HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-07-19, Page 7How insults Win Baseball Games
When Enos (Country) Slaugh-
ter steps up to bat in a close ball
game you can, if you listen
closely, hear the rival dugout
"go to work" on him. The voices
are shrill, the remarks pointed,
leaving little to the imagination,
because Slaughter has been mar-
ried five times.
"Here's old Marryin' Sam,"
they chorus.
Then, as Slaughter faces the
pitcher, one voice rings out over
the rest:
"What do you do with your
old wives, Tommy Manville?"
These hecklers aren't some of
Slaughter's former in-laws; nor
do they have any personal ill
feeling toward him. They simply
want to "get his goat" and this
is the best bit of information
they've got to do it with.
And the rough riders of the
diamond don't hesitate to use
the sharpest "needle" handy to
get under an opponent's skin.
It may be coarse; it may be
crude; it may even be sheer
nonsense. But whatever it is the
baseball "jockeys" will use it if
there's the slightest chance it
will shake the rival player's
concentration by making him
angry. Prime targets are players
with "rabbit ears," the guys who
"go up in smoke" when insulted
because they're overly sensitive.
But everybody in baseball gets
]ds full share.
The dugout jockey goes far
beyond the "holler" by which
a "live" bench aims at inspiring
the home team. The jockey is
simply out to get a barb into the
opposition and if he hasn't any
Insult handy, he'll make one up.
Thus the ball player must ex-
pect to run the gauntlet con-
tinually. The "needling" ranges
through his temperament, weak-
nesses, romances, unguarded
statements and particularly his
physical appearance.
Take the case of Yogi •Berra,
the Yankee catcher who is short,
squat and somewhat simian -
looking. When he was married,,
Birdie Tebbetts greeted him one
bright afternoon with:
How Can 1?
By Anne Ashley
Q. How can I test the quality
of coffee?
A. By putting a spoonful in a
glass of cold water and adding
a few drops of lemon juice. If
the coffee is pure it will remain
On top of the water; if not, the
water will become discolored.
Q. What can be done to a
worn shoe lining? .
A. If the shoe lining has worn
in places, which of course wears
out the stockings very quickly,
paste strips of adhesive tape
over the worn places.
Q. How can I remove water
spots from varnished tables or
furniture?
A. By rubbing with a cloth or
feather dipped in oil of camphor.
Q. IIoTw can I make a chicken,
or turkey, white, juicy and ten-
der?
A. After cleaning the fowl,
rub the inside and outside thor-
oughly with a lemon before put-
ting in the dressing. This makes
the meat white, juicy and ten-
der. Adding. a tablespoonful of
vinegar to the water when
boiling also helps to make it
tender,
Q. How can I prevent tearing
the hem of curtains with the
rod?
A. Do not starch the hem
when laundering sash curtains;
the rod can then be put in with-
out tearing. Put an old glove
Ringer or a thimble over the end
Of the rod gnd the curtain will
go on smoothly.
Q. How can I mend cracked
crockery?
A. If a cracked peice of croc-
kery is boiled in sweet milk, it
will often be restored to, use.
"Hey, Yogi, how does your
bride like living in a tree?"
It was too good to pass up and
every bench jockey in the league
grabbed it. Wherever Yogi went
other players adopted gorilla -
like poses, hung from dugout
ceilings, scratched themselves
and greeted him with Taman -
like screams. Yogi still hasn't
heard the end of it.
Pity the poor players like Carl
Furillo, Ralph Kiner, Warren
Spahn or Ralph Branca, boys
with a "schnozz." And now that
they're on the same team, Mic-
key McDermott will quit walk-
ing around on his knees in the
dugout whenever tiny Phil Riz-
zuto comes to bat.
Things promise to be just a
bit more quiet this year now
that Leo Durocher is gone. "The
Lip" could "dish it out" even
better, perhaps, than the famed
John McGraw or Jimmy Dykes.
It's quite possible, too, that
Durocher was the worst (or the
best) of all time because he
could, at times, cut like a knife,
and it kept him in trouble from
the start to the finish of his ca-
reer, writes Qscar Fraley in "The
Police Gazette."
Back in 1928, when he was
one of the freshest bushers ever
to break into the majors, Duro-
cher was playing second base
for the Yankees. New York had
clinched the pennant in the first
game of a double header, and
Leo was feeling his oats. There
were two out in the ninth. inning
of the second game and "Fatty"
Fothergill, the overstuffed De-
troit outfielder, was coming to
bat when 'Durocher dashed up
to the plate umpire.
"Stop!" he screamed. "Don't
you know it's illegal to let two
men bat at the same time?"
Fothergill tried to brain Du-
rocher with a bat, and many
have been sorry since then that
"Fatty" didn't. Two of them are
Carl Furillo of the Dodgers and
Al Rosen of the Cleveland In-
dians.
Durocher "got on" Furillo so
mercilessly, and with such un-
printable abandon, in 1953, that
they squared off in a slugging
match in which Carl suffered a
broken finger. Then, in an exhi-
bition game between the New
York Giants and the Indians last
spring, Durocher needled Cleve-
land's Al Rosen so badly that
they went at it.
"It wasn't that he
°muscles,'"
kept yel-
ling 'Show us your muscles; "
said Rosen, "it was the other
things, the dirty names, that
made me mad."
Jockeying which got out of
hand touched off a feud between
Billy Martin of the Yankees, one
of the best in the business to-
day, and Jim Piersall of the
Boston Red Sox a couple of
years back. The taunts went
from bad to worse until Piersall
finally exploded:
"You've got no guts, Martin!"
"You don't have a gut in your
whole carcass!" Billy replied.
They met under the stands
and were whaling the daylights
out of each other when finally
pulled apart.
During the last World Series'
between the Dodgers and Yan-
kees, the pugnacious and fisti-
cally-adept Martin was ready to
go at it again when Don New-
combe began riding him.
"I'm ready to take you on any
time you're ready," Martin
raged, "so put up or shut up!"
There is little jockeying done
on the color, race lir religion of
a player, though when Jackie
Robinson broke the color bar-
rier he did for a time take a lot
of bad riding. Subsequently,
when he had clinched his place
as one of the game's greatest
players, he became one of the
game's top needlers. Thus today
he stands among such heckling
artists as Martin, McDermott,
Tibbetts, Charley Grimm, Casey
Stengel, Jake Pitier, Nelson Fox,
. Chuck Dressen and Piersall.
"HOW'S SHE DOING, DOC?" — Worried boxer, "Bizzy," watches
with concern as Dr. •Robert P. Knowles, • veterinarian, demon-
strates a new -type resuscitator on her feline pal. Weighing only
17 ounces, the apparatus can substitute for much heavier con-
ventional units. Device received its initial showing before some
250 veterinarians attending a symposium on small animal
surgery.
BLUENOSE — There were two Blue-
noses in Yarmouth, N.S., when the
luxuryassenger-carferry plying be-
tween Yarmouth and Bar Harbor, Me.,
was officially introduced into service
recently. She carries 600 passengers and
150 automobiles and is a new tourist
link between New England and the
Maritime provinces. Yarmouth cele-
brated with a festival whose queen,
Mies Winnifred Grey, was suitably de-
corated by Stanley F. Dingle, vice-pre-
sident, Canadian National Railways,
which operates the service. Capt.
Richard E. Davie, master of /V
"Bluenose" is an interested spectator.
Wrestler Can Beat Fighter — Joe Louis
Joe Louis says there isn't a
boxer alive who could knock out
a topnotch wrestler such as
Verne Gagne or LueThesz, and
"that goes for Rocky Marciano,
too."
The ex -champ, who can't un-
erstand the rash of press crit -
ism over his entry into wrest-
ling, has a lot of company in
this view. Primo Carnera and
Tony Galenti agree; but Joe
Walcott is the only fighter -
turned -wrestler who doesn't.
"If a rassler rassles clean,"
says Walcott, "I'll fight any of
'em and lick 'em. Trouble is,
rasslers don't abide by the rules.
They punch and kick and they
won't stand up."
Louis put in enough time as
a wrestling referee around the
country to convince himself
-that, as a fighter, he'd never be
able to lick the good wrestlers.
"I'd have to take out a wrest-
ler with one punch," he said.
"That don't happen too often.
They stay low and keep their
chins in, and if they drop you,
you don't have a chance."
At the same time Louis ex-
plained that wrestling is a soft
touch compared with fighting.
"I'm 42 years old," he says,
"and I could rassle every night
night of the week. In fact, I
got this offer from Ray Fabini
of Philadelphia which guaran-
tees me $150,000 a year to go
on tour. But I don't want ao
rassle six, • sometimes seven
nights a week. Got too many
other businesses.
"But take the fighters. If
they fight one a month, they're
busy. They gotta be young and
full of endurance. In rasslin',
you walk around a lot. I weighed
211 as a fighter. Now I'm 240
and that's good rasslin' weight."
In the days when wrestling
was considered more of a sport
than a sideshow, you could al-
ways get an argument by sug-
gesting that a Jim Landes or
a Strangler Lewis or a Gus
Sonnenberg could lick the best
heavyweight fighters going. This
generally made the fight mob
scream "foul!"
Yet in the few instances when
wrestlers went in against figh-
ters, on the up -and -up, the
fighter never had a chance. This
was so far back as the turn of
the cenury, Once Farmer Burns,
middleweight wrestling champ,
took on Billy Papke, a great
middleweight fighter, and the
wrestler ended it all without
even getting a sweat up. On the
other hand few wrestlers ever
made much of a dent in boxing,
Frank Gotch, a great grunt -and -
groaned who fancied himself a
boxer, found out you couidn't
mix 'em one night in Dawson
City Alaska, in 1901.
Gotch was touring the ter-
ritory, taking on all comers in
wrestling bouts, when Frank
Slavin, the Australian heavy-
weight champ, challenged him
to fight. Slavin was in the lilon-
dike prospecting for nuggets of
gold.
The challenge was assepted,
winner take all. Gotch, magnifi-
cently proportioned, looked like
a lighter, He was handsome and
quick on his feet—but Slavin
knew too much. At the end of
the fourth round {notch was
bleeding from the mouth and
nose, and one eye was battered
to a closed slit, writes Herb
Goren in "The Police Gazette.
At the bell for the fifth round,
Gotch, furious over his inability
to land a solid punch, rushed
Slavin to the ropes, picked him
up and heaved him into the
tenth row. Slavin, badly shaken,
crawled back to continue the
hostilities, but the referee had
already disqualified Gotch.
l
When it was over, Slavin re-
marked: "Gotch ought to stick
to his own trade. He's the best
wrestler I ever fought with."
Maybe the same should be
said of Louis, but Joe is too
old to fight, and he could use
the wrestling dough. Besides,
as Tony Galento puts it: "You're
never too old to rassle,"
Galento, who once floored
Louis in a heavyweight title
match before Joe stopped him,
has this advice:
"Joe, you're a nice guy and
you were a great fighter. If
you're gonna rassle, better learn
the holds, Get somebody to teach
you. In two, three months, may-
be you'll learn."
This is sage advice for any-
body in any business, particu-
lary for the fighter turned wrest-
ler, Joe doesn't look so pretty
on the mat. Lots of folks say
it is beneath Louis' dignity, but
but this only gets Joe mad,"
Rudy Dusek, a big name in
wrestling, welcomed Louis into
the game,
"I'm 53 now, and I wrestled
until two years ago," 'Dusek
says. "Joe should have at least
five profitable years as a wrest-
ler. If I was him I wouldn't go
in against a Thesz or a Gagne
for a year or two, at least, but
he ought to do good against the
big, slow-moving guys. He re-
fereed a lot and should have
picked up something. And it
would be interesting to see
what a guy who can hit as hard
as Joe can do against the wrest-
lers."
Did that mean Louis could
haul off with his Sunday punch?
'Not exactly," Dusek said.
"But he is allowed to hit with
the side of the his fist. An el-
bow smash or a rabbit punch
is all part of the wrestling
game. He could chop up 'a lot of
guys"
As for Carnera, who recently
opened a bar and restaurant in
Los Angeles, he was a carnival
strong man and a continental
freak before becoming a wrest-
ler,
"Louis never wrestled before,"
he said. "This is not like boxing.
To wrestle, you must know your
way around."
As Dusek puts it: "Louis is
supposed to have made four and
a half million dollars by fight-
ing, but he got cut up so bad
he wound up owing the govern-
ment a million bucks in taxes.
In wrestling he won't get cut up
14 different ways."
Dusek, like all wrestlers,
thinks it would be a joke for
any fighter to come into the
ring with gloves on and try to
stop a wrestler.
"It's been tried many times,
and always the fighter never
had a chance. Like Louis says,
the fighter would have to end
it with one punch. Once the
wrestler crowded in, the fighter
would be a dead duck."
There was a funny sequel to
Louis' fust wrestling match with
Cowboy Rocky Lee. Third man
in the ring was Joe Walcott.
Lee took exception to the way
Walcott handled the match,
called him a cheese champ and
snowed him under with insults.
"Cowboy," said Walcott, "If
you think I couldn't fight, you're
welcome to take me on any
night in the week."
That's the way Walcott tells
it, and a week later they were
thrown in together, with gloves
on in Baltimore.
"In the first round," said Wal-
cott, "1 showed Lee a little of
the technique that brought me
the heavyweight championship.
I just wanted to tease him a.,
little bit. In the next round I
knocked him out. I don't like
rasslers nohow. They're all
musclebound, and they can't
fight a lick, and I think if they
rassled according to the rules,.
I could stop any one of them
by fighting."
That's Walcott's story, but his
version of the rules may not
necessarily be right. Louis could
be just as vigorous in defence
o'% boxing, particularly since he
still draws $20,000 a year from
the International Boxing Club
as a so-called ambassador of the
game, but he just doesn't be-
lieve that any fighter has a
chance against a wrestler.
"You could throw in Marciano
against any real good wrestler,"
says Louis, "and say: 'Rocky, do
you want to fight with gloves
or without gloves. Take your
choice'. It won't matter. The
rassler, he comes in real low,
and he's on you quick, and you
don't have a chance."
Joe paused, then added:
"A fighter's got no more
chance than a man in a man -
wife argument. The man always
loses."
U.S. Guided Missile
Travels 2000 Miles
The United. States has suc-
ceeded in squirting a guided
missile 2,000 miles over the
ocean.
The record-breaking flight —
for a Western nation at least
— was revealed in one of a
series of announcements of
United States progress in rocket
bomb warfare.
The intercontinental weapon,
a Northrop "Snark," flew 2,000
miles over the Carribean from
a launching base in Florida. Jet
engined, and flying at only
about the speed of sound, it was
in effect a pilotless bomber.
The American defence de-
partment promptly announced
however that the Snark is to be
superseded soon by an inter-
continental missile of longer
range. This, it is believed,
would be a rocket -powered
bomb which would fly above the
atmosphere and descend upon
Its target at high speed — prob-
ably twice the speed of sound
at least.
In the field of short-range
guided missiles, the Americans
announced an "exceptionally
high" degree of reliability in its
Petrel guided missile which
arms aircraft.
The Petrel, which seeks out
its target by radar and homes
on it, can be used in air -to -
ground or air -to -submarine
combat.
"Launched by patrol aircraft
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target's air defence, the missile
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"Use of the new missile thus
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