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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-02-20, Page 7Campanella—Man Of Many Friends It was a couple of fellows named Branch Rickey and Jackie` Robinson who opened the gates for the Negro player in organ- - ized baseball. But it was Roy Campanella, the rotund catcher, as much as anybody, who took the serious- ness out of the Negro's place in the national pastime and gave it a smile. In 'fact, in the beginning, even Roy's.,. critics had to smile, be- cause, with that chunky build of his, he looked far more like a participant in a neighborhood game between the married men and single men than he did a big leaguer. They wondered how that roly-poly man could ever move fast enoughto keep the major pace. • But he could, and did — well enough to be. the backbone of championship` Dodger teams and to win the most valuable player award three times in the Na- tional League—the same league that had a Willie Mays, a Stan Musial and a few other greats of this modern era. "Campy" was big league in a number of ways, but what his pals remembered most about him in the stories which same out immediately after his automo- bile accident' recently was his wonderful sense of humour and warm personality — his sincere love for the game that has meant se much to the Campan- ella family. Roy was one of the highest paid Dodgers, yet he probably thought less about that side of it than anyone else on the then Brooklyn roster. He admitted, and meant it, that he would have played for nothing. When Jackie Robinson quit the game, they wrote stories about his managerial possibil- ities — the first Negro with the potential to pilot a ball -club writes Rumill in The Christian Science Monitor. But those close to the Dodgers felt that it was a case of mis- taken identity. While Robinson might have made the grade, teammates contended that Cam- panella had a far better chance. Actually, Roy had managed for a short spell, of Nashua, N.H., while he was playing there and Walter Alston was the field leader. Once- when ;Alston was ejected by an umpire, Roy took aver — to the surprise of no one but himself. However, he had the respect of those Nashua mates, just as he had in late years, in the Dodger clubhouse—and through- out the . National League. Campy was the friend of the young ball player, the Pulman porter and waiter, the clubhouse_ boy, the boy who carried bats, the men who had the unattrac- tive jobs around the ball park. No player was more willing to give someone a hand at any- thing. And he was the busiest fellow in spring training, coach- ing young players and sitting around at night talking baseball with all who would listen. Having knocked around in the Negro leagues or years before being brought to the majors, Roy appreciated far more than most What the luxuries of the big time meant. He never abused them, never took them for granted. Mechanically, Campanella was a standout on the field. He could handle pitchers. He could throw.. He nad as much right-handed power as any, catcher In the his- tory of the game. They may have laughed the Hirst time they saw his round figure in mask and protector, but he quickly 'changed their tuneswith his alertness and know-how, and' that big bat. There was nothing funny about him when he was beating your team, as he often did. It will be some time before they will know whether or not Campy can return to baseball as a player. But there should be some place in the game for this nun, whose speedy recovery, is Sid wish of all who know him. "TELL THEM TO BE CAREFUL"—Dean Bisbee tries .to comfort his son, Lynn, '16, as the youth receives emergency,treatment at Denver General Hospital after a home-made rocket exploded and blew off part of the boy's right hand. "Just tell the other kids to be more careful when they're working with explosives," the science student asked. Lynn's words' of caution were echoed by Maj. Gen. H. N. Toftoy, commanding general of Redstone Arsenal,, who issued a stiff warning urging amateur rocketeers to use "extreme" caution in making homemade rockets. Seat Temptation 13y A Nose Is a crooked nose liable to turn a youth crooked? Recent re search indicates that in certain cases this may be so. Many juvenile delinquents willo have had such physical af- flictions corrected during their term in reform -institutions are making good on release at a rate of thirty-three per cent, better than youths who had not re- ceived attention, says Dr. D. A. Ogden, medical officer to Port- land Borstal Institution a n d Verne Prison. Dr. Ogden says that parental negelet can mean not only moral neglect but neglect of physical handicaps, suchas squinting, crooked noses, limps, ugly scars, badly healed fractures and other complaints. Such disabilities usually cause embarrassment to youths who try to cover their very natursl resentment with an "over -com- pensatory aggression." Of youths who had deformities of the nose corrected, only one in eight had been reconvicted after two years. "In one stroke a source of chronic physical discomfort and emotional embarrassment h a s been removed," says Dr. Ogden in his report. Time To Fly Turk's was a farmyard -built airplane. In those days you bought blueprints for airplanes the way you buy blueprints for barbecues today.. Our first wings were covered with a heavy balloon cloth. They had such an exaggerated curve that they clutched onto the air like a hand holding onto a cliff, rather than split it, like a wing. of :modern design. They were called clutch -grip wings. The little four -cylinder engine with a toothpick propellor had a rough time hauling so much air- plane. When they worked at all, they landed so slowly you could almost step off and run along beside them. But weight and ig- norance usually either kept them on the ground or brought them back to it fast. If they did get into the air, the pilot was faced with the imminent danger that he would run out of know- ledge`-' the ship would come apart at the seams or the engine conk out. Adding to the confusion was the number. of designs on the CHESS COLD — lj takes more than winter - temperatures 10 check these chess enthusiasts in New York's frigid. Central Park. The only way to keep warm is to keep moving but the player in the foreground at left seems to be frozen as solid as the stone table at which he's playing. market. Oddly enough,' there were more types of airplanes for sale in those days than there are now.- Each type of machine had its own type of control. A pilot wholearned to fly one type couldn't fly another. ,A cleft- handed pilot was no good in a right-handed ship. Even such a change as the location of the throttle created difficulties... . The operation of those old- time ships didn't require much knowledge or flying ability. You'd steer with the rudder bar, pull the stick back to ascend, shove it forward to nose down. Your shoulder harness was con- nected by means of a wire to the flexible trailing edge of the wing tips. To, -bank you just hunched -ytour shoulders: But you always -;kept your eye on the "telltale," which was the sole flight instrument of its time and the original turn -and -bank indi- cator. It was nothing more than a ribbon streamer tied to the bamboo shaft directly in front of the pilot. As long as the streamer blew directly toward the pilot it indicated a properly banked turn, but when it trailed toward the outside it 'warned of a slip. If it fluttered toward the inside of a turn, the ship was skidding.... I was a flier. I had no thought for the after years. I wanted to fly because it was the most ex- citing thing I'd ever done. I didn't even come close to visua- lizing the air's being full of air- planes someday. The possibility that they'd ever • be used com- mercially never occurred to me. They were made for fun, and I was going to have plenty of it. —From `Under My Wings," by Captain Basil L. Rower Mars No Venice :Say Scientists There is life, on Mars, that strange red planet 63,000,000 miles away which is the earth's nearest neighbour, apart from the moon. An international team of scientists working at an ob- servatory in the Pyrenees say so. They believe they have ob- servational proof that life exists there. But what kind of life? Living, thinking Martia s? Or vegetation? Or both? "We don't know," say the ex- perts. But they do know, after studying markings on the, sur- face of Mars, only forty miles apart, that changes take place at various seasons in the planet's soil. These changes in brightness and colour could mean that some kind of plants grow there. With the dawn of 1958, as- tronomers all over the world are planning to take new steps to solve this age-old mystery of Mars. In" recent months they have discovered that if space- men from earth do get to Mars they will not find "canals" there. It is now' almost certain that no artificial canals exist on Mars.. Way back in 1877 astronomer Schlaparelli started the canals notion. He found that dark patches that earlier observers had called "oceans" were con- nected by narrow streaks, some- times thousands of miles long. He, called these streaks "can - ales" (channels) but bad trans- lators made them canals " though they were obviously many miles wide. Association of. ideas did the rest and for years even learned astronomers got into the habit of talking about the canals on Marc., On August 10th, 1971, Mars will be only 35,800,000 miles from the earth and the latest radio -telescopes available then are likely to adil greatly to our knowledge of the planet. Its 'dis- tinctive red colour comes from the barren deserts in the north- ern hemisphere, but the south- ; ern hemisphere is girdled by strange, dark green areas which might be vegetation. "Has Mars ever been inhabi- • ted by intelligent `beings?" an astronomer was asked recently. "Probably not," was his cautious reply. He added: "If living crea- tures do exist on Mars today, we -shall find out within the next quarter of a century. But for reasons of climate, atmosphere and so on it is unlikely that such beings would bear much resemblance to ourselves" Astronomers say that the Mar- tian atmosphere is similar to that 100,000 ft. above the earth's surface. Every Village Has An Orchestra The Balinese are a people pos- sessed by a passionate love of music and dancing. Every man, whether he is a prince or a poor rice -farmer, seems. to have the ambition to perform in his vil- lage,orchestra; or dancing group, and those who are not talented enough to do so count it a priv- ilege to subscribe what they can afford to help in the purchase of costumes or fine instruments. Even the poorest, smallest vil- lage owns, communally, a game- lan. This is the traditional or- chestra of Bali. The majority of its instruments are metal ones— large hanging gongs, smaller ones set horizontally in racks, tiny cymbals and many different variants on the dulcimerlike in- strument nstrument we had seen in the ceremony at. Denpasar. In addi- tion to these, there may be a rebab, the two -stringed Arab fiddle, bamboo flutes and, al- ways, two drums. Most of these instruments are extremely expensive. Balinese smiths arse able to forge the bronze keys for the dulcimers, but the secret of making the clearest -sounding and most mus- ical gongs is possessed only by the craftsmen of a small town in southern Java and a fine ,gong is therefore a treasured possession, worth a great deal of money. The music produced by the gamelan is of the most ravishing kind, full of subtle percussive rhythms, plangent ripples and crashing chords. I had expected that I should find it too foreign, too exotic, to give any real pleasure. Yet it was not so. The musicians played with such verve, conviction and dedica- tion, and their music was alter- nately so exciting and so tender- ly contemplative, that we were enraptured by it. Twenty or thirty people are necessary to play the full game- lan, and they perform with a precision and accuracy of timing which would do credit to any European orchestra. None of their intricate compositions is ever written down; the musi- cians carry them only in their memories, Furthermore, every orchestra's repertoire is so ex- tensive that it is able to play for many hours on end without repeating any one composition. This high professional,skill is only gained by arduous practice. Each night as dusk fell the vil- lage musicians gathered in a pa- vilion to begin rehearsals. As thetinkles and sonorous crashes of the orchestra rang around the village, we, with Mas as our sponsor, sought out the rehearsal pavilion to sit and listen. The leader of the gamelan is always the drummer and it is through the beats of his drumthat he is able to control the orchestra's tempo. Uusually, however, he is an equally skillful performer on all thL other instruments and he often stopped the music and . walked over to one of the dui- . timer players to demonstrate exactly how a theme should• be played.—From "Zoo Quest, for a Dragon," by David Attenbor- ough. 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