HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-07-23, Page 7SP/OR
Comparing athletes of bygone
eras with those of today is a fav-
orite ---and useless—sports pas-
time. Personally, we generally
put in with those who say that
there never was a ball -player to
compare with Ty Cobb, a fighter
who was as good as Jaeis John-
son, and all like that.
* M *
But when it comes to golf
well, you younger fry can take
a double order of back -patting
Little Ben Mogan is undoubtedly
the finest exponent of cow -pas-
ture pool that ever dug a divot
and a lot of aqua-not-so-pura is
liable to run through the St,
Lawrence Waterway ei'e his,
equal comes along.
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When golfers discuss Ben
Hogan, the question they ask
most is; "Is he human?"
Many of them are convinced
he isn't. They gave up long ago
trying to win tournaments in
Which the "Little Man" is enter-
ed. * *
They call him "The Little
Man" with respect and awe. The
Scots at Carnoustie who watched
him win the British open last
week, on his first try, have their
Own name for his; "The Wee Ice
Man."
"He's the only' golfer in the
world I'm scared of," once said
Lloyd Mangrum.
* :k *
"l'll never win an open until
he retires," said Sam Snead,
runner-up for the fourth time
this year at Oakmont as Hogan
won his fourth crown,
On the golf course, Hogan re-
minds you of a tailor weaving
a dark cloak of defeat for his
victims.
* * r
He Is grim and tight-lipped.
He never sees anything or any-
body, they say, except the fair-
way and the pin. You can almost
see the wheels grinding away in
his head as he makes shot after
shot with unbelievable precision,
* * *
"Golf," said Hogan after win-
ning the Masters this spring with
a record score of 274, "is 20 per
"-•••' cent skill and 80 per cent man-
agement" * * *
There are several golfers with
the skill of Hogan. None can
match his management.
Whereas most golfers are hit-
ters, Hogan is a fitter. He puts
the ball exactly where he wants
it to make his next shot easier.
In that respect he is like a fine
billiards player.
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What distinguishes Hogan from
other golfers of the era? A won't -
be -licked spirit and unmatched
concentration.
In 1949, he was almost killed
in an automobile -bus accident
which left his legs badly injured.
-Some said then he might never
walk again, much less play.
But a year later he came back.
Playing on legs which had' to
be strapped up at night, he won
second National Open in
1950. Then in the spring of 1951
he won the Masters, and later
the Open again.
* *
Hogan doesn't talk much but
when he does it's not like tink-
ling cymbals or sounding brass.
Every word—like every golf shot
—is to the point and has a pur-
pose. * :r *
There are some who have
found Hogan cold, He isn't at
all. He is one of the nicest and
most considerate of all tourna-
ment golfers. He never "blows
off," as the expression goef.
* * ,g
Perhaps he was a bit hard to
approach or understand before
his automobile accident. If so, it
might have been attributable to
his rough early life. He and his
brother ' quit school as children
to support a fatherless family.
He found life hard and he met
it the same way.
He mellowed a lot after the
accident, "I found the world was
hill of nice people," he said af-
terwards. * *
Hogan's victory in the British
Open followed a familiar pat-
tern. He opened back in the pack
and then finished with a spectac-
ular rush. That's the way he's
won most of his tournaments—
a great, pressure windup.
* * *
They say if he needed a 60
to win at Carnoustie, by some
means he would have got it.
Personally, we haven't a bit of
doubt that he could,
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Have a yen to go driving in
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Thursday morning as the safest
hours of the week Your chances
Of having an accident in elear
weather are 21/2 to 1 over that
Of having trouble in bad
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these facts into account and still
get caught in an accident, it
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in good mechanical condition,
On The Glory Road -75,000 Strang --Above is a dramatic picture of the Cotton Bowl, packed with
75,000 people who -came to hear Billy Graham, world-famous evangelist. It was called the
largest single evangelistic audience in church history. The most dramatic moment came when
the 34 -year-old preacher asked that all stadium lights be extinguished. Each person struck a
match, and the stadium was once again alight. Graham then asked the people to pray that
the 'flame of freedom will burn forever throughout the world.
e Cornered he Yferket
In Model -L ford Cars
The weather-beaten little sign,
banging above an otherwise un-
distinguished door, stated with
wistful candor: Spare Parts Fel
Model T Ford.
A scrawled arrow pointed to-
ward a stairway leading 'down
into a basement. I followed the
direction, thinking that any man
who had spare parts for the
Model T would also hem un-
limited spare time. As .1 went
down the steps T remembered
vaguely that the last Model T
Ford had come off the produc-
tion line in 1927. From the be-
ginning in 1908 to that date,
Henry Ford had produced 15,-
000,000 automobiles.
My curiosity was aroused. I
wanted to see a man who could
make a business out of parts for
a car, now seldom seen, and
which had been out of produc-
tion for nearly a quarter century
writes Ed Wallace in "Pageant"
Magazine.
What I discovered in that
musty basement, beneath an old
house at 1322 Myrtle Avenue
in the Ridgewood section of
Brooklyn, were the last vestiges
of an American era and an 80 -
year -old man, who assured me
with an elfish grin that the busi-
ness kept him hopping like a
cranberry merchant. William
Scharff then cleared up for me
just how busy a cranberry sell-
er is supposed to be.
He picked up a pile of orders,
20 or more, and said they had
all come with the morning mail.
He explained that he would be
busy all day filling the orders
from his stock and would come
back after supper to wrap and
address the packages.
Piled on the floor around him
and hanging on frames over his
head were dozens of clincher
rims, probably the most cursed
piece of automotive equipment
in history and certainly the most
cantankerous part of the old
Ford. Completely lining the
walls were row upon row of
boxes filled with bushings and
bearing, gaskets and gears and
hundreds of other motor parts
which made the Model T the go -
ingest little bit of machinery that
ever rattled along country lanes
and city pavements of America.
On a high shelf were scores of
old headlights, and just below
them were as many red -eyed
kerosene burning tail lamps, all
very old but still glossy black
and unused.
Mr. Scharff leafed through the
day's orders. A man in St. Jo-
seph, Missouri, urged him to
rush out a set of brake shoes for
Model T of vintage 1915. A doc-
tor in a little Virginia town had
written in the most hopeful tone.
asking if Mr. Scharff could sup-
ply him with radiator for a Ford
he had been driving since 1917.
From Little Rock came a long
Let Me See—When Paul Delaney,
four•and-a-half months old,
donned glasses, he wasn't kid-
ding—he's wearing them on his
doctor's orders. He is the young-
est wearer of glasses in the his-
tory of the Massachusetts Eye &
Ear Infirmary,
chatty letter from an old cus-
tomer, asking Mr. Scharff for
ideas on how to get hot rad
speed from a Model T.
"Way back yonder, when i
was still pretty much of a young
fellow, the Ford came along and
put me out of business." Mr
Scharff said. "My father and 1
used to sell buggies and harness
in this same neighborhood. Then
the Ford cane along. We hadto
give up. Funny, now that I'm
80 the same Ford has given me
a business,"
Ile explained how it came
about, and probably Henry Ford
himself never played a longer
nor a smarter hunch. When the
Model T was discontinued Mr.
Schraff began buying up stocks
of spare parts. Ford agencies and
parts dealers were amused and
delighted to find somebody to
buy their tons of obsolete stock.
Mr. Scharff cached it away in
nooks and corners and waited.
For 10 years the Ford com-
pany continued to supply parts,
but that did not worry Mr
Scharff. He kept buying where -
ever he found old parts. He
watched the new Model "A"
come, and he saw it go. Then the
modern Ford appeared on the
scene, but the search for Model
T parts continued. Occasionally
in some old warehouse he would
come across a hundred steering
wheels and a few dozen ignition
switches, a pile of magneto box-
es and coils. He bought them and
put them away. Orders began to
come in for a steering wheel, a
radius rod,' clamps and springs,
a clincher rim and other such
odds and ends.
Once in awhile, along with the
small orders, he would get a let-
ter from a junk dealer or some
person tearing down an old ga-
rage, asking coyly if Mr. Scharff
wanted to buy a batch of parts.
Playing it just as coyly, he
bought the stock and let the
sellers think they were putting
one over on the old man. At the -
same time more and more orders
were arriving at his basement,
All over the country Model T
owners were learning about him,
and just in time since even the
hardiest of the old cars had be-
gun to break parts like buttons
popping from an old shirt Local
supplies had become exhausted
and one man in a Brooklyn base-
ment had gained great impor-
tance for an old guard of auto-
ist who had absolutely refused
to give up Ford's basic formula
for transportation,
From such odd sources of sup-
ply there are intriguing prob-
lems of supply and demand. Just
now Mr.Scharff ishard pressed
to find even a few ignition
switches for the cars built be-
tween 1909 and 1912, but from
somewhere, now forgotten in an
old store room or loft, he is sure
that more switches will turn up.
There is seldom a week that
Mr. Scharff does not have vi-
sitors from across the country,
people having other business in
New York, who come to see his
strange treasury and buy parts
they have been seeking.
"They're the most grateful
people in the world, the ones
who find a part that will put
their T back on the road," he
said, "I've had wealthy 'fellows
who buy new Cadillacs every
year, shake my hand and thank
me for running this business,
They think more of their Model
T than the Cadillac,"
Mr. Scharff has hundreds of
letters expressing gratitude, but
there is one short telegram
which he keeps handy to show
all visitors,
The telegram asks; "Can you
supply carburetor for 1915 Model
T." It is signed: Ford Motor Co,.
Detroit, Michigan.
"NOW there's something a man
can be proud of," Mr. Scharff
says, "They made fifteen million
Model T's, and now they come
to inc for a carburetor. I guess
that Ought to prove where I
stand,"
In Baselball, Peanuts
Are Big Business
In baseball today, peanuts are
big business,
"The ball club that doesn't have
concessions just doesn't make
money," said Danny Goodman,
self-styled 'peanut man' of the -
Hollywood baseball park and
longtime field manager of en-
terprises in Jacobs Bros., far-
flung concessions empire.
Many Items
By 'concessions' are meant bill-
board and scoreboard advertis-
ing, seat cushion sales, souvenirs,
food and drink staples and so on.
Last year, according to Goodman,
the Pittsburgh Pirates realized
$130,000 from scoreboard adver-
tising alone. At the Hollywood
Park, total concessions from
baseball totalled some $250,000,
writes Frank Waldman in The
Christian Science Monitor
"Concessions have changed a
lot since the old days," Good-
man remarked sadly. "We used
to make more money selling hot
dogs at 10 cents a piece than we
do now for 25 cents. Nowadays
fence advertising and programs
make the difference between pro-
fit and loss.
The Baseball Hall of Fame has
not yet gotten around to accord-
ing Danny Goodman the recog-
nition he deserves for his part
in one of baseball's most notori-
ous World Ser'ie$. In the 1934
Series between the Cardinals and
Tigers, Danny ran concessions in
the bleachers at the Detroit park.
Goodman's field kitchen thus sup-
plied ammunition for the famed
"vegetable" barrage that Tiger
fans unloosed upon the person of
St. Louis outfielder Joe Med-
wick.
Small Pies
"I had 5,000 small pies on
hand," Goodman recalled. "Most
of them the fans threw at Med-
wick, That was a good Series
from a concessions point of view,"
Danny related happily. "People
were in the park and eating by
nine o'clock in the morning. We
even had good weather."
The Detroit portion of the
Series launched Goodman off on
one of the most famous non-stop
missions in concessions history.
Because of his labors during that
one, hectic week, Danny stands
today as kind of an "Iron Man"
McGinnity of t h e con':essions
business.
"As I remember," Danny said,
"The Series ended on a Thursday.
That night, I hopped a plane to
Pittsburgh f or a Friday night
football game Duquesne had at
Forbes Field. I went to work
there before checking into my
hotel. After working the game
I helped move all of our equip-
ment up to Pitt Stadium for the
Pitt -Minnesota game Saturday
afternoon. Mind, all of this time
I hadn't even been to bed.
No Comparison
"We finished work around 1
o'clock in the morning. A couple
of times I fell asleep standing up.
Sunday morning we hauled all
our stuff back to Forbes Field
for an exhibition baseball game
that afternoon between the Dean
brothers and Satchel Paige,"
Gruelling as was that experi-
ence, it cannot compare with
Danny Goodman's private July
4th in Baltimore during the
otherwise celebrated year 2f 1929.
"I was in charge of the Read-
ing, Pa„ ball park at the thne
Jacobs' brothers used to bring in
all of their men from a 200 -mile
radius to work the big Fourth of
July parade in Baltimore They
used to plan it just like a mili-
tary campaign. Over 250,000 peo-
ple used to come in for Inc par-
ade,
"On this particular Fourth I'm
in charge of a pdpsickle truck,
sTo p birc
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a fellow, a hot dog man, has his
truck parked next to me and all
morning he's burning charcoal to
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•
Cozy Fire
Inevitably Baltimore heat and
the cozy charcoal fire combined
to play a scurrilous trick on the
trusting Goodman.
"When I went to open my
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t0 my vendors," Danny related,
"a flood of melted ice cream
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HIT THE DIRT!
Moose McCormick, the famous
old right -fielder of the New York
Giants, left his present post at
Lafayette College to take in a
horse race. He had sworn to him-
self that he would do no betting
that afternoon, but he'd always
been tempted by long shots and
when he saw one horse quoted
at 100 to one, he couldn't re-
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nose. The nag gave hint a won-
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led, as a matter of fact, right
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hundred yards, however, the
favorite came up fast and pull.
ed into the lead. As the horses
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"Junior! What did 1 tell you
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ISSUE 30 — 1953
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