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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-04-21, Page 7illECatreirt SPORTS COtHhiti t to THE SHAUGHNESSY STORY --- Part 2 to When Frank Joseph Shaughnessy was fired as manager of Montreal Royals in the International Baseball League in 1936, It could, in a sense, be written clown as the most fortunate thing that ever hap- pened in sport to this soldier of athletic fortune. It was certainly fortunate for the League. A few months later he was named President of that body. And, as it de- veloped, only the iron will and resource of Shaughnessy held the second -oldest baseball league in the world together .as an eight -club organization for the start of its 72nd campaign this week. As told iri the first of these two tabloid sketches, two real pillars of the International, Newark and Jersey City, suddenly collapsed in 1950 and 1951, respectively. Ottawa and Spring- field replaced these and so, until 1953, the League remained intact. Then storm -clouds gathered again. Chicago Cubs of the National League withdrew their support from the Spring- field venture. Baltimore, which had been in and out of the International almost from its inception, had a chance to re- turn to the majors. Shaughnessy was left with six clubs. This was a crisis. Sources had seemingly been tapped that'sdrthe ware y it looked as nothing everybodm which fliexcept toaShaughne Shaughnessy. The big Irishman's vision ranged south, far beyond the poisonous bounds of television. If Grant could take Rich- mond, he mused, so could Shaughnessy. So Shaughnessy took Richmond, inveigled that city into the International League fold. But he still had a vacancy in his loop. Here a favoring Fate stepped in to aid the harried leader. A letter from Havana, sought conditions for an International League fran- chise. And so in December, a solid-looking Havana citizen named Bobby Maduro appeared at a meeting in Montreal and offered to flay the freight for all teamstravelling to Havana south of Richmond. Havana, colourful capital of Cuba, was welcomed with open arms, The International was eight -club again. And so it starts the 1955 campaign. At the helm, the tough old guy who refused to accept defeat, who had kept the League financially alive with the play-off plan, and a Class AAA orga- nization, by his ability. to find new territory. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Eimer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonps 51., Toronto. Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO Best Stick -Handler Of All Time This generation probably has never heard of Frank McGee. But to many oldtimers, he is The greatest hockey stick -handler who ever carried a puck down the ice. And his story is a grand one. Frank McGee came from an illustrious and wealthy Canadian family deeply steeped in tradi- tion. He was a wild kid, gay and carefree. He played hockey. against his family's wishes, and played it with reckless and devil- may-care abandon, beginning as a student at the University of Ottawa and continuing as a pro- fessional star. One day his team tangled with the rough and bruising outfit from Montreal known as the Wanderers. Toughest of them all was Pokey Leahy, and Frank McGee found himself playing opposite this star of the Wander- ers. Before the game was many minutes old, the tough Pokey Leahy smashed into Frankie and the kid went down, bruised and bleeding. He was carried oft' the ice, minus a left eye. Frankie McGee recovered in time, and returned to the hockey wars. He didn't talk much about bis accident. But he did say once, "We'll meet again some day and I'll pay him back for what he didl" In spite of the loss of an eye, Frankie McGee, in the years that followed, became hockey's most sensational star. They called him the "Otawa Comet." In one Stan- ley Cup game, Frankie scored fourteen goals against Dawson City. Another time he scored four goals unassisted in 64 sec- onds! And in 1905, handicapped by a steel -braced broken wrist, he scored the tying and winning goals for Ottawa in the Stanley Cued Then cane the night that Frankie McGee's path again crossed that of Pokey Leahy. They faced each other several years after the tragic accident that had cost the "Ottawa Com- et" his eye. As the game was about to start, Frankie glided over to Pokey and softly said, "Pokey, I'm paying an old debt tonight. And I'm going to do it • on your own ice and before your' own crowd." "You try it," growled Pokey, "and I'll knock your other eye out!" The game was but a few sec- onds old when McGee came roar- ing down towards Pokey Leahy. There was a terrific crash. Pokey went down. They had to carry him off the ice. And never again did he lace on skates to play hockey! When the first World War came, Frankie McGee got into the army by having a friend en- list for him under his name. And in spite of being partially blind, Frankie went up in the ranks from buck private to cap- tain. On a tragic night during the winter of 1918, an enemy shell wrote finis to the life -story of Frank McGee. Fe died as he had lived, a hero. WENT TOO FAR Tommy was showing off his new bicycle. He went up the road, and on coming back shout- ed: "Look, Mummy—no hands!" "Be careful, Tommy!" said his mother. "You'll hurt your- self." Tommy laughed and cycled up the road again. When he next appeared he called out: "Look, Mummy—no feet!" "Oh, be careful, Tommy!" re- peated his mother. Again Tommy went off up the road, and it was some time before he reappeared. When he did, he called out, not quite so cheerily, "Look, Mummy—no teeth!" To Portray 'Lone Ea 'le° on Screen Slow -talking Jimmy Stewart, left, will portray Charles Lind- bergh, right, in the film production of "The Spirit of St. Louis." Stewart, an Air Force colonel and pilot Boring World War II, will dramatize Lindbergh's 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic, TOEING THE LINE—Touch this monument in Quito, Equador, and you "touch" the spot where the world divides into quarters. Ws located at precise point where equator crosses longitude 0-0-0. Odds and Ends About Sport He was a stockey little fel- low roaming the professional basketball .courts some twenty- five years ago, an amazing shot, an excellent fioorman and a fine all-around player. While he .played with a semi -pro basket- ball team in New Jersey, his name was Francis Crittell. As a basketball player, he was a very serious young man. He might have had a great future in the game, but he went on the stage Instead. Today he Is the world- famous orld- famous comedian of stage, screen and radio, the lovable clown, Lou Costello. Fred Astaire, famous actor and dancer, was good enough as a ballplayer to play with a semi- pro team. 4 , As a young girl she wanted to become a professional bicycle rider. One day she ran into a tree and was madly injured. She might have become an invalid for life, but she was inspired by the heroic comeback story of President Fr a n k l i n Delano Roosevelt. She learned to swim, regained use of her injured body, won a girls' swimming championship. Today she is the lovely movie star, .June Allyson. A youngster, who was a good enough diver and swimmer to be considered as Olympic ma- terial, gave up the sport when he was injured during a diving exhibition, and went on to be- come the tough guy of the movies. Alan Ladd. * * There was an amateur fighter in Cleveland some years ago named Packey East. He didn't last long in the ring. As a fight- er he was a joke, but today he'n a man of many jokes, the world's most famous comic Bob Hope. Gene Kelly was a promising boxer before he decided to be- come a dancer. At Gonzaga College, he was a basketball star and a swimming champ. Later, he managed a girl's softball team and a prize- fight. Today he is an excellent golfer and a noted turf sports- man. His name—Bing Crosby. * * His hobby is racing speed- boats, but his trade is to make the "sweetest music this side of Heaven. That's Guy Lombardo. } * * The beautiful Jinx Falkenberg was not only the swimming champion, of Chile, at the age of 12, but is a good enough ten- nis player to give the best wo- men players in the world, a battle: * * ,} Another fine tennis player is little Mickey Rooney, who was good enough as a boy to win a Junior tennis championship. Humphrey Bogart, big bad man of the movies, was once a school track star. * * * An obscure tennis pro who once worked at a summer resort in the Catskills is today far bet- ter known as the motion picture heartthrob, Van Johnson. * * * W. C. Fields, the late famous movie star, was so expert a pocket billiards player that he was matched with Ralph Green- leaf, world's champion. And it was because of his amazing trick billiard shots that W. C. Fields was able to make his first stage appearance in his now world- famous rubber cue act. * * If you ever see the glamorous Ingrid Bergman of the movies on skis, it's no double. She is really that good, since she be- came an expert skiier in he na- tive Sweden. * * s There's a legend that Greta Garbo was once a champion swimmer in Sweden, and that it was through her swimming ability that she got her first job as a model. It was ae a model that she attracted the attention that brought her eventually to her fabulous screen career. * * „ Freddie Steele, former middle- weight champion of the world, has punched out for himself a new career as a brilliant motion picture actor. * t' * At Yale, he was famous for his booming kicks against Harvard. Now he is famous the world over as the he-man hero of the screen, Sonny Tufts. • * * * This handsome young Irish- man was a member of the Irish boxing team in the 1928 Olym- pic games. Then, with a small schooner, he carried goods to the South Seas until his boat was wrecked. He went to New Guinea for gold and stayed to keep order with his fists among the natives. While out pearl - fishing one day, a movie com- pany hired his boat for a trip through the islands. They no- ticed what a fine handsome chap the skipper was. So they hired him to play the lead in , a pic- ture called Captain Blood. And he became such, a sensation that he's been in the films ever since -Errol Flynn. Reunited After Twenty-six Years If amateur musician Jean Engers hadn't composed a love song to celebrate his wedding in June, 1914, it is most unlikely that he would ever again have been reunited to his lovely wife, torn from him by the turmoil of war. Nor could he have learned even that she was still alive. Jean Engers was so overcome with happiness eat winning the adorably lovely Helene that he composed his love song on their wedding evening. They sang it together, and vowed always to love one another. Then calve the first great war. When the Kaiser's hordes in- vaded Belgium, M. Engers de- cided that Brussels would soon be an unhealthy spot. So he dis- patched Helene to Paris, promis- ing to follow in a few days when he had done' what he could to protect the grocer's shop lie owned, But the Germans came too quickly. Capturing Brussels, they proceeded with customary efficiency to round up all sus- pects. Among them was Jean Engers, denounced by neigh- bouring spies as being violently anti -German He was thrown into prison, and had hardly found time to consider his un- happy fate When news came to him that his wife had been kill- ed while on her way to Paris. For two weary years he suf- fered the privations of prison life, grieving, too, over the loss of his young wife, Then, with CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING BABY CHICKS WE HAVE some of the best turkey poults that money seta buy, all from Ontario • Approved pullorum tested stock, Broad Breasted Bronze, Thomp- son Large and Medium Whites, A. O. Snaith Bread Whites, White Holland, Empire Whites, Wahkeen Whites, Beltsville, non -sexed, hens, toms, IgCatalogue, HATCHERIES LIMITED, FiERGUS, ONTARIO YOU'LL want . your pullets laying when eggs are in short supply, which is our prediction for later in year. We have pullets, dayold, started. 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But he could never forget his beloved Helene sufficiently to marry anyone else. Like millions of other Euro- peans, Jean Engers watched the inevitable approach of another world war with helpless dismay. And when, in 1940, Hitler in- vaded Belgium and France, M. Engers hurried to Paris, since it was clear that Belgium was doomed. Then one day the miracle hap- pened. Sitting in a cafe, listen- ing to war rumours, he heard a woman's voice singing his love song. In stupefied amazement he jumped to his feet and ran tow- ards t h e kitchen quarters whence came the sound of a voice he knew. "Helen! Helene!" he shouted, while other patrons looked on In uttter astonishment. In the kitchen he saw a grey- haired woman in her fifties, wip- ing dishes. Her song cavae to a faltering end as she saw Jean Engers. 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