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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-5-19, Page 5eifieri IN SPORTS COLUMN Eeoteit 7004004 • Ted Williams never Went out of his way to win the approval Of fandom. Rather, the reverse. He was completely indifferent either to plaudits or jeers, and he became, in his heyday, one of the sorts figures fandom toyed to hate. When he was called back into ser- vice from his $100,000 per year job as an outfielder -hitter, public sympathy switched to him. Here was an older man who had done a full' hitch O2 combat flying; a man whose big earning power couldn't eia t much longer. And he had to give up everything and go back to work at an Army captain's pay. But while many were shedding tears for him Ted Wil- liams said: "iWy case is net unusual. A lot of men besides me are being called back to service, and a lot are losing plenty of money, too. It would be nice to wake up some morning and find all the world at peace. But men are being called, and If it's my turn, ft's my turn." And what a job; he did of getting himself back into shape and hitting ,407 when he fintilly returned to baseball near the end' of last season! Then came that brake4. shoulder in the first 20 minutes of 1054' practice: From that accident there developed a new sidelight on `Williams, the man 'who Supposedly 'didn't get along with sports writers, wanted no part of them. After the accident, he was'whisked away from the club house for an examination to determinethe extent of the mishap. He left in his baseball pants, with a large blanket around his shoulders. Later, when it was: time toreturn to the clubhouse, others suggested that Ted instead go right to his living quarters, to avoid the crowd and to !rest. But het•insisted on returning Ira - Mediately to the ball park "because all of the .writers are expecting me." '+ Now fandom is beinning to appreciate Williams. Anti why not? In baseball and in armed combat Williams has been great. Everybody is rooting for him to 'have one more big year. In a way, the case of Ted 'Williams is not Unlike that of Jadk Dempsey. As long as he was champion, Dempsey Was far from popular. But after he was beaten he became a public idol. Pandora is like that. Qnce the star. beoomes. the It/ideal/1g, fandom loyally y y to has a way of rushing' his •side. , "Your comments and suggestions for this column will lie welcomed by Eimen Fergiatni, coo' William W. Rees, Calvert Ontario Sales Manager, 431 Yonge Street, Toronto." • , VeitDISTILLERSLIMITED AMHERSTIURG, ONTARIO Sflhahige Case Of A Limping` Sea -Gids When some weeks ago I wrote about an embarrassment of rich- es in the form of two Sea gulls that I had suffered when a sailor there were some readers who doubted that the yarn was en- tirely truthful, "Sea gulls are not that kind df a bird," wrote one woman Her words summed up what seems a general impression. Sea gulls are not delightful like rob- ins er lesser tufted willow warblers/ that they are not play- ful or even exactly nice; .and that they are in fact greedy, cy- nical Birds with air of having been too long at sea, write John Allan May in The Christian SelenCe Monitor. Now. there can be no doubt. that sea gulls are greedy and lack polish. Once when Joy and I were having a picnic on the sands of a beautiful Devonshire coombe (bay), a large gannet swooped down and took a half . pound of butter..' out of Joy's hand. We would have been forced to eat dry rolls only a second gull came down ',while our attention was thus diverted and took the bag' of rolls. But it would be quite a mis- take to imaginethat., sea. gullso are not' like. ether` birds and in. some ways more eo. In Devon that time ive *etch- ed a whole group . playing "Wave, wave, can't citeh'me," on a shelf of l,•ocke that Was tern/ate/illyflooded by= ineom- ing klyav' s. Then the other day there was thin ease `up at Hartlepool, ,ng - land: . In the first week of April a sea gull was seen limping down the main street of Hartlepool, apparently table to Ay. A bird enthusiast :eventually stopped the gull and escorted it to the police station. -{It is the custom in England to take all your troubles to the police,) -'The po- lice called the local branch of the Royal Society for, the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals. While awaiting the arrival of G. W. Spencer, RSPCA irspee- tor, the police fed the sea gull on bread and butter. Mr. Spencer took the bird away and, when he felt it was fully recovered, freed it to roam the ocean and to soai; effortless- ly on the wind, peering for her- ring. Next week a second sea gull was found wandering down the main street of Hartlepool, ap- parently unable to fly., Another bird lover saw it and picked it up and took it`to the pollee eta - tion. The police called the RSPCA. 'While Mr. Spencer was on his way they fed the poor pathetic bird on bread and but- ter, Mr, Spencer took the bird away and, 'when. he .felt it was fully recovered, he ,let it go to "soar, freely' .on the`wind' and roam' the wide illimitable ,oceans, and so :forth $ feve deys Intel, a third; bird lover walking down the main ,` street saw .a limping sea gull 'makingits way down the street, He picked it up - and':, tenderly togk it to the ., police station, 'where they phoned the'RSPCA, *nd so on Perheps tit=Dori' Mr. Spencer And the bird had 'gone,' -the ser- geant wiped the butter off his moustache and said to the con- stable, "You know, Stloggins, I have a 's -ort of a wild hunch, a 'kind 'of a feeling — there's something strange going on," We • do not know. All that we do know, from the news agency The Roses — With jbcktty Ray York up, Determine stands hl the winner's circle at Louisville, Ky., after winning the Kentucky Derby by 1'/ lengths. Owner A. J. Crevolln (right) kisties the horse. No Bull—He's At School—Gene Banks, right, finds• it safer, if less spectacular, to practise passes in a Los Angeles bull. fighting school with the aid of a horned wheelbarrow -like con- traption rather than with a .live bull, Wheeled by instructor Mario McManus, the. "bull" is enticed by the cape as Banks executes'a "chcuelina." stories that report the.rincident' is that. on April 21 a fourth limp ing sea gull was found in the • street in Hartlepool and taken by a bird -lover to the police... station, This time when • Mr. Spencer arrived there was soma kind of a conference, Perhapsthe 'sere geanti interrogated Mr. Spencer to fuser Ver where' all - these ' sea gulls were coming • from 'And why they were, Walking about the streets of Hartlepool, usu- ally reserved for pedestrians,. Anyway, we know that Mr. Spencer silenced them with this disclosure: "It is the same bird every time. I have attended it four times. I know it from this green paint spot on its plumage. It knows it can get a meal in this way. When it -has stuffed itself full of police bread and butter it suddenly recovers the use of its wings," Mr. Spencer liberated the bird. What has happened since, I don't •know. Buut,I expect the sergeant and the. constable are beginliifig ahn'ost' to• dread -tthe sound'6f'teet borning',iii:ty+:the quiet Ai', the station from out- side in thenstreet.. Anyway you can see ,what I mean. It proves ,again that ap- pearances are deceptive. Sea gulls are just as human as any other birds. Thought Sops Dead For 23 Years Forty -four-year-old Italian Mafalda Crisadois a mother Who for 23 years inourned:.for the baby son she lost in infancy. New,'she' has had a letter from him. Shortly after the birth of her soh Gianfranco, Malfada's- hus- band was •unexpectedly trans- ferred to' Genoa. As .the;.'•baby Was • ailing, the young, anxious mother thought it better to leave him for a while under the ,care, of,. his nurser in the, small CalaliF an. i'i)lage Where the family had 'been `living! Great was her grief when a few months later Word came from the nurse that little Gian- franco had died, victim of an epidemic. As Mafalda wa again With child 'she Was tenable to travel and attend.the funeral.. Each. Year, • ho'tvever, on the anniversary of .his death, she ;sent money to the nurse tobay a huge hunch of white roses for his little grave. Once or twice she herself travelled to ,his place of rest and there said her pray- ers. She never suspected that her baby might Ail be alive. But he was. The nurse, having lost her own baby in the epidemic, wanted to keep the other boy for herself. So she brought him up and used the annual bunch of white roses to decorate the grave of her own baby. Gianfranco grew into a strong and healthy farm -labourer, Then his foster -mother fell 111, Feel- ing the end Was near, she sent for the priest and made a full confession. Gianfranco immediately wrote a letter to his mother. MOUSE CAUSED OAR CRASH While driving along a country road outside Cape Town, a mo- torist wad astonished to see a small cal• ahead careening from gide to Aide as though it were Mit of control. finally, it mounted a grass strip bordering' the roadway, tresuilg eoundr shot across .the 'ivied otice more and ended up in a hedge, ' Mat motorist pullet! up Se in, wsttgate. Inside the smelt ear M found the driver, a girl, 1n twlter1o9, A small Mame' Was conning to her nylonal O. K. No is quite sure how this teiere began' but there are several interesting stories about its ori- gin: One version was made popular by an American humor- ist who said that Andrew Jack - soh the) senenthopresident of the UnitedStated',i0.sed-;$he.expres- Sten t • en affielal.opapersl; fes an abbreviation„ of.!,,'X?, 6,1. orrect." Musingg, a' presidenial "campaign Jiidk's`dn's political enemies- seiz- ed",epori'thi tsto'1y•td'ti'yy:tb snake dpPeart,tigfibz'ant;i"!One :authors tYatejlstus„that„ Jacllson signed legal papers. , with, the initial 9.�.—order recordhd=and be- detislc' the' R may have looked lxtle t!ierhuinorist" hadimateria'l for his little joke.• The( Indians ppay,. have given us, -the terra. An ,fusion chief, Qid ,Re9)cuk. was accustomed •to signing papers with his initials':' The' 1Choctaw Mdlbns have. a *ordokeh, which means "It is so, and- in. no tether. way." But iegardless of its oraPPin, the expression Iswidely 'igen today td sighifyi all right, or'correet, Even'in some: foreign ooilntries, as France, tand Ger- many, it,has become•part of the common speech. They Live By Their Wits An Oddity of the boxing game is the fact Chet great fighters have so Often proved poor man- agers. Far some reason, men seasoned in the ring by scores of bard fights find it impossible to transplant that. knowledge into the heads and fists of box- ers under their management, No. one will dispute the fact that Sam Langford was a great fighter, He was often called the uncrowned king of the heavy- weights. There was nothing the big fellow didn't know about boxing, And no One could hit any harder,:', One day old Sam bought him- self a piece of another fighter and thus became a' manager In partnership with a veteran in the business.. Sam's pew bruiser made his next fight in the bull ring at Juarez. The fellow in the other corner was a very tough hombre. Sam in deference to superior experience, let his partner take charge. After the first round, Sam's partner leaned over the ropes to give advice tohis boy, and Sala listened attentively, "Look, kid," said Sam's partner, "you're get- ting hit with a left hook. Watch out for the punch." Sam shook his head angrily at the partner: "What do you want to tell him that'foil?" he de- ..manded, "Don', tell him he's gettln hit with a left hook, man, when he don even know about - it! Any time a man' gets hit with .a left . hook and he don' imow it, then he Wants to git plumb out of the boxing busi- ness and git himself a job on a farm!" After the second round, which had been furiously fought, Sam's partner ' again began to advise the youngster. "Take it easy, kid," lie warned. "You're tired. You're yery tired!" Again oId Sam shook his head and contributed his two cents worth. "Man,' what for you tell the boy he's tired?" he asked. "If he's tired, don' he know it?" 'You mind your own busi- ness!" barked Sam's partner. "I'll do the advising in this fight!" A short but bitter argument followed on this remark. Finally the partner threw up his hands in disgust and left the arena, abandoning his fighter to the tender mercies of old Sam Lang- ford. He's a "Strawctor"—Vasco Notate Lupi, '51year=old'Italian elitist,' is a. "new broom" sweeping the art world, 'He shuns conben- tional sculpturing media, and fashiohs his creations of straw. "Laurel and Hardy" are in a clowning mood on side of pedes- tal at right, while "Joseph. Stalin" watches fearfully as Lupi works on his latest creation, and "The Pirate," upper left, stands guard over the strange company. How We Got The Doiiar Sign The dollar, the standard unit of money in Canada, the United States, Mexico And several oth- er countries, has an interesting history, and so has the $ gen- erally used to represent it, • The word dollar comes from the Low German for Thaler, which is an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler- J o a oih i msthal (JQachimm's dale) is a little town in Bohemia near which, in the be- ginning of the sixteenth century, a rich silver mine was discover- ed. The feudal lords of the town had coins made that, because of. their excellence, were soon used all over Europe, These and sim- ilar coins were called .Joachim.- ethalers, or simply Thalers, Coins of similar value were le - sued in, Spain. They were palled • pieces of eight because their val. tie was divided into eight small- er coins, All these coins elrcu- let,d freely in the colonies in bath North and South Ameriea, bs North America they were t tlett' dollars, When Die United Stetca had been formed, the word dollar was adopted definitely for its unit of coinage, but the sign -for the new coin was that of the old Spanish piece of bight This sign showed the figure 8 (which strongly re- sembles the letter S), crossed by two lines representing the Pillars of Hercules, the gateway between the Mediterranean and Atlantic at the southernmost tip of Spain. 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