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Lvtt SPORTS COLUMN
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IN Don't let that old man with the hour
glass get on your nerves. Anytime you begin
to feel that the years may be catching up
with you, or even passing you, think of
Willie Happe, who won another billiards
championship the other day.
Maybe a ball player or fighter is an
"old man" at 35, Once upon a time a track athlete who survived
30 was a miracle. You may be greeted with a negative shake of the
head when you solicit a job at the age of 40. Doc Osler (wonder
what became of the Doc?) wanted to chloroform us all at 60.
But don't let such gloomy thoughts depress you. Sport, which
is one of the common denominators of our life and tinges, points
a few examples to prove that middle age isn't necessarily the end
of everything. And we think Willie I-Ioppe, king of the billiards
world, is one of the most notable of these.
Willie started his career away back in the nineties, which
were not necessarily gay. He was then 'a lad in short trousers,
He was so tiny he had to stand on a box to cue the ball while
playing, so they called him "The Soap Box Champion."
Even then his father, who was coaching him, had big things
in view. And he had a fine subject to work with, because Willie
took orders like a soldier. He had a genius for hard practice. And
the result began to bear rich fruit at an early age.
They took Hoppe to France, where balkline billiards was at,
its peak. They had "academies" where fans wagered freely on cue
matches. And great men played in them. One was Vignaux, the
champion. At 17 Hoppe defeated Vignaux. He became world
champion. And thereafter he became such an outstanding exponent
of his craft that he remained champion for 17 years. From the
"Soap Box Champion" he became "The Boy Wonder." Now, in
his sixties, he's still champion at his trade, after recovering from
a nervous breakdown that threatened to end his playing career.
It took two or three years to cure it.
So, as we said, don't let the years get you down. We could
wade into the statistics to show you that Clarence DeMar was a
marathon champion in his forties; that Bob Fitzsimmons was still
a world heavyweight boxing champion at 36, and that Jersey Joe
Walcott, the present champion, according to some estimates, is
now 45 years old.
And then there was Bili Cook, surviving World War I, and
a couple of years campaigning on other war fronts after that, who
came back to take up his hockey stick with New York Rangers and,
in his forties, win recognition as one of hockey's great right
wings of all time. And there was Big Bill Tilden who, in his forties
too, could beat practically all the younger stars on the tennis
courts. And little Aurel Joliat, who played hockey for 17 con-
secutive seasons with Canadiens, and Eugene Tremblay, probably
the greatest wrestler Canada everproduced, who in his fifties was
almost unbeatable among the lightweights.
So don't let the years get you down. A lot of folk have been
able to rise above the shadows of Time.
Your comments and
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o suggestions welcomed
Calvert House, 431 Yonge St.,Tor Toronto.
DISTILLERS LIMITED
AMHERSTBURO, ONTARIO
In a recent issue of LOOK there
was an article written by Rogers
Hornsby in reply to a piece by Ty
Cobb, published in an earlier issue
of the same magazine. Cobb had
said that modern baseball—and
modern ball players, with few ex-
ceptions—had slumped in quality
considerably since his day.
* * *
Mr. Hornsby proceeded to rip
Cobb from stem to gudgeon, what-
ever that means. He not only inti-
mated that Tyrus Raymond didn't
know what he was talking about.
He also said that he—Hornsby—
wouldn't rate the Georgia Peach as
better than sixth on a list of aIl-
time all-star outfielders.
* * *
We were just about to sit down
and beat out a column hinting that
melon King --Albert Ray, 64, has
been juggling melons on his
head during 40 years of danc-
Ing. Dubbed the "Watermelon
King/' Ray says he's never
dropped his "crown," since he
substituted a watermelon for a
pumpkin.
Hornsby—what with that St. Louis
heat and one thing or another—
must have blown his top, but good,
to talk or write such nonsense.
But before we g St around to •doing
so, the roof fe:l in on The Rajah;
in fact he was fired from his job
as St. Louis Browns' manager just
about the time his magazine blast
at Cobb hit the newsstands.
* * *
So we thought to ourself, "What
the heck's the use of kicking a man
when he's down?" and didn't write
said column.
* * *
Arthur Daley of The New York
Times apparently had similar
thoughts regarding :Iornsby, the
only difference being that he went
ahead and wrote his piece. He also
said what we had in mind so much
better than we could hope to do
that from here on we are letting
Mr. Daley take over, with many
thanks for the assist on a day so
warns that even just banging a type-
writer with two fingers is a real
chore. Almost as much of a chore
as it is in any other kind of wea-
ther. Come iii, Mr. Daley.
* * *
Rogers Hornsby is having trouble
enough these days. Yet it is impos-
sible to leave unchallenged one ridi-
culous statement he made in a ma-
gazine rebuttal to Ty Cobb's ori-
ginal blast against the modern ball
players. The Rajah destroyed the
efficacy of his arguments by the
malicious way he omitted the Geor-
gia Peach from his All-Star team.
Named in the outfield were Shoe-
less Joe Jackson, Tris Speaker and
Babe Ruth with Joe DiMaggio and
Ted Williams also ranked ahead of
Cobb.
* ,r< *
The easiest way to answer that
silly estimate is to point to the re-
cord book. Cobh practically owns
it. He has the highest lifetime ave-
rage in the history of the game,
a breath -taking .367. He won the
American League batting cham-
pionship twelve times in thirteen
years. For twenty-three consecu-
tive years he hit over .300, .thrice
soaring over .400. He had the most
times at bat, runs, hits, stolen bases
and sundry other items.
* * *
Docs that sound like the No.
Six outfielder? Let's look over the
other five mels. Rutli was a better
distance slugger; Speaker and
DiMaggio were slicker fielders, and
both Jackson : nd Williams were
more gifted natural stylists at the
No Larceny Today—Outfielder Hank Bauer of the New York Yank-
ees is out at second on an attempted steal. Johnny Pesky, Tigers'
shortstop, applied the tag after taking peg from catcher Joe
Ginsberg. Ump is Scotty Robb.
plate. But Cobb was overwhelming
in. what Eddie Stanky once des-
cribed as "the intangibles."
* * *
The major leagues probably never
had a fiercer competitor or a smart-
er one than Tyrus Raymond Cobb.
This reporter's favorite story is one
uncovered by Tom Meany. It's so
illustrative of Cobb's temperament
that it stands repeating. The Geor-
gia Peach was an eager and rest-
lessly ambitious minor leaguer then
playing for Augusta in the Sally
League. He roomed with Nap
Rucker, the pitcher, and it was their
habit to dress and undress in their
rooming house.
* * *
One day Rucker was knocked out
of the box and already was in the
tub for a leisurely bath when he
heard Cobb dash into their bed-
room. Never before had Rucker
beaten Cobb to the tub. He could
hear Ty pacing back and forth like
a caged tiger as he snapped tartly
at Nap for his slowness. The pit-
Cobb's brain was generating on
all cylinders every .instant he was
in a ball game. He never stopped
thinking. Oftenhe'd be thrown out
on what looked to be needlessly
foolish base -running gambles, but
there was a motive behind every
such move. The artful Cobb was
plotting. He'd try for that extra
base to test a throwing arm or
the way the fielder made a tag. This
would be done in a lopsided game
so that Cobb would have the solu-
tion ready for the 1-0 game.
* * *
For instance, he made a habit
of overrunning third base in order
to force a throw from the slick -
fielding Hal Chase. A pattern thus
was established, so one day he
thundered into third from second
and Chase made the throw. The
third baseman swooped down his
glove for the tag. However, Cobb
was on his way home with the
winning run. Only Cobb could score
regularly from second on an infield
out.
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The perfect
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cher answered flippantly, Sudden-
ly Cobb burst into the bathroom
and savagely grasped Rucker by the
throat.
"Have you gone crazy?" gasped
Rucker after fighting him off.
"Nap, you just don't understand,"
said Cobb despairingly, The blood
drained from his face as the satanic
gleans faded from his eye, "i'r'e
just gotta be first—all the time."
That's the way he played baseball
too.
* * *
From a purely physical stand-
point Cobb's greatest gift was his
speed of foot. How he capitalized
on its .He performed for most of
his career in the era of the dead
ball when one run often was the
only run of the ball game. Ty had
none of the betting grace of Horns-
by's five candidates, but he was a
smarter hitter than all of them com-
bined.
* * *
He spaced his hands on the bat,
using a choked grip. Then he
punched the ball, placing every shot
with artful ease. Deep -fielding play-
ers invited him to bunt. So he did.
If they played him tight, he aimed
for the holes to either side. On top
of•all that was his frightening speed
that made every throw a hurried
one. That always was his primary
idea, to keep relentless pressure
applied everywhere.
* * *
He played with brains as well
as brawn. When Walter Johnson
went up to the majors, no one could
bit his blinding speed, including
Cobb. Then Ty learned that the
Big Train had a dread of killing
a batter with his fireball.
* * *
"It was a shameless thing to do,"
Cobb sheepishly confessed to nae
a few years ago, "but 1 took ad-
vantage of Walter's gentle nature.
I knew he wouldn't bean me, and
so 1 crowded the plate, forcing him
to pitch where 1 wanted him to
pitch. Soon I was hitting him as if
I owned him."
Any time Cobb got on a base
a mass case of the jitters would
descend on the enemy team. He
drove everyone crazy. There is just
no way of estimating the number of
games he won by his very presence
on the diamond.
* . * a
As a hitter he had no equal.
Nor did he have one as a base -
stealer, since the swift Georgian
stole a record total of 892 bases,
including 96 in one season. As an
outfielder he was good without be-
ing great, definitely not so adroit
as Speaker or DiMaggio, probably
not so good as Ruth, but superior
to Williams and Jackson. And
Hornsby names haul No. Six!
Got A 700 Year's Job
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there' is one man living near hiob-
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enough material for 700 years.
He sells block of peat, that black,
aromatic, slow -burning stuff which
as yet is unrational. It burns in
open hearths and wrought -iron
cradles, glowing red and giving out
ail inttense, uniform heat.
In such parts of England as peat
can be obtained, it is sold for 3d,
a block, but in North Cheshire
this owner of a private bog sells
it at 8 shillings for 100 blocks. And
1,e could get rid of a million blocks
if he had them ready, so great is
the demand.
.Each block is 9 by 7 by 3 inches,
and when freshly cut holds about
7 lb, of water, They have to be
dried in the open, and either frosty
or sunny weather is the best for
drying. Some of the peat is made
into firelighters by ,treating it with
oil and cutting and preQeittn info
suitable blocks.
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ISSUE 26 -- 1952
MI01)I41A1.
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