HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-06-05, Page 2TlECalVett SPORTS COLUMN
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* This column being all in favor of
bestowing credit where the same is due,
we take this opportunity to belatedly doff
the chapeau in the general direction of far-
away Australia.
It's an oldish story now that the forces
from Down Under won the Davis Cup,
emblematic of world tennis superiority, so that at least one major
sports triumph went to the lean credit side of the British sports
ledger before 1951 closed out.
But that isn't exactly the point we had in mind. What we
wanted to say is that the over-all Australian Davis Cup record
is almost miraculous.
From a scant population (somewhere in the neighborhood
of 10,000,000) it has for 50 years developed some of the greatest
tenni players in 'history -- Anthony Wilding, the all-time No. 1
southpaw, Sir Norman Brookes, Gerald Patterson, James Ander-
son, Pat O'Hara, Adrian Quist, John Bromwich and now, in the
last couple of years, Sedgrnan, McGregor and Rose.
Despite a comparatively meagre population to draw from,
Australia has during the period since 1900 sent 20 of its teams
into Davis Cup challenge rounds and its players have won nine
times.
The United States, provided with talent from the great Cali-
fornia tennis mill, has participated in 33 challenge rounds and
of these has lost more than it has won. The score is: U.S. 15,
Opponents 18. In ratio of population, Australia tops them all in
tennis success.
The Aussies defeated powerful British teams twice and the
United States squads seven times, with Brookes and Wilding
doing the racquet swinging for the Aussies on four occasions.
Australia was not knocked out tlf the picture by the first war
or by World War II either, despite staggering losses of man-
power. Its players made the challenge round 13 tinges, from 1919
through 1951, but lost twice to Great Britain, nine times to the
United States partly due to the reign of the famous "Big Bill•and
Little Bill" (Tilden and Johnston) combination.
How long they can hold on is another ileatter in view of
the -quantity production in the United States. But they won it
against the best the United States could produce, even though
there was nothing in the 1951 series to compare with one of the
most famous matches of Davis Cup history. That was in 1914,
when Australia's Brookes and Wilding played together for the
last time. America's "Comet" McLoughlin and Brookes were
opponents in a terrific match, the first set of which went 32
games, the longest in Davis Cup history for many years. The
Comet finally won in straight sets.
The Aussies, however, won the title, 3 matches to 2. Both
Brookes and Wilding then went to war and Wilding was killed
with thousands of other Anzacs in the Gallipoli campaign.
So, this observer believes, a rousing cheer, a verbal pat on
the back, and a•hearty nod of appreciation is due to the hardy
Australians, who produce quality despite a lack of quantity.
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson e/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto."
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"Anyone can get the ball over
the plate," he said scornfully, "It's
learning to nick the corners that
makes such a big difference. Con-
trol conies only from experience
and from work. Most young pit-
chers make the mistake of exceed-
ing their gait, which means throw-
ing too hard. They lose control.
You have to find what your proper
gait is and stick to it. Then, when
you have the batters used to your
proper gait, you can slow down or
speed up, perpetually keeping them
off balance,"
* * *
These are words which any
young gaffer with dreams of be-
coming another Christy Mathew-
son or Grover Alexander should
treasure, for they come from the
lips of the gent who—on his re-
cord in 1951 and up to now in
1952—knows more about the art
of hurling than any present-day
moundsman.
* * *
We refer, of course, to none
other than Sal "The Barber" Mag -
lie, pride of Niagara Falls, Ont.
* * *
"I'd say that five of seven pitches
I throw are curves," continues Mr.
Maggie. "Yet I might throw noth-
ing but fast balls at a batter, mere-
ly to cross him up. I watch every
hitter, If r catch him leaning over
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the plate, waiting for a curve, I'll
fast -ball him. If he's standing back
for the fast one, I'll hook him. Of
course I've studied every batter
and never give him what he likes
to hit—if I can help it, I mean."
* * *
The Barber admits that he learn-
ed most about pitching while play-
ing for that wily master of the art,
DoIf Luque, both in Mexico and
Cuba.
* * *
"He taught me to bear down on
every pitch, to remember the hit-
ters and to keep constantly in mind
where they hit me. Because my
curve couldn't break too well in
the rarefied atmosphere at Mexico
City, I concentrated on putting the
ball exactly where I wanted to put
it, thus gaining control. Usually I'd
just show my curve to get 'em
cautious and then come ie with the
fast ball. Another trick I picked up
was the manner in which I threw
my curve.
* * *
"I had been in the habit of let-
ting it go high on the downsweep
of my arm. But now I throw it
from in front of me so that it
comes out from my uniform. The
batter can't see the ball until it's
on top of him,
* * *
"How many types of curve do I
throw? I guess the count is three.
I break one like a slider. I have
one that goes down, an old-fash-
ioned drop. I have a third that
breaks down and away, an out -
drop the old-timers might call it.
But all come at varying speeds.
Oh, yes, I also use an occasional
sidearm curve that isn't a bit fancy.
It's just an ordinary curve."
* * *
Just the other day, according to
Arthur Daley in The New York
Times, Dutch Ruether was talking
about Maggie.
* * *
"He reminds me more of Grover
Cleveland Alexander than any
modern pitcher," said Ruether.
"He never makes the same mistake
twice. The first time 1 ever batted
against Alex was in 1917 and I
smashed a wicked line drive. I hit
against him. for the next nine years
and I never saw that same kind of
aitch again."
* * *
Unaware of that fragment of
conversation, Sal speedily confirm -
edit. •* * *
"The new fellows give me the
most trouble," said the Barber. "I
couldn't get rid of Merson of Pitts -
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burgh for the Longest time. But
it won't happen any more. I know
him now." His jaw jutted grimly.
* * *
"Naturally I have certain diffi-
culties with Stan Musial and
Jackie' Robinson," he added with
a thin smile. "Who doesn't? They
don't guess. They hit with the
pitch, pulling an inside pitch and
slicing an outside one to the oppo-
site field. But that's why they are
such great hitters. Pee Wee Reese
bothers me more than he should.
I know he's a high -ball hitter, but
I never seem able to get the ball
in low enough on him.
* * *
"There are days, though, when
my curve isn't worth a damn.
Sometimes it's when the atmos-
pheric conditions are bad. For in-
stance, when the wind is blowing
in, the curve won't break properly.
Other days I just don't have it.
However, I always know right
away and I also know I'll be get-
ting an early shower bath,"
* * *
Other teams say that they have
to get, to Maglie in the first two
innmgrg or they won't get to him
at all.1 It usually works& :out that
way. �'-
The Profundity
Of May
Apple blossoms are pink and
white in the orchards, and the bees
are working overtime. Violets
bloom in the lowlands. Dogwood
whitens in the woodland, and along
the grey stone walls the Wind -
flowers blow, the bloodroot still
blooms and jack-in-the-pulpit and
Trillium open big, new leaves and
prepare exotic blossoms. The brook
runs bank -full; the pond laps at its
high-water mark. April's rains are
past and May is, initially at least,
full of growth and sunshine.
And there is the profundity of
May. There is a notion that any-
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be hard to understand, must be
written in an obscure language and
reserved for the few, Yet here is
May, a time of tremendous funda-
mentals and miraculous matters, all
of them spread before us, flagrantly
demanding attention. Its language
is as simple as a new leaf or a
buttercup flower.
Here is the fundamental of life,
the whole process of germination
and growth. Here is flowering and
fertility and life preparing its own
renewal. Here are sunlight and
water being turned into food,
photosynthesis, an even more pro-
found process than atonic fission;
and it goes on in every blade of
grass, every tree leaf, every weed
in the gutter, no more secret than
snnligltt. Here is abundance, and
growt11 and beneflcience, so much
of it that the world seems hard
put to; contain it all. It constantly
spills lover, outreaching itself in
abundznce.
And there is another of the
simple profundities of May. One
of the fundamental laws of the
world itself is plenty, not scarcity;
production, not destruction;
growth, not stagnation.
—From The New York Times.
14 Minutes Without
Single Word Spoken
The play Madame Butterfly be-
longs to an age in which theatre-
goers believed that Japan was
inhabited by a meticulous people
redolent of cherry blossoms, where
every child was able to quote
saws, where every man walked with
a mincing gait, hiding his hands in
the sleeves of his kimono, and
where every woman bowed low
and was ready to sacrifice all for
love. In the early part of our
century, Japan was a country the
literary possibilities of which were
being discovered by writers of
various caliber, ranging from John
Luther Long up to Lafcadio Hearn,
who possessed the singular distinc-
tion of knowing something about
the locale which he was depicting.
The East was good, the West was
crass, much to the enjoyment of
the public. It longed for "all one
sees that's Japanese," as Mr. Bunt -
borne says.
Madame Butterfly started in life
as a story by John Luther Long
which, though not very different
from other stories in which true -
hearted girls were betrayed by
wayward Westerners, made an un-
common impression on the Ameri-
can magazine -reading public. David
Belasco promptly turned it into a
one -act play. He gave it the cus-
tomary Belascoe magic. Before the
curtain rose, there were to be seen
at the Herald Square Theater novel
"picture drops," a series of painted
curtains showing various views of
Japan, a rice field, a flower garden,
a snow-capped volcano illuminated
by a setting sun. The scenery was
authentically neo -Nipponese, the
cherry blossoms were copious, the
lighting imaginative; and, helped
by these, Blanche Bates wrung
fountains of tears from the
audience. It was such a success in
New York—where it opened on
March 5, 1900—that Belasco im-
mediately took it to the Duke of
York's Theatre in London. Scenes
1 and 2 of the play were connected
by the scene of a Butterfly's vigil,
which played for fourteen minutes
without a word being spoken.
Butterfly prepared for Pinkerton's
return, attired herselfand her little
child in fine array, decked the house
with flowers, and lighted the
Japanese lanterns; then, with the
child and her maid, she took up
her post at the window, watching
through the night. Belasco showed
the darkening sky, then night, the
stars—at first barely visible, then
brilliantly bright, then gradually
fading—with the Iighted lanterns
flickering out one by one. Dawn
came and Butterfly stilt stood, still
gazed down the road, as the first
rays of the sun flooded the room
and the morning song of the birds
was heard in the cherry grove.
Belasco said in his lnemories that
he conceived this scene as a
challenge to himself. It is a tribute
to his skill that he was able to
bring off a fourteen -minute -long
pantonine. — From "Puccini," by
George Marek,
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One day the banker listened im-
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need of a large loan. He ran down
a list of personal property offered
as security—the man's home, his
automobile, life insurance and the
like—quickly estimated the value
of the collateral and announced it
would be insufficient to cover the
amount of money requested.
The man renewed his plea and
appeared almost at the point of.
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"Did you know that I have a
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"All right, I'll make you a sport-
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ISSUE 23 —» 1952