The Brussels Post, 1953-7-22, Page 7Ile Cornered The Market
in Model -T. Ford Cars
The weather-beaten little sign,
bonging above an otherwiseun-
distinguished door, stated with
wistful candor: Spare Parts For
M4d01 T Ford.
.A scrawled arrow pointed to-
ward a stairway leading down
into a basement. X followed the
direction, thinking that any man
who had spare parts for the
Model T would also have un-
limited spare time. As 1 went
down the steps I remembered
vaguely that the last Model T
S'Ord had come off the produe-
l10n line hi 1927, From the be-
ginning in 1905 to that date,
:Henry Ford had produced 15,-
000,000 itutomohiles.
"My curiosity was aroused. I
Wanted to see a man who could
make a business out of parts for
a car, now seldom seen, and
which had been out of produc-
tion for nearly a quarter century
writes Ed Wallace in "Pageant"
Magazine.
What I discovered in that
musty basement, beneath an old
house at 1322 Myrtle Avenue
in the, Ridgewood section of
.Drooklyn, were the last -vestiges
Of an American era and an 80-
year-old man, who as9ured me
'With an- elfish grin that the busi-
ness kept him hopping like a
cranbeiry merchant. William
Scharff then cleared up for me
just hew busy a cranberry sell-
er is supposed to be.
;He picked up a pile of orders,
20 or more, and said they had
all come with the morning mail.
Be explained that he would be
busy all 'day filling the orders
from his stock and would come
back after supper to wrap and
address the packages.
Piled on the door around him
and hanging on frames over his
head were dozens of clincher
rims, probably the most cursed
piece of automotive equipment
in history and certainly the most
cantankerous • part of the old
li'ord. Completely lining the
walls were row upon row of
'boxes filled with bushings and
bearing, gaskets and gears and
hundreds of other motor parts
which xnade the Model T the go -
ingest little bit of machinery that
ever rattled along country lanes
and city pavements of America.
On a high shelf were scores of
old' headlights, and just below
them were as many red -eyed
kerosene burning tail lamps, all
very old but still glossy blank
and unused.
Mr. Scharff leafed through the
day's orders. A man in St. Jo-
seph, Missouri, urged. him to
rush out a set of brake shoes for
Model T of vintage 1915. A doc-
tor in a little Virginia town had
written in the most hopeful tone,
snail* if Mr. Scharff could sup-
ply him with radiater fora Ford
he had been driving since 1917.
From Little Rock came a long
chatty letter from an old cus-
tomer, asking Mr, Scharff for
Ideas on how to get- hot rod
speed from a Model T.
"Way back yonder, when 1
was' still pretty much of a young
fellow, the' Ford came along and -
put me out of business:' Mr.
Scharff said. "My father and I
used to sell buggies and harness
in this same neighborhood. Then
the Ford clone along. We had to
*re up. Funny, now that I'm
00 the same Ford has given me
a bngliness•"
Ile explained how it came
about, and probably Henry Ford
himself never played a - longef
nor a smarter hunch. When the
Model T was discontinued Mr.
Sehraff began buying up stocks
of spare parts. Ford agencies and
'parts dealers were amused and
delighted to find somebody to
buy their tons of obsolete stock:
Mr, Scharff cached it away in
nooks and corners and waited.
For 10 years the Ford com-
pany continued to supply parts,
but that did not worry Mr.
Scharff, He kept buying where
ever he found old parts. Re
watched the new Mode) "A"
come, and he saw it go. Then the
modern Ford appeared on the
scene, but the seareh for Model
T parts continued. Occasionally
in some old warehouse he would
come across a hundred steering
wheels and a few dozen ignition
switches, a pile of magneto box-
es and coils, He bought them and
put them away, Orders began to
come in for a steering wheel, a
radius rod, clamps and springs,
a clincher rim and other such
odds and ends.
Once in awhile, along with the
small orders, he would get a let-
ter from a junk dealer or some
person tearing down an old ga-
rage, asking coyly if Mr. Scharff
wanted to buy a batch of parts.
Playing it just as coyly, he
bought the stock and lei the
sellers think they were putting
one over on the old man. At the
same time more and more orders
were arriving at his basement,
All over the country Model T
owners were learning about him,
and just in time since even the
hardiest of the old cars had be-
gun to break parts like buttons
popping from an old shirt Local
supplieshad become exhausted
and one man in a Brooklyn base-
ment had gained great impor-
tance for an old guard of auto-
ist who had absolutely refused
to give up Ford'$ basic formula
for transportation.
From such odd sources of supe -
ply there are intriguing prob-
lems of supply and demand. Just
now Mr.Scharff is hard pressed
to .find even a few ignition
switches for the cars built be-
tween 1909 and 1912, but from
somewhere, now forgotten in an
old store room or loft, he is sure
that more switches will turn up.
There is seldom a week that
Mr. Scharff does not have vi-
sitors .from across the country,
people having,; other business in
New York, who come to see his
strange treasury and buy parts
they have been seeking.
"They're the most grateful
people in the world, the ones
who find a part that will put
their T back on the road," he
said. "I've had wealthy, fellows
who buy new Cadillacs every
year, shake my hand and thank
me for running this business.
They think more of their Model
T than the Cadillac." -
Mr. Scharff has hundreds of
letters. expressing gratitude, but
there is one short telegram
which he keeps handy to show
all visitors.
The telegram asks, "Carl you_
supply carburetor for 1915 Model.
T," It is signed: Ford Motor_ Co.,
Detroit, Michigan.
"'Now there's something a man
can be proud of," Mr. Scharff
says. "They made fifteen million
Model T's, and now they come
-to me for - a carburetor. I guess
that ought to _ prove where 1
stand.v:.
A Little More Co the Leff, Motti--Qirectlnd arrow. -fire for: hisMdthet
Mrs. Gill Beal, is a cinch for two-year-old Nicholas Beal of Win-
pahelter, England. Seen above in his stroller, he peers ihiatiph
binf'tulnrs while Inalher draws a bow en the target.
On The Glory Rood-73,OOP Strong—Above is a dramatic picture of the Cotton Bowl, packed with
75,000 people who came to hear Billy Graham, world-famous evangelist. It was called the
largest single evahgelistic audience in church history. The most dramatic moment came when
the 34-year=old preacher asked that all stadium Tights be extinguished, Each person struck a
match, and the stadium was once again alight. Graham; then asked the people to pray that
the flame of freedom will burn forever throughout the world.
Comparing athletes of bygone
eras with those of today is a fav-
orite --and useless—sports pas-
time. Personally, we generally
put in with those who say that
there never was a ball -player to
compare with Ty Cobb, a fighter
who. was as good as Jack John-
son, and al) like that.
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But when it comes to golf—
well, youi younger fry can take
a do'hble order of back -patting
Little Ben Bogan is undoubtedly
the finest exponent' of cow -pas-
ture
pool that ever dug a divot
and a lot of aqua -not -so -puna is
liable to run through the St.
Lawrence Waterway ere his
equal conies along.
When golfers discuss Ben
• Hogan, the question they ask
most is: "Is he human?"
Many of them are convinced
he isn't. They gave up long ago
trying to win tournaments in
which the "Little Man" is enter-
ed.
# , .4
They call him 'The Little
Man" with respect and awe. The
Scots at Carnoustie who watched
him win the British open last
week, on his first try, have their
own name for his: "The Wee Ice
Man."
"He's the only golfer in the
world I'm scared of," once said
Lloyd Mangrurn,
,
"I'll never win an open until
.he retires," said Sam Snead,
run. up for the fourth thaw
this ;fear at Oakont as Hogan
won his fourth crown,
On the golf course, Hogan re-
minds you of a tailor weaving
a dark cloak ea defeat for his
victims -
lie. is grim and tight-lipped.
He never sees anything or any-
body, they say, except the fair-
way and the pin. You can almost
see the wheels grinding away in
his head as he makes shot after
shot with unbelievable precision.
.4 .4 .
"Golf;"' said Hogan after win- -
ning the Masters this spring with
a record kcore of 274, 'is 20 per
cent skill and 80 per cent man-
agement," -
.
There are several golfers with,
the skill pf Hogan, None can
match his `management,
Whereas most golfers are hit- •
ters, Hogan is a fitter, Re puts
the ball exactly where he wants
it to make his next shot easier. a
In that respect he is like, a fine aa,
billiards player. i.
g it
What distinguishes Hogan from
other golfers of the era? A won't-'
... a -* . ri
be -kicked spirit and unmatched
concentration.
In 1949, he was al1l ost killed
in an automobile bus accident
which left his legsbadly:injured.
Some said then he might never
walk again, much less play.
But a„ year later he came back.
Playing on legs which had to
be strapped up at night, he won
his second National Open in
1950. Then in the spring of 1951
he won the Masters, and- later
the Open again.
e »
Hogan doesn't talk much but
when he does it's not like tink-
ling cymbals or sounding brass.
Every word—like every golf shot
—is to the point and has a pur-
pose.
There are some who have
found Hogan cold. He isn't at
all. lie is one of the nicest and
most considerate of all tourna-
ment golfers. He never "brows
off." as the expression goes,
Perhaps he was a bit hard to
approach or understand before
his automobile accident. If so, it
night have been attributable to
his roughearly''1ife1-He and his
brother quit school as children
to support a fatherless family.
He found life hard and he met
it the same way.
He Mellowed a lot after the
accident, "I found the world was
full of nice people." he said af-
terwards
v ,r
Hogan"s victory in the British
Open followed a familiar pat-
tern. He opened back in the pack
and then finished„ with a spectac-
ular rush. That's the way he's
e=on most of his tournaments
a great, pressure windup.
They say if he needed a 80
to win at Carnoustie, by some
means he would have got it,
Personally, we haven't a bit of
doubt that be could,
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of llavih'g trouble" in `bad
Weather. ` And it yeti alI
these facts into 'account •and'still
get etualht ih an attf.'ident,' It
w,ould'.s'till' be a safe -bet for ea
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in go,o4 mechanical condition.
SPraight'Shooter—Joanne Rogers is sure to be a "straight-shoot-
ing" hostess when she takes over her duties of hostess for the
1953 Salinas rodeo, horse, fair and stock show. Lithe Joanne
practices up for the stint with a 111110 gun and rope etudy.
In Baseball, Peanuts;
Are Big Business
In baseball today, peanuts are
big business.
"The ball club that doesn't have
concession, just doesn't make
money," said Danny Goodman,
self-styled 'peanut man' of the
Hollywood baseball park and
longtime field manager of en-
terprises in Jacobs Bros., far-
flung concessions empire.
Many Items
By 'concessions' are meant bill-
board and scoreboard advertis-
ing, seat cushion sales, souvenirs,
foodand drink staples and so on,
Last year, according to Goodman,
the Pittsburgh Pirates l'"alized
$130,000 from scoreboard adver-
tising alone. At the Hollywood
Park, total concessions from
baseball totalled some $250,000,
writes Frank Waldman in The
Christian Science Monitor
"Concessions have changed a
lot since the old days," Good-
man remarked sadly. "We used
to make more money selling hot
dogs at 10 cents a piece than we .
do now for 25 cents. Nowadays
fence''advertising and programs
make the difference between pro-
fit and loss.
The Baseball Hall of Fame has
;not yet gotten around to accord-
ing Danny. Goodman the recog-
nition • he deserves for his part
in one of baseball's' most notori-
ous World Series. In the 1934
Series between the Cardinals and
Tigers, Danny ran Concessions in
the bleachers at'the Detroit park.
Goodman'S field kitchen thus sup-
plied ammunition for the famed
"vegetable" barrage that Tiger
fans`unlcosed upon the person of
St. Louis outfielder .Joe Med-
wick. ..
Small. Pier
"I had 5,000 small pies on
hand," Goodman recalled, "Most
of them the fans threw at Med-
wick, That was a good Series
from a concessions point of view,'
Danny related happily. "People
were in the park and eating by
nine o'clock fn the morning. We
even had good weather."
The Detroit portion of the
Series launched Goodman off on
one of the snost,fanious non-stop
missions in concessions history.
Because of his labors during that
one, hectic - week, Danny stands
today as kind of an "Iron Man"
McGinnity of t h e conn ssions
business. -
"As I remember," Danny said,
"The Series endedona Thursday.
That night, I: hopped a plane to
Pittsburgh fa) r a. Friday night
football game Duquesne had at '
Forbes Field., I went to work
there before checking into my.'.,
hotel. After zvokking the game "
I helped inovf all of our equip-
ment up. to Pitt 'Stadium for the
Pitt -Minnesota name Saturday
afternoon. lfIind, ill of this time.
1: hadn't even,.,bee11«' to bed. -
i.., . .,, No G'onnpicrison
tive'•finishedwrw6rk around 1
:actoelc;im-the,morning. A couple*•
oP times 'i fell asleep standing up.
Sunder mol,niag, we hauled all
our stuff back to.,Forbes Field
for an tixhibitibn'haseball game
that afternoon between the Dean
brothers and Satchel .i_'aige."
pkoellin as was that experi-
ed ''e;o'^ it nndticompare w i t h:
Danny Goodnlan's private July
4th in ' Baltimore during the
otherwise celehrated+year of 1929.
t'I was in charge of the Read-
ing, Pee ball park., at the time
Jacobs' brothers Used to bring in
all of their men from a 200 -mile
radius to Work the big Fourth of
July parade in Baltimore They
used to plan it just like a mill-
' tory-campaign, Over 250,000 peo-
ple used to come in for the par-
ade, •
"Go this particular, Fourth I'm
in charge of a popsickle truck.
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those days, of course, we didn't
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Inevitably 'Baltimore heat and
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