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Zurich Herald, 1957-01-31, Page 3Spare Man On Although strong men have >:dwered and ladies fainted at my manly physique, I am not primarily noted as an athlete, But I do think the night I beat the All Stars should go down in history, comparable, at least, to the time I was playing left field and made a put-out at home plate, These two events, tegeth- ger, should assure me some fame in the annals of sport. A bowling Team town so they could give alp th job, There is no emolument, but there is the happy consolation that one is contributing to a good fellowship. The bowling league brings to- gether every walk of life in our town, in bantering good will and in friendly competition, It was my feeling that by taking over the scoring 1 might protect the worthwhile aspects of the asso- ciation from foundering for lack of computation. But I am not much of a bowl- er, They tell me I have a smooth delivery, excellent form, and a natural follow-through of good quality. I would make high scores if I could just hit the pins. In my official capacity I am not on the roster of any team, but if some regular bowler has to be out of town or for another rea- son defaults, I sometimes stand in for him and see what I can do. I enjoy this. And the other night the team' from the Wor- umbo Mill lacked a member, be- cause Johnny Galgovich was working threeto eleven. Upon due application I was prevailed upon to substitute for him. The Worumbo team was match ed, that evening, against the All Stars. The All Stars have. been League champions more times than I remember off -hand, and are the team to beat. Four of their team are averaging over 100 --and as we bowl candlepins with the three small balls this is a most satisfactory average and should not be compared with the misleading figures of the much easier game where they bowl two balls with bottle - pins. The captain of the Worum- bo team, when asking me to bowl with them, explained that they had no chance of winning anyway, and the evening would be little more than a cruel slaughter. But you can't tell about me. The spark was struck. It wasn't my bowling, because I got my customary '78 the first string, but it must have been my radiant personality and my bonhomie. The other members of the Wor- umbo team began knocking down pins they didn't even hit. Nothing was wrong. One lad managed to beat down six spares• in a row, and after the third one his eyes were glazed and he was tottering with emotion. He would hit off to one side and get just as many pins. His score ran up like the cash register at a meat counter, and the All Stars be- came visibly dismayed. The All Stars were hitting precisely, beautifully, . perfectly. But nothing much happened. The more they tried, the better they bowled, and. the .poorer their score. In the end they all went home without saying goodnight, hardly; and seemed to be sad. They congratulated us, but their hearts were not in it. And in the record book, it shows that I bowled on the winning team. I inked it in a little heavily, to emphasize it, because I felt it was an important item, and since I am secretary I felt itwas, up to me to do it.-Bv John. Gould in The Christian Science Moni- tor. The fact that these noteworthy achievements took place in the minor leagues, so to speak, should not detract from their significance. The baseball event, alone, is a world's record never 'even attempted in any league. I was on the high school team at the time, playing left field be- cause I had rubber boots. The man who laid out our baseball diamond had to blast a ledge away from the shortstop posi=• tion, and he used up all the ap- propriation before he got into the outfield. A boiling spring came from under the ledge, and it exuded into left. Playing left field was just d. token position, because it was so hard to field a ball out there the teams had a gentlemen's agreement nobody would hit there, and it by acci- dent anybody did, the advance was limited to two bases. So I was standing out there ankle deep when. Red Peaks cane up to bat. He hit a Balti- more chop and our infield be- came confused. There was a good deal of throwing around, and we had him in three separ- - ate run -downs - between sec- ond and first, third and second and home and third, As he ad- vanced, slowly but purely, it seemed wise to me to come in and lend a hand. Thus the play went from 4 to 3 tol to 3 to 4 to 5 to 3 to 2 to 6 to 4 to 3 to 6, etc., etc., and finally to me, and I tagged Red out .as 11e_ slid home. It was not only an unusual play, but it was exciting to watch, and the crowd enjoyed it. . They continued to cheer and laugh long after the play was completed, and now and again they would subside and go limp until somebody guffawed again, and then they would go off into another round of hilarity. Por a time it was a famous incidnt, but after I was graduated and went into other pursuits people sort of forgot about it. Of late years my athletic in- terests have been confined to cribbage, popping corn, and shaking condiments on my meat, But recently I decided I was get- ting flabby and out of trim, so I undertook being secretary of our community bowling league. This gets me to the bowling alley one night a week, but the job is en- tirely clerical. I have to keep individual sheets on each bowl- er, compute averages, and show total pinfall and high scores. I took the job because nobody wanted it, and Ifelt the frater- nal aspects of the bowling league shouldn't be peopardized by hit- or-miss records. The casualty rate in secretaries had been high. Some men had to give up the job because they moved out of town. and some movedout of WAR -EGYPTIAN VERSION -Future historians may believe that the Anglo-French invasibn..of E,g.ypt was repulsed with heavy losses to the invaders if theyjudge by this new Egyptian stamp. It commemorates the recent fighting by showing three Egyptian "resistance" fighters, one's grenade -toting girl, charging for- ward as enemy parachute troops are slain on the Port Said beach and an enemy ship burns in the background. CRASS ' V ORD PUZZLE 6..Portable- 31. Mythical bird shelter 33. W Taken 6. Mark 34. TOlCl 1. Stage of lite 37. Twilled cloth 8. Tree trunk .40. Healed the 9. Most sick 10. Organ of sight 42. Came to rest ACROSS 52. Conjunction 11. Spread to dry 45. Nimble 1. Divide with 6A. PaY out . 17. Armpit 46, Black bird the grain DOWN 20. Arouse 47. Tendency 6. Flap 1. Razor 23. Drive at an '40 Tableland angle 51. Felled trees sharpener 25. Present 50: watch pocket 27. Period of time 54. Sheep 28. Nothing 55. Went swiftly 80. Male sheep 57. Lick Up 9. Came together t2. Instant 13. Days long gone 1.4. AffirmattVs vote l5. Torn le. Made less tense it e.. Lyric 19. Label 21. 1Siblioal high priest 22. Saucy 24. ispouse 26• Word of assent. 29. Public speaker 82. Swiss canton 82. Stripe 46. Natural 68. 'Windmill sail $9. Threaten 49.. Record a vote 53. Complement of a bolt 4. Sever 8. Purpose O. -Unit of reluctance $2. 1''Ikelike fits, 8. Shackles 5, Fatty fruit 8, Have debt* 9. So (Snot.) O. Clr. physician 1. Place of rapoee. 2. Self. steem 3. Body organ 4. Dessert AnsWer elsewhere on this page[. IINDA) StilOOl LESSON THE BARONIAL TOUCH -- Breakfast in bed Is only one of the baronial privileges accorded Baron and Lady Wolfschmidt, the two white Borzois seen above being served chopped filet mignon at San Francisco's 'St. Francis Hotel. But the Russian hounds don't always have it so good. It was just a stunt set up to plug a new brand of vodka.. • TI1LL&IM FRONT President Eisenhower's recent visit to the drought stricken areas of the south-west has caus- ed considerable comment, but I don't believe there are many - in Canada at least - who realize just how serious the situ- ation is down there. So for your information 1 amp passing along part of a dispatch from Boise City, Oklahoma, which will give you an idea. * e a Five years of extreme drought have left an economic scar that threatens to become as lasting as the wind -gouged erosion of this normally fertile, produc- tive country. It is a natural disaster that has struck primarily at agriculture. But, like an octopus whipping its• tentacles out and lashing at every- thing within reach, the economic dislocation caused by the drought now threatens the un- derpinnings of this entire high plain, and even of the whole 'Great Plains area itself, some- thing like one-fifth of: the area of the United ; States. Cattlemen, wheat growers,: cotton farmers, sheep- raisers all are facing economic ruin ex- cept those fortunate few, a piti- fully small percentage, who hap- pen to be in position to tap un- derground sources of badly need- ed moisture or the few river reservoirs built in the last two or three decades by the federal government. Here in this area are concen- trated the problems of the Great Plains, aggravated by a .drought now in its sixth year. The air itself is dry. It's the kind of atmosphere that keeps wood from rotting: It dries every- thing up. Houses which have stood as landmarks on the flat- landsfor more than a decade bear the marks of grinding sand blown from the earth's surface by a wind that never stops. There is more than irony in. names of landmarks, natural and man-made. Running Water Cceek, which rises northwest of Clovis, doesn't even show any permanency on the maps, where the broken line indicates a stream that disappears almost before it gets started. Old set- tlers along this stream don't know where it got its name. Somebody had a bitter sense of humor. "Else he tried to cross it in 'a flash flood," one old-timer sug- gests. , .0 But these people out here have courage, sympathy, determina- tion, and pride. It's different from the dost bowl days of the 1930's. There are no ling lines of jalopies, bearing • families and their feat possessions westward to Califor- nia. Wes Izzard, publisher of the Amarillo, Texas, News, recalls those days. They were going west on Highway 66 by the thousands. Cities like Amarillo, as well as small towns, could do little more than give them a meal of hot soap, some bread, maybe a gal- lon of gasoline, a pat on the back, and send them on. • The westward migration of 25 years ago was by farm tenants. from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan- sas, Mississippi. Not all were fleeing from the drought, They Were trying to get Out of an economic trap of falling farm prices, no markets for their pro- ducts, and 'climatic reverses: They had no pride of owner- ship. Few owned anything more than an iron bed, coal -oil stove, a 'Model T Ford, and a few clothes. All they had to do was to pile in the car and head West. Today., though, a great sociolA. gloat change has taken place - almost a revolution. More people own farms they live on, or have a big share of partnership. :g * * "It will take more than a drought to get them off," said one local representative of the Farmers Home Administration. "These people have a courage to see it through, with a deter- mination fortified by a pride of ownership that was missing in the 1930's. "And there is a sympathetic understanding for each other's problems The farmer who hap- pens to be lucky enough to have flowing wells for irrigation realizes that the dryland farmer is hitting some tough years caus- ed by conditions beyond his con- trol. "And the farmer who can ir- rigate his crops knows that some- where the cost of bringing that.. water up from deep in the ground is going to hit an econ- omic point beyond which there v. c'n't be any percentage in farm- ing. Then he, too, will be looking up at. the skies, hoping those rain -bearing clouds get up here from the Gulf of Mexico just at the right time to run into a cold front heading south from Canada." * * These people need help, but they don't want charity. Most of them have have already mort- gaged their farms to the hilt just to take care of ordinnary running expenses. It costs money to buy seed year after year, put it in the ground, and watch it blow away without even sprout- ing, much less taking root. And it costs plenty to have to haul in hay and grain year after year to feed the stock. Some of the . biggest -landowners in the country have been selling off .section after section, trying to keep themselves in business uzi- til the, rains come. Local banks have done about .all they can to keep the econ- omy from going under. They have stretched their facilities to make loans. But bank loans are made only to farmers who can show they are pretty good risks. And nobody is a good risk if he' .can't get moisture for his crops, or grass on the range for his stock. 1 By Rev B. Barna) Warren B.A„ B.D. Our Mission as Disciples Matthew :9;85-10:8, 24-25 Memory Selection: The har- vest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the har- vest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest, Mat- thew. 9;31.38, Jesus ministered by teaobing, preaching hnd healing. He min- istered not just from a sense of duty but because he.. felt for the people. He had compassion on them. But the task was too big for him alone. He urged the disciples to pray that the Lord of the harvest might send forth labourers. Some of those who attended on .theministry of Jesus came to share his vision. They saw the need and felt for the people. They prayed for God -sent lab- ourers. Twelve of these ardent souls Jesus called to himself and sent forth to help answer their prayers. They were given power to cast out unclean spirits and to heal' all manner of sick- ness and all manner of disease. They put no price on their ser- vices. Jesus said, "Freely ye have received, freely give." He warned that they would receive persecution. Nearly all denominations are crying about this shortage - of ministers. Too few are sharing the vision of the need of the people. We are too money -min- ded. The spiritual needs of people about us do not impress us deeply. We do not feel for Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking therm and with them, Ilene, there are few called of God and sent forth. Ministers are not paid am much as those in other profes- sions where a similar period of preparation is required. They have to .dress better than they can afford. But they get along. When they have extra expense on account of such emergencies as, sickness there are always appreciative parishioners wlio rally to their support. When one knows he has been called of God to the work he would not exchange it for any other. British Publisher and multi- millionaire Lord Beaverbrook said25 years ago: "If I were in a position to influence the life of a sincere young man today, I would say to him, `Rather choose to be an evangelist than a cabinet min- ister or a millionaire: When I was .a young man. I pitied my father for being a poor man and a humble preacher of the Word. Now that I am older 1 envy his life and career." THE FEAST OF ST. SWITHIN The Feast of St. Swithin on July 15 is the familiar date because of the old legend attatched to his name, but the origin of the leg- end is perhaps not so familar. Swithin was a pious honk of Wessex, who eventually became Bishop of Winchester. He was admired and trusted by all who knew him, and rose high in mat- ters of church and state. Never- theless he remained so humble in spirit that he asked to be bu- ried outside the cathedral, where the rain from the eaves would fall upon his grave. A later Bishop with more grandiose ideas planned to have him re -interred in a splendid and orate shrine inside the cathedral. But legend has it that on July 15 in the year 971, the day apppointed for this proceeding, the change so upset the Saint that it rained for forty days, whereupon the plan to move his body was given up. A minor piece of folklore attached to the main legend, and still current in some parts of Eng- land, speaks of July 15 as "the day which the apples are chris- tened," referring to the showers which may fall to help on the apples to ripeness. Drive With Care PRICELESS - Most precious animal in the world is -the -appealing mite pictured above in the Columbus Municipal Zoo.' St's a girl baby• gorilla, precious because she represents a triple triumph - first gorilla breeding in captivity, first conception and first birth. Her arrival tossed an H-bomb in world zoo circles. Theories, some 100 years old, said it never could happen. "Sweetie Face," 16 days old when this picture was snapped, has a wizened face, a head the size of an orange, is 15 inches long and weighed four pounds at birth. She lives in an incubator and is fed humanbaby formula. 'TRAGEDY AT NIAGARA -- The news camera catches the prelude to a wintertime tragedy at rapids Falls, Ontario, as these deer struggle in the icy ra ids fesding to Horseshoe Falls, They are three of four that were trapped in the swirling currents. They battled for more than a mile and got ashore, but were frightened back into the water, They were swept to their sieaths dyer' the fails.