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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-09-08, Page 3m e, They Always Fire The Wrong Mark The statistics quoted in this column were substantially cor- rect a few hours ago. But the way the managerial ball has been bouncing this season in the major leagues, the figures may be out of date by the time you get around to reading them.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- trolt to Cleveland and Joe Gor- don did just the opposite, there bad been exactly 321 big league baanagers since 1901, when the American League was founded. This figure included 173 for The National and 148 for the American, and broke down to Approximately 20 pilots for each ef the 16 clubs. It meant that The average manager had lasted two-plue 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 half 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 Gversee, no wide open, high- priced bonus market. Scouting staffs were limited and, in some (Tees, nonexistent, writes Rumill in the Christian Science Monitor. Thcre 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 ail player deals. The owner or owners quickly faded into the back- ground, But in the wake of recent de- velopments on the major scene, cone wonders if the general man- eger is getting out of hand? Are the owners firing the wrong men? Even a bleacherite is aware that it ie 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 lose sight or the fact that a manager is only as good as his player — pleyere, of course, who were given him by the general man. eget.. Consequently. if these players fail to produce the winning pat- tern, how can the manager be more to blame than the general elan ager? Yit, Manag, rs ;mine and go. while the general manager .mine to eo on forever. No one can be closer to the situation than the man on the field and many managers will frankly whisper that today's general manager has far Ion much power and too often stick:, bis eager fingers in the manage- rial pie. In most cases, ball clubs might be more successful if they gave the game back to the manager. REMINISCES — Veteran of many o bloody battle, Jeff King takes his ease at the sire of old Fort Wingate near Gallup, N.M. King Is the only living Navajo Indian who served Ihe U.S. Army as Ccoui. CINDER ELLAS — Queens of the track world are sisters Irina, left, and Tamara Press of Leningrad, shown in Moscow just after both had 'reared world records, Mystery Of The Lost Settlers Hammond, a dealer in all sorts of merchandise, was look- ing far hickory nuts in North Carolina when he discovered something infinitely more excit- 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 Ananies 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 many had died — by the tomahawks of savage Indians. Not en 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, on what is now North Carolina, in 1687 by Governor John White, Thera they were left to their own de- vices, and. it was three yaars before White returned. ft was not his fault, But hie 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 intee- lion was 10 transferto the main- land in due course, so he sailed in that. direction. But violent storms thwarted him, Blown off his course. White never set Toot on the mainland. - And it was not for another twelve years or more 11191any- body became interested in the Dare party.. Then it was too late. Slorios were told of white folk who had penetrated farther sneth, of strangers from the sea Who had been massacred by Hie, 101na• hawks of savage Indians. But that was all. Later --- much later further - queer tales emerged. In 1.669 -a German explorer claimed to have seen a tribe of bearded Indians in North Cerolina,. and nearly a hundred and twenty years after that it was said that a largo Lumber of Indians bore the same names as 'hive of the lone -lost colonists. and that their native: nguacc was interspersed with Elimbethen words. Pin real eon - tact \vats these people was eve, madc. And so the matter rested un- til liammond',- alleged discoverY • in 1937. That certainly :,e1 the ball roil- ing. Ile took the stone to Emery College. Georgia, where cxamined by Professor Maywood Pearce. an 1,1 port in such ;nut- ters. The professor was deeply interested. ale thought the store may have marked the grave of Ananias and Virginie Dare •• Ananias being Vit einia's hahn Lrother. Pearl',' decided lo in- vestigate further hint:OngIlmt if eue -stone existed there might• hc nthers, lle ore red a reward to tory- body discovering similar stones, For t'onut ighteen months noth- ing linny,md. Thrn. things began Le Move. A ;nen nettled William Eberhart produced another stone 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 one given on the first stone, Exciting enough, but it was only the beginning. Within a 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. Eberhert 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 stories 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. germ- ine but wouldn't commit themselves without further stu- dy and more detailed examina- tion. Then Boyden Sparkes, a news- aperman, arrived on the scene, He was sceptical about matters which lacked cast-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, in fact, was in jail. True, this didn't disproae nor prove anything, but to Sparkes' alert mind it was site- picious.. His doubts increased when 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 foetid. "Never Kam any- thing like 'em." asserted the nonagenarian stoutly. "They just wasn't there!" To cap it all Sparkes also found that Eberhart made a liv- ing by trading in Indian relics. To Sparkes, the evidence was now conclusive. The so-called Dare Stones were a gigantic hoax. Further investigation confirm - bis opinion. Those stones had -been inscribed in the English used by the Elizabethans, But ihere 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, as we know it, was unknown in those days. People wrote a word as they pleased. Vet in the inscriptions there was no variation in the yelling of the same words. Even more damning, mune of the words inscribed were net even in existence. when the stones alleged to have been . einnied. "Yes." Sparkes thought, "the Dare Stoner' sre undoubtedly a hoax, and an ceptionally clever one." This is new generally accent- ed, but who carved them? Al. though he slipped up in one or two respects he must have beta -0 hiehly educated man. Which disinieses Hammond. He wa, certainly no outstanding schol- ar with working knowledge of Elizabethan English.. Ebel'' hart and the others Were literate. Obviously somebody in the background, a "master mind," formulated the plan and ar- ranged all (he detaile. But with what object? This is another mystery. Professor Pearce !raid for the tones, but the price could barely have vompeneated Mr the !rota& hiltsiverl, not out of this (01 1(1' el triple rent felsclueeis one ta- certun91c feet emergee, The enignie.of the lost colonists still roue Inc ed. Did they real - perish in that Strange and hostile country? Or were they Etbscwhed into an Indien tribe, ai that ;seventeenth century' Gorman explorer believed, and subsequent ifOormation appear - 1(1 eonfirm? Is He A Mon 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 climbers, a survival of giant prehistoric epe species of Chinese origin? This question springs from a novel series of experiments, Just made by Mr. Wleclimir Techernezky, a technical assist- ant at Queen Mary College, London, Very cleverly and ac- curately, he has constructed a 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 1955 on his famous recormais- eance expedition, They confirme ed, too, pictures he'd taken ear- lier of Yeti tracks, when scaling the Guauri Sankar range of Everest in 1951. The cast, thus construeted, gives a foot m00 - timing twelve inches 1 o n g, seven -and -a -half inches across the sole, and six and - a - half inches across the heel, Mr. Tschernezky has compar- ecl. 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 Snowma n." 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 reel comparison. Hie Yeti foot has a conspicuously thick big toe, resembling that of present -clay 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. 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