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The Seaforth News, 1952-09-11, Page 3THE Cabal SPORTS COMP Gd'Strur'Ye'V e"at 'afiis 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. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Eimer Ferguson, c/o Calves' House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. ort DISTILLERS (LIMITED 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." SAFES Protect your 800118 and CASII tram MEI and THIEv148. We have n size rind type of Safe, or Cabinet, for any purpose, visit Ica or write for peke, one., to bent. tb'. J.6cal'AVLEM LIMITED TORONTO SAFE WOPICS' 145 Front 8t. E„ Toronto Established - NEM ISSUE 37 — 1912 TelevisionHelps Catch A Killer The neltest form of entertain- ment, TV., has begun to provide the 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 captured with the aid of television. Last year, a New York policeman wag shot by a plan driving a stolen true 1(. Immediately the authorities arranged for a picture of the "hot" vehicle to be televised by five stations. At once a viewer gut in touch with the police, He was sure he had seen the truck passing through his district. He proved to be right. Matthew L. Arnler, aged thirty- two, was caught at a farm about ten miles from Albany, and was charged with the murder of the police officer. An American sneak -thief attend- ing a baseball game this year was certain no one had noticed him at his tricks. He was more than sur- prised to be arrested. The game was being televised and he was spotted picking a spectator's pocket 1 It was what shouldn't have been on the screen that led to the smart capture of two British crooks. While Alec Miles, who has a farm at Frittenden, Kent, was watching a program, the screen became streaky. He was sure it meant a car was near his hen run. His hunch was right and he caught a poultry thief. Something similar happened at Leeds early this year. James Tom- linson became very annoyed with the way his viewing was being spoilt by interference on the screen, so he went outside the house to . see what was causing it. It was his father's van, being moved by an unauthorized person. Ile, caught the man, who was later fined for taking the vehicle without the owner's consent. .A Dian wlto underestimated the extent to which television has spread is twenty -two-year-old Colin Groundwater, of South Kensing- ton, Ile ought not to have made such a mistake, because when he appeared in court a woman detec- five constable .said that he had been trying to make a living by writing film and television scripts. His arrest carne after wide- awake officials of the National Bank of Scotland informed the police that they had seen hila on the television program, "What's My Line?" In this he was supposed to be a frogman from the Orkneys. At the London Sessions on May 14th., Groundwater pleaded guilty to eiitallting a motor -car valued at £1,275, and two sums of r)5 as a result of presenting worthless cheques: Melted previously claimed that he possessed an account at 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. HARNESS & COLLARS Farmers Attention --Consult your near. est Harness Shop about Mato Harness Supplies. Wo sell our goods only through your local Stec° Leather. goods dealer. The goods aro right and so are our prices. We manufac- ture in our factories: Harness Horse Collars, Sweat Pads, Horse Blankets and Leather Travelling Goods. Insist on Staco Brand Trade -Marked Goods and yae get satlsfactlon Made only by SAMUEL TREES CO. 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