HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-04-24, Page 6THE Ca vt t SPORTS COLUMN
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This is the third and lost of a series dealing
with unusual Stanley Cup incidents.
M One of the boasts concerning play for
Canada's premier hockey prize, the Stanley
Cup, is that only nature, or death, ever
halted the play, This, like many other
claims made in sport, is not correct,
Nature halted the play in the nineties, when for two years,
there was no ice available at the finish of the season. Death
abruptly stepped into the Cup picture in 1919, when the Montreal
:9P�^ cttpnlntnne of +t n e^'r tnvaa-t CP-«' a «o play the
Metropolitans for the Cup. Five games had been played, each team
on two, with one tied, when the black 'flu, which scourged
the continent and left hundreds of dead in its wake, hit both clubs.
Nearly every player was stricken, one died, Joe Hall succumbing,
and that series never was completed.
But back in the misty past, in 1899, to be exact, there was an
unfinished series, and viewed in 'retrospect, this fiasco has its
humorous overtones, though doubtless there was nothing funny
about it at the time.
Champions of the east were the ]Montreal Victories, represent-
ing one of the greatest truly -amateur clubs in Canadian sports
history, an organization which disbanded in the thirties, when the
press of professionalism became too great. The club refused to
sacrifice its standards, and closed down completely. Champions
of the west were the Winnipeg Victories, a great team, and also
completely amateur, -
These two Victories teams had fought out a grim battle in
1896, each winning a series. In 1897, the Montreal Victories again
won the Cup, defeating Ottawa, there were no Cup matches in
1898, but in 1899, the all -Victoria rivalry flared again, as the two
teams met on Montreal ice, best two out of three games.
The Montreal team won the first, 2-1, in a rugged contest.
The second was tied at 3 -all, when the series suddenly collapsed.
Tony Gingras, Winnipeg star, was crashed across the knee
by a Montreal player, and limped off the ice. No replacement was
allowed in those hardy days, unless it was proven that an ,injured
player was unable to continue. The argument concerning Gingras'
fitness to play, raged hot and heavy. The debate grew stormy, and
the referee, Jack Findlay, came in for such sharp criticism that
he doffed los skates, left the building, and went home,
So when the teams 'finally agreed to play, there was no
referee. A rink executive hastily summoned horse and sleigh, drove
to the referee's home, found him in bed, urged him to return and
carry on, and the official consented. He donned his skates and
sweater. But the walls were thin in the building. He was in
between the two teams, and heard both denouncing him in terms
of a torrid nature. So he tramped out of the room, lumped on the
ice, skated right out of the rink. And this time, he refused to
return.
So the game was called off, for lack of a referee, and then the
entire series was abandoned, and the Winnipeg team returned
home.
But the western club wasn't done as Cup contenders. The
great Montreal Shamrock team ousted Montreal Victories as Cup
champions, and in 1900 downed Winnipeg Victorias. But the
battling westerners won the trophy in 1901 and 1902 in eastern
invasions, then vanished, as a team, from the Cup picture.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
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Anybody visiting a baseball
training camp these days and ex-
pecting to find it crawling with
the sort of colorful characters that
Ring Lardner immortalized in his
"Letters of a Busher," is in for a
big disappointment, There always
will be, of course, the odd cut-up
and Smart Alec in any gathering
of robust young men but, taking
them by and large—whatever that
means—your modern beginning
baseballer is far from being as
picturesque as Jack Keefe or Alibi
Ike.
a *
Which makes it, naturally, a
whole lot easier on today's coaches
and managers, but a lot harder
for the baseball scribe with space
to fill on his paper back home, and
nothing much to write about of any
great interest. Gilbert Millstein
recently visited the New York
Giants down at Phoenix, Arizona,
and here, in part, is what he had
to say about what he saw there, as
reported in The New York Sun-
day Times:
* * *
"I've got just about four train-
ing rules," remarked Leo Duro-
cher, the Giants' manager. ''In
bed by 12; morning call at 7.30;
no whiskey drinking; if a man wants
to stay out past midnight he's got
to ask permission. I haven't refused
it yet. One thing 1 don't want
on my club is a stoolpigcon. if
I think you're doing something on
me, I'll take care of it myself. I'll
sit up all night in the lobby. I'll
guard the door and when you walk
in I'll hand you a slip—maybe for
a $200 fine—and you can't look
around and say, 'Who told you?'
I caught you. I haven't lined a guy
in years—never on the Giants.
* *
"When you get a real bad actor,
you're better off getting rid of
him than fining hits. Let someone
else have the headaches. 'Times
have changed, anyway. You don't
have that other -type player coming
up. These kids are younger, In the
old days, you didn't pay too much
attention to a ballplayer's outside
activities. Today, with the farm
system, he learns from the begin-
ning what the parent club wantsa
from hint and be comes up that
EVERYBODY HAS PROBLEMS these days but to pretty Mary Mason,
shown with a firm grip on her new Canadian National Railways gift
certifieate, none as enjoyable or important as where to go for a vacation.
Helping Mary choose a tri from a map of North America is her equally
pretty eliom, Joan Snyder. The gift certificate for rail travel anywhere was
'loeigned and introduced by the C.N.R. and is available at ticket offices
across the system. Senders may also have the certificates cover sleeping
accommodation. and meals on trains and include ppocketmoney as well as
railway fare, They are readily exchangeable at ticket offices as full or part
6yment for rail travel anywhere.
A i Together Now—Everyone gets into the act as these lads pre-
pare to break the tape together in the 880 -yard event during an
Oxford -Cambridge meet at London's White City stadium. Finish
time for the stick -together collegians was one minute, 56.6 seconds
way. You get a yearly report, not
only on bis playing, but his back-
ground, his married life, his per-
sonal life, everything. In the old
days, all you had to do was manage
a club, pick out your players and
get the captain to hand the line-up
to the umpire."
* * *
A gond deal of dispute has been
generated lately, principally by
the great Ty Cobb, over the ability
and conditioning of latter-day ball-
players. They way the Giants run
their camp is about as good an
. example of how things are done
these days as any. Because pit-
chers naturally depend on their
throwing arms more than the other
artisans, Durocher got about - 15
of them nut to Phoenix, together
with four catchers, a week before
the rest of the squad showed . up,
This is standard procednre in bath
major leagues. At (east one argu-
ment in favor of she 1952 ball-
player appears to he that he does
not, as a rule, start training as
bloated as some of his predeces-
Sors. The daily weight chart kept
by Frank J. (Dos) Bowman, the
club trainer, showed no more than
a four -pound weight loss in any
member of .the squad over a three-
week period. "They don't get o17
the pavement like they used to,"
said Rowntan, a small, earnest man.
"They get here in fairly good
condition."
In their first couple of days
the rest of the squad didn't do
much more than run, throw tenta-
tively, chase Ay balls and play
pepper. Infield and outfield drill
and batting practice started two
days later, This included rookies.
In the old days, as Freddy Fitz-
simmons, one of the three Giant
coaches, and a fine knucklehall
pitcher in his time, observed, a
rookie had to fight the regulars
for a turn in the batting cage.
* * *
"There were five of six guys
around ready to kill hint if he
pinked up a bat," Fitzsimmons re-
called, "and they either told you
nothing or they told you something
once and that was the works. I re-
member when I was with Muske-
gon, a B club up in lelichigan, and
they had a pitcher there with a
pretty good curve. I already had
the knuckler. I asked him how he
held it for the curve. f didn,t
get any answer. So I moved
around hint to get a look at it.
and hell, he was covering it tip with
his glove,
"Now wehavebaseball schools,
clinics, seminars, what .not. The
kids get everything it took us 20
years to learn on our own, They're
accepted. 'They know it and (hey
know (10 Olte'S going to get on 'em
and ride 'erit. Leo drives the guys
in. a playing way. He makes it d
challenge and they get some 11111
out of it. We have one workout
a day. Used to be there mere
two. It figured when you had two
the guys were goingto loaf through
one of them."
'thirty y ears or n0 age rookies
were hazed with precision. Their
shoes and sacks were sometimes
nailed down to the locker -room
floor, They were made to clean
spikes, carry hats anti advised,
when mailing letters, to Make stir,
whether they wanted an east-
bound or a westbound stamp. They
were taken on snipe hunts at
night, which consisted mostly of
being It'd into a forest by a num-
ber of veterans with a flashlight
and an empty burlap bag, told to
wait for the appearance of the
snipe, and hien deserted.
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COME FOR A SPIN?
Young pitchers travelling on
Pullmans were informed that they
would have to rest their arms
in the shoe hammock in their
berths. The late John McGraw is
believed to have originated this rib.
This troubled one pitcher, who in-
formed his mentor that he was a
left-hander and that )he might have
some difficulty getting to sleep.
Some rookies, but only a few, were
led to believe that it was proper
to tip' elevator boys. Ballplayers
may have been more naive years
ago, hut they have always been
cautious.
* r *
Today a ballplayer's psyche is
nursed at least as carefully as his
arms and legs, and the treatment
now and then includes such items
as a $100,000 bonus for signing
With a teals. "Kid comes into ramp
with a bundle like that," ohsei`ved
one of the Giant officials, "plus a
canary -yellow Cadillac -to match
his bush jacket, who's gonna -mess
With him? That's property." -
*
Nobody gets cash 'for his food.
"'i'hat way," said one nun cotlnect-
ed with the club, "you don't have
'Cin cutting around corners eating
bandnirgers- and doughnut:." The
players have been instructed, in-
formally, to tip a quarter at break-
fast and lunch and a half dollar
at (linner. One rookie admit ted he
had managed to save enough to
bus, clothes out of his $25 a week.
A i•onple of others an their first
day in the hotel ate right down
the. menu, running up a tab of
about $1.5 apiece, including a pair
of $2 pectin T?elbns., "We had to
set these kids straight," said the
club man, "Horace Stoneham the
president of the club) doesn't mind
if they go over the seven bucks
;i day but the way it looked. these
1traeters didn't rat all Hinter.
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