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Heroes in sports are easy to come by. Ifs
as simple as buying a pack of baseball cards
to find two or three of these guys in each
stack. But, look at who we put up on the hero
pedestal just about anybody who has ever
hammered out two hundred hits or twenty
five home runs in a season. It never matters
if most of them have big fat mouths and big
fat egos to match.
And then, along comes someone like Terry
Fox who makes most of the other guys look
pretty small no matter how big their contracts
are.
Fox is the young Canadian who ran half
way across his country on an artificial leg to
raise money for cancer research. He had lost
his right leg to cancer in 1977. When he be
gan his run, early last year, his goal was to
raise $1 million. He was forced to give up the
run halfway after 3,340 miles after his cancer
spread to his lungs. .
Fox died J une 29 of pneumonia and cancer
just one month short of his 23rd birthday. He
had not only raised $24 million for research
but had also raised the inspirations and hope
of people in Canada and ail over the world.
Wilfred Sheed, in an article in Family
Weekly, a couple of Sundays ago, said that
all of our heroes in real life pale in compari
son to the "false saints depicted in movies."
He added that once we find them that we
feel the most important thing to do is to find
their faults and cut their integrity to the
quick.
Well, Terry Fox paled to no one in his hop
skip gait for 144 days in his. "Marathon of
Hope." His plight brought out the very best
in people, not the critical worst The day after
his death, the federal government ordered
flags lowered to half-staff on all government
buildings, all military facilities and all ships
in domestic waters, an unusual gesture to a
private citizen.
Fox was also the youngest recipient of the
country's highest civilian award, the Com
panion of the Orderof Canada. Before he
lapsed into a coma the night before his death,
'WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?'
, PsaSrn 2:1 end Acts 4:23
Some years ago, a young man around 20 years of age, asked for work on the farm. Attar he had
worked several days I learned he was out of jail on bond, having been charged with taking part in a
holdup of a store, which he admitted. I called together the few workers on the farm together with
"Mr. Holdup," and advised them of the kind of man we were working with. Mr. "Holdup" sorter
"flared up" and said if I did not want to work him it was o.k. "Certainly I do not want to work you. Last
Saturday I put you and a high school boy out splitting wood with axes, wedges, and a maul. A man
with as much devil and hell in him as you might have split the boy's head open with the axe in order
to take his money! You also worked with another man using shove's. Is it right for melo ask that
man to work with you when you might knock him in the head with the shovel, since you have
chosen to try to make a living forcing people who have made their money honestly to give it to you,
killing them if necessary!
Genuine Christianity don't tolerate evil! One branch of Christianity is charged by God Almighty to
take vengeance, and do away with evil and rebellion against law and order. Read the 13th chapter
of Romans. The Bible not only says: "Resist the devil;" but it also says: "Give no place to the devil!"
"Mr. Holdup" was paid for his time, and asked to get off the place, and stay off. However, we told
him that since those who were in authority saw fit to let such a dangerous man "run on the loose," I
would cooperate as far as I could. If he thought over the matter and would come back in three days
and express hi3 purpose, determination, and make a promise to go right and act a gentleman, he
could go back to work. Ha did not come back, but hope he is going straight.
From the President of our great nation on down to the humblest citizen we should be throroughly
ashamed of ourselves for the great crime and violence abroad In our land, We would be much
better off if a great drive was launched to make crime and open evil, poverty-stricken, so that it
would perish from famine and hunger.
"Take thou away from Me the noise of the songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let
judgement run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream." Amos 5:23. Boil this
passage down, and in plain language God says to us: "Your worship is offensive to Me unless you
put away the evil from among yourselves, stop crime, murder, immorality, violence, etc."
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he learned that his marathon would be com
memorated by a postage stamp and that a
youth center in Ottawa would be named after
him.
But, besides the concrete honors, Fox also
took a. country divided by many issues and
united them in one. And that one issue, of
hope and courage, makes all the rest seem
small.
Terry Fox's story proves that there are
heroes in real life. The best thing about it is
that he didn't do it for personal gain. It is
easy to have courage when it makes you
wealthy or prestigious. Every step he took
was slow and painful and he had no way of
knowing that anything good would come of
it at all. That beats the heck out of all the
guys who are being heroes for $1 million a
year.
Sports in Brief
Clifford Powell, a tight end on the UNC
football team will not be able to play this
season. He had surgery to remove a benign
tumor in his shoulder this summer.
"The tumor was about the size of a soft
ball," Dr. joseph DeWalt of sports medicine
said. "He's making good progress and will be
able to play the season after this one."
UNC football star Steve Streater is doing
well and making progress at the Charlotte
Rehabilitation Hospital according to hospital
publicity director Alice Barnes. "He is still in
the halo brace which he has worn since the
accident, but it will be removed next month,"
she said. "He's still in very good spirits."
Four former UNC baseball players will be
trying to break into the major leagues next
" year. Craig Shumock was drafted in the 9th
round by San Diego and Mark Ochal was
also drafted by the Padres in the 12th round.
James "Peanut" Parks signed as a free-agent
with the St Louis Cardinals. Scott Bradley
signed last month with the Yankees.
Anyone interested in officiating for intra
murals should attend the officials clinic
tonight in 304 Woollen Cym. Clinics are at
6:00 for Softball and at 6:45 for basketball.
Deadlines to sign up for intramura's for
the second session of summer school are
Thursday. There will be a round-robin league
in softball and teams schedule themselves
as they enter. Play begins July 13th. There
will also be a round-robin league in basket
ball and play also begins on July 13th. There
will be a match play golf tournament and
pairings will be posted by Friday. Racquetball
play will be based on a league followed by a
single elimination play-off. Schedules will be
posted Friday. There will be singles, doubles
and mixed-doubles league play in tennis and
schedules will also be available Friday.
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