| Show Baby Sitters Influence fluence Tots lots TotsOne One Gave Ice Star First Urge to Skate MILWAUKEE WIS Be most most careful when you choose your baby sitter Your baby sitter when you arent aren't looking may ch chart the course of 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 skaters skaters skaters ers in Holiday on Ice who does the popular Memory Lane waltz with Jeanne Berman and spends the remainder linder of his time on the ice getting laughs out of the audience audience audi audi- 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 ears old Ive I've been on skates ever since and and Im I'm 41 now My father was on the rO road ld with the Frank Warren Minstrels So SoI I was was left in the 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 me a pair of sled skates and it was not long before before before be be- fore she got hockey skates for me I r just h had ld 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 I years old Pittsfield M Mass PhIls PhIl's Phil's Phils home town town had had a great celebration celebration celebration tion because one of the local boys had won the national junior champIonship championship championship cham cham- and another of the local boys h had ld taken second place Our champions came home and there was a great celebration So that the Pittsfield folks could see how fast last these boys really were an 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 tar behind of course I |
