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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-08-21, Page 7Colorful But . Can He Fight? Roy Harris, a heavyweight (6' ft., 195 lbs.) from Cut and Shoot, Texas, has fought 22 professional bouts and won them all, but he has never been seen either on TV or outside Texas. Last month, to stir the nation's interest in the new contender for the heavyweight crown (he is due to fight Champion Floyd Pat- terson in Los Angeles on Aug. 18), TelePrompTer Corp. offered a Texas junket to some of Yale- keeland's top sportswriters. What the ringside pros saw left them happy, dazed, full of copy, and fat pigeons for TelePrompTer's pressagents. Curt and Shoot proved to be a hamlet in the middle of a swampy, oil -rich wooded area know as the "Big Thicket." Its 194 inhabitants claim that "if you stand around long enough, you'll get cut; if you try to run, you'll get shot.." The city -slicker writers found Roy a quiet, soft- spoken schoolteacher and ex - lieutenant living in a modern cottage on the Harris farm, Roy told them he was part Indian (Cherokee) and "I want to prove that I am a fighter and not myth." They all dutifully wrote that down. But it was life among Roy's relatives that staggered them. Less than 75 yds. from Roy's cottage stood the elder Harris' swamp -angel shack where, wrote the New* York Post's Milton Gross (a Brooklyn type), "you'll see barefooted and barebacked kids whooping and hollering through the woods and kittens feeding off their mothers in the front room. You'll see cattle and hound dogs and the head of an alligator long since gone, Chickens and hogs and rusty tin cans and discarded tires. You'll see garbage strewn on the. ground, flies abounding in the rooms, roaches on the wall and the windows and doors wide open for more to come in." Every Harris relative proved e flack's bonanza. There was Roy's father, "Big. Henry" Har- ris, a 237-1b., 47. -year-old bear who has been called "the best fist, knee, knife and heel fighter in the territory." Big Henry rais- ed his two sons, Roy and Tobe, as fighters, roamed saloons for daring comers, now tells Roy to whip Patterson "or I'll whup you." There was Uncle Jack, who was once a character witness for a man accused of bootlegging. The court records in Montgom- ery County show that, asked how he made a living, Uncle Jack replied: "We are in the ilawg business. We steal a few. We also makes a little whisky, dynamites fish, sheets any kind of game we pleases, runs rooster tights and pitfights, bulldogs and such. We gets by right -near the same as all these old poor- rumped people around her e does" Asked how he knew the defendant stole hogs, the re- ' cord's answer: "Because I some- times hold 'em whilst he knocks 'ern in the haid. — From Time. SPRING IS HERE In Ethiopia, during Emperor Menelik's reign, major criminals were executed by having their legs tied separately to two bent 'epilogs held down by a 'trigger' rope. When the saplings sprang upward in opposite directions 'the condemned were ripped apart. Obey the traffic signs — they are placed there for Y 0 UR SAFETY. RECOVERED The huge nose cone of a U.S. Army Jupiter missile, which was fired from Cape Cahaveral, Fla., is shown being encased in a steel con- tainer'at San Juan, Puerto Rico. The cone, retrieved from the ocean one -and -a -half hours after launching, Was flown to the Army Ballistic Missile Agen- cy at Huntsviile, Ala., GRAY SKIES — President Eisenhower and Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of Ghana, scan the rain -filled sky as they stand on the White House North Portico after lunch. Nkrumah was in the country for a 10 --day official visit. Some Thoughts en 'Lawn Tennis I've been looking alto the tra- ditions of Wimbledon and they are not at all the type that one might think, It turns out that this is not a royal and ancient game at all. The inventor was a major in the Dragoon Guards. Major W. Clopton Wingfield. (This was around 1870.) Prooi that this was a new game, and no rela- tive of the game that Shake- speare publicized and Henry VIII played at Hampton Court, is to be found in the Patents Office. The gallant major patented his game. It had to be new to get e patent. Major W. Clopton Wingfiel'1 called his game Sphairistike. This is Greek and so was his game to most English people. As it involved a racket and a bail on the lawn the hot polloi, as Greeks and majors also had it, simply called it "lawn tennis" and left it at that, regardless of the inventor's feelings, Tennis, the earlier racket and ball game, is now distinguished as "real tennis" (royal tennis). Its devotees find it hard to raise a four, let alone an objection to the use of the term "tennis". This game was actually played Indoors, not out of doors and at court' rather than on a court. It was extremely complicated and many of the latest rules wer invented by Henry VIII (se that he could win). What the lawns of Wimbledon were really for was not tennis at all but croquet. Here were the headquarters cf the All - England Croquet Club. In 1877 croquet, it seems, had tempor- arily fallen upon hard times. The All -England Club's horse - roller (by which one means, of course, a roller pulled by a horse) was broken. Funds were short. The grass was not good enough for croquet. As a special attraction, a kind of croquet player's joke, the cub decided to put on an All -England Ama- teur Sphairistike Championship. Twenty-two men — one notes the influence of cricket — were invited to take part, writes John Allan May , in The Christian Science Monitor. The contest began on July 9, 1877, in the then club grounds in Worple Road, Wimbledon, A day's interval was arranged be- tween the semifinals and the final so that everyone could go to Lord's cricket ground to catch a day of the Eton and Harrow game. And it was, indeed, a former Harrow boy, Mr. Spencer W. Gore, who won the first Wimbledon spliairsstike final next day. Next year the winner, Mr. P. F. Hadow, came from Ceylon (on leave). It was the first time he had ever played the game. And so it went on in lighthearted iashion like this, while croquet got back on its feet, In; I think, 1884, there was a ladies' com- petition for the first time. This made sphairistike ail the more fun, Is it possible that the authori- ties of what is now the All - England Croquet and Tennis Club have come to take Wimble- don a little too seriously? Thal is the rumor that has been going round the cricket pavilions. Of course they still have their little joke with the word "ama- teur" but, we heal even that has become a rather serious joke. or amateur amateurs cannot afford to go to Wimbledon these days, only professional amateurs. Cricket allows amateur ama- teurs, professional amateurs and. also professional professionals to join in the same game, It dif- ferentiates them these days only by placing the amateur'sinitials before his name on the score- card and the professional's after it. Golf, the truly royal and ancient game, does not even in- sist on that distinction. Why not sphairistike? Of courte it is none of my business, but now the Soviets have taken an interest surely Wimbledon would be well ad- vised to open up. In sports it te' e3 up, Soviet Russ'a soon has ,-ional professional amateur ._urs, with medals. Tales- Of The Baseball Diamond HIS STATUS Some years ago, when Joe Medwick was in his prime with the St. Louis Cardinals, he tour- ed Europe with a group of enter- tainers. Upon reaching Rome, the troupe was granted an audience with Pope Pius. His Holiness politely asked each the nature of his business. "I'm a comedian," answered one. "I'm a singer, replied another. Then came Medwicks turn. With simple dignity, he said, "Your Holiness, I'm a Cardinal. * * e OPEN THE DOOR, RICHARDS When Paul Richards, the Bal- timore pilot, was managing Buf- falo some years ago, he had the veteran Coaker Triplett mur- dering the ball for him. One af- ternoon Trip took the collar. He failed to connect in five trips, end his head was dragging after the game. '" Richards felt a consoling word was in order. "Don't let it get you, boy," he said. "I've had bad days like that myself." "Yeah, Paul,' replied Triplett, "but you were used to it." * * * IT'S NOT TO QUESTION WHY One afternoon, McGraw sent Larry McLean in as a pinch hitter. It was the last half of the ninth, the bases were loaded, and the Giants were trailing by three runs. Since the situation obviously called for power, Mc- Graw didn't bother giving Mc- Lean any instructions. But the pinch hitter instinct- ively looked over at him. "Hit one into the stands, you dope!" roared McGraw. McLean grinned cheerfully. "Which seat, Mae?" he inquired. IMPORTANT FISHING REGULATIONS 1T IS CONTRARY TO LAW — To angle if you are a non - 'resident of Ontario, except under a license. 1. To angle other than with a hook and line held in the hand, or with hook,. line and rod held in the hand. 2. To angle with more than one fishing line with more than 4 hooks. (A three gang hook is considered one hook. 3. To fish, or whilein possession of fishing equipment to go upon any enclosedor unenclosed land or water after notice from the owner not to fish thereon. 4 To tear down, remove, deface or interfere with any notice or sign placed by the Department or by land -owners in accordance. with this act. 5. To have in your possession at any one time more than one day's legal catch of any species of fish. 6. To liberate live ball fish into any waters other than those from which they were originally taken. 7 To- use artificial lights, for the taking of fish or frogs. To take bullfrogs except- dur- ing th open season from July 1st tc October 15th. These rules and regulations are passed to help keep good fishing conditions in the Prov- ince and, it is only by everybody co-operating in the observance of the Fish Laws that we can in- sure that we will hose adequate fishing in the years to come. Ancient Satchel Still Fools Them The Miami Marlins were try- ing to play ghost, the game in which each player suggests a letter until someone completes a word and loses. They were sit- ting in the loungeof an airliner bound for Rochester, N.Y., sweat- ing out stakes of 5 cents a round. "Q," began Leroy Satchel Paige, leading off on the basis of seniority. Henry Mason, a pitcher, con- sidered briefly, "I challenge, Satch," Mason said, deadpan. "You don't know no words be- ginning with 'q'." "Cucumber," Paige said. "Gim- me my quarter." As he travels the baseball cir- cuit for perhaps the 35th year, Satchel Paige still makes up his own rules. He misses planes, for- gets curfews, and never bothers to run, but nobody around the Marlins complains For Satch, who may be 50 or 55 or 60, is. still unquestionably a magnifi- cent pitcher, In one recent week he relieved in three games for. the Marlins. Facing the hustling, talented youngsters of the Triple A. International League, he won twice—against Rochester and Richmond. Pitching for a sixth- place club, his record is 6 and 4. Apparently age cannot wither his right arm. Paige's career, which began on sandlots in Mobile, Ala„ some- time before World War I took him first through Negro leagues where occasionally he moved his fielders into the dugout so that he could strike out the side more dramatically. "The best I've seen" Dizzy Dean said once, af- ter Paige beat a troupe of big leaguers, 1-0. In the majors Paige worked more formally and, although he was past 40 when Cleveland signed him in 1948, he stayed in the big leagues for five years. In his prime he drove a Cadil- lac emblazoned with a sign, reading: "Satchel Paige—world's greatest pitcher." As a concession to age, Paige has left the sign off his latest car, but he had added a refrigerator in the trunk. "I puts fish there," he says. "No one believes how big I catch 'em. I puts the biggest ones there and when someone disputes me, I just take the fish out of the trunk" Since his -fast ball has lost a little of its hop, Paige has chang- ed his pitching tactics slightly. "I uses more psychiatry than I used to," he says. "I stares at them, slaps some rosin around and by the time I lets go those batter's legs starts to wobble." In addition, Paige's assort- ment includes the hesitation pitch. He moves smoothly through a kick and at the top of the windup he stops. Then, when he suspects the batter is relaxing, he fires. Sometimes fooled bat- ters protest. "But I ain't never thrown an illegal pitch," Paige says. "The trouble is once in a while I tosses one that ain't never been seen by this generation." To what generation does he belong? "I really is 49," he insists. "I'll be 50 when the season quits in September." Looking at Paige, his body still lithe, his hair untouched by gray, you are tempted to accept the answer as true. Then you recall that Satch said exactly the same thing seven years ago when he was pitching for Cleveland. — From NEWSWEEK, PRESENT ABSENCE . 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