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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-1-24, Page 6Goofy Sorts OF Sports Events' At Angel's Camp, California, re Gently, ten thousand spectators cheered wildly as X-100, a fourteen - Inch bullfrog, /wade three leaps totalling 14 feet 9 inches to win the Twenty-third Annual Jumping -Frog Jubilee. The record is 16 feet, made in 1944. In no eouutry in the world are queer ',parts" so common as in the United States. Where else would they think of a Rattlesnake Derby? This contest is waged annually be- fore huge crowds at Carlsbad, New Mexico. The reptiles are placed in the centre tnf a ring, their tails touching a metal plate. At a signal the starter touches a button, a charge of electricity surges through the ring, and the snakes wriggle away as fast as they can.. First to reach the outer edge is the winner. The United States has a craze for "Derbies." There is the Horned - Toad Derby, which has had five hundred entrants and is started with a pistol; the Little Pigs' Der- by, at Venice, California, where piglets on leads are guided along lanes by "Bathing Beauts"; the . Annual Tortoise Derby, at Mi- ami, where wealthy debs. mount giant turtles and try to guide them past a post -often two debe, to each turtle. Leaping Camels! Wherever members of the Anglo- Saxon race venture &they organize sport. If there is 13o existing sport they invent one. British ex -cavalry subalterns serving with the Egyp- tian Cantel Corps before the war actually ran a "Grand National" with cancels, training these un- gainly beasts to1 y leap hurdles. Any- one who has ridden a cancel will appreciate how uncomfortable that must be. A great deal of racing on native y tuttoos" tshaggy ponies) used to lake place in Darjeeling, and the 'Tain't Smart -If it's romance you want, girls, lower that old I.Q. That's the advice of Joan Bishop, right, one of radio's original "Quiz Kids," now do- ing night club work. "The sur- est way to scare off a man," says the pretty blue-eyed red- head, "is for a gal to toss her I.Q. around." That's because men are less ihterested in facts than in pgures. Tibetans, who are inveterate gam- blers, took to it enthusiastically. There are few horses in Tibet, but plenty of yaks, and soon these lumbering beasts were harnessed and raced, and every year a Yak Derby is raced at Lhasa. The win- ning -post has no significance, for these uncontrollable cattle, once they've started, are difficult to stop, and sometimes they charge hun- dreds of yards .past the post and out of the course, The unfortunate jockey who falls is likely to be trampled underfoot. Spain has her bullfights and China her cricket fights, which have no connection with Test matches. Crickets are fed and trained to become pugnacious, then placed in a ring with other crickets; and the insects fight until one dies. This cruel sport draws thousands of fans, and each year the champion cricket of each province 'is awarded the title of Grand Marshal. T. wonder whether it cares? Insect Champions The Chinese specialize in insect sports, and cockroach racing was a favourite pastime of a past em- peror. Alt the equipment needed was the tin lid of a biscuit box, a candle -and cockroaches. The cock- roaches were emptied on to the lid in the dark, and the candle, stuck in the center was lighted. Instantly, they scurried off the tin and the first to clamber out was the winner. The human instinct to gamble is strong. Parisians race snails, and at Portesharn, near Weymouth, an attempt was made to popularize cat racing on the lines of greyhound racing, the bait being a stuffed rat. But it did not catch on. The queerest sport must surely be dustbin fishing. This was in- vented for rich but jaded American sportsmen who, supplied with fish- ing tackle, step into large dustbins with inflated motor -'tire tubes fastened round them, and paddle out to sea. In these queer.contrap- lions Florida millionaires, tired of glistening yachts and diamond -clus- tered elides, vie with each other in hooking shark-altd tunny. r A StiKBIT-C Our old friend Charley the eater is is nut with a real grievance; and those in power 00 Capitol 11111, Queens Park and other seats of GoSernment had better have a care, Better have a couple of cares, in fact. History shows that the com- mon people can be pushed around and manhandled to such an extent that it begins to look as if they will hold still for almost anything. Then, without warning, conies a point where they pin back their ears, and rebel, And, according to Char- ley the Chalk -eater, that point has currently been reached, e t Before going into details, per- haps we had better explain -for the benefit of those whose early edu- cation was neglected -the meaning of our friend Charley's tag. "Chalk - eater" derives from the days when race -track betting was done, not by machinery, but through the medium of bookmakers, who used chalk to mark up the odds on their slates. And a chalk -eater was a moan who, if he saw a horse priced at ten to one, would refuse to invest but who, if he saw the odds on that same steed slide down to even money or less, would trample down women and children in his mad rush to wager everything • he owned.) *g x "Something has just plain got to be done about these rising prices," gllotll Charlie, when we last met up with hint, "You would think this Premier Sam Lawrence or what- ever you call him would have better sense. First thing he knows along will come another election, and all us guys will be voting for this George Drew, and he wilt be out on his ear," "Just what has happened now, Charley?" we asked, "We haven't heard of anything unusual coating off lately," s * 5 "I am not such a guy as is al- ways belly -aching and complain- ing," continued Charley, who is a man of few words, but uses those few very often. "When they raised the price of bread, do you hear me holler? They shove up the price of coffee frons a nickel to a diene a mug, and I don't say a thing. Same way with beek-steak, groceries, any- thing you like to mention. Why, when they cut down the size of the beer -glasses, and tack on an extra two or four bits on the price of a crock I hardly moan above a whis- per. I just say to myself, 'Well, I suppose we got to have such things as a Government, although I do not know why; and if. the cdst of governing is going up, I guess its poor suckers just natural- ly got to pay for it.' Still, there's a limit to everything. When they go upping the most vitalest neces- sities of life, there's going to be trouble, and you can tell them I said so." ,k * * "But, Charley, you still haven't told us *hat you're talking about," we insisted. "Just what are you talking about?" k * * "You call yourself a writer, and don't know that?" said Charley dis- gustedly. Starting tomorrow we'll have to pay thirty-five cents a copy for The Daily Racing Form. THIRTY-FIVE CENTS, MIND YOU, AND I CAN REMEMBER WHEN YOU COULD GET IT FOR A DIME. If those lugs down in Ottawa don't get busy with some price controls right away, there's going to be a revolutionary or some- thing, they needn't try and inane out I didn't warn them." * * * In a manner that must be the des- pair of even the highest veered pub- licity experts, the .port of baseball has a way of getting space in the sports columns Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall, 1f there were any more seasons, it would doubtless still be to the fore. * * Right now, when all the man- agers have been fired, the new ones hired and promised that 'we'll have a hustling tenet this year", live baseball news is rather scarce; so now conies the hallooing for the - if anyone -is to he elected to Base- ball's Hall of Fame. In his New York Times column Arthur Daley has some interesting things to say about this hallotting-and we quote Mr. Daley as follows: 'k * fi The door to the Baseball Hall of Fame operates like a door control- led by a electric eye which has gone out of whack. The dang thing just won't open nohow, Every year at this time a ballot arrives in the mail from the indefatigable secretary of the Baseball Writers Association: h(euesaw lvlountain Smith, who has been trying to resign as secretary for twenty years only to have the boys ignore hint. The frustruated and unreti redn' S ratty dispatches his ballots to the electorate and noth- ing happens. No candidate gets elected. * * 4 The press box tenants again fail- ed to agree last year by the re- quired 75 per cent ratio on any candidate for the Valhalla in Coop- erstown. Melvin Thomas Ott, a midget slugger who played at being a Giant, carne closest and almost got one foot on the threhold. He drew 115 votes. He needed 126 to be elected. The door was slammed in his face. This meant that fifty- -two baseball writers, fellows who supposedly know what they are do- ing, didn't think blaster Malvin rated a niche among the diamond iuunortals. What's the matter with those guys anyways? * * * Why Ottie didn't iand in Coop- erstowns on the very first bounce will remain an unfathomable mys- tery to this reporter. He has every- thing in his favor. The stocky little fellow is the undisputed hone -run king of the National League, third in rank on the all-time lists to Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx. ile holds a bushel basket full of records. He was an exceptionally fine fielder and had one of the strongest, dead- liest of throwing arms,. As an all- around player he rates ahead of lots of those already in the Hall of Fame Master Melvin even has running in his favor the not unimportant item of popularity. Admittedly the elec- tion to Cooperstown is not a pop- ularity contest but those writers who let their emotions rule them, vote for those they like, by-passing those they dislike. But Ottie came close to being No. 1 in the effections of the press box tenants. His pop- ularity was -and is -immense. * * If he doesn't make it this time, there should be a Congressional in- vestigation. His natnes goes first on my ballot. * 4 Let's not drop that popularity business until we've discussed the second of the ten names that the ballot demands. Bill Terry enjoyed not even a fraction of Ottie's pop- ularity. Few typewriter pounders regarded him as a pin-up boy. Most of therm hated him. However,, there has been a noticeable change in re- cent years. Old hatreds burned themselves out and Terry, the ball player, began coating into his own on the basis of sheer performance, • BY • ` HAROLD ARNETT PLASTIC CLOTHESPIN Lilt MAKE PENCIL HOLDER FOR DRAWER INTERIOR BY CUTTING DOWN TWO PLASTIC CLOTHESPINS AND I ; TT INS- PRONGS TO DRAWER SIDE WITH SHORT In The Wake Of War -Bewildered Korean war orphans, some with tears in their eyes, wait in the fuselage of a giant C-54 transport for evacuation from Seoul to a haven in Southern 'Korea, One thousand of these children were taken out by air while thousands of others, old as well as young, made their Way south the best way they could, usually- afoot. The Repentant Driver "I've been at the hospital for the past hour waiting and praying -praying as I have never done before. For if the little fellow they brought here doesn't recover ---then, God help me - I'm a murderer. "Sure, the police measured the tire ]narks and no charge is being1 old- bu i that f tO1V-11 1 a re d youngster .te doesn't r ylive,I've killed him just as surely as if I'd put' a pistol to his head and ,pulled the trigger. "Several people who saw the whole thing say 1:'d. no chance to avoid him. I know better. Common sense should have warned me that besides the group of kids who scattered when I blew the horn, there night he one or two others hiding between the parked cars. Surely I, With kids of my- own; should have been prepared for the unexpected actions of a youngster happily playing, unaware of his danger, My young Millie and Sally have given me plenty of lessons about children's behaviour but when it came to the real test, I ignored them ----had a meeting to attend after supper and was in a hurry to get home, "Did you ever see a sturdy little chap, lying quite still, one leg bent grotesquely under him, blood oozing from his head I'm thinking of his vacant chair at the table, his rumpled bed, his torn britches, the scuffed shoes that led him to so many exciting adventures, I'm thinking of the man he might have been -perhaps a great surgeon. scientist or engineer. Countless lives Wright have- been saved by his. skill, It's not pleasant- to think that I, in rather an indirect way, am responsible for their fate too. "I don't think I'll ever drive again. Probably I will as -Lime goes on. But right now I don't want to see that shining -mon- ster that used to get so much attention. Sure it's a good car with good brakes and so on -but a car can be only as safe as the fellow who drives it, "Waiting and praying -it seems like days -I've been sitting here, not just minutes. Soon I'll know. They've taken the young lad to the operating room. There's not a thing I can do but wait and pray -wait and pray. Oh-, please make everything all right." Such unpleasant thoughts could be experienced by you, if you are not careful. CHILDREN SHOULD BE SEEN - NOT HURT. Every year his vote gathering increased until he reached second to Ott in last January's final tab- ulation. Terry was truly a magni- ficent first baseman. Who was better? Lon Gehrig and George Sister? Maybe, But you can get a good argument on it. After all, Terry was a superb fielder. He had a lifetime batting average of .341 and had a one year high of .401. This reporter firmly believes that any .400 hitter automatically rates Cooperstown, Terry belongs by any and all measurements, 'k 'k * Who was the best catcher that ever lived? Again you'll get argu- ments. But none will dispute who were the best two catchers. All agree on Mickey Cochrane and Bill Dickey, But Black Mike al- ready has been elected to the Hall of Pante. Since' this pair caret be split on performance; Dickey should be moved to an equal pedestal with Cochrane, His is the third 111(1110 Olt this ballot, The fourth name must go to James Emory Foxy, the most nntts- culat candidate of them all, Only Ruth bit mare homers than Double - X and it is to be doubted that even :. the Bambino could clout a longer ball. Foxx it is, r H' * These annual elections are limi- ted to ball players who operated in the previous quarter century. This one includes those from 1925 on, That indicates that the clock is be- ginning to run out on Harry llell- mann, one of the greatest• of all right-handed hitters. .He'd better hurry or he'll never Make it. The Detroit slugger had the odd habit of winning batting championships in odd -numbered years -witch .394 in 1921, with .403 in 1923 and with 393 ill 1925, Does he rate? His lifetime average of .342 indicates that he does. Ik * * How about another right-hander powerhouse Al Simmons? He has a lifetime mark of .334 and was a flawless fieider and fiercest of corn - petitory to boot, He rates entrance. So does Paul \'Vener, the widget trylist, who terrorized 1Si'tclmers on the diamond and drove managers to distraction off it. His lifetime mark was .334 even though he was a frail 155 pounder. 8, a* a One more slugger will round out our nominations inthatdepartment, Hank Greenberg, Even if his per- formances didn't rate hint the berth -which they do -he belongs for the simple reason that he's a per- fect exaitple to the youth of Amcri•- ca of how Mr hard work call bring a ball player. Hank is a self-made star, one who lifted himself to great- . Iles» by iris own bootstraps. * Whoops! We're running out of space with room left in the column and on the•ballot for just two more names. Here they are, 'J'ed Lyons a'nd Dizzy Dean. ..Classified Advertising.. 01115 1'110'1($- .. A0.1, uillt ,: u I It _ are (('>1' ' Sired with n 111.0%1 ,1 Imk„u,ultd 1t 11(1 to aim I ,. 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Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills, 81ul at any drugstore, ISSUE 4 - 1951 Jumps Into Judo Hold-(.'ro i>aSlfetballer (;Gorge ,5enesky of the Warriors appeal's to be' hold by the seat of the pants and the scruff of the neck by Nat Clifton (No, 19) of the Knicker- bockers, Clifton was rnugh t in this bar -roost bouncer role when he readied out to block Serleaky's attempted field goal. Actually, he is 001 Mulching .Seneslcy.