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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-1-16, Page 2TNUCalVe t SPORTS COLUMN SefitOZ ert9c ef'l'Ja 0 I'M A LITTLE LATE in reporting this, but it happened New Year's eve. Doz. ing in front of the fireplace over a good, but dull, book, Your agent Was Startled to see two extraordinary figures emerging from the wood -smoke. • Something I ate, no doubt", I offered as an eeCuse to soothe a slightly agitated mind, 'Just couldn't be ne such people," For one was a very decrepit old Pent, who looked to be on his laet legs, the other a very young little fellow, and they were chatting away. "Well, thing's were pretty fine whilethey lasted", said the Old Gent, who turned out to be 1951, preparing for his midnight de- parture, "1 probablybroke all records in my 12 months on earth.". "You broke a lot of people with high prices, if that's what you mean" said the little fellow. "Everything was higher than a speciilator's idea of a Grey Cup ticket's value." For a mere chill, this little lad seemed to be pretty well in- formed on sports topics. "I'm 1952" he announced "and I know my stuff" he added briskly. ' "If you're so smart"+said the shaky .old gentleman, who was plainly 011 his last legs, "what are you going to do about things in your span on earth? You have a nit of Aegean stables to clean up." "Why all the emphasis on the cess -pools?" asked the moppet. "After all, if you buy a barrel of apples and find that a couple are rotten, that's to be expected, Everybody, including the boys in the writing business, seems anxious to stress the misdeeds, which are comparatively few, and overlook a lot of the good,clean decent sport, the real amateurism, the play -for -fun, which is the backbone of sport, really." "What do you see for the future?" enquired the Old Boy, anxiously. "And hurry up. I gdt a date with a Man With A Scythe." There's a few things to which I'd like to devote my time" said the youngster, "Speaking of time, I'd like to see overtime come back into hockey" quavered the 01d Boy. "I think it would add a thrill to the game, and it would still the clamour of a lot of customers, who after all, are entitled to what they want. We might get away from a lot of tie games, that dotted my term." "What's the matter with tie games?" pertly enquired said Kid 1952. "Hockey is presented as a 60 -minute game. A boxing match is usually listed for 10 rounds. A soccer game is 90 minutes. A football game is an hour. So is a basketball match. There's no overtime in these, so why pick on hockey? With 70 games in the big league, there's hockey enough. I got more important things to attend to. I got to keep an eye on that hockey player Elmer Lach. At the rate he's going when he should be on the shelf, I'll have to hand him over. to 1953. I see Rocket Richard breaking Nets Stewart's all-time League scoring record of 324 goals, in my span on this round old earth. I'm getting ready to -hear a growing clamour to change the Grey Cup play-offs so the west too can get a look at this event. Play it in two games, one in each of the cities represented is my idea. I gotta see to it that there's a new heavyweight boxing champion. Jersey Joe • Walcott is a nice old pappy-guy, but adds no inspiration' toi -the .game. That Rocky Mercian would be a good replacement. It looks like Detroit Wing and Toronto Leafs in the Stanley Cup finch, McGill will finally win the Intercollegiate football title. The number of heavyweight wrestling champions will be cut to six.,, .T.-gsing hockey teams will blame television, tie games, and the `viddtltef'for shrinking gate -receipts. Minor league baseball attendance will decrease again. The United States will win the track -field title at the Olympics at Helsinki. Russia will find an excuse to withdraw its athletes, but will claim that the Olympics were first staged in Russia, anyway, and Stalin will de- nounce the Games as capitalistic exploitation of the athletes. New York Giants will win the National League. The racing customers will wind up broke." "You eats bet 071 517I 1445 one" came a whisper from the Old Boy, as he vanished into, then air. "That's one bet you might win." Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St-, Toronto. Catvet DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO About Electric Hot`' Plates And Toasters r Heating elements hi these ap- pliances are usually •• tipoSed' or semiexposed to damage. If toaster toils load up with crumbs, or if hotplate coils become crusted with spilled food, let them heat until all food is charred. Then blow or very gently brush charred matter away. Wipe toaster exterior with a damp cloth. Some toasters have removable or hinged crumb trays. Clean them, washing away any clinging grease, once a week. If the crumb tray isn't removable, turn toaster upside down and shake or pat lightly. Don't. reach into toaster with anything to remove jammed bread until you have pulled the ping from the socket. Then. when toaster is cool enough, use fingers—never knives or forks—to pull out the slice. Don't toast buttered or frosted breadstuffs if you want' a dean toaster. Fatheads! Now and -then, medical science has a wonderful way of confirm- ing what ordinary people have al- ways taken for granted. The In- ternational Gerontological Con - gress in St. Louis gave that kind of back - pat a few weeks ago: people do get more fatheaded. In the aged, reported Dr. Oskar Vogt of Neustadt - Schwarzwald, Ger- many, most types of nerve cells in the brain show cavities filling up with fat. The cells themselves fight the invasion, resist most suc- cessfully when the individual keeps active. Concluded Dr, Vogt: "We have observed no case in which overwork was found to have ac- cele•ated the aging of the nerve cells-" REAL TRUST They passed her in the park. "That's ferry's wife," said Carter. "Thinks the world of her husband!" "Does she?" "Rather. She even believes the parrot taught him to swear!" T tey'll Get A Thrill On Holmenkollen Hill — Ski jumpers from 35 nations will try their skills on the huge Holmenkollen Ski Jump Hill When Oslo, Norway, plays host to the Winter Olympic Games this February. After leaving the Hp of the jump a skier flies through the air at about 50 MPH. Right under the takeoff spot is a rest- aurant front which spectators can watch as the contestants zoom overhead. Don't Break F, lax On Those Pans Before the war, aluminium wasn't a commonly used metal, But pro- duction expanded at terrific rate to meet the need for aircraft, Now the frantic demand for warplanes has gone, and ,we've got some spare aluminium. But it's only for the time being, Aluminium is . one of the metals of the future, with any number of uses waiting for it. One big outlet is in the home. Aluminium is a strong metal strong as steel, Yet it's only a third as heavy, And it has the advantage that it won't rust. These are some of the reasons why we're seeing so many alumin- ium kettles, ladders, pans, vege- table racks, chairs,,aut1 the rest is the shops just now., ' Strangely enough, aluminium is attacked readily by oxygen in the air. But the aluminium oxide pro- duced forms a tough transparent skin over the surface of the metal. This prevents any more oxygezr getting at it and so preserves the bulk of the aluminium from'corro- aion. This transparent skin on the snr- face of the aluminium can be col- oured by dipping aluminium into an ordinary dye -bath like a jumper or a pair of stockings. This skin on the surface of the aluminium tends to be scoured off when you're cleaning a pan. But it immediately forms again as soon as the air gets at it. It's best to clean pans as soon as possible after use to prevent food chemicals get- , ting to work anywhere the film is broken. One thing to remember about aluminium pots and pans. Don't use washing soda or anything caustic for cleaning them. They tend to dis- solve the aluminium away. Deck Scrubber — "Dutch" Band - bola, above, is a card specialist in Las Vegas, Nev,. His specialty is cleaning the hundreds of decks of playing cards used by .a gambling house there. To clean the deck, "Dutch" uses his own secret•formala, With which he's seen polishing off b five - card, straight. • Mi1k.,Stinllulator Route's Hospital of the . Holy Ghost, one of, Europe's eldest, is so full of medical antiquities that for centuries nobody 'paid much at- tention to a charming fresco in the administration . building. Painted about 1550 by the Zucdlf brothers, minor artists of the Raphael school, it shows a grothp of wet nurses feeding foundling children, while in one corner of the scene a plump, placid musician, plays a .'oiaramella' or shawm: a cousin of the oboe. A few weeks ago the hospital's archi- vist, Professor Pietro de Angelis, was getting ready to publish a startling explanation of the musi- cian's presence. 4e was there to stimulate the flow of milks, \\ orklug tart; through the ltos- pil 1'; records, iJe• Angelis 'found many references to the "beneficial it:fltu_+:r of soft mid melodious mueie on the flow of mothers' milk." A 13th ,Century miniature showed Players wearing costumes and Tarrying bagpipes marked with the hospital's elithitul 'I"ltest', De Angelis ttanduded, swine-Alsed to make lactngenir intssie.urntil the shawtn replaced the bagpipe Besides stimeta wig the wet nurses' production, the music had another purpose, says De Angelis As a re -tilt of their elderly condi- tioning, tot: foundlings soon deve- loped nutsi,:1 aptitudes which tvon them places in papal choirs. One thing De Angelis cannot explain: why or whin the hospital abandon ed a practice which that it centuries ahead of the nn•dical profession. in the m' 115 n1115ird therapy. CURTAIN CALL A citrus girl trcing to impress her erndttr t,rnrt ' lr•iltcd Kecner and Juliet ae the May elle wanted to see. Iiteryth'ng tout tine until the end of the ahmv when the andienee ape'•uuied the -east The watchful rhielee fD i .0 t d ,n'1, and to further fist rnitursi t1T.prcria- 1, el ,i.,1. "Author, WITH A QUACK, QUACK HERE , , Smokey, a 10-molith.old pup, had a run - In with a. mechanical duck „, and came off second best. The , duck, a Christmas gift for 1R '; Pongki,Miller, eight() ) waddled,along the flgorgnci right up Smokey's tail, chewing away tJhfil it'vrrls T. hopelessly • 'enmeshed in the dpgeihain. rAlletl.Glisnh • . of tl?,e. Animal Welfare LS�Teaguure„holds ''- ''11ep res to ri trim thfe'woddler off. Books about baseball continue to pour from. publishers' presses in such volume that anybody who tried to own them all would need not only a bookcase with expandable shelves but a library with walls built on the accordion plan. A cer- tain percentage,—about the sante as that of the alcohol content in pro- hibition -days "near bear"—are high- ly readable, and among these we would number those written by Tom Meavy. * * * Mr• Meany started off with "Baseball's Greatest Teams." Then, in all probability, he figured that was taking in too much . territory if he wanted to keep on going, $o started to specialize. His second volume was "Baseball's Greatest Hitters" Now, just published, is his third . quite naturally entitled "Baseballs Greatest Pitchers." ♦ * * Sooner or later, we presume, he will get around to the game's great- est fans, its greatest gate crashers, and so forth. However, "Baseball's Greatest Pitchers" is well worth reading. What is more, his selection of top hurlers is hound to start plenty of argument among the grandstand managers, second guessers and; all the rest of the fans—one of the prime requisites for a successful book about the game, * * * Before passing on to you Meany's list of twenty-five top hurlers of all time we might say that, in making his selections, the author took the lively ball into consideration. In fact "all time is probably not strict- ly, accurate because, with the ex- ception of Cy Young and Joe Mc- Ginuity, practically all those men- tioned achieved greatness since the turn of the century. In other words Meavy doesn't include the likes of Old Hoss Radbourne, Kid Nichols and Altos Rusie, On the other hand, the autlior isn't the type of commentator who claims that noth- ing we have today equals what pre- vailed a ,generation or so ago, as six of his twenty-five are still pitch- ing or, at lea:4t, were doing so last season. a * * So here are Mr, Meany's twenty- five, nut rated in the order of their greatness, but alphabetically: * * *. Grover Cleveland Alexander, Ew- ell Blackwell, Dizzy Dean, Red Faber, Bob Teller, Lefty Gomez, Burleigh Grimes, T.efty Groves, Waite Hoyt, Carl Hubbell, Larry Jansen, Walter Johnson, Bob Lem- on, Ted Lyons, Christy. Mathew - sol, Joe McGinnity, Hal Newliaus- er, Herb Pennock, Eddie Plank, Vic Raschi, Duey Vance, Rube Waddell, Ed Walsh, Burky Walt- ers. and Cy Y•0ung, r. * * As we stated earlier, Meany's choice—anybody's choice, for that .natter, -is bound to cause, tlissenl- skin and arguments. We tan' per- sonally think of not one but quite a lot of heavers thatwe think be' long up there in the select fwenty- tive, Eddie Cirotte, for . example. He may have trail, as some allege, the morals,, of a louse. But for our money lie could outpficlt at least seven or eight of Mr. Meany's hoyet evert when he Was trying to lose lie couldn't help twinning two games froto Cincinnati in the 1919 World Series. Then there were hurlers like .tube Marquard, chief Bender, Smokey Joe Wood and several others we might mention, * a However, you can't have every- thing and "Ilaseball's Greatest Pitchers" is a real treat for any baseball fan, and contains more than its share of interesting and amusing anecdotes that. haven't been previously told a dozen. times— sonrethingquite unusual in volumes of this nature. we might add. Speaking of such anecdotes—and as this column seems to have got Itself pretty well cluttered up with baseball already—here are a couple that the hadn't heard before. The first concerns the unforgettable Babe Herman, who probablymade more bonehead plays than any other baseballist that ever lived, but who stili was, one of the game's great- est sluggers. * 0 Uncle Robbie Robinson had the Babe at Brooklyn, but shipped him out to Minneapolis, either for sea- soning or to keep himself from com- mitting murder. Mike Kelley, the Minneapolis boss, promptly shipped Herman back.' "What's wrong with hint?" " queried Robinson, "The bum wont pay any attention,to signals," replied Kelley. "Every time I give him the btint sign he hits one over the fence." * * * The other yarn also concerns Minneapolis, when Dtinie Bush was manager there. One of his players was Ted Williams, now. baseball's greatest Kilter—and still a pain in the neck to any Manager. Bush stood for \Villiauts antics as long as possible, but finally -went to Kelley, owner of the team. "Mike," said Donie, "I just can't stand that fresh kid any longer. Either he turns' in his uniform or I do." * ,* *. "Dome," said Kelley, putting. his arm affectionately around Bush's shoulder, "I've known you for over thirty years and think as much of you as if you were my own Sou. But if one of you has to turn in his uniform, it's you." New Bearskins' For The Guards Forty bearskins for the Kings Grenadier Guards are oe their way to Britain. 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