Hershey News 1959-09-17

              HERSHEY "NEWS
Vol. 7 N 0 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 17, 1959
STRANGELY NEW FOR HERSHEY'S COMMUNITY CLUB gymnasium is the
scene above in which Pentathlon fencers are sharpening up their form for the forth-coming
World Modern. Pentathlon Championships here. The ancient skill with the long,
slender sword-epee fencing-is one of the five-sport Pentathlon events. The teams
of the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina are currently practice-fencing
in the Community Club gym•
Pentathlon To Bring Many languages To Hershey
With five ,of the 14 World
Modern Pentathlon teams in
town, it might be 'appropriate
to display a sign on the Com-munity
Club desk saying:
"English Also Spoken Here."
At the present time, the dul-cet
Spanish and Portuguese
accents of South America and
Mexico can be heard at almost
any time of the day as the
Pentathlon athletes f rom
south of the border prepare
Community Notes
M. S. Hershey Day
A top-capacity audience
joined in the community's
tenth annual M.S. Hershey
Day on Sunday afternoon in
the Community Theatre and
heard a tribute to the late
founder of Hershey presented
in an interesting manner by
the First Lady of Scouting,
Lady Baden-Powell.
. The musical program, pre-sented
by the Cambrian Male
Choir of Cleveland, Ohio, also
made the occasion memorable
as the "Welsh.Choir" capably
demonstrated the Welshman's
-2;aditional love of singing.
The 40-voice ,organization,
under the direction of William
Albert Hughes,, gave validity
tb , the phrase,, "perfect har-mony,"
as they presented
their repertoire before an
enthusiastic audience.
The M.S. Hershey Day ob-servance
is sponsored each
Year on a date near Mr. Her-shey's
birthdate by the Her-shey
Rotary . CInb.
30.
• The teams are billeted at the
Community Club and their
training headquarters is the
Pentathlon liaison office, lo-cated
in the club lobby.
The teams representing the
United States and Brazil were
the first to arrive on the Her-shey
scene, followed by Mex-ico,
Chile and Argentina.
And by the end of next
week, a linguist will be able to
have a field day from a chair
in the Community Building
lobby.
The five teams already on
the scene have been working
out to bring themselves to a
fine edge for the gruelling
five-sport competition for the
world title.
The Community Club gym-nasium
has been in use almost
constantly as the pentathletes
practice fencing in a serious
manner stemming from their
respect for the skill of the Eu-ropean
swordsmen.
A total of 14 'nations will
compete in the Pentathlon
championships and each will
have three contestants enter-ed,
plus an alternate. Each
team member must compete in
these events:
Riding-September '26.
• Fencing-September 27.
Pistol shooting-September
28.
Swimming-September 29.
Running-September 30.
The events will be held in
the Hershey Stadium and
Sports Arena area, with the
for the big international corn- exception of the pistol shoot-petition
here September 25- ing at the new Pennsylvania
State Police Academy range
and the swimming in the Her-shey
Park pool.
Appropriate and colorful
opening ceremonies have been
scheduled for the stadium on
Friday evening.
U. S. representatives are
Robert Miller, the American
national champion; George
Lambert, who was second in
the Tan-American Games at
Chicago; and Leslie Bleamas-ter
who was third in the Pan-
Ams.
The individual Pan-Ameri-can
champion, Lt. Wenceslau
Malta of Brazil, is working
out here with his team, intent
on attempting to bring the
world championship to the
Western Hemisphere.
The world champion in the
individual competition for the
past two years was a Russian,
Igor Novikov. The Russians
are also the defending team
titleholders.
One of the outstanding
threats to Novikov's title is
expected to come from Fin-land's
Kurt Lindemann.
But Col. Russell thinks that
an American could wind up as
individual pentathlon cham-pion.
He pointed out that Mil-ler
has scored as many points
as Novikov in past competi-tions
"and could do it again."
Lambert, Col. Russell not-ed,
was fifth in the Olympics,
"right behind Novikov," and
No. 38
Spirit Of 1836
Dipping into -history, one wonders how mueh
change in attitudes has come about in Americans of
today as compared to the robust Americans , of the
pioneering period of the nation's development.
Certainly times have changed and, inevitably, peo-ple
have changed, too. The question is not if, but hoW
much. -
What touched off this speculation was a statement
published in 1836 by Alexis de Tocqueville, a famous
-French traveler and observer:
"In America the citizen never thinks of soliciting
the cooperation of the Government; but he publishes
his plan, offers to execute it himself, courts the assis-tance
of other individuals, and struggles manfully
against all obstacles. Undoubtedly he is often less suc-cessful
than the State might have been in his position;
but in the end, the sum of these private undertakings
far exceeds all that the Government could effect."
De Tocqueville's observation carries an obvious
-note of admiration for the American attitude of 1836,
when the nation was still new and beginning to expand.
How much of the spirit of '36 do we still have?
•
Hershey Bears' Training Camp Opens;
To Gear Up For 72-Game AHL Schedule
'The -Hershey Bears this
week were in training camp at
Niagara Falls, Ontarid, as the
opening game of the 1959-60
American Hockey League
season loomed just three
weeks away.
The Bears will open their
defense of the Calder Cup
title against Cleveland in the
Hershey Sports Arena on
Wednesday, October, 7. -
With the .addition of .the
Quebec Aces to. the AHL, each
club Will play a 72-game
schedule instead of the pre-vious
70-game Season card.
The Bears will play fifteen
Wednesday nights and 21 Sat-urday
nights on home ice.
At the Niagara Falls train-.
ing camp, the Bears will pick
up added personnel from the
Detroit Red Wings along with
a number of young amateurs
to complete the camp .squad.
The Bears' training camp
roster:
Goalies - Bobby Perreault
and Claude Dufour; defense-men
-- Gordon Hollingworth.
Larry Zeidel, Frank Mathers,
Jackie Price.
Centers •- Mike Nykoluk,
Willie Marshall, Hec Lalande,
Arnie Kullinan and Wally
Boyer.
Right wingers - Dune
Fisher, Ron Hurst, Jacques
Gagnon and Raymond Kinase-wich;
left wingers - Bob
Solinger, Les Duff and Obie
O'Brien.
The season home game schedule:
Wed., Oct.
Sat., Oct.
Wed., Oct.
Sat., Oct.
Wed., Oct.
Sat., Oct.
Sat., Oct.
October
7, Cleveland.
10, Quebec.
14, Providence.
17, Cleveland.
21, Springfield.
24, Buffalo.
31, Providence.
November
Wed., Nov. 4, Cleveland.
Sat., • Nov. .7, Rochester.
Sat., Nov. 14, Quebec.
Wed., Nov. 18, Springfield.
Sat., Nov. 21, Buffalo.
December
Wed., Dec. 9, Springfield.
Sat., Dec. 12, Providence.
Sat., Dec. 19, Buffalo.
Sat., Dec. 26, Rochester.
Wed., Dec. 30, Quebec.
January
Sat., Jan. 2, Rochester.
Wed., Jan. 6, Springfield.
Sat., Jan. 9, Quebec.
Wed., Jan. 13, Cleveland.
Sat., Jan. 16, Buffalo.
Wed., Jan. 20, Springfield.
Sat., Jan. 23, Quebec
Wed., Jan. 27, Cleveland.•
Sat., Jan. 30, Providence.
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- February
Feb. 3, Rochester.
Feb. 6, Buffalo.
Feb. 27, Buffalo.
March
March 2, Cleveland,
March 5, Rochester.
March 9, Providence.
March 12, Quebec.
March 16, Springfield.
March 19, Rochester.
March 26, Providence.
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