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.^ "Dollar Crisis" Brings Them Togetherâ€" These are the major figures taking part in the AurIo- Amcrican talks in Washington on England's "dollar crisis." Left to right are: Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Secretary of the Treasury John Snj^der; British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; British Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps ; and Canadian Finance Minister Abbott, Rivers of Ink And Lemonade Of all the vaxious sports which we have watrfied, reported and â€" under extreme pressure â€" even tak- _en part in, there are few that occupy such a detp-seated spot in our afTcctions as the noble pastime ' of pitching horseshoes. When we get around to publishing that book of remini>ccnces â€" we are almost up to the middle of page one â€" the chapter on Horseshoe Pitchers We Have Mingled With will be written â- with extra loving care, and no foolinR. * * * Few who ever attended them will likely ever forget the weekly out- ings of the Toronto chapter of the Pool and Poker Club, largely made up of big league professional hock- eyists and big-time professional wre.'tlers. They used to gather at our former country estate â€" 3yj acres, ."iO square yards of Which were level ground â€" for the pur- pose of scoffing Russian delicates- sen, pitching horseshoes and â€" jt was rumored â€" imhibing keg brew. * » » Tlure were times when we musi have had, at a conservative esti- niatc, lialf a million dollars worth of hockey and wrestling talent pres- ent â€" double that, probably, at present-day valuation. But outside of two or three, *uch as Harold "lialdy" Cotton, Roy "Squib" Worters, and the late Lome Cha- bot, as horse-brogan heavers, they wouldn't liave made many head- line'. • » » All tliis, and a whole lot more, came to mind when reading an ac- count of the United States national horseslioe pitching championships, recently lield at Morray, Utah. There were 36 contestants â€" finalist* from IH states. They did their stuff ill a brilliantly floodlighted, cement- surfaced arena, iiurroundcd by thousands of spectators seated in tri-m metal bleachers. » t • 'I'lie steel target-pins were tilted Ml accuatcly measured three inches toward tlie pitchers. They were set in scienlifically prepared clay pits. The shoes, weigliing up to 2^ pounds apiece, were made of "s.pe- cial analysis heat-treated steel, ac- curately balanced and plated with cadium and copper." • • * But there were two iteims in t)h« account which came home to u« with special vigor â€" reminding us of otM- own Pool and Poker Clu'b con- ditions because they were so dis • â- 11111131. At the aforesaid U.S. ch«mpion&}iips they had a loud •pcaker system to carry a minute report of the play, and on cloae ^t <^* â- ''â-  1^' ~ ' ,' .*,,l\ _ ;::f^ l^^lW ^Kp 58fc F^ r "sssi^i* 2 m i^ ^ Scalnaped â€" This nioiith - old baby was sealnaped out of the water at Vancouver, B.C., by the crew of the tanker J. L. Banna. When they turned "George" loose, out of the kind- •e&s of their hearts, he barked to be taken on board again. He was met by pretty Rosamund Wilfley with a bottle of warm milk. Now he'll 'serve a stretch' in the Steinhart Aquarium. calls, the judges used calipers to aid in their decisions. » • • Heck, when our gladiators really laid into their pitching, you didn't need any loud speaker system to keep you informed of how things were going. Although the country •state was in a fairly secluded apot, folks with good ears could tell who was winning 'way down in Hogg's HoHow, a good four miles away. * * * And as for calipers, we didn't bother about gadgets such as that. In fact, we had what you might call a sort of "house rule," fre- quently invoked when the evening shadows were starting to settle and the athletes tended to become slightly weary and inaccuTate.,Thit rule "stated" that any ahoe which landed within the hmits of the estate was close enough to be counted. * * « The only other rule we recall was one which said that anybody whose shoe vanis'hed over the brow of tihe hill and landed in the bog at the bottom had to go and retrieve it direct, without any detour in the direction of the barn where the first aid station was located. But for ail their floosy surround- ings and up-to-date trimmings, the U.S. horseshoe champions don't seejn to be in any danger of amas- sing unwieldly amounts of wealth at their calling. The ultimate vic- tor, Fernando Isais, of Los .Angeles â€" a guy who scored as many as 91 ringers in 100 consecutive tries â€" won 34 out of his 35 matches in the tournament, which must be al- most par for the course. * • • But all he took home in the way of folding money was a mere $-100 Why, there wasn't an athlete taking part in our Pool and Poker Club jousts who did-n't earn far more tlhon that per month. * * * Although not, it must be sorrow- fully admitted, for his skill in pitch- ing horesshoes. The Healing Railway Electric trains, so people are apt to consider, are a fairly new method of transport but Ursula Eason writes interestingly of the very first hydro electric railway in the world. This, which' is in Northern Ireland, was designed in 1879 and is now called the Portrush Electric Tramway. It still runs to the Giant's Causeway, il long line of octagonal rocks, stretching out to sea. The Causeway is one of the great geographical curiosities of the British Isles, for the natural rocks look exactly as though they had been hand cut. The antique railway runs along the edge of the cliff and the little open-sided carriages are roofed now, though they were not in the early days, when passengers got more than they wanted of the extremely bracing l^Iorth Antrim air. The oldest employee of the rail- way is Robert Scott, who has been working on it for fifty-seven years, and he told Miss Eason about its early days. The main change since then has been the removal of the third rail which carried the power. This rail was situated between the railway car and the ditch and was supported on wooden posts about eighteen inches high. There was dif- Moulties and, according to Mr. Scott, the company was not allowed enough current for the little live * rail, ao that fifty years ago it was taken away and the overhead sys- tem adopted. Ursula Eason remarked that this was surely a good thing as a live rail in such a prom- inent position must have been rather dangerous? Mr. Scott countered such a suggestion with the story of the old countrywoman from the district who used to ait on the rail •very evening. She was warned that, despite her copious skirts, the habit was a dangerous one but she refuted to give ap her apparently foolhardy practice because, aht said, h cased her rheumatism. French scientists have analysed wihat must be the mo«t remarkable riv«r in .the world â€" the so-called Ink River in Algeria. Its name is not symbolic. It merely states the truth, which applies not onljv.to the coloring of the water, but to hi chemical composition as well. This is a stream of real ink. The Ink River ori^nates from two sources, one of which contains a considerable amount of iron salts, while the other abounds in lead oxide. It ie the cotnbination of these two substances that makes ordinary ink. The liquid is thick enough to be used for writing. Another unusual river \f in the State erf Nebraska. It« water tastes very sweet and science is still •earohing for the reason. There are no sugar plantations along its banks. Neither are there any near- by sources of saccharine, which sometimes does become dissolved in rivers from the soil. This sweet river came into ex- istence quite unexpectedly in 1930, and since then has increased in size. Geologists believe this rare, natural phenomenon was caused by an abnormal rise in the level of cer- tain subterranean waters, evemtu- ally leading to the bursting forth of the new river. The Rio de Vinagre, a river which marks the boundary between Chile and Argentina, is known as the Acid River because its water is almost as acid as lemon juice. By adding a small quantity of sugar to a glass of its water, a beverage can be obtained similar to lemon- ade. One enterprising American actu- ally started a company to transport thousands of gallons of water from the sweet river in Nebraska to the Rio de Vinagre. The idea was to si:pply aerated table waters for the thirsty Argentinians, but in the end it was found cheaper to buy sugar on the spot. Tlie River Enyari Niuki, in ICast Africa, has watir which tastes like diluted bitter beer. Yet there is no alcohol in it. The natives boil it before drinking to get rid of the chemicals it contains. However, it seems to have no detrimental effect on animals, who drink it as if it were ordinary water. There are black, brown, yellow, red and white rivers in many coun- tries, and their bright hues may be due to the color of the river bed or to the reflection from the colored banks. Thus the Black River of Niassaland, in East Equatorial Africa, appears jet black because of the black lava over whicih is flows. 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