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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-06-24, Page 7T O CaLved SPORTS COLUMN ii play alike. Baseball hasn't made many changes of playing rules in half a century. But in one 'respect the game has, since 1912, undergone some notable improvements. That's in its um- piring. Fancy, in these days of from two to four umpires per game, the job of the single umpire in 1912. The hardy official of that era began his arduous day's toil behind the plate; calling balls and strikes. But when men were on base, he hurried out from behind the bat and took his L,tand behind the pitcher, calling the close ones from distances of sixty feet or more. • For, he also had to decide the plays at all the bases. Not having eyes in the rear of his cranium, he had to turn when a fly ball was hit, so that he could watch the fielder, turn to call a slide into the plate. He had to run ouf'to the foul lines to watch whether a fly ball was fair or foul. And he had to make a long range judgment as to what happened to the battered ball when it• was or wasn't a homer because of various ground rules. In some games decisions were so many and so difficult that it was certain he could make only snap judgment de- cisions, then hope for the best, knowing that he had tried to be fair. After it was all over, the umpire made his troubled way to the dressing -room. En route, the players abused • him, the crowds baited him and quite often attacked him. Hedidn't have anything like the supreme authority of today's umpires. For all his troubles he • received around $2,000 • and ex- penses per year. Times have changed for umpires and um- piring, and all for the better. day &wet9e49u4oac (s The baseball season is in full swing on all fronts. A thousand wordy battles have been fought with umpires on diamonds the width of the continent. For, as in all sports where the contacts are close and split seconds divide the, issue, no two persons ever see a close Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge Si„ Toronto. Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMNERSTe.URG, ONTARIO PLAIN HORSE SENSE.. Canada is one . c f the lucky countries which still have free- dom of the press. Their number in slowly but steadily diminish- ing. According to a report in Unes- co News by Salvador P. Lopez , there are 50 countries in the world today which are censor- ing or controlling news at the source, 18 countries are banning foreign newspapers and 13 are banning correspondents. Up to the end of :the last war the majority of states with a fettered press were those under Nazi or Fascist domination. Since the overthrow of Hitler's and Mussolini's regimes, how- ever, Communism is easily the leader in the suppression of civil and human freedoms including the freedom of the press. In country after country, with the fall of the iron curtain the light of free information goes out, the press is subjected to government control and the dis- semination of news permitted only to strengthen the existing order. Atheistic Materialism Based on Marx's doctrine that there is in the world only one reality, matter, the blind forces of which evolve into plant, ani- mal and man, Communism de- nies any difference between matter and spirit, between soul and body. It strips man of his liberty, robs human personality of all its dignity and does not recognize any right of the in- dividual in his relations to the collectivity. Man is a mere cogwheel in the Communist system which is geared to one end only: the pro- duction of • material things, Keep The Light Burning Canada's press is free. Cana- dian publishers and editors have the right to print what they like. No restraints are placed on them except the law against VON PILIS libel and blasphemy. But every right carries with it a corresponding duty. " Not only have our, newspapers the. right, they have also the duty to print ALL the news that's fit to print. Freedom of the press does not mean that those in control of it may release Or withhold news according to their whims. There are usually two sides to a stoty • and both should be published. The owner or editor has the great privilege to air his views on the editorial page. • And so have his readers. Communists make good use of this privilege; others should do the same. • This column welcomes criti- cism, constructive or destructive, and suggestions, wise or other- wise; it will endeavour to an- swer all questions.. Address all mail to F. Von Pilis, Whitby, Ontario. Bee Stings A bee stings to protect itself or the hive from danger. It is the worker bee which has this duty of protecting the community. The stinger, a long, hollow tube with a barb at the tip, grows out from the rear end of the insect's body, When the bee needs to protect itself, a drop of poison is forced down the tube, the barb is driv- en into the foe and the poison is discharged. A bee can sting only once, as a general rule, for when the insect tries to withdraw the stinger, the barb usually breaks off. Sometimes the stinger is so roughly torn from the bee's body that it dies. The queen bee's stinger does not have a barb, and so she can use it again and again to sting rival queens. The drone has no stinger. There, are several stingless bees. Some have a sharp bite; others, instead, drop a poison on their enemies, Crossing The Finish Line — Never Say Die is shown winning' the 175th Epsom Desrby at Epsom Downs. The winner finished just ahead of Darius and Arabian Night. Why Some Animals Grow So Fast A fly is bof'n full-grown. It never gets any bigger: A puppy reaches full growth in about a year. A few breeds of dogs take a little longer to grow up,' but all of them are adult dogs before the age of three. A human being at three years is still little more than a baby. Why do animals grow up so soon? There are sev- eral things to note about this. One fact is that there is gen- erally a certain proportion be- tween a creature's length of life and the time it takes to grow to full size. As' we should expect, the growing -up process is quick- er in the case of an animal, such as a dog, that is very old at fif- teen years, than in the case of a man who may live to be eighty or more years old. The proper-. tion roper- tion in growth between dogs and humans is said to be one to seven. That is, a dog at four- teen years is as "old" physically as a man at ninety-eight. Another fact is that in the highest types of animals the young creatures are much more dependent upon their mothers, and for a longer time, than the lower animals. This is true if we a compare the lives of a hen, vvhcfi is old at fourteen years, with that of an elephant which may live for a hundred years. The chicken leaves its mother's side and is able to take care of itself after a few weeks. The young elephant is -ababy living on milk for two years and remains under its mother's care for at least two more years. Not until it is around twenty years old is an elephant full-grown. This may suggest that there is some relation between the grow- ing body and the growing brain. The creature with • more brain develops more slowly. A hen's brain is of lOw order. A hen lives largely by instinct. It seems to have some memory of the per- son who feeds it but -most hens can be taught very little. The elephant is one of the most teachable of animals. Its brain is not large, in comparison with its body, but its memory is good and the animal learns new skills quickly and often seems to reason. The elephant's brain, in other words, is more complicated than that of the hen. The hen grows up quickly because it does not do so much growing up as the elephant. Size does not count, of course, in this scale, but complexity does. So it seems that the animals with more complicated bodies and brains develop more slowly, are dependent longer upon their mothers, are at their prime for a longer time and go more slowly down the hill toward old age than do creatures with simpler sys- tems. Life: A constant struggle to keep money coming in, and teeth, hair and stomach from coming out. International Emblems — No (natter what flag they fly,- beauties acquire an allegiance of admira- tion from all the boys, everywhere. These lovely water skiers performed, from left, under the flags of Great Britain, France, the United States, Spain and the flag of the Confederate States of America, during a festival at Pensacola. How's Your Spelling? Once a year the skill of the nation's typesetters (and copy editors) is tested by a news story on the national spelling champ- ionship. This time the prize 'has been carried off by 14 -year- old William Cashore of Center Square, Pa., with a correct rendi- tion of the word •"uncinated." In case you also are reaching for a dictionary, the word means "hooked; bent at the tip like a hook." Looking back over ac- counts of previous contests, we find that last year an Arizona girl won by correctly spelling "soubrette" after her last rival had tripped' ever "spermaceti." In 1952, "farraginous" was the key word. In 1951 Irving Belz of Mem- phis casually rolled out "insou- ciant" to clinch the national spelling title after having best- ed his runner-up on "cuisine." ' But probably the most appro- priate finish to such a contest came in a sixth -grade spelling bee in Baltimore two months ago when the winning word was" °succeed." We hope we have succeeded in " 1eiling correctly the words in; ';'`r editorial, but we can't claim to be insouciant about it. From The Christian Science Monitor. His "Courage" Really Came From A Bottle Soon after the crafty Jack Kearns hooked up with his new heavyweight, Jack Dempsey, the two men made a tour of the Southwest, meeting all comers. Kearns billed the„ young heavy- weight as "The Next World's Heavyweight C h a m p i o n" and made as sure as he could that nothing would happen to destroy the fine property he was hand- ling. Working with Kearns at the time was another foxy fellow by the name of Bill McCarney, who knew his fistic onions and all the. tricks in the fight game. With a prospective champion on their hands, the two astute gentlemen took every precaution to see that nothing unusual or untoward befell their juicy meal ticket. To make sure of this, Bill McCarney was sent ahead of the troupe for the purpose of digging up` proper opponents in the towns they were to visit. Dempsey was booked to appear in a certain Oklahoma hamlet and• McCarney arrived there be- fore the , others. He had a ter- rible , time trying to get a man willing to take on the terror of the ring. Finally, after search- ing high and low, McCarney managed to dig up a chap who didn't look as though the first breath of wind would blow him apart. • On the night of the .light Mc - Carney hustled to Kearns. "Look, , Jack," he said hurriedly "Demp- sey better not waste too much time with this fellow, He's scared stiff and he's white as a sheet. Dempsey better pop him over before the natives get wise to the phony and lynch us!" Kearns immediately leaned over the scowling Dempsey and whispered quickly in his ear, "Soon as that bel] rings, Jack, I want you to tear out and get rid of this bozo in a hurry." At this moment, Dempsey's opponent climbed into the ring and stripped off his bathrobe. Instead of seeing a man as white as a ghost in a sheet, Kearns WAS horrified to see a fine-look- ing chap whose skin was as red and .healthy as that of an Indian. "SOnsething's. wrong," muttered ISSUE 26 a 1954 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING' BABY OU1 S BRAY ableke available. Prompt ehlp- ment. 2'ullete, dayolde, started. Broilers (order now for Jrdy-Augeat delivery). Bray Hatchery, 100 John N. Hamilton. BROAD BREASTED BRONZE TURKEY POULTS, Started or dayold, Immediate delivery. 2,000 Arbor atom White Recite dayold, LakevieW'r "Quality U:rexe ?led," WANTED: Flock Owners with capg,eity for 600.7Q0 Arbor Aortae White .Rock layers. guaranteed egg pries. Sussex X (ted and Whits Rock Pulletp , 14 weeks and ready -to -lay, THE LA:erP- viEw POULTRY )!'ARM & HATCHERY LTD„ Phone 7, Exeter. Ontario. 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"Didn't Mc - Carney say this guy was pale? I wonder if we've been double- crossed and this guy is a ringer! I don't like the set-up one little bit" And again he leaned over his fighter. "Jack," he whis- pered, "I think this guy is a ringer. Better take no chances!" "What's the difference to me who he is?" growled Dempsey. "I'll stiffen him anyhow!" The bell clanged and Demp- sey, as savage a man as any man who ever lived, tore across the ring, threw a vicious left hook to thebody, a right cross to the chin, and stepped back to let the red man sink to the canvas in a lifeless heap. The referee could have counted to a thousand for- wards and backwards as far as the unfortunate fellow was con- cerned. Back in their dressing room, Kearns muttered and growled as Dempsey started for his shower. Suddenly McCarney rushed in, panting for breath. "Whew!" he exclaimed. "Am I glad that's over! Come on, you two, let's get out of town fast!" Kearns swung on McCarney and grabbed him by the coat lapel. "Listen, you dog!" he cried. "What did you try to pull on us tonight? What was the idea of switching opponents?" "You're crazy, Dec!" retorted McCarney. "1 didn't do anything of the kind!" "Oh, yeah?" sneered Kearns. "1 thought you told me the other guy was as white as a sheet?" "And' he was!" roared McCar- ney, "And he kept getting whiter and whiter all the time in his dressing room. It got so's I was afraid to put him in the ring the way he looked. So I got hold of a sponge and a big bottle of Mercurochrome and painted the sucker red from head to foot!" Kearns threw back his head and howled. "How will the poor guy get that stuff off?" he asked. McCarney shrugged. "T hat's his problem," he said. "My prob- lem was getting it on!" STOPMTCli of los sect lloatlsasA Quick? Stop itching of insect bites, heat rash, eczema, hives, pimples, scales, scabies, athlete s foot and other externally caused skin troubles. 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