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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-05-31, Page 6Played Bagpipes And Was Hanged 1~or the first tinge in 200 years, Scotland now has a civilian college - of -Piping, Where enthusiasts may learn how to play the bagpipes. FFounded at Glasgow by two keen .pipers, the school today has 130 pupils and has already outgrown • its original premises. Apart from purely military schools of piping, this is the first piping college to he established in Britain &ihce jarobite tinges, when bagpipe playing was banned in the United Kingdom. After the collapse of the '45 Re- bellion, the instrument was classed as a war weapon, and even to carry a set of bagpipes was a punishable offence. A Scotchnian caught play- ing the pipes at York, in 1747, was actually hanged forthe"crime"! Tile biggest sufferers front the hau were the MaeCritnmons of Skye, who for generations has been piping instructors to Scotland's leading clans, They ran a school to which the on of prominent Scot- tish families were sent for musical tuition. The MacCrinlmons are said to have insisted on a course of instruc- tion lasting seven years. If a pupil had not become an accomplished piper at the end of that pediod, he was sent home and advised to for- get all about piping. Thi ,ct of 1745 which banned pipe nisic was repealed in 1785, hut' the MacCrinlmons were never able to re-establish their famous piping school. The inventor of the bagpipes is unknown. IIe certainly wasn't a Scotsman, for similar musical in- struments have been found in Egyp- tian plummy cases, and some au- thorities believe that the dulcimer referred to in the Old Testiment was really the bagpipes. The Romans introduced the in- strument into Britain, and although it was never widely popular in Eng- land, it had become Scotland's national musical instrument by the fourteenth century. In their manufacture, at any rate,' the bagpipes of today are inter- national, for the materials come from various parts of the world. The reeds are of cane, and the best for the purpose conies from Spain. Ivory for the ornamental mountings is obtained from the tusks of elephants in Africa or Cey- lon, and the sheepskin bags are mostly from Australia. It takes at least ten years to be- come a skilled bagpipe maker, the setting of the reeds .especially re- quiring careful training and consid- erable experience. Yet one British firm alone..pr„oduces 50,000 reeds a year. There are tricks of the trade, too, For instance, the windbags are sewn with a special needle, which enables thread slightly thicker than the needleholes to be used. Thus the holes are sealed by the thread and do not allow the air to escape from the bag. Tiny Creatures That Wreck Great Piers The navies of the Western World have taken up battle stations. against an enemy whose unseen, insidious attacks are wrecking some of the world's finest harbours. This enemy is an insignificant -looking, tiny, worm -like creature called the TEREDO, which is causing mil- lions of dollars' worth of damage by boring holes in wooden pier supports. Its activities have been known for a long time, but just recently there has been a prolific increase in its numbers. Scientists of the Western navies have been studying its habits, and have discovered that it may lay as many as one hundred million eggs in one year! The larvae, or young, wait two days and tli'en attack the nearest pier, boring into it at the rate of two inches a month. They may live for three years, boring holes several feet long. They Ruin Wharfs As many as a hundred teredos have been found boring 'within a cubic inch of wood. In New York Elarbour a floating platform sul- lenly disintegrated. It was riddled hrough and through with teredn toles. Whipping Up An "Atom Bomb" — Smoke and flames rise in a "mushroom -shaped cloud" after explosion of a homemade "G,I. atom bomb" somewhere in Korea.. Infantrymen fashioned the poor man's "A-bomb" from assorted explosives costing about $30. The blast reportedly kills all life within 100 yards. At San Francisco a trestle crash- ed, dumping a train into the hay. In Pombay a pier one • quarter of a mile long collapsed into the bay, In Bombay a pier one quarter of a mile long collapsed into the harbour. Turedos can ruin a costly wharf in as little as two months. They are the world's Most efficient de- molition workers, removing all de- bris froth their tunnels by the only means at their disposal—by eating it. Their tunnels may approach each other, but they never sleet. When the constant rocking motion of its head has worn out one set of teeth the teredo sprouts another, Only One Remedy As many as a hundred rows of these teeth have been found inside one of the creatures. Delicate as they are, no wood—not even ma- hogany or teak—is dense' enough to resist their boring action. Daring the Second World War, e'hen so many temporary docks and viers were built in a hurry, the teredo really excelled itself. • Supports that looked. perfectly sound would suddenly cave in. Piers at naval installations would give Only effective remedy against this destroyer of harbours is pressure treatment with creosote, but though this is an effective Poison it is gra- dually dissipated by salt water. The treated timber is often chipped and scarred by hooks and other tackle used in docks and on piers, thus affording the worm a convenient non-poisonous starting point. f w f"'.`.'T r L :fir Py /a SW iT..._ i 1C With every batter nowadays swinging from his boot -tops and home runs more frequent than squabbles in the United States Leg- islature, it is rather refreshing to hear or read about a well -pitched game. As sonxething of an admirer of the fading art of real pitching, we wouldn't have minded a bit be- ing present at Crosley Field a week or so ago when Ewell Blackwell of Cincinnati and Vern Bickford of the Boston Braves were doing their stuff, * * ,g 0 For even those remember Big 14 tatty, Walter Johnson, Ed Walsh arid all the rest of the old -tinge greats would have been forced to,. admit that this was really pitching. As a matter of fact only twice be- fore in the last fifty years have the major leagues seen such a terrific hurling duel. Just in case you miss- ed the details of this one, Blackwell yielded just one hit—a double by Bob Elliott. His rival, Bickford, was almost as stingy. Connie Ryan doubled in the sixth, but was left stranded. And the only other blow was a hooter by Johnny Frainesa, —enough to give The Reds a • 1-0 triumph. That's pitching, neighbors, and in spades. * * ,a The'•'major Ieague record for the fewest hits made by both teams in one game is two. There were a pair of such and if you can personally recall either of them—well, you can't play juvenile any more, or even junior. * The first was way back in 1906 when Carl Lundgren of the Chicago Cubs and Vic Willis of the Pitts- burgh Pirates gave up one bit apiece. The Cubs won the game 1 to 0. Then, in 1917, Fred 'Toney of Cincinnati and Jing. Vaughn of the Cubs dueled for nine full innings without allowing a hit. In the tenth Vaughan weakened to the extent of yielding a pair of hits, and Cincin- nati took the game 1 to 01' The American League mark for the few- est hits by both teams in one gauge still stands at three. * :1 Signal stealing in baseball, — or sign stealing as the players term it — is also something of a 1os.t art these days too and ,Arthro Daley recently `.rote most interestingly about the greatest sign -thieves of all time. They were the old Phil- adelphia Phillies back in 1915 when Pat Moran was managing thein; and, by the way, there are' lots of baseball men who should know about such things who believe sin- cerely that Pat, if untimely death hadn't cut short his career, would - by now have been acknowledged as the greatest manager of all time. * * ,k The Phillies, who won the pen- nant in 1915, had been the virtually unanimous choice of the experts to finish last. Then, in 1919, when Moran shifted to Cincinnati, he took a lot of hopeless also-rans and steered the Reds to a National League pennant. So there must be some basis to the claims regard- ing Pat Moran's greatness—and olle of his greatest weapons in his battle against his rivals was his ewn ability, and that of his play- ers, to find out beforehand just what the opposing pitcher was go- ing to throw. Daley tells about a big, bald- headed guy who sat in a front-roW box at the last World Series and correctly called every' pitch in ad- vance—every pitch, whether fast ball, curve, change -up or anything else. The man sitting beside Mini listened in amazement hardly be- lieving such a thing possible short of black magic or something of the sort. "How in heck do you know what's going to be thrown," he finally asked. "Why the pitcher is telling me," answered the caller. * * fir The big bald-headed gent was Fred Luderus, who was captain of the 1915 champion Phillies already Army Goes Against The Grain --This detachment of the Chilean army is highly mechanized— hut it's in farm tractors instead of tanks and motorized artillery. To mechanize her agriculture and increase crop yields, Chile is training her soldiers in the 'operation, maintenance and use of modern agricultural !machinery. The soldiers above are Cull set to harvest c4, grain field. CLASI1 BABY CT11CItS TOIL tin stetter 15e to 239 a dozen more for your eggs if 9013 will contact us immediately. We are interested In secur- ing some mw,' floeke 1•ol' the 1962 hatch- ing season to supply tis with eggs. 1Vit11 some breeds we will be ehle to take eggs the year round. tae to 250 a dozen extra for Seta eggs the year round is a nice profit In i1r,'tf. For full *Malin nip]y: Box Nuteb,•r 12, 723 - 18th tit., New 'rnrnnto. S00191 rhlehe :1)e dear it trio get them for nothing. 'elite ,rear with egg and poultry Prices high ynU W'l1nt 10 be sure that your Bullets will Illy four to nee dozen eggs eetra, and ru9kr'rrt eltieh8 that put un nten•t fast. Tweddle .11.1).1', Sired chlelis will do that for yon, 'They have genuine butting Ned; of then!. fiend for catalogue and read tvl,(tt oarrnstom l'a soy about jtveddle Ret'1'. Sired cbi,•ks, A1140 turkey Feints, older 0011015; T\\'1 DDL11 1'1111.14 HATCHERIES LTI). 1,1,110.11•S. Ont. 139 EFS OPP7121U11'F`lkhF �'- !queer in.:ster 1 fully .epti pne.1 U•tnhle pool • room and tebareu b1).-inees. Nine math• lease, Price 01:,0011. old established 9•• 1nhlo' pool rnnm. 1.11111,11 ,•01(1)14,1•, (.0(1.90. Price 821,000, terms, 141;10',' ltesrl 33811110, e'halham, Ont. 111131!: business, security. !n one.Restaur- ant, 4,1)1:,•1 bar. apartment; stone lire- 11lneee: some finishing to do, Northern .•031(101 e t0 Barrie bePass on No. 11 High- way. .`,nrrlica. 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PRIDE ITYKRID COMPANY (lir CANADA Cita tit am, Ontario. GIANT White Pekin day-old Ducklings. Available weekly year around. Ue-Spring Y'arms Limited, Uxbridge, Ontario. mentioned. "Stealing signs was a mania with Moran," said Luderus. "Even when there was a gangs in spring training between the yan- nigans and the regulars he always insisted that both teams try and pick up the signs and watch for tip-offs," * * * "Even during the league season, he was impatient to • steal from any team he didn't know. As early as the first inning he'd order a man sacrificed so that he could get to -second for a good view of the catcher." * ,11 'k Once the hawk-eyed Phils knew that a pitcher was about to throw a curve, they'd watch every detail of his delivery to see whether he tipped it off by some unconscious gesture. :k * * "I once hit a ball off Jess Barnes," said Luderus, "that went 500 feet. Know why? I could tell ley his hands that he was going to throw me a curve and I was set for it. "Gosh, in one double-header I .lade seven straight hits. I knew every ball that was going to be pitched. It was like reading it off a black board." * * There was one day .in St. Louis when it seemed that Gavvy Cravath was always hitting doubles and Luderus was singling him home immediately. No one has offered any information as to how Cravath bit the doubles. But Luderus knows how he happened to be hitting the singles. * * 1k The Cardinal pitcher was a spit - bailer named Marvin Goodwin and the catcher was a guy named Clem- ons. He concealed his signs most adroitly from any enemy spy in the vicinity of second base. So lig Fred figured out a system of his own. As` soon as the catcher brouch- ed to give the pitcher the sign, Lud- erus stooped over and casually picked up a handful of dirt to rub on his hands, the most Natural of gestures. But while he was bent over, he Wok a quick peck out of the corner of his eye at the number of fingers Clemons was sticking out to signal the pitch. * * * . Irl the ancient days there were practically .no extremes to which a team would not go in order to steal signs. Ben Tincup was sent down to Louisville one year and Moran, insatiable in his desire to have a complete "book" on every team, wrote to Tincep and asked hint to pry loose from an ex -Brooklynite the complete set of Dodger signals. It was done, too. * '0 * Even the old -tittle Phils never would admit it but it is generally understood that they once planted a fellow, armed with high-powered binoculars, in the scoreboard to intercept signals from the catcher. Zveryone did it in those days. The Yankees, then known as the High- landers, swept a series with the Athletics by this method but they never did• a get a chance to repeat the,operation on Detroit. * >k * The forthright IIugic Jennings and his "Tiger bully -boys got wind of the scheme an4 burned clown the scoreboard. The Bengali beat the Highlanders three straight and thus won the 1909 pennant. r (1(3 s.11.11 HA FtDWARY; 131113111.1111 1'Ott i5At1.IL' Estabileberl 18001 nista ad/anent plumbing and tinmithing shop—with tools, with or without building. Apply Bee 193, llnwkes' 11nry, Ont. --- 1'31. t1 .11:5Cil 1\.F.RS. SEAMAN Motorised niters" puler 5 -foot ].)fling width. Peel two seasons. Nor- man llnkiewell, Aginnurt, Ontario. Zone 2-993. 19Nt;L IS11 Set tors, regi ,teed, wheel rea- sonable, poppies and adults: from 110. ported stark. Walt Denis, 1,10. 2, St. ( 'at lt:n'ines. 1'I1000 2-39211. GENERAL Store, $40,000, Down 9(tennent 920,000, balance terms. 613,000 stook on hand. 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Annie Kingston • Pomeranian Kennels, 32 Sixth St., Kingston, Ont, HOTEL Licensed—Yearly business, cater- ing to tourists, beautifully located on the Lake Erin shore. 700 miles from • Buffalo—its vicinity where thele Is excel- Ient base fishing and duck hunting: 14 room. instil -brick buildings. fully equipped and g00d furnishings including television — spacious living room and glassed -in dining room overlooking the lake, able to accommodate 00 persons. Natural gas heat- ing; well booked for this: season; excellent . investment, $25,000, terms, A. D. Dennis, Realtor, 29 Colborne St., Simcoe, Ontario. • "LUCKY'," well-known trick and show mare, 6 yrs.. does 40 tricks, is 5 -gaited, neck -reining saddle mare, trained single and do(Oble harness. Write Doris Hogan, 117 Ruseell St., Arnprior, Ont. REI3IS'TE13ED German Shepherd puppies for sale, black and silver and cream, Best of breeding. ,llaeartney, Milton West, R.R. 1, Ont. CHESAPEAIiE retriever Pups )registered. Hunt this fall. Write 3. Lockie, 3210 Dim. des St. W., Toronto. FOR sale, garage, store, lunch room and gas and oil businesu with living quar- ters at tate barb, In a good location in central Ont. For particulars apply P. ICuchma, 7 Barclay St.. Hamilton, Ont. UEI P WANTED CAPABLE pe4 "" for general housework to small modern home, one child, Live In. Apply 51 Whitmore Avenue. Toronto. or telephone ORehard 7741. HOUSEKEEPER FOR .F:iltli. ..Please state wage. Fre* Iiilliard, R.R. 1, Alton, Ontario. MEI)ICAL DON'T Delay! Every Sufferer of Rheumatic Pains or Neuritis should try Dixon's Remedy. MUNRO'S DRUG STORE 335 Elgin Ottawa $1.25 Express Prepaid CRESS WART REMOVER — leaves no sears, Your Druggist sells CRESS. SUFFERERS from Rheumatic or Arthritic paha: If You cannot get relief. write: Box 123, Winnipeg, Manitoba, POST'S ECZEMA SALVE BANISH the torment of dry eczema rashes and weeping skin troubles. Post's Eczema Salve will not disappoint YOU. 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Teacher's cottage on the school grounds, Eint'olment 14 pupils. Applicants please state qualifies, dons and salary expected, Duties to start Sept. 4th. Apply: Sirs. F. NI, Colquhoun, Sec.-Treas., [fruieerdorf. Ont, SIT`t(`OE "lElbunty, •Tectimseth Township Settee) Area requires public 5411001 tea- chers fur rural schools within 50 miles of Toronto commencing in iepeember, Schools have hydro, pianos, radius, travelling li- brary, ere,, rlalary 51800 to $2100. State quaiiieations, experience. religion and pre- sent Inspector. Prank 17onghtml, Beetoin, tint. WAST ttarafl•itxa; teacher wanted, Protes- tant teacher for S.S. No. 0, West Clara fraxe, on county road• hydro equipped. Duties to ('0nm1ence In September, Apply stetting qualifications and salary expected to Walter Qurtrrie, R.R. 5, Bel - wood, Ont. 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