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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-08-24, Page 7An Umpire's Word "Gentlemen, I was. Linable to see the catch, In your judgment. Was it fair or foul?" is the way the high-hatted umpire used to query the crowd whenever a questionable play arose, He would carefully consider the opinion,s offered and then an- nounce 'his decision to the young gentlemen on the field, It was not questioned, The ump did not have to be as hardy in those days when baseball was a rather mild pas, time; hut when the character of the game changed, when it got tougher, so did the urnps, They had to be as tough as the players, in order to survive. . It was not until the founding of the American League that the harassed umpire could be- gin to breathe easier, Ban John- son realized the importance of protecting his officials and abol- ishing intimidation of them by club owners, He standardized their uniforms and added a base umpire to help the lonely man behind the plate, More impor- tant, he saw to it that his offi- cials were backed up by the League and that unnecessary abuse of them would not be tol- erated in the new circuit... . Most umpires begin on the sand lots, work up from there through amateur circuits such as high schools and colleges and then serve a sentence in the mi- nors. . . Meanwhile the fledgling offi- cial is not forgotten. He is watched and reported on by hawkeyed scouts just as ball- players are. The things scouts look for in an umpire are: his konwledge of the rules, keen- ness of eye, ability to be in po- sition to see a play, personality and ability to run a game with- out friction.—From "The Story of Baseball," by John Durant. He that laughs at his, own jest mars all the mirth of it. —JAMES KELLY G001-01' Case is NOT%in his second childhood, despite, the finger-in-the-mouth pose. Thae,s just a quick, handy way to sample the frosting on his 64th (or is it 65th?) birthday cake at Yankee Stadium, New York City. The peppery Yankee mana- ger celebrated his 65th (or is it 64th?) birthday by announcing a Yankee rebuilding' plan that could well-take two or three years to realize. (The record book-says he's 65 — his wife says he's 64.) WRESTLING MATCH -- Everyone had a job on their hands "when a truck turned over releasing 50 pigs on a road. Teen-agers seined in the roundup. Richard Croswell (in shirt) and Joe Strauder, here bulldog a 300-pound escapee to help out. How Can I ? By ANNE ASHLEY Q. How can I remove mildew from fabrics? A, In early stages remove by rubbing into the material a paste of powdered chalk and soapsuds and laying it in the sun. Renew• as often as it dries. For advanced stages steep the article in a weak solution of chloride of lime for half an hour, and then transfer to a sol- ution of 1 ounce hyposulphite of soda to a gallon of water to check the action of the lime. Then rinse in clear water. Q. How can I keep the sharp edge on knives? A. The sharp carving knives should be kept separated from each other. If kept together they will lose the sharp edge ferroismp?contact with other blades. Q. How can I keep celery A. By washing thoroughly and keeping in the refrigerator for a few hours in a pitcher of cold water. Add a teaspoonful of sa lt. Q. How can I clean ordinary window shades? A. Rub with wall paper clean- stretched tightly on floor or table er. Holland shades should be and tacked down, then scrubbed with hot suds and brush. Rinse with brush and warm water. Wait until almost dry, then iron. Q. How can I remove ink stains front fabrics? A. By covering the spot with a paste made of starch and but- termilk. Allow this paste to dry and then wash the goods in warm water. Q. How can I easily pour catsup? A. All that is necessary is to push back the thickened portion that congeals around the top. It will then pour easily. Q. How can I make a good ironing board cover? A. When a new cover is need- ed for the ironing board, make a slip of unbleached muslin to fit the board, open at both ends. It is far better than using a sheet, or sewing or tacking it to the board. Q. How can I prevent a burn- ing sensation on the feet caused by being too dry and harsh-skinned? A. A good remedy is to rub them thoroughly with olive oil, massaging it well into the pores. Q. How can' I make it easy to cut mergingue A. Lemon meringue pie will not be difficult to cut if the pie knife is wet with cold water be- fore using. This prevents stick- ing. Q. How can I trace ants to their nest? A. Sprinkle cake crumbs or coarse sugar on' the floor and watch to see where the ants carry it, In this way they can be destroyed at their source. If red ants nest in neon, carbolic so- lution can sometimes be intro- duced by use of an oil can with a long nozzle. WAS WILLING A near-sighted p u i's h a r.. walking along the beach at Pro- YineetoWn, Massachusetts,, COMitered a comely young lady Who' greeted hint by. nettle. Un- ahle to recognize her without lila - giagte§, the publisher Stammer eel, "How nice to see YOU tip here. HOW long are YOU stay- lag?" "I've got to go honie Sun. day," she told him sadly., "What a pity," he fen-larked, "Septem- ber is the beg Month on the Ca:Pe. Why don't yen stay an 'Other Week?" "I tyi11 if vaunt` let Me," the, girt ;Said. COy1Y.: The Ptiblialier eicarrilned hey di Close range end suddenly re bokiiiiect her. 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It was modified and improved upon twenty years later by a man named Siebe, who later improved on it still further and designed the first successful self-contained diving- suit on which all modern equip- ment is based. So diving-suits Were not new when Jules Verne let his ima- gination take therri to greater extremes than man had actually invented at the time. SURE THING GESUNDHEIT — All dressed far the hay fever season, Barbara English waits .for the .first sneeze come August 15, clad in a dress fashioned of some , 1600 disposable tissues. Cam.: eraman says he'll wait far sneeze 1599, then ... CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Construction sites have long been a happy hunting ground for children. Out along with in, nocent bits of wood and nails, youngsters can pick up a hand. fill of trouble. Blasting caps, used in building projects to: detonate explosives, can seriously harm children who mistake them, for firecrackers or empty rifle cartridges. The best protection for young- sters is a strictly enforced rule that all construction sites are out of 13bunds. In addition, they should be taught what a blasting cap looks like and what to, do if they find one. There are two types of blast- ing cap. Both are small alumi- num cylinders from one to five inches long and about one- quarter of an inch in diameter. One type has an open end and is fired by flame from a fuse, The other has two wires extend- ing from one end and is fired by an electric current. Sometimes the cylinders are colored red or green. 'Hammering with a rock or throwing one of these caps into a fire may cause an explo- sion that could kill or injure anyone within twenty-five feet. Children should be warned of the danger in these innocent- looking caps, If they find one they should steer clear of it and immediately report it to an adult who can contact police or other authorities. Explosive cartridges contain- ing dynamite are another com- mon tool of the contractor, They, too, can be deadly weapons in the hands of children. Explosive cartridges are usu- ally about eight inches long and an inch or more in diameter, but some may be as long as two feet and un to eight inches in diameter. They are enased in a brown, waxed paper or a card- board tube. Laws governing the use of blasting caps and explosives can punish carelessness, but they cannot prevent it. However, par- ents can prevent tragic accidents by teaching children that these dangerous objects are not play- things. Jonathan Daniels probably covered a thousand horse, races —Kentucky Derbies and other classics of the track— during his, newspaper career, but none of them made the impression on him occasioned by a race be- tween five camels at a Carolina carnival early in the century. Nobody remembers who per- suaded the owners of the five camels to stage the race, _but the first thing anybody knew, news of the contest spread throughout the state, and peo- ple began to bet on the outcome. Perplexed bookies established initial, odds of four to one against all five, camels, but just before the race so many big bets were planked down on the one named Ben Ali—all of them, apparent- ly, made by the Arab owners— that the bookies grew suspicious, and refused all further bets. Furthermore, they watched the race with eagle eyes for any sign of dirty work. The race, to all intends and purposes, however, was fairly run. All five Arab owners pres- sed their mounts with equal fer- vor and determination, and when Ben Ali Won easily, the bookies could find no excuse for with- holding payment to the win- ners. One of them, his exchequer badly depleated, asked the Arab who had finished third, "What made all you birds bet every- thing on Ben Ali?" The Arab explained, with a grin, "Mister, Ben Ali is what is known in our 'country as a bell camel. From the day of their birth, camels are taught to follow the bell camel!" French novelist Jules Verne had a habit of getting in Well ahead of scientists. His fertile 1.1nagination was .considered far- fetched a century or so ago, but history has caught up With, him again and again, What Verne thought of as fiction has come to pass and to be accepted as part of everyday life. His "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" inventions, for instance, He created the submarine "Nau- tilus"—and to-day we take sub- marines as a matter of course. He put men under water in self- contained diving-suits which en- abled them to walk about with- out any air-pipes from the sur- face—and nowadays young men by the hundred don frogmen's outfit§ for the sheer fun of it, Walt Disney's film of "20,000 League Under the Sea" has brought the Jules Verne fantasy to the screen, now that the fa- mous novelist's description of under-water suits has become present-day reality. True, a suit of the type crea- ted on paper by Verne was ac- tually invented within a few years of the novel's publication in 1870, and the Disney research experts managed to trace it. It agreed with every detail outlined by the novelist, includ- ing a diver's helmet, a close- fitting rubber suit, and an aqua- lung. It was hand-made and weighed 225 lb, compared with the modern frogman's outfit of a total 40 lb. First demonstrated in 1879, the suit was a revolutionary, but not entirely successful, step to- wards' Sea-bed exploration. Verne may have used his ima- gination to make life under water a relatively simple mat- ter, but he was certainly not the first man to think about the subject. Man has sought to conquer the Sea-bed for centuries, partly out of sheer curiosity, but also for more practical reasons. The scientific aspect is one. Reclaim- ing sunken„.treasurer is another. Vast riches were lost along the shores of the Mediterraneari* in very .early times, and there were' always men who dreamed of recovering them. Ihfact, the first known refer- ence to deep-sea diving goes back as far as the' first century. The Latin writer Pliny described divers who were equipped with air tubes, the free ends of which were supported on the surface of the sea by inflated bladders. It was not until the. Middle Ages that_really determined at- tempts were made to use div- ing-snits to any great degree. During the siege of Constanti- nople, in 1433, the Turks sought, means to break the chains that closed the mouth of the Golden Horn. The only way to do this was for men to, go beneath the water and remain there long. enough to hew through the chains. So divers were equipped with close-fitting leather suits, top- ped by a huge oval headpiece, with a pipe leading, from the top. Then, in the early Seventeenth century, an Englishman named Repten invented what he called "water armour.” A Dutchman named Cornelius van Drebbel experimented with the first sub- marine, using the Thames for his experiments. The "water ar- mour" was a failure, and the inventor nearly drowned him- self, but the submarine met with some measure of success. Something approaching the modern frogman's Outfit was invented by an Italian,- G. A. Borelli, in 1675. Although un- wieldy and Uncomfortable to wear, it even had web-footed bodts. All sorts .of freakish shapes and designs have been intro- duced at various times, all of them extremely hazardous for the heroic fellows trying them out. Though they worked within reason, they 'were not really successful. One of these extraordinary diving-suits was invented in 1715 by an Englishman, John Lethbridge, of NewtOn Abbot. It looked something like a leath- er sack, with one end larger than the other. A glass scuttle en- abled the diver to see, and it was 'suspended horizontally so that he was lying in something like a large covered-in seaman's hammock with a window at the bottom. He could only look downwards. There were sleeves for the wearer's arms and it was inflated with enough air for him to breath for a restricted time. Curiously enough, mankind seemed to give up the idea of conquering the ocean bed after this. It was not until the end of the 18th century that any- one else had a try, and this time it was a man named Kleingert, of Breslau, who designed a suit of leather jacket and drawers, over which was placed a 'dome- shaped cylinder reaching to the' hips. Air was pumped down to him through pipes attached to the cylinder, arid the air pres- sure preVented water entering the sine Descent was made with the aid of lead weights, and the diver merely released these . . , ' i 44 LA TE G. , „ , , . - - SUMMER.: SAILINGS • • .•,.•-. a",6 . It , Rates TO BRITISH PORTS; At inrartoaeason First Class from $192' ROUND tint, FOR AS LITTLE. ks Tourist Class from $140 - :':$280 • - , ' .4 '' „ - , . TO-- PRENCI-t PORTS: First Class, from $109:56 Tourist Classr from Si 45 VESSEL . . . . „ From MONTREAL Fi0i$ QUEBEC , From NEW YORK To ASCANIA. 8tYTHIAt ....' QUEEN, MARY . MAURETANIA 4PRANCONIA ...t/UEEWELI.ZARETA tAkONIA: ; PARTfitA ,tARONIA SAMARIA QUEEN MARY. ...BRITANNIC. .ASCANIA -.. Sot.:AU,O.. ''0 . 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