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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-10-11, Page 2TWO SHOES FOR ONE — A novel feminine foot fashion has been introduced in Paris. Called the "Pirouette," the shoe comes in two separate parts. Different fronts can be inter- changed with the backs. Design also features a unique heel. Is Maury Wills Better Than Cobb? Is Wills the greatest of all time in the specialized art of stealing a base? Why not? Thg Cobb fan club, of course, hangs gamely on, refusing to yield willingly to the Wills clan. Ty, they contend, stole 892 bases during his tremendous career with Detroit and Philadelphia in the American League, a statistic whieh Maury will never chat. lenee, And evert the Dodger star's loyal backers lift their caps to Cobb's career pace. But ifor one year, none has been better than Wills and that has to include Cobb. Ty, in the 1015 season, stole 96 bases, in 150 games, Wills had 97 in his 156th engagement. At the 154-game level, Cobb had 94„ to Maury's: 95, Added to these significant lig- tires are these facts: Cobb, a life- time ,507 hitter, was on base much more than Wills and there- fore had far more opportunities. Ty was a big, rough, reckless ballplayer whose tactics threw fear into many of the infielders who had to tag him. while Wills is a gentleman by comparison. Cobb stole in an era when every- body was expected to run, while Wills'this season passed up many chances earlier because of the long-ball threat in the batting order behind him, There has been talk that the Wills effort this year will bring back the old-style game, when running was common, This is not likely, however, as long as the ball is lively, But Maury's success probably will coax managers into letting their faster men do more run- ning and also arouse pitching coaches to a mote strenuous teaching of certain fundamentals. Pitchers will be asked to concen- trate more on the base runner and will learn more of the tricks of holding him close to the bag. Of course, if you happen to be as quick as Wills, that won't mat- ter, because little Maury steals with everyone in the stadium keenly aware of his intentions. "He's more than amazing, said Walt Alston, the Los Angeles manager. "He almost never makes a mistake. Be has acquir- ed an uncanny knowledge of the habits and moves of the pitchers and takes advantage of every little edge he can get. Our Willie Davis is faster, but Wills has the knowledge of the pitchers and is going at top speed after his first step." When Wills gets to first base, the ball game stops — and awaits his next move. Critics in. Los Angeles strive daily to em- phasize the boy's value to the Dodgers, but it's an intangible that simply cannot be pinpointed. Who can accurately tell how many victories, Maury's mere presence on base has produced? ,„ He upsets the opposition's de- fense by just standing at first base. The Dodgers lack the extra base power enjoyed by some of their earlier clubs, but Wills, though a singles hitter, repre- sents an extra base threat. He pauses only momentarily at first base before setting out for second — and sometimes third. He often,- said that he was thinking very little about a record, but he must have given it some thought and it is well for the Dodgers that he did. Says . Alston: "I don't knew where we'd be without him." Well, the rest of us know, The Dodgers would have been no bettor than second or third in the National League slandings, writes Ed Rumill in the Christian Science Monitor. Where does Wills go from here? Can he go on to other 100 steal years? Perhaps. Some fans are wondering how close he. might come to the 156 steals Har- ry Stovey put into the record book beck in 1888 or the 115 that Billy. Fearnilton, stole three years later. But Maury doesn't have' to, Cobb's mark was his target and that has been attain- ed, When Stovey..and,Hamilton. were running, the barehalided catcher stood yards behind the plate and took pitches on the bounce. And -to champions of modern, baseball were all smiles, proud, of the feats of such remarkable young men as Wills, Roger Menke Warren Spahn, Stan. Musial, Bob Feller, Ted Williams, and a few others who have had the class and determination to make old- timers forget some of the rece ords they said would stand fore ever. '.171.1es moderns were catching up with astonishing rapidity and consistency. te, HOW can f prevent candle- wax from dripping onto ley tablecloth? A. Wrap the butt-end of the, candle with a five-inch square of aluminum foil before insert- ing it into the holder, Shave the tandle, if necessary, for a good fie The toil also affords a glee- orateve touch, while ceichieg any possible drippings, Some Useful 'Tips For Duck Hunters There ere many angles to duck hunting, but one of the most het.- portant to the hunter is how to hit a duck. Leading is one phase of wild-fowl shooting that is die- limit at first to understand and harder still to apply, When shooting moving game, it is necessary to shoot ahead of the bird so that the shot charge and the game will meet. Shot ree quires, naturally, an appreciable time to travel to the target, and in that time, the target may have moved anywhere up to 15 or 20 feet, There are so many variables or factors that inaluence the lead you take on a moving target or bird, that it is not practical to set up a table of distances to lead the object, The speed and angle of the target, the distance of hunter to target, shooting conditions in gen- eral, and the hunter's reflexes all affect the type of shot to be taken and the lead to allow. Speed of ducks in flight will vary owing to wind velocity and direction, angle of flight in relation to the earth, age, and physical state of the bird, plumage, and the will for speed at the moment. Ducks fly from 50 to 100 feet a second. When shooting at a moving tar- get, swing your gun along the line of its flight. You just can't hit a duck if you shoot behind it; so make it a habit to concentrate on getting your shot ahead. The snapshot shooter doesn't swing his gun with the bird. He shoots ahead of it at the spot where he hopes the charge and target will meet. This is the fastest way to get a shot off, but it is only good when there is very little angle, This is known as a desperation shot. The best way for a gunner to do is to pick up the bird and lead ahead what he considers the right dis- tance, He fires with the gun still swinging — he follows through, BLINDS — It is impossible to list all the types of blinds that hunters use. Blaebills, redheads, and canvasbacks can be shot from nearly any kind of blind that blends with the surround- ings and appears natural if in the open. But black ducks and mal- lards require very carefully con- structed blinds which are not conspicuous, PITS — Pits are used for stub- ble shooting. Dig a pit deep enough for concealment when sitting, but with sufficient room to shoot from. Carry the earth away, and spread the rim of the pit with grass or straw, Pits are often cold, and some hunters select a wooden box strong enough to sit on and large enough to hold a kerosene lantern inside. A good hand warmer is a must with me for waterfowl shooting. SHORE BLINDS—Some hunt- ers build permanent blinds com- plete with seats and stoves. Morre often the hunter constructs a blind from the materials at hand. This proves easy if a roll of chicken wire is carried along with you and reeds or brush are woven naturally into it. FLOATING BLINDS — These come in many varieties. There are those that provide conceal- Meet to ehe form of Weeds. Or branches ..aiXed to. • supports. The. blinds or blind are anchored, and the decoys spread around, Then, there are' scull boats and sneak boats In which the hunter "sculls" or drifts down on the ducks. There, are quite a few beets that are excellent, for duck heet- Ing, I am SOW on, aluminum craft duck boats which are light and durable. it is especielly good for pot hole shooting, This boat won't throw you a you, fire a couple of heavy loads from one side, A boat that draws. little water will make travel in the weeds easier. If you travel. open water, pick the boat that gets you there and haek,eefely, Paint your boat the same color as the background in which it will be concealed, Don't overload it or distribute the weight un- evenly. Buy a boat that is light enough to be carried easily down to the water or on top of your car, DECOYS — Wood or cork de- coys are heavy and bulky, keit they give good results, Piek the, most lifelike ones of the species. you want to shoot, Be sure they are flat, dull finish, By Jimmy Robinson, Trap and Skeet Editor, Sports Afield. This "Iron-Lung" Is Made Of Glass Iron - lung patients frequently complain of their immobility. Encased inside a machine weigh- ing half a ten, they are not easily moved about. o m e, more sensitive than others, suffer psychological dis- orders through the feeling of being confined or trapped amid a mass of oppressively heavy metal work, Arid nearly all, un- less exceptionally fortunate, axe robbed of the pleasure of going places and so enjoying a change of scene. But now these drawbacks should soon disappear, due to e. newly designed artificial respir- ator made of fibre glass, the pro- duct of a group of Australian doctors and technicians working on iron-lung problems in Mel- bourne. The new fibre-glass lung per- forms its life-sustaining task just as efficiently as the conventional iron lung. But instead of being a formid- able and practically immovable heavyweight, the new model is as light as science can make it. It extends only five feet long, is twenty inches wide, and a per- son of normal strength can lift it easily into the back of a sta- tion wagon. The first model made with, fi- bre glass was provided for a girl who has had to spend every night in an iron lung since she con- tracted polio eight years ago. Her parents installed the iron lung at their home. "Our family outings," said the girl's mother, "were much re- stricted because of the lung's weight. Now, with this new mo- del, we can take our daughter pretty well everywhere with te minimum of discomfort, both for her and for us," Just Forty Miles Away From Justice Waldo Cummings could just see the upper part of the young man's right hand resting on the back of the front seat of his Pontiac - a hand decorated with a small blue and red heart with a dagger plunged through it. The ear sped on towards Amarillo, now about fifty miles away. In the car there was si- lence. Mrs. Cummings had tried to reason with the young man. "You don't think I'm mad enough to take you into Amar- illo so that you can hand me over to the cops, do you?" he had replied. The Texas night was quiet, but then on this lonely highway it is always dead quiet at mid- night — that was why Mr. Cummings had stopped when the lonely man thumbed a lift. He knew now that he'd been foolish to stop. Only a few weeks ago when he picked up a hiker a few miles outside his home town, Amarillo, Police Chief Dawes had warned him: "Waldo, cut it out. One of these nights you'll pick up a murderer or robber." But Chief Dawes knew that Cummings would never listen. The fifty-year-old storekeeper was known throughout the area as a kind man — one who never turned away anyone in need. "This will do," Mr, Cummings heard the young man say. He calculated that they were about forty miles away from Amarillo. He tried to keep calmefor the sake of his forty-eight-year-old wife, Natalie, "Ili have your money," the youth said, "and yours," looking et Mrs. Cummings, who was trembling, "Sixty-one measly dollars," the youth grunted, "this all you got?" "You are very young," Mrs. Cummings said, "Why do you throw away your life like this? My husband and I will drive you where you want to go and even help you with some money to get started—" "You must think me a green- horn, lady," the youth snapped. "First chance you got you'd turn me over to the cops, The two of you get out here. You only got forty miles to Amarillo." "You don't expect us to walk forty miles, do you?" Mrs. Cum- mings said. "Get out and stop arguing. The exercise will be good for you." Waldo and Natalie Cummings climbed from the car, watched the youth slide in behind the wheel, and speed off into the night towards Amarillo. Cum- mings shrugged t "Unless we want to stay here all night we had better start walking, Nat- alie" They rested and kept looking back in case a car came their way, but they had to trudge on until seven in the morning when a milk lorry picked them up and drove them home, Chief Dawes saw them there a few minutes later and took a statement, The Cummings' car was found abandoned in a side street un- damaged, but of the young rob- ber there was no sign. Mr. Cummings told his wife that evening that he was going out, He had in his twenty years in the Texan town, helped enough people to go back to them and ask a little assistance, and all he wanted now was to „ find someone who recognized the youth's description, He spent six evenings visiting people he had helped, before he found a man whom I'll call Jack Smith, who had been out of pri- son only a few months. "I ain't no squealer, Mr. Cum- mings," Jack Smith said', "but you been very good to my wife and kids while I was -in Okla- homa City jail, There was a kid in the jail doing a year for rob- bery, He fits your description, fits it perfectly," "I am going to Oklahoma City for a day or two on business," Mr. Cummings told his wife the next day. For two nights he visited the clubs and cafés where he thought• the youth might hang Out and on the third night saw a familiar figure at a slot mach- ine, Mr. Cummings moved up be- hind the youth and glanced at the hand that held the slbt machine handle, Tattooed on its back was a heart in red and blue with a dagger through it. The youth felt something hard prod him in the back and a voice saying very quietly: "Just walk to the door, slowly and carefully and don't make any fast moves or I will not hesitate to shoot you," Once they were out in the street Mr, Cummings slipped some handcuffs on the youth's wrists, prodded him into his car and drove off, writes Bill Whar- ton in "Tit-Bits". "What are you going to do with me?" the youth asked anxiously, "I'm sorry I held you and your missus up but I needed a car and some dough badly." "You didn't consider that my wife and I are both getting on in years and that forty miles is an awful long way for us to walk, did you?" Mr, Cummings, asked, When they reach Lubbock Mr, Cummings stopped at a phone box, and tilthough it was, after eleven at night he put through a call to Chief Dawes, "Meet me at the crossroads at seven tomorrow rimming, Chief," Cummings said. He then drove on towards Amarillo, and after a while drew up again. "Get out now, young man," he ordered. "It was just about here that you made us get out, wasn't it?" Mr. Cummings took out a ten- foot length of rope, looped it around the youth's waist with a slip knot which he drew taut, knotting the other end-to the rear of the car, leaving a length of about six feet between the rear of the car and the youth. "The law will give you a few years, but the law can't make you walk as" you made my wife and myself walk, Now, I had on good walk- ing shoes, but my wife had on semi-high heels and walking was torture, "We must try to even the score and make you feel a little of what we felt. Take your shoes off. You may keep your socks on." The youth sat down on the road and .1Vir. Cummings ripped his shoes off. "Now I think we are all set," he said. "I shall drive at three or four miles an hour and stop every half hour just as my wife and I did to rest," "What if I won't walk?" the youth shouted after Mr. Cum- mings. "Then I'm afraid your behind will be a little raw, because I am driving on whether you walk or not," Slowly the car edged towards Amarillo at between three and four miles per hour, stopping for five minutes every thirty min- utes, But the time they had cov- ered fifteen miles the youth was weeping as he straggled along behind the car. "I can't go any farther," he screamed at about six in the morning. "It's all right, young man," Mr. Cummings said soothingly, "It's only another hour or so then you will get a lift," They came to the top of an in- cline and below, in the hollow, Mr. Cummings saw the police car and slowly approached it as Chief Dawes and a patrol officer alighted and stared unbelieving- ly at the Pontiac approaching with the, stumbling figure behind. They untied the robber and or- dered him into the police car. Mr. Cummings smiled and took the toy pistol from his pocket. He reached home in plenty of. time for breakfast. -"I have fin- ished my business," he told Nat- alie. "How are your feet now?" She smiled, "Recovering all. right. In a few days I will be able to walk properly again, even halfway from Plainview to Amarillo." "It's an awfully long walk," Mr. Cummings said thoughtfully. "You can say that again!" his wife said with a smile. "It's an awfully long walk!" "I understand that these are leftovers," said the husband pa- tiently, "What I want to know is, where am I when you serve the meals .they 'come from?" Believing in dreams is lots of fun until you marry one. ISSUE 41 — 1962 Mystery Which • May . - Never Be, Solved Three German rocket experts Were missing front their accus- tomed orbits last month, and be- hind them they left a tale of in- ternational intrigue in the best tradition of E. Phillips. Oppen- helm, Significantly, all three were connected with the Egyp- tian missile program Which Gomel Abdel Nasser hopes wits turn the balance of the Arab- Israeli arms race in his favor. The missing men were: Dr, Heinz Krug — His Intra Trading Co, in Stuttgart supplied most of the parts used in Nasser's El Safir and El Kahle rockets, shown to the public in test firings last July, He was last seen in. Munich, driving off in his red sports car with a suave, English- speaking Arab who identified himself only as "Mr, Saleh." Sev- eral days later, Krug's car was found covered with dust, and his 'wife complained to police: "My hueband has been kidnapped," Dr. Wolfgang PHs — He 'helped develop the French rocket Ver- onique before going to Egypt to work on Nasser's missiles in a military plant at Helwan, a sub- urb of Cairo, He was last seen heading south on the Autobahn out of Munich in a new turquoise Volkswagen bus especially equip- ped for the desert, Prof. Paul Gorke — He also worked at the Helwan plant, and was recruited along with Prof. Eugen Sanger, former head of- the institute of Jet Propulsion Research in Stuttgart and the real brain behind Nasser's rock- etry. Sanger resigned from his laboratory and severed his con- nections with Nasser following sharp public criticism in Ger- many, but the others stayed on in Helwan. Gorke, too, was last seen in Munich. The mysterious disappearances of the three rocketeers touched off a Europe-wide manhunt. But as of the weekend, neither local police in Munich, the interna- tional police organization (Inter- pol), nor West Germany's intelli- gence sleuths had turned up a single solid clue as to their whereabouts. There were plenty of theories. One was that they had gone over to the Communists. Another, loudly proclaimed by the. Arab press and some friends of the trio was that Israeli agents had abducted them in a desperate ef- fort to keep Nasser out of the missile age, The Israeli Government said nothing. But the newspaper Ha- boker offered an intriguing ex- planation. Krug had been abduct- ed by the Egyptians, it said, be- cause he was about to switch sides and supply Israel with rocket parts. An anonymous letter to his wife claimed Krug had been murdered. His friends said that the arms merchant had mention- ed he was being shadowed short- ly before he disappeared. It was possible that all three, after re- ceiving threats, had simply gone underground. They might well be 6 feet un- derground. If they are — interna- tional intrigue being what it is — it may be a long time before anyone finds out, Lives there a man with soul so dead, Who never turned his eyes and said, "Hummel, not bad!" EVER HAPPEN TO YOU? By Bioko ROONIYUP -lima V6, IS oNeO YOUgS? PAAVII40 Lar Ka CAMS VROUGH •B o3' COUNTER WP US SOYIET SUBMARINE rhe. ,Novy released this photo of view type Soviet. submarine Believed to be armed with missiles. Such subs .have been ',sighted in both, the. Atlantic and Pacific, the Navy said, tiC TRAMit ECHO. -- A technician, uses a surveyor's tiunsit to accurately position 50 layers of Material before tutting during the building of a 100-foot-diameter balloon satellite at the G T. Schieldahl Co. Similar to Echo I, which was launched in August 1960; the Metal-coated plastic "satelloon" will weigh 125 pounds when fully inflated. Orbited 1,000 miles in ejected,. the bcilleart. wi'l act as an electronic mir,or, reelecting radio, radar and television signals and thereby increase their ranges.