The Seaforth News, 1955-04-21, Page 7fNECalvert SPORTS COLUMN
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THE SHA'UGHNESSIt STORK — Fart 2
• When Frank Joseph Shaughnessy was
fired as manager of Montreal Royals in
the International Baseball League i.n 1936,
it could, in a sense, be written down as
the most • fortunate thing that ever hap-
pened in sport to this soldier of athletic
fortune.
It was certainly fortunate for the League. , A few months
later he was namecl President of that body. And, as it de-
veloped, only the iron will and resource of Shaughnessy held
the second -oldest baseball league in the world together as an
eight -club organization for the start of its 72nd campaign this
week.
As told in the first of these two tabloid sketches, two real
pillars of the International, Newark and Jersey City, suddenly
collapsed in 1950 and 1951, respectively. Ottawa and Spring-
field replaced these and so, until 1953, the League remained
intact. Then storm -clouds gathered again, Chicago Cubs of
the National League withdrew their support from the Spring-
field venture. Baltimore, which had been in and out of the
International almost from its inception, had a chance to re-
turn to the majors. Shaughnessy was left with six clubs.
This was a crisis. Sources had seemingly been tapped
dry, There was nothing left from which to draw. At least
that's the way it looked to everybody—except Co Shaughnessy.
The big Irisiunan's vision ranged south, far beyond the
poisonous bounds of television. If Grant could take Rich-
mond, he mused, so could Shaughnessy. So Shaughnessy took
Richmond, inveigled that city into the International League
fold,
But he still had a vacancy in his loop. Here a favoring
Fate stepped in to aid the harried leader. .A letter from
Havana, sought conditions for an International League fran-
chise. And so in December, a solid-looking. Havana citizen
named Bobby Maduro appeared at a meeting in Montreal and
offered to flay the freight for all teams travelling to Havana
south of Richmond, Havana, colourful capital of Cuba, was
welcomed with open arms, The International was eight -club
again.
And so it starts the 1955 campaign. At the helm the tough
old guy who refused to accept defeat, who had kept the League
financial!y alive with the play-off plan, and a Class AAA orga-
nization, by his ability to find new territory.
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est Stick -Handier
Of All Time
This generation probably has
never heard of Frank McGee.
But to many oldtimers, he is
the greatest hockey stick -handler
who ever carried a puck down
the ice. And his story is a grand
one.
Frank McGee came from an
illustrious and wealthy Canadian
family deeply steeped in troll -
ton. He was a wild kid, gay
land carefree, He played hockey
against his family's wishes, and
played it with reckless and devil-
may-care abandon, beginning as
a student at the University of
Ottawa and continuing as a pro-
fessional star.
One day his team tangled with
... title rough and bruising outfit
from Montreal known as the
Wanderers. Toughest of them all
was Pokey Leahy, and Frank
McGee found himself playing
apposite this star of the Wander-
ers. Before the game was many
minutes old, the tough Pokey
Leahy smashed into Frankie and
the kid. went down, bruised and
bleeding. He was carried off the
ice, minus a left eye.
Frankie McGee recovered in
time, and returned to the hockey
wars. He didn't talk much about
Isis accident. But he did say
once, "We'll meet again some
day and I'll pay him back for
what he did!"
In spite of the loss of an eye,
Frankie McGee, in the years that
followed, became hockey's most
sensational star. They called him
the "Otawa Comet." In one Stan-
ley Cup game, Frankie scored
fourteen goals against Dawson
City. Another time he scored
four goals unassisted in 64 sec-
onds! And in 1905, handicapped
by a steel -braced broken wrist,
he scored the tying and winning
goals for Ottawa in the Stanley
Cup!
Then came the night that
Frankie McGee's path again
crossed that of Pokey Leahy.
They faced each other several
years after the tragic accident
that had cost the "Ottawa Com-
et" his eye. As the game was
about to start, Frankie glided
over to Pokey and softly said,
"Pokey, I'm paying an old debt
tonight, And I'm going to do it
on your own ice and before your
own crowd."
"You try it," growled Pokey,
Band I'll knock your other eye
outl"
The game was but a few sec-
onds old when McGee came roar-
ing down towards Pokey Leahy.
There was a terrific crash. Pokey
went down. They had to carry
him off the ice. And never again
did he lace on skates to play
hockey!
When the first World War
cane, Frankie McGee got into
the army by having a friend en-
list for him under his name.
And in spite of being partially
blind, Frankie went up in the
ranks from buck private to cap-
tain. On a tragic night during
the winter of 1916, an enemy
shell wrote finis to the life -story
of Frank McGee. He died as he
had lived, a hero.
WENT TOO FAR
Tommy .was ,showing off his
new bicycle. He went up the
road, and on coming back shout-.
ed: "Look, Mummy—no hands!"
"Be careful, Tommy!" said
his mother. "You'll hurt your-
self."
Tommy laughed and cycled
up the road again. When he
next appeared he called out;
"Look, Mummy no feet!"
"Oh, be careful, Tommy!" re-
peated his mother.
Again Tommy went off up
the road, and it was some time
before he reappeared. When he
did, he called out, not quite so
cheerily, "Look, Mummy—no
teethe"
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To Portray 'Lone Eagle' on Screen
Slow -talking Jimmy Stewart, left, will portray Charles Lind-
bergh, right, in the film production of "The Spirit of 5t. Louis: °
Stewart, an Air Force colonel and pilot during World War I1, will
dramatize Lindbergh's 1927 solo flight across the Mantle.
TOEING THE LINE—Touch this monument in Quito, Equador, and
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It's located at precise point where equator crosses longitude
0-0-0.
Odds and Ends
About Sport
He was a stockey little fel-
low roaming the professional
basketball courts some twenty-
five years ago, an amazing shot,
an excellent floorman and a
fine all-around player, While he
played with a semi -pro basket-
ball team in New Jersey, his
name was Francis Crittell, As a
basketball player, he was a very
serious young man. He might
have had a great future in the
game, but he went on the stage
instead. Today he is the world
-
f am o u s comedian of stage,
screen and radio, the lovable
clown, Lou Costello.
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Fred Astaire, famous actor and
dancer, was good enough as a
ballplayer to play with a semi-
pro team.
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As a young girl she wanted
to become a professional bicycle
rider. One day she ran into a
tree and was madly injured. She
might have become an invalid
for life, but she was inspired by
the heroic comeback story of
President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. She learned to swim,
regained use of her injured
body, won a girls' swimming
championship. Today she is the
lovely movie star, June Allyson.
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A youngster, who was a good
enough diver and swimmer to
be considered as Olympic ma-
terial, gave up the sport when
he was injured during a diving
exhibition, and went on to be-
come the tough guy of the
movies, Alan Ladd,
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There was an amateur fighter
in Cleveland some year ago
named Packey East. He didn't
last long in the ring. As a fight-
er he was a joke, but today he's
a man of many jokes, the
world's most famous comic Bob
Hope.
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Gene Kelly was a promising
boxer before he decided to be-
come a dancer.
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At Gonzaga College, he was a
basketball star and a swimming
champ. Later, he managed a
girl's softball team and a prize-
fight. Today he is an excellent
golfer and a noted turf sports-
man, His name—Bing Crosby.
• • •
His hobby is racing speed-
boats, but his trade is to make
the sweetest music this side of
Heaven. That's Guy Lombardo.
o • :.
The beautifi l Jinx Falkenberg
was not only the ,swimming
champion, of Chile, at the age
of 12, but is a good enough ten-
nis player to give the best wo-
men players in the world, a
battle.
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Another fine tennis player is
little Mickey Rooney, who was
good enough as a boy to win
a Junior tennis championship.
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Humphrey Bogart, big bad
man of the movies, was once a
school track star.
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An obscure tennis pro who
once worked at a summer resort
In the Catskills is today far bet-
ter known as the motion picture
heartthrob, Van Johnson.
e
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W. C. Fields, the late famous
movie star, was so expert a
pocket billiards player that he
was matched with Ralph Green-
leaf, world's champion, And it
waa because et his amazing trick
billiard shots that W. C. Fields
was able to make his first stage
appearance in his now world-
famous rubber cue act.
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If you ever see the glamorous
Ingrid Bergman of the movies
on skis, it's no double. She is
really that good, since she be-
came an expert skiier in he na-
tive Sweden.
• • •
There's a legend that Greta
Garbo was once a champion
awlmmer in Sweden, and that
it was through her swimming
ability that she got her first job
as a model. It was ae a model
that she attracted the attention
that brought her eventually to
her fabulous screen career.
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Freddie Steele, former middle-
weight champion of the world,
has punched out for himself a
new career as a brilliant motion
picture actor.
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At Yale, he was famous for his
booming kicks against Harvard.
Now he is famous the world
over as the he-man hero of the
screen, Sonny Tufts.
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This handsome young Irish-
man was a member of the Irish
boxing team in the 1928 Olym-
pic games. Then, with a small
schooner, he carried goods to
the South Seas until his boat
was wrecked. He went to New
Guinea for gold and stayed to
keep order with his fists among
the natives. While out pearl -
fishing one day, a movie com-
pany hired his boat for a trip
through the islands. They no-
ticed what a fine handsome chap
the skipper was. So they hired
him to play the lead in a pic-
ture called Captain Blood. And
he became such a sensation that
he's been in the films ever since
—Errol Flynn.
Reunited After
Teaty-six Years
If amateur musician Jean
Engers hadn't composed a love
song to celebrate his wedding
in June, 1914, it is most unlikely
that he would ever again have
been reunited to his lovely wife,
torn from him by the turmoil of
war. Nor could he have learned
even that she was still alive.
Jean Engers was so overcome
with happiness at winning the
adorably lovely Helene that he
composed his love song on their
wedding evening. They sang it
together, and vowed always to
love one another.
Then came the first great war.
When the Kaiser's hordes in-
vaded Belgium, M. .Engers de-
cided that Brussels would soon
be an unhealthy spot. So he Ms -
patched Helene to Paris, promis-
ing to follow in a few days
when he had done. what he
could to protect the grocer's
shop he ownea,
But the Germans came too
quickly. Capturing Brussels,
they proceeded with customary
efficiency to round up all sus-
pects. Among them was Jean
Engers, denounced by neigh-
bouring spies as being violently
anti -German He was thrown
into prison, and had hardly
found time to consider his un-
happy fate when news came to
him that his wife had been kill-
ed while on her way t0. Paris.
For two weary years he suf-
fered the privations of prison
life, grieving, too, over the lose
.of his young wife. Then, with
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the aid of Nurse Cavell and the
Belgian Sisters of Mercy, he es-
caped.
At great risk he was snuggled
through territory full of Ger-
man troops and ultimately left
Belgium via the high- voltage
electrified wire fence which
guarded the frontiers between
Belgium and neutral Holland.
From there he worked his
passage to the United States. He
found a job and buried himself
in his work in an effort to for-
get Helene,
In time he became the com-
pany's leading representative,
and as such he was sent to his
native Belgium in 1936 to look
after the firm's interests in both
Belgium and France. He contin-
ued to prosper in his business.
But he could never forget his
beloved Helene sufficiently to
marry anyone else.
Like millions of other Euro -
peens, Jean Engers watched the
inevitable approach of another
world war with helpless dismay.
And when, in 1940, Hitler in-
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it was clear that Belgium was
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Then one day the miracle hap-
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ing to war rumours, he heard
a woman's voice singing his love
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jumped to his feet and ran tow-
ards t h e kitchen quarters
whence came the sound of a
voice he knew.
"Helen! Ilelene!" he shouted,
while other patrons looked on
in uttter astonishment.
Ill the kitchen he saw a grey-
haired woman ie her fifties, wip-
ing dishes. Her song came to a
faltering end as she saw Jean
Engers.
Yes, it was his Helene after all
those years, alive and well, if no
longer young and beautiful.
They fell into one another's
arms and those who witnessed
the tender scene of reunion
Were themsel5es brought to
tears.
Helene, too, had kept her vow,
She had been told that her hus-
band had been • killed trying to
escape from prison. Mourning
him, she had pledged herself
never ..to marry again. •
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