The Seaforth News, 1952-09-11, Page 3THE Cabal SPORTS COMP
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It's reasonably simple to understand why(
great players, in baseball and hockey, don t
always make the best coaches, or managers..
whatever they happen to be termed.
'Alis was a thought that occurred to me
after Rogers Homey was deposed as pilot
of St. Louis Browns baseball team. Hornsby,
a great player and grim fighter in his day, lost a lot of managerial
jobs, just as other great players have lost them. Just as Ty Cobb
failed as a manager of other baseball teams, just as Edouard
Newsy Lalonde, one of the smartest of all hockey players, failed
in the role of hockey manager after many attempts, three of them
with major teams.
All three of these had something ie common. They had only
one idea, to win the games in which their teams played. But
they conldn't last, as managers, because all of them were in-
tolerant of players who couldn't measure up to their own stand-
ards. The Rajah, less fiery and impatient than Cofer, could, and
did, handle the sssignrnent better than Ty. Lalonde, a great
stylist, one of the very few who scored nine goals in a major
professional hockey game, and led scorers in no less than three
major leagues at various tines—Pacific toast, National I-eague
and National Association—failed as manager of New York
Americans, Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens because be
was dedicated to 'winning hockey ganles, impatient of failure or
defeat, Lalonde couldn't understand a professional hockey player
wanting to divert from strict routine of training even at Christ-
mas. When he was piloting Americans, a player Insisted on going
]Tonle for Christmas. Stormy words developed, and Lalonde
scornfully punched the player in the eye.
Jack Dempsey never made a great fistic manager, though he
tried it. I happened to be placed very close to the Baer corner, the
night Max the Clown, entering the ring a -tremble, hia face ashen,
faced Joe Louis, then at his peal,. Dempsey was seconding Baer„
believed him to be still a great fighter. It quickly became plain
Baer wasn't going to take any more punishment than necessary;
He was counted out, resting on one knee. Said Dempsey in the
amazed tone of one who couldn't understand what be was look-
ing at: "He's quitting—Baer's quitting."
Dempsey walked away from the ringside in a bewildered.
rage, still muttering angrily: "I -Ie quit. Can you imagine that,
He gait" The game ]Mauler, who carte back to win after taking
a classically -savage heating from Jack Sharkey-, just couldn't
understand a fighter quitting.
Hornsby, Cobb, Lalonde, Dempsey, they were all cut in the
same pattern, cast in the same mould. They couldn't understand
anything less than perfection. At least, they expected profes-
sional athletes to go all-out, fighting to the bitter end, because
that was the only way they understood any one playing the game
in which they had shone.
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AMHERSTBURG, OMARIO
Jerome Herman Dean may not
have been the greatest pitcher that
ever, operated from a mound, al-
though it would be hard to name
more than three or four who could
have topped him when he was at
his best. But there was one thing
in which he excelled all others —
ffurnishing interesting copy for
bard-working(l) sports writers.
What's more, the Dizzy one is still
doing it, as witness his latest pro-
nouncements on the facts of life.
* * *
"The present day ball player,"
says Dizzy Dean, "doesn't spend'
enough time minding his` own bus -
loess.
"Ball players and their clubs
would be a heap better off these
days if they'd spend less time
'watching the scoreboard and more
time working on their own ball
game," said one of the great pitch-
ers of modern times, now a game -
of -the -day broadcaster on a nation
wide hookup. "Never mind what
the other club's doing. Just win
your own game and the future will
take care of itself.
* * *
"I can't forget several years ago
when I was pitching for the
Chicago Cubs," Dean continued.
"We were going along in fourth
place, with the Piftsburgh Pirates
leading. It looked like the Pirates
would walk in without much
trouble. So we got to figuring we
had a chance to finish second and
get a good slice of the first di-
vision money.
* * *
"Well, we Rept figuring on that
second spot," Dizzy said, smiling
"1 remember we were playing the
Giants in a series and the Pirates
were playing the Dodgers, so we
rooted like anything for Pittsburgh,
because Brooklyn was also eyeing
second place. It never occurred to
us that we shouldn't be rooting for
the league leaders,
* * *
"Web, u couple'tot weeks later
we ran smack up against the
Pirates and someone happened to
notice that we were just eight
games out of first place," the big
one-time mound ace went on, "We
were playing the Pirates four
games, so if we could sweep the
series, we'd be only four games
out. We swept it, and went on to
win the pennant. That was the year
Gabay Hartnett's home run won it
for us."
. * * *
A newspaperman told Dean that
every writer in the Wrigley Field
press box seemed to be rooting for
hint the day he pitched against the
Yankees in the World Series. He
was about through with the Cubs
then and had little more than
courage with which to battle the
American League champs, who
finally beat him.
* * *
"I'll never forget that one," Dean
said, nodding. "I slrould have tome
out if there long before I did. I
didn't have a thing. But we were
leading and Hartnett didn't want
to take me out. If someone else
went in and was beaten, they al-
ways would have said Gabby
should have left Diz in, It was just
a fast ball, right down the middle,
that Crosetti bit for his home run,
the beginning of the end for me. I
was in a hole and had to throw it
in there. He had bit me hard all
day."
Window Breaker Braked—With five broken windows to her credit,
Deborah looks wistfully at a freshly glazed pane, possibly trying
to figure a way to get at it without hurting her footsies. In order
to break Deborah of climbing on the sill and then pushing out the
grass, her owners, the Rey. and Mrs. Worman lined the sill with
Mouse (raps. As yet the glass -smashing pooch hasn't figured a
way to circumvent the traps.
TOPS
TALL
TALK—
People really
look up to
Gilbert Reichert,
above, who
claims to be
the world's
tallest man of
8 feet, 4 inches.
The 319 -pound
giant has a
normal-sized
wife and
daughter.
The team of Dizzy and Paul 'had
enjoyed great years with lite Card-
inals, * * *
"Yes," Dizzy said, smiling broad-
ly again. "We did all right. We'd
like to be able to start all over
again now, too. We'd win 40 games
a year in these tulles. The majors
are full of 'rinkedinit' hitters. That's
the big fault with today's pitcher.
He fools around too nmch„ All he
has to do is throw strikes. There
are only half a dozen hitters around
who ran hurt him."
* * w
The big fellow laughed., then
went on: "1 remember one day my
brother Pant was pitching against
the Phillies. The Phillies in those
days had O'Doui, Klein and those
other great hitters. We'd beat thein
18 to 17 and scores like that.
* * *
"Well, tltis day Paul was getting
hit pretty hard, so 1 yelled from
the bench, 'You'd better rope your-
self to the mound, or they'll drive
you out of the park 1'" Dizz said.
"So when he came into the bench
he tossed his glove in my lap and
said, 'If you thinly you can do any
better, go ahead.' Then he went into
the clubhouse and took a shower.
There wasn't anything else Frankie
Frisch, our manager, could do. He
just walked out to the plate and
told the umpire the other brother
was pitching.
* * *
"That Frisch 1" Dizzy said,
laughing again. "What a time lie
had handling us Cardinals. He liked
me, though, Things would be get-
ting hot and he'd get up and start
walking along the front of the
bench, He'd pretend lie was looking
for somebody else, but I knew he
wanted 'Old Diz.' So in I'd go."
He paused for a nioineet, then add-
ed: "Yes, me and Paul would win
80 games between us today."
DENISTRY
Billy Rose tells of the night Ilou-
dini first introduced the trick of
putting a dozen needles and a piece
of thread into his month, and then
producing them all neatly threaded.
"1 want a gentleman in the audi-
ence," he announced, "to examine
the needles and thread, and then
look into my mouth to snake sure
nothing is concealed there," An
elderly little man climbed up to the
stage, and peered intently intd'
Iloudini's bridgework. "Welt," said
Houdini finally, "don't just stand
there, Tell the audience what you
see,"
The little man said, "Pyorrhea."
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TelevisionHelps
Catch A Killer
The neltest form of entertain-
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law with an extra eye. If it hadn't
been for television, several crooks
now paying the penalty for their
misdeeds might still be free.
A suspected murder has been
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Last year, a New York policeman
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five constable .said that he had
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£1,275, and two sums of r)5 as a
result of presenting worthless
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the Kirkwall branch of the Nation-
al Bank of Scotland. Now he con-
fessed that it had never existed,
His sentence was fifteen months in
jail.
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