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The Seaforth News, 1958-08-28, Page 9Expert View Of Relief Pitching Fresco Thompson, a Dodger vice-president in excellent standing, largely blames major league managers for the break- down in relief pitching, "Managers," he stated bluntly, "have made (starting) pitchers relief -pitcher conscious. "In the third or fourth in- ning, if he gets in trouble, the pitcher stands out there on the rubber with one eye on the bull- pen and one eye on the hitter. If he had a third "eye," Fresco added, "chances are he'd keep that one on the manager in the dugout." It is Fresco's thesis that pit- chers this year are more afraid than ever of making a wrong pitch because he knows that to do so, more often than not, means his immediate removal from the game by his own mana- ger. Further, thinks Thompson, the categorizing of relief pitchers as early -inning, middle -inning and Iate-innng specialists is non- sense. "It is absolutely ridiculous," he declared emphatically. "Fiva years ago you didn't even hear td the 'long man' and the 'short man.' Now if your fellagets in trouble early in the game, you go to your 'long man.' On this club that would be someone like Klippstein, who you can count on to go five, six, seven innings, "Labine has been used as d short man because, w i tit that sinker, he can get out of the jam," Fresco explained. "Labine," said Fresco reck- lessly coining a phrase, "has ice water in his veins. That's what makes him such a fine relief pitcher. "Clem goes in with the atti- tude, 'I'm going to do my best and if I don't get anybody out today then maybe I'll get some- body out next time," added Fresco. "A relief pitcher," he warme.i to his subject, "has got to be a very cool sort of character. He mustn't feel the end of the world has come if he doesn't get out of a jam," Following Fresco Thompson's line of reasoning, then, cool very definitely is the word for Clem L a b i n e. During one recent stretch Clem worked in nine of the 12 games played by the Dodgers. In 15 innings he per- mitted two unearned runs. He Is credited with having saved five of those games for his teammates. While the vice-president's ad- miration for Clem Labine is sin- cere and obvious, Fresco con- tends the art of relief pitching has grown out of all proportion "Kids are running faster to- day and jumping higher," he argued, "so there is no reason why pitchers shouldn't be able to pitch longer. "I don't believe there will be "-$' two pitchers in each league who will approach 20 complete ball games this season," Fresco charged. This, the man considers a crime. In the past few years, the Dodger vice -president believes, the number of complete games has been cut by nearly 50 per cent. "Go back to the Giants under Terry," Fresco invited. "You'll ed that Hubbell, Schumacher, Parmelee and Castleman work- ed every fourth day. Not only that, but nine times Out of 10 'then finished. Our course," Fres- co winked, "with the exceptidl of Castleman those fellows were all pretty good hitting -pitchers." Give Fresco Thompson his choice and he will take the pitcher who works 300 innings, TIME OUT — Princess Margaret lights up a cigarette as she Watches a rodeo at Williams Lake, near Vancouver. season after season, o v the man w i t h a more impressive won -lost record who has pitched perhaps half as many innings. "People .are forever pointing to the number of home runs Rubin Roberts allows," Fresco snorted, "I was talking to hint about it one time. "'Robbie,' I told him, 'if You spent as much time on the rub- bing table as the other pitchers, they wouldn't hit so many home runs off you, either.'" Double Trouble Ever since her husband's fun eral, Mrs. A, a retired British schoolteacher, has been bothered by a big shadow which goes in and out with her—and which, in a terrifying way, mimics her ex- actly in voice and clothing. "It is me, split and divided," Mrs. A complained to a hospital psy- chiatrist in Bristol, England. Mrs. A's strange double is now, along with six others, the co- star of an article on autoscopic hallucination (projection of one's body image into visual space) written by Mrs. A's psychiatrist, Dr. Narcyz Lukianowicz, in the August issue of the American journal Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. Such phantoms can be impossible to shake. Even when Mrs. A closes her eyes, she "sees" her double — with its eyes closed, "In a detached, in- tellectual way, I am fully aware that my 'double' is an hallucina- tion," Mrs. A told the psy- chiatrist. "Yet I see it. I hear it. I feel it with all my senses." According t0 her doctor, Mrs. A's ailment is a rarely en- countered relative of clairvoy- ance or the imaginary playmates of children. There is no known treatment. Because some vic- tims of migraine and epilepsy also suffer from autoscopy, how- ever, the psychiatrist suggests that in some cases an organic defect—perhaps a brain injury— might be the real source of the phantom doubles. 8T'S A FOOLER — National TV is giving the country a look at a show that has fascinated Loss Angeles for some time. "Traffic Court" is a re-enactment. But it is so cleverly done that one case, when it was a local show, drew 250 phoned offers to help a defendant, plus $3,750 in cash. "Judge" is Edgar Allen Jones Jr., of a law scilcol staff. SEZ YOU! — Looks as if the hot weather has got tempers short in Brookfield zoo, At any rate, this African shoe -billed stork seems to be telling Keeper Larry Sharman where to get off. Introduction To Woods And Wilds Through chance, I had the happiness the other day of play- ing host to a Mr. and Mrs, John Paxton of New Jersey, who had never been in Maine before but were willing to learn. They said they had a good time. It was a lovely day — for a change, Warm in the sun, but a breeze off the mountains, and conditions right for .those fly hatches which keep the trout enthusiastic. So we went along the big lance and left our boat where the trail takes off to a mountain pond that shall be nameless. We walked the woods trail until we came to this pond, where I knew there were boats, We also knew nobody else was using them. There are many gustatory ex- periences in this world which. have their supporters, but there is nothing to top a feed of East- ern Brook Trout taken from the cold northern waters and slap- ped into an inch of salt pork fat at the soonest possible oppor- tunity. There are many trouts, including the salmons, but of them all the Eastern Brookie is king, queen, and speaker of the house. These that I speak of are not hatchery fish, .introduced by state conservationists, but native fish. They are descendants of those prehistoric sea -run trout who crowded up our rivers after the glacial age, and then stayed —either by choice or by chance. Up at the head of this pond is a vast cedar swamp and Logan, a jungle of roots and pools, and there these aboriginal trout have spawned since time began. They still spawn there, and their offspring feed down through the streams and ponds to stock the waters of a whole region. This pond is seldom fished, at least to the extent "scar -by sporting areas are, and accordingly is a sure-fire place to take newly coma visitors to teach them the good things of life. Along the trail, on the way up to the pond, the Paktons esk- er, "Are there any bear in here?" We had already passed several signs of bears, recently active—including a stump pound- ed to splinters by some old rauncher looking for ants. But I hadn't mentioned this, mostly because people like to hear bear stories without any pretext of believing them. "Oh, yes," I could have said. But I told them bears are nocturnal, and shy, and can outrun a deer—and it is seldom anybody sees one at large "How about deer?" We had been coming along with deer signs all around us — for eyes that could see. Moosewood tips snipped off, patches of hair on spruce bark, tracks all up and down the muddy parts of the trail. I showed them a deer "crossing"—a place like a cow path in a pasture. It had rained hard the night before, and deer prints only hours old had been punched there. The Paxtons showed interest, but naturally couldn't envision what I did—for I've seen deer crossing such places. There'll be an old buck on ahead, warily poking his antlers from the puck- erbrush and looking up and down, and after him the old doe and a fawn. They all mince across and into the forest again —silently and like shadows. If the oldboy gets wind of you he'll blow, a warning kind of deer bellow that sends every- body scampering. But the Pax - tons didn't see any deer, imagi- nary or real, that day. The pond was all ours, except for a pair of loons and a diel - drake with five ducklings, The loons kept their distance, but the sheldrakes came in close enough for us to watch them diving. And then the Paxtons experi- enced the thrill of catching their own dinner. The old jungle urges that our ancestors followed have been taken from our lives, but there is enough of the forgotten past in all of us so this experi- ence counts. You can only do a thing like this once, because having done it you become experienced, and the next time is never the same. There is that awkward cast of a beginner, like the first drive of a novice golfer or the first crayon marks of a youngster. A flyline is a beautiful thing when you have found out how it works, but it is a mean, unconquerable knot -designing device when you first try it. However, on this par- ticular day the awkward cast was just as good as the finest bit of demonstrating, old I. Walton ever did. There was a splat, and the trout was hungry enough so it didn't care if the angler were expert. It's hard to explain, some- times, why anybody keeps his trout. I told them to keep the rod tip up, but they kept the rod tip down, They didn't know if there was tension on the line or not, but they could seethe spots an the trout's side, Anyway, there was the first time, and we had enough for dinner. There is the mystery and ma- gic of kindling a fire, and a dry cedar works up nicest, I think. "Evil That Men Do Rives After Them" The havoc created by the late Senator McCarthy's sensational foray into the Army's Fort Mon- mouth Signal Corps base five years ago has at last been re- paired. Of the 33 employees suspended on security grounds by the Army in a futile and craven effort to placate the Senator, 33 have now been re- stored to their jobs. Not one of these cases had any substance. Twenty-five of Mr. McCarthy's victims were reinstated by the Army itself; two more were re- instated after they had filed suits; and on Thursday a panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held unanimously that the Army had violated its own regulations when it refused to tell the re- maining six employes why it had dismissed them as security risks. There is no way to measure the damage done by McCarthy in his Fort Monmouth adventure, not alone to the hapless indi- viduals involved but to the na- tional security as well. The Sig- nal Corps was engaged in im- portant aspects of missile re- search at Fort Monmouth, and a number of the suspended em- ployes were top experts in the research program. The Mc- Carthy charges not only took these experts out of service; It also made recruitment of scien- tists more difficult and shattered the morale of all those employed at Fort Monmouth. 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