Show Baby Sitters Influence lots One Gave Ice Star First Urge to Skate I MILWAUKEE WIS Be most i careful when you choose your baby sitter I Your baby sitter when you arent aren't looking may chart the I course of ot life over which your child will travel and she may knowingly knowing knowing- ly or unknowingly influence the child to enter a business profession profession profession sion or trade that may not exactly fit into your plans So says Phil Hiser dean of ot skaters skaters skaters ers In Holiday on Ice who does the popular Memory Lane waltz with Jeanne Berman and spends the remainder of his time on the I ice getting laughs out of the audience audience audi audio ence with his comedy acts I know whereof I speak says Phil It was a baby sitter who put me on skates when I was 3 years old aId Ive I've been on skates ever since i and j-and md and Im I'm 41 now My father was on the road with the Frank Warren Minstrels So SoI I was left in the tho th care of the Irish nursemaid whose sole ambition was to skate and skate and skate First she dragged me to the ice pond and hauled me around on a broom Then she got m me a pair of I sled skates and it was not long before before be be- fore she got hockey skates for me I just had to skate There was nothing I could do about it Phil admits he became an addict and he and Bridget never missed an opportunity to indulge in their favorite sport When he was 11 years old old Pittsfield Mass Phils Phil's Phil's Phils home town had town had a great celebration celebration tion because one of the local boys had won the national junior championship championship cham cham- and another of the local boys had taken second place Our champions came home and there was a great celebration So that the Pittsfield folks could see how fast these boys really were an I exhibition was arranged and all of the best skaters in town were to torace torace torace race against them them to to be left far behind nt f f course |