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French novelist Jules Verne
had a habit of getting in well
ahead of scientists. His fertile
imagination was considered far-
fetched a century or so ago, but
history has caught up with him
again and again. What Verne
thought of as fiction has come
to pass and to be accepted as
part of everyday life.
His "20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea" inventions, for instance.
He created the submarine "Nau-
tilus"—and to -day we take sub-
marines as a matter of course.
e put men under water in self-
contained diving -suits which en-
abled them to walk about with-
out any air -pipes from the sur-
face—and nowadays young men
by the hundred don frogmen's
outfits for the sheer fun of it.
Walt Disney's film of "20,000
League Under the Sea" has
brought the Jules Verne fantasy
to the screen, now that the fa-
mous novelist's description of
under -water suits has become
present-day reality.
True, a suit of the type crea-
ted on paper by Verne was ac-
tually invented within a few
years of the novel's publication
in 1870, and the Disney research
experts managed to trace it.
It agreed with every detail
outlined by the novelist, includ-
ing a diver's helmet, a close -
fitting rubber suit, and an aqua-
lung. It was hand -made and
weighed 225 lb., compared with
the modern frogman's outfit of a
total 40 lb.
First demonstrated in 1879,
the suit was a revolutionary, but
not entirely successful, step to-
wards sea-bed exploration.
Verne may have used his ima-
gination to make life under
water a relatively simple mat-
ter, but he was certainly not the
first man to think about the
subject.
Man has sought to conquer the
sea-bed for centuries, partly out
of sheer curiosity, but also for
more practical reasons. The
scientific aspect is one. Reclaim-
ing sunken treasure is another.
Vast riches were lost along
the shores of the Mediterranean
in very early times, and there
were always men who dreamed
of recovering them.
In fact, the, first known refer-
ence to deep -seas diving goes
back as far as the first century.
The Latin writer Pliny described
divers who were equipped with
ata' tubes, the free ends of which
were supported on -the surface
of the sea by inflated bladders.
It was not until the Middle
Ages that really determined at-
tempts were made to .use div-
ing -suits to any great degree.
During the siege of Constanti-
nople, in 1433, the Turks sought
means to break the chains that
closed the mouth of the Golden
Horn. The only way to do this
was for men to go beneath the
water and remain there long
enough to hew through the
chains.
So divers were equipped with
close -fitting leather suits, top-
ped by a huge oval headpiece,
with a pipe leading from the top.
Then, in the early seventeenth
century, an Englishman named
Repton invented what he called
"water armour." A Dutchman
named Cornelius van Drebbel
experimented with the first sub-
marine, using the Thames for
his experiments. The "water ar-
mour" was a failure, and the
inventor nearly drowned him-
self, but the submarine met with
some measure of success.
Something approaching the
modern frogman's outfit was
invented by an Italian, G. - A.
Borelli, in 1675. Although un-
wieldy and uncomfortable to
wear, it even had web-footed
boots.
All sorts of freakish shapes
and designs have been intro-
duced at various times, all of
them extremely hazardous for
the heroic fellows trying them
out. Though they worked within
reason, they were not really
successful.
One of these extraordinary
diving -suits was invented in
1715 by an Englishman, John
Lethbridge, of Newton Abbot.
It looked something like a leath-
er sack, with one end larger than
the other. A glass scuttle en-
abled the diver to see, and it
was suspended horizontally so
that he was lying in something
like a large covered -in seaman's
hammock with a window at the
bottom. He could only look
downwards. There were sleeves
for the wearer's arms, and it
was inflated with enough air for
him to breath for a restricted
time.
Curiously enough, mankind
seemed to give up the idea of
conquering the ocean bed after
this. It was not until the end
of the 18th century that any-
one else had a try, and this time
it was a man named Kleingert,
of Breslau, who designed a suit
of leather jacket and drawers,
over which was placed a dome-
shaped cylinder reaching to the
hips. Air was pumped down to
him through pipes attached to
the cylinder, and the air pres-
sure prevented water entering
the suit. Descent was made with
the aid of lead weights, and the
diver merely released these
WRESTLING MATCH — Everyone had a job on their hands when
cl truck turned over releasing 50 pigs on a road. Teen-agers
loined in the roundup. Richard Croswell (in shirt) and Joe
Strauder, here bulldog a 300 -pound escapee to help out.
GO01—OI' Case is NOT in his second childhood, despite the
finger -in -the -mouth pose. That's just a quick, handy way to
sample the frosting on his 64th (or is it 65th?) birthday cake
at Yankee Stadium, New York City. The peppery Yankee mana-
ger celebrated his 65th (or is it 64th?) birthday by announcing
a Yankee rebuilding plan that could well take two or three
years to realize. (The record book says he's 65 — his wife says
he's 64.)
weights when he wanted to re-
turn to the surface.
Though it failed to cause much
of a stir, that invention was
actually the basis of the present-
day diving -suit. It was modified
and improved upon twenty years
later by a man named Siebe,
who later improved on it still
further and designed the first
successful self: -contained diving -
suit on which all modern equip-
ment is based.
So diving -suits were not new
when Jules Verne let his ima-
gination take them to greater
extremes than man had actually
invented at the time.
SUS*:"E T [MG
Jonathan Daniels probably
covered a thousand horse races
—Kentucky Derbies and other
classics of the track— during his
newspaper career, but none of
them made the impression on
him occasioned by a race be-
tween five camels at a Carolina
carnival early in the century.
Nobody remembers who per-
suaded the owners of the five
camels 4o stage the race, but
the first thing anybody knew,
news of the contest spread
throughout the state, and peo-
ple began to bet on the outcome.
Perplexed bookies established
initial odds of four to one against
all five camels, but just before
the race so many big bets were
planked down on the one named
Ben Ali—all of them, apparent-
ly, made by the Arab owners—
that the bookies grew suspicious„
and refused all further bets.
Furthermore, they watched the
race with eagle eyes for any
sign of dirty work.
The race, to all intends and
purposes, however, was fairly
run. All five Arab owners pres-
sed their mounts with equal fer-
vor and determination, and when
Ben Ali won easily, the bookies
could find no excuse for with-
holding payment to the win-
ners. One of them, his exchequer
badly depleated, asked the Arab
who had finished third, "What
made all you birds bet every-
thing on Ben Ali?"
The Arab explained, with a
grin, "Mister, Ben Ali is what
is known in our country as a
bell. camel. From the day of
their birth, camels are taught to
follow the bell camel!"
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A. When a new cover is need-
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SIDE WAS WILLING
A near-sighted p u b l i s h e r,
walking along the beach at Pro-
vincetown, Massachusetts, en-
countered a comely young lady
who greeted him by .name. Un-
able to recognize her without his
glasses, the publisher stammer-
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The publisher examined her
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An Umpire' Word
"Gentlemen, 1 was unable to
see the .catch, In your judgment
was it fair Or foul?" is the way
the .high -hatted umpire used to
query the crowd whenever a
questionable play arose. He
would carefully consider the
opinions offered and then an-
nounce his decision to the young
gentlemen on the field. It was
not questioned.
The ump did not have to be
as hardy in those days when
baseball was a rather mild pas-
time; but when the character
of the game changed, when it
got tougher, so did the umps.
They had to be as tough as the
players in order to Survive. , . .
It was not until the founding
of the American League that
the harassed umpire could be-
gin to breathe easier. Ban John-
son realized the importance of
protecting his officials and abol-
ishing intimidation of them by
club owners. He standardized
their uniforms and added a base
umpire to help the lonely man
behind the plate. More impor-
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cials were backed up by the
League and that unnecessary
abuse of thein would not be tol-
erated in the new circuit... .
Most umpires begin on the
sand lots, work up from there
through amateur circuits such
as high schools and colleges and
then serve a sentence in the mi-
nors... .
Meanwhile the fledgling offi-
cial is not forgotten. He is
watched and reported on by
hawkeyed scouts just as ball-
players are. The .things scouts
look for in an umpire are: his
konwledge of the rules, keen-
ness of eye, ability to be in po-
sition to see a .play, personality
and ability to run a game with-
out friction.—From "The Story
of Baseball," by John Durant.
He that laughs at his own jest
mars all the mirth of it.
—JAMES KELLY
Of all the days that's in the
week
I dearly love but one day --
And that's the day that comes
betwixt
A Saturday and Monday;
For then I'm drest all in my best
To walk abroad with Sally;
She is the darling of my heart,
And she, lives in our alley.
HENRY CAREY
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in a dress fashioned of some
1600 disposable tissues. Cam-
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