-ordina-tion
and grace.
! 5 It has been announced-that "the
classes will begin i n Toronto on*
February: 18th and continue* until
March' 3rd: According - to - the- an-nouncemcnt
Dolores wiU then i n -
struct i n Beavei* Lake from March
®*17; Sudbury March 19-31; ^Sault
Ste. Marie A p r i l 2-14 ^ n d ' P o r t A r -
tfthr A p l - i l 16-Mäy 8. >n i . i
' ' I n addition to the aboVe mcn-tibned
centres plans call.for'courses
bfeing held i n South Poreupine and
Kir^land L a k e but the details have
not: yet been finalized. • : '
There is a poteibility that some
chaiiges w i l l be made in the schc-d(
i1e, döe to local conditiohs: '
The courses in a l i centres will
wind up with a special conccrt to
help räisc funds to cover expenses
and a l i centres are urged to begin
plaiining these concerts prior to the
courses, so that the program w i l l be
of a high level and the courses
tbemselves will not be overly b up
dened with concert rehearsals.
It seems times are also catching
up with us. A vcry cssential piece
of. apparat^is is needed at every
centre during the courses and that
is a three-speed record player. The
reason f o r this is that many of the
records used by Dolores are only
available i n the long-playing ver-sions-
She w i l l be travelling by
train and w i l l be unable to take one
along. This might mean that it w i ll
have to be begged, borrowed or
stolen fftr the duration of the
courses.
Girls Live Lortger;^:
Accidenis; ifiisease'
Takf Male TöH:
G i r l s have a bctt^.chance tbap
boys of reaching aduUbPOd and nylll
probably live longcr, an Ontario
Health Department' study• of ,causei
of death in the provincev during a
five-year period shows.
A study, based pn recordcd death(
f o r the years 105Ö-54Jnclusive mort
than 12 m o n t h s ' i n tlie making
analyzes the deaths by age, scx and
cause.
Its statistiQs are bascd on ar.
intemational system of classifyinj
causes of^ deaths, adopted i n 195r
to try to d o away with national,
differences.
The. study shows an average o i
4r4,418 deaths a year during 'the
study. period; It shows heart dis
eases and> cancer- are thC: majox^
klUers, with 36.9 per^ccnt^and 14.0
per cent of the deaths respcctively.
V a s c u l a r l e s i o n of ; the Central
nervous system was^ the thlrd lar-gest
cause of death with 13J2 per
cent.' < Theivcame accidental causes,
6.4 per cent; and pneumoniarbron-chitis
and influenza, 4:2 per cent.
The reportsays that more' malcs
die i n every age group; up to t he
age of 75. Up to the age of 35,
accidcnts were the largest single
cause of death, then >hcart discases
took over.
The safest and healthiest poriod
of l i f e . i s from 15 to 10 years. The
average annual death t o l l for 4his
group was only 288, with accidents,
k i l l i n g more than 50 per cent of
them./ •
• In/*he' 15-to.30 yeargroup,• acci-dents
.took a much heavicr toU'of
malesthanfemales/thOiratio being
about 4.Si to one. , i . t. , . i
Suicide wasithe No.-3 k i l l c p . in
the '20'34 year group, .totalling.al-most^
five percent.* J n ; the i35'to-54
year group, t-suicidesflccounted f o r
pne., quai;Ver , i O f thp>.MWcWpntal
deathp,., ,Motor,,vehide aqp}#9ts
ver,¥..;the MtgQsi, ,a«Qidqet^l|, fcijllcr.
^ AH; WILDERNESS >'
It's ett<!ourfiglrtg''to*krioW thatyou
have'ohly to-ship b buflc*h''of young
Canadians' back" td the wllderness
for them to^prove their:pfoneer• in-g^
nillty; Ä' crew •wwWhg on c!6n-structtori'öf
the Mltf-Cöiiadä^röäar-line,''^
ccordlnfg' to • a ' söoul, baiin't
suffered at a l i firom the lack o f subh
amenities as laundry Service, They
simply commandccred a brand-new
cement mixer and i t churns o ut
their dothes whlter than any house-wife's
automatic.
Torstaina, hdmik. 14 p. — 7!itiräIi9^,F^
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B E C A R E F UL
A 'handsomely; uniformed doorman
hurrled d<}wn the fiteps of a club to
open a car door, sllppod and roUed the
last few. steps, • manager; wbo
happened t a be standing in the c n -
trance, callcd out angrlly: "For hca^
ven'5 fialee be carefui. People wlll
thirtk you're e member," -
Weil; those are thili main things
that wc can. think of rcgarding the
courses and we certainly hope that
a l l clubs do a l i they possibly can
to ensure their success.
S U B B O V N O E D ' ^
: The little boy, just retumed from
a trip through the ;West, was de-scribing
the details to b is f r i e n d .
•"There we were," h e s a i d i n a shud-dery
voice., "Indlans to the right
o£ us, Indians^fo the left of us,
Indians behind ' us, ^ Indians i n
froht — "
"Wowee!" cried his i r i e n d '•What
d i d you do?** '
" W e i l , " replied the other bravely,
" I —" H e suddenly caught sight of
his mothefs'iixed'gIare. ^'
"Weil gee/',he wento0, ^whatLworld.
could-*we dö?
IcfefL"
We bbught a blan-
TRAINING METHODS OF ZATOPEK
ARE USED BY MANY ATHLETES
' • The skiing season is in full 5wing in the Sudbury\dis|rlä 1 ;
and a whole series of meets have been faeld« and a numberijti^^ / 1 ,
important meets will be held in the follo^ng weelc$/ J-^-,
Earlier in the season, we predicted that Karl Krats ot^eL
i Jehu A. C.wouId doveiyweU in-^e junior class
our predictions have been right. Karl has been unbeattible.c>n
the track so far this Winter and has already copped tbc^ Nor-,
them Ontario and Ontario championships.
This coming weekend the j,tiniors will be comjpeting in ~
Ottawa for the Canadian'chazA]^onship, We certainly hope \
that Karl will be able to participate in this importaiit^ineet ; i
The local juniors have been at somewhat of a disädt^antage ^
thb win!ter because all the champion^p events liave^bdS^-
schedulecl för other centres, ailthough Sudbury is fast'bec<^*, -
ing recognized as the ski centre of Ontario especially whetilt
cornes tp^cross-country skiing. /
That means that local clubs have had to dig dec|p iiifd;
their coffers to get their juniors to the big meetts of the seaäö^^:
All FCASF clubs are proud of Karies achlevements and wouä,d' -
undoubtedly be wilUng to help bear this financial load. Se|r* ;
ious consideration shouild already be given to sending Karl to
the North America junior championships which will be heUjL^ -
somewhere in the US in a fe\v weelcs time,. ^ -
Another FCASF äcier who has really done well this i^är
son is G«rtie Kltts of the Spcfed A. C who has accumulaNd ,
quite a collection of silvenvarö in meets this seaspm TÄe mcet
^ significant thing is that she has beaten'the defendiiig Cäiiä-^^
dian champ, Mary Juoksu of Voima in several raoes and 6^*
tie p;lans to keep right on winiiing unt|l she has iSUe Canadifu»',
clhampiönship troi^y in her collection. . "jf,
At this time we have few other active*women skiers» iiF>
though ,there is a good diance that^rja Oman from iheS&m.
wlU b^ in theiorefront in few years, time as she gaiiis
strength ao-d experience. , ' ^
In the girls class Shirley Rönkä and Anneli Rintamäki,
both Jehu members have been coming ii^ first an4 second Ui
all the meets they have attended, so there i^ reason to hope
that particlpation of women in skiing will improve in
future. ^ / ;
• It is also gratifying to note Ihat Jehu's Antti Ranitdr whö
for a number of yeaars has been a lehding FCASF skier, plaieäd
fourth in both the 15 kilometre and,30 kilortietre eyerits ät
the reoent Northern Ontario championships heldhere.' TÖs
v^as very good considering that oiUy sudi top coiitendeis i&
Arvo Äyräntö, Elmer Ypyä and newcomer Antero Rauhaneh
were unable to stay ahead of him*' It should aisb be n ^ i ^ :
that Speed members Karl Pulras arid'Karl Palomäki 8howed '
considerable endurance by finishing the 30 kilotttötre race;')"
Nevvcomer AnteVo Rauhanen who represents ilihe Voitak,
promises to add excitement to the coming Canadian champicm- \
ähips. Hecamö to Canada frorii: Finland only a few lÄonths/.
ago and häs ali;eädy'established himself ds,thefleading>crds^
cbuntry hiän in the Sudbury ar^a andpediips all Öf Canada
Last weekend heforged ahecfdof ÄyräAtöiri^the NorÖiMi ,
Oi^tario cham{)ipn4^ps,|n bbth distances and With ^ very riice ,
margin at tlfiat. 'The resujts Indicate «Hatkat the Ciinaaifän
championships which will lieheläin jSjidbury Februäty 23<24
the maili iiompetition wlll be betvveen Rauhanen andtheSeif-voj^
cf hrofchers. ' < .
, From what we hear Rauhanen wa8 already a recpghiaseä v .„
skier in Finland and at 24 years of age it wouIdscem thal^iKe {\c
has still'good posslbilities of Improvement. >' i';,; -
Anöther important meet which has received very litftte -
mention Is the FCASF championshlp meet which will be HM^ ' /\
at Bea^er Lake March 2—3. All the leading FCASF skier» will • . V
be participating in this meet and it ^cuU promise to be qiii^
exciting. '
Yes, we are really looking fonvard to seeing soa?e of tiie,
important meets thät are jusrt; a fev»r «reeks away.
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;^New sports records are being set
up every year i n most^ events
throughout the World. Some records
'stay on the books for a long time,
even decades: as f o r example, the
100 metres, the jump and the pole
vault records.. Öthers—the shot,
the hammer and others are broken
vrery^frequently. ^
,..'H«WflYer, no^previous pe/iod has,
World records, but b e c a u ^ of the
unique example which he .has set
to a t h l e t e s . e v e r y w h e r e . ' " I w a n t tb
be another Zatopek" — this is the
atiswer which many boys w i l l give
you :While training somewhere on
a meadow, or on a sports ground or
a country Jane, Not only in Czecho-
.Slovakia but probably wherever h is
successes are known.
The*5,000 and 10,000 events at
snegistqreiirsi^h' s t r i d e ^ as -the .jppst j O^y^npi^c Games and i n a l l track and
:4'ecent}iDne;?>(This mayasomeday^be i fIeld^^atohes/^re among t h e . ^ st
:)calIed'i2ätopek's ,JSra bec^yfe*i;mil; dramatic and'ipt«rcsting races.t,Qne
Zatopek{^byi4iisj/!OWA^ example rjO^^
ttrainiagi:•basedi.iipon.^eed-?nd4n-1 I^ndonj^ben^thousai^d^; of specta-
« r e a ^ iraii)ing»'sched[v>les> sden^on- j U>r8 che^red f^r sevcriil^inMtes the
strated<tbe'Wai6fowards4^ese<ppak thr]|)ing dueL^bclweea;;2ajt<()pek.t^d
pexforroances. Thisexample, was Gaston Reiff of Belgium to-wm the
(olIowedby m a n y t o t t h e b?st;ath-j golcl.medaI,._ , , . , -
letes of the w q r l d . - n . ; - . >: . i At the-1952 pjympic X^ames i n .
' Kut6,' i n the Sovlet Union. Ste-1 Helsinki many of the 100.000 spec-phens
U I Australia and many others: tators at the Olympic Stadium de-are
grateful to Ziatopek for h i s ad-1 dared that the 5.000 met)%s event
vjce. 'The method iised"by|lunga^ had been thVgreatest t h r i l l o f the
rian'athletes, whose performances^ cntire Olympic Games,
are now admired b y the whole j In; Melbourne the 5,000 metres
World, do not d i i f e r greatly from, again was the most dramatic and
Zatopek's metbods. ^ the finest sporting cvent.-
I n spite of the fact that a l l o f , These races are inseparably link-
E m i l , 2:atopek'6 world records in | ed to, the name of E m i l Zatopek. H e
Olympic events have already beenfhas/been folJowedby many new
broken be s t i l l remains one o f the] tslehted runners some of wfaom
^-'^ 1— , achlcve; brilliant perforfliaiices: to-d
a y j , '
•Ä^flew;HC^ wiil JUiiistrate
finest long:4istance runners o i the
^^^Jfotto^ily;^ because • o f i j j i f l ffbur •
Olympic, victories and a i\umbtit'Ot' the. igreat- r i s e i n the standard» of
performance i n these events during
the past ten years, l l i e year 1946
may be taken as the bcginning o f
Zatopek'$ international career.
In 1940, the Swede Gunder Hagg
was the only.athlete in: the world
who had run 5,000 metres inside 14
minutes. ' Only seven athletes d id
better tban 14 mjnutes 30 seconds.
But in 1955 six athletes covered the
5,000 me(?es fnsido 14 mfifutcs and
77ratbletes(;ran inside 14 minutes
? 0 s ^ n d s , ; . / - ,.
4aJd j j j JD^SO 13 are pn the,w<)rld's
booksforhaVingcpvered thO;'6,000
metres' in less than 14 hiinutes. '
This progress has been even mbre
«trikingJnJherlD,O0O IRnetrer^^
I n r i 9 4 i J , n o t ^ single athlete- hid
been «apable of running 10,000
metres inside 29 minutes; i n 195.5,
E m i l Zatopek held the World f ecord
with a tiiAe inside '29 minutes, and
ten athletes covered the- distanec
inside 2&26, j
there i s every indication that
these figures w i l l again be revised
during 1957/ E m i l Zatopek himself
saysi "Records are made j 0 order
to be broken,"
And should we a s k ZatopeIr what
pleased him mostJn his great com-petitive
career be wpuld certainly
aflswer that i t was the tremehdous
improvement i n the standard ot-per-formance
i n long-distanee events;
D I P L O H A O r
A little g l d was taken fiome to din»
ner one rtfght' by Jier itieoA.. Tihcre
were buttered parsnips o n the tsAle;
and the ho8te88,lcnowing thai most
children aren'tovexlyfond of Ifaeve*
getable, asked i f abe liked them.
"Oh yea", replied the chlld, not
wl£hin? iö appear discourtcous. : "X
love them."
However, when the platter wa8 pas'
sed, she ref used to Calce any.
"But dear," said the hostess, " t
thoue<ht you ,8aid you lifced buttered
lEiarsnips,"
>Oh. I do", explained the chlld, "but
not enough to eat ithem"
ON PATBOL
l ^ e y had been aloft about 'ttoee
hours on a wartfme patool nUttkai i n '
Qie Soulih' Pacific whett a small fidaiKl
apjjeared ott \Sae stacboard wli]g{ The
Intercom crackled: "Tuzret ' t a i ' p ^ o t'
Investigate ob/ectB on' beacii a i two
o'clodc."
There wa8 a moment'« sllence.Tben
the ^iIot's volce snapped over ilAt^ia-tercom:
"Any Idot can plabdy^aee
that the objectä are merely nattore
gU-te foathhig h l the surf,"
From the turret ffte volce.came,
back; "1 toiQW , . M knotv"
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