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The Seaforth News, 1960-09-01, Page 7They Always Fire The Wrong Mari The statistics quoted in this ,column were substantially cors sect a few hours ago. Hut the way the managerial ball has been bouncing this season in the 2najor leagues, the figures may be out of date by the time you get around to reading them. However, on the day that Jimmy Dykes moved from De - Spit to Cleveland and Joe Gore elm did just the opposite, there !tad been exactly 321 big league elanagers since 1901, when the American League was founded. This figure included 173 for ,)Ere National and 148 for the American, and broke down to Approximately 20 pilots for each of the 16 clubs. It meant that the average manager had lasted two -plus seasons, a statistic -which would be considerably lower, of course, if men like Connie Mack (50 years) and John McGraw (31 years) had not stayed around for so long. In the most recent five cam- paigns, including this one, there had been 29 changes in field leaders, with about two and a ball months of 1960 remaining, Today's manager is much less secure in his job than his older brother and there is a reason -- the general manager. Back in the days when Clark Griffith, Connie Mack, Frank Navin, Phil Ball and their kind ran ball clubs in the majors, the general manager was unknown. and unnecessary. One man often owned and ran his club, having only a field leader to direct personnel and to confer with, on player trades and purchases. There were no farm systems to oversee, no wide open, high- priced bonus market, Scouting staffs were limited and, in some cases, nonexistent, writes Rumill in the Christian Science Monitor. There were no lucrative radio and television contracts to con- sider, Front office competition was at a minimum. The club owner could handle most of it himself. But the game progressed and grew into a multimillion -dollar business, as the farm system be- came established, and as groups replaced the one -owner plan, the general manager not only be- came essential, he became recog- nized as the most important ex- ecutive in the organization. He was given the authority to pick and fire the manager, to have final say on all player deals. The owner or owners quickly faded into the back- ground, Hut in the wake of recent de- velopments on the major scene. one wonders if the general man- ager is getting out of hand? Are the owners firing the wrong men? Even a bleacherite is aware that it is much simpler to re- place the manager of a losing ball club than a bulk of the 25 players on the roster. But when a team is losing. is sputtering aimlessly in the sec- ond division, all seem to lase sight o1 the fact thdt a manager is only as good as his players .. players, of course, who were given him by the general man- ager. Consequently, it these players fail to produce the winning pat- tern, how can ilte manager he more to blame than the general assuager'. Yet, manager- come and go. while the general manager scents to go on forever. No one can he closer to the situation than the man on the field and many managers will frankly whisper that today's general manager has far too much power and Inc often sticks his eager fingers in the manage_ 5(51 pie. In most oases, ball clubs might. Le more successful if they gave the game back to the manager, REMINISCES -- Veteran of many a bloody battle, Jeff King takes his ease a1' the site of old Fort Wingate near Gallup, N.M. King is the only living Navajo Indian Wi'0 le:,ved ate U.S. Army os Scout, C NDER ELLAS — Queens of the track wo d are sisters Irina, Left, and Tamara Press of Leningrad, shown in Moscow just after both had scored world records. Mystery Of The Lost Settlers Hammond, a dealer in all sorts of merchandise, was look- ing for hickory nuts in North Carolina when he discovered something infinitely more exalt. ing. It was a stone, worn with age and encrusted with. moss. Just decipherable was an inscription that seemed to solve a mystery which had puzzled men for near- ly three and a half centuries. The lettering was in Elizabeth- an English, and it gave the names of Ananias and Virginia Dare, who went "Unto Heaven" in 1591, It also revealed how the Dare family and other English colonists had suffered hardships and sickness, and how tnany had died. — by the tomahawks of savage Indians. Not an unusual tragedy in those days, of course. Many col- onists met their deaths violently • in a strange and hostile land, Why, then, was Hammond's find if genuine — so highly im- portant? Because it threw light on the fate of a party of English set- lers who, after being put ashore, were never seen again, Several attempts were made to trace them but not one clue was found, They had disappeared in the brooding forests and lonely plains. Those English colonists, eighty- nine men, seventeen women and eleven children, were put ashore on Roanoke Island, off what is now North Carolina, in 1587 by Governor John White, There they were left to their own de- vices, and it was three years before White returned. 1t was not his fault, But his ship was needed to fight the Spanish Armada. Indeed, he had a personal reason for making sure that the settlers came to no harm, for among them was his married daughter, Eleanor Dare, and she had given birth to a daughter while her father was still on the island. That baby has a particular niche in North American history, She was the first English child to be born in the New World. Proudly. her parents named her Virginia — a compliment to Elizabeth the Virgin Queen. When Governor White arrived - at Roanoke in 1590 the colonists had gone. He knew their inten- lion was to transfer to the main- land in due course, so he .ailed in that direction: But violent storms •thwarted him. Blown off his course, White never set foot on the mainland. And it w-ae not tor another twelve years of more that any- body .becaine interested in the Dare party. Than 11 Iva- 0 0 Rite. Sterice were told of white folk who had penetrated farther -.00111, of strangers from the sea who had been massacred by the teem - hawks of sat'ags India iv. Taut that was all. Later — much later _ further queer tales emerged. le 1809 a German explorer claimed to have sen a tribe of bearded lndiao in North Carolina, and nearly a hundred and twenty year's after that it e: s said !hat a large number nr Indians 1 ere fht= sarnu rr,nwr Ihna• of the loin;-in.'l colonists, and Ibid. Isiah* Willi ' lanjuasa. u'_:', intt':.I,•arrs,:d with ifilizalicthan words. No r, .0 •',! tact with Ihese people w':,s '•t, r made. Anti so 1hr'• nutter reflect ;ob. til Ilamrnond•a alleged dist'nv,'r}: ill. 1017. . That certainly :a'1 the hall roil- ing. Ile their the stole. in N;mery' college, Geertsia, whcic it vvt,s xlunincd illy Proi11.a0r I[ayw:od I'carcc, 1111 ,c`.pts•1 in sorb 111:1- Icrs. The professor was dceply interested. Ile thought. the .,torr may have' marked the "rave of Ananias anti Virginia Dare .in:,nias heillg Vii r:inil s bub'-• brothel-. P11;152 decided to in- vestigate further believing Ilr,.1, if one stone esieted U1t't•e wield be titheds. lie r'fi2red a reword to any - hotly ditatovering similar stones, 1,'or.orno eiglttet 1 months mall'. b.;rr,l•nod, Then !Ding began to mite. A 111111) man, d Willg:ut Eberhart produced another stun* which seemed to prove the truth of Pearce's theory. This record- ed the names of seventeen peo- ple in the Dare party who had been killed by Indians. It also bore a date --1589 -- two years earlier than the ane given on the first stone, Exciting enough, but i® was only the beginning, Within s matter of days Eberhart brought three more stones. They were all dated 1591, and their inscriptions referred to the same colonists. But there was a snag. Eberhart said that he had found all four stones three hundred miles from where Hammond asserted he had made the original discovery, Professor Pearce was sus- picious, Yet all the stones were inscribed in Elizabethan English, and what would Eberhart, an uneducated man, know about that? He couldn't have faked them. Later, Eberhart brought along forty-two similar stones, making forty-six in all, From the inscrip- tions on these it was possible to piece together at least part of the story of what happened to those lost colonists. It was all very exciting — especially as many more stones kept turning up. There seemed to be a glut of such relics. Professor Pearce decided to call in the historians and the. archaeologists. In 1940 a number of these examined the stones. They believed them to be genu- ine — but wouldn't commit themselves without further stu- dy and more detailed examina- tion. Then Boyden Sparkes. a news- Ipaperman, arrived on the scene. le war sceptical about matters which lacked east -iron proof and carried out a few investigations on his own. Sparkes made several signifi- cant discoveries. He found that the men who found the stones were all friends, and that their characters were not exactly un- tarnished. One, iu fact, was in jail, True, this didn't. disprove nor prove anything. but to Sparkes' alert mind it was sn2- picious, His doubts increased '.211e11 he tracked down an old -fellow of ninety who had lived all his days in the district where the stones were supposed to have been found. "Never saw any- thing like '011" asserted the nonagenarian goutl . "Their lust wasn't there!" To cap it ail Spaakes also found that Eberhart ,made a liv- ing by trading in Indian relies. To Sparkes, the evidence was now conclusive. The so-called Dare Stones were a gigantic hoax. Further investigation confirm - Iris opinion. 'Those stones had been inscribed in the English used by the Elizabethans. But there were certain anomalies.. They were in Roman script and although this had been intro- duced by then it was used only by scholars. Another point: spelling, 02 we know It, vial., unknown i.n those days. People Wrote a Word es they pleased. Yet in the inscription' there was 110 variation in the spelling o, the same words. .Even more. damning. seine of the wends inscribed were 1101. elven is ex)Fierlee when the :donee • were alleged In !lave been curved: "Yes," Sparkes thought. "the Dare `unlet ;,re undoubtedly 11 hoax. and an ea- eeptionally clever one." This is now ecnetally seccpi- ed. but who carved then!'.' Al- though be .dipped up in one t'r two re-pccts he moil have been hiehly educated loan. Which disinieses Hammond. He 22'as certainly no outstanding sehol- nr with 1 working knowledge of Elizabethan En.g1)511, Eber- liarl and I.he others calve barebu literate. Obviously somebody in t:u haakgrLAM , a "In aster Mind," formulated the plan and 11''- rlmged all the details, But with whet object? This is another mystery,. Pt0102nr Pc,i'cc paid for • the sLone4, but the price. would 11101l\ have comp.:As:i ea -tor the troiuble involved. Hot out of this wt-lt,-r 01 l lschu d nue un. forint,: int I fa.A. 0nlr enigma of the Jost colonists ;fill 1*01111!1118 LIIIFI,it't'd. Did 1.11ey 'ei,1- lyperish in that strange and hostile country? Or were they absorbed into an Indian tribe, as that seventeenth century German explorer believed, and subsequent information appear- ed 10 confirm? Is HeAMan Or Just A Big Ape ? Is the Yeti or Abominable Snowman the hairy, man -like mystery creature whose foot- prints continue to puzzle Hima- layan climber's, a survival of a giant prehistoric ape species of Chinese origin? '1'hie question springs from a novel series of experiments, lust made by Mr. Wisdimir Tschernezky, a technical assist- ant at Queen Mary College, London. Very cleverly and ac- curately, he has constructed s plaster cast from photographs of the Yeti's footprints. These pitcures were taken by Mr. Eric Shipton, when climb- ing Everest's upper reaches in 3955 on his famous reconnais- sance expedition. They confirm- ed, too, pictures he'd taken ear- lier of Yeti tracks, when scaling the Guauri Sankar range of Everest in 1951. The cast, thus constructed, gives a foot mep- suring twelve inches 1 o n g, seven -and -a -half inches across the sole, a n d six - and - a - half inches across the heel. Mr. Tschernezky has compar- ed it with prints made by the Himalayan black bear and the langur, a long-tailed Asiatic monkey. Some scientists say that the langur may be the "Abominable Snowman." Its black, bare face, shaggy brown hair, and almost human cry of fear fit the "half man, half beast" description given by eye- witnesses to Eric Shipton. But Mr, Tschernezky says there is no real comparison, lois Yeti foot has a conspicuously thick big toe, resembling that of present-day mountain gorillas. This toe has a distinctive grasp- ing axis, adapted for tree climb- ing, and the smaller three toes are webbed at their base. Reporting his discoveries in the scientific Journal, "Nature," Mr, Tschernezky suggests that a creature resembling the prehis- toric gigantopithecus (giant ape) still haunts the Himalayas. This creature, reconstructed from fos- sil finds, was a giant Chinese ape thought to have become ex- tinct about hell a million years ago. Chinese traffickers in magic often sold the ape's huge molars as dragon's teeth. Some Oriental chemists ground up these finds, and produced powders which they sold as cure -alis and pick- me-ups. _... ___._...:. How Cern 1? by Roberta Lee Q. I•Iow can I renovate and brighten my black suede shoes? A. You can give them a -new lease on life by sponging them with some black coffee. Q. How can I, when keeping some potted plants on 11 rather narrow ledge, prevent their top- pling off? A. You can do this vert, 11iee- tv by attaching the ordinary kind of fiat curtain rod to the win- dow frame so that it rests .lust above the centre of the pots Q. Bow can 1 remove the dis- colorations from the inside at a glass coffee percolator tube? A. 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