HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-04-16, Page 3A Great Hitter
Speaks His Mind.
This was in nearby Mesa
where the Chicago Qubs train,
Rogers Hornsby, whom many
consider the greatest right-
handed batter in the history cot
baseball arid a 'Sall of Fame
second baseman, sat in 14 hot
Arizona sun, squinting at the
Chbs -in practice.
"Look et that kid trying 4:o
to hit," said Hernsby with a
shake of his head, "I have to
tell them the truth, but they
don't want to hear it. I'm hired
as a batting coach, but it's im-
possible to teach most of these
boys anything. They just haven't
got it. That's all there is to
it, And I sure can't give it
to them.
"I say that if a boy is worth
a $35,000 or 540,000 bonus, he
should be good enough to play
light here in the majors. But
most of them aren't good
enough to play in Podunk. It's
throwing money away, If a club
wants to spend that much
money, why not go out and buy
an established player from an-
other club — a club that has
e surplus.
"I don't blame some of these
veterans f o r demanding more
money," he continued. "If a
club can afford to pay bonuses;
to some of these bums, it can
afford to pay its stars. I say a
player should get all he can,
because baseball is a short ca.
reer. One or two of them are
worth $200,000 a year in my
book,"
What players did he have in
mind? He refused to name them,
saying only: "I don't need to.
You know who they are,"
Later Hornsby probably tip-
ped his hand when asked an-
other queStion. The question
was: "How many really great
hitters have come along in re-
cent years?"
"Only two," he said. "Wil-
liams a n d Musial. Mantle
should be, but lie isn't. I don't
think he hustles enough. But
those other two would have
been great in any era. Williams,
though, should have been great.
er. He,should have taken more
advantage of that shift. But it's
too late now."
Had anyone ever asked him
why, as a right-handed batter,.
he had always had such tre-
mendous power to right-centre
field?
"Because I tried to hit
straight-away," the big fellow
replied. "There was more open
space in center. I aimed for it.
I just timed the ball. Timing is
50 per cent of hitting.
"But with today's lively ball,
you can kick one over the
fence. They aim down the lines,
because that's the shortest dis-
tance to the fences. Williams
would get 15 to 20 more hits
a year if he'd hit straight-away;
maybe more. But all they can
see are those fences, down the
lines.
"Today's ball player has
changed, at course," Hornsby
went on. "We all know that. But
I think we lose.sight Sometimes
of how great the ' change has
been. We loved the game in my
day;, many of us would have
played it for a lot less money,
if we had had to. Today money
is the big thing, ahead of every,
thing else.
"We had tci'love the game or
we'd have quit before we could
get started. I never got .near
the batting cage when I was a
kid until all the regulars had
had enough. Then I was lucky
if I -could find anyone to throw
to me.
"It's enough today to be able
to do one thing. If you can
field, they'll two platoon you in
the late innings, to hold a lead.
If you can hit, they'll find some
place for yeti. Years ago you
had to be able to do a lot of
things or they wouldn't even
look at you. The platoon sys-
tem has discouraged the all-
around player. A boy knows to-
day that he can play up here
merely by concentrating en one
thing. That's all he needs.
"Today's player is pampered,"
Rogers said. "You have to han-
dle him like a baby or he might
get mad and go home. And you
can't let him do that because
you've already giveh him a big
bonus, I guess I hurt their
feelinge sometimes, I'm just .111
old fogies with old-fashioned
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1845. It is about a lover who is
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frequently repeated answer
"Nevermore" to his frantic ques-
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caused them to have nightmares
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Poe received only $10 for the
poem. Yet when the manuscript
was sold some quarter of a cen-
tury ago it fetched $60,000.
What influenced Poe to write
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studied his terror tales closely
say all those murders, tombs and
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stant longing for death because
of his miserable life and harrow-
ing boyhood, for he was left an
orphan before his third birthday.
Others think that the grisly
tales of spooks and graveyards
told him by sailormen in his
youth inspired some of his most
fantastic plots.
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days is not known. One story is
that while travelling to Balti-
more in 1840 he fell into the
hands 'of a gang of ruffians who
were in search of accomplices or
victims.
"It was an electioneering day
for a member of Congress; and
Pee was carried by his captors
into an electioneering den, where
he was drugged with whisky,"
the story runs.
"With other victims he was
then dragged from polling sta-
tion to polling station and forced
to vote for a particular candidate
Whose ticket was placed in his
hand."
As a thriller writer Poe could
hardly have imagined a more
macabre story than that half-
conscious tour of the polling eta-
Hone to imporsonate voters—and
its sequel.
After the election the garig left
him to die in the streets. He *as
dead drunk when somebody
picked him up from a gutter and
took him to a hospital, where he
died shortly afterwards on Octo-
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year.
"Is this a healthy town?" in-
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"Yee, rcerteinles'' was the
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Omar — After A
.Handred• Years
As of March 31 the most fam-
ous Poem in the English tongue
on the subjects of agnosticism
and wine bibbing had been in
publication for 100 years. On that
de te, a har 4 seme centennial edi-
tion of Edward FitzGerald's
"Rubaiyat" was published by the
Colby College Press in Maine.
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copies of the "Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam" have been sold — cer-
tainly more than a million — and
the market is still booming.
Among leading U.S. publishers
of the poem, .'Pocket Books re-
ported 330,000 sales between 1941
and 1953; Books, Inc., has ^sold
some 76,000 copies in eighteen
successive printings, and Double-
day has sold about 107,000 copies
since 1946.
For more than two year after
the poem first appeared in. Eng-
land in 1859, heralded by only
two minuscule advertisements,
not a single copy was sold. In
1861, -a Celtic scholar named
Whitley Stokes picked up the
"Rubaiyat" on a bookstall and
flared with excitement. He pre-
sented a copy to the poet Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, who alerted the
poets Robert Browning and Al-
gernon Charles Swinburne and
thereby others. Copies reached
Ralph. Waldo Emerson and James
Russell Lowell in America.
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admiration of all these men was
a wonderfully inventive and
musically magical rendering of
the eleventh -century Persian s
poet-astronomer. Omar's senti-
ments were bound to appeal to
FitzGerald. A son of Suffolk
gentility, he had gone to Cam-
bridge and soon retired to. Suf-
folk again, to a life of warm
friendships, books, music, gar-
-denings, and depressing religious
doubts. His scholarly friend Ed-
ward •Cowell described him as
"a kind of, slumbering giant, or
silent Vesuvius." It was Cowell
who led him to Omar, and in
1857 FitzGerald wrote that
s"Omar breathes a sort of consola-
tion to me!" Two years later — a
full 20 years after he had' 'left
the university — FitzGerald, at
50, offered that consolation to
the English-speaking world.
A Book of Verses underneath
the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread
— and Thou
Beside me singing In the
Wilderness —
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise
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Wrote The First
Detective Story
Thriller writers all over the
World are paying telletete this
year to the strange genius Whe
wrote the first detective story
thriller, "The Murders. In The
Rue Morgue," the valuable
manuscript Of which a few years
age was sold Per $25,000.
Edgar Allan Poe was the man
who wrote this masterpiece of
logical reasoning, in which the
murderer proves to be an ape.
It was the forerunner of all other
detective stories,
Poe, is being specially remem-
bered in 1959 because he was
born at Boston, Massachusetts,
150 years ago,
The life of this master of the
horrific was as sensational as
any of his bizarre thrillers and
tales of mystery.
Drink, drugs and debt were his
"three dogging demons," as one
expert on Poe and his works has
called them, They helped to ruin
him. So did his many frantic flir-
tations and love affairs, all of
which ended unhappily.
Take a look at this brilliant
but strangely proportioned man
with the sallow face, the high,
abnormally wide forehead, the
brooding, deep-Set eyes and the
sensitive mouth. It is easy to
understand why women found
him attractive.
He had a morbid imagination
and a taste for the gruesome and
the ghastly. He was irritable and
capricious. He was rebellious,
and while a cadet at the West
Point Military Academy was ex-
pelled because he disobeyed or-
ders. But he was capable of in-
tense love as he proved when
he married his pretty cousin Vir-
ginia. He was then twenty-seven.
and striving to become a famous
writer.,
She was only fourteen — a
child-wife. She ha a slim figure,
straight hair, candid eyes and a
pink and white complexion. But
she was delicate. Her moody,
nervous husband idolized her.
They were practically penni-
less arid often close to starvation.
At one time their circumstances
were so wretched that they were
reduced to living in one little
room. with no fire. Their only
furniture was a bed of straw with
a counterpane and two sheets.
On cold days Poe would wrap
his frail little wife in his over-
coat and then place their cat on
her to help keep her warm as she
lay, slowly dying of consumption.
Virgina died in January, 1847.
So great was the shock of losing
her that Poe sank into a state of
semi-torpor. He wished_ to die.
One , night a cemetery keeper
found him moaning piteously,
half-frozen, on his wife's grave.
By a big effort of will he ral-
lied and tried to forget his sor-
row in work. Despite their mis-
ery his marriage to Virgina had
enabled him to find some of the
peace 'he sought in contrast to
the sinister nightmare of his
thoughts when he drank too
much or took opium.
Weird, macabre stories con-
tinued to flow from his pen in
spite of his recurring fits of de-
pression. He became a master of
the art of short-story writing.
So well did he write that there
are critics to-day who declare
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