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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-1-23, Page 2THEC 'XVttt SPIRTS COLUMN 8 7e e9 dotty • JERSEY JOE WLtLCOTT is not one of the great all-time heavyweight fistic champs lona. But he is a most unusual one. He is a fine man, deeply religious, very sincere, and a long and often disheartening career In ring- dom has neither embittered nor disillusioned him, We met up with Jersey Joe in Montreal not long ago, at a preen conference. Someone asked the big quiet Negro, with the pleasant white -toothed smile, how long he intended to keep on fighting, and he answered in his easy, level tones: "Just as long as Ood allows me to keep feeling fine as X feel today." He said it with a sincerity that left no doubt about his reverence, which surprised no one. For long ago, Jersey Joe had expressed the profound belief that he was destined to be world's fistic champion, because he had long prayed that he might achieve this success, and that he had complete faith in prayer. "My next fight" said Jersey Joe, "will probably be against Rocky Murciano." "Then you'll try to avenge Joe Louis" said one of the scriveners. *o" said Jersey Joe, "I am not a vengeful man," And he quoted the Biblical Phrase: "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, 1 will repay." "It isn't a matter of vengeance at all" he said. "Merciano went in to heat Louis, and he beat Joe fairly and squarely, He is quite a gond tighter, and fighting is his business. 'There is no hatred, no vengeanee,•in these things. You ,fight as best you can, you try your best to win, but you don't have to hate." Fistic champions and, indeed, the champions in most sports are more prone to talk about themselves, than about anybody else. Walcott is different. When we talked to Hint, he continually switched the topic of conversation to Joe Louis, who a few days before had been ingloriously knocked out by hfarciano, Said Jersey Joe: "I wasn't surprised at Joe's defeat, but I felt very bad, for Joe Louis had been a very great man for boxing, a very great man for the Negro race, because all his fights were so honest, and because there never was any scandal or suspicion about them." "But I was very sorry to see him go that way. I knew he wasn't the Louis of his great days. It was getting more plain every day that he was burned out. The reflexes were gone and these don't come back." "So I hope Joe Louis will retire now. I know that as soon as 3 feel I have passed my peak, I'll retire, even if I'm champion. I don't want to go out the way Joe Louis did." Not a great champion, perhaps, as measured by the fistic standards of Jeffries, Corbett, Fitzsimmons and Dempsey. But as fine a man as any of these is quiet jersey Joe Walcott. Your agent remarked at the outset of these paragraphs that Jersey Joe is not one of the great all-time champions, But then, perhaps, he is by no means the worst. He is certainly not the least courageous, for he overcame tremendously disheartening diffi- culties, including a defeat by Joe Louis that really rated as a win. But he continued to pray, to believe that one day he would be champion. It isn't wise to use adjectival superlatives in athletic ratings. That way lies danger.. Years ago, there was a very good sound middleweight champion, named George Chip. He was the best of his weight in the business, or so he was rated. He was snatched up, quite casually, to box a journeyman middleweight named Al Rudolph, a young man who boxed as best he could under the name of Al McCoy. This match was rated as an easy workout for the champion. There was no comparison, in the minds of the expert viewers, between the two, But Mr. Rudolph showed a strange lack of respect for the opinions of the expert viewers. As soon as the bell rang, he stepped alertly from his corner and smote Mr. Chip heavily on the chin. Mr. Chip, the greatest, quietly col- lapsed. Mr. Rudolph, the not -so -great, was suddenly champion and continued to rule that division for three years. Jersey Joe is the Mr. Rudolph of today. A champion is one who is the best among those who are engaging in the same type of contest. Jersey Joe, despite his age, is all of that. And there hasn't been a finer man to hold the title. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. Call/intDISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTSURG, ONTARM, How To Conquer Stubborn Stains Candle wax dripping on furni- ture? Get after it as soon as you can, using a piece of stiff card- board to scrape off the wax. 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And don't think that adult amateur artists are not prone to fling about the colors, too! Stubborn stains will often yield to a combination of potassium per- manganate and, oxalic acid solution. Keep these, indeed, the whole contents of your first-aid stain re- moval kit, far away. from .young- sters, and keep medicine droppers handy for applying such stain agents, rather than daubing them on, Inks differ in composition, so it is impossible to find a remover that is effective on all types. Denatur- ed alcohol, carbon tetrachloride and benzine often work on India or drawing inks. Writing inks may require absorbents such as corn meal, salt, French chalk. They may respond to glycerine and water or to soap and water. Or they may require a bleach, such as oxalic. acidor hydrosulfite. Hoop-Lai—With the accuracy of an Olympic diver, one of Knie's trained lions leaps through a cloth tube to the delight of mare than 6000 English orphans and disabled ehildren, The occasion was .0 special show put on for them in London by the Bertram Mills circus, They Tried To Steal AbeLincoln's Bo4y Psi eighty years ago was launch- ed the most outrageous crime 'Unit- ed States"crooks" ever attempted- to 'put the body of America's great hero, Abraham Lincoln; ifltq a sack and hide it among the lonely sand- dunes on tate shores of Lake Michi- gan, claiming as ransom ,fifty thou- sand pounds and a convict's free- dom. Big Jim Kenealy, the ringleader, was head of one of the cleverest bands of counterfeiters in the Unit- ed States, He had waxed rich on hoose -made dollar bills; and when Ben Boyd, the master engraver who manufactured t I a counterfeit "greenbacks" fox Jim,. was caught red-handed and sentenced to ten years in prison, Big Jini planned to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln and trade it on his own terms—fur Boyd's freedom, • ' "\\'e can't even be prosecuted," laughed Big Jim, "for the State of Illinois hasn't a law making it a crime to steal a body." The wind blowing on the sand - dunes, he calculated, would soon hide all traces of reburial. As soon as Lincoln was missed from his tomb the entire nation would be flung into an uproar. Then would be the time to approach the Govern- ment and drive a hard bargain. Since no crime was involved hi stealing the body there could be no punishment. "IIow will they know you're tell- ing the truth'?" asked his pal Swn- gles. "How will they know you're the actual thief?" Jim had that worked out, too. Before leaving Chicago on ,his gris- ly mission he bought a London newspaper, tore a piece out of it, and stuffed the rest inside a bust of Lincoln that stood in the bar he us- ually made his headquarters." .'Ki'e'l( leave the torn piece in the tomb," he explained. "Then we'll product the rest of the page, and they'll see the pieces fit like a jigsaw.'' Everything seemed in their fa- vour when they arrived in Spring- field. The first election results were beginning to filter through. The town was agog with excitement Lincoln lay buried deep in the heart of the deserted woods two miles away. Sinding confidently, Big Jinc sawed through the pad- lock ou the iron door and stole into the musty vault. The wooden caffinn was prised half out when Swegies paused in the doorway, and smilingly struck a match to light his cigar. The next instant a sudden rush of men swept past him. The solitary lantern light went out. :fen cursed and strug- gled in the darkness. Chicago Round -Up Then revolver shots rang out, another and another, until the de- tectives who had been hiding in the woods realized that they were tak- ing pot shots at one another. then revolver shots rang out, The conspirators had escaped, but Abraham Lincoln was saved. It took ten days before the gang- sters were rounded up in Chicago and jailed --all save Swegies, who had turned informer. Jim had been right in declaring he could steal Abraham Lincoln without punishment. But he went to jail for conspiring to steal "a coffin worth fifty dollars," Marvelous- Tree For centuries the Neem or Mar- gosa tree, which grows everywhere in India and Pakistan, has enjoyed a reputation for possessing, almost miraculous properties. In the last three years the Indian Government has made extensive experiments to find out whether these claims are fictitious. The authorities are now con- vinced that if not a panacea for all ills, the :Teem (its popular name) is, indeed, a wonderful tree. Sleep- ing under a Neent ensures sound slumber and benefit from its va- pors, just as sleeping under a ta- marind is usually followed by a boat of fever. The dried leaves preserve books and clothes from vermin. Two ounces of fresh leaves infused in a pint of boiling water form a bitter tonic which has a marked action on the liver. It has proved effective in cases of chronic malar- ia and sometimes leprosy. :deem oil is a stinuiant, an anti- septic, and heals sores and scabies. Parasites in the skin are destroyed, The inner Layer of the bark, in- fused, is a cooling drink, and a compound of leaves and oil forms an antiseptic ointment. The oil is like garlic; and the toddy or sap cures skin diseases. Applied as a poultice, the leaves cure tumors; made into a paste they are effective in cases of small- pox, rheumatism, scrofula and erysi- pelas,, The fruit acts as a purgative and emollient. The list of its magi- cal properties is long --and experi- ments continue. An Carly 'Texas hooster'wrote to a friend back East extolling the manifold beauties and wonders of the (legion, and closing with the cbsertation: "Ali 'Texas needs is more water and a little better class of people." To which the friend rr1 I e 1: " Filly, man, that's all h - • - uro-d.i" Mushing Through Detroit—Leonard Chouinard solved his transportation problems through Detroit's big snow with a sled and a team of six Samoyed work dogs. What Chouinard likes best about the eager dogs is that they never get stuck and they're so easy to park. Once each year, about this time, members of the Baseball Writers' Association—sometimes known as the Second Guessers' Fraternity— go into a deep huddle with them- selves and, upon cooling up for air, proceed to cast some highly - important ballots. For these bal- lots decide what players, if any, have finally achieved immortality. In other words, this is the season for voting on who will be admitted to Baseball's Hall of Fame. * * * In order to be elected a player's name has to appear on at least 75 per cent of all the ballots—which makes it tough sledding for cSar- acters such as Bill Terry. For Wil- liam, especially during his years spent managing the New York Giants, carried On a very bitter ground -and -lofty feud with the sports -writing fraternity—sone of whom have not forgotten, even to this day, * * * If Terry had done a better job of soft-soaping the baseball writ- ers, chases are his name would have been inscribed down there in Cooperstown many years ago. He was one of the best of all first basemen, an outstanding fielder, and had a lifetime batting average of ,341. In the last )(allotting Terry was only 22 votes shy of being elected. This year, if time liar suf- ficiently mellowed some of his an- cient enemies, he might make it, al- though personally we wouldn't want to lay better than three -to - five that he does. * * * As a matter of fact Bill Terry and Harry Heihnann are the only men who hit over .400 for a season and .who are still on the outside of the H. of F. Hellmann was four tines batting champion of the American League and had a mark of .403 one season. Last year, when they knew he had only a few months td live, friends tried to get Heilmann elected while he was still around to enjoy the hon- or;; but poor Harry died while the idea was still a-borning, more's the pity, It's to be hoped that he makes it this year because, for all his great ability, Heilmann wasn't the most colorful player in the wand, and human memories are short. * * * Besides Hellmann and Terry, who are there left deserving of election? Only players who were active between 1926 and 1950 can be voted for, which rules out old timers such as Ty Cobb's slugging team-mate Sans Crawford and a lot of other old-timers—also the likes of Joe DiMaggio, who played during 1951. * * * Personally, we believe that Dizzy Dean belongs in there. His terns of greatness was short—only five years was he at tops—bast, when he Lad his stuff, no pitcher since the days of Abner Doubleday was tougher to beat, Paul 'eVaner was only eight votes short of election last year and he rates with the best. Over 21 seasons he had a lifetime average .of ..333 made up • of the amazing total of 3152 safeties, 1'v'aner wouldn't have been much of a crowd-pleaser these days, when anything sl:ort of a four= bagger is considered a hunt„ but there were few who could ap- proach hint for accuracy, He placed his bit with 'such exactness that he could raise chalk on the foul lines of either right or left field. * * * T1 ey tell a good story of how Paul \Vanes got his 3000th hit not once, but twice. 1 -lis record stood at 2999 and, naturally, he wanted that other one fairly badly. He drove the ball sharply at an infielder, and the latter fumbled. The official scorer, after a mo- ment's hesitation, signaled for a hit. Immediately there was a roar cif protest, Down on the field Wari- er was screaming, "No. No. I want my 3000th. bit to be a clean one." * * * Anybody who knows how ball players love those old base hits will understand the unusual nature of this incident. Tile scorer revers- ed himself and Paul Waner's 3000th. hit was a clean one. * * * Other names that will probably be appearing on lnanyof the bal- lots include those of Al Simmons, Bill Dickey, Hank Greenberg, Dazzy Vance and Rabbit Maran- ville. Then there was Ted Lyons, who pitched 263 winning games with a perpetual second -division team. * * * Of these we would say 13111 Dick- ey rates the highest. There was always plenty of argument as to which was the better catcher—Bill or Black Mike Cochrane — and catchers of anything like their cal-, ibre are far too scarce to be kept outside the Hall of Fame. Cochrane is already there, and Dickey should be too, * * * However; we don't suppose the whole thing is worth losing too much sleep over. There's a whole lot of nonsense about this Hall of Fame business, either in baseball, hockey or any other sport. Still, any baseball 'writer who leaves off Isis ballot either Harry Hellmann or Terry should be told to go stand in the corner and think about his sins—at least in this corners worthless opinion. Spring Offensive. 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An old fountain pen used by a child to 'write', can be filled with clothes bluing and water or one of the washable inks, Stains on clothing will then come . out easily in the wash, Crayons will last longer if sharp- ened without waste. Hold thein ov- er the stove until softened by the (seat then taper to a point with the lingers and the trick Is done. A towel rack fastened to the end of baby's crib keeps clean bedding. in easy reach so that changing la sheet or making alp the crib fresh can be conveniently done ellen tbotigh a sleeping baby is Reid in one arm. Cut bright colored oilcloth to fit inside a school child's lunch pal), then glue. Food will taste nicer land be more tempting as tin often becomes rusted or unattractive from repeated cleanings. 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