HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1947-07-17, Page 6Midget Crackup—During a midget auto racing: program at
Soldier's Field m Chicago, Duke Nalon, right, clashes into
the car driven by TTarry Turner after Turner's racer skidded`
on a turn and hit the inner rim of the track. Both drivers
escaped injury.
Spikes
@n the gust
By
VINCENT LUUNNY
Jerry Bell gobbled up a bad
hopping grounder and tossed the
ball to second base for a force
play, ending an inning in the
Hawks' practice game.
"That's the old pepper!" shout-
ed Phil Weston, second baseman.
"You'll be in the lineup regularly
with me yet."
Bell and Weston had played to-
gether for four years in the
minors, being nurtured carefully
for their big league debut.
Weston made the team easily;
the. Hawks had not started Bell
yet in a league contest. .A wild
Irishman named Pat O'Toole
clung to the shortstop position.
Starting the next inning of the
intra -club game, the Irishman
went to short and it was Bell's
turn to bat, He hit the first pitch
solidly into right field. The neat
man up got a piece of the ball.
.A slowroilcrl a double play ball
Bell left first with the crack of
the bat, O'Toole, covering second,
leaped to take the high throw as
Bell bore down.
The ball crashed into O'Toole's
temple and spikes glistened in the
afternoon sun. when the dust sub-
sided, there was Bell with his icg
hooked around the bag—safe!
The Irishman didn't move. He
lay inert. Teammates carried O'-
Toole from the field and later
an ambulance tools him to the
hospital. The trainer said he had
concussion and a severed -artery
in tine leg.
Joe Amble, brawney catcher
strode up to !tell.
"You miserable rat! You spik-
ed him on purpose!" he rasped.
"You're crazy. Why would I
do that?"
"To get into the game, of
course."
The Hawlcs, on a road trip,
took series from braves, Dodgers
and Giants. Now they were back
at home facing the mighty Cards.
In a tight ball game the score
'was tied, starting the last half of
the ninth. Bell's thoughts were
jumbled as he sat on the bench
awaiting his turn to bat. His mates
hadn't spoken to him since the
spiking, and with the continued
silence a little knot grew in his
stomach.
Weston led on the last half
of the north with a clean single
and Amble sacrificed, pushing the
tying run ,0 second. Bell started
toward the plate.
"Where do you think you're
going?" Selkirk signalled him to
the bench.
"Please, lenmte take my cut," he
pleaded.
Selkirk ignored hint,
"Aw, let the kid hit" The voice
came from the door at the back
of the dugout. O'Toole was stand-
ing there, his head swathed in
bandages.
"They just let me out of the
hospital," he explained. "As a fav-
or, skipper, let the laid hit"
Selkirk's eyes twinkled. "Okay,
Bell, take your cut."
The shortstop sauntered to the
plate and waited for the pitch.
He worked the count to three
and one.
The nest pitrh had to be goad. It
was ... and Bell conieeted. 4 'wal-
lop to center field, scoring ',fiestas
standing up,
O'Toole led the parade to the
dressing room. The big Irishman
went up to Bell.
"Nice going, kid," he said.
"I thought you two guys were
cutting each other's throats?" said
Weston.
"We've never .. "
The Irishman interrupted Bell.
"Didn't you guys know that Bell
came to visit me in the hospital
after the spiking? well, he gave
me a blood transfusion which
probably saved my life."
Amble's eyes flashed. "The least
he could do after deliberately spik-
ing you."
Deliberately? Is that what you
guys think?" Several players nod-
ded. O'Toole. paused, "It was a
pure accident. The ball hit me on
the temple. As a matter of fact it
caromed off the thumb of my
glove. I fell into Bell's spikes."
Mountain Burning
For 10,000 Years
On a mountain some 200 miles
northwest from. Sydney, Australia,
a fire which started about 10,000
years ago is still burning and is likely
to keep on burning for many years.
On maps, the locality is Mount Win -
gen, but the local folk generally
refer to it as the "Burning Moun
tarn," To .industrialists this seeming-
ly endless smouldering is a pathetic
waste, for the fuel which feeds it is
coal.
The fire burns on a front about a
chain in width, and moves at the rate
of three or four feet a year.
Through numerous vents and cre-
vices in the mountain side, great
volumes of smoke and intense heat
emerge.
The earth around is too hot to
handle, yellow sulphur clings to the
walls of the vents, and all around
the stones have been burnt a dead
whiteness.
Less than four out of ten Ca-
nadian homes are equipped with
central heating systems.
CROSSTOWN
By Roland Coe
.nd O. I., ne4,0Idaee neaaF+++•,Wl
: t .'.rr.patient, eb? Couldn't wait till we got here!".
The Champlain Road
Was Indian Highway
Most of Ontario's main high-
ways are- but the Indian water
routes of ,yesterday,
Of such historic routesthe
one that is most closely linked
with the past is.. that known as
The Champlain Road, one of the.
earliest and one of the most 'trav-
elled of.. them all. And its asso-
eiation with the days of the In-
dians and
n-dians'and the explorers is in the
fact that, for part of its course, it
can be travelled only as it was
300 years ago -in a canoe:
It was in 1615 that- Samuel de
Champlain, father of New France,
in search of an outlet to the west-
ern sea,blaced a trail up the Ot-
tawa River to Mattawa, 'across
Lake Nipissing and down the
French River, to the shore of
Georgian Bay and on to the land
of Huronia where he was to es-
tablish a western outpost of New
France.
The romance of the Chaniplam
Road was not -dimmed with the
years. It is still existent along the
highway that now parallelsthe
majestic. Ottawa—in Ottawa, in
the towns that grew along the
river in the days when the' lum-
berman heldsway, in the quiet
forest and along its upper reaches,
in North Bay. It is abundantafter
the highway is left behind and
the famed fishing waters of Lake
Nipissing, the French River and
Georgian Bay are rediscovered by
the explorer of today...
ceding Time—"Spot," a pointer, is a great help in bringing alp a 10 -week-old motherless
fawn—he holds the bottle for the tittle orphan.
Floors of Rubber
Claimed The Best
What is it that your house
guests spend 37.17 per cent of
their time looking at? According
to the Rubber Manufacturers As-
sociation, it's your floors. And if
you want your guests to remark
upon them only in compliment-
ary superlatives, you'll install
rubber flooring which, the As-
sociation alarms is the aristocrat
of Boors: Now that rubber is
again obtainable in quantity, the
industry has started a campaign
to broaden the field from, com-
mercial to domestic use. Qualities
claimed by industry representa:
rives for rubber flooring arc; It's
durable, easy to clean, doesn't
stain, is comfortable to walk on,
and quiet.
Wide Open
And then, remarks The Fort
William Times -Journal, there is
the . woman in London, England,.
who has the post office stumped.
She insists o:, sending a pair of
tfousers through the mail at print -
paper rate, pointing out that the
rate applies to packages open at
both ends, and that she doesn't
know anything more open at both
ends than trousers.
WILL SEE US THROUGH
Last year, in one of its several published statements, The
House of Seagram said, "Canada's great record of price con-
trol was made possible by the wholehearted co-operationof
the Canadian people with their Government's anti-inflation
methods. This fine record should be maintained ... by
moderating our pleasures, by controlling' unessential spend-
ing, we continue to serve our Nation and ourselves best."
That statement we repeat today. We need only
march steadily ahead ... with continued emphasis
on those habits of !moderation, self-control and
commonsense which are so happily—and fortun-
ately—characteristics of Canada, and Canadians.
Then this Nation will stand
secure on the road to its
yet greatest opportunities.
rrawlciv Ovalre
THE HUSE OF SEAGM
a is
POP—This Way Out!
LE/w1 TNP;Y" To -
By J. MILLAR WATT .