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The Seaforth News, 1958-05-29, Page 7SHAW SCHOOLS Some Of The "Bums' The cabdriver turned around and.scowled. "Whore ya say ya 'canna go?" be asked. "Ebbetts Field." "Come on," the cabbie said. '7(m trying to make a living. Stop with the jokes'" Spring had come with a rush, klooding the city withsunlight, but on baseball's opening day. hast week nobody went to Eb- Setts Field in Brooklyn. Outside, edong McKeever Place, the shanties marked. Beer, Red Hot Franks, were shut. The streets around the ball park were de- nerted.- On Bedford Avenue, the street that sportscaster Red Barber made famous as a land- ing place for home runs, a luncheonette had gone out of business. Ebbetts Field, born 1913, seemed about to go out of business, too, "The field is in good shape," said Babe Hamberger, a veteran Of 30 years in the Dodgers' or- ganization, sitting in a musty office underneath the left -field stands. "There's a college game Isere Thursday, There are other things coming. up. Soccer games, meetings, things like that." Ham - Berger shook his head. "But it's a terrible thing," he said, "seeing the place like. this." He walked out to the field, In right, the grass was trimmed and spongy where Babe Herman sometimes was struck on the shoulder (but never on the head, as legend puts it) fielding fly balls for the Daffiness Boys of the late 1920s. A patch of canvas laid the mound where Carl Ers- kine, his curve dropping like a atone, set an all-time record by striking out fourteen Yankees in one game of the 1953 World Series. More canvas hid home plate and the spot where Casey Stengel, coming to bat, doffed. his cap to an umpire and let sr sparrow fly out. There were no spike marks in the dirt at ;shortstop where Pee Wee Reese flagged grounders with sure grace for fifteen rounds. Up near the roof, two pigeons suddenly took flight. The wind stirred the grass. The flagpoles were bare Of bunting. "A ter- rible thing," Hamberger repeat- ed, and walked back into his office. From Newsweek. ONE MORE SHANTZ Wee Bobby Shantz (he's only li,' 8") toured Japan with an All-Star team a couple of years ego. Upon his return, somebody asked him what he thought of Japanese ball players. "They're not so bad," Bobby grinned. "But they're too small for the big leagues." RRY MENAGERIE Suet for a change, he took a small airmail route!" SHRINKING WORLD?—According to the sign post it's only.a short ride from New York to Boston, but here's the catch, the picture was made in England. This New York is a tiny hamlet situated some 10 miles from a silghlly larger hamlet, Boston. The Clue Of The Tattered Rug Spfowied full length, care- taker Eph Littlefield peered un- der the door of Dr. John Web- ster's laboratory. A11 he could see was the doctor's feet moving between the table and the furn- ace. All he could hear was the soft shuffle of the doctor's shoes and water continuously flowing from the tap, But there was something else a faintbut rather frighten- ing smell the pungent, re- pellent odour of burning flesh. Eph had never' known the furnace to be lit before. But now it was so hot that at one part of the building it could be felt through the wall. For a week Dr. Webster had hardly emerged from his rooms. And through ail that week another of the Har- vard University professors, Dr. George Parkman, had been missing without trace. In the distant year 1849 Har- vard rocked with the riddle. At noon on a foggy November day, lean Dr. Parkman had been seen walking rapidly towards the medical college On his way to a business appointment with some person unknown . , . but it was ' as if he had been whisked off the earth. The police searched through the college buildings. They drag- ged a near -by river. They lit- tered the town with reward bills. Lured by a witness who thought he had seen Dr. Parkman in the neighbourhood, they scoured a wheat warehouse and practically emptied it of grain. And all the while Dr. Web- ster remained in his laboratory, engrossed in his experiments. When he emerged, locking the door carefully behind him, a tubby, beetle-browed little man gazing blandly through steel - rimmed spectacles, he was able to throw very little light on Parkman's movements, But he admitted that he was the business contact whom Parkman had been going to see. He had owed Parkman a large sum of money, he explained, and had undertaken to repay it. At noon on November 23rd' Park - man had duly nailed, had re- ceived the money and had re- ceipted the deed of mortgage. With these disclosures Dr. Webster returned to the labora- tory, locked the doors behind. him and renewed his secret la- bours. The police investigations veered on a new tack. ft Dr. Parkman had left Dr. Webster with a large sum of money on him it increased the probability of murder with a motive of, theft. Only Eph Littlefield, the care- taker, was not so sure. , • . . Finding spare keys, Eph tried them in the laboratory doors and discovered they were bolted as well . as locked against him. He watched Dr. Webster's heavy inroads on the fuel store, noticed the frequent use of kindling, constantly tried the warmth of the wall where the furnace roared day and night. What was happening in the lab? .Eph was sure he would solve the mystery one day when the doctor was at lectures, Climbing through a window high in the wall of the laboratory, he lowered himself gently. The fur- nace was alight but Eph found it was not a very large fire. Yet some barrels of kindling were missing. And there was something else absent—a heavy sledgehammer which Eph had noticed standing in a corner when he last cleaned the room: On steps• leading from the room Eph'a sharp eyes also spot- ted stains. Putting his tongue to ` the stains, he detected the sharp sting of acid. That night the furnace burned warmer and Webster seemed to work later into the night than ever. The next day the police had decided to launch a house- to-house search, beginning at the spot where Parkman had last been seen — in Webster's laboratory. Webster himself unbolted the door, opened cupboards and storerooms, explained that the furnace had been used to burn dissection . rubbish. The detec- tives were satisfied. But Eph was more puzzled than ever that evening—the eve of the Thanksgiving festival — when he ran into Webster by chance. "Have you bought your Thanksgiving turkey yet?" said ROUND VIEW—This specacular view of. New `.Y been taken from a hole in the ground, is actu -.Hat circular photographs. The camera, devised ibis picture from the ground. The camera rota negative, it photographs a view which is grea eibout 420 degrees—and takes in about 200 de repeats itself in one segment. Dr. Trachtman in only 360 degrees. ork's. Rockefeller Center, which appears to have ally the product of a new camera which takes by optometrist Dr. Eugene Trachtman, took tes while making a picture. Using a 4 x 5 -inch ter than a full circle on a horizontal plane— grees on the vertical plane. Part of the picture is working on the camera so that it will take Webster. "Go and buy one—and charge it to me." Till that moment Eph had al- ways ranked the doctor as the meanest medico in the world. What lay behind this change of heart? Scratching his head, Eph tried to visualize every detail of the scene earlier that day as detectives searched the labora- tory. There was one tiny detail that had not seemed important at the time. Eph sighed with chagrin when he realized that the forgotten de- tail was even more unremark- able than he imagined. It was nothing more than a tattered old rug, which he had not seen be- fore, that covered part of the floor. The next moment, his eyes ablaze, Eph ran to tell his wife of his discovery. Beneath the laboratory was a vault which had long been closed and sealed. And with horror Eph remem- bered that one day, months be-. fore, Dr. Webster had asked him casually whether the vault was in good repair. What was worse, the only en- trance was through the floor of the laboratory by the trapdoor Webster kept covered with a rug. Then Eph realized there was another way in, He took spade, pick and.chisel, and tried to bur- row his way through the solid wall. His wife kept watch but Eph was interrupted so many times that by the end of the day he had moved only a few bricks. Next day he made faster pro- gress and finally the last stone was moved. Shining a light into the vault Eph discerned the horror he had always feared. The lamp glowed on the severed legs and torso of a man. - Dr. Webster was clapped into jail within the hour. In a medi- cal school, however, it was not unprecedented to find a dismem- bered corpse, and the police knew they would face a tough task in proving it to be that of Dr. Parkman. In the furnace were found other grim relics—splinters of charred bone, a fused and dam- aged set of false teeth. Dr. Web- ster had tried to ensure that no vital clue to his crime was left. Having thrown the severed remains into the vault, he had been slowly disposing of them. He had got rid of the hands and skull; but painstakingly the sci- entists tried to piece the other fragments together. By careful measurement they could only say that the victim had been of about Parkman's height and weight. But it was Eph Littlefield who sucessfully wound up the case. Hearing of the discovery of the teeth he went to the local dentist. And the dentist at once recognized them as a set he had made for Dr. Parkman. The teeth still exactly fitted the original mould in his posses- sion. A deep 'irregularity on the lower side of Dr. Parkman's jaw had made the teeth difficult to make but made them all the' more readily recognized. Dr. Webster confessed to his crime. The devil doctor had been defeated by the dentist. NONPLUSED ALIBIER The guy fancied himself as a hitter and he always came up with an alibi when he struck out or popped up to the infield. One day after whiffing three straight times, he took a vicious cut at a pitch and succeeded in pushing the ball about a yard out in front of the catcher He was tossed .out by twenty feet. He came back to the bench muttering. But before he could say anything a teammate beat him to the punch. "We know,"' hisgal growled. "The catcher was playing you shallow on that one." Q. How can I remove the marks of an indelible ink pencil' from . white material? A. 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