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By JACK IULLIVAN csnalnnfnaslatfiritsr TOROTO (OP) Edmonton can well afford to stick out its cheat and holler togtbe rest of Canada thstitisthesportscap- italofthe country-Tbselfyhaa

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Its record in national champion- ghlpg in the last few years has been the best in the country but Edmontonlans with long memor- lea don't stop there.

For instance. Sports Editor Hal Pawson of the Edmonton Journal jogs memories about one of Can- ada's most famous teams. the Ed- monton Grads girl basketball team of mother era.

ALBERTA HIGHLIGHTS

Here's what Pawson has to say in -his 'Sporting Periscope' col- umn:

"As far as the rest of Canada is concerned. three main things have put Alberta on tha map - Social Credit 'funny money' in the 1935 era. oil in the past decade. and sport. . .

"The Baldwin i1nk's victory is an example. And three straight Grey Cups for the Eskimos (1954- 55-56) speak for themselves. and still are speaking. But this sort of achievement is nothing new. "None brought more athletic honor to Edmonton than the Ed- monton Grads, and the girls kept bringing this city honor for 25 years starting in 1915."

SEORT SNARSHOTS Edmonton Can Stick Out Its Chest In Sport World

Pawson let it ride there but he could have mentioned that Percy Page coached Grads teams to dozens of championships in the lllis and iillls. .

The Grads ruled Canadian girls basketball from the time the Do- minion championship series started in. 1321 until the team dis- handed in run.

They played 120 games in in- ternational competition against American clubs. winning Iii and losing six. They won all 24 exhibi- tion matches they played on three "uropean tours and lost only two of nine games against men's teams.

Pawaon probably spoke for all Edmontonians when he wrote: "Without being smug. let's face it. It is a nice feeling-"

Milt (Toronto Starl Dunnell quotes Centre Ted Kennedy as saying he is not sorry he tried a comeback. "but I never did feel I was the solution" to the sorry plight of Toronto Maple Leafs who finished out of the Stanley Cup playoffs this season.

"Even after all the work of try- ing to get back into condition. '. . and alter my three-game come- back trial. .I still figured I wasn't the answer to the Leafs' problems." K ”y said.

D u nn ell says that Kennedy should have gone out with the Hapt Trophy. symbol of election as the game's most .aluable player.

"That's what he had when he skated out of the Gardens the

first time."

SPORTS TRAIL

By WHITNEY MARTIN

NEW YORK (AP)-To he a man in a million is one thing but to have a million in a man is an- other, so for their peace of mind maybe it's a good thing for Boston Red,Sox their" bid for Herb Score was turned down by Cleveland In- dians. i

The care and feeding of 81.000.- 000. all tied up in one ball player. would be a grave responsibility. Around - the - clock guards and transportation in an armored truck would be the least that could be expected.

when first we heard of Joe Cro- nln's Sl.(D0.0iD offer to Hank Greenberg for the fine young pitcher our reaction was who's spoofing whom? it wounded pre- posterous.

And then we began to think of other ball players who had been sold for 3100.000 and up.

Cornin himself went to Red So): from Washington. as player-man- ager for a sum estimated at 8250.- 000 and a ball player. one Lynn Lary. Figuring Lary must have been worth a few boatops himself. the total invested by owner Tom Yawkey in Cronin must have been considerably more than the cash involved.

Can't See Yanks Making Runaway

WEST PALM BEACH. Fla. (AP?-Kansas city Lou Boudreau doesn't hold with the

nular theory that the New York

lnkecs will run away with the American League pennant.

"I don't agree with all those people who predict the Yanks will make it a runaway," said Bou- rlresu. "I think Detroit. Cleve- land. Chicago and Boston are im- vroved. I also believe the three bottom clubs-Kansas City. Balti- more and Washington-will have plenty to say regarding the event- u winner."

Tommy I-lurd Sold To P. C. Leaguo

ssmsors. Fla. (APl Red Sox Wednesday sold right- handed relief ltcher Hurd outright to the Pacific Coast League.

The 32-yes.-old Hurd has been with the Sex 236 seasons. He was Mllilht from Charleston of the American Association to 1954.

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A Million Dollars Tied Up In One Player Was Too Much

That deal was in 1934. at the height. or depth. of the depres- sion. when a dollar was a dollar and not a bloated two-hit piece.

So. conditions conside ed. 51,- ll)0.000 today does not seem too much out of line.

There were quite a few other respects” figures paid for ball players in those days of the fat dollar. The Cubs paid the Phlllies 3125.000 for Chuck Klein after the 1933 season, and the White Sox paid Connie Mack 3125.000 for Al lsimmons about the same time.

The total involved in the sale of Babe Ruth to New York Yankees by Red Sox after the 1919 season is difficult to figure. The cash in- volved was reported to be 8105.000 but Jake Ruppert also took over which was about to be rureclosed, so the sum involved there is any- body's guess.

Doug McNiehol Is Recovering

MIAMI BEACH. Fla. (AP )- Doug McNichol. M. Montreal Aloueties' all-star defensive end. was reported in excellent condi- tlon Monday following an emer- gency operation for acute appen- dicitls.

His doctor said McNichol will be in hospital for a week. The big four football union player was stricken Sunday after arriving here for a vacation.

Ielleve Refugee Is Still In Stockholm

STOCKHOLM (AP) - iiunsar Ian refugees here believe the Hun- garlan table tennis star Agne Simon. who disappeared from her room in a Stockholm hotel. Satur- day is still in the Swedish capital.

Simon and Livia Mosocsy last Friday won the women's doubles title at the world table tennis championships here-

Hungarlan refugees in Itock- holm believe Mrs. Simon will go to Amsterdam after the Hungar

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tan table tennis team has left.

i CANBERRA. Australia iAP)- said Wednes- streamline lthe RAAF with planes and equipment. Since the Second World War the RAAF has been aqulpped with a mixture of Amer- ican and British type lanes.p

Iy IUOI IULLIGAN NEW YORK (Ari-Durinl oil of New York's periodic newspa-

r dellve striku. the late nayor 1- la Guardia went to a radio microphone to perform a singular public service. Cogalsant of the fact that a great city was being deprived of its breakfast reading fare. he met the crisis with a public reading performance. Did His Honor fill the information vacuum with the latest international news? Muni- eipal events? Stock market quota- tlons?

Nope. He read the funnies-to the kiddies. but presumably to a sizable audience of adults also. Today. as in la Guardia's day. the comic pages constitute a daily reading habit for an estimated 80.- 000.000 adults and kiddies. a habit that has successfully defied the threat of movies and television and the occasional cultural out- cries of outraged educationista and psychiatrists. PENSION-AGE KIDS

People who read the funnies every day cannot recall a time when there were none. just as veteran readers cannot remember when Orphan Annie last got a new dress or the fact that the l(at1.en- lammer Kids are now old enough to draw old age pensions.

But despite this ageless and timeless quality of comic charac- ters. ths comics themselves did have a beginning. Just so years ago-an event celebrated this week by cartoonists and their loyal fans.

The comics emerged as the most coveted spoils in the great circulation war between Joseph Pulitr.er's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. The Yellow Kid. a saga of slum life begun by Rich- ard F. Outcault in The World. was responsible for the label "yellow journalism" applied to newspa- pers of that era.

Why yellow? The color was a technical expedient. The four- color rotary press hrfd been in- vented several years before and all colors except yellow seemed to work fine. Charles Saalburgh. engraving room foreman of The World, found that tallow wax kept yellow from running and cele- brated his discovery by liberally dousing C ' "I drawings with the color.

SET PATTERN

The Yellow Kid. a title supplied by the readers and not the artist. was a hit from the moment he appeared on The World's color pages and soon set a familiar comic pattern by jumping to Hearst's Journal.

This amoeba-like quality of com- ics. sub-dividing into cells and continuing separate but similar existence: under different names in Competing papers. results from the fact that most strips are owned by the newspaper or syn- dicate and not the cartoonist.

Rudolph Dirlts. who established the Kstzenjammer Kids in The Journal in 1897. hopped to The World in 1913 and continued the

The Captain and the Kids. while H. H. Knerr took over on the or- iginal strip. Both are still going strong.

Many strips are continued. by different writers and different ar- tists. long after their originators die or move on to other papers and other ., dicates to create new comics. In rare instances. a MNP lfnly be Permanently re- tired. like a baseball player-'s uni-. form number. as a measure of gratitude to the genius of its cre- ater. Such was the case with George Herriman's Krszy Kat. the first cartoon to win a wide following among intellectuals. ROAD To FAME

As the comic craze cslapaultedi newspaper circulation into the. hundreds of thousands, cartoon-l ista began to command fabulous! salaries, to hire assistants for re-

Canadian Entry is Beaten 66-55

ALDERBHOFT, England (CF) -

Csnada's entry in the hritlsh army. basketball championships lost 66-'. 55 Tuesday to a Royal Army service Corps team but remained in the running. "urns Canadian army team. from gods in Germany. meets another British club today and can ad- vance into the finals by winning. The Canadians won their first two I-lines of the tournament.

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search and lettering. to become national celebrities in their own right. almost as well known as the characters they created.

Sidney Smith. originator of the Gumps. ushered in the plden era in 1922 with a SLGIIMI contract that called for sioo.ooo a year for 10 years. Before his death in 1935. he managed to increase the figure to sisomo a year. 1

Comic artists found their inspir- ation in all walks of life and in" all strata of the economy: mil- lionaires like Jiggs and Daddy Warbucks. down-and-outers like. Happy Hooligan and Pete the Tramp. soldiers. office girls. flighty teen-agers. cowboys. spacer men. suburban families. adventur- ers. Canadlan Mounties. doctors. detectives. royalty. and. perhaps the most popular over the years. the animal kingdom.

Spinach-growing Texas erected a monument in honor of spinach- gulping Popeye. Krazy Kat be- came the theme of a serious bal- let. Bringing up Father and L'il Abner ' popular lcal plays. Phrases from the comic pages like "hot dog." "23 skidoo." "baloney" and "after you, Al- phonse." became part of the lan- guage.

Sometimes an artist will strug- gle for months, even years. with a series of characters and a vari- ety of plots before hitting the win- ning combination. George Mc- Manua experimental with Alma

do if. and a half dozen others be- fore Bringing up Father. the story of what happens when an Irish la- borer fails into a fortune. made him as rich and famous as his central characters.

CHANGES MADE

The changing nature of comic characters often belies their or- igin. How many readers know that Dixie Dugan began her comic strip life as a chorus girl. that Mary Worth sold apples on a street corner. that there once was a Mut but no Jeff. that Al Ca- pone's real life escapades brought on the fictional Dick Tracy. thati Snuffy Smith, Popeye. Nancy and' others began as relatively minor? characters. that the Captain and! Mama in the 1iarzen'ammer Kldsi ihave never been united in bonds of matrimony?

Did you know that Dagwood Bumstead was a billionaire's son who was disinherited for marry- lng Blondie. a definite flapper type until she became the lovable suburban housewife?

The Bumstead family fight over Blondie was typical of the comic 'humor of the early 1930s. "Are you sure the reason you want to marry my son isn't that you heard I own a lot of railroads?" asks Bumstead Sr. of Blondie.

"Oh. Mr. Bumstead." she re- plies. "then I'd be a gold-digger. I'm the home-type girl. I'd love Dagood if you only owned one railroad."

Chic Young. who invented the strip, said he "threw away the Joke book after that and became a success." Blondie's departure from the world of melodrama into

America marked the beginning of a new era in comics where the accent was on little people and their everyday problems.

3 Classmates Are In Politics

ST. JOHN'S. Nfld. rCPi Joseph R. Smallwood. Edward D. Hsliburton and Reg. Parnell were classmates at Bishop Feud Col- lege here before the First World

War.

At the start of the war. young Haliburton, oldest of the trio. Joined the Royal Navy and his family moved to the United 'States. Reg Parnell went to New Jersey and Joseph Smallwood stayed on in the island colony.

But all three entered politics. Mr. Smallwood as a Liberal led Newfoundland into Confederation in 1910 and became premier of the new province.

Mr. Haliburton settled in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley and took up farming. He was elected as a Conservative member of the Nova Scotla legislature on Orl- I) last year and today he is min- ister of agriculture for the prov-

s.

Mr. Parnell became a Demo- crat in New Jersey and moved up to head the state's party or- ganisation. He now has retired from the 1:st.

LUCKY LADY

TORONTO (CP) - Mrs. Cecile Elliott. 8. of suburban Lonii Branch. crashed into a huge trans- fasner with her car and had to out of a broken rear win-

paaesrsby who helped her out aren't aleetroentsd. There were live wires all over the place." She eat) a sat lip and heel.

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EDMONTON (CPI-A Pmfessnr of lmish at its University of Al- hertallysihatuseofanew way

of teaching grsmrnar - by the these

"descriptive" analysis of sounds. words and ssateaess-could lead to better English in less time in schools and universities.

Dr. M. H. Scargill told a meet- ing of the Philosophical Society of Alberta that the "descriptivrsi." method gives a "more acccrste and truthful view" of language than the traditional system. based on study of the eight parts of

'. and employed with few al- terations for the last 700 years.

The "descriptivist" method. he said. involves a study of 13 lesser patterns of language, and four major patterns.

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The method worked well in United States army foreign lan- guage schools durlng the Second World War. where it was known as the "mim - mem" technique. meaning to "mimic and memor- ise," Dr. Scargill said. He said the method had been used to several languages other than English.

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gate recognised patterns in Eng-.

liah. such as the sentence "John kicked the dog." make a list of patterns and drill students in the formation of variations on each basic pattern.

In a question period. Dr. 8681'- gill conceded it would perhaps be better to utilise the best vsrtspof the traditionalist and "descriptiv- lat" schools.

He said that adding the newer method to the old could provide "an interesting supplement to the ordinary teaching of grammar. and could add interest to the sub- lect."

.m::-e--e-1 HUNGARIAN PLAN THEATRE

TORONTO (CPI-A group of es- caped Hungarian film. theaire and opera performers are forming a permanent theatre in Toronto. in the company are film actor lmre Pongracz. who appeared in 24 films in Hungary; Iren Tovizy, a member of the Budapest Opera Company; Andras Achim. a noted stage manager and playwright. and others. The company is pre- paring its first theatrical work. a three-act musical comedy.

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Gets Jail Term

TORON'I'O (CPD-Robert Iorsi.

ll. of Toronto was sentenced to :0 days in jail Saturday after lpleading guilty to setting fire to .the newspaper-wrapped feet of a &af mute while the latter duzed la a midtown steam bath. 1 Magistrate W. W. Mclieown told ilorsi, an Italian who recently ar- rived in Canada. "we don't want .you hr.-ref He said the incident would be drawn to the attention the federal immig uion serv- ice.

Borsi was charged specifically with assault occasioning bodily harm.

Norman Rose. 25. of Paris, ()ni.. was taken to hospital with first- degree burns. Police said pieces of newspaper were stuck between his toes and feet and set ablaze while he slept in a steam room.

Detectives said they uere told the burning was carried out "just

man was in terrible pain when he woke up suddenly and found his feet burning."

An unidentified man followed a youth from the steam bath to a

youth was arrested.

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general practitioners have been'

urged to work more closely with !the medical specialist to take full advantage of advances in medical science.

The request was made to the

Jim national scientific convention lot the College of General Prac- ltice of Canada Tuesday night by 3Health Minister Martin. I Mr. Martin said: "It is within .ihe specialties ihat some of the greatest a d v a n c e s in medical science have been made and un- ; less there is greater consulta- !tion and co-operation between spe- jcialists and general practitioners. i the benefits of these advances will inot be widely distributed to the advantage of general medical practice."

He also touched on the federal "government's proposed hospital in- r surance plan and said it must not 'lnteri'em with the operation or

pownership of Canadian hospitals.

1 WARN sosmsr naucs "All

governments ll Canada

have some degree of respoasibil ity towards hospitals. but no gov- ernmrnt has any right to assume that financial support to a los-

pltal carried wit it any entitle ment to usurp the authority of those who direct its affairs. I am sure it the idea of state owner- ship or control of hospitals would be repugnant to the vast majority of the people of Canada."

Two eye specialists warned the general practitioners against use of the new drug cortisone to treat virus infections of the eye.

Dr. Leo J. Croll. head of the eye department of Grace Hospital in Detroit. and his brother Dr. lilaurice. said cortl me. while use- ful in many other eye conditions. may be harmful if used to com- bat virus infections.

Two or o n t re al doctors. Dr. Heinz Lehmann and Dr. G. J. Sarwer - Foner warned against over-use of tranquilizing drugs. The drugs did not get at the root cause of emotional disturbances and could "mask" oondidons

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