HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-07-27, Page 3It began when Harold If Herd Ernst saw an ancient cannon
in a West. Coast, museum. The instrument engineer decided
then and there to make a miniature of it from metal. lie
did, and ever since has been building, 'shooting and selling
what he calls the "world's smallest real cannon." Public
demand has turned his hobby into a business. kle's even
had to supply kits for hobby shops,
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Dying Wishes
Can Be Costly
"When I die I want you to
bring me here!" So said the
pretty Scots girl as she spun
around an Edinburgh dance hall
to the dreamy strains of a waltz.
And when she fell desperately
ill she made her husband prom-
ise to scatter her ashes at the
spot where he had romantically
proposed to her—On the floor of
the Palais.
Gruesome, maybe! But it was
truly the last waltz when the
young man turned up ' at the
dance-hall with a casket—and
duly scattered his wife's ashes
on the gleaming floor while the
organist played "I'll Walk Beside
You!"
An Australian rancher express-
ed a last wish to have his ashes
scattered from the air over the
land he owned and loved. A
friend who ran an air-taxi, Mr.
Stanley Porter, of Brisbane, per-
formed this last rite . . . and
took his two sons with him on
the trip:
It was a dying wish that
brought death—for the 'plane
crashed and Porter and one of
his sons was killed.
When Francis Covell, the New
York painter, expressed a wish
to have his ashes shot from a
gun on a hilltop overlooking his
home, there were technical dif-
ficulties. The family comprom-
ised by attaching the ashes' to.
coloured balloons, which were
then shot down!
In Rome Fannie Lepetit di-
rected that she should be buried
with all her jawellery and she
went to the tomb—a vault with
steel doors—with $300,000 worth.
But since then there have been
so many 'alarms of midnight in-
trudes at the cemetery that the
police are demanding Fannie
should be exhumed' and the
jeweli returned to her family.
,Sentimental eccentrics have
asked "to be 'buried With family
photographs, sheets of music and
even tape recordings.
su% mutt* itstautstats
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from its other gambling gad-
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"21" favors the house by 4 to
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by a little over .5 per cent.
SEES SEA DAVY — A seagoing
Davy Crockett. That's what 7-
year-old Bart Howard found at
the Maritime Museum in San
- Francisco. Young Bart's hero
was the figurehead on a clipper
ship named for the King of the
Wild Frontier.
Ai Earlier Ballad
Of Davy Crockett
The present vogue Of "The
Ballad of Davy Crockett" remids
the student of balladry that this
bet the first time Davy Crockett
has been romanticized and wide-
ly Sting in popular song. A hun-
dred years ago or more, another
.-song about him was going the
rounds, another "Ballad of Davy
Crockett," a piece still alive in
tradition in the South and West,
where' versions of it have been
recovered in West Virginia, Ken-
tucky, Missouri, Arkansas, and
Texas.
It all began with a blackface
minstrel song called "Pompey
Smash, " a name popular enough
in the 1840's to be parodied by
Old Dan Emmett as "Pompey
O'Sniash," with a bow in the
direction a" the stage Tristan's,*
In thit blustitering piece Of mite.
steel horseplay, Pompey' Smash,
like Davy Crockett, is a "nrind-
Pia statesman" who, without his
head, weighs half a tan. He is
,hi'egrOlninstrel parody 011
' Davy Crockett and the myth Of. .
the fire-eating frOntiersrnan.
This ininstrel song _deals with -
three of Davy dreekettl folk
exploits, all recorded In the; ptib.
-11c prints of the 1830'S. •and "
1840's, One. describes the thythes
101101 battles Davy had With
,MISSISSippi boatmen. When he
OLtCHI Waldo Corthes thOeiriii even clinCh his fists as a Afolkii
wcioori Cinin 'rUtii Over his pilloW,OOVered ,head in Wiesbaden,.
Germany: Of course,-a Volkswagen is not the biggest car
EirOind, but Wauld yoU like to fey thii trick?
locked horns with these crgters,
he yelled seven times as )ouch ns
a whole drove of Injuns:aalshis
eyes stuck out two inches( like
the Irish champion Cuchulain's
in his battle rage.
The second incident rose out
of Davy's reputed discovery that
he could• grin a coon out of a
tree, and thus save powder and
lead. One night he attempted to
grin a 'coon out of one of the
highest limbs of an old tree. He
grinned but nothing happened.
Frustrated, he went back to his
house, got an ax, cut down the
tree, only to find that the coon
was not a coon but a knot in
the branch. He felt a little bet-
ter when he discovered he had
grinned all the bark off the
branch.
The third bit of business took
place when he was campaigning
for his seat in Congress. He
went down to Hay Hollow,
caught an alligator, bridled him
With a bridle of panther hides,
and then got on his back and
rode him up to Bear Clearing,
right to the 'stump where the
other candidate was speaking,
The other candidate left in a
hurry, and t h e votes were
Davy's. '
In the natural courses of folk-
lore, folk incidents like these
could have gone directly into a
folk ballad of Davy Crockett.
But they didn't. A minstrel man
got in between the incidents and
the ballad. Out of these inci-
dents he made a minstrel song,
in which a Negro named Pom_
pey Smash meets Crockett,
watches him attempt to grin
down a coon, and fights with him
when Crockett fails because the
coon is made of wood. The epic
fight results in a draw and Porn-
pey goes on to other adventures
with fallen stars and an alligator.
In turn, the folk straightened
the minstrel man's satire, turned
his parody into a folk ballad,
started a shift in the emphasis
of the ballad from Pompey
Smash to Davy Crockett, where,
of course, it had been originally,
Out of this minstrel song, the
folk imagination made the first
ballad of Davy Crockett, The
folk extracted the single main
incident of the coda eniSode and
consequent fight, and dropped
out the less interesting material,
as time and transmission have
cut and concentrated many a
ballad before this One.
The folk also worked over the
punch couplet, full of the exag-
geration beloved of those who
exploited the frontier, until it
emerged in this, its most concen-
trated and effective version, from
Arkansas:
Come to s'ai'ch heads, both
heads was rnissin',
He'd bit off my head, an' I
had swallered his'n
It was this memorable couplet
that made the incident, the min-
strel song, and the ballad.
THREE TIMES AS MANY
SAWYERS
Iii the 20 years between 1931
and 1951 the number of saw-
yers in Canada tripled from 4,-
124 to 13,257.
MERRY MENAGERIE
"My Wife Weighs the seine tti
the day I married her Skeet*
I,y one ten!"'
He Gets a Bang "' Baseball's Best-Known Screwballs CLASSIFIED ADVERT SING
Harold Herd checks the scale
of one of his tiny cannon. His
working miniatures 't a n g e
from 15th Century French
bombards to the ear-splitting
Rodman gup of the Civil'War.
The "little big shots" can be fired just like a real cannon.
Powder, paper wad and ball are rammed into the muzzle
and the charge is touched off with a smouldering punk, They
have amazed artillerymen with their accuracy. One-inch
bulls-eye's at 200 yards are commonplace. Two of Herd's
cannon are beiug fired at targets in above photo.
there's something in my shoe."
He sat down, removed the shoe,
and shook out two tees,
There was the spring when.
Clark Griffith took his Washing-
ton team to, camp in charlottes-
Ville, Virginia, and made each
player deposit; all his money in
the hotel safe on arrival, This
was to protect them against
temptation,
Confident that none of his
heroes was able to buy his way
into trouble, Gruff was prepar-
ing for tranquil rest one even-
ing when, musing ,at his win-
dow, he saw two men tottering
out of the hotel under a weighty
burden. He recognized Eddie
Ainsmith, his catcher, and a
playmate toting the safe away
in a quest of a cracksman,
There was also, in fairly re-
cent times, a feur-eyed pitcher
named Walter (Born-Boom)
Beck whose earnestness was not
always matched by his effec-
tiveness on the mound. He was
working for Brooklyn in. Phila-
delphia's Baker Bowl, a tiny
playground whose tin-faced
right field fence resounded res-
onantly when batsmen like
Chuck Klein or Lefty O'Doul
flogged line drives against it.
Hack Wilson; playing right
field for the Dodgers, had de-
voted the previous evening to
pursuits of his own taste, and
was hung over like a poste-
cochere. He grasped and heaved
and floundered chasing down
hits that ricocheted off the wall.
Max Carey, the Brooklyn man-
ager, made several visits to the
mound to suggest that Beck re-
linquish his place to a, relief,
pitcher, but each time Boom-
Boom begged for and was grant-
ed another chance.
Bang! went the line drives.
Boom! And Wilson huffed and
puffed and panted in pursuit.
Again Carey called time, and
Hack took- a breather, feet wide,
hands on knees head hanging
low as he sucked in deep
breaths. Firmly this time, Carey
told Beck he was through. • In
furious protest, the pitcher
flung' the' ball away, toward
right field.
Where Gambling Is Big Business
The late Uncle Wilbert Iteb,
„Inson's Brooklyn Dodgers (call-
ed the Robins then) had been
taking their spring exercises in
Jacksonville, Florida, for some-
thing like three weeks when a
rookie inquired idly ef his
roommate, "Hey, what's the
;seine of this town, anyhow?"
"you mean to tell me," the
roommate demanded, "that you
been here all this time and 0111
know what town you're in?
Or gosh sakes, don't let Robie
hear you say something like.
that."
"Who's Robbie?" the rookie
asked,
"They don't have characters
like that in baseball these days,"
Old-timers often complain, wist-
fully and inaccurately. "The
game 'hasn't got the color it
used to have." Fact is, the harle-
quins and gowks and chowder-
heads are still with us, and
probably as numerous as they
ever were. Trouble is, there are
nO Ring Larclners or Charley
Drydens to make them memor-
able in prose.
After all, there never has
been more than one Rube Wad-
dell or Ossie Schreckengost at
a time. (It was Waddell whose
contract provided, at his room-
mate's insistence, that he must
not eat crackers in bed, and it
was Schreck, the . roommate,
who once nailed a steak to the
hotel dining room wall in elo-
quent criticism of the delicacy.)
Over the years, the zanies and
characters have come along in
single file, and they're still corn-
hig. Before the 1955 season, is
done, there'll be tales told about
some worthy inheritor of the
cap and bells worn successively
by Waddell, Bugs Raymond,
Van Lingle Mungo, Dizzy Dean,
Bobo Newscim and, if you like, ,
Yogi Berra,, writes Red Smith
hi "Home and Highway."
Perhaps the most imaginative
raconteur of them *, all was.
Harry Steinfeldt, infielder with
the old Reds and Cubs, though
that claim may be disputed by
anybody who has had a dish of
tea recently with 'Al Schacht or
Lefty Gomez.
Steinfeldt told admiringly of
a second baseman in the Texas
League who was spiked making
, the putout on an attempted
steal. He limped about' for a
moment, resumed play. He han-
dled every fiding chance fault-
lessly, `made' a home run, a
double and two singles in four
times at bat.
He and Steinfeldt started off
the field together after the
game. "Wait a minute," said.the
second baseman. "Feels like
Hack heard it slam the tin
wall behind. him. He lifted his
head, wheeled-in panic, scooped'
up the ball on first bounce and
fired to second base = the best
throw he had made all day.
We still have 'em — the
Becks and Wilsons, Steinfields
and- Waddells -.but it requires
--a little time to appreciate them..
It was only last fall, for ex-
ample, that some of the news-
papermen covering the World
'Series heard from. Branch
Rickey, Jr., what it's like to be
the employer of one of these
baseball whacks.
A newspaperman had been
recounting how Branch' Rickey,
Sr., who could give William
-Jennings Bryan twenty pounds
and outdo him in persuasive
eloquence, had been talked to
the edge of despair in a' wage
discussion with a rookie named •
Dizzy Dean. Young Branch
chuckled.
"I wonder if that was the
same day a little thing happen-
ed at, home," he said. "I was
still a young fellow. Dad came
home for dinner one night and
he wasn't like himself, He was
always a handy man with a
' knife and fork, you know, but
this night he just picked at his
food and he kept muttering
over -his plate.
"I ' heard • him say, 'But I'm
an intelligent man.' I said,
'What did you say, dad?' But
he kept talking to him self. 'I
know I am," he said. 'That's
what worries me.' I said,
'Huh?' but he went on to him-
self.
"'I'm as intelligent • as the
next man,' he said. 'Why, I'm a
Doctor -of-Jurisprudence, I read,
'I think, I discuss weighty mat-
ters with great men. I know I'm
intelligent, but—'
"'Listen,' I said, 'what's go-
ing on, anyhow?' The old man
slammed his palm down on the
table and all the dishes jumped.
"'But he said, 'I spend five
hours talking to a Dizzy Dean!"
ONLY FOR DUMMIES — Looks
like an amusement park high-
ride, but it's something the
bravest thrill-seeker would
hesitate to tackle. It's a dum-'
my-occupied ejection 'seat which
was displayed at the recent
Paris, France, air:show to dem=
onstrate*power behind the blast
that hurls a pilot from a crip-
pled jet plane.' it's for real-life ,
use only in emergency.
IT MAY BE'
YOUR LIVER
Gambling on race horses, in
the considered judgment of the
Arkansas Supreme Court, is a
game of skill. Gambling in gen-
eral, in the opinion of Carl Co-
hen, casino manager of the
Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev.,
"is a business pure and simple.
We sell a chance to win
money." Crowded bingo parlors
in New Jersey, jam-packed
horse and dog tracks all over
the U.S,, the eager groups
around the Reno slot machines
and 'crap tables, Were sure evi-
dence this week that Anieri-
cans—skiliful, greedy, or both
—were ready, willing, and able
to buy a chance to win money.
The stakes are staggering.
\Last year 30 million hungry
horse players pushed: between
$2 billion and $2.5 billion
through the thutuel windows.
Besides the billions bet 'in the
24 - states where.' pari-mutuels
• are in business, an estimated $3
to' $5 billion ,sinere, passed
through the hands of
bookmakers. The remarkable
thing about the gambling dol-
lar is its apparent indestructi-
bility. The horse-player and
slot-machine .fan were among
the first to recover from the
1929. depression. The net (re-
ceipts less payoffs) from pari-
mutuel machines and slots had
sunk to $10 million in 1932. The
next year, it was $15 million
and by 1941 it had soared- to
$147 million. War fanned the
fever, and by 1952 these two
forms of gambling alone were
netting $419 million. The 1929-
50 gain added up to a whopping
1,775 ' per cent for slot ma-
chines, 2,330 per cent for horse
racing.
'The fantastic rise is by no
means due to the rapid growth
of the Jaguar, and Dior set. Ac-
cording to George. Gillett, op-
erations director of the Ameri-
ean Totalisator Co. of Balti-
more, maker of the country's
mutuel machines, per cent
of the mutuel tickets bought
are of the .$2 .variety. Those
countless $2 bets (Gillett fi-
gures it takes 200,000 to 250,-
000 wagers to add up to $1
million) are the ,tip-Off to the
mass-market nature Of tOdly's
gambling.. They also help ex-'
plain the kindly attitude that
more and more state' egislatOra
are taking toward the sport of
Gambling's newest El Dorado
is, of Course, Las Vegas, whose
inultimillion-d011ar temples of
Chance stand as monuments tO
the frailty of man's will. There
is a race track, but it is .sel-
dom used. - Soinehow, Nevada's
visitors are more attracted by
-the click . of dice, the -silent
wheel, the sharp crack -of a card
in expert hands. Last year '10
million travelers visited Les •
Vegas; 7.5 Million stopped .:there
—and bet about $50 million in
the casino's.
In essence, Nevada's gamb-
ling industry 'fellows exactly
the same ptincisial as, the Super-
Market. The item tor sale, as
the sand' Carl Cohen explainS,
is inoriey, The" odds invariably`
favor the house hence a
litiilt4ri profit margin. All the
Operator has ter •Ile is bring in
traffic, The flashy
dollar • hotels and $40,000-a-;
Week: „entertainers attract the
playets;:litiman nature and the
TAW of !mirages do 'the rest.
To handle its share -of' the
freesflOWitig Money, 'the' 'Sands'
must spend' freely. itself. 'It has
five Crap tables '(at g cost of
$1,100 each);• Six $400 "21"
100100,. three .roulette set-iipS
($1,700 enike), and. 102 slot
triadliiriet Jranging franci $375
for the niakeh•eatera to $626 tor.
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